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>further tax increases on the rich will possibly yield little/no new revenues.

Possible, I suppose. I'd need to see evidence.

>Many suspect that a VAT and higher taxes on the poor/middle class - where 66% of the income is after all - is inevitable.

Who are the many who suspect this? And on that note - your "whom" should be "who". Apologies for the pedantry.

I'd really like to see some reputable articles to back up your assertions, purely because I've not heard anyone make them before. I don't mind if you don't provide them, of course, you don't owe me anything, I'd just appreciate it if you did.
And that's understandable. I got the impression that author enjoys the chewing-gum-for-the-mind kind of read, which tastes good enough for the first 30 pages to finish it, but a little is left afterwards. For something to change the way you see the world it must make you think, and thinking requires some effort. Anything requiring an effrot may not be as pleasant but has more chances to leave a lasting impact.
Good call, I've fixed that.
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While they probably do not store in plain text and are just encrypting/decrypting, they still are not following the best practices of hashing the password in a one-way method.

Of course, they also shouldn't be sending any password, even a newly generated one clear text in an email like that.
And ironically it's the higher-quality, higher bandwidth-intensive artsy videos that are uploaded there.

Google should buy them out, though I'm sure they've already gone down that path.
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Given that Google has been sued over that countless times, as a small startup I would be wary of following their example.
I've been going to a large Bay Area tomato tasting for the last few years. In case anyone is looking for more recommendations, my favorites from last year were:

* Momotoro

* Exotic Blue Green

* Black Cherry

* Flamme'

* Indigo Rose

It's interesting how much the flavor varies from year to year, and from grower to grower. Sometimes I find a favorite variety to be blah the next, and vice versa. But I guess I've got to find a source for Orange Russian 117.
Doing anything with invalid pointers is UB in C++. It might be fine now, but it might not work in 5 years, when compiled with a newer compiler.

E.g. a sufficiently clever, malicious compiler could reason that because you are doing pointer arithmetic involving PolicyAccountDomainInfo->, the pointer must be valid and then it might get rid of the null check and branch in the second line. I remember not so long ago there was a vulnerability in Linux kernel because of exactly this kind of "malicious" optimisation performed by gcc.
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Naw, it wasn't an american airline :P
For some reason Pulp Fiction popped into my head.

I'm a little ambivalent about this. On one hand, obese people have enough of a hard time just getting by without the extra burden of social commentary and (let's face it) the "look at that guy" sentiment. On the other hand the airlines are having to spend more in fuel when prices are already high.
Ok, it's a very good argument. Of course we as readers also have to add something, and our background is important; the more we open our minds I believe the better our criteria of interestingness will be. Today I read stuff 3 years ago I would have no patience to read, it's also an exercise in which you evolve. But you're using an example of a classic while I tried to focus on online articles and other contemporary books, in an era where there's always another stimulum. I say in response to this we must make choices, and "what am I getting from this?" is the way I found to help filter all this information. I'm glad it's not a fixed set of rules, because as your story exemplifies exceptions make much better stories.

Still regarding choices: Dan Brown sure can hook us in the first 30 pages, but we are the ones who choose if we want to read Dan Brown in the first place. It's yet another layer of discussion to add to this.

PS: I'm glad this subject isn't dead and dry and sparks such discussion. Wasn't expecting this at all.
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> I don’t know the definition of ‘fall in love’ here, but this sounds rather dangerous as well, as it makes it more difficult to learn actually new things and supports living in one’s own little bubble of information.

On the face of it yes, on the other hand, there's a ton of crap out there, and the fact that someone wrote a book about something is on it's own a poor indicator for wether it's going to teach you something meaningful. Reading some of it seems to be a better indicator.

Also, abandoning a book doesn't mean abandoning the subject. Sometimes you need a different author and angle and sometimes a more basic primer on the subject before tackling the main work.
I don't see one shred of science behind the idea of more beekeepers being bad for bees. What's bad for bees is simple... varroa mites, virus, pesticides, hive beetles, wax moths and diseases like American Foul Brood. Lack of good forage, clean water, stuff like that. Beekeepers bad for bees? What a bunch of horse hockey..
That usually happens the first couple of years. First year I did strawberries I got one fruit and a fucking pigeon stole it.

Never give up :)
It is a goal, in some fashion. I don't think geeks are after the smart badge per-se, but most are after proficiency at whatever they create and that is another definition of smart.
Most introductory programming books lay down the basic principles of programming, describe the specific language the particular book covers, and give you enough of a sense of how you can apply the knowledge to real-world applications that you should be able to decide within 100 pages whether it's for you.
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It is clear? It is a compelling story, but people also see dozens of compelling stories out of sports every year where it is much more obvious that a lot of the variation is chance.

