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> The country is surprisingly politically free for a tiny nation facing an existential threat from a hostile super power that has invaded, attempted to assassinate it's leader, and funded militants dead set on violent revolution for decades.

Despite the fact that I spend much of my working life writing "if" statements, I am going to ignore everything after the sixth word of this sentence and express disbelief at how you can claim that Cubans are politically free.
That's the idea. Any developer or researcher who uses obscure or meaningless names like "P" and "V" needs to be publicly shamed for it, no matter how well-respected they are. Clarity is vital in this business.

Or were you talking about Linus?
Sure, that's a factor in US politics. I'm just saying that has nothing to do with having a heterogeneous population as the parent was claiming.

The parent was comparing the proportion of physicians in Cuba v.s. the US and claiming that the US couldn't match Cuba because of its heterogeneous population.

Now if you look at the WHO report on density of physicians[1] you see first-wold countries like Japan and Canada ranking below the US on the number of physicians per-capita.

I think numbers like these have a lot more to do with how the health care system is structured than the sort of population you have. E.g. maybe nurses in Japan and Canad have a bigger role in health care than the US.

1. http://www.who.int/gho/health_workforce/physicians_density/e...
Just use a procmail rule to call gpg on every incoming email before it's stored using your public key, then your client (configured with your private key) can decrypt every email as normal.
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Physicians per capita figures are misleading.

The US figure reflects very long careers; late retirements; investment in large teams of trauma specialists due to high war, car crash, and gunshot wound rates; a high percentage of women physicians working part time; and a high concentration of expensive specialists with no documentation that they improve outcomes and paid for by large federal government subsidies.

The actual amount of primary physician and general surgery time available to Americans is very low compared to other countries with similar numbers of doctors. Most countries also allow as many as half the cases administered by fully licensed doctors with 12-20 years of post-secondary schooling in the USA to be handled by nurses and pharmacists. Prescriptions for sniffles or heartburn, basic non-controlled medications, simple physical assessments, and vaccinations are handled by professionals the USA would consider nurses or pharmacists or unlicensed assistants in most first world countries. In the USA those jobs take the time of physicians.

And that is the top reason, among many other unrelated ones, that health care is so much more expensive in the USA. US doctors are fewer and have more responsibilities and thus must be paid extraordinarily to work very long hours and not retire at the usual ages or else some must go without care. It's not an accident; medical societies have blocked medical school expansion for decades until recently as the population grew.

Cuba, on the other hand, appears to be counting nurse practitioners as physicians. That's fine to do because they're highly qualified, but it makes the numbers not comparable across countries.
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"I'm glad to help out with this if you can
point me at specific examples of things that should be changed."

Doesn't sound the least bit snarky. Submitting small patches isn't unreasonable, and GRSecurity-inclined people would do well to play nice with the kernel dev process.
So just to be clear, these rockets are going into space, then somehow coming all the way back down and landing? It seems fantastical that such a rocket could have a controlled descent from space and then land vertically (considering how the shuttle does it for example). How will it control decent speed? Will they carry enough fuel to control the entire descent and land?
It just sounds like an anecdote someone would use during a talk.
also- check out meetup, find others in your area that are interested in development and grow together.
> Can anyone track and connect the dots from fed bond buying to increase in Facebook share price? I don’t think anyone knows.

Are you willing to bet? :)

Bonds aren't too profitable right now (I hope I don't have to explain why!). Investors therefore seek the next best thing. That's stocks. Facebook has stocks.

Big mystery, finally solved.
I'm actually working on a gift recommendation app as well, so I'm in this same space with you. I went through all of your questions in the wizard (There are quite a few, you should think about asking only the essentials at first and then allowing me to answer more once I'm in the app).

I filled out the wizard about my girlfriend who likes the Steelers, and you showed me a men's Seattle Seahawks shirt: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/jacwd2ulo9hdl9o/q_gxfb...

There are ways to automate the process of gender classification, you should look into them for situations like this considering I explicitly filled in "female" and "Steelers" into your wizard.
Huh? I'm a big proponent of eliminating agrochemicals, but you've set up a huge straw man here: No one is arguing that agrochemicals are "necessary" in the sense that agriculture is impossible without it (indeed, millennia of experience prove otherwise). Rather, the rationale is that they allow us to increase productivity for the same input of acreage and man-hours.

I'm not saying that agrochemical proponents are right (I've heard that crop rotation is as good or better than synthetic fertilizers, though it's hard to argue against the labor efficiencies of huge tractors and lots of pest/herbicides), but the simple fact that agriculture is possible without agrochemicals doesn't disprove the argument that it might be better with them.
Since when does a name have to provide sufficient context to distinguish the concept from other similar, yet distinct, ideas?

