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> What you're asking for is that everyone be forced to contribute to projects that you approve of

That already happens. Such projects include the Internet, microprocessors, airplanes, voice recognition, robots, lasers, satellite view, highways, engines, the assembly line method of production, and many, many more. Except of course it's not projects I approve, it's projects the government approves.

The question is not whether the government should be funding things -- that's already the case.

The question is how much control should investors have over their investments. And in the case of our high tech economy, taxpayers are the biggest investors.
Perturbation, I am hurt by your comments. What did I ever do to deserve such well-founded paranoia?
Seriously? If the rule includes the fact that I can't post anything before/after to indicate it was part of a game or bet, then there are plenty of things I wouldn't tweet for $20, or a fair bit more. Setting aside work-related issues (that exist for me but maybe not you), would you be happy having people think you are racist, homophobic, or anything else along those lines that would make people think different of you as a person? There's most possibilities to "embarrassing tweet" than just "I eat poo".
I applaud the effort but is this really "big data" - the largest data sets they seem to test are ~150GB, that would fit comfortably on my Mac Book Pro a number of times over. Many of these systems being tested are designed to scale efficiently when the data starts peaking > 5TB and therefore I am dubious about the median response time results - things that work well for small datasets (where small is defined as < 1TB) easily fall apart when you scale them up a little bit more.
I'd love to see people stand up to Big Religion, but... how? Religion is institutionalized mental and physical child abuse and everybody seems a-okay with all of it.
Not as simple as "can't/won't". There's also "not allowed to". If the only purpose of education is to teach to a test, and the board selects the book which was written for the test... it does kinda destroy teacher's individuality, but since that seems to be a goal...

Some other examples of rather finely defined lesson plans nearly to the point of reading a teleprompter are "human growth and development" which is finely crafted to keep the religious nutcases under control, and "nutrition" which is pretty much whatever the farm lobby wants to sell and anything related to illegal drugs/tobacco/alcohol.

There is very little point in firing a teacher for teaching to a lesson plan if the board that hired the teacher very nearly dictated exactly what to say. Any replacement would simply be somewhat less rebellious and more authoritarian, not exactly an improvement.
I'm actually impressed at how slanted the title is. Using the words "cartel" and "indoctrinate" hits on two major scare points and we don't even have to read a word of the article. Very tough for me to trust what they have to say since they didn't think the words themselves were convincing enough.
A NoSQL solution is good because it's a DBMS (allows you to order collections). :)
Filesystem is not good because you would need to order links' files in visited descendent order (not allowed in much filesystems), and to check if an URL is in the index you must store it with the MD5 as file name.
A small DBMS like SQLite is not good for obvious reasons.
Define "dynamic fast-paced IT industry"

sounds like a meaningless platitude to me. From my experience most companies have huge difficulties finding good irish candidates because they are both just low in numbers and inclined to immigrate to London.
Are there uses for number theory in trading?
I submit that an understanding of taxation and representative democracy is more important. We cannot teach everything in school. Class time is a limited resource and wasting it on copyright and what not is a clear abomination. I'd rather kids learned more useful things like learning to read, write, and do arithmetic.
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I will sing the song that ends the world.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. I blew my stack when my child was assigned this worksheet from the the RIAA's Music Rules! program as homework:

http://www.music-rules.com/pdf/MusicRulesElemActivities.pdf

Part 2 is particularly egregious: "Now find out if songlifting is a real problem in your community. Use this chart to interview family members and friends about where they get their music. Bring your findings back to class and combine them with those of your classmates."

Really?!! You want our children to compile a list of family and friends (identified by age only, but still...) that you believe are breaking the law and hand it in as signed homework? I complained immediately about this not-so-subtle indoctrination and provided the teacher with a link to the EFF's more balanced and accurate Teaching Copyright site at http://www.teachingcopyright.org/.

Songlifting. Give me a break...
Yep. DARE: widely recognized as ineffective, maybe even increases drug use:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/03/dare-americas-most-famous-...
Breaking Bad as a Metaphor for Entrepreneurship Gone Wrong
For the most part, I'd agree. I've bought a number of templates there. However, many of them tend to be very opinionated, adding a lot of JavaScript and non-Bootstrap markup. You see a lot of the same features that feel "me too!" (for example, parallax sliders) Once you buy and start converting to your needs, you'll find that the files and directory structure may be a little jacked up (recently did a lot of the work with the Ace Admin theme, and found image directories inside of the css directory, even though it had a separate root images directory, and there was both "images" and "img" directories.. fun.
Do you have a link to web projects? I know this sounds superficial, but a PDF resume only reinforces the perception, unfair as it may be, that you're "not nimble"enough. You seem to maintain your own website with projects...you should at least link to it from the PDF
You haven't written that much, but so your English is certainly better than the OP's post.
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That article was great. Further reading: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-274.html
Depends who you work for, Ireland is full of big name companies, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter.....
Not only that there us a tonne of big financials there too...
So, there's a wealth of choice..
From what I hear, the Google offices are really something, they have an amazing setup...

