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I didn't miss overtime. You wrote "A relative is a lieutenant, make $120k, and overtime brings that up to almost $200k." I only evaluated the base pay.

That was enough to establish that your relative is in an unusual situation to start with. As overtime is a function of the base pay, and most officers are not in a supervisory position, your example doesn't really reflect the typical police officer income.

Pointing to an overtime example from New York (the state with the highest base salary), and a record-setting overtime pay as well, is not useful as an average indication of what a police officer makes. Your position concerned average, non-"hick" officer.

It would be like me pointing to an instant millionaire software developer who won the startup lottery and saying that's typical.

You make good points regarding pension and healthcare. I also didn't include stock options in the software developer income, but none of my options were ever worth the paper they were printed on.

Remember too that your example was for a supervisory position. Most police officers are not in that situation.

I took a different meaning of '"crazy" money". I would have used the term "well-paid" for your definition. "Crazy" implies there's something extreme, no? What term would you use for police officers making $500K/year in base pay?

I think software developers should be unionized, but to start with, I think the programmer exemption for overtime pay should be abolished. Only software developers making less than $27.63/hour or $55,260/year have the possibility of getting overtime, which is about the 10 percentile for software developer income.
Seriously, buddy, I gave you like a ton of ways to deescalate the douche in your response, but you went right through the wall.

C4 isn't the only case where developers are frustrated with Linux. And if Windows and OS X fare better in attracting developers (which these systems do), even though Linux is essentially free (and the competition isn't), that's per definition a sign of a shit product.

So, you can of course, think that all of this is FUD and everybody in the world is incompetent, while more and more people drop support for a system that's too much duct-taped together for its own good.
Sending incomplete pages means those of us that don't run javascript[1] don't actually see your site. First impression matter, and when your page is:

SomeSite

{{storyTitle}}

{{storyBody}}
{{curPage}} of {{numPages}}

...the common interpretation is "broken site". This current fad of being too lazy to implement progressive enhancement is a regression. Rendering on the server so you server up a actual page is trivial, and you can still provide javascript that loads the next pages faster. Serving up only a template (or worse: an empty body tag) is insane.

The usual counter is that "javascript is always available" not only ignores the risks, I suspect the claim is based on bad data. How do you know how many people disable javascript? We aren't going to be in most analytics...

[1] for the numerous security and privacy reasons. Running arbitrary instructions in a Turing complete language is a bottomless pit of problems, and "analytics" is still spyware. Google shouldn't get to build a log of every page we visit.
Whoa, it had been so long since I saw a social network pivot into the business space that I'd forgotten how desperate and overused a strategy that had become
paradoxically there is also a risk involved with false positive diagnosis (be it unnecessary procedures, CT scans, surgeries, anxiety etc.) Also the detection window can be small from detectable to symptomatic for (especially) aggressive tumors. An example is the very difficult discussion on general population mamma carcinoma (breast cancer) or colon cancer screenings.

However being well informed and questioning everything is the very best way to be a patient.
Could someone make (or provide a link to) a summary of the melodrama for outsiders ? It being not too partisan for one side or the other would be a plus.
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If it makes you feel any better for them they sold for 1.2 billion to Microsoft in 2012
My first thought was, "So Facebook released Yammer?"

But after some thought...

It will be interesting to see how this will be differentiated from Yammer. Yammer may actually benefit from this ... companies that are considering workplace social networks may evaluate all options, and then realize that Yammer has been out for quite some time and touts over 200,000 corporate customers.

Many companies have Facebook restrictions in place, and I don't see that trend reversing due to this announcement. Yammer, separate and distinct from Facebook, may see a bump due to more companies "being interested" in work place social networks.
I've got my hands full with my current flock, but I would love to have pigs for this reason (among others). Would be great to have them root around in some scrub land as Seymour describes, then use its new fertility to grow grains to feed myself and the goats, continuing the cycle! Just not enough time in the day :)
It took them 8 years to figure out there's a market in Enterprise? I hope they make it easy to convert from private FB Groups to 'Work' accounts because any company I know who would use FB for work is already doing so using that option.
I guess I have no stake in it one way or another, but it's an interesting problem nonetheless...

It's honestly too bad none of us have real time to put into digging up and verifying this stuff on our own. The snopes source says "was a forgery...added the bogus letter to his encyclopedia (along with several other pieces of Lincoln apocrypha) without verifying its authenticity" but doesn't give reference to how this is known, or by whom it was confirmed to be a forgery.

The only other point made is that given the author's (Merrill Peterson) knowledge: "Nonetheless, Peterson concluded, even Lincoln's wartime experience and pro-labor credentials don't justify the attribution of the 'money power' warning to him".

