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In many European countries those looser requirements on employee classification are just used to get around their even tighter regulations on employee treatment.

It is almost impossible to fire employees in many European countries. Solution: only hire people as temp workers.

I think it is odd that you are calling out America for putting employment obligations on business when most decry the lack of protection America gives to employees. Only than a few Asian countries, American employer obligations are among the lightest compared to other first world nations.
I don't know what your personal ambitions are, surely they are most important. Given you're posting to a technology board, is technology your priority?

If you're good at or would like to work convincing people - Consultant - big 4 would like you. Niche practices probably more.

Buy-side fund management: Should be easy to get in as an analyst with this experience.
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Even in the original trilogy, Jedis are reclusive monks, so there's a link to celibacy (aren't Buddhist monks mostly celibate, too?).

I'm more surprised that a 7 year old doesn't consider girls icky.
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I visited Houston for my mom's medical problems, and it shocked me how bike unfriendly the city was....

... it was 80 degrees in February.

... I live in Minneapolis and this flaggergasted me. It's a year-round bike city completely wasting that opportunity.
I'm fond of this video that illustrates this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ
The military attracts plenty of geniuses just like any other large organization. Simply by not admitting the least capable the Army ends up significantly higher IQ than the average high school. Meanwhile 39% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 65.9 of those who graduate high school were enrolled in college, so it's not all that selective.

PS: Yes, this means that large numbers of smart people don't think the way you do.
To replace a broken wire, I once had to file a notch in a cheap plain screwdriver blade - the screw had a protruding center pin. It protected a clothes steam iron ...
I love Gitlab but the biggest issue I have with it is that I'm a major version behind and on the minor version of .8 or soemething.

For me to migrate I'll have to upgrade to the minor versions until I get to the latest. Thats a huge pain. Is there any other way?
May I ask how you decided on this way of organising your business? Did you research it all yourself or did you get some expert help?
If you read the article, you will notice that I never claim to have fixed all of Italy's problems, but rather that I lit a fire that helped improve one small one.

> The resulting law only allows €1 charges for people under 35

The did end up fixing that one actually, and now it's available for everyone.

Most of the other things you point out are certainly real problems. I hope other people will do their part to help fix them!

> You can't fix the system

That is exactly the kind of problematic attitude that I am talking about. No one ever claimed it was easy, but if you do not try, it's obvious nothing will improve!
I like this development. I feel that we have three editors (really types thereof) for a reason.

The Sublime/TM/Notepad++ crowd cares about OS-native integration. I use Sublime frequently because after a solid decade+ living in OSX land, my fingers know how what to do, and neither vim nor emacs respect that without considerable massaging.

Vim fans want to use an elegant command syntax. I watch vim users code and always make a point to learn how to vim, eventually. The only reason I don't, is because I haven't.

Emacs users want/need the programmable, extensible runtime. Emacs is a programming language; particularly in Lisp development, Emacs often contains programs that are basic/standard parts of the toolchain and not found in other editors. I use Emacs because I like it, but more importantly, because I have to.

Combining the elegant syntax of Vim with the extensibility of Emacs, as well as some out-of-the-box support for the basic OS-native commands, is a very good start.
I wish there was more information about this organization. Additionally, I get an insecure https flag on Google chrome. SKETCH
Which in practice is not enforced very often.
Protected bike lanes would help; unprotected ones just turn into parking spots for UPS, Fedex, police cars and other random vehicles.
It's funny, whenever I look up algorithmic music, it never seems to be the usual pop cadences. The Phd who make this their field seem to prefer atonal or dissonant generated music.
Search "propaganda"

https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/?q=propaganda&mfrom=&mto=&...
Ah...you're right, I missed the "somewhat compatible" part of the sentence.

The only other problem would be if it's "notable" enough :)
The rules about titles on Hacker News are both stupidly strict and then erratically enforced: a bad combination. dang said he would bring more transparency to this, and he has done so where he comments, but I assume, his time being finite, he often has to focus on other things, which leads to the erratic nature of the enforcement. I do wish they would allow more freedom about titles and also about article submissions. I'd also love to see more transparency about why certain articles are forbidden, such as this one: http://gawker.com/why-weve-decided-to-organize-1698246231
You appear to have skipped a word or two in what I wrote.
The comma is not a big deal : it's a problem caused by tone equalizing (aka temperament). Think of instruments as ladders : they have all the same steps, but start at different heights. When combining several types of instruments, the resulting steps are not aligned.

