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>Seems they want to attract wannabe soldiers.

As opposed to what? I mean, I like the idea of marketing to a peacenik, community minded, compassionate, etc person, but those are the least likely people to get a tough and sometimes shitty job where your life is on the line and you deal with humanity's worst people often at their worst. The types you are talking about would fall into social and charitable work. Personally, I wouldn't last a day as a cop.

A lot of that "honor" marketing is to attract the kinds of people who would work those jobs. These strategies work on low educated types or types who are comfortable with shooting, fighting, etc or types who just want well paid public-sector pension jobs and will deal with it.

That said, of course there are lots of good cops out there who don't necessarily buy into the macho stuff, but at the end of the day, you better be prepared to do violence. How comfortable would a liberal guy who never had been in a fight be as a cop? Or a 100lbs woman? Or someone who locks up under pressure? Or someone who is a bookworm and has zero physical skills? You can't just wish for society's finest to take a job that you and I would never do. I don't see you quitting your cush white collar job to reform the police department.
Cough sci-hub Cough

Edit: a few of the links on the wiki page still link to it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

They also have a Facebook page and an onion route.
ImageOptim is a handy little tool to strip all the metadata https://imageoptim.com/mac
> Neither the student body nor the taxpayer needs that kind of expense so the place can attract students from three counties away.

And if the county their from doesn't have a community college, or the community college in their county doesn't offer the programs they want?
I suppose my definition of "professional" probably has different definitions from other people as well. I would expect the latter out of an experienced professional. I certainly have seen plenty of experienced people who would not do that, however.
No, I'm talking functional programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Perhaps they meant the idealized dollhouse of mutual buddies seen in various shows and sitcoms?

It's hard to make weekly shows about lonely people with only one permanent cast member...
Salaries at non-profit must be "reasonable" by law.

There's probably a lot of wiggle room there, but it's not like you can just pay yourself anything.
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The poster withheld the name of the companies and used a throwaway account. There's no clear link back to the auditor.
Here are some references to my main assertion that reserve requirements don't limit a bank's ability to loan, instead capital requirements are the limiting factor.

Another good source from digi_owl: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

Also this: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/epr/0...

and this:
http://www.economonitor.com/lrwray/2013/08/15/banks-dont-len...

and finally this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/01/21/banks-...
Credits rarely transfer into a major or minor program of study regardless of source institution. Waiving of requirements to opt into higher-level coursework is fine. That's rarely what students want.

ITT is just the worst example of crappy education. There are plenty of schools where a crappy education is still available. Federally backed (edit: guarenteed) money for student loans intuitively seems problematic.
Startups aren't the companies that are paying high salaries in the Bay Area, so no.
I have to admit ignorance about this implementation, but as I understand it evaluating a single move is computationally much simpler. That is given a piece, validate that the proposed move (decided on by a human) conforms to the rules of chess, and is valid for the given board state. Verifying a checkmate (even if only verifying checkmates proposed by a human player), means going through every one of the opponents pieces to see if it can be used to improve to a non-check state.
Except for the fact that Japan actually has a very low rate of workplace participation for women, I agree with your comment.

Feminists actually talk about this a lot, using the term "emotional labor"[0]

It is a bit like how the decline of religiosity in the US has led to a decline in social participation. It's clear to me, at least, that whatever your opinion on these institutions (religion, patriarchy) there needs to be a movement to fix the void in civil society created by their decline.

I think about when I visited the Middle East and how I would often see men on "friend dates", i.e. having a coffee together or relaxing in the park. They would often be sitting close, even holding hands. It made me think about the strange distance men in the US have from each other and how lonely it is.

[0]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/08/women-gender-r...
I find the focus on "military grade hardware" to be a red herring in the police conduct issue. In many cases, the hardware being discussed (tracked vehicles? okay, I guess they're good in mud?) have nothing to do with offensive capabilities, and are quite often defensive. (Armored vehicles).

If anything, the better defended our cops are, the less excuse they have to use lethal force. If a cop knew his life was never in danger, he would have almost no reason to use lethal force.

In many cases, this hardware's already built, it's built to survive a lot tougher duty than the police put it through, and it makes no sense to me why they wouldn't use it.
"For geo-locating and tracking purposes the UMTS target phone is 'pushed' onto the GSM-XPZ cell and then placed into blind call mode." [1]

Oh, yeah, of course blind call mode.... wait, what?