This is not to say Jobs was a bad CEO or it was pure luck, but to say Apple's turn around was mostly due to Jobs' decision making seems not that clear to me.
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Only appeared in the dev channel for me last week.
http://www.korokithakis.net/tutorials/python/

And, in five-page book form! https://leanpub.com/learn-python
Noone ever mentioned that your muscles need sleep for proper functioning. Try sleeping 6 hours a day and working out 4 times a week. I give you two weeks.
It's titled thus because the mount can house cameras that shoot at 4k res reliably.

Can be pretty scary strapping $50k to a moving vehicle.
This is a great marketing move as it tries something that many people who are charged $/£/€/?50+ for an overweight kilogram will have muttered at checkin desks.

The truth is that it doesn't work because the bag restrictions are there for reasons unrelated to the weight of passengers.

Firstly there's the baggage handlers. Some airports charge the airlines extra for heavier bags so it's a way to discourage a charge to the airline. But far more than that, even in the olden days before most airlines charged for checked baggage, it's a great way to extract additional revenue from the customers in a context of it being the customers' fault.
Well, but it does mean that judges can invalidate (or not apply) copyright laws if they diverge sufficiently from that 'official' purpose.

Even if both the industry and congress want and intend other purposes, the constitution allows copyrights to exist only if/while they (at least a bit) also try "to promote the progress of the arts and sciences".
Can we stop having economist posts once a week on how India is going to be the next big power? These economist articles are very disconnected from the reality on the ground
I'm sure you have already seen it, but if not check out 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' - Werner Herzog - it blew me away, the art and artistry is stunning in those caves.
Why I Still Program
Ask HN: What should I do?
I work in the UK. I earn £15000 a year. For a web developer who has 3 years experience and always gets good annual reviews I feel I am underpaid. Normally the best course of action is to start looking for other jobs. But there is a problem... I have a terrible stammer

I've had lots of interviews for other positions, infact almost every position I apply for I get an interview for but my stammer that leaves me practically unable to talk in interviews.

I've asked my current employers for a raise but because they know my situation and they know my stammer means I interview badly they know I am stuck here.

I used to think my code would be able to win these battles for me but I think I'm wrong. What shall I do?
I think this is nice, and I already found a deal I haven't come across yet on a vehicle I'm interested in, so thanks!

A few initial thoughts:

- I can't click the radio buttons themselves within each options group; only the link/label itself is clickable

- I would rather the mileage filters be < 10k, < 20k, < 36k, etc. If I can't have this, I want to be able to select multiple mileage filters at once

- I want to select multiples of other filters too. Year for example. eBay allows me to enter "2009-2011" or "2009-". I can only view one year at a time on this site.

- It took me a minute to realize I had to select a make before a model (yes, I feel stupid for this); showing an empty stub where the options will appear once I have selected a make is not intuitive - how about not showing the not-yet-ready filters until they are relevant?

- Seeing the "Contact Dealer" red button directly below the phone number made me initially think I was going to be calling the dealer. I finally clicked it after seeing no other place to view the dealer's own listing. I'd make getting to the dealer's site a bit more prominent
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Corn is in so much stuff because it's production is subsidized by our government, and therefore is much cheaper to use than alternatives. This is why you see high fructose corn syrup used to sweeten foods more often than regular sugar. Sugar is (for the most part) imported, and sells at a much higher price than our subsidized corn products.
I believe stocks on the whole fit this growth profile, based on the last bit of portfolio analysis I got. The next category up (higher risk, greater return) is things like options and futures.
Thank you for that anti-myth - good developers never need to look for jobs
Yes - the tax rate difference would essentially cover the cost of the premiums if I had to pay them myself. I suspect though that any company I were to join in SF would be covering that for me.
Not at all true. There are many applications where a fast hash function is desirable and speed does not really impact its security. File integrity, for example, is less of a burden to check with a fast hash and the attacks you'd mainly be worried about are some form of collision attack or second pre-image. For secure hash functions, the number of hash operations required to carry out the attack is so huge that the speed of the actual hash operation doesn't make much of a difference.

Where people always seem to get this idea from is password storage. In that scenario, the attack is an attacker trying to brute force guess a secret input from the hashed output. Since passwords don't tend to be very good, the number of hash operations required in that attack is low enough that suddenly the speed of the hash function DOES impact how feasible the attack is.

