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This is a bit childish. Firstly, the EU is democratically elected: the parliament is elected directly. The commissioners are appointed by democratically elected governments and subject to the parliament's approval.

Secondly the EU competition bureaucracy has never shown a bias against American (or even non-EU) companies. If you check http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/statistics/statistic... (page 3) you'll see that of the 10 highest cartel fines, 9 went against EU companies. One was LG Electronics.

Thirdly, the idea that any company the size of google would abandon the European market in some sort of spiteful retreat is laughable. Europe has a strong track record in terms of the rule of law and google will have a fair chance to present their arguments.

Fourthly, there shouldn't be spaces before punctuation.
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Using it on and off, but that's mostly because I'm hopelessly addicted to vim. In fact it says a lot that this is the first editor that can replace vim for several days in a row.

Coworkers otherwise completely replaced Sublime with Atom.

That said, atom can do stuff that is simply impossible to do in vim†, such as https://atom.io/packages/svg-preview (shameless plug).

† used to use vim+fswatch+open(1) on OS X, but that's incredibly hackish in comparison to what amounts to instantaneous native support by design.
OP here. Excited to start showing this stuff to the world. We think identity and login are really broken today, especially on devices that are becoming smarter (mobile, TV, etc.), and we are hoping to provide a solution that lets you take an identity with you wherever you want/need it.

Since we're not a social network, we can avoid a lot of the risk and confusion about how to use the product without accidentally sharing too much information, and really focus on building a first-class identity product.
We're happy to answer questions if you have them. There's more to come, soon!
And it probably does require a license.
I think the key difference (having done both) is that when you are consulting, a company is paying you (usually out of a pretty large budget) for a business outcome that they really, really want. When you are selling something that somebody with a lot of money really, really wants, you have a much easier time convincing them to pay you a lot of money. So your rate is really a function of those two things- perceived value of what you are delivering and how much they have to spend. It has nothing to do with what they pay other people who work there, etc.

When you apply to a job, they see you as a permanent cost center and not as an immediate way to grow their bottom line. In this case the negotiation changes to a large degree. I suppose it's possible to transfer the conversation during a salary negotiation so that you are selling based on the points above, but I think that's much easier said than done.

I think this constantly recurring point about raising rates is based on people who sell consulting services having a larger-than-necessary gap between what a company would pay for the outcome and what they are charging.
Private Offices with open doors and a communal meeting place in the middle seem to be rather effective in my experience. You hear just enough of what's going on that you can join in if needed but also separated enough that a pair of headphones can put you in silence.
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They are not subject to random ID checks. You are however, subject to random fare inspection.
There is an appeal process, and just recently you are now generally notified if you are on it.

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/04/14/us-t...

That doesn't mean it is perfect (far from it), but things have gotten (slowly) better.
The post's entire point is that IDs are de facto travel papers. The reasons why we object to photo ID at vote time should also apply to general intra-US travel (or at least intrastate travel).
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This might be the ticket: the reverse french press http://kk.org/cooltools/archives/10162

(I also like that it sounds like some sort of judo move.)
If you aren't sure then you are saying that you don't understand the situation well enough to have a view.

You can reasonably ask that they state their assumptions or clarify their categories, but beyond that it seems to me that you just don't know enough to critique their illustration.
Google search is on internet.org, so is Wikipedia.
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Adler is a prolific inventor, his other most famous invention is the Aerobie flying disc (circa 1980 or so).
Give the choice between that and no internet (Wikipedia alone could be transformative, conditional on literacy), then yes, I'd probably make that choice.

Its not ideal, but marrying the commercial incentives of telcos to get people paying for data and the gateway drug of free access seems more likely to get more people connected faster than anything else.
Without the sludge.
As an EU citizen and consumer, here's my message to European Commission: SCREW YOU!

I would like to know why is it so hard (and expensive) to buy a car on a foreign EU country and legalize it on other, I don't know why am I still paying robbery-like roaming "costs", I don't how is it possible to be considered fiscal resident simultaneous on 2 different countries and why citizens has still to resort to individual country-to-country specific deals to avoid double taxation within EU.

And I could just keep going on... BUT they are worried with a freaking search engine! Piss off.
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I've never had my ID checked to ride on a Greyhound bus.
What's the difference, exactly? "Travel papers" are used to control whether or not you're allowed to travel. ID checks are also used to control whether or not you're allowed to travel. (For example, one use of ID checks for air travel is to check the traveler against the government's no-fly list.)

Are you just saying that the requirements aren't currently restrictive enough to be worth complaining about? Because I only see a quantitative difference, not a qualitative one.
The solution presented here basically consists of implementing a VehicleType class with a bunch of static instances without using the class syntax. I can't decide if this was a deliberate decision from the author or if he just didn't realize this.
Check page 3 on this list: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/cartels/statistics/statistic.... Of the ten highest cartel fines, only one was levelled against a non-European company (LG Electronics).
You also shouldn't store the plunger in the cylinder.

