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Agree with pretty much everything.

Recruiters are annoying but some companies will only hire contractors through recruiters so it's worth spending a little time dealing with them (but don't hesitate to stop talking to any that isn't professional, there are plenty others).

For the rate it depends on the language and the industry as well, java in finance is always going to be higher than python in a startup but if it's below 300/350 you can walk away.

I stopped being a contractor last year, i'll have to check those dividend tax changes
> We probably group similar assets in to 'industries' because certain schools of thought believe this generates more economic activity, also for convenient accounting.

Accounting is much easier than it used to be, so we can afford to be a bit more inconvenient. Maybe it's time for a vertically integrated startup service provider. Don't VCs already do things like arrange legal services for their portfolio companies?
And falling down from climbing a tree can improve landing skills.
Overriding browser choices, ridiculous privacy defaults...

I see a nine-digit fine by the EU in Microsoft's not so distant future.
14 channel, I don't know how many there are on the server. Not sure on the number of messages / hour, but it is quite a lot. Leaving slack on overnight has my numbers up to about 800MB. Regardless of how many messages, 800MB for a chat client is nuts.
I find it so painful to see people rediscovering the same problems again and again. Not that I blame anyone individually, yet it holds us all back.

Way back then, when your online connection was flaky, expensive and ~5-50kbps, the first online-only apps where greeted with "but.. but.. what if offline?"

Next thing I know: The iPhone mandates internet access and steam rolls everything into online-first/only mode for the average user. Business models based on that make sense, the industry follows. Privacy concerns are swept away. Control is taken away from the user to the service. Data governance/ownership is on its head. Synchronization is hard, marketing is easier. Decentralization is written off as anarchic geek fantasies. Interoperability does not fit business needs. Open protocols become data islands.

Are we actually about to come back to "but.. but.. what if offline?". I hope so.
And how about reversing some of the problems we introduced earlier while we are at it? Privacy, decentralized services, interoperability.
Why does convenience and privacy have to contradict each other?

Parsing airline confirmations should be possible to do offline. Preferably by some standard data format like iCal but even if airlines can't agree on such a format it shouldn't be difficult to compile a scraper that can be run offline, with an updater that contains all the various formats.

Sending your location should not be required to display a dot on a map of where you are. Even navigation can be done offline to a certain extent, OsmAnd does it and that's what tomtom and cars have been doing for years.
Like I said, "you will never be able to completely avoid advertising without taking yourself out of mainstream society" and "second-order advertising is much harder to deal with".

I don't claim to be immune to advertising, or know how to avoid all of it! But knowing you are susceptible to advertising is the first step towards not letting it influence you (too much).
Did you stop reading after those three sentences? Because I talked about digital assistants and Google Now, which is basically sending all your information to Google all the time.
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> a billion dollar industry at least

The latest stats I could find [1] put the total number of .io domains at around one million. Even if you assume $100 registration fee (you can get one for much less), it's still 900m shy of a billion.

[1] http://blog.park.io/articles/enormous-growth-of-io-domains/
Even countries who have no unused land, like the Netherlands and Belgium, have managed to build big wind farms. They've mostly placed them offshore.
Lasers are a poor choice for atmospheric communication, unless this kind of infrastructure is specifically designed to be deployed in places like deserts with a clear sky all the year around!
Cecil the lion death: US investigates Walter Palmer hunt
This is such bs, first time I opened Chrome in Windows 10 after upgrading it asked to set chrome as the default browser.
> fine-grained permissions of Windows Phone

What do you mean by that? Not only you can't set any access rights for applications (they get what they ask for and you can either accept all or not install the application), but the OS also synchronizes your main account's contacts and calendar to THE CLOUD without asking you, telling you, and even without a way to opt out of it.
> things that did change didn't actually make a clear difference in [...] the clarity of your code

print "%s remember to %s in %s if %s but never %s" % (some_random_tuple)

vs

print("{when} remember {what} in {room} if {condition} but never {dont}".format(* * dict_with_explicit_keys))

A bit verbose but much clearer and future-proof.
We where also affected in Frankfurt, really scary. Does anyone know about some managed chef like Ops-Work that would be cloud-agnostic with a little less vendor-lock in?
Two suggestions for the web page. First, please include the system requirements for each platform under the platform names. That would make it easier to decide whether to download the application or not.

Second, a nitpick - the OS on Mac computers is called "OS X" since the time of OS X 10.7 Lion and not "Mac OS X". Please fix that. The name "Mac OS X" was used only for older releases up to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. :)
A Fake Journal Publisher Threatens Librarian with $1B Lawsuit (2012)
I actually have seen urls that ended with a long row of commas, now that I think of it. Empty parameters, I guess.
Cap Scale: it weighs the ingredients with the phone
I don't why people find it so hard to setup ltd and + bank accounts. I know 18 yo who do this for there small business. It isn't hard. Accountant will sort most of it.
Huh?

