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This is pretty much standard for most tech startups in Amsterdam, and I suspect several other European cities. The main reason isn't the ambition to expand internationally, but staffing.

However, I've also encountered a lot of resistance, especially outside such international cities. Some people fundamentally dislike the idea of having to speak English if working for or partnering with a local company. It's also heavily associated with pretentiousness.
This is not true at all. I've worked on several databases with billions of rows in several tables. A good solution for improving your query performance is to use a multi column index http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/indexes-multicolum...
Yet they keep marketing it as a future for all developers. Thank you, but no, thank you.
Sure he was: "Absolutely no benefit to Mongo. It's even really slow,..."
Yes, I think employers should be able to refuse somebody based on ethnicity, whether I agree with the act itself or not is irrelevant, I believe in the freedom to do so. My personal opinions regarding employment do not affect my belief that you can't force equality.

One economist supporting my view doesn't make me right, okay, but you haven't really added anything, you just labelled him right-wing and left it there, probably because being right-wing means being wrong to you. The arguments and evidence is there though.

Your posts are full of logical fallacies, another one is present in your last paragraph (ad hominem - is Kaczynski's work on maths now wrong too because he murdered someone?), so I'm going to stop responding to you. I've had these arguments with liberals too often, where they accuse me being an evil, immoral person because I don't think a better society will result from just giving and giving until everybody's seemingly equal.
The problem is that looking at national numbers is not representative of most people's experience. For example, my "town" of 140,000 (Cary, NC) has only had one murder in the past five years and is currently listed as the safest city in the US with population between 100,000-500,000 (http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/29/3323828/cary-claims-l...). I personally mostly ignore the police but keep them in mind as a civic resource to leverage for answers about things I don't know how to find out any other way. In a small, safe city, calling the non-emergency line can be a useful source of information. Heck, the electric service powering my neighborhood is run by the neighboring town of Apex, and their off-hours emergency line redirects to the Apex police department, who presumably handle coordinating outage reports with the emergency techs and line workers. I'm not trying to claim things are Andy-Griffith-in-Mayberry, but it's certainly closer to that than the other extreme.

Besides actual skewing, you have localized situations where the relationship of the police to the citizens (and media) is personal, friendly, helpful, and generally constructive. For every "stop and frisk" type story there's a cop helping a stranded single mother change a tire, etc.
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Agreed. As I read this piece, I was struggling to find the part The Guardian got wrong. If anything this is an argument over semantics.
I would say that "punishment" is the wrong word, and with it, we can draw much stronger negative interpretations that I feel might be appropriate. To me it looks like it was a social bet, between two friends, and he is doing it for fun (and to poke fun at himself). I would imagine that would fall pretty close to the definition of a drag queen (particularly the accentuation of certain characteristics, it does look very over the top).

Given his appearance, the bet may have been explicit in saying that they would need to to dress in drag (and not "dress as a women"). Some might argue they are different, and in that, he's not saying "it is humiliating to be a women" but rather "it is funny to contrast how I normally look with something so different."
Go doesn't belong to Google.
Make it native across major browsers - that would be cool. At the moment it's just another transpiler.
The way Haskell manages side effects is inspired, and I don't think anyone can say that Haskell is not a beautiful and coherent language. I only dabbled in Haskell a bit so I may be wrong, but I think that the problem with the way it manages side effects is that it does so through lazy evaluation, and lazy evaluation is hard to wrap your head around.

So I think that if there is one big problem with Haskell, it is this: you say Haskell is about "software engineering". Indeed, the guarantees it provides may assist with software engineering, but those guarantees aren't free. They require programmers to think and program solely within Haskell's lambda calculus and lazy evaluation framework, which is neither the way people think nor the way computers do (the latter is important when doing performance analysis on your code). This constrained framework also takes its toll on software engineering, then. The question is, therefore, when are the guarantees provided by Haskell worth their price? I think there are cases where they certainly are, and cases where they certainly aren't.

(A tangential point: when thinking about software engineering, there are vital issues that have little to do with the choice of the language. For example, a language would have to be truly magical for me to forsake the JVM's vast ecosystem, runtime linking, and runtime profiling and monitoring capabilities – that's why I won't use GHC in my projects, but may certainly give Frege a try)
Is it punishment? He's not under any kind of duress.
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Good One & hope it stays true. Hotel owners have started hating Tripadvisor precisely for the very reason of manipulative reviews and hate posts.

