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True, the threat is more credible, but ... free speech, anyone? It's easy to defend free speech when it's the virgin Mary in a jar of piss, while the Catholics complain (but don't go and slaughter the artist). If the 1st amendment is only going to be protected when something is offensive to a peaceful group (or one without the credible likelihood of violent radicals going ape), then you end up catering to the sensibilities of those most likely to be prone to violence.
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Hitherto, the UK has had a threshold for mandatory VAT registration: if your VAT-able turnover (sales within the EU) exceed the threshold, you must file a VAT-1 and register, but if your VAT-able sales are below the threshold (e.g. you do B2B sales to customers outside the EU -- which aren't VAT-able -- or your turnover is just plain low) you aren't required to register. As of the current time, the threshold is £81,000 per annum turnover: arguably, if you're turning over that much, you can bloody well afford the bookkeeping costs.

Unfortunately not all EU countries have a lower threshold and the new arrangements have a lower threshold for mandatory VAT registration of any amount -- a single €0.99 sale in Estonia and whoops, you need to be registered to collect and pay VAT in Estonia or via your own tax authority's One Stop Shop.

If the £81,000 threshold applied to the new arrangement, nobody would be shouting. But as it is, this will kill a huge number of spare bedroom businesses and start-ups.
Why is this a problem at all? There is no user supplied input here. There is some string mangling in commands below, but it looks like none of it can be manipulated by a malicious user. It's not a security issue. It sounds like OP just thinks that subprocesses are icky.
I'm more impressed that the two-hour delivery is free.
Perhaps surprisingly, the funds considered elite are biased against people with prior work experience, outside of academia. The best time to join the elite firms is right out of a PhD program. That said, money is money, and I'd honestly rather take a great position at an above-average hedge fund than an entry-level spot at one with a gold-plated reputation. By the time you're in your 30s, you evaluate the position rather than the company.

Some of these funds have a passionate hatred for "job hoppers" are are inaccessible to almost anyone in tech. It's normal to change jobs every 2 years. Not getting promoted? Switch. Your manager left for greener pastures? Follow him. Hedge funds do a better job of internal promotion, so you're more likely to end up on a track that would merit a longer stay, but they tend to view the average tech CV negatively, because they're extremely paranoid about IP and changing jobs every 18-24 months until you get lucky and "click" with someone powerful and are on a protege/leadership track (which is what you have to do, in tech) is frowned upon.

Learning finance is important for showing an interest in the field (and not just the money) but most of the hard effort is going to be in learning statistics, computer science, microeconomics, and technology.
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I for one would be okay (morally) if the rest of the world wanted to sanction the US for the invasion of Iraq.

However, the real politik of it is simply: "The rest of the world needs the US more than the US needs them." Now,that's not totally true and hyperbole, but the point is, the US economy is such a large factor in the overall world economy, the costs from sanctioning the US would hurt many other countries much more so than sanctioning a country like Iran, Iraq, Cuba, or Russia, which are usually very small (economically speaking), somewhat isolated (economically and politically speaking) countries. For better or worse, that's one of the things that makes the US a superpower.
It's not a problem. The poster didn't put a description of what the issue was, so I would say this post should be flagged, personally
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>make a worthwhile margin of profit?

If Dominos can do it for pizzas, amazon can do it for much bigger ticket items.

PLUS they are not incurring the cost of shipping the item to a prime member. Right now for every physical good prime purchase they spend money on shipping.

Also see:
Amazon is not worried about short term profit [1]

They have probably planned to not profit for a while in exchange for increased cashflow. Again for Amazon, profit isn't first, the customer is.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-jeff-bezos-on-profits...
How do I add and remove capacity then?
Budget 101 for freelancers is to think and remember you are running a business effectively, and always consider the two - personal and business cash flows separate.
Pay yourself a monthly salary that pays all bills plus a little luxury plus allows a small amount to be banked and saved each month, with the end aim of a personal rainy day fund that equals 18 months of that current salary level as a minimum.
For the business - don't turn work down - if need be pass work onto colleagues friends and trusted third parties - always say yes you will help your clients even if not personally doing the work. Retain a healthy amount of cash in the company to weather drier times, unforeseen bills to the company, and potential future growth (where you hire additional resources top help achieve more and bigger projects).
My conclusion is correct. Your conclusion comes from a propaganda perpetuated by dictators and their left-leaning sympathizers.

You can't describe Cuba's state of the art modern medicine by repeating a mantra that Cuba has more doctors, or Cuba delivers immunizations, etc etc.

When your grandma falls in the West and has a syncopal episode, she will get a full work up in the hospital. That includes a CT or MRI scan, Holter, maybe even cardiac EP study, pacemaker, and maybe cardiac ablation, etc etc.

