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I've been on both sides of this, receiving and allocating raises from a merit pool. Last time around I got the order from senior management that raises would be awarded on a curve in all departments, no exceptions. I had 6 direct reports at the time and to fit the curve I had to give 0% to one person, max% to one person, and some middling% to the other 4 persons. It seemed so stupid that I would have to point out how this approach fails for small numbers. In my case all 6 of my staff had received awards during the year for outstanding performance that had impacted the bottom line of the company. So giving 0% to anyone would have been utterly lacking in integrity. Rather than follow the order to do something that was completely arbitrary I told them to zero out my raise and spread it across my staff. I never even implied it, but they apparently feared that a consequence would be I would quit and take the staff with me. At the time that was a likely event. Ended up scrapping that whole idea and blowing the raise budget. Company had a banner year after that. You'd think they would have thanked me (they didn't).
The problem with "originality" is that if you dig down deep enough, there's few basic narrative structures, and everything is just their instantiations. I'd say that it's enough for a story to not be an obvious copy of some other story your audience likely seen before, and then your story itself must be good enough so that the setting feels "natural", believable, consistent.
Neither one is conservative. Conservatism means small, limited government. Classical 'liberalism.'

Both want large expansive governments -- the differences are in how they employ the machinery of government to achieve their ends.
Quote from https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-...

The rest of the story as to why Bohmian mechanics is not currently favored as the mainstream interpretation of quantum mechanics can be traced back to orthodox philosophical intransigence. Those that fail to comprehend, or factor in, the ontological advantages that come from the determinism and mathematical clarity of Bohmian mechanics often attempt to downplay the formalism by pointing out that it “doesn’t make any predictions that differ from those of ordinary quantum mechanics.” Technically, that’s not much of an objection because we could equally argue that empirically “the standard theory doesn’t go beyond Bohm’s theory.”
> And indeed, if someone were to implement this, they would basically have built a standard ZigBee inter-device communication protocol, by using existing software features (bugs), in otherwise incompatible devices.

I was indeed half-joking, half-serious. Actually, aren't there cases where viruses (the biological kind) have ended up serving a function in the DNA machinery of multi-cellular life-forms? Would be a funny parallel.
It's the same in the UK. There's a distinct category for small volume, occasional transactions like this. Surely it must be the same in the US? All those people occasionally selling their junk on eBay aren't all registered businesses right? But then food might be different.

This is till ridiculous though. All the cops had to do was give them a warning and I'm sure they would have just stopped. No need for a one year investigation, fines, etc. It's an obvious case of wasteful overkill.
I inferred it from the comments here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16339#issuecomment-25852...

But of course it can still change.
That page says discrimination during recruiting "may" be illegal, and that you "shouldn't" discriminate on age. It should say "is" and "mustn't" if it's certainly against the law.

My main problem with gov.uk is this fault to make clear the position of its advice in respect of the law, IMO it should link the appropriate legislation/caselaw as citations to prove the position it contends.
Great, now society has an excuse to put scary people away with essentially no due process thanks to the magical label of "suicidal".

Only saving grace is that in the US since the '60s-'70s we've been too cheap and too "enlightened" to do this unless the threat is truly dire. I wouldn't worry about it here, although all responsible mental health workers will during a visit ask you about suicide issues and I assume you should answer truthfully (weasel word since I've never been suicidal).

As for needing an excuse, many examples like the Soviet one show no real excuse is needed for true persecution.
Very good point, thank you. So when someone has sent you a task that is not using Ivelope and you click "Mark task as Done", the first time the user will be shown a popup on how to handle this, if he wants Ivelope to send an email every time he sets a task as finished, or if he wants to send an email when all tasks in an email are finished or if he just wants the tasks for his own personal todolist. Having unique features will bring in more users I think.
Easy to say if you don't need the job.
I've already sold this to two clients. Can't see it going anywhere. But I've been wrong before...
> email scandal

On this topic, I find it mildly amusing that, for all the accusations of bias, it was actually the New York Times that broke the story of Clinton's private email server.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/us/politics/hillary-clinto...
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

(Not exactly the most balanced bike in the shed, but some people like it that way ...)
Yes many people has asked for this and I'm trying to figure out in what direction to go :)
I was completely unaware of this developing story in Korea. Properly contextualized, it's very interesting.
I do find it interesting that they advertise in a backhanded way: "This was brought to you because of a generous donation from XYX Corp."
Why do you expect anyone would pay for this article, when the NYT website is currently free with unlimited access?
Haha that's funny!
Honeycomb to be launched on Kickstarter
I wouldn't be shocked if Choi Soon-sil has some dark secret of hers.
I quite enjoyed working at Starbucks as a teenager, because it gave me a cool that a nerd like me hadn't had before.

