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And they also want to restrict immigration...

Let me clarify that. The populace very narrowly said yes to a referendum, which was supposed to restrict immigration[1].

Parliament implented it in a way, which was pretty toothless towards EU citizens who want to move and work to Switzerland, letting the Swiss Popular Party (SVP) going balistic.

Herein lies the rub: The population accepted the bilaterals with ~60% yes (if I recall correctly, I could be slightly off), but the immigration initiative with just slightly > 50%.

The problem is that you can't have it both ways. In essence the country would have to cancel the bilateral contracts in order to restrict immigration to EU citizens.

The current tensions are derived from a couple issues :

The EU wants a frame agreement so that that not every piss squiek new regulation needs to be negotiated, which is understandable

One of the sticky issues, though, is the regulation on EU companies (mostly contractors), which need to pre-announce work done in Switzerland 8 days in advance. The reason for that is to avoid sallary dumping, which makes sense, since salaries can be significantly larger in Switzerland and their minimums are negotiated in binding contracts between unions and employers.

The EU thinks those requirements are too restrictive and the unions in Switzerland fight tooth and nail against softening those requirements. Befor yelling unions! I have to say their position is understandable. The risk of hit and run contractors working for 1/3rd of the negotiated sallaries is just too big.

My prediction is that middle ground will be found eventually after the EU plays some hardball.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Swiss_immigration_initiat...

edit : some clarifications and spellos
When compared to meat there is almost no doubt that Impossible is better for the environment.

Impossible has an environmental mission first.

Checkout the sustainability report from 2017
http://www.ift.org/~/media/Food%20Technology/Weekly/IF_Susta...

Or the update from 2018
https://impossiblefoods.com/if-pr/2018-Impact-Update/
Let's say there was a catastrophic event that split the internet and disconnected Australia and the surrounding islands from the internet for 36 hours.

Let's also say for the sake of argument that 10% of the BTC mining capacity is in that region.

The network self-adjusts so that every hour 6 blocks get confirmations, but over this short time period you wouldn't expect this to happen. This means that every hour the Australia split would confirm 0.6 blocks and the non-Australia split would confirm 5.4 blocks.

After 36 hours Australia would have confirmed ~21 blocks, and according to your proposal, the first of these is now 'accepted' and can't be rolled back.

In the same time the remainder of the network would have confirmed ~194 blocks, many of which are now accepted.

What would actually happen according to the consensus protocol is that RestOfWorldBTC is the longer chain and therefore "is" BTC, and AustraliaBTC would get thrown away. Any BTC transactions made in Australia during that time would get rolled back.

But if blocks become permanently accepted then these 2 chains are fundamentally incompatible; they are no longer the same coin. Your proposal says that the network should fork into 2 coins here -- AustraliaBTC and RestOfWorldBTC. This would be a pretty disruptive event. People who traded BTC for services in Australia would claim that they paid their obligation (after all, it's in an 'accepted' block) and therefore don't owe their counterparty any RestOfWorldBTC. But AustraliaBTC would likely become worthless very quickly, given that most of the transactions in those 36 hours were confirmed on the RestOfWorldBTC chain. Australian counterparties would get stiffed pretty hard.

OTOH, if you roll back those transactions and accept the mainline, those counterparties can more easily argue that you still need to pay them. Note that the network can't enforce you paying these obligations, but the legal system still exists! And assuming the actors were acting in good faith and didn't attempt to double-spend their coins, their transaction would get re-propogated automatically and get included in a future RestOfWorld BTC block once the network split ended.
It doesn't matter if you have a strong idea if no-one is willing to pay for it. Get some sales commitments first, even some "soft" commitments will go a long way. Will you even be able to build the company at the rates people are willing to pay?
People enjoy roller coasters. It's not a big stretch to imagine it being fun for plenty of folks to whiz around a race track with some of the work being handled by a computer.
Ask HN: Why is electron way more popular than just using webviews?
Why is electron so popular while everyone complains so much about it's obvious problems? (memory usage, download size...)
It seems that most platforms have implemented some form of webview that could be used to create apps that run everywhere with minimum platform specific adjustments. One example of a way to implement this is (https://github.com/zserge/webview).
And even if using a webview is not ideal, there's certanly a lot of ways to at performance improvements at os level that would not be available when using electron.

Is it just marketing and politics? Is it just that there's novery little motivation to enable a cross os app environment?

I'm saying this taking into account that native apps are always light years better in a lot of ways but many time not economicaly viable if you want to target multiple os.
Not quite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuratio...
Postgresql 10+ has added icu as a collation provider. If you select icu as your provider this is not an issue. If you select libc as your provider than this is still an issue you need to account for.
Thanks! This is really helpful. I'll make sure to get the landing page updated.