Equal temperament solve that problem by normalizing the steps' absolute height. It's a trade-off between the instrument's perfect harmony, and the orchestra's overall one.
That and USB's limit of 127 devices http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
I'm unfamiliar with these terminals (have kind of always wanted to play with one), but at first blush, a "secure and auditable" messaging system does not seem that difficult to build.

Is it a legitimate compliance or practical implementation problem, or is it just the network effect?
I love how lawyers and the gov assume what my preferences are and what's best for me. I work as an independent contractor and I don't want any benefits from the company I'm providing services. I want to provide my services and get paid. That's the only benefit I want.

And this:
"..but the company also gave them strict guidelines for participation which made them look like employees according to the IRS’s 20-prong test. Uber screened and trained its drivers, and drivers could get deactivated by Uber for having their rating dip below what local managers set as a cut-off, for not accepting a certain percentage of trip requests, or for customer complaints."

How are those strict guidelines? So now contractors are exempt from any scrutiny in the services they provide? Makes no sense. Then Uber would be getting sued for putting passengers at risk by having zero QA.
In my view all it means is that an approximation of perfection is good enough. And the notion of temperament only really applies to keyboard instruments. Strings are tuned to perfect intervals, and even 'good' intonation of fingered notes is a matter of interpretation. Wind instruments are a hodgepodge of compromises.
It's better to make multiple breakages one by one than not doing them at all. On a plus side, maybe at some point you'd realize this print statement isn't that important anyway to make thousands of edits all over the world.
GitHub means tying your company's incredibly valuable central assets to a 3rd-party hosted service, despite the service being brain-dead-easy to host locally.

If you're avoiding servers, that also means that you have different accounts for every SaaS service replacement you use, and administering permissions and accounts means a lot of extra and pointless labor.

Using custom code to facilitate your business' processes -- such as server-side plugins for things like your source control -- becomes impossible.

Business processes become dependent on SaaS + data dependence that can't easily be exported from the SaaS services, and you're paying out the nose for them every month -- locally licensed software is cheaper, for quite obvious reasons, all across the board.

All so that you can avoid a once-in-N years failure of a hard drive and running apt-get?

No thanks. That's an insane cost/benefit analysis.

Server administration should be easier than it is, but it's not hard, and I'm not about to make every other business process worse just to avoid it.
Lucas dodged the question entirely!
This one looks interesting: https://wikileaks.org/sony/docs/05/docs/Anti-Piracy/IP%20Obf...
It is not a long-term babysitting service. It is a community for children to live life, learning the lessons that are needed.

As for curriculums, how to get around it depends on the state. Some have no restrictions on private schools. For some, it might have to be placed under a religious school kind of situation.
The "why" I'm seeing here is not the curious type, it's demanding justification. It's telling people they must explain themselves thoroughly, to defend their decision every single time they choose to use it.

Go is sufficiently mature enough that those questions need not be asked any longer. Docker is built on it, Google's Vitess database sharding system (which powers YouTube, of all things) is built on it. Nobody is at risk of "driving themselves off a cliff" for choosing Go, provided they are proficient enough with it.

I haven't seen any other language get as much hate as Go does on this site.
Most of the comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291040 as they were quoting poetry.
I mean the Jedi wouldn't be constrained to only marrying other Jedi so I don't see why thats a problem.
Let's all chime in with Bloomberg interview experiences! My experience included two timed online tests full of "shitty pointer and array" (and C++ constructor initialization order and C undefined behavior and...) questions and two phone screens of the same before they brought me onsite.

The onsite interviews were 10% system design, 10% more "shitty C++" questions, 20% actual coding, 20% analytical puzzles ("you have two eggs and a skyscraper...") and 40% grilling on networks, such as enumerating all the error codes that socket system calls can return. While I've written tons of low level networking code, I didn't have the depth of networking experience they sought. (And I didn't do well on the analytical puzzles.) It was an interesting challenge though, and my only complaint was the job description didn't indicate what they really wanted.
The most straightforward argument I can see against Uber drivers being "employees" legally are the ones who simultaneously do work for Uber and Lyft, picking and choosing whatever fares they they want to chain together from both.
Steve Blank calls it Customer Development in his book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I highly recommend reading his book.
Zed Shaw is an inspiration because he has the courage to be a man in a boyish, neoteny-driven industry. Something tells me that even when he's 50 or 60, he's not going to get cosmetic surgery like most major players in the VC-funded world.

