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> Is there some nuance of the direction that I don't understand?

I think the point is that the existing large-scale federalist states are all conceived as top-down: a central authority makes (most of) the rules, and lower rings have to suck it up.

The European project is supposed to be a bottom-up, consensus-driven setup where each member-state brings its best contributions and persuades the others to "level up". That's how the best EU directives were born.

In a way, even the Euro was something like that, with Germany persuading others that a "common Deutschmark" was a superior setup for the common currency they had agreed to implement (in exchange for letting them re-annexe East Germany); and overall it was, at the time, when compared to weak inflation-ridden and debt-burdened currencies like the Franc, the Lira and so on. The problem is that circumstances change, and the German model turned out to be very inflexible for economies that significantly differ from the German one. So now a consensus is emerging that the setup needs changing. A similar situation in the US or Australia would be fixed with a few decrees and simple majorities; in the EU that would be unacceptable. Alliances and majorities have to be built from the ground up, and they have to conceive a compromise that will satisfy most member states.
what bothers me about it is the 75% pay, because I could never imagine not putting in additional hours.

Were I only getting 75% of the pay of a full time worker, you can be sure I'd never put in a single additional hour.

I could say that a drop in my hours to 40 / week would be nice, but I'm the one who chooses to work longer hours. There's no expectation of longer hours where I am. I'm also usually not productive 8 hours in a row every day, sometimes significantly less than that. It ends up being very much a give / take scenario.
Russia is actually not that large population-wise.
This is one of the most beautiful things I've seen on the internet lately. Thank you!!
The BSD model is somewhat challenging for porters (maintainers of the 3rd party software). Making sure the software compiles on three different FreeBSD releases (old-stable, stable, development branch) is much more work than the usual Linux 1:1 model.
There's an important piece of advice for all cloud providers (not just Google) that's hiding at the end of the article:

"While Fred's experience with our appeal process was uncommon, we want to make sure this situation doesn't happen again in the future. We're evaluating how we can make changes to our appeal process and overall customer support, regardless of the support package."

Based on this remark (and the original article), DocGraph appears to have only had a entry-level support package for its business. If you're betting your company on any cloud provider, look carefully at the paid support packages. If your entire company goes offline, you really want high-priority access to a human being. Most cloud providers offer this.

This even applies on a smaller-scale services. If a Comcast residential Internet connection fails, for example, it may take them several days to fix it. But if you pay twice as much for a business plan, you can get a competent technician on site the same day.
Thanks yourself, you and your team is a pleasure to work with.
I suppose there would be:

San Francisco Housing Action Coalition http://www.sfhac.org/

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association http://www.spur.org

And there are smaller efforts such as:

GrowSF http://www.growsanfrancisco.org

SF Bay Area Renters’ Federation http://www.sfbarf.org
What about using CUDA with bhyve with "PCI-E passthrough"? It should work near native speed. This was suggested here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10767172
Because, while overall, humanity quality of life is improving in leaps and bounds, for most people on hacker news, and especially for their non-tech middle class friends and family in Europe and the US, it has gotten decidely worse over the last ten years and shows no signs of stopping.

http://humanprogress.org/system/cms/files/files/000/000/241/...
Why is this 'market failure'?

It is government regulations and legal prohibitions that have created a situation in which there is no competition. The market didn't create that situation, the government did. It is no surprise the price goes up in a market where competition is effectively prohibited.

There are a few solutions:
* adjust the regulatory framework to allow competition to emerge
* strengthen the regulatory framework and set a price by law
* apply public pressure against the sole provider into modifying their pricing

The last one is arguably the 'market' at work. The first two are just doubling down on a regulatory framework.

In any case, 'regulatory failure' seems like a much better description of the situation than 'market failure'.
The Hep C cure is an extremely valuable innovation.

I certainly hope that lots of people receive the cure in a rapid fashion, but I'm not sure that it really falls to the innovator to provide it to them.

(lots of payers (insurance and national healthcare systems) are paying high fees for it because it makes sense for them over the medium term to do so; it represents a cost savings)

As a society we should still probably seek cheaper ways of finding such cures, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to bemoan a new, better and cheaper treatment.
> "Changes in Excel 2010 have improved its use for statistics considerably. For earlier versions of Excel, however, the answer is generally ‘No’. The following refers to versions prior to 2010 (2011 on the Mac)."
Uber is just a management that controls bunch of small entities providing a service. You can hate it or feel envy, but actually there are millions of companies with bad and foolish management that cannot even do their service at all.