The evidence is clear: Cuba does not and never had anything resembling a great health care system.
Not to downplay the age discrimination angle (because I believe it is a real problem) but what constitutes a "better" job?

Is it a compensation issue, a work/life balance thing, a new technologies thing?

Conversely, are you willing to lower your compensation, work/life balance, technology choices, etc. to accomplish that?

Hard for Santa to fix these problems without knowing the tradeoffs...
I have known my fair share of sysadmins; none of them are capable of writing decently complex malware.

Have you seen the way the releases are organized?
I think most purchases break down into "I need it now" vs. "I need it in a day or two." Currently, Amazon can't get the first category, so it's served by local stores. And four-hour or same-day delivery doesn't really address that market either.
Doesn't need to. They have a big bully ally to take care of those things...
Go ahead, submit the last 10,000 posts you've placed on the internet, and then subject them to a group of anal literalists.

To use proper terminology in all domains at all time as all domains rapidly evolve is an impossibility.

If you're smart enough to be anal about these distinctions, you're smart enough to develop an error correction and handling layer.
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Would you say that, as a HFT shop, you are only competing with other HFT shops? I've heard that HFTs use nearly identical algorithms, so now its basically a competition for real estate near the exchanges.
Thanks for such a detailed explanation!
Actually ... https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres
The Illuminatus Trilogy does.[1]

Immanentize the Eschaton!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
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They are still pledging fake money, I presume? I wonder when they will finally launch for reals.
Since you're planning on doing some conceptual work with JSONB, just a heads upon one gotcha -

duplicate properties are not allowed. I.E.:

{
task: "do stuff",
task: "do other stuff"
}

which sometimes is useful when you have front-end data with an N-number of entries but its a form that serializes to an object instead of an array. There are other use cases too.
> I mean, you took three months off, essentially -- knowing that you'd have no savings at the end?

In retrospect, it was extraordinarily dumb! I hope that was clear from the article. The point I was trying to make with the story is that when I had a vague pool of "savings", it felt like I had a bigger cushion than I actually did.

Kudos to you for making things predictable. I would wager most people don't plan as well as you do. My hope is this will be their first step to stabilizing their budget.
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Weird, I was literally just googling for this and found Amethyst. Seems nice.

I've noticed it gets a little slow to rearrange things sometimes with lots of windows but the functionality I need is all there.

Works great with my three screen setup too, which many tools like this don't.
Oh, people are still making this comment on HN? The whole "the only answer is politics" thing sort of lost its luster when absolutely nothing happened politically over one and a half years since Snowden. One could argue the NSA has only been solidified by the political system.

So good luck with that approach.
I think the key sentence in this post is where they mention launching the MVP with 20 companies. If these are all paying, large businesses that seems like the founders had deep relationships already established in business. For most startups, launching with 20 businesses out of the gates would be a huge win.

In fact, one could argue that the real value of accelerators isn't their mentors but the fact that they provide an immediate source of other businesses willing to try (and pay) for the product. So for a company in an accelerator, it seems much easier to get to 10,000 paying customers than for a company that is building a product in a garage (without an accelerator).

In my opinion, going from 0 to 20 paying businesses seems to be relatively harder than going from 20 paying businesses to 10,000 total customers. Meaning that if you get traction with 20 businesses that probably means you're touching 2000 people indirectly (assuming 100 people companies) already.
In cases where monthly income is going to fluctuate dramatically, I couldn't imagine NOT doing what you're suggesting. This could go for other jobs besides freelancing, like living off of small business incomes or gambling professionally.
for context for that "context": Clearing up the confusion about our analysis of net neutrality comments to the FCC http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/12/17/clearing-up-th...
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton"
That sounds like you want him to have a worse job.
AFAIK the US Constitution is just a contract put forth by the US citizens limiting the power of the US Govt. By agreeing to obey the constitution, you become a US citizen and vice-versa. Although the principles apply universally, they have a legal basis to be enforced (by the US judiciary) only in the US.
This article provides the illusion of a real budget.

Month-to-month is actually better than last-month-to-month. A person living month-to-month would at least stop spending money if they had a bad month. A person living on last-month's income would continue spending money and go into debt.

Freelancers depend on FUTURE income. A "budget" that encourages you to spend all of your money regardless of future income is extremely messed up.
What's the benefit of using this vs. WMs like SizeUp?

I'm asking this question because I'm quite comfortable with SizeUp and don't understand if learning how to use a WM is worth it.
This is terrible advice, but it took a while for me to process why it's such terrible advice.

I think the big flaw is in the assumption that you can spend an entire month's earnings in a single month. If you ever find that happening, it's a huge red flag that you're doing things wrong.

