skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats the problem with generalizations about Europe, there has been some progress towards harmonisation but lots of things vary hugely from country to country. For every statement you have to add "except in Belgium", "except in Germany" etc, and he mostly just added the "except in UK" ones.
The point is that you can work as many hours as you choose.
As a matter of fact, here in Italy Denmark is often cited as a very good example to follow regarding work regulations.
All the data mentioned there is all good... but I would suggest that you put some reference links to back it up...
I have a list of contra-indicators, which are indicators that I use to probabilistically look for interesting industries that are about to change a lot/see a lot of disruption/have various competitors who are about to head downhill.

Making fun of your competitors or suing them into the ground to show your own superiority is indicator #7. If you have to talk to explain your walk then you will soon be mocked.

MSFT is doing that with it's Google attack ads. AAPL is doing that with its various Samsung lawsuits and general adolescent behaviour.
A developer that makes $70/hr is more than a developer - they are an architect, a persuader, a researcher and a leader.

In other words, soft skills, non-technical skills - communication skills. Yes there some recluses that can get top dollar and not be social but they are the exception.
In my country (Uruguay), labor laws have a mandated maximum of overtime. If a work inspector finds your company violationg that, the company is liable for some serious fines.

Also, employees can sue for unpaid overtime.

This makes companies extremely serious about employees leaving on time. In the company I work for, the computers automatically shut down at 6 p.m. (we're supposed to leave at five thirty).
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Unfortunately, this is often true here in Italy: The main reason, imho, is that rules are often so difficult to follow that selection is working against the more honest entrepreneurs...
Seconded.
I am surprised that there are not more of Pynchon's books in this thread.
'Vineland' is an easy, humorous read. If you want to take Pynchon head on, I can't recommend 'Against the day' too much.
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Instead of comments attacking a geek elitist worldview, I get folks pissed off 'cause I mistyped "breaks" and "kneed" :) ...and I actually find it amusing after almost a dozen whiskey eggnogs ...funny times the holidays :)
I believe that only applies in the UK, from Wikipedia "in the United Kingdom, it is possible to opt out of the 48 hour working week and work longer hours". However in the rest of Europe that seems not to be the case, although the exact details of the hours and how they are structured depends on national legislation.
As well as some wars, there is also a long history of imperialism and actually trying to take over the world.
Again: That was not the issue here. You are lumping another (very real) issue together with the issue discussed in the post.
UK employees can opt out of part of the working time directive, the 48 hrs max working week ban. But other parts still apply, like minimum holidays per year
Sildigra super active and Sildenafil
Sildigra super active contains the active ingredient Sildenafil citrate. Sildenafil citrate is international nonproprietary name of the active compound of original Sildenafil made by Pfizer. This medication can also be called as improved generic Sildenafil.
I think Spain has changed the rules on severance pay recently, and new employees do not get it.

In the UK it has recently been ruled illegal in many circumstances to pay interns less than the minimum wage (basically if they do real work), so if you feel like it you can ask your ex-interner for the money. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/19/interns-payouts-min...
I tried to read Zen a couple of years ago but lost interest. I picked it up again this year and got through it this time.

I think [one of] the basic messages of the book, that of paying attention and enjoying the little things of life like understanding and servicing your BMW motorcycle is great. Unfortunately I didn't get much out of the philosophical ramblings about arete (quality) and the author's nervous breakdown, which takes up most of the second half of the book. I did enjoy the description of the road trip though, if I were living in the US right now I'd love to do it.
There are different Civil Law systems though. Some, based on Roman law, is very focused on the letter of the law while others like the Scandinavian law system are focused on the intention behind the laws.
To phrase it another way, the bonds between people are more important than the fruit of peoples' labour. Without collaboration, we wouldn't have all of this technology or knowledge in the first place.
He also doesn't seem to understand that there are labour contracts and civil contracts. The former are the heavily regulated kind, the latter are like US contracts - you can put whatever you like in them. So it's entirely possible, if you wish, to draft a contract saying Person will work for 6 months at startup A in order to produce result X and unless they turn out incompetent (or the company goes under, etc), they'll be offered a labour contract.

Whether anybody would feel comfortable signing such a thing though, is a different matter.
That was the exact same sentence that changed my whole attitude; and I'm a tolerant guy. It's a pity that "work hard" and "work long hours" are separated only by a comma.

PS: I'm still "infected" by this article: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
Just pirate it then.

To be honest, I download the track elsewhere always and pay for it if I think it's worth it and delete it if it's not.

You can't tell much from a 30 second clip most of the time, especially when the motivation is still to produce albums filled with padding (shit).

They need to just release singles and do away with the whole album principle.