I hope someday I'll see the company that will act as an umbrella to all service companies out there, and will filter out all those pretending fools unable to clean my carpet, install new furniture or repair pc. I'm really tired of this local 'legal market'. I need it done, not legal.
Really? My email tended to be blacklisted and treated as spam and I had poor filters and search. Help me out here lol.
An interesting model, taking advantage of other countries taxpayers and innovation so you never have to fund any research yourself.

I'm sure that will work out well to better humanity as a whole - especially when there's no reason to actually invent anything new because every other country is just waiting to steal it.
I think they've taken the Pivotal Labs (they even call them Predix Labs!) approach and do a LARGE amount of pairing.

You guys have had quite an influence :)
Or finance? They just finished unwinding GE Capital after failing at it for 15 years.
> Do they really want that? Or just say that want it?

Some. Some not.

My argument was against the stereotype of complacency, which itself inspires a different kind of complacency.

I've got skin in this game, having been one of the handsomely-billed consultants (for Pivotal Labs) until transferring into Cloud R&D.

So I'll tell this joke before someone else tells it. It's adapted, of course, from a joke about therapists.

Q: How many agile consultants does it to change a lightbulb?

A: One, but the lightbulb has to want to change.
It's just as unsuitable. But there are plenty of open source packages that R the right tool for the job...
When somebody who has nothing to do with programming tells you "it seems like a small bug and can be fixed pretty quickly"
Basically, because a lot of data isn't safe and only manages to seem safe on average because the power is very reliable and data loss becomes an occasional race condition. :-)
That link doesn't actually work that way. It just redirects to the site. If you're in Firefox, Safari, or Edge, they already have Readability modes. It's a little book icon at the end of the address bar.
Replaying Events in an Axon Framework Based Application
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I see negative value in stamping down the outliers. This just sweeps the conversation under the rug and people feel good about "doing something". We then all can rage against the latest scapegoat who is doing exactly what everyone else in their position is - they just got a bit too aggressive and got unlucky on the roll of the PR dice. The rest of the industry laughs and continues to reap 900% margin on generic products, and increases it 15% next year since 15% is totally reasonable. We then repeat the next two minutes of hate every 2-3 years.

We are talking about a price increase from a floor that was already absolutely insane. $300 for a $20 or less to manufacturer device is already being ripped off, and we are only just now talking about it because it went to $600. Why is there a difference in reactions here? Are you the one who gets to judge a $580 profit is ok vs. a $280 profit? Why? They both seem obscene to me - why is this just now becoming a problem? Obviously $300 is an acceptable price - so is $400? $500?

This is just the tip of the iceberg. If you start by clipping the tall poppies you might get some extremely slight downward pressure on prices in the market - but that does nothing to solve your actual problems. It's penny wise and pound foolish and is the approach we've thus far taken with predictable results.
I'm in a different part of the technical world, so I couldn't fairly compare those things.

I work on Cloud Foundry as an opensource contributor for Pivotal, not directly on Predix for GE (or BlueMix for IBM, or Helion for HP etc).
So can lodash. That's what the author is doing here by using

import throttle from 'lodash/throttle';

rather than

import { throttle } from 'lodash';
Jordan Hubbard hasn't actually committed anything in years. He does like to suggest FreeBSD adopt mach and launchd. That has seen some push back (people don't want mach IPC and people seem to think XML is required for launchd plists—it isn't).

Matt Macy already did a port of both pieces; they're ready and sitting in the NextBSD repository: https://github.com/NextBSD/NextBSD .
The beginner's guide to VC
There are some people for whom the solution to any problem with the EU is always "more EU". And there are some who say, when you're in a hole, stop digging.
Hi @chriscappuccio,

Could you share an example of what you went wrong?

The Mattermost server has around 59% automated test coverage, our community does over 120 hours of manual testing prior to each monthly release, and we're constantly striving to improve.

Here's a recent review of Mattermost's quality levels, from someone who left Mattermost and then returned, concluding Mattermost was the leading solution: http://www.akitaonrails.com/2016/08/13/choosing-mattermost-o...

If your experience is different, we're highly interested in knowing how we can improve.
No, actually launchd: https://github.com/NextBSD/NextBSD :-). XML isn't required; plists can be JSON or UCL or whatever.
No, that process used to work relatively OK when then number of countries was limited. Italy, Greece and Spain benefited from transfers which allowed them to close the gap with core countries.