If you want to play PC games you pretty much HAVE to have Windows save for a few titles that alos work on Linux/OSX.

This is why I'm hoping Steam OS becomes a viable replacement for a desktop gaming machine in the future.
What he actually said: http://www.cnet.com/news/gates-buffett-a-bit-bearish/

Gates shed some light on his own hard-nosed business philosophy. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
Does anyone have any experience with a company like Giant or similar? Do they allow contractors who remote work?
Nope. Tech workers trend more liberal, more well-travelled and so on (I'm sure you can find negative ways to frame the differences as well). The cultural differences are real.
Their status history is 100% green for the last week. You must be wrong about major issues. /s
What made you do the switch back to permanent?
At 60,000 feet altitude, the sky is pretty clear all the year round. There is also a lot less air, further reducing distortion and attenuation.
I have a popular one, and they are rubbish. I'm on my first contract and I have no idea what I'm doing tax-wise. After £10.6k in salary they say one could take £28.5k in dividends before higher tax kicks in. So what do people do with the rest? Accept hight tax or leave it in business bank account and wait for next tax year?
Amazing gaps in Unix and Node.js worlds
It's not just about advertising. By looking at customer data in aggregate you can learn more about behaviour patterns and support the things your customers might be interested in doing. Buying products is one of the things you might be interested in doing.

That said, this whole thing gives me the creeps and I'm glad I'm no longer a Microsoftie.
There is a huge difference between Manning and Snowden. While I'm sure Manning meant well, and some of the documents absolutely justified whistleblowing, she was sloppy and careless and simply handed over the entire thing to someone else.

Snowden keeps control, works with reliable people, and only releases things that need to be released. Snowden, much more than Manning and Assange, is the kind of hero we need.
Irresponsible drone operator sneaks up on farmer
Ironically, most of the better bits, and indeed the overarching plot thread of HPMOR are largely down to the huge gaps in various characters' rational thought. If Harry had made the obvious "let's not trust the sinister guy that's obviously manipulative and definitely more experienced at it than me" leap right at the beginning it might have been a much shorter series.

Apart from young Harry picking up some of the flaws in the organization of Rowling's wizard world in the first couple of chapters in the first few chapters and the combat lesson scenes, there's really not that much rationality going on. Most of the rest of it is characters trying to achieve particular goals whilst being thwarted in large parts by emotional impulses and glaring oversights the reader is positively screaming for them to notice, which is pretty much Fiction 101.

Harry as a character in HPMOR works because he's implausibly precocious, ambitious and devious, which is quite cute in an 11 year old, not because he [sometimes] draws particularly well-reasoned conclusions. We do judge the series on whether we like him being really smart, but that's quite different from him being really rational.

If super-detached and accurate analysis of a situation is what turns you on then I think Arthur Conan Doyle nailed down the "rational fiction" genre with Sherlock Holmes over a century ago.
It is hanging on the loading screen for me

edit: Also, typo in about.txt (vanario.io)
No, that's not what they're complaining about. For people on computers that have had the default actively and specifically changed to some other browser, e.g. Lynx (for a blind person maybe), upgrading that computer to Windows 10 will reset it back to a Microsoft browser, with no regard for your existing choices.
Looks nice. Will give it a proper test drive soon.

Am currently using:
http://ewaters.github.io/altsql-shell/

Software that few people know about.Worth others trying out too.

The data world really does need these more sane solutions.
The tutorial is allright but I would prefer for it not to exist (or not need to exist) because Make is so arcane and touchy that it should've been replaced a long long time ago. I really hate Make. There are better alternatives out there (e.g. SCons)
"till I subscribed to Wall Street Journal. I was shocked that it's considered to be a "good" newspaper by some"

What shocks me is that people don't see propaganda in ANY newspaper.

I have studied propaganda and psychology, because it interest me and frankly, because it is very useful for making money with your company. I would recommend watching "The century of the self" for a great overview of the subject before going deeper on what interest you.

Now I find propaganda everywhere. Have you heard the phrase "the land of the free" or "opportunities". It is propaganda. People that have never traveled around the world will hear the phrase and believe it without doubt.

In fact, those phrases are used for the contrary. Every time "land of the free" is used it is for removing yet another freedom, leaving the people with the empty phrase that was true 100 years ago, while removing the freedoms that sustain it one by one.

