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Can someone comment on the goal behind designing the Spanish law this way?

I speculate that they consider Google News to have monopolistic power, so that even if a fair market in snippets would set a finite price Google News would still use its clout to drive that price to zero by removing individual papers who tried to charge. A mandatory price would counter act this, similar to the way that government mandates to publish open access give bargaining power to the researchers over oligopolies like Nature and Science.
I am wondering if they will also remove newspapers from search results. Indexed search results of newspapers may also contain "News snippets"
This is exactly why gender roles are so important. Even if a company had a generous 1 year maternal leave, then what? The kid still grows up without a mother for a significant part of the crucial years of growing up.

There is no way to balance the two, you either raise a kid right or you half ass it. You can't half ass a career if you intend to go anywhere and you sure as hell can't half ass raising a kid.
Almost related link http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
Why can't the just display the headline and no snippet from the article text? Or does that count as a snippet? But wait... what about the actual organic search results? Do they have to remove Spanish news articles from that too?
Only if you are crazy enough to share stacks in which case you deserve what you get.
Having X number of days off for vacation per year is an explicit contract. Company culture can still be broken enough to not allow you to use those days, but in most cases the expectation is that the vacation days you've been given are yours to use to the fullest (making reasonable accommodation for scheduling, etc).

"Unlimited" vacation is an implicit contract. You can take off as many days as is considered acceptable by the company or team culture. This number is not something you can know before you start your job, and it is something that can change as workplace culture evolves.

The "unlimited" part is also a load of bosh. If the company culture isn't completely sick nobody is going to begrudge you using up your X vacation days per year. But if you take more vacation than average at a place with "unlimited" vacation you run the risk of looking bad and suffering attendant consequences. (I hate that "looking bad" is even a thing apart from actual effectiveness, but unfortunately it's something we still have to worry about...)
Conventionally, both terms are used interchangeably (in math). Their usage in these slides is quite idiosyncratic.
Happy for Detroit, I think there is a responsibility of tech leaders to get this throughout our nation not concentrate it, no single point of failure, plus more input from different areas means better products + systems which are more robust.

However, when is someone going to setup in Phoenix (Chandler, Scottsdale, Tempe)? Huge market, short flight to CA, always overlooked. Gangplank (web/app/product), Game Co-lab (games) co-working locations + ASU are doing a good job for startups but it would be awesome for more investment here, fairly untapped and a blue ocean in the desert where we have to stay indoors working most of the time anyways.
The United States doesn't _require_ companies offer paid maternity leave (at least at a federal level, some states do). That's not the same thing at all as not having maternity leave. Personally I think this is something which can be dealt with most effectively in employment negotiations, with perhaps some regulation at the state level.
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Wow. I imagine this also affects sites like Topix. What a shame. If one wanted to get news from Spain, or any other country with similar laws, how would one search on a topic, DMOZ?
The overly high tech methods used in the project amuse me: design it with a CAD system, use a laser cutter to cut the wood, design your own gears, write C program for microcontroller to driver stepper motor- (advantage: easily adjust for astrophotography from other planets). It's too much meta-work.

So here is my new challenge: make it using only parts and tools available from Home Depot.

(even so, I have to get one of these laser cutters..)
To avoid what happened in Germany.
OU is still hosting the annual AUVS intelligent ground vehicle competition - autonomous vehicles. My team took 2nd place back in 1994. Yeah Google, we've been doing that stuff for 21 years. They're also building another engineering building.
I think you may have meant to link to a different paper? The one you've linked to is a meta-study on people with mental health problems, and says variously:

* "Conclusions: The biological implications of our findings are unclear as we do not know what factors may be contributing to these observed differences"

* "This study was a secondary data analysis examining volumetric MRI data gathered from healthy control subjects participating in a study of bipolar disorder"(!)

* "the parent study was not designed to examine ethnic or racial differences"

And then goes on to say nothing at all about intelligence.
I like your openness. What's your role at Buttercoin? Also, how do you differentiate from Coinbase?
Contract work or part-time would be awesome. Hired seems really cool, but would rather finish school before I go full-time somewhere for more than a summer.
Why would I, as an engineer, choose Silicon Valley over Boston? It's a petty reason, perhaps, but tech workers on the west coast enjoy prestige.

