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No, I did not look at that picture; data is much more easy to handle in text format. I looked two days ago at Wikipedia [0], but primary source should actually be Eurostat [1].

And you are of course right in that different countries have different systems, and numbers are not always directly comparable. A small difference is not necessarily significant, or there may be quite some difference in practice even if numbers are the same.

But if we look at those Eurostat numbers, what the paper says is Total revenue from taxes and compulsory social contributions - % of GDP so also for Portugal and Greece, those mandatory social security contributions of employer and employee are included as tax revenues in this comparison, like they are for Sweden.

What is significant is that the employment rate of people varies a lot in different countries; it is 73-74 % in Sweden, Netherlands and Germany, while it is below 50 % in Croatia and Greece.

It should also be noted that tax revenue to GDP is just a ratio, a number. It does not mean that taxes are a certain proportion of GDP, because a sum of all tax revenues is not a component of GDP.

Interestingly, in Portugal this ratio actually dropped from 33.2 % to 32.4 % between 2011-2012. Most countries were tightening taxes at that time. But since this number is ratio to GDP, if GDP increases and tax revenue stays the same, the ratio drops.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries_...

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/tax...
You're in luck! In most cities, there are Code for America "Brigades" that are meetup groups where people can work on digital public service projects.

http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/

For example, I'm in the SF brigade and work on the BallotAPI project.

https://github.com/sfbrigade/ballotapi
A fair point. You're probably not running on average sub 8:30 miles unless you are training for performance in some form or fashion. Because it generally hurts quite a bit. :-)

With the "speed cutoff" You are also probably getting a higher percentage of males who of course have shorter life expectancy rates than women.
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The syntactic filler likes, or the "its' like they're..." like?

If you pay close attention, you'll find that it's not always filler. Often, people are prefacing references to visuals from the common culture.
looks like it does. Check out the github mosh issues on ipv6.
Quite old. I was in my mid 20s. But this was in the early 1970s.

It was a BASIC program. I was given about 20 80-column cards which I had mark with a thick black pen in the relevant positions. I then gave the pack back to the friend who had access to one of the early multi-user terminals in another town and who could run it. He was impressed that it ran perfectly without any syntax errors, but not that it was an infinite loop. <grin>

On the other hand, my first computer I had to build with a soldering-iron and a very large box of parts in 1979 and that's what finally enabled me to begin programming for real, in both BASIC and Assembly Language.
I would have certainly agreed if I had of see 'and a touch of jQuery' in the copy.
Heh well, may help with QoS, but I guess that we've seen what a slippery slope that can be.
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Would anyone from the Government Digital Service [1] in the UK care to comment on this? GDS is a world-class operation which has many smart people using modern technology to solve real problems for UK citizens. Much (all?) of the work is open source [2].

[1] https://gds.blog.gov.uk/about/
[2] https://github.com/alphagov
It also forces the candidates to invest their own time and brainpower before you expend resources to screen/interview them. Helps cut down on individuals who are interviewing only to test the market and may not be really serious about the position.
It's not cannibalizing their market, it's exploding it. Currently, I will use uber infrequently because it's fairly cheap, half the price of a typical cab ride (and by contrast, I would say I use cabs rarely, when I have no other choice). If it becomes 1/10th the price of a typical cab ride, I would probably use it at every opportunity, all the time. More than 10x my current usage? Yes, probably.
In any case, the first step would be to develop a long-term, viable independent biosphere. We haven't yet figured out that one. Once we get that working, we need enough excess free capacity to raise and educate children to be the next generation of biosphere caretakers.

We're nowhere close.
Thanks for the kind words. To be honest, this framing doesn't seem skillful at all. It seems screamingly obvious (at least to me). What I can't figure out is why this view should need so much pushing in the first place.
> can you be any more banal than by stating "do one thing and do it well"?

While this does apply to the article, it isn't even that good of advice for startups. It's not enough to do one thing really well. That one thing also must be needed very much by no matter how small group of people. You can create app that is really good at finding just McDonalds restaurants in your area, for example, but if nobody really needs it it will not matter.
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His tip was "invest in the brands you like."
I would tend to agree -- the way I always learned quantum mechanics was that the wavefunction was merely a representation that happens to give the right answers when operated on by the Hamiltonian.