The solution to this problem isn't that all hash functions need to be slower, it's that people should stop using fast hash functions for password storage. Fortunately there are a number of ways to turn a fast hash function into a slow password storage function. Or you can use a function specially designed for password storage like bcrypt or scrypt.
Property rights obviously don't extend to non-physical and abstract things, but there are some enough analogies between property law and 1)copyright 2)patent 3)trademark laws to label them as "intellectual property" laws - i.e., something similar to property laws but not actual property laws.
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Since there were high amount of interest on Digital Ocean, ( $10 for 1GB Ram and SSD Cloud ), this may be of interest to some.
Suggest a map that shows which dealer and where a car is located. There's a subset of car buyers where the car itself is less important than the garage they bought it from, in case they need to bring it back for repairs / tuning etc. This is especially true of used cars. And very important on mobile
Has anyone tried to transfer this AI model to FPS?
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I wouldn't bother doing the upside down ones - they are a gimmick. You can get bush variety tomatoes which will grow in a pot well and produce lots of fruit without support or space requirements.
I really like this analysis as well - can I ask where the "standard advice" comes from? And if it's from an MBA, what school? I haven't seen this kind of quantified strategizing taught before; I've been winging it and would love to pick up some formal knowledge if it exists.
Where are you based, would you be willing to relocate and what skills do you have? I know a really great, warm web dev agency that is hiring. I can at least ping you a link. Email address in my profile.
So should two parents who only have one arm be allowed to cut off their babies arm in order to make them like they are? After all, only having one arm isn't a debilitating injury in today's world. Even moreso with prosthetics it could be considered an advantage...

Furthermore, since it isn't genetic, their child retains the options to choose whether their children will be one armed or not, unlike in this case where a gene might always be carried or carried a very high % of the time.
Thank you for the link.

You wrote students, while I meant professional programmers. It's not because some people have a tougher time learning those things (whatever the reason can be) that they have no change to get them by the moment they are active professionals.

This said, if I tried to apply your grouping to the people I have been interviewing last year, I would have approximately 100% of them in one category, hence my comment.
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I have built something very similar to this is the past, here are a couple of observations:

Scraping:

- Dealer web sites are run by a handful of different data brokers, for the most part if you find a good way to scrape one (say dealer who uses http://www.dealer.com/ than you can extend your scraper to get others)

- Dealer web sites, in general, are horrible to view.

- Learn to love VIN explosion/decoding - http://www.researchmaniacs.com/VIN/VIN-Decoder.html the dealers enter features in so many different ways, it is your best chance to normalize the data.

- Normalize the ext. color, create a distinct list of all the crazy colors of car makers give their cars and all the short hand dealers give the colors. Create a map of the colors and apply when scraping

- Scraping is like farming, a lot of initial work, but there is constant upkeep for changing sites

Display:

- User's don't want to search by city as much as what is close to them, you should geocode the dealerships and display distance. For instance if I search West Des Moines, I would expect inventory in Des Moines also to come up

- Add searching by zip code, you can easily find database of the centroids. It can also be a cheap way of geocoding the dealerships

- Switch Mileage to use miles instead of KM, it looks like most of the inventory is in the US an that is what the user will expect.

- Use a ip2geo to set the initial location of the search, right now it looks like it is all over the place, check to see if the browser supports geo location and optionally set the initial search by that
What is the appropriate time for a code review?
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Based in Suffolk, Yes definitely willing to relocate. Thanks, I'll be in touch
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Maybe it's something country-specific, but why would you do repairs in the same garage? Or did you mean the dealer's guarantee period?
What regions outside London are you referring to? Genuinely interested.
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The BBC Radio four programme 'Noise, a Human History' had an episode (the first?) exploring this. They had people clapping in caves. It's fascinating.

The BBC don't seem to have this available on any of their catch-up services. (It's probably around on unofficial places.)

(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rglcy)
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That value might be correct, but I think what megablast is getting at is that the original hardware wasn't able to calculate the position of all of the invaders and still maintain the video frame rate.

So even though it was intended to work the same speed all the time, the hardware was limited in its ability to handle all of the aliens: once there were less to draw, it was able to draw them faster.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_invaders#Hardware :
While programming the game, Nishikado discovered that the processor was able to render the alien graphics faster the fewer were on screen. Rather than design the game to compensate for the speed increase, he decided to keep it as a challenging gameplay mechanic.
Hahaha, what?
That seems like a good explanation. My circadian rhythms are shot with a decade of all nighters and free wheeling around the clock so I might not be as sensitive to these techniques :-)
I think the way to think about them is not so much as the CEOs actually producing anything, but being more of a productivity multiplier rather than adding to productivity linearly (an engineer). In this way, they can increase productivity by the equivalent of 100 engineers, without directly being as "productive" as 100 engineers.
Such a pity that it's so close to April 1. Unfortunately I think it's just too sensible to be serious.