A much better way of looking at finances is to adjust your lifestyle so that you require a tiny, insignificant fraction of your income to survive. As developers (and freelancers), especially as a young one, this is quite easy. Cheapest apartment available, same old car from college, roomates, no television or electronic anything, etc. Fit your life into $20k/year.

If you do that (and if you're fresh out of college you'll have just survived five years of doing exactly that), it's pretty hard to get yourself into a spot where money is an issue if you have any sort of professional job. Even if you have the roughest year imaginable and only book $40k worth of work, you'll still sock away $10k into savings.

The author touches on the concept of having a full year's worth of living expenses in the bank, but immediately dismisses it as if it were some impossible ideal that nobody could ever achieve. But he could, in a single year at the rate he seems to be billing, if he really wanted to.

And there's no way of explaining just how liberating it is to have that sort of personal runway. If you don't have it, you need to drop everything and make sure your only goal in life is to get that $10k-$50k pad into your bank account.
Why would you want to? You can get the replacement or alternative products, and every front to boot, and then mail it back within 30 days.
Are there any good books coming out that cover Postgres 9.4? I know the docs are okay but I want something with more of a narrative structure as my history with Postgres is spotty. The only one I've found so far is O'Reilly's "PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 2nd Edition" coming out this month but would prefer a personal rec.
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It wasn't lost that you'd be underwhelmed even if CSI could do resurrections! People who happen to have stored up excess plot coupons is a fine sort of outcome. Finally getting to use the ash hoover on the wheat... Oceans turned to ash? The chuckling aggro water-mining aliens will be horrified, let's call them for lunch and brain surgery. HOA finally approved front lawn full of sentient angry delicious plants...
Thanks for submitting a thorough journalistic source for this bit of news, which I saw as a brief submission from a news aggregation service in the Facebook feeds of some of my friends. I'm especially impressed that this story includes a video of two university music students actually singing the newly discovered composition. The commentary in the article is quite interesting for the details it describes of the development of polyphonic music in the West.
This resonates profoundly.

But I'll tell you who I REALLY feel sorry for. I feel sorry for today's 20- and 30-somethings who will likely never know the $1000-$2000 days many of us knew in the 80's, 90's and 00's.

Back in the days when FedExing diskettes across the planet was a normal thing.

Take today's 20 and 30-somethings and project forward 20-years, I wouldn't want to trade positions.
Which is still a classic old Hollywood BS distortion.

The US hasn't been "weak" compared to anything since the USSR collapsed, and probably not even when it existed.

The US shown as "weak, disjointed, and behind the ball" is the classic tactic to show that some lame figure is a "credible enemy", so that any pre-emptive attack or move is justified -- since we're talking about "capable enemies" that could really damage the country.

It's akin to putting a gun on the hands of some black kid the police shot, to make him look more threatening that he was.
Here is an article from Nature News that came out today:
http://www.nature.com/news/still-no-stem-cells-via-easy-stap...

It basically says that RIKEN gave her until November to show that STAP worked, there was some recent hope that it would work, that hope was dashed in more rigorous tests, and there will be an official announcement of the failure on December 19.
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One thing in addition to the product? The hustle in the beginning to get the product in the hands of the right people. Appsumo was part of it, but not a very big part of it compared to hundreds of hours that founders spent in pitching and "doing things that don't scale".
Ask HN: What are current CS subfields in their infancy?
My wife (a chemist) and I were recently talking about Watson and Crick and other work that had a significant impact on the life sciences. She asked an interesting question which I was unable to satisfactorily answer:

What are some examples of computer science subfields which are in their infancy today?

Two examples I came up with were quantum computing and nanoscale computing+robotics. These are fields which (to my knowledge) are still in their infancy today but which I think will have a significant impact within the somewhat near future. It's also perhaps interesting that both of those subfields are interdisciplinary and not pure CS.

This is a train of thought along the same lines as Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research" talk (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html). While I think Hamming comes across here as elitist and arrogant, he does have an interesting point: if you don't know what the important problems or areas are in your field, you can't be an effective representative.
"Only spend what you have left." - Terrible habit to start. This should go into savings.

Here's solid budgeting advice: If you don't have 3-6 months of savings set aside, cut out unneeded items such as TV (use 10/m netflix), starbucks, eating out as much, etc. Put all of this into savings immediately and forget about it.