As for quality - if you want that, you need to buy the damn CD and rip it how you want. Most of the decent quality mp3 rips are rubbish enough to notice if you have a high end setup but for casual/normal users and ears, it's fine.
Is there a statement for polyhedra similar to four-color theorem?

I could only google a book called "Map Coloring Polyhedra and the Four Color Problem". Unfortunately, it's not available to read online. From what I've found, it seems to me that there is only a handful of proven facts about colorings of some polyhedra.

[ADD]: four color theorem works for every planar graph and it looks like one can make such graph corresponding to any convex polyhedron, so it seems that original OP statement holds.
That sounds frightening to me. A bunch of people getting into the education market just because its the next big money maker is wrong. I deal with current education software on a daily basis. A large percentage of that is made or owned by Pearson as one example. The amount of money charged for something that is just terrible in every facet is sickening.
Thinking fast and slow is awesome , changed the way i work
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It won't be in "webm" because WebM is a very narrowly defined profile of MKV+Vorbis+VP8 (which is important for compatibility), and Google already made a decision to not use Opus in "WebM" to avoid confusion.
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http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=...
The Lean Startup - Too bad this wasn't around when I was starting my (now failed) startup 4 years ago.

Softwar - Larry Ellison's story. Fascinating read.

Games People Play - Classic by Eric Berne. Must read psychology. Short, and you will get so much out of it.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - Must read psychology. Short, and you will get so much out of it.

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! - Will re-read soon to get to the next level.
I'd hire anytime a guy who knows how something works over someone who knows how to correctly spell the name of that thing, or even knows how the damned things is called. I've known people way smarter than I am that have way worse spelling, grammar and even basic communication skills than I have. We seriously overvalue communication related skills just because they form one's ..."gift wrapping" (plus the thing with most programmers being pathologically sensitive to grammar and spelling mistakes, but this is somewhat understandable :) ).
It's not as clear cut as this

There is a lot of C++ work in 'developing countries' (dependent on the country as well)

No 3D in France? Have you heard of Catia? There is C++ as well

YMMV, even though I like working with low level programming, the high level, semi-crud work can be nice and with less BS
I dont know of any laws making working with contractors hard, so long as you are not apparently using them to avoid tax. Maternity and paternity are not usually a problem, obviously if your company is small anything can be a problem.
This is why I'm a huge fan of Spotify. I'm not going to buy music (in either CD/MP3 format) so I'm happy enough to pay the small fee to have access to a huge music library across all devices.

They also have a Linux client that works perfectly for me which is also a huge bonus.
I didn't even notice this, perhaps that says something.
Thanks, very interesting! How do I know if I have enough regularization?
how much c++ / java 15 years experience take ?
(Linux/windows server/client )
What blogs should I be following if I am learning photography?
That's not a fix. It re-encodes the file.
Eh. A better aproach if you necessarily have to kill kittens by writing self modifying files would be to put the data in the __DATA__ field of the file. That way you get a separation between code and data and don't have to eval anything.
Yes. I am European, working as a contractor in my own limited company, and am not in a position to speak out for the busines climate in all of Europe. I can say how taxes, pensions and health care works in Sweden, but going beyond that, I would mostly be speculating.
It was only announced this month that spotify would add Metallica's back catalogue. They hardly have a complete library of music.
> I'm happy enough to pay the small fee to have access to a huge music library across all devices.

As long as it lasts.

I want my music collection to be accessible also when Spotify will go out of business, sued into oblivion or acquired and shut down.
Sarkozy is not an entrepreneur. It's theorically a lawyer but he is a full time politician for 30 years (He was mayor of Neuilly since 1983).
ever tried Google Spreadsheets vs. MS Excel? it's like drag racing a Yugo vs. a Porsche. the browser is such a shit environment to deal with large data sets.
That argument is unsound. The color of the sky depends on atmospheric gases and suspended particles as causal factors. This shows that atmospheric gases and suspended particles are causally potent. At the same time, atmospheric gases and suspended particles do not have libertarian free will. This shows that things can be causally potent without libertarian free will. The statement that "If there is no [libertarian] free will ... The payouts are the same regardless of what you do" assumes that being without libertarian free will entails causal impotence, but that contradicts the fact that things can be causally potent without libertarian free will, as established by the argument about atmospheric gases and suspended particles. Therefore, that statement is false. When that statement has been corrected to allow people to be causally potent without libertarian free will, the conclusion of the argument does not follow.
Learn on someone else's dime
A kernel is basically a function which transforms data from one dimension into another. The mentioned kernel trick is the computational reduction from O(d^2) to O(d) through the fact that one doesn't need to calculate the dot products of all the extended basis vectors but only a kernel matrix (so called Gram matrix) which is made from the dot products of the original vectors which is only linear in cost.
It seems almost everybody talking about SVMs and kernels is getting this wrong.
I stand by my comment that I could not start a company in the garage of my father in law in Mulheim an der Ruhr. Many of those commenting here should see how companies get started in USA. And yes kudos to Germany for its changes in recent years. Other European countries should follow its lead. But lets remember one thing, a deregulated work environment in USA has led to engineers getting paid 2 or 3 times as much and that does not include stock options taxed at capital gains rates.
Do you think that Digital Education or E-Learning will force schools and universities to vanish with time?
Fun! Best of luck finding your internship.

