jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If they aren't part of the nomenklatura or otherwise have enough pull I'd assume deposit their money in a PRC bank, stock market or venture, etc. When there are currency controls you by definition don't have much in the way of out of country options.
Many people enjoy cooking. I suspect the kind of coding you're doing is the cooking equivalent of warming up a can of Spaghetti-O's.

The enjoyment from programming depends on the problem you're solving. If all you're doing is making sure the round peg is connected to the round hole, it's not going to be much fun.
Nah, cost of living isn't that high (as ig1 says). I've been living in London for the last 7 years, much of it on a rather limited salary. You can live very comfortably near central London (zone 1-2) in a nice area on £35k. You won't save much money, but once your salary goes up, of course, you will be able to (depending on how you adjust your lifestyle, of course).

As for hourly rate, that can be computed easily. My friend works about 12 hours a day, 5 days a week (no weekends, since her work is linked to the markets being opened). She gets 4 weeks of holiday a year, and there's about a week's worth of bank holidays. So that's 47 weeks * 60 hours = 2820 hours a year, on the upper end (assuming no sick days or other unplanned absences).

That works just above £53 an hour.

You could drive that down by counting her (30 minute or so) commute in, but you won't make much difference. The fact is, she earns very good money no matter which way you cut it. And that's not even counting the (very significant) bonus.

I'll grant you that living in Cambridge and working in London is daft, but that's why they have, ya'know, houses and stuff in London. So you can move there rather than spend hours on the train every day.
Please don't do that. Get them to throw out a salary first and flinch at their first offer. Then ask for more. Don't you dare discuss salary with developers in the company that is interviewing you.

You're going to need to learn to negotiate. This is the only book you'll ever need on negotiating. Even if you don't use a single one of these tactics (and I guarantee you will) you'll at least get an education of how much of an art negotiating is.

http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-Roger-Dawson...

Whether you're hiring, selling a company, getting hired or raising money - this is required reading for doing business.
Mmm, You're right, then I dont understand what photos they're referring to.
Will do! Thank you. :)
In the old days (starting pre-Apple), you could build a pretty good UI and test it without opening up Project Builder (older version of Xcode). It was actually quite nice to have it as a separate program.
No it was shown there was a bug.

Plus this validates the OPs question. It's not hard to receive emails somewhere, but it is hard to clean them, validate the sender with SPF and a few other email non-standards.

I've been using google app engines email service but it chokes and rejects a ton of emails that I forward to it.

Maybe Posterous could spin off an email cloud service? It'd be a distraction from their core competency, but I could see a lot of value.
Metaprogramming Ruby: http://pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr/metaprogramming-ruby
Brotherbard's fork has a bunch of additional features and I've found it to be pretty stable. I use it daily and highly recommend it.

https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx
Native spanish speaker here. If you are used to see the word in Englsh, you may even forget what is the word in Spanish. Also, people from Spain are more careful about preserving the language, people from other spanish speaking countries not so much. Spanish speakers living in the US, use Spanglish all the time.
Sounds like it wants to be autotest from ZenTest (with added remote testing for speediferousness).

Which is great, we're using it on a 4-person jruby project right now.
Unless the ad drove away users, in which case they might only have 1200 users and $30 a day.
Yes it's possible. just don't go trying to translate english contractions into other languages. They may not always fit. probably sometimes.

And the opposite is also true. Other languages may have some pretty cool contractions for some stuff, that in english we are left with two or three descriptive words put together to get any sense.
And of course, Bernie himself was kicked out of a commune for being a lazy bum.
> Only in software that ignores the extension

No, only in software that blindly follows file extensions.
Many Microsoft employees also have separate personal and work accounts. I would be surprised if that was a violation.
Here’s how this gets broken: The more countries faithfully adhere to the global corporate minimum, the stronger the incentive becomes for a “cheating” country to lower its rate.

The tax haven could even get around an “enforcer” or governing board. For instance, such a country might change what it considers to be “profit” so that you’re paying $2 on $100 of revenue, whereas in the neighboring country you’d be paying $6. Same nominal tax rate, different effective tax rates.
There are even more ways to play this: “Sure, we tax you at the required 20%, but you can then direct how those funds are used to reduce costs you’d otherwise have to pay directly.”

And this happens a ton— see the WTO and “effective” but not nominal tariffs.

Whether or not we see such a harmonized tax rate emerge and even if we could find a way to have some governing body try to “enforce” it, you’ll still see countries lowering their effective tax rates to lure firms or bolster growth. I bet there’s a maximum sustainable effective corporate tax rate, but I have no idea what it is (and for all I know it could be zero or negative).
Also see:

Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?