In Boston, you rub shoulders with a large population of well-heeled management consultants, bankers, and corporate lawyers whose annual bonus might be several multiples of your total compensation (this exists everywhere, of course, but the banking and management consulting industries are more conspicuous in the northeast). There's also a huge medical community and many doctors in the area. These constitute the high-status jobs, and unfortunately tech falls way lower on the social ladder.
Here's a link to the donation page (rather than to the main page, which happens to have a donation banner now): https://archive.org/donate/index.php .
>But one thing we need to consider is that he is old. Really, he is 86. Of course this shouldn't shield him from criticism, but he was born and lived in a different world than ours. Bad behavior should be called out and shunned, but there's a fine line between this and marginalization. We should all be responsible about it.

Some might call this marginalization, but you could equally consider Watson's comments to be indicative that the grand old man of genetics is no longer really doing modern, functional science, and it's not the business of Cold Spring Harbor, or any other research lab, to subsidize someone making non-scientific and inflammatory comments because they were once good researchers.
> Poor whites do nearly as well as rich blacks, on
> average.

Help me out here, I couldn't find that in link you provided, or in fact any evidence at all that there might be a genetic component to racial differences in intelligence?
Suggestions like yours make me wonder if I should be more of a nuisance, so people will compromise with my unreasonable demands.
And to me, that's barbaric. We're punishing women for following every animal's instinct to procreate. Men don't get equivalently "punished" when they have a child, women have to shoulder that burden. As a society, we need women to bear children. Why do we force her to choose between work and family?

In Canada, we provide 17-52 weeks of maternity leave for new mothers, depending on a few factors. Moreover, we allow for 15 weeks of paid leave for pregnant employees or new mothers, with another 35 weeks of 55% paid parental leave. [1]

In the US, up to 12 weeks of leave is allowed, but there are conditions and exemptions, one of which is that if you're a company of less than 50 employees, you don't have to allow leave.

From [1]: "If a mother has to rush back to work after giving birth because she cannot afford the lack of a paycheck, she may not be as effective at her job compared to if she was rested and had her family life settled."

I would rather have a kickass employee, male or female, be happy to come back to work after their home and family has settled.

If we hire in the US, I'd like to provide equivalent benefits to them as if they were in Canada. Hopefully I can make that happen, but that's an issue for future me to deal with since it's a long ways out.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/ca...
Dear god are these comments awful.

Wonder why there aren't women in tech? The stuff in this comments section probably has something to do with it,
Things are going very badly for a global internet if we are discussing a web site "shutting down in spain".

Of course we all know what that means and it seems very sensible in 2014, but remember - if someone had told you in 1998 that a certain website would not be operating in country X, you would have laughed and explained to them (like a child) that the Internet was a single global network and that if one had Internet access at all they would have access to the site in question.

All of that simplicity and innocence has slipped away.
I understand your concern, but I personally think we're not there yet. What troubles me most is the sensationalist and preaching-to-the-choir nature of all media. The reason is probably the nature of the internet and benefits of clickbait journalism. If they love you, you win. If they hate you, they'll get you traffic, you win. It's not an easy problem to solve, we'll see how it ends.

On the other hand I'm not concerned that left is becoming the new right. Not right now. People get alarmed when scales are tipped and change is afoot, but as long as there's a clear inequality -be it in skin color, gender or orientation- the complaints will sound ridiculous like 'reverse racism/sexism'. If and when there's no longer a gap in equality and people start to oppress today's oppressors; that will be the time to stop. Until then my complaints will be minor.
Wow, like those funicular railways where one car acts as the counterweight for the other.
Since when Google makes money by putting ads on their sites?
Did you read the article you linked to? It suggested that socio-economic background is more important than just looking at the income.
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We're building the company in Toronto and SF Bay Area, and we're building an operating system for commercial buildings.
The thought has crossed my mind more than once that while Detroit may well pull out and survive that it will be a very long time before it leads the area again, because in the meantime a lot of the surrounding area has learned how to survive and even thrive again without Detroit qua Detroit. On a long enough timescale its geographical positioning theoretically gives it an edge (Ann Arbor will simply never have a port, for instance, Southfield can't have an international border without a lot crazier things than the collapse of Detroit happening), but that might be a while before it dominates.
Are you suggesting that my mother did a half assed job raising me because she had a career?
Completely agree with the sad trend. Though to be fair, the scourge of geolocation based blocking started with media companies (mostly American, but also bbc and others) in a bid to recreate the DVD region encoding bullshit on the internet. Add to that the NSA merrily slurping up data from the global firehose... there's no innocence left to corrupt at this point.
> as males we won't ever have to make quite the same decision that the author made

Millions of men--gay and straight--all over the world take care of their children by themselves, and face exactly the same choices the author does. So why anyone would ever suggest that men don't face these choices or have to make these decisions is entirely unclear.

Men are parents too. Many men are single parents. Many married men are as or more involved in care-giving than their partner. We are in a minority, but times change.

