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I always get the impression that a large number of techies are into the outdoors / outdoor sports. I am surprised no one has tried setting up companies an remoter places with good access to the mountains. Instead they set up in the most expensive places, and need to pay much more to cover for the costs.
Not sure why you're assuming I wanted something analogous to agents for athletes and entertainers. Those work full time and have a lot more responsibilities and provide many more services than simply doing a one time negotiation for a higher salary, none of which I'm actually looking for.

I'm looking to pay someone to negotiate a salary raise on my behalf in exchange for a cut of the additional salary negotiated. It's a one time deal, that should take a couple of emails and a couple of phone calls at most, not a full-time job. It has the potential to pay very well considering the minimum amount of effort required on the part of the "agent" as far as I can see.

Of course, I'm not denying that there could be something I'm missing that could make this arrangement infeasible (in fact, other replies have already mentioned many such factors), but I'm not sure how your post about agents for athletes and entertainers was in any way relevant to the discussion.
This is a good question.

The times I've seen it rain in Singapore or kuala Lumpur it's all or nothing. Fine weather -> 2 foot of water on the road -> Fine weather.
I somehow don't think that scenario is in the test plan.
Where it will probably cost the state more to keep them in jail then in a mental hospital.
This is retroactive to people already on parole.

Some of these people where caught urinating in public or other non issues. There are also very sick people, but remember your applying this to a huge range of innocent people not just the kind of demons you see on TV.

PS: I have seen estimates as low as 50:50 for actually committing every crime they where convicted of.
Replace "with" with "including" and all the strange comments to this post evaporate. Every experienced programmer knows what is meant by this. By the way, anyone experienced picks up Node.js in a week.
Wouldn't this require players to identify themselves to prove they aren't paroled sex offenders?
Exactly.

I'm poking fun at Trump's nationalistic brouhaha concluding this article.
Do not fixate on job title progression alone; your co-founder titles are impressive enough. Outline your area(s) of responsibility on each project, especially if you all rotated roles once in a while.

Focus on growth of both top and bottom lines, and highlight margin improvements over the 4 years and 4 projects. Try to quantify your accomplishments in dollar figures since they stand out more. Statements such as "Grew revenues 50% YoY from $0 to $X million over 36 months" will quickly catch anybody's attention.

Throw in some specific, targeted technical phrases that are keyword friendly and you'll easily be an outstanding candidate.

Be prepared to explain why you'd want to join the target company and not stay at your current company.

TLDR: Hiring managers hone in on results, not only titles. Quantify your business impacts and list your technical accomplishments.

EDIT: Regarding my comment about quantifying your margin impact, for those that don't know, "margin" and "markup" are not equivalent[1]. Thankfully it's really easy for technically inclined folks to grasp this insanely useful financial concept.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/102714/whats-differe...
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I've lived there for almost a decade. In LA everyone knows it's fake, but in the bay people have bought into it. I feel like I'm at a Jim Jones camp and we're about to shoot down a congressman. I've heard the bay called the People's Temple more than once ... the word "cult" is tossed around a lot in the bay and it's an honest description every time.

Also LA has a rich non-english, non-white environment. But I get it, it's not far enough. I've tried Portland and that's closer ... thinking of just packing up and trying Europe a bit; there has to be some humane place on the planet that fosters engagement and enrichment over private profit and expression over conformity. Somewhere over some rainbow...
All this attention to "self driving cars" makes news look pretty poor. It'll take years for them to become reliable.
Have you had a look at pkgsrc? I know it's not as interesting as Nix or Guix, but I've had very good luck using it on OSX and various Linux distros, as well as its natural habitat of NetBSD.

http://pkgsrc.org/
> what advice should I give to WordPress users to help them improve security

It requires a bit of knowledge and a commitment to managing the deploy, but: disable write permissions for the web user to the WordPress directory (excluding the upload folder), whitelist endpoints in nginx/apache, set up IP whitelists for /wp-admin/, minimize plugin usage.

This is going to reduce the user-friendliness of the WordPress install, but it's going to immediately increase the security by leaps and bounds. If you can't exploit plugins, can't access the admin pages, can't modify PHP files, and can't hit exotic endpoints, it's much harder to compromise WordPress.
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... which is now privatized.
What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic one?
>I'd argue we already have too much testing under "ideal conditions." I want to see self-driving vehicles tested in snow, in rain, in strong winds, in fog, and on mountain roads.

Unfortunately, the vehicles don't yet work perfectly under "ideal conditions". I think this ought to be the first step. There's no need to have a "blanket" rollout of autonomous vehicles - start in ideal cities and then spread further.