Does anyone have more information on "blind call mode"? It sounds like a standard feature of some devices, perhaps where the phone actively transmits as if in a call, but without the user knowing. I definitely don't want a device that will help someone spy on me...

Also it's great that people are beginning to question the values of law enforcement, but don't forget too that good old fashioned criminals will have this tech too. Sometimes, the two will be the same entity.

[1] https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20...
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What disgusts me most about the for-profit schools -- not to come off as too much of a snob -- is that the money we the taxpayers put into their pockets would be better spent improving community colleges and state schools.

I get not everyone needs to go to an Ivy League school, but for vocational basics -- what people are going to these for-profit schools hoping to gain -- community college should be "good enough."

I'd look at Bellevue Community College as a great example of a strong vocational tech school. That should be a model others could strive for. When I was younger I learned a great deal in BCC classes -- knowledge that was immediately beneficial to my day job as a software developer.

In contrast, the classes at BCC were far more hands-on training than what I got at the school I eventually graduated from. Educationally, community college I feel was better... but certainly for connections and networking the "name-brand" schools pay off.
My wife had worked as a temporary at ITT here in Calfornia. It was the most degrading work I have ever seen. She was teaching English courses, and 98% of the kids plagiarized, not even trying to cover it up. When she gave failing grades to the papers, the students fought back and the director at her location told her she can't do that. She quit that week.
We use CircleCI, and since all our environments are on a VPN we opted for a pull based solution instead of CircleCI notifying/pushing anything to our servers.

The way it works, Circle pushes the containers built to Google Container Registry and there is a super simple tool I built (https://github.com/crufter/puller) pulls those images. This introduces a couple of minutes of delay but we find that acceptable.

I guess we are still exposed to the possibility of someone breaking into Circle, using the keys there to push to our GCR repos, but at least they won't have full access to our servers...
Yet modern finance has hundreds of years of regulations on its back. Obviously, with differing outcomes/quality, but it is there.

Cryptocurrency is still wholly unregulated for the most part and any person can start a currency. I suspect this draws in a certain type of person. See the various 'hacked bitcoin exchanges' that were just founders running away with the money, for example. There's no FDIC here or even any law enforcement options, especially if the hosting was off-shore.
Is it possible that to be clinically depressed (on the milder end of the scale, perhaps) for years and be unaware of the fact?
That's an odd argument to make. You're essentially saying if you can't afford the most secure safe for your jewelry, just put it in a basket in front of your door instead of getting a cheaper safe that keeps most thieves out.
I second that! I changed a month ago, and have been pleasantly surprised with the quality of search results. It should be noted that it is possible to adjust the theme so it looks almost exactly like Google, which helped me shake that "unfamiliar" feeling when transitioning. By the way, for academic papers, Microsoft Academic Search seems promising, although it means moving from one juggernaut to another.
>> "Are more adults depressed, or are we just noticing it more?"

Not sure if it's a good indicator but suicide rates seem to have jumped massively in the last 10-15 years.
Instructions for enabling this feature (via about:config) are provided in the author's prior article on the topic: https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/10/mozillas-multi-process-arc...
In that case I think your root cause analysis is probably quite accurate but that you're drastically underestimating how common of a driver for this kind of behavior it is.
> This arrangement is only allowed if, among other things, the employee performs work for a number (greater than 1) of clients.

It's actually about capability, not actual number if clients; a contractor does not suddenly become an employee just because it doesn't have a second client at the moment. That said, you are right that legally hiring contractors is not nearly as easy as some people think it is.
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There is a major difference between "culture fit" and the ability to adapt. Both serve a distinct purpose and both are valid.

Someone's ability to adapt shows tactical proficiency. Particularly in an engineering environment I would put a high premium on tactical proficiency because the objectives are typically explicit and linear.

Culture fit speaks to traits like open-mindedness, inclusion and confidence in leadership. These are less linear, but no less important.

I would like to hear more from jcadam about the culture fit judgment he experienced. Was it really that you were not like them, or was it that you are from, and fit better with a different culture?

Culture fit isn't about listening to the same music, or what you do on a Friday night. It's a less tangible, but collective agreement about purpose and objective. I am from the Midwest (Ohio), and I have worked in Manhattan and Los Angeles over a couple of decades at a couple of different companies. I am aware of a distinct difference between East and West coast culture and thinking, and likewise, Ohio culture and thinking.