But those were basically the days of EEC. Then came EU with its dogmatic liberalisation and the inclusion of all Eastern Europe countries. The combination of these factors broke the balance between the European countries, creating competition between these countries that cannot compete fairly, for the level difference is too huge and the Eastern Countries only advantage is engaging a race to the bottom. Salaries can be more then 5 times lower in East than in West! and they even wanted at some point Ukraine to join without any preparation, Ukraine which has 10 to 12 times lower salaries!! They have removed all barriers and regulations that could soften transitions and imbalances. Meanwhile, countries are stuck with Euro and cannot opt for different economic models to adapt to this internal unfair competition. And transfers do not work any more, because it is not in the interest of Eastern countries to reach the level of Western ones, because they would lose their only advantage. This even annihilates the past benefits of EEC time transfers, disrupting the Southern countries.
Facebook could still register that he was searching for you on Facebook (even if he couldn't find you), and have him appear in your feed.
Obfuscation is surely used in malware.

One instruction set computers (OISC) are more than a joke, I suppose, but I didn't dig far into theoretical computer science and can't say, what's important about them.

I read a comment the other day, that stipulated neurons would be akin to massively parallel single instruction computers.
All the more reason to experiment with the proposed standard API and contribute feedback.

The advantages of standardization and eventual native implementation outweigh the immediacy of a JS-based API designed in relative isolation. Why should I invest time learning this micro-library, when the API is certain to be different from the native implementation? The documentation doesn't seem to even acknowledge the existance of the standard (did the author do any research before implementing a one-off library? I have no way of knowing.), much less explain why it differs from the proposed standard.
...now lets suppose the written evaluation is biased to the tune of 25% against group Y...

How do you find out that the written evaluation is biased "to the tune of 25% against group Y?"

THAT is the problem. It's not obvious to me how you would go about determining written evaluations are biased (and to what extent!) against group Y without somehow relying on subjective societal values that are different everywhere and continually evolving.
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So, unfortunately it has come to this... after half a decade of start-ups in SF Bay Area doing growth marketing, CRM, Marketo, email, ads, SEM, SEO, and product management in B2B and B2C, I've landed in the wrong side of 40 years old, not white or Asian, no fancy MBA (Though I have one) and not a coder.

I've have a good set of experience over 10 years, and the last startup where I was handling channel growth (grew from 300K to 2MM subscribers in 2 years) was a successful acquisition last year. It was a foreign acquirer, so I can't follow my job out of USA.

12 months later, 300+ job applications later, 10 in-person interviews later (from FB, AppDirect, Ancestry, HP, DocuSign to smaller startups) NOTHING has landed. I've exhausted my personal network and expanded the search to LA, Portland, Seattle and nothing as well.

All I can tell you is, every position I interviewed (and was final 2 candidates or whatever) companies have hired younger and sometimes even less experienced people than their declared criteria. I'm not saying I was the perfect fit for each position, I wasn't for some I'm sure, but reality and data is what it is.
I haven't had a harder time ever in Silicon Valley to get back to work.

The question is, should I try a coder school? I've been thinking really hard about it. I don't want to add another $15K-$25K in debt just to be a 40-something noob non-white/asian coder without a job on top of everything else going wrong. I wanted to figure out if I need to add some certifications (Marketo, Google, SAP) but no one has requested them where I'm looking for work and entry level jobs using these aren't that many.

So, thoughts? Would it be worth to really learn JS or a full Ruby stack for a career switch or will my age/background still nullify whatever coding skills I can get.

Honest answers - Do you think the age/background thing continue to overrule anything I do?
That's great!

For Labs, our best outcome is to put ourselves out of a job because the clients are teaching themselves.
There is a good talk that accompanies the code
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What seems to be missing is a more sophisticated understanding of risk and a legal framework that substitutes the risk assessment of individual patients (or parents) for a one-size-fits-all decision by a bureaucracy.

We are hearing stories now of people going with fewer EpiPen's because of the cost. Is that a better situation than Auvi-Q's sometimes in-accurate dose? I don't know but it is a question that comes to mind.

The government apparently requires purchase of two EpiPens to reduce the risk in case a single dosage is insufficient, but this doubles the cost. Now some people purchase two (one package) instead of four (two packages) and perhaps they won't have any EpiPen at all when they need one because they can't have one at home, at school, at camp, at Grandma's house and so on.

Should pharmacists be able to substitute the AdrenaClick with the patients approval? The law prevents that. Perhaps trusting pharmacists (a highly regulated profession already) to make that decision would be better than patients purchasing fewer EpiPens due to cost.
When recruiters blatantly miscapitalize technology names: Jquery or JQuery for instance.
Perhaps it's time for another occasional comment about the hacky utility of bookmarklets. When I'm on the computer, as opposed to mobile device, I still use a few to compensate for such things.

The following site's been around "forever", and still provides a quick starting point. Note that web design has changed a lot; nonetheless, some of these still beat the majority of pages into a better appearance.

Yeah, I should be all "Read-a-page-ability-in-your-pocket" in my approach, and use some optimized, cloudified, designified nirvana.