I don't know him, but he strikes me as an actual badass. I mean, I'm badass as hell by tech-employee standards, but that's only because most tech-employees are happy corporate serfs and I stand out in relative terms by actually having opinions. Relative to full-grown men I am fairly average on the badass spectrum: respectable, but not quite Mike Ehrmantraut.

Zed comes off as (and probably is) an actual badass. And in a world where there are self-flagellating or clueless young engineers actually advocating for Scrum to be imposed on them, that's an inspiration that we desperately need.
Man I'm gonna miss the EU. It was a bit all over the place at the beginning but all of the major arcs after Hand of Thrawn were tightly plotted and really expanded the lore. The yuuzhan vong arc was a treasure trove even if they did kill off the two best character in the whole damn universe (Anakin JR & Chewi).
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It could see cases where there is an impedance mismatch between the guest FPGA running on the host FPGA. The idea of the genetic algorithm to map out the search space is to find some identity function HDL that allows for a clean 1:1 or 2:1 mapping of resources without incurring some combinatorial inefficiency.

Maybe c-slowing could help with the timings, even if the area used was 4x it would still be a great research platform for reconfigurable computing since the bitstreams are proprietary, not documented and not portable.

http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA
>40,000 social Security numbers leaked? These were not only work emails.
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I have not only used slack i am running a 600 people channel, use it for work plus several side projects. I am a huge proponent of Slack and I have used them since very early on. I am not disputing the quality of the App.

But it's not just an execution game as many would like to claim.
Note: not staff

There is (used to be?) a flamewar detection algorithm built into the larger ranking algorithm that would penalize stories which sparked rapid discussion accompanied by frequent downvoting.
You have a very poor grasp of history if you mistake the lessons learned out of two brutal world wars, not to mention the senseless history of violence that preceded it,
with some kind of cowardice. Your viewpoint can probably be traced back to some notion of Anglo-Saxon supremacy, that by now has lost its racial undertones and lives on as the idea of American exceptionalism: That somehow the US is a gift to the world and not a country like any other.

The US is just such a young country that it simply either hasn't learned the lesson, or that any kind of political dissent is dissipated or ineffective. Personally I take humility over pride any time of the day.
I agree SmartOS has been doing the same. Indeed what is old is new again. One thing that is new is the Docker user experience. While Solaris Zones add increased security and fast upgrade to KVM, Docker brings new packaging, distribution, and command line experience to KVM.
His symptoms are typical of hypoxia, and given that he was at 7600ft mild hypoxia seems the most likely explanation of his symptoms.
When the primary way politicians reward or punish groups is the tax system, you get foolish stuff like this.
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Personally I enjoy any editor that doesn't get in my way, I really want to learn Emacs and / or Vim, but it's not exactly a downhill experience as say Notepad++, Atom, and other editors. I enjoy the idea of having all the Emacs or Vim super powers, but I can't seem to get used to it, I either use nano while on the terminal or just a full on IDE.
A suit.

It's basically the same as a man's suit, except that you may swap out the trousers ("pants") for a matching skirt, and no tie. As such, the blouse typically leaves the top button undone.
So.... who wants this? Vim users like vim as it is, warts and all. Emacs users already use emacs and typically don't want to learn vim.
My point is that a large percentage of the people who are prominent right now are the ones who had lift from the worst of older generations. They're not reflective of the generation as a whole, or what we will be when some of us actually get into real power.

Right now, the oldest Millennials are 33. In 15 years, it will be different.
I have multiple Go apps on my Linode server. I use nginx as a reverse proxy. Each Go app listens on a different port.

I use supervisor to start/stop my Go programs. I also use it for log rotate and to autostart my programs on a system reboot.
It is said elsewhere, but the title is very objectionable. If anything, Sudbury schools care more about rules because they are meaningful rules that are created by the community to keep the community functioning smoothly.