Yet, in a large crowdsourced model, you really cannot control such things from competitors, paid agents etc. A challenge to be solved.
So should I play this or the vanilla version?
whatever... start by repaying the slaves 500 years of forced work without pay, then we can start talking about entitlement.

Oh sorry ! you're right,they were housed and feed lol...

berrypicker my a ...
You seem to have a very loose understanding of how the Swedish society works. The Police is not "run by the Government" - it's role in the Swedish society is directed by Polislagen (The Police Law). The Government directs (as it does with all governmental departments) Rikspolisstyrelsen (The National Police Board) via broad (and public) assignments and budgets.

The Government (or the Police) have of course no right to manipulate the data - in Sweden more or less all data is publicly available, and manipulation of crime statistics would be something very noteworthy (and likely to cause a big scandal).

And finally, if you google it, you'll know that crime rates have been decreasing in the last few years (few years meaning 2-3, and looking at all categories of crimes). Over a 10 year period, some categories of crimes have risen (at least the number of reported crimes have risen), and others, like homicide have markedly declined.
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No, that was a "real-world" test. It's the FF I had set up after the release of 25 to make yet another try at switching from Chrome.
Postgres got proper non-hackable replication in version 9... And it still isn't that great.
raganwald shared a similar sentiment a while back [1] and was discussed here on HN [2].

[1] http://neighborhoodhacker.com/why-the-fuck-raganwalds-poster...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5088815
I think you should say "some feminists". The great 99% of the rest of us really don't see the problem with it.
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Is it possible for a non-finance orientated coder to get into the industry? Or does one need to be a math genius as well as a coder?
You were likely being taken for a ride (proverbially). Most Americans don't/wont tip unless there is a tip line on the receipt.
Yes! Eclipse's JGit is afwul. I did a project with 9 others inexperienced in Git. In the final crunch phase, they managed to delete commits via force push multiple times a day! JGit also completely messed up the history with merge commits, instead of doing fetch and rebase.
You oversimplify things. While you are to some extent correct I do not think that was the main reason for their surge in the last election. One contributing factor was the bullying from media and the other parties before the election where they were not allowed to participate in debates, all parties declared they would never cooperate with SD, and several newspapers ran anti-SD articles the day of the election. This strategy backfired heavily since everybody loves an underdog, and the faulty idea that if everyone wants someone silenced they must have something important to say.

There are also other factors like that some people genuinely seem to believe that SD has cleaned up their act.

EDIT: I am personally strongly pro-immigration (much more so than any party in Sweden) and I have to disagree about there being much debate about immigration in traditional media. There is a lot in social media though, so I have no idea where all the racists get their idea that they cannot debate immigration issues anywhere.
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Also happens in Finland. If the police catches you smoking a joint in a park, they will raid your house in most cases. There must be something for them to find, to protect you and to protect the society...
And you base this on what? MySQL is used to scale some of the biggest Internet properties in the world and it has been doing that for many years. Stop spreading FUD.
Yes! I've done quite a few online courses now and the ones I've enjoyed the most have all been ones that were essentially recordings of the normal classes students take on campus.

In the case of Harvard's CS50x, it was essentially the exact same course. (Plus it helped that David Malan is an outstanding teacher.)
And who's going to give those investors their shares and exits when they want to trade?

The question that needs to be answered is where trading stocks crosses over between moral to neutral to immoral.

If we assume:

nanoseconds = worse than Hitler

decades = saintly Warren Buffett

then there must be some timescale at which trading becomes good or evil.

The challenge is that the faster traders operate as counterparties for the slower ones (and for each other). They absorb risk, provide liquidity, and establish definitive prices.

One way to enforce a speed limit would be to have a crossing auction every second (similar to what they do prior to the open, or when a stock is halted, or for an IPO). If you wanted to be an active trader, you would participate in many such crossing auctions during the day.
Wikipedia says robbery, assault and sexual assault ("contact crimes") together made up 12% of reported crimes in 2003 Sweden. Theft related were 53%.

The article claims that in 2007 Sweden "violent crimes and robberies make up about 75 percent of all crimes reported in Sweden."

I'd say they've conflated theft and robbery in that article, possibly a translation issue, possibly fear mongering.

(edit: and this is backed up by the link to the official stats given elsewhere in the thread by
Xylakant which has robbery as less than 1% of reported crimes in 2012)
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You are probably still playing the original Humble Bundle (or launch) version. Update that. A while ago they added a frame rate limit and power use is reasonable.
I'm a long time (3 years) MongoDB user. My experience of the current state of the art:

- The official documentation is clearly written by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language.