And the other reference 'W.J. Ghent' is an article in a newspaper where he's giving what appears to be an opinion. According to his wikipedia page, he was not a historian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._J._Ghent

It's hard to read the article given that it's scanned copy of the newspaper from 1905, but here it is: http://goo.gl/Qfsqry

So we have an argument that the letter was fraudulent without references to who asserts this, and we have the author's own authoritative "spin" as justification that the letter wasn't real.

I'm no historian, but if the "forgery" claim is based on the fact that they can't pin the handwriting to Lincoln's own, is it out of the question that the letter was transcribed?

On the other hand we have a reference which claims to contain a letter written by Lincoln, the original of which may or may not still be in existence. Who knows how far down the rabbit hole we could go just to figure this out. Instead perhaps it's best to leave it to the internet to argue the point further if they decide to.
Really nice game.
You've pretty much outlined all the pros and cons of working remotely. However working remotely is not so common in Europe than it is in US. Probably Europe is lacking behind with 5+ years, because most of the companies here are still on the "top-notch MBA consulting" staff. I still meet people who make their living from 2 excel files they copied from their Big4 internship :)

You said you are the only guy outside US. Have you tries looking for something "nearby"?
Also, there is a small matter that papers where mathematical equations are more prevalent are likely to have fewer words in them (equations are very terse representations of ideas).
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Strangely it doesn't list which version of either was used. Which is super odd to me as it may be relevant when others try to reproduce the study.
Indeed, although it needs to be pointed out that in theory, it's very possible 1st generation fusion reactors will be economically unviable, since the neutrons they produce will steadily transmute them, that is, turn their atoms into different and generally radioactive elements, decaying and then destroying their ability to function, leaving piles of radioactive junk.

The interest in Helium-3 is due to the fact that it can be anutronically fused (although I've read there's doubts about being able to effectively extract energy from such a reactor). So Helium-3, and strip mining the moon!!! has been thought about for a long time.

Heck, it's part of the background for one of the major anime franchises that started in 1979, Mobile Suit Gundam. In that, through magic physics, they have "refrigerator sized" fusion reactors, but they must be fueled by Helium-3 because the magic physics isn't neutron proof (little is). So the "Jupiter Energy Fleet" plays a role modeled on the Arabs/OPEC of the '70s, pulling the strings behind most of the conflicts of the Universal Century timeline. (Paptimus Scirocco is an Arab as viewed by a group of Japanese animators in 1985, his hair style is much less crazy if you know that.)

I mention this to point out how long it's been generally known we're likely to need a lot of Helium-3 for fusion reactors, i.e. entering popular culture three decades ago.
Org mode to LaTeX conversion makes the production much less time consuming.
Agreed. I've used Yammer before and it's pretty decent.

If I was a company looking to use a "Social Network for Work" I would prefer a separate product like Yammer instead of Facebook.
I took a nap at work once during my lunch time and I was woken up by the silent cold stares. Never took a nap again. :-(
It's because LyX is a structured document editor, and its format is strictly simpler than the full power of TeX. (La)TeX isn't actually that structured, and with the ability to do weird stuff with macros, it becomes impossible to convert losslessly from TeX to any more structured format (e.g. docx; something like ps or pdf is less structured).

In other words, it can't operate on plain LaTeX files because someone not using LyX might edit the files in such a way that LyX can no longer handle them. By using their own format, while they don't prevent someone from editing the file without LyX, they can at least guarantee that a valid LyX file will always be loadable by LyX.
I think they should change the name. "Facebook at Work" has gotten many people fired. It might reduce friction to adoption, but maybe that's not the goal.
I still have the Ultima 7 map, apart from being beautiful it was fairly useful since it really helped you navigate the world.

The booklets also helped the immersion, things really have changed.
They survey employers:

http://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm#overview

(The OOH uses OES data: http://www.bls.gov/ooh/about/occupational-information-includ... )

It specifically does not include overtime:

http://www.bls.gov/respondents/oes/payterms.htm#overtime_pay
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This is a pretty dumb comment. The costs associated with bitcoin come down to power and hosting costs, the costs of banking can be huge, difficult to verify and can lead to consumers losing money that banks hold. No one loses bitcoins when a bitcoin miner goes broke or shuts down.
I share your concerns with the US medical system. It is a bunch of busy, reasonably bright people caught up in an insane circus. It on average produces adequate care, but you shouldn't expect much more. Having an active and informed advocate can make an enormous difference.

On the other hand, I agree that more data isn't necessarily better. There are plenty of examples. E.g.:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-21/prostate-cancer-tes...

If you do early prostate screening, you get worse medical outcomes than when you don't screen. Or consider whole-body scans:

http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/news/newdetarget.cfm?ID=5

They will detect a lot of stuff that doesn't matter, but proving that it doesn't matter will be expensive and possibly harmful.