As for the control, here is what I would do:

Imagine a circle on the center of the screen that stopps the spin, outside the circle, rotate with a speed proportional to the distance from the center.
This is the only piece of advice I would listen to out of all of these replies. Copy the great, not the average.
God is just. Turn the other cheek.

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It is currently being tackled in various industries by specialized document platforms. Specialized because taking vanilla Sharepoint or Documentum and making it compliant with very specific rules and regulations is a costly nightmare.

We are tackling Life Sciences as we speak.
> Diesel also has less energy than regular gasoline

That's not correct, it has more.

By weight it's identical, and by volume (i.e. gallon) it has about 12% more energy than gasoline.
Stock options give employees a sense of ownership and responsibility in the company, which is a powerful thing.
Why would they be sued? Last I heard Spotify was very much running a legal business.
You could always convert them to ALAC?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dZJJjc6xroE
This article is worse than a rant. People rant in response to intolerable conditions.

But this fellow has been entrepeneur-ing in Europe for more than 15 years, he has done quite well by his own admission, and now, after all this time, comes up with this hit piece against employee rights. It's deeply dishonest.
"The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now" - by Meg Jay. I'm glad that I read this book while I'm still in my twenties.
Maybe, maybe not.

And for a first stage, returning is not nearly as hard.

At first, the reusable first stage might provide only a modest portion of the delta vee and an expendable second stage would do most of the work. That would mean a low payload.

I don't think the SpaceshipOne solution would work "as is", but something like it might work. It only went vertically to 100 km.

When the Space Shuttle was being designed, Max Faget toyed around with different ideas on how to arrange re-entry, with essentially something similar as SpaceshipOne in a sense: a high drag configuration at high speed and then flying at low speed. http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/shuenara.htm
Doesn't have to be one or the other. Pay Spotify $10/month to discover new music and then go buy lossless copies of the albums you really care about. Most records I could live without but those few special ones I have backed up in S3 in FLAC.
There's some quality loss but the DRM seems to be gone. Guess it's an acceptable workaround for now. Though I'm confused, since iTunes shouldn't be able to just strip DRM. Maybe not all .m4p files actually have DRM?
Have a downvote, sir.

The online/offline availability of a program has very little to do with its enjoyability. The OP did not claim to support any of your use cases, hence the aggressive tone of your comment is out of place.
Signal and the noise by Nate Silver(Very nice read. Chapters on climate change and GDP forecasting were a bit slow, but everything else was a page turner)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/159420411X

Why I left Goldman Sachs by Greg Smith (Good insight into the 2008 financial breakdown and a look into the day to day operations of Goldman Sachs)
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Left-Goldman-Sachs-Street/dp/14555...

The Hobbit
http://www.amazon.com/Hobbit-There-Again-Illustrated-Author/...

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques(Great intro into data mining)
http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Concepts-Techniques-Manage...

Programming Collective Intelligence(You can play around with actual implementations of the concepts in the previous book)
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu...

Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick (Was really nice to see the details behind Mitnick's adventures)
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/d...

On War By Clausewitz(Really enjoyed this book.)http://www.amazon.com/War-Carl-von-Clausewitz/dp/1448676290
There are some valid generalizations about europe. There are some mandated minimum holidays for example (4 weeks IIRC) and the tendency to have stronger employee rights. The work ethos is different as well, europeans tend to regard extreme outliers in wealth as extreme outliers, less as role models. The problem is that this article takes some assumptions that might be true for spain and uk and tries to sell them as 'europe'. I'd be interested if the majority of american investors see europe this way or if this is an outlier.
I wouldn't fear this development. Sure like every other 'new' development everybody and their aunt will want a piece of the action. But we are talking the internet here. We'll see a quality/price competition develop and us users have excellent ways to complain or praise. I can even see 'old' institutes compete in this space, as well as one-on-one coaches or authors of 'how to' books selling educational plans along side of their books. Think of Amazon showing you a popup "you bought 'Career Warfare', would you like to enroll for the upcoming class? First 2 classes free!"
Transcoding from one lossy format to another decreases the file quality. Converting to ALAC would not decrease the quality -- quality would remain lossy -- but would drastically increase the file SIZE.