For example, Obama will talk loud about freedoms, while making it smaller the amount of money you could extract of your own bank account without reporting. He will let police confiscate your wealth if he thinks so(to buy army grade weapons), it will spy on all your communications, harass you on airports, and bail too big to fail institutions with your money.
So basically they're saying there are no file hashes for you to check, because the only way to download an ISO is through the Media Creation Tool.

I don't know why they don't just let you download the ISO directly without some pointless middle-man downloader tool.
That's a nice clean overview, but you don't think nowadays cmake is a more convenient way?
If the buttons are rendered on the client, they won't show up at all before the script loads.
This echoes my thoughts and experience, all the while I was contracting I could easily find new work through word of mouth. The few recruiters I talked to seemed happy to waste my time (and their own).
Wow. This is the first time i played a really cool and addicting websocket/webgl game.
Most games try to be too big for the current state of the platform. This nails it!
> You can open a business bank account in your country in the name of your LTD company in the UK. You will need to have your company documents (Certificate of Incorporation and Memorandum & Articles of Association) apostilled.

I'm wondering if opening an LTD is even really needed in this case, what about people that already have a company or similar(sole trader) for this purpose in their own country? Have someone had any experience with this approach? Or has any idea about how it could be perceived?
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The sci.crypt faq has more information. http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/crypt.html

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/cryptography-faq/

It might be an idea to read about different attacks - known plaintext etc - and seein if your system is still secure. (It won't be, so if you can't find the flaw you know you need to look more).
I have followed news about the TPP for a while, since this great cartoon [1] grabbed my attention a few years ago. Without exception, coverage since then has been negative, describing a collection of rules that will benefit large corporations at the expense of just about everyone, the OP's article just being the most recent. I have tried finding articles in favor of it, just to get a more balanced perspective, but no luck.

How one earth is this thing still going forward? Is there any hope of stopping it?

[1] http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/
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I had a similar experience switching from Django's ORM to SQLAlchemy.

The useful part of SQLAlchemy is the SQL library part. The ORM built on top, while nice, is entirely optional.
There is your reliable cloud :) You can always count on cloud, right?
Very cool! I came across Peter Beshai's work a couple of weeks ago - he has a great d3.js visualisation of basketball shots that might be of interest :)

http://peterbeshai.com/buckets
Interesting facts:

'Autonomous vehicles will also challenge the very notion of car ownership. Cars are among the most expensive things most people own, yet they sit idle, on average, 96% of the time. That is justified by the convenience of having access to a car whenever you need it.'

'Today 94% of car accidents are due to human error, according to America’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the three leading causes are alcohol, speeding or distraction.'

'Parking accounts for as much as 24% of the area of American cities, and some urban areas have as many as 3.5 parking spaces per car; even so, people looking for parking account for 30% of miles driven in urban business districts.'
do you realize, as many others here and everywhere else, do not care a bit about some cloud or anything else? I can install my computers on my own, thank you. the whole discussion about people justifying is a bit ridiculous, to be honest.

why don't you all pro-MS or pro-let's-lose-privacy people don't get a single thing - as per moral standards, any kind of option should be disabled by default (meaning 95% or more people on this planet will never enable it) and you should chose only enable that if you will? It could be the first screen welcoming you on first start of OS, whatever. not even having an option to disable it on cheaper windows is just plain wrong & smells cheap, again in moral sense. As we all know, corporations, any kind, are not high on morality these days. Increasing shareholder value at all costs and similar is the mantra. that google and others are doing it doesn't make it any more right (i have all these things like google one disabled on my phone anyway, at least that's what I like to think :))

As to why we want to not use it, I do believe Mr. Snowden made a point or two in the past.
Tax asset appreciation like regular income. The tax burden should fall on those most able to bear it, and should fall as equitably as possible. The current approach encourages people to accumulate assets and rent them out rather than producing things others want to consume.
I started my own agency with a couple of friends (link in profile)
What developers wish every marketer knew
I would really prefer to use mouse to move around like in Agar
It's pretty common for a VC to give a start-up a corner of their office space here in London. There are a few in my office, seems crazy it's not more common place in SF.
But that further supports the idea that people generally link "organic" to "biological". Note they're not calling it "carbon-containing food".
Nice one, might be useful to add keyboard layout options !
Pretty cool. Got to ~2000, but the ship's size was still relatively small. It's hard to dominate in this game though (compared to Agario).
> That's because FT had the government as their shareholder and they were trying to protect their investment.

I remember in 2002, when my family, and all my friends' families had an unlimited internet connection, having to use the minitel to register to some exams for some Universities. It felt like an anachronism. So unconvenient. I wouldn't be surprised if the government played its part in leaving it that way.

