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> why PE has traditionally been practiced only by
> high-net worth households/institutions.

Short answer to your question is liability. If you can meet the requirements of "qualified investor" then the club has no liability if you lose all your money. They can say "Hey, before you invest you should know you might lose all your money." and you say "Ok, here is $1,000". If you lose all their money, even if you did stupid things with it, they are unable to sue you to recover it[1]. Recent changes have made is possible for non-qualified investors to participate but the rule making on that is incomplete (much to the irritation of places like WeFunder no doubt).

So your Father might not do this with his friends, if they were not qualified investors and he was, because if the friends lost money they might choose to sue your Father to cover their losses and they would have a decent shot of winning that case. At the very least it would cost your father a lot of time and energy and probably wipe out any gains at all the project came up with, or worse amplify any losses.

So to put together your $50k neighborhood investment club is simple if your tolerance for risk is high, and harder if you don't want to be sued by the other members. A simple partnership can often work (liability is spread around to everyone) but consult competent legal counsel before proceeding. Investing in real estate and then structuring it as a landlord deal gives you a level of protection between the investment group and the tenants, that can be handy if you get bad tenants.

[1] Caveat that anyone can sue anyone, and there are gross negligence issues that have carve outs, but generally it shields the partnership from liability.
It sounds like you have fallen into something that is nowadays referred to as "impostor syndrome". This is when people who are competent in their field underestimate themselves: they harbor as suspicion that they are actually not competent and think that others around them have somehow been duped, perhaps only temporarily so.

Obligatory Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

It may help you to remember that if you actually were an idiot, you'd likely be the opposite way: irrationally confident in your abilities. :)
Legal documents aren't tight programs rigidly followed to by a computer. They're rough sketches that Judges are given enormous latitude to interpret.

Several bad things could happen here, not the least of which is that people avoid the GPL for new projects while this plays out.

Agreements are just that -- agreements. The tension that both sides know that they can seek judicial relief in the event of a dispute arguably is the entire basis of civilization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence
Getting fired and getting laid off are totally different things. These days there is no stigma attached to the latter.
Uh, you is whoever they get the program from. It says that.
That's what 'each time you redistribute means". It means if i redistribute to someone, this is what happens.
Recipient is whoever i redistribute to.

So if redhat redistributes (through their website) to vmware, redhat is you, and vmware is recipient.

You don't get to pin You to be a specific person just because it comes out the way you like it. The license says what it says.
(and you can't anyway since this would ruin the rest of the GPL ...)
It also often means "we think you suck and you're not worthy of working here". So yes, if someone told me that I was a disgrace, it'd sting a bit. I realize that not everyone fires for that reason these days, particularly in tech, double particularly in SV, but hey.

And yes, also companies can take it personally when you leave, or at least people in one's immediate periphery can.
I did read the post and didn't find anything detestable at all. It just didn't have much substance given that it's the top post on the front page of HN. He basically just said he got fired, and that being fired has too harsh of a stigma attached to it. Ok, I agree, but is that it? He didn't even touch on why he was fired.

If he was anonymous software engineer at <insert unknown company>, I doubt this would've gotten any attention. Maybe I'm being too harsh, but when I read this post, the first thing that popped to my head was "senior employee fired from high-profile tech company uses subliminal social media marketing to reach front page of HN and land next job." But hey, props to him, it seems to be working.
I can't speak to what Europeans have, but as a Canadian I can. It's not all it's cracked up to be. In BC MSP (Medical Services Plan) is $54/Month for an individual and it's mandatory whether you're employed or not. The amount is probably different in other provinces as medical is a provincial concern (and indeed, coverage varies from province to province). Employers usually offer extended medical, covering things like dental, eyewear, prescriptions etc. This all goes away when you're let go.

We have employment insurance, which is also mandatory (mostly) to pay into, but it only pays about 1700/month and payments only last 15 weeks (after a 3 week waiting period). Yes, it's nice to have some money coming in, but it's nowhere near enough for more than a month or two.

And lastly Welfare only pays about $650/Month not even enough for rent anywhere Metro Vancouver or the Fraser Valley.
I've never been fired. But I've been very unhappy at a job. I left about six-months or a year before I probably would have been fired, had I stayed.

I usually try to leave a job before I'm so miserable that I stop doing work and get fired.
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Only when convenient.

Which is why I find myself reluctantly siding with the vehement nature of gun rights advocates in spite of really desiring a world where guns would not be necessary to possibly keep the "government" (which is increasingly fewer and fewer people with more and more oppressive laws) at bay.