I wish the poll had been made with a question of body mass adjacent; I expect the average weight of nay-sayers would be greater than that of aye-sayers.
That is what happens when you push for political correctness. Sure it's not a handicap, it's a "difference", wait it's a "culture", a "community". Keep bashing this over and over, pass laws to force companies to feed that kool aid to their employees, and sure enough you end up with this kind of situation.

In the same vein, you'll see people arguing for neuro-diversity to defend autism as a perfectly desirable condition.
Exactly, though in the case I bet you're remembering, the pointer was dereferenced before the null check so the latter was optimized out.

http://lwn.net/Articles/342330/
Ems and percents behave differently when a user changes the browser's font size setting (which I think you only see in IE now), but are otherwise the same. Other than that the only advantage is in the fact that ems are a standard convention for designers and typographers, who are used to expressing measurements as a proportion of the text size, and "1 em" is just a more concise representation of that measurement than "100% of the point size of the font in use".
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Seems to be a pretty good offer, even in comparison to digital-ocean (https://www.digitalocean.com/).
Has anyone hosted anything with them before? I'd like to know whether they're dependable.
To throw just any one name into the discussion - what about Asus? I haven't heard anything bad about them since they've twittered that booth babe picture.
First 30 pages seems a bit too constricted depending on the book size. I like to flip through the whole book while randomly reading a few pages here and there to get a "feel" for it.
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From what you have written I can see you don't suck (I'd need to meet you and see some of your code to actually assess you're good :). You see, you used words like "Bayesian", "Promises". Guys that I was writing about not only don't know what promises are, they don't give a fuck either. A rockstar (in my book, at least) would hear about them and google them as soon as possible.

So at the end of the day, it's not really about experience, it's the attitude.
It's an excuse to read resumes with the Bozo Bit in the "on" position; if he were any good, he'd have found a way around the HR wall and into a channel that actually works. In which case, why read them at all? Oh, because it's something to do while drawing a monthly salary for it.

The reason for the Resume Blizzard is that it's free to send one. It also gives companies the right to indulge in the myth that they're hyperselective because "we only give an offer to 1 in 500 candidates". It's technically true, because 485 of those were resumes merely scanned for some bullshit reason to reject (e.g. last job was too long/short, state undergrad, lack of buzzwords).

Here's an idea that I had: an online-ed website where you get credits for completing coursework, and sending a resume has a non-zero cost in credits (which is refunded if unopened). It's the best way that I can come up with to make front doors work again.
How does meritocracy converge to winner-take-all?
It depends. Some of us use Visual Studio. Some of us use gedit.
"Under the new system, Samoa Air passengers must type in their weight and the weight of their baggage into the online booking section of the airline's website. The rates vary depending on the distance flown: from $1 per kilogram on the airline's shortest domestic route to about $4.16 per kilogram for travel between Samoa and American Samoa. Passengers are then weighed again on scales at the airport, to check that they weren't fibbing online."
I use ChicagoVPS as my VPS and it is pretty decent for being so cheap.
Lol, I migrated from Linode to DigitalOcean one month ago.
The pricing of UbiquityServers seems very tempting, however I will calm down this time :)
Anyway, has somebody had a chance to try both DO & US?
Glad to hear that - and do contact me (Yossi.Kreinin@gmail.com) if anything goes wrong, or if you need a feature.

It's working very smoothly for us, to the point where nobody is worried about parallelism bugs any more - but while it's basically the same approach, the code itself is new, so I could have new bugs in there as well.
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Your stammering problem must bleed into the rest of your life too. Sorry if this is a question you've heard a billion times already, but have you done any research about how to get rid of it? A prominent TV personality here in the states named John Stossel confessed to growing up with a stammer that he still slightly has and talked about how he was able to rid himself of it.
And the lights are dimmed on a nighttime takeoff/landing so that, in the event of needing to evacuate, your eyes don't need to adjust as much as when going from very bright to very dim.
You need to do the Sydney to Los Angeles 14 hour flight in economy with someone who weighs 350 lbs in the seat next to you, their body spilling over into your seat.

If nothing else I think they should charge more by the horizontal area you take up.
Does anyone ever spend time offline in the Valley?