Careful about the drudge work though (especially cleaning floors/toilets at the end of the day), and if you're not used to spending all day on your feet you'll feel pretty sore at the end of the first few days!
Indeed, I think most people are pretty smart when they care about something. Westworld has a tried-and-true bait for people - good cast, nudity and bloody shootouts. Seems enough to make at least some care and start saying that "it's the new Game of Thrones!", at which point they can be served a complex AI plot.
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Great! Thanks for taking the time to reply. Unresolved questions always bug me.
You should not disclose your current rate, and it shouldn't matter what it is
currently. What's important is what rate are you aiming at.

You may always try to dodge the question by providing the rate you
want/expect.

Note that the law may limit what recruiters are allowed to ask in recruitment
process. You need to check regulations in UK.
I could access it from US VPN, so I don't know what the real trouble is.
I can't think of anything in my country that would prevent Google from offering this service. From a billing perspective, Google already makes some money from me, and many companies, so I can't imagine that being a stumbling block.
Answer his question. The democratically biased NYT has a paywall.
Seems promising
Drives me wild also. I assume it's because i18n / l10n takes time / money so it's easier to start with English speakers only, rather than something about controlling access to intellectual property or some form of digital colonialism.

Where iPhone / Android app stores are concerned, I can understand a bit with not launching an app in a country until it's really ready to go, otherwise you just attract negative reviews.

But in this case I can't see a good reason for not allowing an English-only version in all countries.
That's kind of interesting, sort of reverse age discrimination. Although, does that mean they tend to prefer younger hires since they will take less time off work?
> how do I handle having multiple accounts on the same website?

You use the url of the site and your different logins to generate different passwords. What's so difficult about it.

Anyway, I don't think there is a problem at all.

Imagine this: I have 3 google accounts, which I use mainly for my gmail, another one for google play on my android and another one for my kids (google play, youtube). I could use the following setup: Gmail + me + masterpassword for the first one, Google Play + me + masterpassword for the second one, and Google Kids + kids + masterpassword. Another configuration could be: google + mail + pass, google + play + pass and google + kids + password. I actually would use my real login, since my accounts are already like this: username.mail@gmail.com, username.play@gmail.com, username.kids@gmail.com.

First there is nothing new to remember here, I already rememeber that I have 3 different accounts and what they are for.
Second, it doesn't matter how many accounts you have on a site or how many sites you can access with the same account.
You can use the url of a site and a different login for several accounts. You can use a description/purpose of your accounts and the same or different logins for several accounts on SSO services.

As I said, I don't see the problem.
From Nov 7-9 it does not.

Source: http://www.nytco.com/the-new-york-times-to-offer-open-access...
I used HLS (native in iOS and Edge) as well as hls.js and it works good if you use the correct codecs. A drawback is that through it's HTTP file based distribution it's not really low latency (live). A UDP based streaming protocol could for sure do better.
> the human brain doesn't know if it likes something until it encounters it, given environmental, emotional and cultural cues at the time.

That's what I keep repeating to people who say that "oh, we're just making what our customers want!". No, customers don't want shit by themselves; it's mostly the options available and marketing effort around them that create shopping patterns.
even if you do click on web and hit the first result, you still get a paywall.. maybe it's a US-only thing?
Genuinely Outraged by this.
It's a little bit different because she's engaging in trade - she's creating something with the intent to sell it. If I buy a second hand car every other month to do up and sell I'm a trader.

In the UK we tend to warn before prosecuting. The article says a warning was sent to the group, so they didn't seem to rush to prosecute.
That was not my intention at all. I didn't mean people are stupid in any way. I meant we are all more distracted, and the willingness to engage over long gaps requires some commitment and it's easy to lose track.
It is okay to discriminate for some jobs if the position requires it e.g. you can't be a bar tender if you're < 18.
Product placement is a big money source for film & tv.

e.g. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/show-me-the-money-...
5 reasons to invest in a car business
Unfortunate the parent was downvoted, it's a valid conjecture, and a consequence of "containerize all the things" not a lot of people think through.

Simply answer the question; how many containers can any particular machine host? Ten's or hundreds? Depends on the hardware obviously, but there is a limit. So if each container is a paying customer, and you're in the busines of hosting containers (ie hyper.sh), that dictates your hardware/profit ratio.

Then consider a single multi-tenant server (ie apache hosting 10,000 low to medium use shared sites on the same hardware). Vastly more potential users (paying customers) on the same hardware.