On a side note, I find it ironic that those who would most need guns to both protect themselves from the kind of government that "gun nuts" fear and under possible circumstances of social collapse to protect themselves from "gun nuts", are also the least likely to know how to properly operate with them or want to keep guns for self protection. There is really very little that would allow me to believe our society is even remotely civilized or responsible enough to not necessitate an armed population.

Just take this story for example. Is anyone in the government saying no, you know what, the precursors of mind-reading are too far and not in line with the spirit of the very first and most basic principle of this country. No, you don't and wont hear that, just like you haven't heard that about all the other abuses and violations that have preceded this. Hell, we have the very thing that the "crazies" used to warn about, just even better, self-maintained dossiers on every single person in the country in the form of aggregated social profiles and internet tracking and monitoring.
If I recall correctly, toward the end, MySpace forced most users to "upgrade" their profiles to "2.0", which erased all their HTML and CSS customizations in the process. Many users were extremely upset about this and I suspect it was a major catalyst for the exodus.
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Yeah, pretty much, although the group comprises everyone who has the app.
just one more click, and you'll have the entire post in your stream, no redirecting, no extraneous page loads.

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The post itself touches upon an important issue. Some of the speculation about what happened at Github, though, seems to be the HN version of tabloids.
I'm not an expert, but from what I've read of the docs of both projects I understanding DRF is more modular and easier to customize with its Serializer, Parser, View, Viewset, etc. classes than Tastypie with its monolithic Resource class.
Facebook's main appeal to me was that users couldn't customize their pages. It was fantastic. When they allowed everyone to embed "apps" all over their pages, I disabled it and stopped using it for awhile until they got that cleaned up.
Good lord you really hate that guy.
I don't think the "social safety net" was intended to keep wealthy people wealthy.

It's to ensure basic needs are met.

If you want to remain wealthy, you should probably not count on unemployment to play a role in that.
Just to clarify.... it's retroactive for 60 days. That means you don't really have to do anything for the first 45-ish, and if you don't need insurance in that time, and you get a new job, you're done.

If you do need insurance (break a leg or something), then you can apply then, and it'll take effect retroactively to your departure date.

If you get to 45-ish days and still don't have a new job that'll start before the 60 day mark, you'll need to sign up, or you risk getting hurt after the 60 day mark, when you then can't get insurance, and you'll be SOL.

I am not a lawyer, I've just been between jobs many times in my career :)
At the time it was a revelation. And I did too read all. I guess I'm no-one then, by your standards. I'd warrant you never read a dictionary in your childhood either.

No-one. Well then. Creds are perhaps in order.

So, now - 50 years experience, still working, very senior level tech equivalent to management, hardware and software designer from transistor days through graphical programming platforms. I started at the bit level and grew from there alongside the technology, all the way. Still surfing it.

At this age I think that stands for something. If I were no longer working or able to cut it you might have a point, but I've never got a job by sending in a resume - always by reference. I am still a valuable player today. My paycheck tells me that. Stuff in the field tells me that. Everyone I've ever worked with tells me that - and back it up with investment and salary. Two industries know my name (Datacomms and Music). To my surprise I built up a solid rep and no longer need to keep quiet abut stuff.

Consequential emergent philosophy of the Art.

I also think there's a difference between a ramble and an attempt at linearizing a parallel multi-dimensional thought. English is not good for this. Nor does ADHD help.

Knuth's works are also a multi-dimensional parallel linearization. Similar to though differently presented than Minsky's Society of Mind. Though they are both far better than I at doing that. The value comes after internalizing them, where your mind rebuilds the multi-dimensional structure and the interconnections become useful.

This might come as a surprise, but programming is also a multi-dimensional, parallel, multi-threaded mental activity. Internal knowledge organization of similar form is essential. It is fractal too, no depths too detailed or un-needed, no heights irrelevant, all present at the same time.

If you disagree about the need to know the fundamentals, well, good on yer, but you limit yourself. Tell me how it went when you are 67.
So, that joke scene on West Wing was actually true. Its amazing how looking at a problem sideways can yield some amazing results.
I wanted to understand the problem at an abstract level, rather than describing my exact use case, leading people into digressions, debates, etc.

Also note, I answered my own question with HMAC being the probable solution (before anyone else mentioned HMAC), and others seemed to verify that this might be the best fit by answering with the same thing shortly thereafter. If I can give permission and I only need to provide permission, the only thing I only need is a way to transmit a message and prove that it wasn't modified while in-transit.
This one…I had to address why I was no longer at the company clearly, directly, and without evasion or disparagement. I handled it very well, I think.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I could sometimes use some lessons in diplomacy...
Learning a little programming isn't any harder than learning something about management or sales - it's just that most people don't bother to do it. My mom was 60 when she started learning HTML and javascript. She does just fine updating web pages, forms, etc. for her quilting and singing groups.