Just so it's covered here, Blockstack is a decentralized application platform. It provides an authentication strategy that anchors your username/ID to the bitcoin blockchain. The benefit of this is not having to rely on a central authority for your username. Example: Google could terminate your access to your gmail account anytime they want. Graphite/Graphite Publishing can't do that with your Blockstack username.

As for your question about who would appreciate this most, I think Graphite Publishing is probably going to benefit people already interested in decentralization the most initially. However, it really does provide a more secure solution than using something like Squarespace, for example. If we stick with the Squarespace example, your content (design and words) are stored in Squarespace's database. The content can be accessed and changed (or deleted) by Squarespace at any time. With Graphite Publishing, your content is stored either in the default storage hub provided by Blockstack and encrypted, or it's stored in your own custom storage hub if you so choose. In either case, the content can't be accessed by anyone other than the user creating that content.

Again, thanks so much for the feedback! I really appreciate it.
The rolling hills of Wales and northern England are never going to be great for crops, but they are perfect grassland for feeding cattle and lamb.

The grass hills are beautiful, it would be a great shame to see them converted to crops. I would argue they won’t be, and therefore the cattle raised on them is effecient.
I'm replying to this comment in the hopes of getting your attention. Hackernews has no DM system – could you shoot me an email if you have a moment? [redacted]
so gold is going to get cheaper? smart
This is about the only kind of vegan proselytizing that I can stomach. If you can make food that tastes as good as meat, with nutrition similar to meat, and sell it at a lower price than meat, I will switch overnight, and never look back.

And it would be nice if it came in bulk forms, rather than just as pre-formed patties. I eat ground beef a lot more often than I eat burgers.

Until then, good luck with the test kitchen research. The results so far indicate that the developers understand the problem they need to solve.
How much of McCartney's fortune was generated post-breakup in 1970 vs. that earned during the Beatles hey-day? I'm considering his Beatles catalog royalties to be part of the before-breakup period. Still paying him money today, that, alone, has probably earned him hundreds of millions.

I'm guessing here but I suspect the Stones catalog, even though its probably larger, doesn't generate as much revenue as the Beatles. The number of artists who cover the Stones music isn't anywhere near those that cover Beatles songs.
Interesting! Thanks for providing some clarity.
> In a Big Craze, Be the Arms Dealer

This is clearly true but I wonder how much it's an artefact of the Western economic model. I came to a similar insight in the last couple of years, which was "the companies skimming the most cream off the top, are often the most abstracted away from providing a concrete benefit to society".

It's like there's this inherent recursive aspect to shareholder capitalism. The profitable businesses are those which provide a service to businesses which provide a service to businesses which... which provide a service to the public.
Does anyone else get indigestion after eating one of these modern meat substitutes?
Judging by just the packaging and product range, that looks to be a year or two behind what's available in the Netherlands - though I guess it's just different as well, since we don't have that many things that resemble the deli slices. Still, I'd love to give them a try.

And absolutely, I'm looking forward to see what lab-grown meats will become available, although I guess that taste will not be that surprising. If it's anything like regular chicken, then I'd still prefer the Vegetarian Butcher's chicken - it tastes differently, but better.
The biggest signal of someone being an amateur when speaking (or writing) is discussion of the process of creating the presentation. Polished professional speakers don't talk about "when I started writing working on this presentation, I wasn't sure how to talk about X." They just put together a presentation describing the result or topic and present it without talking about all the work that it took to create. The process of creating it seems very salient and novel to the creator at the time of creation, but the audience doesn't care.

People who are nervous or give public talks only rarely will regularly fall into this trap. I think it's related to self-handicapping in presentations, but is distinct, and I have not seen it mentioned in looking at a few "presentation pitfalls" articles.
ideas have no values, implementation does

the very same idea could be implemented in different ways, some would work, some other would fail

the only way to be sure is to build it and ship it, eg. "does my implementation provide value to customers or not?"

it does not have to be big, it does not have to be perfect, it does not have to be complete (avoid the features creep), but the implementation itself or the product is what determine the value or potential value

other people like co-founder, talents, etc. are basically people who will see the value but think "hey I can build that better", "I can sell that better", etc. and decide to join you in the process

so yeah pretty much "Start building and start selling"

for the founding part it will be either you have the skills (tech, marketing, whatever) and so invest your time, or miss some of those skills and use your own money to cover those parts

I do not believe you can rely solely on "strong ideas"
Given the hype and the company, there was no way Lisp would have drug it down. The only way for it to affect iOS was to provide a worse environment than the web apps. People would have found a way just as the reluctant found a way with Objective-C.

