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> It's about like-minded people sharing a common culture (as developed historically up to some point)

But it's that "some point" that makes everything wishy washy. If I'm in favour of Scottish independence I cite common Scottish culture. If I'm in favour of the UK I cite the hundreds of years of shared culture. If I'm in favour of the EU I cite decades of shared culture. None of these are wrong, despite being in clear disagreement with each other.

It's just an excuse for people to cite the opinion they already had and make it sound historically relevant. (and of course, has been the reasoning behind anti immigrant sentiment since time immaterial)
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I just wonder if they're waiting for some patent to be granted to strike...
If it's similar to Construct 2, most of our students will probably fit in the free plan during the event, anyway :)
"I've been pondering a self-imposed boycott of websites with paywalls, and ads that interrupt user experience."

I made an FF add-on for myself for that exact purpose, here's a comment thread about it from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13949693
Sure but if your company makes all the money, then you only get the dividend tax rate: 38.1% vs 40-45%, for higher-rate tax payers.

Mind, your company has to be paying a pretty low corporate rate for this to make a difference (like if it's incorporated in the Channel Isles).
It's always hard to judge the way people will certainly abuse a new authority over their fellow man
I did it within minutes.

Watch the film on YouTube: "Earthlings"

Try to watch it in a full sitting. You probably wont be able to, but try. Then walk to a mirror and look yourself in the face, and ask if you and this world are really real, that is, do your own version of a reality check.

Then you will see your proverbial red pill and blue pill.

Dont do it because you think you might lose a few pounds and impress some stranger at a beach. Do it because you want to deeply re-examine life and this world. Make it a life path for yourself.

Its either a difficult and impossible path OR its a trivially easy path, it all depends on your intentions.

Watch the film.

I have been vegan for several years.

It took me almost 2 years to watch the film in its entirety.
This seems to be a reasonable article about low ESR selection :
https://abacus.avnet.com/wps/portal/abacus/article/understan...
> The Supreme Court recognized on multiple occasions that we have a right to privacy.

The right to privacy... from the government, not private businesses.

There are privacy regulations which affect private business such as HIPAA. But these are not 'rights'.

And just because they are regulated doesn't mean they are effective at the intended or worth the significant costs of implementation - which is the critique here. So unlike government where the risks are a certainty (because we give the state a monopoly on violence and other powers), the risks of private companies selling data are not nearly in the same league, regardless if you believe regulations are the way to go.

I personally would like to be able to invest money so we don't have to worry about ISPs selling data. TLS/VPNs are a solved problem. Same with the opportunity to use adblockers... ad companies collect as much data and that is entirely unregulated. No one seems to care. We just say 'use an ad-blocker'... a private solution. 'Do not track' regulations were a total failure.
They just finished animal trials in the US and are hoping to start human trials soon.

https://www.parsemusfoundation.org/projects/vasalgel/
This is entirely false. Every legislation coming from the EU commission has to be approved by the parliament.
I've maintained prose in git with the default diff algorithm using one sentence per line, and it's worked pretty well.

My specific use case was a document tweaked for two different audiences, and I've been able to make changes in one version and rebase the other version on top of it relatively easily.
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You're right it's unelected but there's much more complexion to it than that:

>Selecting the team

>The president-elect selects potential Vice-Presidents and Commissioners based on suggestions from EU countries. The list of nominees has to be approved by all EU heads of state or government, meeting in the European Council.

>Each nominee must appear before the parliamentary committee with responsibility for his or her proposed portfolio. Committee members then vote on the nominee’s suitability for the position. Once the 27 nominees have been endorsed, Parliament as a whole votes whether or not to approve the entire team. Following Parliament's vote, the Commissioners are appointed by the European Council.
Accountability

>The European Commission is held democratically accountable by the European Parliament, which has the right to approve and dismiss the entire political leadership of the Commission.

>The European Commission is also accountable for putting the EU budget into practice. Every year, the Parliament chooses to give (or not) its blessing to the European Commission on the way it has managed the EU budget. This process is called the discharge. The Parliament bases its decision on several reports from the European Court of Auditors and from the European Commission, including the annual management and performance report for the EU budget.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/about-european-union/organisationa...
Your theory assumes a lot of forward-thinking, competence, benevolence and cooperation between subsequent prime ministers.

The simpler explanation is that David Cameron's gamble to silence the more extreme side of his party (and UKIP) failed. His (or his pollsters) incompetence led to this, helped along by protest votes and online Russian campaigns.

