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Yes and there are a lot of other factors like healthcare, education (if you have kids) etc. For a healthy young single person a country with very low taxes such as Singapore might be the best choice. For somebody older who is married with kids Germany would be better (taxes are high but you get a lot of value back for the money you to in like cheap/free education).
This is very interesting. Does it work? How much do you invest to have a (positive) return?
Set the environment variable to tests only.
Or, I think the other way is more sensible or probably already in motion -- we need let Google, Facebook and Amazon govern.
Gigster has found a sweet spot in providing experts in fields like machine learning and blockchain, where talent is hard to come by — and so too are full-time jobs, Dickey said.

I think that's where it breaks down a bit. Full time jobs seem pretty plentiful even for mediocre devs. Gigster's model (based on their site) is to have top-tier talent that can easily get a very high paying, stable job. What I've yet to find is the pull of Gigster for someone that has options. There are so many full-time jobs for these devs if they are what Gigster is selling.

So, why Gigster? They don't have any mention of compensation levels for devs. They do mention that you only get paid when milestones are reached. What determines if a milestone is reached?

I'm not saying there isn't a "why", but they certainly aren't selling it. "Work remotely on your own schedule on new and interesting projects from top firms while making top money and without having to worry about the business side of things - we'll take care of that for you." That's a pitch. But they seem to have the attitude of "We're Gigster, of course everyone should want to work for us." Their job page doesn't have anything about why one should want to work for them, but mostly about how great the applicant should be. Even Google tries to sell applicants on working at Google and that's coming with a steady, large paycheck.

As a dev, there are certainly concerning parts of Gigster:

Fixed Price: Your project will cost the same amount regardless of who builds it and how it’s built. Once we quote you a price, we’ll stick to it no matter what. . .Guaranteed Work: During the course of a project, our team will gladly make necessary revisions to ensure that you’re going to market with the best product possible.

So, if the client requests major revisions that doubles the workload, am I the one that's working for free or does Gigster cover that? Who determines if it's the dev's fault for building something crappy or the PM's fault for not getting things right or the client's fault for wanting something other than they said they wanted? If there are major revisions, do I not get paid because there aren't milestones set for revisions?

I'm not saying that there aren't answers to those questions, but if they're serious about attracting top talent, I think they need to sell why a dev should work for them. Are they just looking for people who have big names behind them like Harvard and Google, but have been having trouble finding a full-time job?
The article wasn't suggesting that Google has to fund its critics. The article was describing how a theoretically independent think-tank was compromised by Google. First Google offers you money for the work you're already doing. Once you become dependent on that money, they can threaten to take it away.

The problem is that the only way to be truly independent is to take no money from corporations. But any group that does that will be crushed by similar groups who _do_ accept corporate money (and are thus compromised).
They are having serious capacity issues at the moment. Recently they have disabled creation of advanced orders. That was the last straw for me. Their UIs have been slow and clunky for as long as I've been using them (2 months). Opening a margin position is sometimes a problem, because their margin pool is empty, and there is no way to know that until you try to open a position, so you end up spending time manually bruteforcing what is the most margin you can get.

They have not been hacked. That's the only thing going for them, as far as I'm concerned.
The reality is that thinktank as corporate patronage is a trend that extended long before Google -- it's a problem we have to face where money can buy ideas. It just so happens that it's Google or Facebook who has the overwhelming share of money as opposed to Exxon.
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The CL loop macro doesn't have an X for Y in Z clause; just for X in Y. This is not directly English, but an abbreviation of the pattern "for {each|every} X in Y ...". It is the associative for: the action is dedicated separately to each item; it is for each item.

Non-native English speakers working internationally better understand it because it's a common idiom in business, due to the frequent need to deal with the processing of multiple items. "Please forward me your TPS report for each month of 2016". :)
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I didn't say it was good :)
To think any civilization could build structures like the Babylonians did and not have a concept of angles is patently absurd. From what architecture they have that still stands, there is plenty of visual evidence that they indeed calculated for angles in some fashion.
And Oracle specific, other JVMs might behave differently.
Interesting that you bring up autonomy and the military. I wonder if this has anything to do with the US naval piloting incidents of late. Previous HN commentary suggested that the Navy has become a highly bureaucratic organization where all decision making and responsibility are deferred up the command chain as far as possible.
I used to achieve this by using a tiling window manager (i3).