Ask Sun about Java and their promotional campaign. When a teacher at a community college in North Dakota gets a call and sent a book to help him decide to teach their language, you can be very effective at pushing.
>John Lennon’s and Paul McCartney’s artistic partnership enabled them to vertically integrate the hitherto separate functions of songwriting and performing.

Ugh, really? We're going to bring corporate buzzwords to the Beatles now?

Lennon and McCartney had perfectly complementary qualities.

When Paul would write "I've got to admit it's getting better", John would add "It can't get no worse".

Paul is a great multi instrumentalist and has a great ear for melody, while John had lees musicianship but was a subtler and sometimes wickedly funny lyricist.

Did you every see a video of an octopus capturing prey, the way they wrap themselves around it and smother it?

That is what capitalism is attempting to do with everything.
Disruption for Thee, but Not for Me
Just out of curiosity, are you vegan/veg? I hear this point of view a lot online but I’ve rarely heard it within the vegan community where people are usually pretty honest about craving junk food/burgers etc every now and again. Not trying to call you out, genuinely curious.
What makes you think Xorg is on his way out?
> Surely, you can guess what this is doing:

Only if you got far enough in your background/education to understand prefix notation. Most people aren't there.
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Dormio: Interfacing with dreams for creativity
There was this one girl I was dating for a short while. She was vegan, for her own reasons, and so she'd eat her own meals. I asked if I could try some one time.

The tastes of the various kinds of meatballs she was have were interesting, at the very least. I'd never had anything like it. One particular kind – can't remember the name of the veggie it was made of – was so good I made my own later. A unique taste with its own unique texture: soft, dry, crumbly, yet condensing nicely after chewing.

I'm looking forward to meat imitations. I'd try one eagerly if I had the chance. I like the taste of meat, and it would let me have meat without the massive animal husbandry ecosystem required to support it. What's not to like?

In the meantime, I'm sure there are tons of things I'd enjoy, that I haven't tried yet, which are also completely vegan.
The Impossible Burger is designed to use environmentally friendly ingredients that can scale. I don't understand what your issue is.
I don't want my family time interrupted by trust falls. Retreats are fine as long as they satisfy that criteria.
as you are telling others to be more informed, and you said that Junker is unelected.. how do you think Junker ended up in there? Do you think he can just do whatever he wants without having to asked? Or you think every important official should be directly elected by the citizens? Spoiler: it does not happen in the main democracies for roles such as president or even head of state, and of course it does not happen for the Queen. I would be more upset bout that than about Junker.
leaves comp sci -> gets some sort of physics/bio degree -> wants to work at giant tech company
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The benefits and drawbacks of both approaches is mostly:

-what do existing tools do for you by default

-what does creating artificial boundaries around projects does to your org (this is purely social/psychological).

In both cases there are good and bad things, but given enough tooling and enough process, they do end up exactly the same.

In practice you don't have enough time to write an infinite amount of tooling to achieve this, and the psychological aspect if the repository as a boundary is extremely strong.

(disclosure, Im personally for having many repos in a medium to large organization, because I think those boundaries are good).
Amazon attempts less creepy delivery by placing packages in your garage
Ah, you have Quorn as well? Back when there was not that much choice in the Netherlands, Quorn was one of the few brands that was available. It doesn't taste as good as most others in my opinion, though, and also has the disadvantage of not having added some nutrients that vegans and vegetarians often miss out on.
> Even as corporations have brought in enormous profits, there has been a shortage of lucrative opportunities for investment and growth, creating surpluses of cash. This imbalance has resulted in the pileup of $2 trillion on corporate balance sheets. As companies continue to generate more profits than they need to fund their own growth, the question becomes: Who will decide what to do with all those profits—managers or investors?

And will they decide to pay their employees?
IMHO, Toyota's more cautious approach to AI-augmented driving is the correct way to move towards autonomous vehicles. If we want humans to trust a computer to drive, start off by having the computer only intervene to save humans from situations where they would have crashed otherwise.

Tesla's so-called "autopilot" looks shockingly dangerous and reckless in comparison, and may hinder acceptance of autonomous driving in the long-term.
Lazarus 2.0 RC3 – Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE
Millions of Android users tricked into downloading 85 adware apps from Google
Voltaire's Luck: The French Philosopher Outsmarts the Lottery
I study the role of waves in the larger meteorological and oceanographic context, specifically (1) how they govern momentum and energy exchange between wind and ocean currents, and (2) how they contribute to Lagrangian surface transport of pollutants, think oil spills or microplastics.