I've had mine 4 years, use it daily, hand-wash it, and never seen any stresses on the plastic.
I think you can still travel long distances anonymously using a bicycle.

Stephen King treats bikes as the canonical post-apocalyptic transit method — roads are too crowded with abandoned cars for automobile travel to be effective, and motorcycle travel is very dangerous (there is no ambulance if you have a high-speed accident).

But you can do a hundred miles in a day on a bike. That's not bad.

I've also never been asked for ID when using an Amtrak ticket, although my sample size is low (15 journeys) and I always use a credit card at point of purchase (either online or at a ticket counter).
There's a lot of FUD in the article.

Most (all?) states have no requirement to carry or present ID to officers - you only have to give your name, and sometimes your address depending on the state. There's no Federal requirement to carry ID.

To operate a motor vehicle you need a driver's licence...but your passengers don't. What about riding the bus? You can get on the local Metro, Bolt bus, or Greyhound w/o an ID.

Hitchhiking doesn't require an ID.

Bicycling doesn't require an ID. Nor does walking.

You don't need a pilot's license to fly an experimental aircraft (but I'm sure there are other requirements for operating from an airport).

Hangliding/parasailing doesn't require an ID.

So...only through a commercial airline (private jets don't require IDs) requires proof of identify.
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So you are saying that the current no fly list is as bad as having to apply for a license to travel every time you intend to?

They are different things. When the government says "you must apply for a license before you do X" it means you are denied until permitted. The current implementation of the no fly list seems to be "permitted until denied". That isn't to say the process of getting on/off the list is good, just that it's not nearly as bad as being denied by default.
I've heard of states revoking your ability to drive, but not your ability to have a State ID. What's an example of that?

(That said, I agree that if IDs are going to be required for voting, travel, etc then they should be free to acquire.)
I can and will ignore the hypothesis you are claiming is a fact, because even if it's true, it's too minor to be worth talking about.

Copy/pasting what I said elsewhere:

So instead of drinking one or two drinks someone might drink two or three? Be still my heart! /sarcasm

If you want to talk about "perverse" incentives you've no sense of the big picture. Are you really going to criticize Uber when there is a multibillion dollar alcohol and nightlife industry advertising, giving away free samples, and over serving people? Get some perspective, you're way overthinking this.

You have zero evidence that this will increase drinking and it's pretty reasonable to hypothesize that it will decrease drunk driving. Ethical responsibility for drinking falls solely on the drinker anyway.
Most of these keyfobs are running ~16MHz processors.
Worse, if you do present, you'll find that the "angels" who are members of these groups are often wealthy professionals with no startup or technical background (lawyers, doctors, ranchers etc).

They're often tire-kickers who will waste a lot of your time doing "diligence" and trying to negotiate absurd notes with excessive warrant gearing/premiums. As you talk with them, you'll come to find they have never put in more than $50K and have only done one or two investments.
A related more recent NASA project is TGALS, the Towed Glider Air-Launch System: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/Features/TGALS_first_f....
Offering a discount if you're accepted to pitch isn't comparable to conferences (I won't name names) that make you pay to come AND pay to "present" if selected.

I wouldn't call that parasitic at all - I think it's silly though (they're clearly not making money on those folks so why charge them at all?) but it's a reasonable way to do things.
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The constitution defines govt rights. It does not define citizen rights. Check the 10th amendment
I find it strange compare the laws of a state to others and say things like,

"It's pretty good compared to..."

They are different government types, founded on different laws, containing different people, and so on. The United States was founded on the idea of "freedom" so, it seems strange to require anything on you, unless it impedes others freedoms.
State IDs are used almost as a de facto Federal ID. From my experience at least, there is a very careful process in place when changing states.
The federal government does not require valid state-issued ID.
Nokia Maps has almost always been better than Google Maps, it's just not well known. Nokia bought Navteq back in '07 I believe, and I used to use Nokia Maps on my N95, which had A-GPS for fast lock (new tech for GPS-enabled phones back then). People were floored that a phone could find POIs/food and do quality navigation. This was all pre-iPhone too.

