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I guess the best you can do is hopethat you know the laws for the area you live in. The u.s. has so many laws that are different across states and also so many laws that are enforced arbitrarily.

Some states you only have to verbally identify yourself to police. Some states you're required to show I.d. if requested. Some states you can decline a breathalyzer and other states you cannot.

And if you know the law then you should exercise your rights to the limit of the law. Of course they keep passing new laws to push the limits in the other direction. And I don't think anyone wants to be a test case for throwing out a bad law in the courts.

The problem is similar here in Switzerland with the exception that there are fewer laws and that the federal government has very little power (unlike the u.s. With its strong federal laws). For example, here in one canton you can grow 2 marijuana plants for your own use while in another canton you will go to jail for even a small amount of marijuana.
One of the things I hate most about living in Norway are the food prices and selection. The government allows two main cooperatives: Tine - milk and dairy products, and Nortua - meat products, to monopolize the market, and maintain high tariffs that prevent foreign foods from offering price competition. This allows farmers to maintain small, inefficient farms that produce rather substandard products (Norwegian beef is about as tasteless as you can find).

For dairy, a smaller company Q started about 15 years ago and is probably helping to keep milk prices down a bit since Tine actually has some competition now, but not nearly enough to bring prices down to what you would find across the border in Sweden, for example.

Unfortunately the grocery store situation doesn't help much either. The largest company - NorgesGruppen - controls almost 40% of the grocery stores. The bulk of the remainder are owned by two others. There is very little price competition, and the selection is still very limited, although it is starting to get a bit better (I've been living here almost 7 years now).

If you live close enough to Sweden, and have your own car (or have friends who go frequently), you can save a ton of money on food and alcohol by heading across the border and doing your shopping there. Unfortunately, it's about 1.5 hour drive from Oslo, so I don't have an opportunity to go very often. It's a funny thing, Norwegian politicians tried to pass going over the border off as a "low class" act, and there's even a derogatory term "harrytur" to describe it, but it's still something that everyone does, regardless of income, simply because the price difference is so great.
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On the other hand, especially around here "regulation" carries negative connotations as far as I know, and pointing out the obvious isn't going to make people suddenly endorse protectionism.
Smugglers don't pay import tariffs. From the article:

> Shortages persisted as a result of high import tariffs on butter to protect the domestic dairy industry against foreign competition
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No, any correct translation a c compiler produces is, by definition, a literal translation.
Beef is tasteless there because it's probably made out of the older milk cows. I'm sorry.
They should just switch to Crisco, and other trans-fats like the U.S. ... I'm joking really, as an American the concept of a butter shortage is interesting considering most of this market uses heavily refined, flavored, perfumed vegetable oils.

I switched to only using animal or cold-pressed fats a couple years ago... It's helped some aspects of my health a lot... though I still crave starchy carbs...
This is how the pioneers in the US (crossing east to west) worked right? They took huge risks and endured great hardship travelling hundreds of miles in carts for the possibility of land, independence etc.
So a secure TLS client must refuse to negotiate DHE if the server uses one of the common DHE param values, like in case a Debian no-entropy private key used in the cert?
I really wish this didn't give the Linux community a bad case of "i have a shiny new hammer, so all my problems are ipso facto nails!".
Get a few Raspberry Pi's and start playing around with the projects on their web page.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/resources/teach/
the US economy is not doing well; As long as interest rates remain so low, ever more money will plow into VCs/startup investing to get better returns.
Having the internships obviously helps. Have you just had a look around on jobserve.co.uk? You might find something suitable.

In terms of applying for contracts a lot of it (unfortunately) still goes through recruiters. My advice would be to look at the buzz words in the ad and to change your cv to put all of those at the top. Recruiters see that and think you're the perfect candidate. That will normally get you an interview.
If you dial down the smoothing, there is a blip right before Krakatoa's rise (1884-1887). Looking at the books from that time, it seems "effusive" was general parlance appearing in other places as well, including several popular elocution guides (of which Google records many versions).