In i3, if you run firefox normally it opens up in a pane, if you choose full screen (f11) inside firefox, it fills up the entire pane. In the other panes you can still keep your other windows, such as emacs, file browser, terminal etc.
Good points. For the record: I'm not saying all veterans are egotistical.

I think code based performance is something that is just not as big as an issue as before. In web world it's common to solve extreme performance via cache, replication, etc.

In any case, I think that in very few cases you get to a performance requirement so intense that you can't write maintainable code. We can't argue on extremes :)
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Yes but String.value is final and initialized in the constructor. So it should be safely published.
> Headless Firefox works on Fx55+ on Linux, and 56+ on Windows/Mac.

Edit: so people know what versions are pegged.
Can someone share their experience with Bitfinex? Compare to others?
In a tweet, New America claims this is false, and will release a statement soon:

https://twitter.com/slaughteram/status/902874942433263616
Geometry? Pi is an infinite series, as are the trigonometric functions. How can you explain the circumference of a circle without invoking pi?
> the key being 'volatile' which is a Java keyword with a specific meaning that constrains the order of operations and write visibility across threads.

I must point out that "volatile" in Java means something completely different than what it means in C and related languages.

In multithreaded C code, "volatile" is almost always incorrect. There are only a few correct and portable uses of volatile (such as dealing with setjmp or unix signal handlers).
Is there any way one can find the list of organizations that Google (aka Alphabet) has been funding? Annual investor reports?
People have confirmation bias. They love when there is a "credible" source putting out results that are in agreement with the position they already hold. They can then use this "evidence" to justify their position. Everyone is guilty of this to some extent. The only way to mitigate confirmation bias is to be willing to entertain the idea that it affects you too.
I still use keyboard and mouse for development purposes, so neither of your example has any impact on my productivity. Meanwhile, few percentage of my country's energy is generated by solar power (combined with wind and other renewables, that's enough to replace an old and potentially unsafe nuclear power plant, which is not a small feat) and I personally operate few panels in my summer house (and regularly keep adding more as they become cheaper and more efficient).
90 points in less than an hour. This guy's fight for his right to be wrong is surprisingly energising to this community.

I'm even sympathetic to the criticism of Google. But for the life of me I can't figure out why this particular employment dispute gets this sort of billing... Arguably the US government (an entity endowed with something literally called "the monopoly on violence") just pardoned someone who build an actual concentration camp (his words) in the middle of the US. And had his goons start criminal investigations against journalists. And, you know, continued actually killing people after being told by a court that he should maybe not do that.

Now the victims were mostly brown and did not have enough stock options to coast for the next decade, so it maybe somewhat hard to relate to for the community. But no matter how hard I try, I can't see reason why one story is running to the top every second day, and others are nowhere to be found.
I had satellite radio for a while but had to cancel it because I couldn't stand the sound of cymbals at whatever bitrate they encode at. Weirdly, when the phone operator asked why I was cancelling and I told him "audio quality" he acted like he had never heard that before.
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1) Create a react app with create-react-app [0].

2) Add bootstrap as specified in their README [1].

3) Profit.

[0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/

[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
Did a bit of poking around, it looks like there's a substantial collection of his materials at the Senate House Library at the University of London. [1]

These materials include quite a few interesting research angles: draft manuscripts of published works, unpublished stories, other ephemera including letters, & biographies by other authors.

[1] http://www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/Pratchett.pdf
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Because the selling point is public use: its not just dangerous for the operator, but goes out of its way to invite bystanders.
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It also depends on where you're keeping your drives. Their drives are in temperature-controlled data centers, mine are in a cheap consumer NAS in a home office that can breach 34°C in summer.

I imagine most of their drives don't even see much traffic if they're used for backups. Write once, read rarely. I wonder how B2 changes that equation.
I'm not normally a grammar pedant, but i had to reread the first two opening paragraphs several times before I understood what was going on:

> The New America Foundation has received more than $21 million from Google; its parent company’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt; and his family’s foundation since the think tank’s founding in 1999.

Semicolons aren't glorified commas. Stop it. Bad! Bad! :-p
They aren't though. They are used by the political parties but no one takes them seriously.
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> but I'm of the impression that in many European countries, basic infrastructure like energy or transportation or communication links is either very tightly regulated or owned by a non-profit organisation that in turn is owned by either the local consumers, the local authorities, or by the state.

"Europe" is a big place so it's hard to talk in generalities, but this is mostly not true. Europe followed the US's deregulation trend and in many cases European utilities are less regulated than American ones.