One can say it is a school that hates top-down authority and their rules, but not rules in and of themselves. How would that even make sense for a democracy to hate the laws they themselves make?
So. Enron. What should have happened there?
> I've learned so much about programming and computer science in general from HN, and even physics, biology, politics, and other topics.

I can almost guarantee that 1) you really haven't, and 2) the time here is wasted.

With that, I'm going to close this window and go back to reading a book on math theory.
(apologies for posting on a new account for this; I don't feel safe discussing social-justice-related topics on accounts that can connect with my real-world persona)

>If you said yes to any of these questions, you're a feminist.

There's danger in treating ideological positions in the same way we treat party affiliations. The idea of the "motte and bailey doctrine" [0] is relevant here, where ideas like "feminism is just the belief that women are people!" are the motte, and more controversial ideas are the bailey that not only do many adherents support, but then use the near-universal acceptance of the motte as reasoning why people should accept the package deal of including the bailey as well.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric...
In the article it states that drivers have been fired for not taking a certain percentage of passengers. While it isn't a strict hours, it is firing someone for not meeting their determined amount of work.

As she says these companies are square pegs that are trying to be forced into round holes. Uber drivers are not normal independent contractors, but nor are they full employees. I really like Uber, but forcing employees to pay for gas, maintenance, insurance, etc is abusing their position. There needs to be a reclassification that can work for the on demand companies. Place these employees somewhere in between and require certain things be met, maybe pay for gas whilst they are driving passengers, or a stipend for maintenance costs.
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I'm sorry, but I think everything you've written is utterly backwards. Nobody outside the internet takes seriously the ideas that due process shouldn't exist, or that identity is more important than actions, or that dissent is morally harmful.

And "Conservatism" in its hard-right, Koch-and-Paul incarnation is already mainstream. It has been mainstream ever since Ronald Reagan -- not just mainstream but the mainstream, in the sense that it keeps winning elections, no matter what the San Francisco digerati think of it.

(And for reference, I'm very hard-left. I don't like that the Republican Party wins elections; I just also don't pretend it doesn't happen and then claim the Tumblr Left is somehow mainstream!)
I meant a landing party! :) (I may be wrong about where they intend to land, but see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Landing_Complex_1_sig...)
I tried that -- went to Lowes I believe, and asked a hardware guy there if they carried the bits. He then proceeded to treat me as if I was some sort of criminal, informing me that those security screws are there for a reason. I'm sorry, but it is not against any criminal code that I know of to want to fix your own oscillating fan. Of course I see that they have it on their web site, so I should have just brought up that page on my cell phone (or part number) and be done with it.
FWIW, I use Sublime/Jetbrain products for most of my programming and I always turn on vim keybindings. It isn't 100% the same as actual vim, but it is still faster than a mouse for me.
This seems like a logical progression of standoff artillery. A MLRS that can launch drones is that more lethal and the base system and harder to back compute its location.
I feel like I'd rather read advice from someone who actually has become a millionaire in 3 years.
Understood. But that is actually scrrr's point. But scrrr was making it in a way that explains why people who have not experienced war and violence use it as entertainment.
"Variables should be named using Hungarian notation."

Please note that this is from a different time and space, and that you should not apply such rules to every language.
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I have used both bitbucket and, recently, gitlab for personal projects and projects for small companies. I can't say much for x-feature or another, but gitlab just feels "easier".
I think it is not fair to claim these young men want war. I think they want to fight for their cause.

Also, it is the United States which created a power-vacuum in the region. Why they did this is still a mystery to me.

I demonstrated in Amsterdam against the invasion of Iraq at the time as it was already clear at the time it was a racket.
When I saw this thread, the initial thought I had was "pff, another emacs thread about vim users".

But this is absolutely perfect (either for transition, or for someone like me that just wants to try a transition but does not know where to start).

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful work. :)
If you do, you have a high-paying job or income. Otherwise, you work there and live in another city.
Works here.

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Learning vim is like learning Kung Fu, you practice the same awkward route motions until they're so natural that you don't even notice you're doing them. Sadly, it's not a quick process, but it's worth it.
Around here, about 80 % of cases where helmet helps are incidents not involving a motor vehicle. I.e. bicyclist collides with another cyclist, a pedestrian, or a stationary object (Earth counts as stationary object here).

Using helmet would be very wise also in Berlin (and many do use it, if you look around).
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