The blip dies out though, so it would seem that geologic and general science reporting are likely to be the ongoing source.
We'll know the American government has truly gone sour if an earnest attempt on his life is traced to the "Intelligence Community". Until then, he is our beloved revolutionary sweetheart telepresent in our thoughts.
What a great reminder of a great book. And a science writer that rightly focused on the human side than the tech. Thanks for this.
that was my first guess at "how'd they make it faster?"
icc is sometimes a shockingly better (read: compiled code that is faster) compiler.
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So are all assets. It's one of the quirks of capitalism that markets remain efficient only to the extent that people believe that they're inefficient, and liquid only to the extent that people are misinformed about an asset's value.
To see why, imagine a perfectly efficient asset market with perfect information, where the goal of every participant is to maximize their financial returns. In such a market, all participants know everything that all other participants do, they know that all other participants know everything they do, and they can transact instantaneously without cost. Prices in this market converge instantly upon the "true" value, which can be agreed upon by all market partipants because of their omniscience.
Such a market has zero liquidity. Why would anyone transact if they know that a security already has the correct value? For there to be profit potential, the person who sells to you must be misinformed about the security's true value, which contradicts the assumption of omniscience.
The interesting thing is that the more market participants believe in the market's efficiency, the more inefficient it becomes. With little incentive to do their own research (why bother, when the current price reflects more information than they could possibly amass?), the underlying fundamental value of the asset can drift further from the consensus price without anyone noticing. This increases the profit potential for people who assume that they know better than everyone else. Eventually, a few of them get rich, the consensus breaks down, lots of people lose their shirts, and the market becomes efficient again.
The result is the business cycle. Periods where people believe in the market's efficiency are bubbles (when the consensus price is above the true value) and panics (when the consensus price is below the true value). Periods when they don't are crises, where the prevailing momentum swings but this change in opinion is unevenly distributed.
Lots of things fundamental to the modern world are unstable. The whole concept of a financial asset is one of them. I can think of a number of individual industries that have an unstable dynamic, but I'm not going to name them because I believe there's profit potential in them. Public opinion is yet another one.
Yeah, people who think they are completely annon on Bitcoin should think again..dumb crooks!
When I lived in NYC I sometimes had to take the bus downtown from 86th street due to interruptions in subway traffic (which sometimes happened). I remember that during rush hour the buses would advance at a crawling speed there, maybe making three blocks every 5 minutes, which almost made it faster to walk.

So I think the big advantage of the subway system is that it is much faster in general. In less densely populated areas of New York the buses are a good (and necessary) alternative to the subway system since -as the author points out- the density of bus stops is much higher.
I have to agree... I don't have a formal education, but have been in software development for almost 20 years now... With IT, software development, devops and systems administration it comes down to keeping up with the tech, and being able to get the job done.

I don't think the lack of people to fill said jobs is quite as bad as the article states... many of these roles have been 100k plus for a while, and the people stepping into these jobs are likely to be several years out of high school at this point, having gained skill and experienced.
Except Denmark refused to export since it wasn't worth setting up the trade routes just for a single season of export. Source: this comic http://satwcomic.com/too-little-butter
I work at Prezi. We have a lot of expats from the US who come and work here in Budapest. Prezi is like a patch of SF in beautiful Budapest. If you're interested, drop me a line :)
To answer your first question, there are a number of attractive advantages to using Meteor over say socket.io or autobahn on top of Node. One major one would be a consistent API for accessing your data on the Client and Server. I would argue that using Javascript on both backend and frontend with Node boosts a developer's productivity by reducing language/context switching. In the same vein accessing data using the Mongo query api on both backend and front end with Meteor's MiniMongo improves development. Also Meteor comes with built-in latency compensation when using either RPCs (with stubs on the client) or Minimongo operations. Latency compensation is a non-trivial problem which would need to be implemented by the developer when using something like socket.io. You also gain access to a growing list of great packages that implement things like user accounts which you would otherwise need to write yourself or wire together from various projects.

As for your second question. There are certainty use cases where MongoDB isn't appropriate, and support for other databases is on Meteor's roadmap. For now there are some community created packages for interfacing directly with SQL databases in place of MongoDB, but there are a number of issues with them. You could also pipe data in and out of an SQL database inside RPCs, however the data would not be updated in 'real-time' to clients. I anticipate SQL databases will get some good support options in time.
Why there's a need for children to learn coding? This is getting really crazy. Seems like everyone needs to code and everyone is pushing towards that.

I don't see this happening for plumbing, to give you a short example, or any other professional area.

