skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Figo - Hamburg, Germany - Full Time - Onsite

We just closed our Series A and are looking for great new employees! Join us on our API Banking mission.

Our API enables any developer to develop new innovative financial services.

We have several open technical and business positions. You can find our detailed job listings here: http://figo.io/jobs.html
Japanese people's culture is "If it's working like that, keep it like that".

I once had to make a Japanese website for a cars wholesale company that ship cars for different countries on the world and they used to do a lot of work manually on their old website wanted to update it because they lost contact with the old developer (used to HTML the website).

He was like no-no for everything that will cost money (themes, plugins...), I didn't felt comfortable dealing with him since he said no for a $50 translation plugin and he wanted translation on his website (he will get transitioned text himself somehow, don't like this step step things...) and I'm sure I will charge him more than $50 to write a translation plugin (since I won't put it on an online store).
Very impressive for a weekend project. May I ask, how do you approach these kind of problems? Do you focus for 12h, do you make hand-written notes, do you use any IDE or code analysis tools, whiteboards - or what is your method in general?
Why America's Internet Is So Shitty and Slow
If something is reliable but almost impossible to keep up, I wouldn't exactly say that it "works". That's like saying to a student that they'll pass a course if only they study hard enough, without giving any further study or motivational advice. It's true but it's pointless.
I know designer use it because it's dead easy to collaborate, whether with other designers (mac on mac) or clients (which may or may not be on macs)

but that's one use case I'm biased toward coz I see them every day using it that way.
So is now a good time to point out that LibreOffice 5.1 has integrated an "Open remote files" menu for opening files on Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint, and a "Save to remote server" menu to save directly to Google Drive, OneDrive and Sharepoint?

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.1#Remote_...

Maybe time to switch to Google Drive?
It's likely talking about all future dividends (discounted for time value). Startups will naturally reinvest their earnings to grow, but at some point, pursuing growth will be too costly and the best use of their earnings will be to return it to the owners as dividends.

If a company were guaranteed to never return anything to owners, then it would be more like speculating in the future value of a baseball card than an actual investment.

It may not be a practical way to calculate value, but it's not crazy either.
If you're already running weechat, you might be interested in checking out Glowing Bear which accomplishes a very similar goal, but without reinventing the weel - it simply connects to you existing weechat (probably running on a server somewhere).

https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear

https://latest.glowing-bear.org

One of the biggest advantages of this approach is that you get the whole functionality of a mature IRC client. You also don't have to trust a third party with your data, as you're connecting to your own client, no middleman involved. It's just a bunch of static files.
I've been using OneDrive to backup my notes (OneNote) and documents. Recently I started to use OneDrive as my primary storage for photo + music + video by purchasing the 100GB plan. This was because of the convenience of auto-upload from my Lumia to OneDrive, and also because I'm using Lumia 1020, with the very high resolution camera, a single photo takes around 10MB space. I'm disappointed with this move by Microsoft, without those little extras, I'll be exceeding the quota very soon (since my storage consumption will always be increasing). I'm thinking to cancel my 100GB subscription (when this rolls out) and turn away to other services, hmm maybe hosting my own cloud storage (OwnCloud)?
It's an incredibly difficult problem, with no easy solutions - projects like this one (http://www.katinganproject.com/) need to be supported and publicised, as they seek to find practical alternatives to burning the peat and forests.
Never thought this way, this is actually a great idea. I mean, even if Android runs Androids apps natively, in most cases developers still needs to include Android support library, to provide backwards compatibility with older versions of Android.

So since we need Android support library anyway, why not simply include the complete runtime (like ARC), in base of a really simple and slim OS, like ChromeOS with Flutter UI. This new OS would get direct updates from Google, like ChromeOS. To get legacy support of apps designed for Android, simple repackage every existing application with ARC. Win-win situation, right?
HN user patio11 got mentioned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11
https://yunohost.org/

https://yunohost.org/#/whatsyunohost

YunoHost is a server operating system aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux and is fully compatible with it.

Basically YunoHost automatically installs and configures some services around LDAP, and provides tools to administrate them.

It can thus be considered as a distribution, including the following software:

Nginx: a web server
Postfix: an SMTP e-mail server
Dovecot: an IMAP and a POP3 e-mail server
Amavis: an antispam
Metronome: an XMPP server
OpenLDAP
Bind: a DNS server
SSOwat: a Single Sign On (SSO) web authentication system
A backup system (not yet implemeted)

This is same thing I said on this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486062

Your own Debian Mail Server (part II): how to prove you are not a spammer

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486380
The HSTS timing trickery is basically just an information leak bug that needs to be widely fixed; TorBrowser has fixed it [1].