The EU electric market is similar to the U.S. As in the US, it is split up into distribution, transmission, and generation components. Distribution tends to be handled through regulated local monopolies or municipal entities, while generation happens in a competitive market: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2016/59351....

Telecom market structure is roughly similar too. Big telecom companies that were previously state-owned were privatized in the 1980s and 1990s (e.g. British Telecom and Deutsche Telecom). The biggest difference probably is that the EU has strong rules requiring wholesale access of "local loops" (the wires into peoples' houses). However, this is a smaller difference in practice than in theory. In the big EU countries, unbundling doesn't apply to cable, http://www.oecd.org/sti/broadband/2-7.pdf. In many EU countries (notably Sweden and Spain, which have among the highest fiber deployment), unbundling doesn't apply to fiber either.
I'm concerned you conflate two things. A paranoid psychiatric patient may see a world full of overwhelming risk behind everything. It does not mean that risk exists. It does mean, however, that confirming their paranoia, or seeming to, would cause a panic. We're concerned about the panic because it is unjustified. A good procedure would avoid this unjustified panic. The IRB requires a procedure that doesn't avoid it. In this way, the IRB failed to protect the interest of the patient.
Well, I do use public transport (indeed, living in a city it can often be the fastest mode), and I couldn't care less as the end user whether someone paid for the transport data... I want to get from A to B.

So here's a concrete route that made me switch app:

https://www.google.de/maps/dir/Leipzig+Hbf,+Willy-Brandt-Pla...
vs.
https://wego.here.com/directions/publicTransport/Hauptbahnho...
This is a bit of a strange article. I see where they're coming from, but a number of things that come to mind as I read through this:

- Competing against Yell, Yelp, Google...etc. for local reviews and listings isn't exactly going to be easy. I'm not sure how prevalent all those local services were in 2010, but even if it had gained traction, it likely wouldn't have lasted long (or perhaps if they're lucky, been bought out).

- Did they only try cold calling? If so, that's ridiculous. Did they attempt multiple marketing methods? Did they try to educate the market before trying to get a meeting/sale? Did they run group sales events? They really didn't seem to know what they were doing at all, so how is this enlightening to people reading? Maybe learn sales and marketing before trying to actually build a business...

- Local businesses often aren't very good at running a business. It's that simple. Some survive through luck (and referrals). They're often disorganized, and so busy dealing with clients they can't even think about sales and marketing. And often even if you can outline a very clear ROI, they won't go for it since small businesses are often more of the consumer mindset (emotion driven) rather than bigger business mindset (ROI driven).

- And also, as another comment mentions, a lot of small businesses don't want to really grow. If they're earning enough to cover their bills, they're happy. The stress of managing employees is often more of a deterrent than the benefit of earning more.

- A $50k solution to a local business? That's a ridiculous price and expectation. At least have multiple service levels, and a free version is a great starting point too.

- At least they understand that there's often massive resistance to changing how they do things, especially if some members of staff aren't comfortable with technology (as many people aren't).

I'm just slightly shocked that they had to learn such fundamental truths about business, in such a hard way.

Did they consider hiring a sales/marketing consultant?

Did they test other selling approaches?

With great sales and marketing, you can sell a poor quality product. Not recommended of course, so if your product's good you have happy customers and also referrals.

They had the product-part right, but didn't seem to have a clear product-market fit, and certainly hadn't found a dependable sales/marketing approach that allowed them to grow.
Can you elaborate just a bit? For example, do you mean in the EU?
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You don't need to set all your environment variables in your bashrc, if that's not obvious. They're not global state. You can change them on a per-terminal basis, and that only effects the environment of that one terminal.

Firefox does some weird stuff with multiprocessing, where if you run the firefox command twice you only get one process. I don't know how that would effect things, but I imagine just setting the env variable and running as a different firefox profile would do it.

There's always firejail/firewarden, if you need a quick and easy sandbox for a program you already have installed, and that will solve that problem, if it is a problem.
Lobbying against Google? I would be interested in looking at your sources.
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I'm inclined to agree with the way the article was written. It was very poorly edited.
Not all cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking. There's no way to prove that a particular case of lung cancer was caused by smoking. Does that mean we shouldn't talk about lung cancer as a reason to avoid smoking?
Who makes you unable to help yourself? Say, one watt delivered onto the retina can do damage very quickly. One AA battery can easily supply that.
It's not so much what whales eat that matters, rather than how they eat it. The size difference between a whale and a krill is so big that for all intents and purposes, whales feed much more like a cow than a lion. They're browsing, except they don't browse vegetals, but small animals.