Fifteen or twenty years ago I was frequently the only man at the pool or the park with small children. Today I'm gratified to see lots of young men--often heavily tattooed and looking like they'd happily go a few rounds with a grizzly bear for fun--out with their wee ones.

One day we might even imagine a world were everyone doesn't assume that simply because I'm a man I don't know how to change a diaper or cook a nutritious meal or comfort a crying child.

Men are enormously short-changed by this attitude that somehow we aren't and can't ever be the primary care-giver for our children. It diminishes us and limits our choices and pushes our lives into narrow, sterile, avenues.
I think you're referring to another post now. I doubt they eat the same breakfast either. I was specifically referring to this github ticket.

I think the users have already decided, pretty much everyone uses docker already.
Yeah. So I wonder if Mozilla is going to switch to HTML UI on other mobile platforms too.
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"One thing that San Francisco has that somewhere like Detroit doesn't, is the affluent residents with the ability to sustain a service like Uber or startups such as food delivery."

On the other hand, one thing Detroit has that San Francisco doesn't have (or at least not to the same extent) is ready access to a lot of industry, especially automotive (even now), and the recovering Midwestern manufacturing base, in Michigan, easy access to Toledo, and feasible driving to several other industrial cities. If Detroit doesn't produce the next WhatsApp I'd guess it would be because the attraction of more business/industrial opportunities would be too great to ignore.
Can they allow users in Spain to access Google News from a non-Spanish TLD but still serve those results in the Spanish language?
Before calling this library advanced, it would be great if at least its 'sum()' function is implemented correctly.

For instance, try to run this: 'F.sum([1, 1e100, 1, -1e100])'

Edit: for those who's interested in this, here's a link to the gh issue with some additional explanation & code samples: https://github.com/driscollwebdev/numbers.js/issues/4
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That would mean that one of two things would need to occur:

1) Amazon sends GARP on behalf of the guest OS, from outside the kernel
2) Amazon has hooks into the guest OS to instruct the GARP to occur

Both are very bad things with regard to customer / Amazon separation of privileges and control.

I think every network engineer was probably yelling ARP at the screen early on in this write up and is likely one of the first things those seasoned in L2/L3 would look at first.

Also, as others have stated IPv6 removes this problem altogether. With the complete gutting of the concept of a broadcast and replaced by announcements within multicast groups which are much more efficient when you're talking about "small" prefixes that house 18,446,744,073,709,552,000 hosts (/64). ARP tables wouldn't be able to scale or work efficiently.

Overall this makes me think that it would be interesting to build a best practices guide around IPv4 and IPv6 networking within cloud provider environments. I think the gratuitous ARP on boot is a relatively safe practice, especially with regard to environments that are in continual flux.

$0.02.
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This looks interesting. At this stage of the game a more meaningful benchmark might involve LMDB, Wiredtiger, and, yes, LevelDB.
This makes me think of http://code.google.com/p/blockly/ .. particular as I used it to do the hour of code with my 5yo this week. I find it actually an alright way to right some javascript in the limited context of code.org - it works OK on app.inventor too IMO.
Do you mean like removing the ability to work remotely (Yahoo/Mayer)?
But it does lead to sites that likely show ads from google. So technically news.google.com doesn't generate revenue but it does direct traffic to news.spain.commercial.site that is showing google ads along side news.
What's the statute of limitation on conspiracy in new york?
> To me, this is more "fun".

I think that makes a game more fun to participate in but significantly less fun to watch at a competitive level.
They need a whole $75/person instant as compared to Wikipedia's $3/person instant and they're not resorting to shouty, loud boxes that open modals on mobile platforms.

I love you, Internet Archive.
It would allow our playback devices to correct poor quality source material without introducing distortions or clipping. All the same reasons why 24bit is preferred in the studio. Basically studio-quality post processing would be possible on any mainstream content resulting in higher fidelity ultimately. Also, if you consider mashup style content where people are producing derivatives based on already mastered material it would generally increase the quality of that material.
I forgot about this perspective, and I'm glad you described, since it does resonate with me.

However, the fact is, we do not have the anatomy required to actually bear children. Everything you identified is certainly true, but there are definitely certain aspects to child bearing that are uniquely female in nature. Those are things that I can do my best to understand, but that's difficult being a male.

