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My sister has spent the last ~15 years in nonprofit management, she consistently says that marketing and outreach are 30-40% of the budget at the nonprofits she works with, many of which have annual donations in the 8 figures.

Socially it's really unacceptable to say "we spent $3 million on marketing this year" because people think you should have spent it helping people, but if you don't spend it this year your doors close next year.

That ~$250M/year is spending on both homeless and homelessness prevention, only about $100 million of that is actual services for the homeless, of whom there are ~7000, so about $14,000/homeless person.

http://sfist.com/2016/04/12/no_san_francisco_does_not_spend_...

I think there's a strong argument for changing tactics, but if one of my friends anywhere in the bay area told me they were living on $14,000/yr I would ask if they have enough food, so it doesn't surprise me that this isn't really working.

Which Traction did you read?

It's an intentional mispelling, that's their brand name

What did ACA change about reimbursement?

It appears that you can, it's just hard: https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/4t64zt/gettin...

It looks like most of the linux issues are due to MS doing some weird architectural things (touch calculations on the GPU, etc), but that's just what I was able to find out with 2 minutes on the first thing google popped up.

But in the US the average consumer doesn't have a meaningful choice between road companies: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/09/most-of-the-us-has-n...

There are tens of millions of US customers who live in areas that never receive snow and rarely receive rain. It's clear there are a few different technical solutions, and probably the engineers working on these problems will think of a few more in the next decade, if it's a major challenge SDCs will just be targeted at minimal weather markets to start out.

Everyone working on autonomous vehicles is facing a similar issue, and it's also one that human drivers are pretty bad at. Most people solve it by not going outside as frequently with snow on the roads.

Tesla's goal is high fidelity GPS mapping of roads and their landmarks, so that the car can navigate down a lane in the absence of normal visual signals (i.e. clear road markings). It will be interesting to see how everyone else deals with weather conditions, but it's also not a problem that needs to be solved instantly.

Unemployment is only 4.9% because the participation rate dropped 3% points in the last 10 years: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

That's close to 10 million people who have stopped looking for jobs who we would otherwise expect to have them.

If it's a bug, why not submit a fix?

I think the Python maintainers fundamentally disagree with you on that point, but a fix submission would settle it unambiguously.

Legacy python 2 code & an unwillingness to refactor it for python 3.

If they don't protect their trademark they open themselves up to what is essentially loss of the trademark in the US.

They could license it to Python 2.8 for free if they want to, though it seems unlikely.

It's unreasonable to say "merrily did something different, without telling anyone" when fixing the string implementation was a significant reason for creating backwards-incompatible Python3 in the first place.

It's not a bug, it's a fix for an architectural error in Python 2, and it was quite well announced at the time: https://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

Essentially inventory management for locks, including the specific bitting(s) for each lock? That actually sounds really fun to build, not terribly challenging, and probably has huge market reach.

One quick challenge though, my understanding is that the average org that needs this either contracts or has full time staff who manage their locks. Those are normally guys who manage this by placing the 10 cores they need to re-key on their work bench, maybe putting a tape label on, and then just going to the individual locks and dropping in a new core. I get the value as a management tool, but does this really improve things for the average staff locksmith?

The biggest one is that realtors exist entirely because of regulation a the state level.

After that is the extremely entrenched business interest in the status quo - a lot of people are making money off the current system, and any real disruption is going to cost 95-99% of the real estate industry their jobs.

As noted elsewhere, the level of regulation is such that even offering better data to buyers/sellers has a lot of regulatory overhead, including physical offices with real people.

Minor correction: As of December 6th, Joel is no longer CEO of Fog Creek: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/06/anil-dash-is-the-n...

However, he is still CEO of Stack Overflow and has over 300 employees, if I were one of them I might be pretty concerned about his take on side projects as my employer. I think in all likelihood, Joel means the article as a warning to developers who think they have more freedom than they might actually, and he's probably quite permissive about side projects at SO, but I agree the article doesn't come across that way.

I believe X86BSD is referencing the fact that Dave Airlie works on Red Hat Linux

I don't agree, although I do appreciate your point.

The test of infrastructure is whether society would grind to a halt if it disappeared tomorrow. So let's assume as of midnight tonight, Amazon ceases to operate. What happens? It's annoying, but everyone just shops at a different place, probably in person because there isn't a great online competitor to Amazon (at least in the US). It's not a critical part of society the way power, water, roads, and the internet are.

All businesses make errors like this, the key is to push them to have better processes to deal with them, rather than outsourced and unhelpful customer support.

And of that $40 million, they still owe their creditors something like $27 million. So for investors/founders, they're all looking at <1/4 of their investment cash value.

LetsEncrypt only supports their certbot client, so no email support.

It was the 1940's and nuclear material safety wasn't as critical an issue as it is now.

See, this is the kind of dumb crap that isn't news.

In less than 2 minutes of googling and reading you can find a comprehensive answer to all your questions, but instead you put forward a leading statement like "it was an interesting email that was uncovered."

It genuinely was not. It's not interesting, it's mundane.

That's practical, and for people like you and me who aren't bothered by the idea of not owning our own vehicle, but it's very culturally desirable in the US to own a personal vehicle. Not an unsolvable problem, but it will definitely be a bump in the road.

They did very similar things in 2004, after recovering a laptop in Afghanistan with plans to attack several major NY buildings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_financial_buildings_plot#....

Note that these barriers are much less obtrusive than even a jersey barrier, this is something with which NYPD has plenty of experience in a very different light than the article

Agreed, plenty of us were wasting time on the toilet well before the invention of the smart phone.

It's never been clearly resolved, but also hasn't developed. So far it looks like TV was correct and the breaches were the result of password reuse from other sites who did have passwords compromised.

It didn't later emerge, it was reported by an Asst. SecDef who didn't consult the facts and has been completely disproven. The device was equipped with a simulated trigger and can't undergo nuclear detonation.

The USAF has very little reason to protect this information, and these records have all been subject to extreme and intensive FOIA requests.

It's not, but it's far from proven technology. Additionally, it's the exact opposite of most medical research - fairly inexpensive to develop (a few millions USD total), but also with very little profit upside on the other end.

Leave definitely won the vote, but it appears opinions have shifted fairly dramatically to the point where remain would likely win today: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/10/daily-c...

The problem is that the leave campaign won by lying and playing on people's fears, and when UK voters had a chance to reflect it turns out that was a stupid choice.