You can skim through my papers at https://milancurcic.com/publications. There is also a nice short video where my boss describes what we do in the lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6c20IqR2mw
I played around with fargate and one of the things I couldn’t work out is scaling quickly (or quick-enough). I think the problem wasn’t purely fargate but actually the load balancer. Even though containers were launched and responsive, the load balancer needed something like 3 liveness responses to bring it into the pool, and the time between each probe was something like 30 or 10 seconds and not very flexible (sorry, my memory is fuzzy)... so this felt like it only really fits loads that aren’t very spikey and also the potential saving from scaling down is somewhat reduced.

Did anyone experience something similar? Or maybe I did something wrong?

If one of the benefits of firecracker is quick spin up time, then this only works if the load balancer also responds quickly doesn’t it?

Granted, it was a while ago so things might have changed.
> If a change triggers a change in multiple repos, it is easier to review those changes for completeness and administer them (commits/rollbacks to the code) in sync if the are in the same repo.

This sounds like what submodules are for. A and B depend on C and C is kept in its own repo, referenced as a submodule by A and B.
According to TFA, the Impossible Burger 2.0 has reached parity with meat-based burgers. It seems unlikely that they'll just stop innovating, so they might eventually produce a soy-based burger that tastes better than meat at the same price. If that happens, it's game over for meat.
Very unspecific. Things that get tagged 'meat substitutes' are a large amount of different things with totally different stuff in them, there is nothing to generalize here.
It depends a lot on the person. I know vegetarians who are disgusted by anything like meat and hate the Impossible Burger because it's too close to meat. For me, though, I've been vegetarian for a few years and I have fond memories of tasty beef burgers. I've been hoping to get that experience back (without sacrificing the ethical and environmental benefits of a plant-based diet), so an excellent meat-like veggie burger creates nostalgia, not just a good meal.
It's not that millions of people are "OK" with it, but that in practice democratic elections aren't actually about policy. Suppose Alice's policy is to do X, and Bob's policy is to do Y, we might suppose voters who overwhelmingly want X will go vote for Alice, but nope, the Bob voters will still vote Bob and then be annoyed that Y happened, independent of continuing to support Bob. That doesn't make sense, but it's what happens.

This would be a grave defect if the purpose of democracy was to achieve good government, but in fact we haven't the faintest idea how to get good government, democracy is a fix for bloodshed during the inevitable power transitions. So, a bunch of idiots with no clue are still in charge, but now a _different_ bunch of idiots can take over without having to murder a bunch of people to do it.
It's generally difficult to dissuade someone of their core beliefs. That's why political discourse often gets dirty and bloody. Language, too, oddly enough.
The owner of a music school in my neighborhood graduated from Berklee Music College in the mid-90's. Even then Berklee had its students taking classes in business. A lot of being a successful musician is promotion and understanding how contracts work.
Lambda School raises $30M in quest to tackle student debt
Side project income 2018: $350 MRR
When the RSUs vest, what typically happens is both of the things you describe. A number of shares is withheld at vesting and the value sent to the Treasury as an income tax withholding. The following April, you true-up the full tax liability with the full number of shares treated as ordinary income. (The withholding is typically at the supplemental wage rate [22%, used to be 25%], which is frequently not enough to cover the full amount of tax due.)

Your initial comment suggested that you didn't distinguish between the ordinary income and capital gains taxation for the pre and post time periods. It turns out you did understand that distinction, but I didn't glean that from your prior text.
You say artifact of western economic model like it’s a bad thing.
What areas of mathematics are you interested in learning about? I would also pick up Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Rudin.
Good point! I haven't looked into the tools available to small companies and just assumed open source solutions existed.

As an intern at Microsoft a few years ago I extended an internal tool that provides abstractions such that it can work seamlessly across repos using different version control systems.
Should HN allow one's favourites to be shared?
I did Prolog back in university. That was really cool. Miranda was our introduction in functional programming there. I don't know Haskell, but I really like some aspects of Scala. But Scala is still not all that different from what I know. Lisp is way more alien than that.
Jet fighters also require computer control because their aerodynamic design is such that they would not be stable without constant computer-commanded micro-adjustments in the control surfaces.
An objective test of "easy to understand" would be, how close does the code look, to how a programmer might pseudocode it on a whiteboard? I don't recall seeing much significant difference between how Java, Python, or Javascript devs pseudocode on a whiteboard, so it's something approximately close to how a human thinks about it in the absence of syntax issues.

I think Python code looks closer to this pseudocode than Lisp does. Once you become an experienced Lisp programmer, it probably takes little effort to convert that mental pseudocode into Lisp, but I believe it does take intrinsically less effort in Python.