EDIT: I was a coach at a Django Girls event. I support these kind of events, but still, I don't see the reason to really push children to learn coding in their 5 or 6 years old. At that age, they are supposed to play with other children in the backyard, getting dirty. We are losing that. Probably, my generation (1990) was the last having that joy.
I'm pretty sure the phrase "butter crisis" was invented by the tabloids. I would use "shortage", from how I experienced it -- but that doesn't produce nearly as good "first world problems" satires I suppose.
Seems like a trend these days. Tired of dealing with a hairball of code? Put it up a layer and let them handle it instead...

I'm seeing it with TTYs, i'm seeing it with mice, it seems to be going on all over the place...
It seems like the result of this is to cycle, with a decrease in difficulty resulting in a following increase in difficulty and then an increase in difficulty resulting in a decrease in difficulty. This is meta-stable: it's not a system that converges on a single value, but it's a system that oscillates between overshooting and undershooting the true value.

Plenty of systems work fine like this in nature - it's pretty much a textbook predator/prey dynamic, and yet carnivorous life has been going on for several hundred million years on Earth. It would be a problem if the dynamic was for the number of miners to drop to zero or explode to infinity instead, but this is a negative-feedback cycle, not a positive-feedback one.
I hate to be a buzz kill, but some of those Baofengs really need harmonic suppression filters installed. They're popular here in Australia, but I saw a friend put his on a spectrum analyzer and saw 2nd harmonic at ~-5dBc! I know they're only low power, so it's likely harmless, but it's stuff like this which makes it harder for amateur radio to retain the rights we have left on the spectrum, and raises the noise floor for everyone.
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great read. does this story reminds anyone else of The Giver (the highlight of 5th grade's conscripted reading)?
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I've been "stopped and frisked" in France before, and it didn't seem out of the ordinary at the time. I just assumed random identity checks was part of the police's job. So I wonder how other countries' laws compare to the U.S. when it comes to random checks like this.

And of course, it happened maybe twice in my life, not a couple times a week.
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"ISIS was one of the terrorist groups that learned from Snowden, and it is clear his actions played a role in the rise of ISIS"

Despite how seriously misleading this statement is I can't help but laugh. Been rolfmao way too much since the Snowden leaks. From the .gov puppets desperate to find a angle on the debate, to the FBI desperate to counter the tides of technological evolution.... im laughing. Will probably continue laughing even after their baton's hit my back because some citizens actually took these absurd statements from the CIA/NSA/FBI/WhiteHouse as something other than a joke.
Because programming is the most direct way to communicate with a computer, and computers are highly important in our lives?

I suppose you could say the same for plumbing, but programming is in a league closer with reading/writing/math than plumbing, in that it applies to creating such a wide range of art and science. And it's not something bound to technology, the concepts of programming were mathematically sound well before the earliest home personal computer was built.
Nasdaq is doing an experiment. Not going all-in with Bitcoin as the title suggests.
Will 2/3 difficulty guarantee more than twice revenue?
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So ultimately this leads to situation when blockchain grinds to halt every two weeks of four. Will not happen. If needed btc core will be patched to calculate difficulty in some other, tamper resistent way, and miners WILL ACCEPT this patch gladly.

This attack can be pulled off in economically satisfying way only then your electricity costs dominate your overall costs, i.e. you do not pay rent, wages etc. And this is false.

Given miner's situation (he pays wages and rent) to use this attack effectively miner needs to represent significant part of hashing power of network. This means that his stakes are high and engaging in destructive behavior may undermine reputation of Bitcoin as network, BTC price and ultimately miner's own business.

In case lower scale attack (manipulation of hashing power of a pool) pool and his operators are there to punish such behavior.

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I believe Jean-Baptiste Douemeng, a French communist, made millions exporting subsidized surpluses, including butter, to communist countries in the 40s-50s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Doumeng
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We've been using scratch in a local code club for children and it is a great language for that purpose.

You can teach the general flow, logic, and what goes into making a computer program without the "scary code" part.
Back in 1991, when I was 7, the Logo programming language did great for me. You have to write instructions for a pointer to move on the screen and draw things ("go ahead 20 steps; turn right; go ahead 10 steps...). We had a Logo class twice a week and we all kids couldn't wait for it to come. I bet some flavour of Logo is still around, and "turtle graphics" (the general concept of procedural drawing for kids) is a great way to introduce programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%2... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics

Scratch from MIT is another canonical suggestion when it comes to this matter.