A less charitable explanation is that certain Tory elites took advantage of the narrow majority to preserve power in their hands - there are a number of disagreements with the ECHR.
I'll agree that the rotational axis of a planet is relevant to the projection of a map. There is no "East pole", and it makes sense to give special significance to the North and South directions.

A transverse map projection [1] doesn't make much sense as a default. The linked image shows the lines of longitude severely distorted, and a compass rose would not make sense on this map. There is a real, physical reason why north and south should be at opposing edges of the map.

But it's perfectly reasonable to rotate a map by 90 or 270 degrees - nothing about the "way planets work" implies that you need to orient the map in this direction when raising it from a horizontal plane to a vertical wall.

If anything, the reason would be that the circumference of the equator is twice the distance between the poles, and human eyes are better suited for panning in the horizontal.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_Mercator_projection...
I work at a startup that isn't profitable yet so our salaries are very low...

- Our typical junior makes $50 - 60k

- A typical mid makes $65 - 75k

- Seniors (including CTO) make $90 - 110k

In greater Boston.

It is VERY difficult to hire at those rates. We had someone come in interviewing for a senior that I would place as a mid (generously...) and he accepted another offer for $150k. At our scale he would be making $75k at MOST.

It takes us 6 months to find a single hire.

But I'm not bitter at Google. I think the market is valuing the workforce fairly. Which means...

- We are probably priced out of the market

- We should / do offer higher percentages equity

- We need to hire the people who the Googles of the world won't hire and train and mentor them

That last one works really well. We hired a few people that couldn't get jobs elsewhere that after two years with us left for a job that pays over twice more but they wouldn't have been able to land without our training and mentorship. We actually congratulate and celebrate those people even though we are VERY sad to see them go.
This exactly. One needs to establish trust with these people, as they have almost always dealt with some form of trauma one way or another - either physically, emotionally, psychologically, etc.

When this stuff is made into a process, it becomes robotic and the empathetic, human element of it is taken away from it.

These people need someone to listen and understand, not necessarily someone to shove anti-psychotics and whatever else caretakers are told to do.

I'm not saying drugs don't help, but it's best when trust is established, and one can help the patient see why the drug is necessary at the time.

That has always been my problem when seeking help for my psychological issues. I'll see a GP or a specialist, get a prescription, they may go over the mechanism of action with me if I push them to, but otherwise I'm told to take 2 every day and report back in a month.

I'm a lab rat. Not a patient. See why these people have trouble getting help? They don't feel like patients getting treatment.
The Docker's tutorial is my suggested starting point.
Are you suggesting that you want to be paid less on principle?
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I'm in the opposite situation, living in Germany as a British national. Since the EU is likely to respond in kind to any actions it takes out against EU nationals in the UK, I'm probably going to face the same in return, and it scares the crap out of me.

I've built my life over here, have a family and I really don't want to be forced back to the UK away from my children.

At present I'm considering taking out German nationality since I've pretty much been here long enough to do so, but I'm not keen on being forced to give up my British citizenship as a result. Being British is a core part of my identity.

The goalposts have been moved and after being encouraged to take advantage of freedom of movement I now find myself up against the wall as a result. This stinks.
(Disclosure: I work at Google)

I describe the ability to hire as being a U-shaped curve: new grads (whether undergrad or grad school) or people that don't actually need to work anymore. Google's high pay actually means that for senior folks, they're getting closer to the right end of the curve! (But also, that they'd most likely be a founder unless they believe so strongly in your idea that they must see it happen).

As bla2 says below: the reality is that .1% is a pretty low equity offer, and while engineers aren't naturally greedy we can do math. A person just out of school might not care, but you shouldn't begrudge folks that say "Umm, the expected value of this offer is pretty bad compared to my current situation". You can offer them something else (work that matters!), but I feel like everyone knows that employee equity is still too skewed towards founders and investors.
False.

1. The European Commission is elected by the European Parliament.

2. The European Commission has the power to initiate legislation, but EU legislation is enacted by the European Parliament (lower chamber of the legislature) and the Council of the European Union (upper chamber of the legislature). This is why EU legislation begins with "REGULATION/DIRECTIVE ... OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL" [1].

[1] Example: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj
On the other hand it means that anyone with that salary can easily (no sacrifices of any kind) take a salary of $0 for two years, for equity alone, if the right idea and team comes along.

So here's a question: does that happen?