Obviously this story has already played out and shared hosting has been in decline for years due to problems with the model; resource starvation (more active sites hogging cpu etc) and flexibility (cpanel). With containers you get so many benefits; infinite customizable, easy provisioning and deployment, tool support, etc.

But the value proposition remains. Multi tenant servers make so much sense (and potentially a lot more money per hardware unit), but resource limiting (cpu, heap, disk, io) at the application level has never been implemented to really make a a viable option. OS level limiting (ie cpulimit) is available, and that's what container hosts use for resource limiting.

My conjecture is that a suitable multi tenant server that can limit heap, cpu, and io at the account level should lower hosting costs by at least an order of magnitude. WHy pay $5 a month for a small container when you can pay $5 a year?
Does it?

The first round of labour replacement was based, mostly, on providing power to replace muscle, or in automating highly repetitive motion (cotton ginning, weaving, some forms of wood and metal-working). But the processing wasn't so automated that you could replace the mind of a worker who had to be there to manage the process. Per-worker efficiencies improved, yes.

What we're seeing now is increasingly a replacement of skill and talent, especially at high levels of training, and at an ever-increasing rate. This has been under way for a while -- the first automated manufacturing and metalworking processes of the 1960s, increasingly back-office operations, etc.

It's not entirely clear to me where labour has left to go. Moving off the farm into the factory was a net benefit. Moving from the radiology lab, or law office, or machine floor, or analytics desk, to dog-walking or yoga studio or elder-care maybe not so much.

If we're all going into content-production, there's the question of how much content people can or will consume. Publishing in the US hit a peak of about 500 - 600k titles (by copyright office registrations) in the 1990s, of which about 300k were books. With online self-publication, the number's closer to 1-2 million according to R.R. Bowker, who issue ISBNs to new titles.

That's a title per every 300 Americans.

http://www.copyright.gov/reports/annual/2015/ar2015.pdf
http://www.bowker.com/documents/isbn-output-report-2002-2013...

There are counterarguments. Baumol's cost disease isn't just the observation that, despite all technological improvements, you still need four performers for a string quartet, but that the wages of those performers must increase despite the constancy of their output.

(And yes, there are other factors at play: recording technology means their output can reach many more billions than in earlier times, Baumol and I are ignoring that for the moment.)

There are a number of probable consequences -- that net production of such goods will decrease, that they will become luxury or status items, that labour cost will become an increasingly high-priced factor of inputs, and more. At heart remains the fact that an economy must provide for the upkeep and maintenance of its citizens, to the extent that's possible at all (hat-tip, Malthus), arguably that's the primary goal of an economy. Designing the resource and purchasing-power allocations to provide for this becomes interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
does that mean they tend to prefer younger hires since they will take less time off work?

Yes, that's usually how that works. Note also the salary aspect the OP already pointed out: they can get away with paying a younger person less, because this discrimination is industry wide and extremely entrenched.
What does last 4 refer to in this case?
That's frankly disgraceful.
I want to start a math-cafe, where the loyalty cards are replaced by puzzles (you solve today's puzzle, tomorrow's coffee is free.)

They have such high margins on individual drinks (and people will totally buy a pastry if the coffee is free) that this shouldn't cost too much. Plus you can always make the puzzles harder, or have 2 or 3 easyish ones and then graduate people onto harder ones that they'll take a few days to solve.

You can imagine how to decorate the place - blackboards for walls, encourage the customers to use them to practise the spare puzzles lying around today, etc...
Works for me (and I'm in Europe)
> "an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves"

True for outsourced departments of big corporations (Java chicken farms). Not everywhere creating the software is at this stage of development though. There are many creative and agile (not necessary "Agile") businesses and places where creating the software evolved. They are at the stage of XIXth century civil engineering - a lot is being built, plenty of experimenting, people are getting hurt, and most of it collapses. Only couple of magnificent monuments will survive but the rest will be discarded.
And "content", we "consume" the "content", now, yeah, I find it somehow gross.
Well, ATM I tell everyone that unless they add 15% to my current salary I won't even listen; I love the place I work ATM, they have been consistently nice for 18 months straight and I actually enjoy work.

I also have an OK salary so this is partially about reducing risk and partially about giving something back.
> Eight Teslas?

That makes it seem like less money than it is. Try:

- 4 Modern Homes in the USA

- 50 Ford Fiestas.

- 333 new 15" Macbook Pros

- 16,000 Kindle Fire Tablets (!)

- 80,000 Acres of Rainforest (or, y'know, a days worth - https://www.rainforesttrust.org/10-for-1/)

- 800,000 lbs of potatoes

- Bread to feed one person for 1,900 years (or I guess, 1,900 people for 1 year each)
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...in the cloud, hence it aims more at being a glue for the web. Merge datasources from anywhere, create joint reports, an incentive for everyone to open-up their data and make it accessible to Google. Sounds like a smart idea to place Google in the middle of the web.
I hope no one says this is just a way of creating bloat. I would say to this people: go complain of jQuery if you have the guts for it.