I live in Belfast, and there isn't the same variety of big tech, but still tonnes of IT jobs

If I lived in Dublin, I'd go all out to work at Google, or maybe Twitter..
And then there's the unremitting horror that MySQL calls UTF-8, properly known as WTF-8.
Not to mention that if you have only one client, you may actually legally be the employee of your client, which is a big liability for your client!

I think there are even situations where having a contract explicitly stating you are not an employee may not be legally binding if you have only one client.
Distance and independence, I think. A truly self-reliant Mars colony could basically ignore Earth altogether.

For that reason I think it's likely we will never see a real permanent Mars colony effort, only small research stuff, just like what we have w/ Antarctica.
So low earth orbit and the moon are both 'closer' to Jupiter than Mars is, in terms of energy requirements.
I am going to flip this around... we should be teaching children the basics of research, citation, fair use and permission at a young level.

By encouraging children to go off and research and create I hypothesis that they will naturally lean towards simple, creative commons and other "free" or "libre" licenses and start to actively seek these out in favour of more tightly controlled, restrictive, corporate licensing schemes.

Teaching them how to cite, what fair use is and how to ask seek permission from content authors gives them the tools to fight overly restrictive copyright laws - and hopefully, one day, abolish them in favour of sane, time bounded licenses
These themes are more bare-bones. That may be a good thing, depending on your needs, as I've found that ThemeForest (and WrapBootstrap even) themes tend to be very opinionated and JavaScript heavy, filled with features that I end up spending time pulling out anyways.
I'm pretty sure that's Australia, right?

America started as land of religious zealots.
OK.. What is going on here:

This is an incremental improvement in Medtronic's continuous glucose monitoring system/insulin pump combination therapy that has been available for 5+ years already.

Medtronic is touting this as 'artificial pancreas technology' (not specifically an artificial pancreas) because it has a feature now in the US where the pump can turn off if your blood sugar drops below a certain patient set threshold. This has been available for years already outside the US.

This is most definitely not an artificial pancreas..
Are there any links etc to systems or tools the author has worked on? I'm interested in the subject matter but usually I look for a book by someone with demonstrable domain expertise.
I like this kind of feedback and I am happy to see one on the front-page :)

Shameless plug: I am also an expat, I moved to Oslo from Paris a few months ago. Not because of the economy (I am a front-end developer, I am lucky to have a lot of opportunities anywhere) but because my wife and me wanted to live abroad and unfortunately we weren't able to find a job in Oil & Gas risks analysis for her in California ;)

Turns out that it was the best decision I ever made (after my wedding of course). I would recommend to anyone who could afford it to find a job in another country. Obviously your will immerse yourself into a new culture better than if you visit just for the holidays. Who knew that from Oslo you could take public transportation and be at an alpine ski station in less than 45min? Or that with the same ticket you could take the ferry to one of the many fjord islands? Even more shameless plug, if you are tempted by this experience and like skiing, we are recruiting: http://soundrop.fm/jobs Winter is coming, fast.
You probably already have the basics to make the jump and then improve those language skills on the spot.

Why don't you try updating your monster account first, or uploading your cv elsewhere? You will eventually get called by agents and convincing them that you up for the job would be a very good test to your language skills.

I'm also an foreign IT professional coming from Portugal, so good luck my friend. If we made it then you can do it as well.
I'm not a Libertarian, but still think that markets are the best way to provide a lot of things.

> Why would government-sponsored software development be any worse than corporate-sponsored?

Let's see:

* Free rider problem goes global: everyone hopes some other country pays for useful stuff.

* Governments are not going to be as focused or concerned about niche businesses.

* Corruption. It becomes worthwhile to pay off politicians to have them choose your team.

* Calculation problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem

* The NSA. Think they're bad now?

The current market has problems, but I just don't see any evidence that moving software production to the government would be much of an improvement, and it might be a whole lot worse.
I suspect they'll be under orders from GCHQ...
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Does something like this exist for Zurb Foundation?
If anyone reading this is an experienced freelancer in the bay area who does web/rails and has some db experience, send me an email
You could've avoided a lot of the "case of blah" nonsense in the Haskell code by using Data.Maybe and Data.Either, just sayin'.
They could certainly insist on that. The company would likely charge more in some cases because they'd know they could not recoup anything from selling whatever to others. With copyrights, sometimes you can say "ok, it's going to cost X", knowing that you can sell the exact same thing to others at X or close to it. Without that, you have to make all your money from the first sale.