None of this is meant to judge superiority of any culture over another. Simply, if you are seeking to optimize an entire organization for the best possible results in working towards your objectives, culture fit is relevant.
On a slightly related note; with all of your life changes, it's pretty easy to become Magnesium deficient. Please look into taking Magnesium Glycinate. It's made a world of difference in my depression. (just make sure you're taking at least 1,000mg a day, two capsules every 4-6 hours).[1][2][3][4]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16542786

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19944540

[3] https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/#summary3-7

[4] https://www.amazon.com/KAL-Magnesium-Glycinate-400-tablets/d...
Nintendo does have a digital game marketplace, and it's stuffed with quite good games. However, even if a game has previously been published on Nintendo hardware, that does not automatically give Nintendo the rights to release it again on their virtual console. Those deals all need to be renegotiated, which is never going to happen (or may be downright impossible) for more obscure games.
I wonder why this is being flagged (moved like 15 positions down in 3 minutes).

@dang - is worth looking into whether there is a pattern to the flagging of this post (i.e., IP addresses from a certain company in Cupertino, pattern of other negative Apple PR being flagged by the same users, etc.)?
No, income is not profit. It's just the price of a good.

There is no economic law that the price of gold should fall to the same price as other metals. Rather, economics says that if gold mining is a competitive industry, gold production will increase until the economic profit on producing more drops to the same level as economic profits in all other productive directions.

Concretely, to understand why top earners outstrip others, it's important to figure out who they are. A lot of them are traders. A trader earning $20M/year makes that much because his trading desk produces $200M/year for the hedge fund he works for, and because no one else can.

Now, suppose you want to take a nurse making $40k/year and bring her up to the trader's level. Suppose I give you $500k. Do you think you can do it? Concretely speaking, and without handwaving, what would you spend the money on? A harvard education (using up $240k already) is far from sufficient.

Forget even bringing her into the 0.1%. How much money would you need to spend, and what would you spend it on, for her to reliably become a mid-level developer earning $200k/year?

The implicit costs are hard to pin down. But when you ask how to move a specific person into a specific 1% or even 10% job, it suddenly becomes a lot clearer why this is hard.
It's becoming more and more likely that my next job will be remote.

First, let me qualify: I love my current job, and I don't want to leave it. I have no immediate plans to send my resume around to companies looking for remote employees. And when I do decide to go remote, I'll attempt to convince my boss to let me be a remote employee of this company before I start looking elsewhere (this is feasible: we have other remote employees, including technical ones, I have VPN access, and I do 99% of my work over ssh to servers located in a datacenter somewhere).

As for why this is coming up, the short version is that I'm transgender, I'm a Texan, and the Texas state legislature has been promising up and down that next spring they're going to ram through a transphobic bathroom bill. If they make good on that promise, I will have no choice but to either leave the state or kill myself, and I want to live. So I'll likely end up having to find work elsewhere next spring, unless I can convince my employer to let me go remote here.

I've lived in my hometown my entire life. I'm not sure where I want to move yet, and I'm not looking forward to travelling for interviews. In order to interview for a non-remote job in another state, I'll have to burn every ounce of PTO I have, plus I'd have to fly in order to interview, which is something I'd rather avoid because the TSA is notoriously hostile to trans people (they've been known to detain, abuse, and otherwise treat as criminals passengers who have both breasts and a penis, as their scanners flag us). I'd also be in a position of not really be able to choose where I move to. I have limited PTO and I'd have a pressing need to get out of the state ASAP. I can't afford to travel somewhere for an interview and then turn down an offer if I get one. So my only option will be to apply at as many companies in as many cities as I can (limited to cities in blue states, because burn me once...) and then take the first offer I get regardless of where it is.