[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1517
I don't think Xamarin open source their Visual Studio integration or their Mac OS Build Host. So this would be following in those footsteps: if you want these features, pay for them.
The Digital Disparities Facing Lower-Income Teenagers
tl;dr HSTC+CSP can be faster than real network requests, use this to detect a client.
Here in Thailand the impact has been pretty severe in the south. Very unhealthy air quality, a number of deaths of elderly from respiratory failure, many dozens of flights cancelled to Phuket and Krabi. Seems a lot worse this year than many years past.

Next up is Thailand's burning season in a few months when the people in the north and neighboring Myanmar do their annual burn of farmlands and forest. That's usually pretty bad, too, but not on the same scale as the burning in Indonesia.
The right time to turn in your keyboard as a coder/founder
> The one exception was a shallow reactor zone at a place called Bangombé, some 30 kilometres from Oklo, although this has largely been washed out by ground water.

That doesn't sound that safe to me after all.
Xamarin's .NET mobile/mac offerings are closed source. Mono itself fills the role of the OpenJDK does for Java, but it alone is not suitable for running on mobile. Also, Mono is licensed under the LGPL and Xamarin's interpretation of that license precludes using the runtime in a closed-source program without a alternative license from them (which they provide with their paid plans).
This doesn't sound true or only insofar that it makes you unhappy if you do a comparable amount of work but don't receive a comparable compensation. So I would say that not receiving your fair share makes you unhappy but not only having less then others.
Same here in NYC.

https://instagram.com/p/4hV_LcgD_H/?taken-by=mmellinger66

https://instagram.com/p/39AlorgD4n/?taken-by=mmellinger66

https://instagram.com/p/3_lmaRADx_/?taken-by=mmellinger66
5-10 years is very optimistic... I'd have said 10-20 years in most companies I've seen (Sharp is way more than 10 years behind foreign companies for example).
How  LinkedIn Can Boost Your App Downloads
The problem with this in countries like the US is that money talks, unlimited contributions to PACs and various ways to mask those contributions means that at the very least election media is largely controlled by money. This obviously tilts political favour to those with money to spend.
FNZ | Brno, Czech Republic | Full Time | ONSITE

We're looking for developers to help build the next generation of personal Wealth Management platforms. You'll be working with .NET either consuming our REST services or building them out, but no specific experience is necessary. We've got openings for graduate developers as well as more senior roles.

There's a pretty diverse set of nationalities here, and we're happy to sponsor Czech visa applications for non-EU citizens. In addition we have offices with a development presence in Edinburgh, London or Wellington and would prefer to work there then I also can check if we're able to hire locally.

If you're interested you can send your CV to sean.mclemon@fnz.co.uk along with just a quick intro about yourself (nothing formal) - or if you'd just like to know a little more I can answer any questions you might have. If you're in/around Brno and would prefer a face-to-face chat I'm happy to meet for a coffee or a beer :)

A little bit about FNZ generally:

- We've got investment platforms live in the UK, Italy, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand

- Currently manage over £50 billion (€70bn/$77bn) in client assets

- Some of our clients include Standard Life, AXA, Zurich, AVIVA, UBS and NAB
Couldn't agree more. I love new gadgets and innovation but I too get nostalgic for those items.
People in this thread focus on Microsoft and their history of "bait and switch", however the writing has been on the wall ever since the beginning with OneDrive. OneDrive is a complementary service to Office, much like everything else that Microsoft does, which is why it will never be their focus. OneDrive is not the product being sold, but rather the candy that users receive to entice them into an Office365 subscription. This simple fact of microeconomics has also been visible in the feature set provided. For example out of the solutions I tried, OneDrive is the only one that does not offer features for auditing what happened with your files, as in a log of what happened lately, or versioning of changes - those being features probably reserved for OneDrive for Business, because you know, only businesses care about their data.

And OneDrive is not alone in this. Google Drive and iCloud are also complementary services. I mean, for now you can clearly see who is treating cloud storage seriously by the support they give to their Linux customers. And if you want to vote with your wallets for complementaries, that's fine, but it reduces choice in the marketplace and I think that personal data (think photos, videos, personal projects) is too important to treat with a shitty, complementary free tier whose purpose is to lock you into something.
so, 95% of the money eventually gets to western companies?
So I believe that it's covering about 2% of Indonesia's total arable landmass? Can someone cross check this for me?
1. Autosleep: Autosleep inactive Docker Containers - https://github.com/girishso/autosleep

2. I wanted to implement the free tier Heroku feature, sleeping off the inactive apps and activate them whenever someone accesses them.