Granted, this is not true in all cases, there are exceptions, and so on, but the logic of it makes sense to me.
Relax. When it comes the discussion of corrupt public officials, the bar is much lower than it is with private individuals. Since trust in the system is so important, even the appearance of corruption can be as open to criticism as corruption itself, which is obviously harder to demonstrate. Simply tolerating the possibility of abuse invites distrust, making those who tolerate it reasonable targets for sharp skepticism (e.g. the NSA).

Of course, government is shot through with conflicts, both obvious and hidden. And people getting criticized for these ignore them and the criticism routinely. But that doesn't change the fact that you don't have to know something is rotten to speak up. The mere appearance of rot is, in and of itself, a problem.

And yes, what's happening in West Texas looks REALLY shady.
It's Texas. With its Republican judiciary and Republican legislature and Republican executive branch, you'd think that things like cronyism and corruption and rackets and other forms of meddling with the Invisible Hand of the Free Market would be frowned upon. You'd think Texas would be a paragon of Free Market economic ideology.

But who am I kidding, you've lived here too. Minus a short stint in Denver, I've lived here my whole life. People can say you're speaking out your ass and call it bigotry all they want --and demand you return to Slashdot; it seems Hacker News considers itself above such lowly forums as Slashdot and Reddit-- but it doesn't change the truth of the matter. A majority of the citizenry of this state make their opinions on such matters perfectly clear with every vote in every election they participate in. Hell, there's a significant contingent belonging to the Tea Party who think the Republicans don't go far enough. They were significant enough to elect a Tea Party representative to the U.S. Senate. That's mental. The only real hope Texas has is that eventually the Hispanic block grows to eclipse the Republican block without falling prey to the Catholic priests who say in so many words that Jesus wanted you to vote Republican.
I find this appropriate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_hWoGrxWg
Handheld Eulerian Video Magnification? http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/scientists-uncover-...
Lodging is generally taxable.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/taxability-employerprovided-l...

Tax considerations aside, providing lodging would put the company in the business of being a landlord, which presumably most companies want no part of.
The problem isn't where you are at, it's where you are going.
An inaccurate claim at the end given the trend toward irreligion in the united states. The wikipedia article of the same title is a pretty good summary.
So, there's this guy named Arvind Mithal, and he's thought a lot about this problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_(computer_scientist)
Thanks for a well-discussed and well-thought response, which is more than the other responses garnered. "Go back to Slashdot", "You're a biggot", etc.

I say what I think and while some people don't like what I say, I try to be as realistic about a situation as I can be. So yes, on average Texans are among the most devout Christians and among the worst educated in the United States. There are more than enough public statistics to back this up.

In response to your libel statement, while I respect your background, that is entirely not the point.

It's actually exactly the response I would expect from someone or a group who are involved in nefarious acts and are being called out on it. Rather than addressing the accusation and presenting evidence to the contrary, they seek to attack and silence the investigator by throwing out accusations of libel. It's a tactic of snakes.

Unless I am seriously misunderstanding what happened here, which is possible, there was no mutual settlement here. Lodsys was allowed to unilaterally settle. Most of Apple's arguments were just ignored. Quoting from the article,

"The East Texas judge overseeing Lodsys' systematic patent attack on app developers has refused to even consider Apple's motion. Instead, he allowed the patent-holding company to settle all its cases—and then dismissed Apple's motion as moot. By doing so, US District Judge Rodney Gilstrap—who has inherited the patent-happy East Texas court that once belonged to patent-troll favorite T. John Ward—has enabled Lodsys to threaten developers for months, and perhaps even years, to come."

This is why I stand by my question of corruption. Another commenter posted about no one finding corruption out of normal bounds. At least someone has been looking into it. But when you smell smoke, something's burning. These cases keep getting the same rulings over and over, in one area of the country, by the same judges, in an area of business that is essentially parasitic and damaging to the very nature of my industry. It has to stop
Possibly in your jurisdiction - which is why you've got to do your homework and get proper professional advice. It's pretty much standard practice in the UK contracting/consulting market; it's been legislated against under something called IR35 - but with a switched on client, you can create a relationship that is genuinely a client/supplier one rather than an employer/employee one.
The threat that Lodsys represents to anyone doing technology is so large that it would seem to make sense to band together. I'm thinking along the lines of creating a "Patent Defense Cooperative" where members pay a certain amount every month for the three purposes of a) patent lawsuit insurance, b) to fund lobbying efforts to reform the patent system, and c) scrutinize a judicial apparatus that seems biased in favor of patent trolls.