But all that changes if I seek remote work instead. First off, interviewing will be less painful: I might be able to do phone interviews at lunch to avoid burning PTO, and even if I did have to take some time off, it might just be an hour or two in the morning instead of having to burn an entire day. Second, if I seek remote work, I can secure a job that won't require I stay in Texas first and then figure out where I want to move to. Hell, if my remote job pays enough to afford large amounts of travel and lodging costs, I could even try out different cities. I could take my laptop, spend a week in one city, and work out of my hotel room. A week or two later, I could repeat the process with a different city, and so on until I make a decision. Hell, aside from trying out different candidate cities, I could also use it as an excuse to visit my relatives who are scattered all over the country.
What's the difference, if they can initiate a pull to load whatever code they want onto your server?
The speed is great as long as youtube doesn't autoplay a new video which freezes the whole browser for me until it is done loading.
"but I doubt you'd get quality clicks from it"

I don't think it's the quality that will be the problem but the cost in a highly competitive area like project management.
"I.E. coming over knocking on your desk asking a question, or pulling you in for a meeting."

I'm curious whether you find hipchat / slack to actually be less intrusive. In my experience, working from home can result in protracted text conversations causing me to stay less focused for longer periods of time. In the office, I can usually stop, take off the headphones, resolve their problem, refill my coffee and then get back to work in less time.
You're minutes from the A,C, and G, but how long is your commute to Manhattan (and where in Manhattan)? How reliable are those trains (eg. on the weekends)? Is it safe at night? Mind if I ask where in Brooklyn? (I'm not trying to rain on your parade, just genuinely curious because I'm actually looking for a place right now)

Sure you can live in Harlem for cheap, but you're a bit removed and it doesn't exactly feel safe. These days it's gotten better, but I still wouldn't recommend a woman walk alone there at night. Living in what feels like a giant housing project isn't exactly what I consider the desirable "Manhattan" experience.

Mind linking me some of those good listings? I spent the last 3 years in the East Village, most apartments there in that price range are subpar by modern day standards. They're going to be obviously converted apartments with absurdly small bedrooms, no living room area, odd layouts, broker's fees (10-15% of the first year's rent), 5th floor walkups, Avenue C, etc. I'm not saying that deals don't exist, but they are very hard to come by.

Here's a StreetEasy search for 2BRs under $3,000 without broker's fees - I'm not tempted to snag any of these: http://streeteasy.com/for-rent/nyc/price:-3000%7Cbeds%3E=2%7...

I'm not too familiar with deep Brooklyn, but I know you can find alright studios there for $1,200/person. I'm just not sure if the tradeoff of increased commute and reduced safety due to living amongst poverty is worth it. But I'd love to be shown otherwise.
As with most console homebrew communities, this is already a thing.

https://github.com/devkitPro/libogc

It doesn't seem like it's been heavily used on GC, but the Wii has a decent homebrew scene.

Nothing really compares to the OG Xbox though, starting off in console modding on that platform really ruined me for everything else.
I don't buy it. Something else is going on.
Look: Pretty much everybody I know is on antidepressants. Are we really facing a massive epidemic of sudden chemical imbalances? Everybody. I propose that our brain chemistry is unchanged, and unless you want to redefine normal in such a way as to exclude the entire current human population, the problem here is not medical.
I am still not sold on the idea of individual home storage and barely sold on individual solar. With many new subdivisions having set aside space for run off and green space its not hard to imagine the panel space and storage. besides easier maintenance and better costs it makes is simpler to design homes to fit the needs of those buying them. Plus most homes are not situated ideally for roof solar.

In many cases you could simply extend the area used for pools, tennis courts, and such. For the most part I think it is just ideally targeted marketing more than good energy sense to load up each home with panels.
I've been out of the loop on Facebook ads for 5 years now. Is there a good conversion tracking story now, or no?
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I agree. And I work remotely now. It seems the #1 requirement for remote work to work is ... mutual understanding. Otherwise you end up with communication gaps.

The case for VCS is interesting to me because I believe we could replace a number of complex tools in the stack with proper use and style on top of that.

Literally, we could do 90% of it all with just a VCS and people paying attention to it. You know: commit early, commit often, read commit messages, understand the code, run the tests. And so on and so forth...
I haven't claimed that equational reasoning is limited to pure languages, that's more a property of the code, rather than the language. But you can only achieve equational reasoning with referential transparency and that means the code itself needs to be pure. TFA does not show pure code.

> Effectful functions, as you probably are aware, are just functions of type A -> T B

Not sure how to parse that. But if T in your example is meant to be some IO type, then it is pure along with any transformations on it, until you do unsafePerformIO or something equivalent and you only need to do that once, at the end of the program.
Should I OEM my product?