You see a similar phenomenon in investing. As Fooled by Randomness explains well, for most people the best strategy is to set your investments and look at them very rarely. If you watch the investment news all day and trade actively, you may not do better, you could easily do worse, and you'll certainly be much more stressed. But still, there is an endless supply of day-traders.
When hollywood does hacker movies,it a horror movie to hacker
Thanks! And no. That blog post was a start at trying to sort out my disagreement with Perez (thinking out loud, basically.) My initial concern was her too-neat cycles and that the chemo-therapeutic revolution (anti-virals, antibiotics, etc.) doesn't fit into her theory at all, even though it's certainly the technological revolution that has had the most impact.

I like a lot of her work, especially the idea of technological systems and technological revolutions. It's the long-wave stuff I dislike. I think that systems thinking leads you to the conclusion that there will not be any deterministic cycles, so it troubles me that she takes that leap of faith.
I wonder what it would take to get a passable OSS substitute to Facebook going in this space. You could host it on your own server(s) the same way you can host your own internal wiki that looks/feels just like Wikipedia. Why don't we have this already?
Anyone looking for work in a tech startup in Europe?
The market serves Moloch[0], not humans. We have bootstrapped a system that is close to become self-sustaining, and humans are increasingly becoming cost rather than value. Unless something is done it will either collapse or become a human-free (or almost human-free) system. Neither outcome is good for us.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
It's 2008 all over again, when freemium enterprise social networking was still hot.
Notepad++ website hacked for releasing special Je suis Charlie edition
This is so weird. I live in the continental USA, at least 8 time zones away from Paris. Why am I being punished by being deprived of privacy for the crimes of someone a quarter of the world away? US and EU politicians are stupid.
Jive Software is used successfully by the majority of Fortune 500s.
In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

-- Anatole France
This interests me (in a slightly off-topic way): do the soldiers really switch their service weapons to a semi-automatic model in order to patrol, or are all the rifles within the military police (etc.) semi-automatic only?
Exactly! A fun anecdote on this: four professors from my alma mater wrote a book on computation physics in LaTeX, the deal with the editor was that since they were taking care of typesetting and graphics they would be paid both as authors and as typesetters.

As it turns out since the authors' fee was per-copy, while the typesetters' fee was a one shot deal, they made much more as typesetters (though this situation might get reversed if the book keeps selling for decades…).
Facebook is no where near being a true technology company like Google. So facebook copied MySpace and is now copying LinkedIn. Neat.
I love this kind of archeology. I feel like it really makes me connect better with people from long ago to taste what they taste and experience (if even just a little) something that they would have experienced.

I know it's been done a bit in the past, but I feel like this kind of resurrection archeology is really gaining steam recently. There's a lady in Baltimore, MD who tries to figure out fashionable Roman hairstyles for example. There's a "Medieval" restaurant not too far from me that tries to only serve meals based on recipes and eating techniques available from the period. Mt. Vernon, George Washington's Home, has recently restarted the original distillery, making whisky as close to the way it would have been made as possible (including stream cooled condensers).

I'm waiting for some of this to really take off in Europe and Asia. New World foods, especially the pepper, absolutely transformed traditional foods. I'd love to eat some original Southern Indian Cuisine from pre-1492.

I know we're living in the future...but to some extent we can also live in the past and that's awesome.
Source code here: https://github.com/PeerioTechnologies/peerio-client
This has been my experience. Watched a junior dev spend 3 months of 60 hour weeks trying to create a "documentation" platform in LaTeX for what amounted to very basic algorithms.

LaTeX is a good tool, but people who use it tend to abuse it. If you need LaTeX for your solution, there's really nothing better for the job, but you rarely need LaTeX for your solution.
Can you not do that with Diaspora?
Excellent analysis of remote working. I worked for nine years remotely (full-time for the last three years) with an entirely remote team, and most of this article rings true. Flying team members in every so often for in-person meetings is hugely valuable.

This subject is near and dear to me, as I live in a rural area and I'd like to find another full-time remote position. I'm frustrated by the opposition to remote devs from so many tech companies, who ought to be the last ones to resist this obvious solution. Many of the reasons ring hollow when the same companies lament the lack of qualified candidates to fill their positions -- they're essentially saying that they'd rather do without than deal with the potential downsides of remote workers.
>if your business can not be bootstrapped successfully, it's likely your business is going to never turn a profit. Funding is silly...

Well, this just isn't true at all. Many companies have very high costs up front due to the nature of their business. This is especially true in hardware startups, but can also be true in software startups.
Honestly, I don't see anything here that will make them competitive with offerings like Jive Software, currently being used by the majority of Fortune 500s and more SV companies than you'd think.

https://www.jivesoftware.com
Listen to your body. But to do that you first need to connect with your body. Meditation helps with that. Start meditating today even if you are doing it for 1 minute.
Doing meditation obviously helps with focus. The self control muscle develops if you exercise it. Like you do more weights you start having control over more temptations.

