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When the system becomes so corrupt that people who would be hurt by whistleblowers can control legislation, the test of "legality" doesn't hold as much meaning anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag

This claims the differences in language and culture provide enough friction to keep people from migrating efficiently throughout the union. This seems at odds to me with what has happened in the EU (especially Britian) - many who voted for Brexit seem to have done it because they felt overwhelmed by the foreign hordes.

What kind of monetization plans do you have?

I've considered doing the same for EQ, but it looks to me like the subscription based WoW sites that provide game analytics aren't very actively developed. And WoW would probably be the biggest market and health indicator for this type of service.

e.g.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/ http://www.worldoflogs.com/ http://www.askmrrobot.com/

This is the google M.O. - optimize all processes through cheap machine learning and heuristics and accept that some people will get screwed along the way.

The number of people that can be served at very little cost without any human involvement is apparently very lucrative. Google just considers customer service as an archaic relic that predates the invention of behavioral algorithms.

It's not that mercenaries may revolt. It's that people are less likely to support war if it will affect them personally.

The is a spectrum for military participation: conscription -> volunteer professional -> mercenery. With conscription people will be more vested because it can affect their families more personally even if they don't support a war. With a mercenary army not only is the death of strangers easier to ignore, but deaths are not always made public. Look how often we had stats about army deaths/injuries reported daily vs how often you heard about Blackwater deaths during the Iraq war/occupation.

I'd like to see an additional question asked: How did you go about designing the interface of your app?

I'm blown away by how good these and so many "show HN" entries usually look. Everything I've put online is functional but looks so obviously "designed by a programmer" that it's embarrassing to mention.

Do people first work on a prototype and then run it by a graphic artist/UI designer to make it look decent? Where do you find these people?

Can you give some examples of where a country defaulted and was worse off? I think most recently Iceland defaulted and they seem to be doing alright - but maybe given it's size it doesn't really count.

I'm not going to argue that it isn't bad, because it is, but it does have tab completion - not sure what you mean there.

Also, you can use F7 to browse your command history - that may help a bit.

I find it interesting that the Google, Apple and especially Amazon have become very successful by going against the orthodoxy of the last few decades which was outsourcing everything that wasn't a core business because you can't possibly do it efficiently.

If these companies followed prevailing MBA business thinking, their products and services would be as mediocre as many other large but floundering fortune 500s.

Do you mean 1. you trust them to be more knowledgeable or 2. you trust them to be less serving than an outsider?

I don't think anyone is arguing with 1.

Under "filter preferences" there is an option for "Allow some non-intrusive markerting". Is that what you're talking about?

There's something I don't understand in these comments. Why is everyone interested in language comparisons instead of the huge difference between EC2 and bare metal?

They actually pat themselves on the back over this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hr...

Which is why it should be done in the most outrageous fashion by someone who cares about privacy.

Maybe that's what is needed to get people to realize just what the next decade or two have in store.

$52 million revenue for a state with $28500 million in expenditures is a drop in the bucket.

However it looks like they spent $770 million on corrections - probably with a sizable portion spent on drug enforcement. Or would drug related incarceration mostly be paid by the federal government?

https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/revenue/colorado-marijuana-...

http://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_state_budget

Love it. I hope this gets popular.

And sort of sad because people seem to be able to do more then 10 minutes at a time without alt-tabbing to HN or lolcats for pointless distraction.

Are you suggesting the NSA should be a government funded QA department for large corps and open source?

For commercial software the companies who are not finding these bugs on their own are to blame. For open source, the cheapskates who mooch free software without contributing are too blame.

I believe this is part of "vPro" in intel marketing speak. Yes, many consumer CPUs have it. Intel provides pretty good feature lists by CPU if you want to avoid it:

e.g.

http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&FamilyText=4th%20Ge...

How can someone far exceed expectations more than once or twice. Aren't the managers just bad at judging expectations at that point?

As a side note, since many people here use python, VS has great Python integration: http://pytools.codeplex.com/

Would you say that in countries were voting is compulsory (like say Australia) the politicians are not idiots?

I don't think the problem is that too few people vote.

Does that mean HN runs in a single process and doesn't do any concurrent request processing? That's pretty impressive if that's the case.

How did he run afowl of paypal?

Yes, prices frequently fluctuate on many products. Luckily, there are a few sites that provide historical info and alerts. e.g.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-M...

In terms of job availability it's been dead a long time. I see a single job posted on craigslist every 6 months in city with 50 daily job postings.

Part of the problem is the kind of corporate windows CRUD apps that Delphi excelled at are better implemented as web apps. Which leaves it relegated to hobby developers and 1 man software vendors.

Even weirder is that in 2002 the Delphi community developed a python 2.7/3 type schism over UI changes and .NET inclusion and a large portion of the community refused to adopt new releases. It's pretty telling when a vendor isn't even able to get many of it's own supporters (many of which are these "Delphi will never die" types) to buy new version of their software in over a decade.

Sorry, what is meant by back office?

That's not how I read it. It looks like you can make money just not by charging for maps API. i.e. your maps implementation should be in your free SKU.

"10.1.2 Restrictions against Commercial Use.

(a) No Fees. You must not charge users or any other third party any fee for the use of the Maps API Implementation, the Service, or the Content, except as permitted under Section 9.1.2"

https://developers.google.com/maps/terms#section_10_1

But the crappy codebases already exist outside of postgres anytime people have to roll their own upsert implementation.

The fact that it's hard is exactly why it should be in the database.

Prices might be plenty crazy but there are important differences.

- The ability to move to dozens of other large cities. The three you named are the 3 largest english speaking cities. People are basically stuck in those cities for lack other large cities to move to.

- Large projected population growth means plenty of people to prop up prices.

- You can't walk away from mortgage debt the way you can in the US.

- Lending rules are more strict and CMHC is a crown corp so it isn't going to go bust.

You're a sucker if you save instead of buying property in Canada - and I include myself in the sucker category.

He's probably talking about "bcp" which indeed doesn't support utf-8.

So why would someone even use bcp instead of SSIS? SSIS might be nice for performing repeated imports of data that has a fixed format, but for quick and dirty exports/imports it's really frustrating to use. It's not even smart enough to scan an entire data file and suggest appropriate field lengths and formats. Every single time I try to import a .csv file it craps out and doesn't even show where the error occured - that's after clicking through a bunch of steps in a GUI. At least with BCP you can easily rerun the import/export from the command line.

SQL and SQL Management studio are generally great but I would not include SSIS when lauding them.