For a hint as to the answer, consider the existence of the word xoogler.
What's this? (example.com/pension)
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Thanks for that! I'd love to see your code. Finding sane code examples was a big part of trouble I ran into.
If anyone’s looking for just a good Bluetooth keyboard, I can strongly recommend Logitech K480 (http://amzn.to/2mPBQws). It’s basic and reasonably cheap with simple rounded buttons, but it’s both portable and large enough to type comfortably, has device dock like the keyboard in the post, and as a bonus remembers three devices (communications and writing I might just do on the phone without bringing the laptop at all).

Honestly, laptop’s built-in keyboard is probably the worst choice to type on with, it wears out fast and is terrible for posture. I often use K480 with my laptop just to have the screen at eye level and keyboard at elbow level, huge win ergonomics-wise.
On the other hand every girl I've been sufficiently intimate with has told me they don't use the pill because it causes the exact issues you describe it helping. The pill is not for everyone.
I very much hope this to be the case. I just don't see it happening in the current political climate in England.

England probably would have to be prepared to lose a number of privileges should that happen.

It would certainly be the best outcome of a very bad situation.
If one forgets that a doctor injected something into their vas deferenes, they've got other problems.
Many women also have problems with hormonal birth control. It essentially changes their character every day which many are not comfortable with. There are numerous cases of women no longer finding their partners attractive after stopping the pill. On top of that it's really bad for the environment. While some women might take it for the side effects, many don't, and they would be better off not taking it.
You'll run into performance limitations very quickly doing 3D on the GBA; the few true 3D games on the GBA had to make some huge sacrifices to run at all (the hardware just isn't fast enough).

Mario Kart-style faux 3D's much more doable on the platform; those games use sprites (for characters and objects that aren't flush with the ground) combined with a tilemapped background that's scaled and rotated per-scanline to look 3D.

Alternatively, if you're more interested in 3D, you might switch over to the Nintendo DS-- it's essentially the same hardware and programming model as the GBA, but with hardware accelerated 3D.
> Worse, you're only moving the problem to a different location

I agree that's true from a technical perspective. However, the VPN provider has an economic incentive to compete on privacy. I would much rather just trust my local ISP, but at least I have a choice in VPN providers.

> privacy shouldn't be limited to people with a technical background

Absolutely. That's why I want this as a product that Just Works instead of my own hacked-up implementation.
Should I have children, I see myself walking my teenage son to the clinic to get this done. A rite of passage of sorts.

It is difficult to understate the importance of bringing only wanted children into this world, and that both parents agree on it. The cultural importance of this invention will be revealed in time, I hope.
Usually if I find an article that I'd like to read, I skim it and then decide if I want to actually sit down and read it word for word, and if so I save it for the weekend. Usually skim through a couple articles daily, and they go all over ranging from tech to non related tech stuff.
I did go vegetarian (been vegetarian for ~15 yrs now).

Back during the birdflu scare (2008-09), my parents decided to stop eating meat (chicken - which was the only meat I used to eat). I was ~12-13 yrs old.

Overtime, I wanted to switch back but for some reason or another (saw some videos on Youtube about how chickens are treated and killed didn't sit right with me), never did.

We cut meat immediately. While I didn't miss a lot it, I did eat a lot of soy in the interim period (ofc a few friends of mine who tried didn't succeed).

Just as an FYI: Don't watch those videos if you like stuff like leather for example...I love the feeling of leather seats, but I'm looking for synthetic leather in my next car.
We have had high success with #1.
Stuff like this reminds one how much there is still left to do to achieve realistic dynamic game worlds..

We've just been going too far down the prerendered, precomputed, prerecorded hackjob direction (text, textures, decals, lighting, sounds, voices, music, cutscenes, stories..)
This is a very entertaining guide on socket programming that I came across about 10 years ago. An excerpt from the guide: Stream sockets are reliable two-way connected communication streams. If you output two items into the socket in the order "1, 2", they will arrive in the order "1, 2" at the opposite end. They will also be error-free. I'm so certain, in fact, they will be error-free, that I'm just going to put my fingers in my ears and chant la la la la if anyone tries to claim otherwise.

Last year, I decided to read the recently published newer version of this guide that describes how to write code that works for both IPv4 and IPv6.

An archive of examples and experimental code that I wrote while reading this book: https://github.com/susam/lab/tree/master/c/beej-guide-to-net...
Ask HN: Why is war news so ridiculously biased?
It's hard to believe. A month or so ago, a dam in US was overflowing a little, and it was a world news.