Even now the current HERE Maps allows you to cache full countries for offline traveling and a bunch of other small features that add-up to leaving GM in the dust. Full offline caching has saved me in a number of situations. If Apple Maps wanted to compete with GM, they should buy HERE... and rename it to something better. It's been renamed about 4 times over the last 8 years.
Alcatel is not in the phone handset business anymore -- it is just the name that is being used by other manufacturers (perhaps TCL).
I think you're talking about the same thing.
I think this is simply an extension of the fact that its really no longer possible to live an anonymous life in the USA. The government makes the case that they need to know who and where everyone is so that they can figure out who is "dangerous". This seems perfectly reasonable to an awful lot of people. The problem is that the people's idea of what "dangerous" means is wildly divergent from the government's.
I'm getting the impression that the number of facts that I should be ashamed of not knowing is O(n!) where n is the unix time stamp. That definitely doesn't scale.

But more seriously, I think I worded my question poorly. I understand why O(n^2) is not ideal. The author's statement was: "for more computing power we throw at this the slower it gets per computer." Now I'm not sure how he would seek to throw computing power at the algorithm, but I can immediatly think of a parallel implementation of this algorithm with efficiency O(1), at least for p<=n.

So my question is, why does a quadratic algorithm neccesarily imply diminishing returns when you add more computing power? That is how I interpreted his sentence and it is not clear to me.
Sorry, I meant housing, which raises base salaries, which makes it hard to do a bootstrapped startup (both one's own living expenses, and hiring first 20 employees requiring market salary to survive)

If you could live comfortably in SF on $30k/yr like you can in a lot of college towns, you'd be able to bootstrap a company for a couple years on just your savings, which would increase the variation in startups -- you could see more genuinely ambitious startups which didn't depend on getting funded.
Just to nitpick, you absolutely need a pilot's license to fly an experimental aircraft. You don't need one to fly an ultralight, but that's quite a different thing. (An experimental aircraft is just one that's registered in a certain way. It could be anything from something you constructed in your garage to an ex-Soviet MiG that you've restored to flying condition. An ultralight is anything under a certain low weight.)
The Constitution defines both government powers (governments do not have rights) and individual (not just "citizen") rights. In principle, it defines the maximum boundary of the former and the minimum boundary of the latter.
Hey, we survived a couple of years on these kind of investments. It was a fulltime job for one founder; he burned out. But it kept us going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqpd7WcBmjM

I want to pronounce it "cleye." In Tron there was CLU, pronounced "clue" and that should be definitive source.
> I had no idea. Madness

They aren't the only ones who do this: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?accf_http . All sorts of things are kernel-accelerated on modern operating systems, including lots of network operations. From that perspective, this is just one more and it could potentially have a huge benefit (like the same page served count on fewer hardware) for customers who need it.

Obviously it's critically important that MS get this right if they're going to offer it at all, but that's pretty much a tautology when talking about kernels and core OS functionality. Judge them on a bad implementation, not on any inherent badness in the idea.
We're attending Collision this May, and were offered the deal the article mentions. I wasn't cold called, but applied on their site directly for their startup offer.

We saw it as a fair good deal, and didn't feel scammed at all. It took us one 10 minute phone call, and then we got offered the tickets for $1,500.

It's our first conference, other ones we've looked at cost far more. So for a first one, we thought the event looks interesting, not as expensive as other events we've cost up, looks like there will be interesting people there and Vegas is a fun city for us all anyway!
The author of the article implies that he used to be proud of not having to do so because it differentiates his country from the Soviet Union.

How will having to carry ID turn a country into an authoritarian dystopia? Is it just an American thing?

I ask because I live in a country with an authoritarian past and we still have to carry ID everywhere and people just don't see anything wrong with that. Should I try to persuade them otherwise?
Offer letter delay, but received verbal yes
so i got an offer from a tech company. they are hiring 2-5 people for a new team, and i am one of them.

they gave me the offer few days after the interview, but did note that paperwork would take some time. of the 3-5 people on the team, i was the last to say yes (and know for a fact that the others have received their paperwork).

it's been almost two weeks now, and no paperwork. mind you my start date is in a few weeks and the HR person said this week that I should get it shortly. i want to ask for a specific ETA, but recognize that given i am the last to start and join from the group (and it's in a few weeks), they are prob concentrating on the others who are starting before me. BUT not seeing an offer letter is also misleading.. no? all i have right now is email confirmation. which is not legally binding.

Is this normal? should i reach out to the hiring manager?

am i just a paranoid mess?
I don't really want to argue in support of the no-fly list because I think it is definitely unconstitutional (in current form), but it is still not a license to travel.

It's a black list compared to a white list (travel papers). This makes a huge difference as the default is that you are allowed to travel. Instead of having to convince some bureaucrat that you should be allowed to travel, the government just blocks a relatively small number of people from traveling. Only 500 Americans are on the list. So 1.5 x10^-4 percent of Americans are limited by it.