For example, tree data structures. There are:

2–3 tree, 2–3–4 tree, AA tree, (a,b)-tree, AVL tree, B-tree, B+ tree, B*-tree, Bx-tree, Binary search tree, Optimal binary search tree, Dancing tree, HTree, Interval tree, Order statistic tree, Red–black tree, Scapegoat tree, Splay tree, T-tree, Treap, UB-tree

In many of those the name doesn't provide much context at all to distinguish the concept from another one.

Names of things, at least in CS, are rarely ever named in a way to provide sufficient context of their meaning, without having some level of background context.

That is what the description of the concept is for, not the name. A name is too short to provide this. Usually the name is at the discretion of the original author (aka Dijkstra in this case). If you are trying to determine the complete concept of something, or you are trying to distinguish the concept from other similar ideas, only from the name, you are doing it wrong. Go read the documentation about the concept for that.
Too many questions!

I've actually looked for this type of site before. Useful concept if it works.

I'd like to see a list of suggestions right after question #1 that change as you answer more and more questions. That gives me the option of either continuing or not without investing a lot of energy.

You could have the questions be "never ending" with that design.
Cuba is also much bigger than the typical Caribbean country. They could have an actual diversified economy eventually.
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Just a second level of approval can be very useful, without requiring orders of magnitude costs. In part because it usually requires that the change be explained in writing to the second approver, and that can often reveal issues.
> By "cultural marxist", I'm referring to the pastiche of identity politics, political correctness, and emergent legislation that has been driving a lot of the social change in recent years. Driving out the Judeo-Christian roots of Western society and replacing it with a pastiche of socialism and enforced multiculturalism.

Now I'm going to need to see a lot of sources about this, because multiple societies have been announcing that multiculturalism Just Doesn't Work for them, and there has not been even a pastiche of socialism around since the '90s or so.
No one is saying that it had to be code. It could be as simple as "talk to another peer or your manager before making the next step".

For critical infrastructure companies there is the usual rule of "four eyes" for roll outs.

So, while it may be the case that most companies will have the trusted person with the keys to the rollout car the more critical the mission gets the higher the levels of human checks are put in.

Maybe that's what the RCA should have said -- we F-ed up designing and managing the rollout process. An engineer just fell victim to it.
The 'this' the OP was referring to was the vessel in the Google Maps link they posted.
Also a growing Google Ventures presence!

http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/duo-security
The story is told from a very critical angle and I wonder if there are another less the-sky-is-falling side.

On the other hand, I did not think yahoo.com got better (yes i am a frequent user):
- Yahoo mail actually got worse. 2 Years ago the UI looked bad and straight out of 1990s, but at least it worked reliably and efficiently as a junk email address. In the 2 year since it got a modern makeover and looked better but still very yahoo-y and not good. However the UX design became more complex and more of a hassle to use. Meanwhile the speed and performance has really gone down, presumably due all the Javascript involved in the make over. The worst problem is mail outage. Login issues and mail outage started to happen much more frequently. It was a stable product at least, now it's just bad. I stopped using that address.

-Many changes has been made to Yahoo home pages but one would be hard pressed to find users that unequivocally liked the changes. It is still churning more of the low quality, info lacking and grammar error strewn articles. The only fun(if you are that bored) is in the comment section.

Lastly one has to wonder about her frequent tardiness. I am all for gender equality in the workplace but one has to wonder that trying to turn a massive company around as its CEO during and immediately after pregnancy is a good idea.
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There is one key point missing in this discussion, though spotman sort of alludes to it: You cannot do this because you haven't, yet. You will be very poor at this until you have done it a few times. Eventually you will be good at it.

Delegation is a skill. Matching problems to the capabilities of team members is a skill. Accurately recognizing the capabilities of team members is a skill.

These are all skills you can acquire, but they are all skills that you will do more or less poorly on unless and until you have sufficient practice.

You will also be very slow at it until you have practiced a while and gotten better. So you must recognize that at first productivity will decline, because it will take you longer to delegate than doing it yourself.

Is your work environment reasonably "safe"? (Yes, I do mean that in the "touchy-feely" emotional sense; this is important (not trying to dismiss the idea, just using glib humour to forestall inevitable negative comments - some people are uncomfortable recognizing we have emotions and are affected by them...)).

If so, take your team out to lunch, off site. Tell them what you want to do: Delegate more. Tell them why: So the team gets more done, so there isn't a single point of failure or just one person on the critical path, so that junior members can grow into senior members, to challenge people's abilities, to make better hackers.