Also, read about this: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/payyourselffirst.asp
I would have been worried if it was allowed. This is exactly what arrays are for.
> seizure: the action of capturing someone or something using force

They first have to capture the data before copying. Fits the definition, in my opinion
Can't wait to see how awesome the work environment will be for these couriers! Probably much like Uber's drivers: under constant pressure to meet a quota (in this case, probably minimizing the number of missed 1 hour marks), and if you're injured/hit/cause an accident, it's on you and the employer will be nowhere to be found.
> The incredibly aggressive people that you're talking about is mostly floor traders, brokers, etc, because they need to be that way, and they're generally on their way out, as algos will be smarter and faster.

This is definitely true but they're not always aggressive. Generally quants are the nicest people I've had to work with in the industry. I've had a floor trader kick me hard under his desk because I wasn't replacing his Bloomberg keyboard fast enough (<2 minutes). That's said, I've have a quant or two be a passive-aggressive dickwad too...but in general, way nicer than floor traders.
hey man, author of the post here. thank you for the rich and astute comment.

i'm not sure why you think i "accidentally" touched on the truth---the dark side of human nature, etc. i had that in mind throughout the essay, but i guess i feel that understanding the human tendency toward selfish/violent behavior is not reason to think that we can't get better, in our personal lives and on the level of structuring society, at not fueling the darker aspects of ourselves.

maybe i was a little hard on christianity, but i don't really think so. i think you are vastly overestimating the extent to which "love your brother as yourself" has been the most influential element of christianity. i look at the history of christianity and see a history of using organized religion as an exclusive club to claim superiority over other people, demonize them, oppress them, murder them, etc. any ideology that claims to have a premium on the truth eventually produces people who are willing to do anything to protect their "truth." a non-religion, non-ideology, with zero written rules and only one basic idea (not a commandment)---that suffering sucks for you and everyone else so you should probably try not to cause it--would have served the human race a whole lot better, IMO, though unfortunately people tend to buy into elaborate fables and rule systems.

i think in your paragraph that starts "The bottom line is . . ." you express the essence of the "manifest destiny" attitude that led the West to dominate the rest of the world---of course that would happen, they had the technology, etc. i can see that argument. but i think that in that same vein it would be very easy to theorize that of course we're going to end up using our nuclear weapons because we're inevitably violent or of course we can't stop the destruction of the earth because we're inevitably greedy. i guess i don't see a point in living if there is no hope that we can improve, as a collective, at perceiving the traps of human nature that have nearly destroyed the world and choosing collectively to cooperate and overcome them. perhaps i'm a fool, but i feel we don't have to destroy ourselves.

capitalism: yes, amazing advances, high standard of living, etc., but you're overlooking the fact that it has also produced weapons that would allow us to vaporize the planet, slowly decimated the biosphere, and made the gap between rich and poor more egregious than ever. arguably those latter three things are pretty big problems with unbounded capitalism. i think, as MLK suggested in that quote in my essay, that there is a "higher synthesis" of the ideas of capitalism and communism that will allow us to derive many of the same benefits of capitalism that you're lauding but also produce a more equal and sustainable society. i don't claim to know how that would work, but i do feel that some fundamental changes are necessary. thanks again for the insightful comment. peace.
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That's a bit like old Casio calculators. It worked for small things but I cannot imagine a big application written in that.

Nostalgia overdrive just seeing this beauty:

http://www.rskey.org/CMS/index.php/7?manufacturer=Casio&mode...
The budget figure is probably BS.

All military figures are BS. North Korea has 1,000,000 active member troops. Canada has 68,000 active member troops.

North Korea has more of everything than Canada, including aircraft, boats, and even nuclear weapons.

Canada spends $23 billion per year.

And as to forces hardly to be reckoned with, if you're talking in a convention war with the US or something, sure. To put that into contrast with hacking Sony, though, is utterly ludicrous. The latter could likely be achieved paying a group less than it costs to operate a single fighter aircraft for a year.
This is the best comment on the entire post. TFA seems to be from the point of view of someone who writes books about it rather than actually doing it. Major clue is recommending Flash Boys. And the other link you point to is also good.
I'm starting to feel bad for Uber. Hopefully they have some data on the incidence of rape for taxi drivers to exonerate themselves, and, more importantly, hopefully they were not negligent in this.
Frasier is a television show, I was trying to draw out the story. I know literally nothing about wine having had maybe 6 sips in my lifetime.

A similar argument can be made about confusing two types of potato vs a potato and a parsnip. Yes pleasure is subjective, and taste is to some extent. In general there are limits to this effect.

Yes, I could effectively overcook the taste out of both things, mush them into a texture-less paste, and then stuff them full of enough herbs and spices to mask any semblance of their original flavour. At that point perhaps I've won - but then I'm not sure it meets the claim.
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No, are they organized well?
Are they outsourcing the couriers in this case? The promo video looks like as if these guys are sourced straight from a Chrome Industries / Rapha commercial.