Also, no fly list only applies to one method of travel. You can still drive, train, or walk anywhere you want.
Thanks! I'll look into this. I also use g++ on Linux, so a cross-platform solution would be nice.
Bash doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's designed to make use of and interact heavily with those external commands. An environment missing dd, head, cut, and tr is probably not going to provide a usable /dev/tcp filesystem, either.

Ultimately the point is that a Redis client is possible using just a standard Unixish userland, and sysadmins who interact with Bash all day can easily make use of redis directly and integrate it into existing scripts without installing special client libraries or writing wrappers in Perl or Python.
That's because drivers are sloppy about enforcing it, even though it's been company policy for however many years.
If drinking and driving isn't legal and said bar is not within walking distance of any public transport then how can they legally serve more than a beer or two when you arrive alone or when the entire party is drinking? Either change the limit or bust them. The drunks near me even park their cars toward the street because they know when they leave they will be to drunk to back out.
I believe IIS supports locking attributes (source: http://www.iis.net/learn/get-started/planning-for-security/h...) so you should be able to lock at applicationHost.config and restrict further modifications. (I'm testing this now)

EDIT:

It causes a config error when a lock violation occurs which means the site gets an error 500 so its not an ideal fix.
I have found my AeroPress coffee to be lacking body. I returned to pour-overs and French presses.

Having read this, I feel I must again tinker with the Aeropress.

Likely case of "Doing it wrong."
> not familiar with the platform...
> I've never seen a place with an undeserved good/bad reputation.

I'm glad that Yelp reviewers biases coincide with somebodies, but they don't coincide with mine. I basically ignore the star rating at this point.

Why? Customer service. Some restaurants have absolutely delicious food yet take pride in having poor poor customer service, and frequently lose points for that.

Guess what, Yelp?

I don't care about poor customer service. I have two questions about a restaurant: how good is the food, and how much does it cost?

For the 5-star rating system to be useful, I should be able to compare two restaurants and simply pick the one with the higher rating. Sadly that often leads to worse food.

So if I'm trying to use Yelp as anything more advanced than a restaurant directory, I end up reading each review, and then the reviewer's reviews of other places to get to know each reviewer's rating system, how they feel about restaurants I already know, and this inevitably takes far more time and effort than I care to.
Chasing comets
Instant is indeed the killer feature.

Google also suggests alternate airports, and the bar chart shows you alternate dates that may be cheaper.
Yeah, we had the same thing with the web summit run by the same people who run Collision. "Hey, we think you've got a great startup, and we'd love to talk to you to see if you qualify for our start-up track."

After the interview, of course, they follow up with the exact same sort of line:

"As you know, we can't invite everyone. However, I'm happy to say that it seems XXX is doing great things in an exciting space and you've been selected for XXX, the later stage startup track at XXX."

Followed by this...

"Your code will reduce the cost from €12,950 to €1,950. As discussed the package includes 3 attendee tickets, plus a complimentary exhibition stand for one of the three days."

Afterwards, if you interact with them in any way, expect to get 5-15 average spam mails a week with "Guess who's going to be at our conference!" If you unsubscribe from the list, it seems like they just invent another conference to spam you with.

Not surprisingly, their "exhibitor" costs rival some of the largest and most successful industry conference costs, even though, in the case of the one I inquired about, it it was the first event that they had put on in that track. Afterwards, of course, "oh, but you qualify for our start-up track which lets you stand in this hall for one day for $5,000!"

Agree with earlier poster to avoid.
Can you give me some examples for flight search?
I am fairly confused by this site. Best I can find is the page that says that I should deny showing my ID (in all cases? In some cases?), and ask to see the law that requires me to show my ID and "see what happens". For a site that says that one of their core missions is education, I don't exactly feel educated.

Their other activities seem more productive, such as investigating what information the TSA and DHS keep on your travels, but which problem is it at the core here? The fact that the TSA asks to see my passport when I fly, or that the store that info along with my departure/arrival locations?
Um, I know what I'm saying. I'm saying that a Laptop HD to Server HD comparison is stupid. It is and I feel that I have more than enough knowledge to make that statement and stand but it. I'm unsure as to what I've said that makes you think that I don't know what I'm talking about. Their illustration is bad and I called that out. I stand by that and if people want to call it pedantic then that's their right.

What I DO know is that it is 100% IMPOSSIBLE for ANYONE to calculate the median HD size for laptops vs servers. There simply DOES NOT exist the data needed to do the calculations. Period. Not sure how not knowing an impossible to know stat somehow makes me unqualified to discuss this topic. Using your logic I'm expecting a response with the median sizes as you must possess this knowledge or else you wouldn't have commented given your statement.
And then you slide down the slippery slope?
Requiring papers to travel means convincing your government. Not requiring papers/ID means the government can't withold them. Personal freedom, which is paramount in American public discourse.
Does anybody know what theme is used in the screenshot?