We build new test sets for the CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets. Both benchmarks have been the focus of intense research for almost a decade, raising the danger of overfitting to excessively re-used test sets. By closely following the original dataset creation processes, we test to what extent current classification models generalize to new data. We evaluate a broad range of models and find accuracy drops of 3% - 15% on CIFAR-10 and 11% - 14% on ImageNet. However, accuracy gains on the original test sets translate to larger gains on the new test sets. Our results suggest that the accuracy drops are not caused by adaptivity, but by the models' inability to generalize to slightly "harder" images than those found in the original test sets.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10811
I don't think I agree with you there. The basics of web design -- "you can have any shape as long as it is basically a rectangle", "fixed heights for content areas are kind of a bad idea", etc, are a heck of a lot easier than memorizing big books of the magic incantations you have to learn to get e.g. a lightbox with rounded corners over a semitransparent overlay centered in the middle of the screen. Don't worry about that, designer guy, I am very good at looking up magic incantations. You go be good at stuff that I don't know anything about and can never seem to learn, like what colors go well with pastel blue, what the emotion evoked by 42 point Helvetica is, and how to make stuff pretty.
There is a server-side JavaScript validation function which can reject updates for being malformed or if the user isn't allowed to proceed:

http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/validation.html
I know it's a significant chunk of MtG revenue, but they're hobbled by antagonism from paper-card dealers. Promoting MtGO too heavily makes the paper dealers fearful of cannibalization. So far they've maintained the peace by focusing MtGO strictly on hardcore, tournament-oriented players. It's profitable, but so niche that most people aren't aware of them.
Humanism is quite often tagged a religion. The "god" is simply man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism#Legal_mentions...
You could say exactly the same thing about hot-linking images. Or asking people not to share your telephone number.

Ignoring the legal issues, if someone asks you not to link to their website then the polite thing to do is not to link to it.

Of course there might be some cases where you might be justified in liking against the owner's wishes (for example criticism, review, etc.) - however if your just linking because it adds value to your own site, then frankly that's just being a jerk.
Riak and other HTTP based databases do not have the peer-based replication which sets CouchDB apart. Being able to share an application and its data with a simple HTTP call, and synchronize it across all your phones and laptops -- that is not something other databases can do.
Do I get extra points for actually asking that question at the Web 2.0 conference considering his answer seems to be circulating quite a bit in the news ;)

The answer is kinda hogwash anyway, since Google TV is a keyboard based device that is running Android.

For Chrome to actually not just increase the confusion around google OS's, I really wish they add an emulation layer at least for Android apps to run on Chrome OS
The best books I have read are ones that walk through a project from start to finish. I usually read through the entire book first without any programming. I take notes on the side and highlight key concepts. Then I walk through again and program the entire project. I haven't needed to learn a new programming language or framework in a while, but this method has proved to be fairly effective.

Simply Rails 2 was the last book I read like this 2 years ago. We are now one of Engine Yard's case studies.
Answer: It's not!

PHP is easy to understand, easy to deploy, and very flexible. Of course with flexibility and ease of use comes ease of abuse, but that's true of most any language. As for people shying away from so called enterprise languages like Java and .NET, that simply is not true, at least where Microsoft technologies are concerned. ASP, C#, and .NET built on Microsoft DB stacks are faster, and more scalable than similar web apps built on LAMP or RoR stacks. Check out Stack Overflow. I would switch to Microsoft technologies in a second if they were more affordable to get started with. As for Ruby or PHP, choose the one you like programming with. Neither is better or more popular in the real world.
To be fair, the OP is probably referring to big companies' stable enterprise applications with a few thousand users. There is a push to migrate everything to Kubernetes but the applications are doing ok on dedicated VMs.
Kietas sampunas
This is cool. I'm working on something similar called enu (https://github.com/dsrw/enu), but you're further along than I am.

A few suggestions that may or may not be helpful:

- I realize that this is a big part of your esthetic, but blocky "game fonts" are hard to read. They're fine for games, but for editing code I want a normal monospace font rendered at a normal DPI.

- I feel like there should be a way to apply code changes without a full Publish. It's nice to test a change without resetting the entire world.

- Your docs are off to a good start, but it's really not clear to me how everything comes together. A more in depth example would be more helpful at this point than API docs, I think.

I'll definitely keep an eye on this. Nice work!
We had something like 24G of RAM, but we have 500GB RAM machines as well (we own the hardware) and the job would have been even more of a breeze there.
If your temperature is 100 F in the shade, it's just pretty difficult to grow good greens. Not impossible, but difficult.
I don't really think so. Even FDR was against public unions.
http://archive.is/NZJH5
Not really more space if you do not use all symbols. More info here: https://drewdevault.com/dynlib
As you might imagine, working on a classified program means you're working for the government, so your company's profitability is inherently a function of the lowest bid mechanism for contracting - to an extent, as we proved they can't just costlessly switch to the cheapest bid unless they want a system that doesn't actually work. It's maybe counterintuitive, as the federal government is the only employer that literally does have the ability to print money, but in practice, even though they often face and solve problems far more complex than any faced by industry, it is often not a money-making endeavor.