To say they are not predators makes sense in the behavioral sense.
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Nevertheless, now is the time to talk about climate change, and has been for some time.
I had the exact opposite reaction. One of the things I miss from Firefox when I use Chrome is the reader feature. It strips away styles and formats all the text in a thin single column so I can actually read it. It's most useful for me in dealing with sites that have interesting content and horrible styles (looking at you, academic folks)
> They would call prospects back 2+ days later to discover they went with someone else who actually did answer their phone and would then say it was a bad lead.

That's the opportunity, but it might not be what you want. Start a very tech-savy, customer-friendly plumbing business and figure out how to franchise it. Have your own small in-house tech department that relies on outsourcing. Outcompete the local plumbers and then hire them when they go out of business. All of your franchises will be required to use your software system.

I encountered something similar when I hired some painters via a national chain. The guy who ran the local franchise saw it as an investment opportunity, and loved running his own business. One of the painters was a guy who's painting business folded and realized it was just easier being someone else's employee.
But others didn't start with "Do No Evil" motto (transformed now into "Do the Right Thing").
I'm more interested in sea level rise and warmer oceans as direct catalysts for more powerful storms with larger impacts occurring more frequently. The fact that we indiscriminately build cities and industries close to the coast obviously doesn't help.
Sounds like a great idea. My skills aren't quite up to UI design collaboration standards but I guess I am curious as to how you would build and implement such a browser?
Why not just pull it out into a function, "loginWithForm(session, 'user', 'password')"? Why is it interesting on a class level that the scraper is using a form based authentication method? What if a page is switching between two authentication methods just for laughs?
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Have I awoken in an alternate universe?

Once 21 million dollars was accepted there isn't an "independence" theoretical or otherwise. It's ludicrous to existentially attack the company giving this money and expect not be removed from the group.

If you want true independence it has to be something like citizen grass roots funding. And even that probably has a bias. But it would be a start. Expecting anything but special interest once corporate money is involved just is unrealistic.
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If the current state is 0, nationalization is 10. Maybe we should look for 5. Something like a law that requires customer generated content to be accessible via API, and allows customers to PERMANENTLY delete data they've generated, the code, and data can be subject to random audits. Companies will only be subject to the rules if their customer numbers are > x. Or something similar to that.
We have this issue with our code quality tool telling me that I have identical html in some places. It's not at all helpful, but I want my jsx files included in the figures for quality.
A small nomenclature clarification seems to be in order:

"Headless" means without output. It is often used to describe servers without any attached monitors (the monitor would be the head that it is missing), but can similarly be used to describe browsers that do not even create a window on your desktop. It simply runs as a service that can be scripted.

What you are looking for, I would rather call "chromeless". The browser is there, but it has no visible UI-components outside of the webpage.
Sounds like any browser when full-screened on macOS.
i don't follow how it reflects poorly on the author. maybe it reflects poorly on our grasp of the creative processes.
If you nationalise Google and Amazon, say good bye to innovation.
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You can generate pdfs with headless Chromium/Chrome pretty easily[1].

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[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-c...
Yes, overall, if you care that deeply about climate change you should not procreate - you may also consider an early exit for yourself. Then there is the eco-terrorist who will justify early exists for others by saving the planet. If you think those that supported Trump were bad now, just wait till "stupid liberals" start telling people who can and can not have babies. Good luck.

Obviously, the above is ridiculous.
So in addition to the Class 1-4, there should be Class "What remaining eye?"
> stop having babies

Most of the west has already drastically reduced the number of babies. All that happened is we were told we need immigration instead.
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Personally, I'm glad Google is behaving this way: it is tiring to tell people over and over again that one should not put absolute trust into any company and be met with bewilderment and references to the "Don't be evil" motto ( the one that they finally got rid of).
I can't tell if I am missing the sarcasm in this thread, but 25°C would be considered a cool day in the summer where I live. Today is cool and overcast, and the high is still 28°. Last week it was even hotter.

And that is not even considering humidity. There are some days you can just open your front door and you are immediately sweating.
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Sorry I wasn't thinking about a system capable of blinding people, those do definitely exist though. Also there are devices such as 'dazzlers' which are intended to cause non-permanent damage.
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