I have a lot of respect for good engineers, good managers, and good salespeople. Saying that one discipline is harder than the other is like saying that being a good violin player is any harder than being a good piano player.
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No, that would just mean that the mistake was ironic. Even when not ironic, this particular issue is distracting enough that it's worth correcting.
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Often "laid off" is "fired" (not often as in > 50% of the time, but often as in not-rare). Companies will use "layoffs" as a way to get rid of the dead weight w/ less risk of being sued.
Cut expenses, payoff debt, increase savings... on principle. Then when you see the first early warnings, do the same but twice as hard.

I am well on track to pay the mortage in 4 years instead of the standard 20, have probably 6 months of expenses in the bank, plus another 2-3 months of expenses in a different account because the wife has begin to have funny ideas about what to do with the extra cash. (I have already threaten that I will rather quit before she goes and blows up the war chest in some stupid vacation or something, but still so much for constant vigilance). While I am nowhere near as ready to be let go as of today, I know I will be landing on my two feet if that were to happen.
Interesting that there's mention of JSON and YAML, but no mention of TOML. I'm more interested in hearing why TOML wasn't an adequate solution.
Chris & Aber were distracted by 'partying'.
Hang out at the bars on Wilshire Blvd, you'll
hear things and I'll leave it at that.

I was at a tech conference in the late 00's where I heard a VP (of Engineering?) from MySpace give a talk about the site's architecture. This was probably 9 or 9:30 in the morning, and—I swear—he must've been totally coked up. If that's how you, as a vice president, behave when you're up on a stage at a conference, I wonder how you'd behave behind closed doors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9ff9EVNHJU&t=61
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Atlassian runs bitbucket a github (the company that fired him) competitor.
How would using an asm library make it easier to write a code coverage tool? Or are you talking about JVM code?

The original poster's article seems to be talking about a method that could be adapted to another language other than Java.
I'm with you both in the fact that I started from engineering and learned about many other disciplines as I went along. Also, I'd agree that most other disciplines don't bother to learn engineering/programming.

When you're an engineer, the ugly truth is that to increase your salary and opportunities, you normally need to branch out and learn other things like management and sales.

When you're a good salesperson, you can reach great heights financially without worrying about how to update a web page.
You can sponsor your own rat here: https://www.apopo.org/en/adopt They're also used to sniff out tuberculosis.
I don't understand the idea that gun rights are important because it helps to check oppressive government.

Aren't oppressive gun regulations the sort of thing that guns would let you fight against? It's always presented as, "this must be legal, or else we will lose our ability to fight for freedom." If guns don't let you preserve gun rights, how will they let you preserve any other rights?
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Yes good catch. It's going to be a lot slower anyway. Still does a good job at explaining the matching algorithm concisely.
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This is among the cooler (as in more useful) visualizations I've seen in a long time.
Seymour Cray used to like digging tunnels to clear his mind when designing supercomputers. I wonder if the tunnel(s) he dug still exist...

EDIT: Ha, I Googled it and here's a commenter on BoingBoing saying it's largely a fabrication:
http://boingboing.net/2006/08/10/seymour-cray-liked-t.html

I'm not sure who to believe now.
Website prototype
How much does it cost to build a prototype website? I need to build something that would allow users to create an account and place orders. I have minimal web skills and was going to build something rudimentary at first in Photoshop.
Amazon's own emails regularly get caught in our mail's (Google Apps) spam filter, so I'm skeptical of SES's ability to match MailChimp's level of deliverability.
Nice! I started making a python radio that used pydub and transcribed text (just like this) from different sources few years ago, but abandoned it prematurely. I'll look at your code, hopefully will kickstart it again! Thanks!
https://bitbucket.org/jaideepsingh/isodi/
Not that major management failure is ever punished, is it?
Ah, I see - thanks for this clarification. Alpha server and Beta server can actually communicate after the initial setup, but I didn't want this to be a consideration in my scenario, since I don't want any such communication to be required during each permission message transaction (once per hour or day, etc. would of course be fine).

Perhaps, I will provide an API method for automatically expiring an HMAC and fetching a new one. During this rollover period, messages sent using the old HMAC will be allowed to fail, since they can just come get a new copy from Alpha server.
Compile? I don't think Mel would do anything past assemble.
I think it's also the dunning kruger effect - the "I am a person working in a business, thus I'm an expert, qualified to judge business people".

This also applies to a lot of other disciplines and professions, really.
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Yeah - unfortunately there isn't a great way to select n random rows in standard SQL.