- Their official driver (Node.JS 1.3.13) silently throws away exceptions.

Both these have been acknowledged by MongoDB Inc (formerly 10Gen). I can't speak for you, but personally I do feel like an idiot for using MongoDB.
> I have no idea what "isomorphic" means in the mathematical sense.

Programmers these days!...
These order types are highly regulated by the SEC and FINRA. None of this is a secret - any new order type has to be submitted to the regulators in a public process before it is authorized. Exchanges and trading venues are required by law and regulation to be transparent.
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I don't know, and I'm not saying it's a good thing. All I can say for sure is that I don't want to see people jailed for all drug offences.
Meanwhile, fascinating, non-political articles by and for hackers like this one are going more or less unnoticed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6691330
The Russian article Gregory Ferenstein has referred to looks like a translation from English: "Съёмку поставят вне закона" and "кто-то из журналистов будет схвачен"... Well, that's definitely written by some English speaking guy (for Russian public).
So, I think maybe we're in violent agreement here :)?

I think so yes :)

I suppose it comes down to which businesses you have worked with. I haven't encountered many businesses which have very few customers/prospects and send loads of mail, but there definitely will be some, which would be a better fit for mailchimp (like a florist as you say). For those who have lots of users, it's not such a good choice.
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A lot of these offices seem to have devs stacked together along the same long tables.
The overall aesthetic of these spaces looks great, but I can't help but feel they are more designed/suited for lots of verbal collaboration and not for quiet, solo work, (both of which I'd argue are important).

Can anyone who works at any of these places comment on the atmosphere?
It's interesting that the whole stack behind the service is listed here:

http://www.sqlfiddle.com/about.html#source

Also the source code is available on Github:

https://github.com/jakefeasel/sqlfiddle

Disclaimer: I'm not the author and I'm not affiliated with the site in any way.
Have you taken a look at http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-ipad-app-is-live-chimpad...
> If you have a schema you don't need NoSQL

Sure, but by that argument I don't need SQL either. I am not sure what your point is?

Anyway, the selling point (for me) is that I don't need to find some fancy ways to translate my schema to relational schema. For instance, let's say I have some text content in two languages; in relational DB the texts should probably go to a separate table and I should reference the main record by some foreign key. In document-oriented DBs I can just put both of the texts inside the record... To me that makes much more sense.

But yeah, if you are a hardcore SQL user who is used to normalizing the data until it hurts (as someone else commented) it is difficult to break out of the habit.

And after you eliminate SQL as an alternative (in my case) there are not many options left. At least I couldn't find (m)any.
Nope, the first ones were "pay what you want, get everything" (with the first bundle retroactively adding source code releases for everyone no matter how much they paid, and the next adding extra games half way through the week, again for everyone).

"Pay what you want, the more you pay the more you get" is still technically "pay what you want", but it's a slightly different meaning than the original.

ED> Also, with regards to the $1 minimum for Steam which seems to have become a permanent thing:

"The Humble Indie Bundle 4 overlapped with a large holiday sale on the Steam software service, which offered numerous prizes by completing some achievements associated with the offered games in Steam, including entries into a raffle to win every game on the Steam service. During this overlap, Humble Bundle found that some users were abusing the system, paying the minimum amount ($0.01) for the Bundle, registering new Steam accounts, and using the newly purchased games to improve their chances for the Steam raffle. Humble Bundle considered this "unfair to legitimate entrants" in the Steam contest, and to stop it, the company altered the sale so that only those who paid more than $1.00 would receive Steam keys for the games"
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"NSA has been breaking codes (not merely wiretapping) since NSA has been around, just like it has long been an open secret (if unacknowledged publically) that NSA hacks into specific systems if they can."

BULLRUN is not a cryptanalysis program, and it is a stretch to call it a "hacking" program -- and certainly not one that targets specific systems. BULLRUN is the NSA program to deliberately introduce exploitable bugs in cryptographic protocols, software, and so forth.

"the history of NSA has shown them before to be willing to give people cryptosystems that are strong against everyone but the NSA."

First of all, the NSA does not frequently give cryptosystems to anyone outside of the US government. That being said, there are two prominent counterexamples to your statement: DES and DSA.

"I thought the ever-present distrust of NSA was exactly why they looked for backdoors in things like Dual_EC_DRBG, and used "nothing up my sleeve" constants in algorithms designed in academia."