In much the same way, I don't think that particle physicists really think that matter is made of tiny strings.

I might actually buy a copy of this paper, I'd be curious to see what new experiments they have done to more closely demonstrate the physicality of the wavefunction.
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Yes, I agree with you in essence. I don't agree that it's pointless, though; I believe there exists some merit to it. The point of the comparison was more about a quick and dirty quick example with the compression implementation and settings used by GyfCat, which was a quick way to convert the GIF. There are obvious flaws in this approach. Many flaws, in fact. However, even with those flaws, it demonstrated my point (that the GIF sucks) as far as I'm concerned. More optimal settings and all sorts of possibilities for alternatives should be explored. But, I will leave that to someone else because that is outside of the intended scope of my intent for this comment.
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Not sure if I agree with your narrative. The first time I had a Chipotle burrito, it was stuffed so full that it exploded onto my lap as I was taking the first bite. I was thoroughly annoyed and didn't eat there for five years (until I discovered their burrito bowls, but it was too late to buy their stock by then!).

So I agree with Patrick that he got lucky. :)
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Hell, a lot of them didn’t even change the face on the “designer” side! It doesn’t look like them at all, and doesn’t line up with the altered “coder” side.
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He has also written an excellent C# book, C# in depth http://csharpindepth.com/ .
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You know, that the Altair was before and Woz did his own design just because he couldn't afford the Altair.
Choice means more providers to choose from. Net neutrality is about the content on the wire. If it reduces congestion between Netflix and Comcast, great. But it still means people choose between slow DSL and expensive Cable. What will help is a third, fourth, and fifth options, and this doesn't help.

You don't need to be angry about it, no one is astroturfing, and no one spat on your mom. - grab a cold danish beer and enjoy one of your 5 broadband providers. Wish I had either option.
Thanks for the interview. Since I only interviewed very few people from my post last month, I have a good idea of who you are.

The reason you haven't heard back yet is because the most recent interview round is still on-going and a decision has not been reached yet. You should expect to hear back this week.
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"Extreme thermophiles can reproduce up to 122C" and 122 > 52. How should I resolve the apparent mismatch between your statement and observation?
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Nice post with some good example.
I remember that AirBnb to raise money created some Cereals for the Political campaing (https://www.airbnb.it/obamaos)

Thanks to them they raised enough money to pay and work and I think the best lesson here is that if you can't make your own money you probably won't raise them with founding.
I would not actually suggest this as a strategy, since you almost certainly won't beat the market. Again, dumb luck. 75% of my investments are in index funds. If you're investing solely for returns, they should be substantially 100% of your equity allocation. (My last 25% is my concession to a deep-seated desire to play WoW with real money.)
Great advises!

I would add:

- one more: do it fist time in the morning, i know it is hard, but after 30mins of coding you will feel good about your self end progress.
Everything is a remix. Everything we do is based on something we have seen somewhere, how else could we do it ? Hardly anything is original, creativity is just the process of knowing how to mix things in a creative way to create something seemingly new.
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Why do you care? Isn't it better to just focus on perfecting your art, or your code, and not waste time trying to prevent people copying it in some way.

People are going to copy anyway, everything is a copy of something. But if you create your own style so perfected that it cannot be copied without tremendous amount of time, you are already ahead of everybody else in your skill.

Also, more time to develop your skill than to waste time on trying to prevent somebody else doing the same thing.
Even without deferred rendering, why the limitation? I am sure there is a limit in the standart pipeline but can't I just pass as much as light info to shaders now, the result is just slightly longer shaders
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I didn't say they didn't lose MORE when Apple launched the iPhone 6. I said Samsung was already on a FAST DECLINE in profits since EARLY THIS YEAR.
It's because of the cost, nothing else. Everyone I know would switch to iPhone in a heartbeat if they had the Rs. 60k you need in India to buy one. My Android phone, on the other hand, cost me Rs. 13k.

Android thrived because shelling out a month's salary on phones is a losing proposition in third world countries (which have the majority of phone uses)
Job poster here. I definitely do try to let the candidates know of the outcome once they make it past the coding interview phase. throwawaybcporn completed his interview fairly recently and a decision on that round of interviews had not been made yet. The candidates will hear back this week.