Granted, I DO think that they'll find driving in snow/rain/winds to be fundamentally different enough from ideal urban driving that the exact methods the vehicle AI has "learned" may not directly apply. So, it may merit testing in parallel, because as you've said we need to stop ignoring these cases.

I guess my point is a long-winded way of saying "Yes we need to test those cases, but in addition to ideal urban conditions, not instead of."
Do you have a source for that claim? I might have fallen victim to Google's PR here, but I was under the impression that they are reliable already - at least in controlled conditions (low speed, good weather, well mapped area).
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Why was this downvoted? It's a perfectly good question.
It's also impossible to cross-reference since all you need to play is a Google account
> So, how does one communicate that they are hirable after running a semi-successful startup for years

The fact that you've held a job for more than just 6 month stints is enough to push you all the way to the front of the line. Most applicants we see just do 6 months here and there. I refuse to hire anyone that hasn't stayed at a company at least 2 years (excluding new grads). 4 years is pretty much a unicorn nowadays.
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Not being smug towards China at all, they do many commendable things. However, the author did not use the militarization of police, or mass incarceration as negative points in the US. He used the homelessness, drug use and mental illness along with the general dirtiness of the streets of SF. My point was a direct counter to that, that while the US has a problem with homelessness, China averts that problem through forced labor, incarceration etc.

Now, were he to say "the United States has a huge problem with militarization and I dislike this" I would have countered with China's behavior in the South China Sea as a counterpoint demonstrating aggression on the part of the PRC

Would he have mentioned incarceration, I would have brought up the house arrests and indefinite detention of journalists and political opponents to the Communist party.

I could go on. Great, China is working on pollution, but don't for a minute think this is due to global climate change, rather their citizens are dying due to the pollution. Motivations aside, good on them for taking a lead.

And really, that is a poor excuse. Because China is in the midst of an economic Renaissance they are excused from the basic tenants of human rights? Of a free people? By the same argument, slavery was a-ok during the early years of the United States. But I reject that terrible ethical relativism and insist that slavery was as wrong then as it now, and so are the abuses that the PRC commits upon its own people.
I'm not sure how you can read the snopes article and believe that the claim is true.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...

What is "the claim, as stated," that you believe is true? If it's the page title, "Hillary Clinton Freed Child Rapist," that is not true, as detailed in the explanation. The man was convicted, not freed. If it's the image (which is clearly what Snopes is rating), I count eight statements, seven of which involve Hillary Clinton. The first three of those seven are false, the fourth is technically true with false implications based on one of the earlier falsehoods, and the fifth is debatable, depending on what what "it" means in that context. The final two are demonstrably false, inasmuch as they purport to be factual statements.

So seven statements, five of which are definitely false, and two of which are arguably true in misleading ways.

I'd say "MOSTLY FALSE" sounds about right. How would one word the claim to come up with "true?"
You are absolutely right that bail-in only helps if you have debt to bail-in, and that was not the case for Cyprus.

Bail-in will only be useful when the banks have built up enough bail-inable capital, and depending on what is the definition of bail-inable capital, most banks are not there yet (regulators take different views on what constitutes good bail-inable debt).

However all the draft regulations that are being prepared now point to relatively high requirements, in the region of 25-30% of the Risk Weighted Assets, which should be ample to absorb a very large loss.

So if the crisis happens this week, it won't help, if it happens in 5 years or after it will certainly help a lot, and be a first line of defence before contemplating a bail out.

On the separation of commercial and investment banks, I am not convinced it actually helps. Reproducing another of my comments on this article:

If we take the example of the UK, all of the bank failures were because of non investment banking activities. RBS failed because of its excess of leverage as a result of its disastrous acquisition of ABN AMRO and because of its loan book, HBOS because of its loan book (essentially commercial real estate exposures), and Northern Rock because of their over-reliance on wholesale funding.

There are examples of banks failing or making large losses because of the investment banking activities (Lehman, Merrill, Bear Stearn, UBS) but my point is rather that the principle "Retail banking = safe, Investment banking = risky" is simply not true.

In a way, universal banks tend to be more robust than a specialized bank, as it benefits from funding and revenues diversification (and cheer size to absorb losses).
Also don't forget the lack of driving & car ownership by the population. That's hugely important.

In the States, the plethora of drivers & traffic creates countless more variables for an autonomous vehicle to deal with.
The problem is that liability still falls upon depositors in a bail-in. So, at the end of the day, it's still the unwitting public's money on the hook in the worst case scenarios, even if it's not a "bail out".