The parent comment to yours is certainly correct: a pregnant female is in a different position than a male parent. There are certainly parallels and similarities, but some things are unique to a mother.
Maybe, but no spanish news sites will be included in the news results, so they'll still be missing a lot of local stuff.
Does Calibre by itself strip DRM? It's my understanding that you needed a series of tools by "Apprentice Alf" to do the work.
It's a bit disengenous because although they don't directly make money on the News portal, it reinforces their market position and keeps users in the Google ecosystem. Those users in turn run searches that DO display ads.
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> That can't be true across the board. I haven't taken a vacation in 3 or 4 years by that definition. And frankly, I feel fine.

How do you know you don't feel much less fine than you would with an otherwise-similar job and occasional 10 day leaves? Being accustomed to something as normal doesn't mean that it doesn't make you feel substantially worse than you would in some other situation.
...and that website also makes money. Really, this hurts Spanish news websites more than it hurts Google.
$3k/month will also get you a nice 1br in one of the new buildings in Fort Point/Innovation District, right next to South Station.
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By virtue of circumstance, I will never understand what a mother has to deal with in these circumstances...

"By virtue of circumstances, I will never understand what a comet is like." <- said no one ever after we landed a robot on one.

This attitude is anti-intellectualism. It denies the ability to gain understanding about the world by gathering information and reasoning.

It's a bit scary that anti-intellectualism has become almost a social necessity when discussing many important topics. If intellectualism were permitted, I wonder what we might learn?
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I don't think it's marginalization. I completely agree with you on this, but my comment probably sounded like I wouldn't, since I was covering both sides.
The only thing horrifying in this story are the comments on this page. They indicate 0% comprehension of the challenges the author has overcome.

> If the author feels her company is more valuable than her child, that's her choice.

> Why does it take getting pregnant before a CEO decides "Gee, maybe some flexibility at work would be useful?"

> She's privileged to be able to do things like take off in the middle of the day to go the gym or set her own schedule with no meetings before noon and sleeping in and rolling into the office after lunch.

Founding a company is an all-consuming battle. The author is to be commended. She has achieved significant flexibility, and that can only have occurred through excellent staffing and management skill
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Three years (give or take) from founding to first pregnancy. The startup is old enough, there should have been better planning and management in place to handle more than a four day maternity leave.

Specifically if the couple was planning for pregnancy, put the proper structure in place. As CEO, two plus years is plenty of time to get the company culture and working parts in place.
Most of the successful founders in Boston don't believe in the "promote Boston tech" agenda and so probably weren't too keen on accepting the interviews. It's basically the job of Tim Rowe, Abby Fichtner, etc. to promote Boston tech, so of course they're the ones available to be interviewed.
I don't think it's comparable to benchmark MDBM against LMDB or WiredTiger as keys are not kept in sorted order (no range queries), there is no support for transactions, and MDBM does not offer durability in the event of power loss.

MDBM is pretty much an optimized persistent hash table. LMDB and WiredTiger aim to be full-fledged ACID compliant database storage engines with functionality similar to that of BerkeleyDB or InnoDB.
I would just bake the static pages as html and serve with nginx or cache on CDN. It seems like overkill to cause all pages to render with JavaScript.
I was just trying to say that I have a penis, and because I don't have a vagina, I cannot bear children and experience the physical and emotional roller coaster that entails.

Of course I can do my best to gain understanding about it. That's why my wife is my life partner. She'll definitely do her best to make me "understand" it. :-)
"As Google News itself makes no money (we do not show any advertising on the site) this new approach is simply not sustainable. "

Rubbish!

Google's Human Resources department doesn't make any money either, yet it exists, along with other loss-making divisions.

Google as a whole is a very profitable company, and it could easily pay publishers over the long run. It just doesn't want to.
I think you've pretty much nailed it. A highly paid engineer is still basically upper middle class in a land of multinational corporate lawyers, consultants and bankers.
So I thought this project died a while ago, but now I see recent activity. I guess its back? I always liked Skeleton so I'm happy to see it is active again.
> Honestly, if something can be run by Lucas Duplan or Evan Spiegel, it probably shouldn't be done and it certainly shouldn't be funded at the expense of something legitimate.

Wow, you really have an axe to grind with those two, don't you? Despite their issues, they became "public figures" by tapping into something people want, rather than by writing endless bitter diatribes about how the world is unfair for not recognizing their brilliance.

> Never mind that I am so much smarter than the person who set these little rules in place that I could claim that I invented the letter "Q" and they'd believe me.

You've very publicly defined yourself as a guy with a massive chip on his shoulder, who blames everyone but himself when he doesn't succeed. Good luck with that.
Paul Graham wrote about procrastination: http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

I think it's commonly assumed that people procrastinate because they are lazy. Even procrastinators will berate themselves for being undisciplined and lazy. But it's not that simple; I think there is value in being "lazy", or what is perceived as lazy.