As with any startup, we are a small team doing a million things, and sometimes things (such as interview rounds) may take longer than they should because a critical need for the business was prioritized.
Smartphones are the first computing experience for a lot of people. My mom, 64, had never used any sort of computing device before I got her an Android smartphone. She doesn't even know what a browser is. The only thing she knows is how to use WhatsApp and order things off a shopping app I installed for her. To her, that's the "internet". And she is perfectly happy with that.
You can plan every single thing. Whats your real problem?
Throws some good skepticism on the near-term timeframe estimates being thrown around for the advent of self-driving cars.
If your management isn't doing useful work, then it's because of poor communication from you.
There is no limitation per se,but with per-pixel lighting(and pretty much all lighting is done per-pixel nowadays) you would have to run your shader program exactly 2073600 times for a FullHD resolution....and that's every frame. So 60 times a second. Now imagine doing the lighting calculations for one light source....not too complex, few multiplications and that's all....but if you have several lights....then it's just way too much for any graphics card. A "slightly longer" program that has to run over 2 million times a frame is not really acceptable.
Business Analyst by profession and a Management Graduate.

Knowing nothing about coding, I got hooked and fascinated with the things we can make if we are able to code. Just started to learn coding from last week (on my own, mostly Codecademy and Codeschool) and getting a hang of it. Yesterday I was able to create a basic website' front-end design using HTML and CSS ;-)

Really excited about the coming months and things I should be able to do. Probable learning path in mind is HTML+CSS, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby

I will be greateful to get some suggestions and help.
From my POV of Tesla's mission, I think Tesla would be happy to bow out of this fight and probably go into battery production/innovation. Giga-factory and all.

I think for ME as a consumer, I will prioritize price over convenience unless I'm in a huge rush... so as long as the car arrives in 20-mins ish, I'll pick the cheaper option. But I suppose someone will aim to be hyper-fast, and someone will aim to be hyper-cheap.

Pretty exciting to be a consumer either way! (I'm probably being naive...)
You should read the book "The Martian" by Andy Weir if you haven't already. Doing things in space can require a lot of hacking!
I assume the OP meant the people who are passionate about building a sign-up system for universal healthcare might not be so passionate about building a sign-up system for, I don't know, national concealed carry permits or something.
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That is great. I wish my country has something like that. Is there a way to join as a foreigner and become a US citizen after a time? ;)
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And, actually, the scientific consensus still seems to mostly be that saturated fat is bad from a cardiovascular disease perspective

I don't think it is anymore.

A Systematic Review of the Evidence Supporting a Causal Link Between Dietary Factors and Coronary Heart Disease

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=11084...

Insufficient evidence (≤2 criteria) of association is present for intake of supplementary vitamin E and ascorbic acid (vitamin C); saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids; total fat;

Reduced or modified dietary fat for preventing cardiovascular disease

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002137...

There were no clear effects of dietary fat changes on total mortality (RR 0.98, 95% CI 0.93 to 1.04, 71,790 participants) or cardiovascular mortality

Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/91/3/535.long

no significant evidence for concluding that dietary saturated fat is associated with an increased risk of CHD or CVD.
Credentials generally just mean that some institution decided to give you a title.
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Perhaps they also go to more concerts etc as well.
I'm guessing the US IRS wants to avoid giving tax frauds an implied list of everything they don't know. They may be worried that anybody with income not listed on their pre-filled declaration will not report it.
Ireland has a Pay As You Earn system which is usually administered by your employer. Mostly, you do nothing and the money is paid.

Every 5 years, file a P21 to check you're not due any refunds.

If you're self-employed, it's a bloody nightmare.
Google is the most visited site in the world because it offers a product that is significantly better than its competitors.

Google is yet to display the aggressive expand-at-all-costs philosophy of Uber. Despite all those privacy concerns, I still believe that many of the guys at Google believe that "Don't be Evil" mantra. It also helps that the guys who've been in charge so far - Page, Brin and Schmidt - are, at heart, nerds who just love technology. Page and Brin are mostly accidental businessmen - they were doing their PhDs, not trying to build the next Microsoft.

Kalanick and the guys running Uber seem to be more about business than technology. Nothing wrong with that, of course. This gives them the killer 'profit at all costs' instinct OP describes.