It is worth noting that even when the Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor was discovered, there were people who were skeptical about it being deliberate. Even Bruce Schneier expressed some skepticism about it being an NSA backdoor:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...

I don't understand why the NSA was so insistent about including Dual_EC_DRBG in the standard. It makes no sense as a trap door: It's public, and rather obvious.

As for nothing up my sleeve constants, that goes beyond just showing that there is no back door. Suppose you were analyzing a cryptosystem, and it required some particular constant. What about that choice of constant makes the system secure? If a different constant were used, would system still be secure? Even if you never gave any thought to backdoors, nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers would matter -- cryptographers like to know the reasoning behind design decisions, and it is much easier to explain why you picked 1234567890 as a constant than 43895762356157265.
If there's any sort of oscillator still running in the phone, or any other circuit switching with a predictable pattern of rising/falling edges, you'd think it might be possible to pick up EM radiation with a sensitive enough receiver/antenna.

A bit more "out there", maybe it is possible to pick up a powered down antenna? Think that an antenna is a (typically passive) conductor, designed to resonate at a particular frequency. If the antenna is irradiated with that frequency, wouldn't the antenna couple to the field and disturb it is some way? If those disturbances can be measured, then the antenna (and consequently the phone) can be detected.
Thats one reason I nearly never use my smartphone.

My old Nokia dumpphone has a battery life of more then 2 weeks. But the Motorola Defy+ will eat a full battery even after shutdown within a week. So it does not even make sense as a water proof camera for sailing.

In result: The Defy+ is eating more battery when powered down, then my old Nokia when powered up. Imho, thats enough power to say "here I am" regularly.
I hate this configuration where development is in one place and suits in the other, moreover when one is way more expensive than the other (often with the suits in the more expensive). I leads to incredible culture divisions.

I'm still struggling for solutions, because having the sales next to the customers HQ makes sense somehow.
In my understanding, when we're talking about formal languages (which JS is), "isomorphic" has a fairly well-defined and strict meaning.

And there's a (unsolved) conjecture that every NP-complete language are p-isomorphic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berman%E2%80%93Hartmanis_conjec...
So, in actual fact, there's two layers of annoying wastefulness at work.

Basically I used the small notes when my total was close to a round figure. I could leave a $1.39 tip on a $20 meal or I could add a few $1 notes.

Most of the time I used my card (which is another story) so I could do this more easily, but sometimes you're in a hurry and the extra steps involved in US dining are a pain in the posterior. Hence: carrying small bills to allow tipping flexibility.
You could go beyond inevitably and say reflexively. Which is exactly the problem.
How many shrinks does it take to change a light bulb? One, but the lamp bulmb must want to be changed.

How do you integrate someone unwilling to do so?
You're not being hypersensitive, this is sexist and transphobic.
Let's imagine if he had lost a bet and had to paint his face black, and them serve his competitors, everybody would agree that's racist.
I don't even think there is much to discuss here.
I've seen "offline approved" as a response from some of these terminals - I wonder if that means it's checked later?
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The tracking might refer to listening to conversations that takes place near a shut down phone. The technique might be similar to the one used in laser microphones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone), but instead of measuring vibrations, to measure the electro magnetic field variance of phone's microphone.
> the way it manages side effects is that it does so through lazy evaluation

This is actually not true. Lazy evaluation forced Haskell to stay pure, but it is purity that provides the tools for constraining effects. You could have a strict Haskell-like language that manages effects in the same way, indeed such languages exist.
I've been following your advice and newsletters, and I get great value from them.

However, one thing that I still haven't figured out is this: how would I find say, that small insurance company in Kansas who has $100k to spend on a solution I could offer to their problem? Where would I begin to look? Cold-contacting seems unscalable.

I know networking goes a long way toward such contacts, but it can't be just that. Is there a way to search for clients that's between cold-calling and a personal network contact?
sorry thurn, this is off topic: is there a complaint / improvement suggestion page for G+? there are some serious design bugs in G+ that we'd love to have/solve(d) :)
As seen on KS:

http://offpocket.com/
I can not sort by prize on the airbnb listings?
Also I do not want to see the map, but can not find a way to disable the map.
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Do they plan on sharing any data on which vendors and models have the highest failure rates?
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The reparations for slavery argument is a bit of a cop out.
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I wish I could filter out totally uninteresting threads in HN website that are disturbing my reading experience - is there any CSS hack / tool that adds a "don´t show this thread" button to HN discussion threads?
you might get vulnerable to the big american player coming after a few years. In many markets, after a few years you have to enter the size battle.