A few days ago US bombs the biggest dam in Syria, disabling it's control rooms and starting a countdown to a catastrophe and nobody gives a damn. Also the manager of the dam + his team were reportedly given 4 hours to go inspect the damage, only to be murdered by the US drone during that window.

Also, the bombs hit just meters from the dam's wall. Error, or a failure might have perhaps killed hundreds of thousands of people.
The previous "male pill" side effects included inability to maintain an erection. Which makes coitus somewhat difficult.
Data you release can never be recovered. Even if we were to chuck out the entire House and reverse this change in 2018, VPNs would still be a key part of the solution. It would only take one medical search sold to insurers (as a random example) to seriously affect you, so I agree that downplaying technical defenses is unreasonable.
Yeah this has a lot to do with the disaster called the Citizens United decision giving corporation's unlimited ability to donate to politicians. Back in the 50s that still had the concept of the crime of bribery.
You are embarrassing yourself. Care to offer a testable hypothesis? You appear to predict that the market, with this rule repeal, will not yield any non-tracking ISP options. Is that your prediction?

You may wish to read this (now antiquated) document, which details why verticalization was market-motivated in the oil industry in the industrial age: https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Vertical-Inte...

And, again, do you really want to be in the position of saying that the ISP industry will consolidate the way the oil companies have? Do you have any idea how rambunctious the energy industry is at the present moment? At best, you've shown that you are correct for a very short timeframe, and proven that you are wrong on a longer timeframe.
Charging per-year seems like a pretty risky move in the game-dev world. I understand WHY you'd want to, but think game-devs tend not to be big fans of this approach. Was it tough to decide to go with this model? How has the feedback been from Construct 2 users?
Vegan for about 6 years. I cut out red meat for health reasons for a few years. I then decided to become vegetarian, which proved fairly simple. I "slowly" cut dairy from my diet over the course of a few months and immediately became vegan once I realized that dairy made me feel sick.

Do you usually cook for yourself? Do you live in a rural town with few vegan options? If the answer to either of those is "yes", I'd give yourself a couple months to learn how to eat meat- and dairy-free. Otherwise I'd say just go for it. Especially in a big city it is easy enough to find vegan substitutes (e.g. mock meats) in a pinch that you should have no trouble supporting a rapid transition.

Don't forget to take B12 supplements.
This is really awesome stuff and a great writeup!
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> You can respect someone's autonomy... and, at the same time, help them not freeze to death.

How do you do this at scale? One of the challenges with poverty and mental illness is that it gets hard to provide comfort, safety, and opportunity when the homeless are afraid and distrustful of each other, and often justifiably so.

The reason there are so many niche shelters (women with kids, youth, LGBTQ, etc.) is that there's some consensus that the general population shelters are not safe. Some of that is just vanilla crime, but a lot of it is a result of a high concentration of the homeless who are mentally ill.

And it's not generally a mystery which people are refusing help, medical treatment, or mentorship. At what point does it stop being "respecting autonomy" and start being "enabling dysfunction and abuse"?
For the truly mentally ill, reopen the institutions, where they will be safe from harming themselves and others. This will drive down costs tremendously on these cities that suffer from chronic homelessness. Have we got away from that whole 1960s, "One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest" notion that mental institutions are nothing more than jails and that these people are just following their own "movies" and just need to be "let free"? These are sick people that need shelter and help and cannot do it themselves.
It's a switch in the power structure. My wife is polish, working and living in germany. We don't need to ask for anything, no permissions for her to live here, to work, healthcare, taxes, all the same as for me. The most notable thing she can't do is vote in the national election (though she can vote in local elections). There is no interference from a government employee who may have a bad day - it's a right, not something you need to apply for.

Requiring a visa or a work permit would switch that around. It may expire and not be renewed for a formality. It certainly would make our live more miserable by introducing an extra element of uncertainty.
We'd be better off with much smaller brains, so that we can have smaller heads optimized for an aquatic life. We're failing pretty miserably at this civilization stuff anyway.
The odds of getting a six figure payout at a startup is lower than the odds of getting a six figure annual salary at bigco. Which dramatically changes the math.

The real startup appeal is you don't need to be great or play the game, you just need to be lucky.
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Regarding your edit; how so?
As well as mid-career engineers who don't have a time nor willingness to prepare for CS-riddle based interviews.
I think people may be more familiar with the word "compassion" than "Ahimsa" but I am not sure, and definitions of compassion range broadly.

I do believe there is a strong link between reducing suffering, compassion, and veganism.

It is VERY hard for me to listen to people try to promote messages of peace, love, freedom, compassion... if they are not vegan.