Specifically, the point of geointelligence is we're trying to gain a long-term strategic advantage over all other enemy and competitor countries. To the extent we succeed at doing this, the government itself doesn't earn a profit from it. Everyone else does. We try to tax them in order to pay ourselves, but people don't like taxes and they frankly don't understand the ways in which spycraft is benefiting them because all that ever gets publicized are our failures. When what we do works, you never hear about it.
The initial blog post with more of the technical detail is here:

https://cybergibbons.com/security-2/serious-issues-in-nurser...
Businesses are not necessarily designed to maximize profits. In theory they’re designed to provide a comfortable lifestyle for the owner and keep them busy.

If that involves maximizing profits, then great, but if the owner enjoys doing work with happy, un-stressed people more than he does a few humdred extra dollars in his pocket, it’s clearly not (only) about optimizing profits.
Some sites have taken to occasionally asking you these verification questions, even under "normal" circumstances when you haven't lost your password. So it's necessary to remember the answers. And it seems that tools like RoboForm aren't yet very good for tracking this.
Atlassian - Sydney, San Francisco, Amsterdam. We are looking at hiring a bunch of product, engineering and support roles so swing over to http://www.atlassian.com/32 and checkout our openings.

Seriously, you'll love this company as much as I do - relaxed working environment, comfortable chairs, enthusiastic staff, interesting problems, no requisition forms for resources, founders you can have a beer with and customers that love your products - what more could an engineer or product manager ask for?

We have a "hire-a-mate" program where we give you $2k for referring a new employee that passes their probation period - its pretty sweet.

http://www.atlassian.com/32/get-in.jsp#referral

We are 100% privately owned and the future looks very bright.
Everything else aside, why $1m? It seems like a bit of a coincidence that a well-researched costing of a well-thought-out plan just so happens to be the same as the first number people generally pull from their arse when they think of being rich...

In other words: you're doing a lot of thinking about how to achieve a goal, but have you considered that the goal may have been hasty and not give you what you want, or may not give you what you want efficiently? You don't necessarily need $1m to do substantial things, or to run a company that can make a difference to African villages. You might do, sure, but I'd want to be certain that I wasn't making an assumption before drawing up a plan that will rule a significant portion of my life.

If $1m does turn out to be vital to your requirements, do you need to raise it yourself? Could you instead raise a small amount, launch a startup that helps African villages, and get someone else to invest the million?

For example, there was a couple who appeared on Dragon's Den (UK investment-based TV programme) a while back, who had invented a water carrier that used the rolling motion to filter the water inside as it was being carried back from dirty creek to village. It's in use now, and has doubtless saved lives already. It could quite conceivably still be a pipe-dream if they'd have decided to raise all the money themselves.
Boston, MA -- www.flipkey.com

Fun company to work for that's located downtown right near the Downtown Crossing stop. We're a UNIX shop using PHP and Python mostly.

Send me your resume to my username on this site at flipkey.com if you're interested.
Those are actually very close to the rules for setting up the admin password for windows server 2008 during install except that you're never TOLD those rules during the install. I spent half an hour typing passwords and having windows tell me that the weren't "complex" enough before having to go and google what the hell it was really after.
Oh, my home address has a "ö" in it as well, and that's also very hard to handle correctly everywhere, but addresses are pretty resilient, if you get my street name wrong on a letter to me, it will most probably be delivered anyway.
It's funny that PC and Android can never reach the smoothness of Apple's touch pad and screen scroll when it's really the basic thing of computer usage where it matters.

Apple did it right 15 years ago and why do others still suck at it?
Surprising. ST runs their own fabs.

People must be stockpiling, and ST is replenishing the most profitable stuff first.
Bitcoin, imho, is a clever way to redirect excess energy production into a trustless payments system. The fact that individuals have used personal gpus is an abveration. It will be governments running btc network on excess energy from nuclear plants, they will sign treaties to use only so much energy on btc to prevent the race to the bottom (similar to icbm treaties) and they will use btc for massive gov-to-gov transactions. Individuals in most countries will be barred from touching btc.
Basically, lens imperfections, camera noise, vibration and lack of rigid setups (and a hefty dose of etc.).
Hmmm. It says "designed to acquire audio events from parachute deploy to touchdown".

I assumed the reason they lost audio was because it wasn't designed for that and that it would have been lucky to keep it. Has anyone heard why they failed to capture during the EDL phase?
Aerc looks amazing, but I am still waiting for threading support before making the jump [1]. To the best of my knowledge, it supports everything else I would need.