The next year though, they changed it and we could register through internet.
Maybe put some effort in cross-platform software.
The company that produced the post needs to understand the actual reasoning behind the local market for their business to be successful so no room for ranting I'd imagine.

What interested me was the way that in this discussion, each of the separate reasons for the landlords being reluctant to rent to start-ups has been discussed separately - analysis - where what the landlords are doing is making a synthesis.
Read this warning on release day, went to read this myself and haven't found such statement neither in ToS, nor in Privacy Policy.

This paragraph (about private communications and files in private folders) seems to be gone from their Privacy Policy. Google cache confirms it was present (in PP, not ToS), but I suppose MS spotted had this insane statement and removed in a hurry - or hid somewhere else, deeper in small fine print and with another wording.

(Or maybe I had totally missed something, scrolling through the document and my browser's search function malfunctioned.)
Fuzzing systems find exploits quite effectively in systems that are only available as binaries or APIs. SBO only really works if you're obscure in the sense that hardly anyone is using the system.
What are the benefits of incorporating an Ltd vs being a sole trader?
This company can print new bones if yours break
I think most currency uses that. Dollars are a weird exception.
That's been my experience when hiring people. I only hired one person with a 12 week notice, everyone else was 4 weeks. YMMV, I guess.
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You can stick £40k in your pension as an employer contribution...
Interesting ! Very clear website. I hope this takes off ;-)

But they really need more flight offerings otherwise visitors will loose interest. Surely there are organizations of plane owners that you can contact ? Or the smaller airports where they park (those airports might like the increase in traffic this might cause eventually).

The website opens with French although there is a English page as well. It should check the language header and serve the French version only for French browsers.
The primary problem is that the web is client-server and there are substantial inconvenience obstacles to hosting your own server, compared to using a cloud service.

Then there is what Schneier calls the security feudalism problem: maintaining a secure system is very hard, so people prefer to submit to a corporate feu lord which can provide them with security, paying with their privacy as a form of feu duty.
People I know who've worked with them are pretty happy. They've got a reputation for being super super responsive, too, so email or ring them and ask?
Focus with well structured RSpec tests
I lost my buildserver - uncontactable, but not terminated. Can't even 'force off'. It had nothing to do with any form of AWS provisioning (manual ansible; a job for Monday), and it's a relatively recent machine (couple of months, t2.medium). Got an email from AWS that the host had degraded, and I noticed the instance was having weird disk issues earlier.

"Description:
The instance is running on degraded hardware"
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I totally agree with this
Ask HN: How do “introverted” entrepreneurs build a network?
The virtues of having a "network" for entrepreneurs are well documented. It's easy enough for people who like going out to events and striking conversations up. How do introverted entrepreneurs who do not like initiating conversations manage to build good networks?
1. Adjusting the rules regulating markets sounds a lot like governments picking winners, which they are notoriously bad at. Also, What is the correct price for greenhouse gases?

2. See 1 above

3. Seems like a sound idea, probably very difficult to determine the correct price of pollution per above.

4. What are the planetary ecological limits? "Replace the whole [whatever] philosophy" is a good example of expecting everyone to agree, which is probably impossible.

5. The more affluent countries tend to have lower birth rates already (a few bordering on being below replacement rate, Japan for example IIRC) probably because they have better access to things like education and contraception etc. So it seems lower birthrates tend to correlate with higher per capita environmental footprints, probably because the same things that cause lower birthrates also cause higher standards of living. Maybe the solution is to simply increase the birthrate, thereby decreasing per capita consumption. Maybe that's the wrong metric to focus on. What a mess.

6. As above.

Sometimes I think it would be better if solutions were as simple as enumerating a list. But what's the fun in that. Heaven forbid problems could be solved so simply, then what would we do.

One thing we can be certain of, probably, is that whatever changes we implement will have unintended consequences. So maybe the solution is to do nothing in an effort to avoid the unintended consequences, thereby leaving us to deal with the obvious consequences of business as usual, whatever they might be. What I'm implying is: maybe the GOP have got it right. Wouldn't that be ironic.

This comment was heavily inspired by P.J. O'rourke, I highly recommend his books. Politics hey, what a circus.

NB: I don't necessarily agree with anything I write, so don't hold me to it.
I don't do Ruby anymore, but back when I first started I did a little side project with Sinatra and Sequel and definitely enjoyed it over ActiveRecord. As another user said, now that I'm a Python programmer, I have always been drawn to SQLAlchemy in a similar way.
This is pretty cool. Any plans for releasing a blog post about building the game, or even the source?