Some teachers are using Minecraft to let kids build imaginary things; I guess the underlying principle is "let kids plan ahead", which is the core ability for algorithmic thinking, thus computer programming (as in this board game http://www.robotturtles.com/ , ispired by Logo; it's for pre-school tho)

I'd also check out "CS unplugged" http://csunplugged.org/ , a collection of open-air activities you can make that sneakily teach algorithms.
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That's all very well, but it turns out the armour of righteousness is poor protection against getting shot in the back by a policeman, who subsequently plants his excuse on your body. Coppers prepared to do that are hardly going to listen to people claiming their rights are being violated.

I dread the day that standard plod in the UK carries a firearm.
Cream was more available than butter. I guess most people would rather drive to Sweden than whip cream.

However, cream was also in high demand for Christmas, so I suspect that it couldn't offset much of the demand for butter anyway.
But what's the the alternative? MANY people consult and freelance. They are not unemployed. Moreover, their income does not necessarily tie to hours worked.
Is the production of butter important for Norway's long-term security?
It's a good question.

Because programming isn't plumbing.

Programming is not just a skill, it's an expressive medium required for effective communication in the 21st century.

Back in the day, you had to be literate. You had to write in cursive. This wasn't something you went to school for and did as a living, it was just a baseline from which you were able to do anything else.

Programming is like that. Why folks think of it as a stand-alone skill is beyond me. Yes, its basis is math. But that's like saying that the basis of writing is painting. The purpose of writing is to enable other kinds of work with lots of people, some of which may be far away. The purpose of programming is to enable helping lots of people do repetitive and boring things from all sorts of problem areas, some of which you will never meet.
How can traffic lights fail all green?
Called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516074

:-)
Sure, but surveys suggest that many self employed people would like to get more work, and that they have significantly lower incomes than when they were employed.

The best data is from the RSA https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/re...
> The United States has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners.

This sums it up for me.
> And of course, it happened maybe twice in my life, not a couple times a week.

In France, that depends mostly of your shade of skin.
A. It facilitates teaching some useful skills in approaching problems.

B. Schools don't need to buy equipment.

C. Anything that means running the MS office suite less is a win in my book.
It's important to know one's rights, but I think that's by no means the best we can do. For starters, we can support organizations like the Equal Justice Initiative (http://www.eji.org) or the author of TFA's org, Equal Justice Under Law (http://equaljusticeunderlaw.org) that are working to both defend indigent defendants and fundamentally reform the criminal justice system.

Beyond that, I think that there is a lot of opportunity to advocate around these issues on the state and local level right now. Whatever you think of bodycams for police, you have to admit that in light of recent events they're going to become dramaticaly more common. That's just one example of how a crisis can provide a great opportunity for advocacy, and ultimately change. That's not to say that we will be able to make fundamental change quickly on this very difficult issue. But it is to say that there are paths forward, and I would invite people who care to dive in.
I would make the same argument as you but in the opposite direction: everyone has to deal with plumbing at some point in their lives. Schools ought to teach basic proficiency in plumbing.

It's useful to know the basics even if it only helps you recognise the skill that you need a professional for.
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Expanding a bit from this comment, any set of actors will exhibit certain emergent properties (culture etc, if you will) , which is strictly speaking independent from any of the actor themselves. Are we actually sure that the "imprint" becomes individual characteristics, or is everyone behaving similar just because the society/culture at large is making everyone to be acting that way.
It's important to remember that the US Government's Bureau of Labor Statistics counts six separate unemployment rates, there isn't just one:

U1: Percentage of labor force unemployed 15 weeks or longer.

U2: Percentage of labor force who lost jobs or completed temporary work.

U3: Official unemployment rate per the ILO definition occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively looked for work within the past four weeks.

U4: U3 + "discouraged workers", or those who have stopped looking for work because current economic conditions make them believe that no work is available for them.

U5: U4 + other "marginally attached workers", or "loosely attached workers", or those who "would like" and are able to work, but have not looked for work recently.

U6: U5 + Part-time workers who want to work full-time, but cannot due to economic reasons (underemployment).
Many of these people are forced into self-employment because : no jobs. See also : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precariat
> I don't know what the OP meant, but I remember reading it and noting that the section on not using the passive voice used the passive voice. There were probably more things like that.

Are you sure that wasn't a joke? I recall that the writers often would cleverly break their 'rules' to make them examples of what to avoid.