Next, tell them that this means you need to practice chunking, delegating, managing, etc., and it will take time for you to get better at these things.

Now ask for their help. Work as a team to do these things.

Note: You may also need buy-in from your management before you proceed. They may view this as a risky change, if they like how things are. Depends how supportive they are.
Anand has left to work at Apple. How could he hold onto ownership without everyone and their dog bringing up the obvious conflict of interest every time the site gave a good review to Apple or a bad review to one of Apple's competitors? I've already seen people complaining about it on places like Reddit.
I think having a huge plant on a ship means they can staff it with workers from 3rd world countries without worrying about Australian visas, employment laws, etc. It's not uncommon for local miners to earn north of $200k per year.

I was on cruise around Queensland last year - ship never left Australian waters, yet all crew was from Asia and they had a casino on board. Prettty sure it'd be illegal to open a gambling venue like that on the soil
Frankly, I'm saving my Hitler and supervillain points for later. My hope is to have things firmly in hand by the time the press and public catch on and then be able to stand there going, "Even if you hit me with everything you've got, resistance is useless, useless, useless, completely and utterly and absolutely futile and useless!!!!"

You can only pull off multiple exclamation points once in a lifetime.

(Real answer: I'm a computer scientist, not a geneticist :-(.)
Well, http://github.com/carllerche/curl-rust has been working great for me. Sure, it uses libcurl so it isn't pure Rust, but that doesn't make it not work :-)
Why don't you distribute directly from Italy?
> But the elephant in the room went untouched: the middle managers.

Microsoft occasionally does a "flattening" exercise where they go around and reduce the number of managers that exist.

Put a year moratorium on promotions to manager (sucks, existing managers get way overloaded), then a year later do another stack ranking exercise.
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Yes, it definitely seems like it would be easier responsive to consumer tastes and preferences in the online world. That being said, you're still trying to model human behavior which as I indicated earlier I believe is largely unmodelable (sp).

Of course, any fool can A/B test to show that readers prefer interesting articles over boring ones. That being said, it's very hard to ex ante produce interesting content. Or even enough content such that a high enough per cent is interesting to the consumer.

For example, how many articles have we seen on people leaving crazy good/bad tips and the server taking a phone pic of such tip as evidence. I think I read the first few, but they still seem to come out every single day. Are people still clicking on them? HuffPo says they are. Why else would they keep running them? However, I really think those sort of stale genres are now only being clicked on by bots.
Do you think that poor social service provision is a more important factor than the the homeless being insufficiently criminalized? If you do, you should probably clarify that.
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Would anyone happen to know of grsecurity is compatible with the linux-ck patchset?
I'm sorry, I just accidentally downvoted your comment. Hopefully someone else can cancel it out with an upvote, as HN doesn't let you undo a vote.
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I've never known anyone to spell it out like that. It has always been "gooey".
Russia gets North Korea - US goes for Cuba in almost the same day.
Interesting.
Victoria Beckham is one exception to this
One thing that concerns me about reusing it is how do you account for unknown components failing or wearing down in quality after repeated use? Does SpaceX have the metallurgy capacity or experience to deal with cases that no one has ever encountered (reusing a rocket multiple times)?

I'm worried that one small tear or some mold or rust will increase the risk.

I always wonder why they don't launch a rocket from a plane at around 60,000 feet, wouldn't that cheapen the cost rather than launching it form ground zero?
Snapchat is a child of a bubble, my doubts are confirmed, it has no real revenue.
As a business idea it isn't bad. The app might almost have legs if they could be the "TripAdvisor of airports." That being said, having this as a Kickstarter seems highly inappropriate.

None of the reward levels offer, well, anything at all. Even the 3K tier seems almost laughable. Ultimately you'd be donating money to potentially make the owners of this project rich, and little else.

The whole point of this entire app is to resell your personal information to advertisers. They're claiming right off the bat they're going to double dip (get money from users via kickstarter AND airport businesses).

That raises a conflict of interests (who is their "daddy" users or airport businesses?). Plus it seems like they'd be better off getting a traditional investor rather than this donation model.
correlation != causation (necessarily)

could have been innocent reasons, an algo shift. it happens. sometimes you win the SEO lottery, sometimes they pull the rug out.

my own experience: roughly 3-5 years ago (don't remember off-hand) I woke up one day to learn that Google had listed me as the top search result, first page, for a particular combo of terms. I forget exactly what it was but it was something like "Java Python Flash Linux game developer" or whatever. I had learned about this from an out-of-the-blue client lead who emailed me. I was shocked when he said that's how he found me. I then went around to about a dozen different computers, different types, different geo locations in my state, both auth'ed and anonymous, and sure enough I always came up as top result, first page. It was... an awesome time to be taking on contract/consulting work, let me tell you. So many more leads coming in than before. Not enough hours in the week/month to help them, had to turn down otherwise interesting gigs.