DJ online music stores such as beatport and stompy sell WAV or FLAC files. I really don't understand why iTunes and Amazon don't sell lossless. The bandwidth is there, the demand is there, I guess FLAC isn't supported by major players but at the very least have iTunes sell ALAC... Please.
Both underfitting and overfitting cause poor generalization performance. You can use cross validation to search for the parameters that give the lowest validation error.
Ben Horowitz: The Best Product Does Not Always Win
Yes if you have the relevant group policy rules and filters in exchange.
Note that Varsavsky was born in Argentina, and moved to the US when he was 16.
There are many other groups as well. These two competed in Lunar Lander Challenge in 2009 and have flown vertically landing rockets:

- Masten Space Systems:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mastenspace

- Unreasonable Rocket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PO5cTb_T5M
(Couldn't find a better video now)
Nice explanation of the log, nice graphics. I did this for lulz on some data at work once with a python script and (pearson's also) and I got 'oh dear these are not the results you were looking for' lol
The clips have been 90 seconds for a long time.
I used to use services like this, but now I simply have a gmail account dedicated to hit and run emails.

I only go to this account inbox when I'm looking for a particular email. It's full of spam and I don't care!
Not in germany. The law mandates ab absolute maximum of 10 hours a day, 10 hours break between shifts and max 60 hours a week unless there's some case of emergency. These already are the extended hours, that are only possible if the overtime can be taken off within a reasonable timeframe. The regular work-hours are 6 days of 8 hours. The employer is legally responsible that these limits are enforced.
Except it doesn't work, at least not on my version of iTunes (11.0 163). I get "'___' could not be converted because protected files cannot be converted to other formats."
Just because they are running a legal business now, doesn't mean they will run a legal business in future. Either they can change, or more likely laws will change, rendering them a vulnerable target for suing.

Plus, I'm sure they are breaking some ridiculous patent somewhere anyway.
"atmospheric gases and suspended particles do not have ... free will"

I believe that gasses and suspended particles do have free will in the same way a brain running on the laws of physics has free will. You're asserting non-free will by appealing to intuitions around a simple example, but it is not justified.

Free will is at a different abstraction level to its implementation. Electrons cannot do arithmetic, but calculators can, with electrons as the implementation.
Two odd things:

1. The report is only that the files have the 'm4p' extension. There seems to be no-one confirming that the files actually have DRM, just that they have the extension the old DRM'd files used to have.

2. Reports of people being able to convert to m4a from within iTunes. A DRM system that has a "remove the DRM from this file" option... isn't DRM.

Which makes me wonder whether they're just the same normal non-DRM'd files, but being offered up with the wrong extension.
Have you noticed the word parasites in my original post? As a post communist regime company in Eastern Europe half were communist party related nepotists, third were incompetent and 20% did medal of honor worthy deeds to try and do all the work there was. It was common for a lot of people to come to work just to drink coffee and do nothing but gossip. They just took away the coffee and the gossip.
Would an application of seam carving[1] be useful?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving
What did krenoten say that sounded evil?
I see your point. I don't know anything about the workings of Silent Circle' but if I may be so bold to do some suggestions: A user needs to purchase a certain amount of time (minutes or days) you say. But do they? How about a certain amount of 'connections' or calls? Does it matter how long the conncection lasts? All you log is 'user bought 100 connections' and it took 2 months to use them. Perhaps there is a way to log in the conncections inside the app, locally and not in a central database. You'd hold no information on your side (Missed your reply, HN really needs a notification system!)
Is this with a new .m4p file downloaded recently (i.e. same situation as me) or an old pre-DRM-free-iTunes file?
oh lucky you! the others are so much better :o) they don't need to be read in order or anything, but i'd suggest trying to do so. i remember thinking that some of the later ones tended to "explain" in a certain way some of the earlier ones (not completely, and not directly, but there seemed to be references at times).

(also, from what i remember, the third volume of 1q84 was most like his other works - i almost stopped after the 2nd and was glad i continued).

ps on translation - i don't think that would make this one so different to the others (which are also translated). i do agree that murakamis books feel translated (like you could guess they were translated if you were given one and didn't know what it was), but that seems to be just something about either translated books or authors that work well in translation (or may just be me imagining things). i don't think i have ever read a book in both the original language and a translation, but i know that roberto bolano, who was recently very big in english translation, reads like a translated author in the original (if you see what i mean)...