Plus, Google does about 10 things (maps, Android, search, Devices, Plus, video, cloud services, productivity software, Chrome, Chrome OS, autonomous cars, etc.). Uber does only one thing. That helps it to focus - a key ingredient of 'killer instinct'
Very nice - thank you.
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And, for the longest time, banking on a miracle flying device would have been a terrible idea.

Language is less extensible and more just plain mutable. Consider the phrase "firing rate" when applied to an archer. Something tells me this mutability is not a selling point around here.
Another issue some people here have overlooked: Google is a public company. It is responsible to its shareholders who seldom share the founders' long-term vision. 1 year of Google losing cash on an ambitious car project and investors will start grumbling. Another year of that and you will have some 'activist investor' asking for ending the damn thing and going back to making profits.

Uber is a private company and a growing one at that. It is expected to lose money. It can go all in without anyone but its private investors questioning it - private investors who want it to do whatever it can for a $100B IPO
You're certainly right, third then.
Strip the project down to the basics and get a working prototype online. Don't try to develop a fully featured project by waiting until step 10 is finished before launching. Instead, spend a weekend on step 1 and launch the site, then develop step 2, step 3, etc.

This way you and others can use the project as it develops. It's a lot more fun when you can play with a working prototype of your project at any given time, and you have users enjoying the service and requesting features. It's great motivation. Also, if you notice at step 3 or 4 that no one cares about your project, you can toss it in the garbage, move onto the next idea, and be glad you didn't wait until step 10 to launch and waste all that time.

When you bite off too much, the finish line is so far in the distance that you lose all motivation.
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> The moment the first human casualty occurs do to some software/hardware failure, there will be serious ramifications for the self-driving world.

Just want to add to the discussion a reminder that this is said about literally every new piece of technology that has ever happened- the first human casuality from riding a horse, first human casualty from driving a car, etc.

It's interesting to note that we're expected to lose our minds over the first human death with New Technology Y, when Old Technology X is typically killing humans all the time.

Also out of curiosity– re: longevity, why would a driverless car have to be on the road for 15 years? Why not just update/retrofit/repair/replace every year or so?

Spacecraft and military equipment are used in really extreme settings! Also can't driverless cars update themselves, go for repairs themselves, etc?

Also I'm guessing it wouldn't make a lot of sense for regular folks to own their own driverless car. They'll just use one at the touch of a button whenever they need to. When renting becomes THAT cheap, ownership makes less sense (for most people, at least).

My $0.02
To be fair, Uber doesn't seem to promise any of its drivers a 'career'. It offers them a way to supplement their existing careers.

I don't see how this is any different from factories replacing low skill labor with robots. As libertarian as it sounds, I would point the finger at drivers who think of driving as a 'career'.
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I worked a year on the UK government digital service, they really were trying to do things differently, it was a really great experience with real teams working in a supportive atmosphere. I think the 2 services share some DNA and If you get the opportunity to work at the USDS then you should grab it with both hands.
> People who recognize that the internet has been a free market for most of its existence

Really? ARPANET and NSFNET were big free market bastions, were they?
I'm guessing it's not possible for non-US citizens to join this?
Here's a Mercedes prototype driving in live traffic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5kJ_8JAp-w

I would put that on the same league as Google's.
Tornado made async code slightly less painful by using yield and coroutines, but you still have to run blocking methods on thread pools using futures. They abstracted it really nicely and I can now write clean code if I need an occasional blocking library in my tornado code.

But after writing tons of Go over the past 2-3 years, going back to async code, even with the tornado sugar, just feels like driving a manual car after getting used to automatic. It's just redundant. I've seen better, I've written way cleaner code and got better concurrency. Promises, futures, yielded generators - they are all syntactic hacks. The only language I've used that really addresses this properly is Go (disclaimer: I haven't written any Erlang).
Price is just as important in the first world countries. Not everyone wants to spend almost $1k USD on a phone, which is something you might drop and break. When there are Android phones on offer with equal or better specifications and a lower price, most people will pick that one.
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What about the Arecibo Observatory? It has a 1,000 ft (300 m) diameter dish. It is well know from the James Bond Golden Eye (1995) movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory .

Are there physical limitations that would prevent a communication to Pluto?

The Parkes Observatory has only a 230 ft (70 m) dish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory . It is well known from the first Apollo moon landing and The Dish (2000) movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/
Snap! Did my comp sci GCSE in 1990.