Then it came to an end. Rug pulled out. Woke up one day, rankings changed, no longer on top like that.

Lesson (one anyway): that's a huge eyeball funnel. bazillions of people doing searches. even getting a tiny slice of it means tons of eyeballs stumbling upon you. quality is important, of course, being great at what you do, having the right leads, a good fit, avail, etc. But quantity? That has a quality of its own.
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While the article does discuss activist shareholders, it's really a brutal indictment against Mayer's leadership in general. It left me wondering if Mayer stood up the author on a lunch date.

Regardless of Yahoo's recent results, Mayer seems to have alienated many people and made decisions that increasingly seem unlikely to achieve the long-term goals. Really, what has been accomplished?

- She went all-in on playing the app lottery by developing new apps in-house, and I don't think any of Yahoo apps have been real winners. However, she bolstered the app engineering force, which may pay off down the road as the mobile software landscape continues to evolve.

- She bought up a bunch of expensive start-ups seemingly at random. I figured these purchases might make sense in retrospect, when some grand design is revealed, but I'm still waiting.

- She made a big bet on online media that doesn't align with what people want to watch.

Google can afford to throw spaghetti against the wall because Google's search revenue is footing the bill. Yahoo seemingly adopted the same strategy in an attempt to identify its core business.
Appropriately, Martha Stewart has occasionally posted hilariously awful photos of her cooking, that she presumably did take herself. Don't have time to dig up the URLs, but it's easily found.
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You could always use white-listing for encrypted e-mails - refuse all encrypted e-mail not from people on your contacts list or people whose keys you've signed, etc.
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how do you learn how to make software architecture decisions and learn solid principles? I am struggling with this myself, my current position is about solving bugs and maintenance, and while this may be a godd position to learn how more seniors implement certain features i often feel that i am not learning how the decisions about the architecture, and due to the senior members working remotely it's difficult to ask them about it.
This seems like the most plausible reason. I'm curious why he didn't sell it off before he left to work at Apple. Perhaps he didn't have the deal ready yet.
First, it's important to note that the economic sanctions on Cuba require the action of the Senate to be lifted. That's virtually a foregone conclusion however.

U.S. policy usually tends to favour business. That's why the economic sanctions on Cuba were bound to be removed sooner or later. At present, there are some products (e.g. compressors and other items requiring a large foundry to produce) that are very difficult and expensive to get in Cuba because most companies that produce them are either American or owned by American companies. Smaller companies from countries such as Canada have made a practice of "bootlegging" for the Cubans. In recent years it has not been uncommon for a compressor skid to be produced in Texas, shipped to Alberta via rail, shipped to the East coast through Canada via rail, and finally shipped to Cuba.

The reason sanctions against Cuba are finally being dropped is probably related to the death or extreme old age of most everyone who can remember having property snatched away from them when the Cubans nationalized everything after the revolution. Subsequent generations of Cubans and americans have been brought up to distrust each other though. It won't be as easy as some think for U.S. companies to march back into Cuba and set up shop again. Companies that have been quietly running mines and building power plants for the Cubans over the last few decades will likely have the edge. It's going to take time and patience for trust to be restored.
Last I checked the memory consumption of running xmonad (you know, written in Haskell) on my computer was a pittance; doesn't hog memory, and probably doesn't use enough memory to cause user-noticeable GC pauses.

Though if you're talking about applications in general, and not just WMs; yes, sure.
Most of the apps buying installs are from game companies that have massive revenues (Supercell, King, etc.). It's not the same as the 90s. There might be an app bubble, but it's not a VC driven one.
Thanks for the responses everyone. I've been in the US 15 years now and I'm still never 100% sure about dialect differences :)
I think that the people at Snapchat do realize how fucked they are.

That's why they're making a spree of acquisitions and media deals to try to stay prepared.
Indeed, according to the official source [0], TARP has recovered 112% of the funds it distributed to banks. The Treasury only has $900 million outstanding within that category, of the original $245.1 billion that was dispersed. Going by just the numbers, this article would find a much more sympathetic audience in discussing the auto bailouts, of which only 86.3% has been recovered and, with only $1.4 billion outstanding, has already pretty much been written off as a losing program.

Disclaimer: I'm not in any way saying that there aren't issues to be resolved. But time has shown that the TARP-related aspects of this scenario turned out positively.

[0] http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/repo...