This thing is beautiful and, at least for small projects, lifesaving.

(or it seems to be.)
It's pretty clear if you read webassembly design docs.
Yup. Truly understand that. Shall mail you a demo account. We are still work in progress, and many touch points are not the way we really wanted. A demo account is up there in our priority list.
Well, giving that the GBP against EUR rate is like 1:1.1 at the moment, even if you have 70k anual salary Berlin, it's much less than who paid 70K in Berin, considering the living cost. And 70K is very reasonable now with Senior title, not to mention manage positions.
Fix for critical Android rooting bug is a no-show in November patch release
DeepDrive: Run a self-driving car simulator from GTAV
Les kiosques de Paris arboreront une architecture en métal et en verre
> Pulitzer Prize

Nobel prize
Interesting lesson definitely, about branding vs cost cutting as well as about communication...
remark on a tangent - before siting down to a bunch of tasks I ask myself how I can make this funny/creative, how is it hilarious and how interesting can this be made. suddenly perspective changes.
I imagine it would be a link to that takeout page :) I haven't tried it myself. This can be used with any company in Ireland, anyone who used facebook in Europe for example, linked-in, twitter etc
Yet they still continue to use their motorbikes, without knowing the causality link between that and the pollution.

But yes, must be hard when "your actions are so small they don't count".
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Here is, 'done, just needs testing'.
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Of course, anyone can say "our device is secure", and if the industry is left to its own devices to create a standard for being allowed to say that, they'll pick the cheapest standard possible. Then, so long as they can say "we were following the standards", and the standards company can say "we're updating the standard" every time, nobody cares.
This is super unnerving to me.

Has anyone in this company actual had an encounter with a REAL person not a Google employee in the past few years?
How can they suggest places without sending your location to their servers? I would expect all the "intelligence" (place recommendation etc.) to be implemented server-side.
Writing more code is definitely not the way to get a salary raise! Such a simplified and wrong post about salary negotiation...
I was thinking the same about OS caching, but since the author didn't actually try that out it's still uncertain and a fairly useless article...
Google pretends that it can keep this information behind closed doors without sharing anything with advertisers. But this is not true. Data leaks out, and here is an example of how this might happen.

Let's say you are interested in knowing which people watch a lot of cat videos. And let's pretend these people don't want to publicly share with everybody that they like cat videos. To find these people, you simply start a Google Ad campaign targeted at people who like cat videos. But the ad will be for an unrelated product, for example, coffee pads. Now every time somebody clicks on your ad and perhaps orders your coffee pads, you know that this person likes cat videos.

Ergo, your data is not compeletely safe with Google and it can leak, contrary to what they make us believe.
I get a paywall through the web link (from UK).

However right-clicking the main link and opening in private browsing seems to work.
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Legal action is the very large recourse.

They would lose credibility, which would make them lose (a lot of) money indirectly.
> But I suppose a precondition for this is customer awareness of the issue, which probably requires some well publicized high impact/casualty incidents first? :/

I'd say it absolutely requires a high-impact case, something like downing of an airplane, or a cyberattack that sets half of the city in flames. Otherwise, any concern of people about security will quickly get papered over by marketing - as it always is.
It's weird youtube can't even remember what I've watched. I'm constantly having to go into my recommendations and selecting Not Interested -> Tell us why -> I've seen this video before.
...and it can be embedded into Python or embed Python.
That's what I'll be doing in two weeks.. I started my working career as a teacher, but didn't like it that much as I was teaching smaller kids learning MS Word, Excel and similar tools. Eventually I worked as researcher, finished a PhD and start working as web developer.

But doing crud apps all day got boring pretty fast, and I think my current expertise on web and mobile development will be great for my classes as I'll be teaching older students (MAster's degree). Since I have some freedom on the way I get to teach those students, I'm really looking forward to be really practical (teach them over the command line, etc.), instead of being highly theoretical.
I think you're missing the point of GPL, especially in regard to other licenses that you're saying are more free.

The freedom GPL preserves is that of the user.

If you ship me GPL-based binaries, it's my right as a user to see what's actually running. I also get to redistribute that under the same license as was afforded to you, but principally, I always get to see what's running.

Somebody can take MIT code, alter it, compile it down and ship that. That's great if you're a developer. Super easy. But as a user, why do you expect me to trust this stuff? Especially when there's a GPL version out there that does let me audit it.