The expedited and more regulated insolvency proceedings are a big improvement and the bail-in provisions help within some lower boundary cases. But if "shit hits the fan", bail-in alone is not going to be enough.

The point is that Wall St won't really be "tamed" until we further minimize the possibility of shit and fan colliding. To do that, we need to further limit the risks investment banks can take on and greatly limit the risks that depository banks can take on.

If we don't do that, we're talking about how to cure the disease as opposed to how to prevent it. The fact is, we need more preventative measures and more cures. The bail-in is a good cure for some situations, but if the patient is too fargone it'd be too little, too late.
> The i915 driver has been updated to match the version found with the Linux 4.4 kernel.

> The radeon driver has been updated to match Linux 3.18 ...

Are they borrowing code from Linux? How do the licenses work out?
>It would be unthinkable in America to force all cars on certain roads to be self-driving only.

We have carpool lanes
You might not want to inject yourself with the blood of the young just yet
The thing that makes this sad, not funny, is the rate that children are still being sexualy abused today. Instead of doing things to actually help children they are busy passing completely pointless laws to make it look like they are doing something.
> and they were the ones who reached out to me.

I had a google recruiter call, we spoke, then set up a longer interview. I asked about pay, and was told they don't talk about it until after an interview, which meant travel and time away from current projects. It's not that I couldn't do it at all, but it meant some schedule shuffling and I wanted a ballpark - just a ballpark or ...minimum floor. She wouldn't give me any info.

I then asked another question which she didn't know the answer to ("no one's ever asked that before!") and told me she'd have an answer in a couple days. That was ... Aug 2013? I'm still waiting.

I told the story before and someone said "well, that's no way to get a job!" as I described my questioning the recruiter. "I didn't apply for a job - they called me - they can answer a couple of my questions if they want me to take time out to come visit them".
personally i don't think it's that big of a deal. on my resume i just call myself a co-founder of my company, X years. i don't even put a title on my linked in because i don't want people to try to pitch to me.

otherwise, give yourself a different title for different periods of time, and list your co-founders or customers as references.
Indeed. The third leg that solves this problem is known to the industry as Accounting.
Singapore certainly gets rain, of the solid-cube-of-water, when-you-hear-it-a-block-away-don't-keep-walking-to-your-destination-just-find-immediate-shelter, oh-so-that's-why-all-the-drainage-canals-are-so-deep variety.

It makes perfect sense to walk before running. I don't really see a "mountain road" use case for this tech anyway.
They really had a chance to do something and I feel that they didn't even try.
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> That's hilarious. Leaving the (almost entirely upper-middle-class) ivory tower of po-mo navel-gazing and self-righteousness, getting married actually makes a very significant difference to some of us in the real world.

Hence my recommendation; it's not anti-marriage in the sense of commitment or benefits.

And I don't think marriage is a fundamental right; even defining it satisfactorily casually (let alone legally) to married people is impossible. The concrete rights that matter are legal benefits, and those still exclude poly people and people wishing to grant rights to relative or non-humans. Gay marriage only included gay people. It is inherently a bigoted institution while it retains any emphasis on heteronormativity (now extended to gay people, who are honorarily heteronormative under the law) or religion (i.e. all the opposition to gay marriage).
Many of them are already banned from using smartphones or computers.

It is really really sad. When we don't stand up for the legitimate rights of the people we despise eventually politicians are going to come for your and mine rights too. This sex offender registry appears more and more like "outcast" registry. The people who can be vilified or treated like shit without feeling of any guilt.

It is mind-boggling what all sort of things can get you on that list. People getting drunk and peeing on a side walk, 17 year old having sex with 16 year old, person who had a family shoot while his grand kids played in the pool naked etc. etc.

My worry is that as soon as the drug war ends, out politicians are going to up the ante on sex war.
Definitely an amazing person. Folks tend to primarily focus on his contributions to the PC ecosystem. I am surprised more don't mention his work on data-flow analysis. It was such a significant contribution to the compiler world.
Where do you think we got the idea? ;)
And private tollways
The sky isn't falling, but there is a perceptible slowdown.

Which is probably the best time to start thinking about this, as opposed to in the middle of a round of layoffs...

Tech as a whole is still growing briskly - FB/GOOG/AAPL/etc are evidence enough of that.

But there have been some high-profile (and expensive) startup busts, and certain niches are looking less healthy now than they were before (see: edu-tech or med-tech). The net effect is that demand for engineering talent is lower than before, but not by a catastrophic amount.