Instead, I just leave some bookmarklets parked in my bookmarks bar, one click away.

https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

E.g. (apologies for the ugliness):

zap colors - background #E4E3CB

javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20#E4E3CB%20!%20important;%20color:%20black%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'");%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();

Georgia

javascript:(function(){var%20newSSGeorgia,%20styles='*%20{%20font-family:%20Georgia%20!%20important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'");%20}%20else%20{%20newSSGeorgia=document.createElement('link');%20newSSGeorgia.rel='stylesheet';%20newSSGeorgia.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSSGeorgia);%20}%20})();
Or even a percentage that increases by the percentage of profit.
Understand how to make games is different then playing games and surfing the web looking at junk.
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> On August 15, Larpenter was supposed to be honored for his service to the community by being inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame. The ceremony was rescheduled because of flooding.

Makes me wonder what the criteria are.
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"As an indirect indicator, NYC draws far more VC than Boston"

Far more, he says

Anyway not true

NYC has alot more capital floating around but the subset of it that is VC isn't more than Boston
The UK is unique in that its native language is also the "common" language. I've worked in Europe with multi-lingual teams; if a Dutch-speaker wants to talk to a French-speaker or a German-speaker wants to talk to an Italian-speaker they'll do it in English. This means there is much less friction for anyone from the EU to work in the UK than for a Brit to work anywhere in the EU.

Not saying this is necessarily good or bad in and of itself, but it is a thing that cannot be ignored in any of these discussions.
Really? Can you provide a link for that?
Which communities don't approve of the word "fix" in describing suggestions?

I'm all for criticism being constructive and polite, but in my experience fix is a neutral and common word in design and development discussions.
You are getting downvoted because you look like someone full of themselves.

You admit you did nothing...
and that your cofounder did everything...
but you refuse to attribute the success of the startup to your cofounder and instead attribute the success to yourself.

You have the audacity to claim that the startup would have been worthless without you, but ignore the fact it wouldn't even exist without your cofounder.

Plus you quote yourself.
ELI5 please. What does this mean for a developer?
Also of interest:

* EuSpRIG (European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group): More about the application than the tech

http://www.eusprig.org/

* Ray Panko's Spreadsheet Research Website: Outdated, but some interesting stuff

http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/SSR/

EDIT: Edited a little
No, Google Play.
If that's the case, how can California have auto safety standards or standards for gasoline that are more strict than other states?
Honestly, I slowly moved away from being a developer. Anyone with an idea can hire a developer to make their SaaS project, or whatever the idea is. The money is in the marketing of the project.

I switched to affiliate marketing and making ecommerce stores. Less time developing and more time just selling. Facebook Ads & Instagram are a godsend.

This is both active and passive income. Once things are rolling you can hire a VA for super cheap to make sure things keep running smoothly. This lets you take time off while keeping keeping the machine running. If you want to be active you can push out new products, niches, and just scale what is already working.
We've been using a self-hosted version of Mattermost for several months and the only complaint is that you can't switch off conversion of smileys to emoji. There are few minor nitpicks around email notifications and peers status display, but otherwise it's a solid no-nonsense alternative to Slack. Well done, guys!
I can't down vote you, but all of the sibling comments mirror my thoughts. To me, your writing comes off as sounding quite arrogant and self-involved.
Yes, no doubt going forward Google support will be easy to contact and this is the last time I'll see someone take to social media to get a problem with Google sorted out :)
I take it you've never been to any "Eastern" countries, and rely on your local media for your warped view. The standard of living in the baltics, for instance, has grown enormously over the last decade - to the extent that I am considering moving from the UK to Vilnius.

Wages are lower, yes, but so is the cost of goods and services. Now that they have functioning service economies, wage inflation is happening, in lockstep with price inflation. Parity happens quickly once you get the basics (infrastructure etc.) in place, which has been much of where investment has sat over the last decades.

Investment is the key word here - it's a rash investor who wants his return on a venture before it reaches fruition.

Also - would you rather they were getting cozy with Russia?
(1) Your ISP and employer know which sites you're visting (modulo virtual hosting) by inspecting your IP packets and doing a reverse DNS lookup. It's the price you pay for someone routing your traffic: they have to know where to send it.

(You can use a proxy/VPN tunnel. Your ISP knows knows you're sending traffic to the proxy, and your proxy knows where you're sending traffic.)

(2) DNS encryption is certainly possible. DNSCurve and DNSCrypt are the ones I know of. But there's just not a lot of motivation. IP packets have an address on them already; the only additional thing DNS or SNI reveals is which of several (usually enumerable) hostnames they are interested at that IP. So...interesting, but generally not compelling.