If you have an integral primary key, you could select its max and generate random numbers up to that. Continuity isn't guaranteed so you would need to check for nonexistent primary keys in addition to checking for duplicates.

If there's no integral primary key, then there's no standard SQL solution faster than O(n).
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Oh and I forgot, if you're fired with cause, you don't qualify for EI. You only get EI if you're laid off for lack of work.
Even Henry VIII had to come up with a plausible legal justification for breaking with the Catholic Church.

Being "bound by the Bill of Rights" does not mean that the government must give effect to the broadest interpretations of Constitutional protections. It only means that it must follow clear dictates when they exist, and offer plausible legal constructions when they don't. What we've learned about the NSA programs indicates that the government internally tries to toe what well-defined lines exist without crossing them. Otherwise, we wouldn't be talking about minimization procedures or the distinction between data and metadata.

This article is a great example of the concept. If a police officer walked by your farm in 1789 and saw smoke from a fire, it would not be protected by the 4th amendment. It's totally reasonable for the government to argue that the same principle allows them to observe infrared emissions from inside a house, and it's totally reasonable for the Supreme Court to conclude otherwise. It only becomes unreasonable if the government ignores the dictate once the rule is clear.
You are assuming the company knows who the dead weight is. I have seen more than a few times that someone is laid off, and only after he or she is gone do their managers figure out exactly what they did. Usually to their chagrin that there is no one else who can do it.
Yes, and pre-ACA, if were diagnosed with anything during a coverage gap, it would fall into the dreaded "pre-existing condition" category.
I can understand how you feel way too well. I have gone through periods of anxiety so crippling that I can't even leave the house. Most of the time, the anxiety is manageable... But I end up feeling like I am missing out in some way. Social interaction I'd like yo be having, or ideas that I want to voice.

I think the biggest improvement I've made over the years has just been learning to understand when I am even anxious in the first place. You can get so caught up in the anxiety that you lose the ability to think critically about what is happening to you.

If you can get it under control though... Things get way better. Just know that you are not alone. :-)
I think he means within an organization, not in the industry as a whole. I've noticed this, too. When a company is small and engineer-heavy, the engineers generally have a lot of autonomy and influence over the what and how of the product. As the company grows and layers of management are added, the "leaf node" engineers lose a lot of influence, and their opinions on what the company should be building tend to be less regarded, and often ignored.
As an intermediate step of merging this into videogrep, I've been using moviepy/audiogrep to make these somewhat unnerving condensed c-span videos:

http://lav.io/2015/02/c-span-excerpts/
When did the server make the switch between the two IPs? According to the internet census data gathered in 2012 the 24.187.234.187 address had the following ports open (note SMTP and RDP):

ool-18bbeabb.static.optonline.net - 24.187.234.187:25

ool-18bbeabb.static.optonline.net - 24.187.234.187:80

ool-18bbeabb.static.optonline.net - 24.187.234.187:443

ool-18bbeabb.static.optonline.net - 24.187.234.187:3389

http://www.exfiltrated.com/query.php?startIP=24.187.234.187&...

There was nothing returned for the 64.94.172.146 address.
Given the amount of money involved, the potential damage to your career, and the possibility that you will have deadlines related to tax returns/payments coming up after which you might not be able to fix some of this, I would suggest you do the following, concurrently:

1. Find an accountant.

2. Find a lawyer.

3. Keep written notes of everything, including copies of any relevant electronic communications and details of anything significant that was said to you verbally or on a call, by whom, and when.

4. Possibly start recording any future calls, but check the legality of doing so in your jurisdiction and any notice requirements first. (Don't ask the Internet, ask your lawyer.)

5. Don't talk to anyone at work about what you're doing until you've received proper professional advice.

Make sure the accountant and lawyer are yours, not the company's. Their advisors will have a conflict of interest and can't/shouldn't advise you personally as well. In any case, there is a possibility that the company lawyers and/or accountants have committed serious breaches of professional ethics and/or crimes here.

Make sure all your records are completely under your control, so if they kick you out of their electronic systems and the building at a moment's notice you still have all your evidence.

And from a practical point of view, don't assume malice or that this will end badly, because it may well just have been a naive but innocent screw-up, but do assume that whatever happens you might need another job by the end of this process and plan accordingly just in case.

And obviously don't post any more details publicly.
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I loved and used Opera as my main browser back in the day, flicking back and forth between pages with right-mouse-button gestures and reading my email in-browser before Gmail. What a fantastic browser it was! I am excited to see the Vivaldi project mature and hope to be able to evaluate it once it is more complete.
Great point and a really good way to look at this.