If you were extremely employable before, you are likely to still be extremely employable now. If your interview skills were marginal before, you may not be employable now.
Mash, as it did in the above context, only describes pushing a button rapidly and repeatedly. It can be used interchangably with spam, but usually implys a shorter time frame, and when using spam, you usually name the action, not the button.

To demonstrate the difference:

"After you get knocked out in punch out, mash A to get back up"

"In Quake 2, spamming rockets to protect entryways is the only use for the stupid things."
Chinese culture being less accepting of foreigners has nothing to do with it being a "frontier". If anything, it's the opposite. The US is a relatively young nation populated almost entirely by immigrants or descendants of immigrants. China is a long-established nation with a relatively homogeneous population (90% Han Chinese).
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History is written by the victors, Marie Antoinette wasn't half as bad as the shallow popular perception of her makes her out to be.

Everyone's got an agenda to push.
I agree with your view on the matter, and the article did suggest that this was the case, however, they didn't show it.

In the very same paragraph that the article made note of the government's support, it also conceded that the Delphi already had pilot programs in the US.

I would expect to see some concrete examples of laws being passed.

I am not, by the way, saying that Singapore is not auto-car friendly or that they won't have them earlier or anything like that. Just that this article doesn't argue that fact.

(Edit: Not to be coy with my view: I think all the rich countries will get them at approximately the same time.)
Why not just use a lock shared between all participating processes and call it a day? That seems a way more robust solution and is probably even way quicker to implement than digging up all the edge cases from all the (file) system specifications and then hoping you did not miss anything and all systems will continue to honor the least common denominator you just figured out in the future.
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It would depend on the kind of experience and the quality of insight. Time served doesn't correlate to quality.

Programming is actually a very permissive industry. There are corporate environments in which you can be barely competent and still keep your job - if not gain promotions.
I really find it hard to believe most people at the time of your parents or grandparents only thought about family after achieving "financial stability".

The challenges of "life and parenthood" today are not that different from our parents. It's that nowadays everyone gets this anxiety-inducing message that you can only consider yourself "an adult" when you traveled the whole world, achieved some level of education, worked for so-and-so, played in a rock band, got your 15 seconds of Internet fame, slept with a few dozen people... all of these challenges are artificial.

This kind of "we know our priorities" is not really about choosing anything. When the priorities being elected are as abstract as "financial comfort", it is unworkable. It becomes just some illusory target that in the end works just as a rationalization to not settle down and take "grown up" responsibilities.

Or put another way: if you say "We want to be financially comfortable before bringing children", you are stating that you won't think about family before having all of the financial comfort guaranteed. You may succeed at it or not, and even if you do it might be too late to have a family. If on the other hand you establish that having a family is important to you, you can work for it right now and then start thinking about how to secure yourselves financially. The main difference is that if you already have a good family, you already get a bigger support network.

> I'd gladly ditch the nanny and pay for the surrogate.

First, take a look at silencio's reply. It is currently illogical for the financial point of view.

Second, it is not about money! You are proposing a world where some privileged "elite" gets to postpone their fertile years and make more money at the expense of poorer women who will nothing but breeders for you, and that in the end might not even be able to have kids of their own. Is this really the kind of dystopia you'd like to live in?
The Ethereum crowdsale. I sold a small part of that recently, at ~60x profit.
one of the reviews

Out of date 2/5 stars

Language spoofing no longer works (assuming it ever worked). Chosen user-agent, etc is pretty out of date. Should choose the same ones as the Tor Browser Bundle or something

how accurate is this? is this extension still worth it?
That's only one lane that is enforced to a varying degree (hardly in CA), and subject to cheating. I think in order for cars to become safer we need to force the human out of the driver's seat. Even if we had a hybrid system, self-driving is still subject to other human drivers. Try taking away the keys of Americans. I ride a motorcycle and I would miss riding if it came to forcing people to adopt self-driving, but that's how we reduce highway deaths.

Edit: now that I think about it, cheating could be enforced by camera. Assuming the road had a computer network (like a much more reliable Bluetooth), I am sure cars could identify an unauthorized manually-driven vehicle and alert authorities.
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> In the US, cross-breed banks resulted in greater contagion across the financial sector and put depositories at risk, increasing the need for bailout.

I am not sure I agree. The example of Lehman has shown that a pure investment banks (and technically not even a bank, it was a broker-dealer) can cause a financial collapse. So I do not think we can work on the assumption that we only need to worry about deposit taking institutions and let investment bank collapse. Investment banks can be too big to fail too.