[1]: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2/94

My current stack is: Mutt, Neovim, fdm, msmtp, Syncthing, notmuch, lynx (for HTML conversion), mblaze [2] (for scripting), and a tiny pair of scripts to snooze and unsnooze e-mails. Here is an interesting observation, although a pipeline like this may look terrifying, it makes swapping in Aerc to take it for a spin trivial since it all interacts with a Maildir.

[2]: https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze
Hardly. Both Trump and Biden will be gone (probably dead) after four more years and things will return to normal. All doors will eventually reopen.

Britain will never return to the normalcy of EU membership. Things have changed permanently for that country in a way that they might not have if they’d voted remain. Doors are now closed for them.
What is the difference between recently announced Flow and TypeScript?
http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/2mrngf/what_is_t...
I thought creating a BOSH release would be too much work but I will try that. What would be nice is if BOSH could abstract a cluster of VMs as a single Docker host and let me operate on containers instead of VMs (I'm not sure if that's possible at the moment without significant work).
Where are you getting your 6x6s from?
is cloudflare using openresty( its author agentzh works for cloudflare)? or their own nginx + lua implementation?
Because of the well funded propaganda networks in the US that push that notion.
Madlad. Thanks I'll give it a go.
I’m not sure they’re meaning it should be the point, but that our system, as designed, is to inflict as much harm (not justice) as we can on people that we think are less than us.

They may not agree with it morally at all, but that could be what they see.
Only 20 pages, that's confidence.
That feels like a non-standard usage of “speedy”, even accounting for linguistic drift since 1789.
When I saw 'raped', there's also the story of Abner Luoima.
Playtime doesn't really tell the whole story anyways...
I've got more than 1000 hours in Factorio, but _most_ of that time has been spend in the background while I did something else.
Ultimate floss from oral b sold overseas has been great, it’s hard to get but it’s like a dry fabric type of material that is porous and grippy rather than slick and coated floss like glide.
Back in college, the final project for a large 20% of our economics class grade was to balance the federal budget. We’d download a 100 page PDF from one of the .gov websites and find the budget table somewhere in the last half.

At the time, the government was bringing in 2.4 trillion in (tax) revenue and spending 3.8 trillion. This was adding 1.4 trillion a year to the federal deficit. At the time, 9% of the year’s tax revenue was being spent on interest payments on the federal debt and that percentage was rising every year.

For the project, I remember cutting defense spending by 80% to 2x what China spends, cutting all discretionary spending by 1/2, and tripling excise taxes before I had close to enough to balance the federal budget.
As someone who has a CS degree but who is professionally a systems person, I've been flipflopping continuously on if I even like the term "devops". I'm looking for someone for my team to fill a "devops" role, and sometimes people talk about it like it's "developer/operations" (someone who can be both a developer and do systems work) and sometimes it's "developer operations" (someone who is a toolsmith just for developers, does release engineering, deployment related work, monitoring and maintenance, doesn't deal with the nittygritty of production systems).

Personally, give me a developer who also knows operations and systems maintenance and debugging, or a operations guy who also groks development and the product development lifecycle. Having these roles be distinctly separate people or teams, who don't have experience on the other side, is a gross inefficiency.

There's a tendency, as a company grows larger, to separate the concerns. In a smaller company, it's almost necessary to have the same one or two people do both roles (especially in a startup -- your startup's chances of even getting out the gate are reduced if your technology arm only does one or the other). I think some of the increased elitism from the purely developer side comes from the recent perception that "you can get rid of your systems and ops guys because developers can now deploy to the cloud". Elitism exists in some form on the systems and operations side because technical debt is more obviously visible to them (but they are unaware of the history of the reason for much of the technical debt, not having been involved with the product side). The ones who are legitimately elite, because they are on both sides, are also seen as humble because they concentrate on actually solving problems using whichever tools are available from either camp.
Please also make your "Tell me more" presentation HTML rather than Flash.
Sure, and if you want to do software as a service, I have no quarrel with it. But if, when someone pays you, you then give them possession of a good, you shouldn't be able to maintain control over the good.

If copying physical objects were as easy as copying software, the practice of renting a car wouldn't make a sustainable business, in exactly the same way. That doesn't mean we should restrict the production of automobiles by law; it just means another business model is required.
New paper copies of the books I looked at ("Seven languages in seven weeks", "Pragmatic Guide to Git") are about 40% off list at Amazon all the time.
I don't see anything particulary special here. The metaprogramming features are quite weak. The macro system is very primitive. The number types seem to be lacking, too. I don't see anything about bignums, rationals, or complex numbers.
Videoconferencing sucks -- it's not as effective as having your coworker come over to your screen for pair programming, or talking face-to-face with your UXer. Anyone who has done any amount of remote work will realize that the OP is dramatically overstating the value of teleconferencing solutions compared to working in house.