Once you are into it, your body will clearly signal you what are its struggle. Yoga or any other form of mind+body exercise helps you fix it.
I am not a exceptional practitioner of above practices. But I know people that do not take any kind of medications not even tea or coffee and have really high focus and energy levels through out.

All the best !!
If you actually read the article you'd see that there is practically no overlap with LinkedIn whatsoever.
Or... any kind of fusion to be practically net-energy positive. As in, not only are we getting more energy out than is needed to fuse, but also being able to capture enough of it to power the reactor continuously. I think we are a long ways off from that.

I'd like to see an expansion of research into Thorium reactors and other more intrinsically safe fission designs.
Not necessarily. You cannot magic GH into existence. Merely wanting it does not mean you can get it. So the higher the GH the more secure the network, lower the cost of GH and the bad actor and good actor are competing for the same product. The good actor requires less GH to continue to be a good actor than a bad actor requires to become a bad actor. If the bad actor does not mange to obtain 51% of the network hash power then they have to be a good actor or get rid of their equipment.
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I'm very happy to see Lars Rasmussen releasing something new again. He's the (ex-Googler) guy behind Google Maps and the much loved (and perhaps also hated) Google Wave project. Google wave was (in my mind) one of those "ahead of it's time" projects when it was released. I'm not aware of any significant contributions he has had since his time in Facebook. So is this his first?
Have you ever wondered how inbox (new gmail) tutorial effects are made? [css]
In a similar vein, the chap in this article 3d printed his kidney stone to help surgeons:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-30801273

Ironically, he passed out due to the pain from his kidney stone when presenting to surgeons on the benefits of 3d printing.
I don't base it off price, I base it off adaption and public interest of which outside of new merchants there has been no indication of any growth(and I'm pretty sure if you started subtracting merchants who no longer take it or who don't have their staff trained on it it would be shrinking as well). Bitpay has shown now growth in processing numbers($1m/per day) for almost all of 2014.

Transaction volume is a ridiculously bad metric to judge growth. You want to prove growth get coinbase and blockchain.info to release MAU figures. They won't of course for obvious reasons.

>One cloud mining service (CEX.io) has suspened cloud mining operations.

HASH profit, PETAmine, Hashie, Coins-miner are the first few I found after a quick look for more names for you.

Also Cointerra for mining equipment.

>As for exchanges shutting to pursue other more profitable ventures, this is 1 exchange (Vault of Satoshi) not a huge exchange by anyones metrics. You said exchanges (plural) which others?

The other company I was thinking of was Delta Financial. Not an exchange.

>The general public may have, investors and people that understand tech have not responded in that way at all.

Except they have. Look outside of bitcoin forums for the general feelings towards bitcoin some time. It is almost universally negative especially in tech and finance circles.

?If you asked the general public about the internet in 1990 they would have said meh!, those same people now bank online, shop online and communicate online. Do they care about the internet? No, but at the same time could they bare to be parted from facebook?

Luckily though we have the internet now which has accelerated the spread of new ideas and products on it. We're not dealing with a pre-internet world anymore so comparing them is silly.

>Bitcoin will become widely used and adopted, whether consumers know they are using it or not is another matter.

If consumers don't know they are using it then there is no reason for it to be used. You think banks can't speed up their transfers to be instant if there is any pressure without using bitcoin?
That isn't Rust's semantics though (as specified in the parent post): Rust's semantics are about ensuring safe manual memory management.
Well our pick comes with a big disclaimer, we chose Polymer. I am not sure if it's already a good idea to build a big consumer-facing using this tech as it's very future (modern browser) oriented.

That said, Polymer has been absolutely awesome to work with. Even though it's not so much a framework as it is an interface/wrapper around some cool new stuff that's in HTML5 we built a very light weight framework around it and that has been a great experience for us.

It's possible we did some more work than we would have to on other frameworks, but we got a lot of control back for it. I think we would've went with something light like backbone.js otherwise. And it's also possible that it would not have been a good choice if we had team members with less experience (i.e. every now again there's some advanced fire extuingishing going on).

Anyway, our audience is a low-traffic tech niche and our app is a SPA that's mostly read-only, so that's a very small target that gives us a lot of room for taking chances and picking tech.
"Or target market are people who are very much productivity seekers, they like to control their email using a native applications that does not distract them when they have to log in and out of the emails. We’re just aiming for people who don’t want to log in using a browser to check their mails every single time."

It seems to be aimed at increasing productivity for users with multiple accounts while remaining usable. I think they're mainly aiming at businesses with this, something like small business sales perhaps.