I would certainly join such an organization as an individual inventor and technologist. This can't be a new idea. Has anyone else thought of doing this?
You seem to be arguing against points I did not make. I did not argue against copyright. I pay for both Netflix, HBO Nordic and Spotify subscriptions. I used to be a paying member of Last.fm when it was available in my country. I have a paid subscription to Ars Technica, I subscribe to a printed newspaper, I pay the mandatory public broadcast license and I regularly pay for books and apps. Is that what you call my abusive relationship with authors and artists?

The point that I keep restating is simply that nobody who produces anything, tangible or intangible, can expect to get paid a priori. After you've produced something, you have to also have to sell it to get paid. Consumer's have a right to not buy, and if they don't, you don't get paid. Simple as that. Your talk about big sticks and the law is missing the point.

In places like the music industry that used to be a license to print money (80s and early 90s), it's easy to understand why there seemed to arise the idea that there was in fact such a thing as "the right to get paid". And that it was that right that was infringed upon when suddenly they lost the competition for the consumer's entertainment dollar.

You like they were, seem to be fixated on piracy as the cause, but that is missing the forrest for trees. The internet was what happened, the cause of the disruption of the music industry. The internet is also what is happening to print media these days, and soon will happen to cable tv. These businesses don't have a right to get paid either.
Did a bit of clicking around - looks like he's written something called [Relay][1].

[1]: http://www.deepfriedcode.com/relay/index.html
> everybody seems a-okay with all of it.

Because it's not abuse.

Since when did it become socially acceptable to be bigoted in public? If you want to be intolerant at least keep your nastiness to yourself.
Tell that to the U.S. founding fathers...
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I sense the approach of Mike Godwin on this one.
I didn't forget: the (o.lstrip(0) or '0') expression does that.

Actually, that should be o.lstrip('0')...
Yeah, I was thinking that the first two sets I are sized around the size I would see on my piddly little SQL Server. 100m results is starting to get into the ballpark.
FYI my English was terrible (it's still not awesome TBH) but it didn't not prevent me to find a job abroad. You should just apply when you see an interesting opportunity.

My first interview in English was over the phone and it was really stressful. It was enough to go to the second round (I didn't get the job though).

The upcoming interviews will get better. If you read HN and comment in English, that's enough to give it a try.
"Cartel" seems like a distortion to me, too, but "indoctrinate" seems like a perfectly valid label for the attempt to systematically teach small children to support a political stance. If you wouldn't call that true indoctrination, what would qualify?
The people who were here thousands of years before Puritan nutcases started getting dumped here to get them away from the civilized people, would beg to disagree, if they hadn't mostly been genocided away. Thats probably what OP was referencing.

America started as a bunch of vaguely Asiatic foragers crossed over more or less in Alaska a couple thousand years ago. The noob bible thumpers arriving a couple centuries ago wiped out the first wave pretty effectively but they hardly "started it".
The FUD you're spreading here relies on apples to oranges comparisons, where the apples are public officials working in thee public capacity, and the oranges are private citizens.

Before you go any further, I challenge you to find actual apples to apples examples that can support your remarkably menacing position.
How is it a misuse of the term "pattern matching" ?
> It's actually exactly the response I would expect from someone or a group who are involved in nefarious acts and are being called out on it.

For what it's worth, when I was a patent litigator back in the day, I worked almost entirely on the defense side of the docket; that was coincidental, but I wasn't unhappy about it.

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> ... there was no mutual settlement here. Lodsys was allowed to unilaterally settle.

There's no such thing as a unilateral settlement in a lawsuit; both the plaintiff and the defendant in question must agree, otherwise there's no settlement. (Exception: A plaintiff can unilaterally dismiss its lawsuit against one or more defendants, without prejudice, but only if it does so before the defendant in question files an answer or motion for summary judgment.)

My guess -- unencumbered by any knowledge of the case -- is that Lodsys made a generous settlement offer to its defendants so that the case would become moot, in the hope that this would cut the ground out from under Apple's motion. If that was Lodsys's intent, it seems to have worked -- for now. From what I can tell from the report, there'd be nothing nefarious about a strategic withdrawal of that kind.
I'm glad that people like you exist. I hope we have more people with such an adventurous spirit. It's one of the great things about the human race is that there are so many of us, each of who find different things fulfilling. You can do what you love, I can do what I love (staying firmly on earth), both of us are happy and we take humanity forward!

I guess the point I'm trying to make is: having a lot of people is beneficial, because then there is likely to be someone who is happy to do the things that you aren't so excited about.
Using Vanilla JS & your own architectural design as opposed to a mainstream framework? Reason I ask is just with regard to maintainability of the codebase, and the ability to attract more candidates perhaps
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Comedy gold:

>Artists are “graded” or valued by how many people buy their work.

>We hope others will respect our work ... And we ‘play fair’ with their work too.

No mention of Melchior Rietveldt, Patrick Robin, of course. And certainly nothing like Courtney Love Does The Math.