3. Learn about Docker, Go and use it on my Raspberry Pi!
Uhm, they only support mono because they simply can't close it and have lots of proprietary libraries built around it. Some they developed on their own, some were bought/licensed from previous Mono maintainers. Xamarin is not a FOSS company by a long shot.
I meant like an IDE, like Eclipse/IntelliJ IDEA for C/C++ that implements stepping back/forward in code, like rr.
I really want to start using TextSecure (or Signal now I guess), but the only thing holding me back is it depends on Google Play Services. I love what they're doing and can understand the decision, but still thinks it sucks a bit that the best option for secure communications is so tied into Google.
Surprised this isn't more of a norm... logical.
You wrote

>So (and again, a model is really needed to confirm this) public information is cheaper in terms of its impact on liquidity, than insider information. One thing I'm not certain of is whether many insiders competing to trade on the same information would be as good as public information

That sounded to me like you were against insider trading because it wasn't as efficient as public information. I don't get why that implies we shouldn't allow insider trading.

Your other post said that it necessarily harms someone, but I think that argument was successfully argued against in the link I posted above. Do you have a problem with that part of it?

Also, I would still like it being up to the company. If liquidity is important to them, and the experiment shows that allowing it leads to less liquidity, then eventually they'll stop it.

I don't think that market is inefficient enough to necessitate government action.
Chariot (YC W15) is hiring
There is no such thing as "no longer open source". The story here is in fact "the copyright holders of RoboVM have made a proprietary derivative".
Robert Moore - the guy in this video - also did a funny blog on his companies logo looking like underwear by accident. Interesting thing was that it actually turned out quite well for him. https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2013/10/09/our-logo-looks-like-un...
As far as drug policy goes, a lot of the momentum in Colorado came from some simple observations after enough experience with licensed medical dispensaries. With enough local access to a grey market, trafficking across international borders vanished.

The economics involved here involve the difference between the cost of something, the value of something, the difficulty of producing it, and the difficulty of distributing it. What is unique about marijuana is that it is, indeed, as easy to produce as a tomato, which is a garden vegetable anyone can grow easily anywhere in the world. (I'm unaware of any jurisdictions where it is illegal to grow and consume tomatoes. Transporting them across state lines, though?)

Plants like tobacco are much more climate restricted. Plants like hops are incredibly easy to grow. So you see plenty of people brewing their own beer at home, but nobody making their own cigarettes at home.

You're misunderstanding what I'm saying about changes at the federal level, though. The warehouse space in Denver county is rapidly filling up purely based on supply and demand within Colorado. Sure, there's some tourism, but If the DEA rescheduled cannabis and nothing else, then almost nothing would change about the commercial real estate market in Denver. If nothing changes at the federal level, then almost nothing would change about the commercial real estate market in Denver.

Also, this just happend: http://fox40.com/2015/11/02/ballot-initiative-filed-to-legal...

I was unaware of this until I decided to research it just now, because I don't really care about this issue in California because I don't live there. I was responding to the original commenter because it really is unsafe to hike in Humboldt County, regardless of whether you care about marijuana. This is something that affects the poster directly.

And I'm not saying I want to repeal the law in Colorado, but it's definitely having an unexpected negative effect on my neighborhood, and this is unlikely to change. Whatever industrial / warehouse space that isn't being demolished to turn into condos, is used up by the regulated marijuana industry. There is no longer any cheap real estate anywhere near me that is suitable for a hackerspace.

Since the hackerspaces can move, and the marijuana processing facilities can't (until the laws change at the county level), this affects me in my backyard, regardless of how they deal with the practical legislative refinements. And because Colorado regulators were first out the gate, regulators in almost every other state that moves forward this way will use that as a model.

I'm not saying we shouldn't care about violence in Mexico, but it's just not something that's going to be on the mind of most voters as these ballot measures gain momentum in other states. There will be unrelated economic sectors in Colorado and other early adopter states that will suffer ripple effects. If those ripple effects reach any special interest group here, then similar special interest groups elsewhere will fight harder against these initiatives.
Open LIDAR data for Wales
Great! I've been using Signal for iOS and while it's not yet comparable to WhatsApp feature-wise, it's for sure good enough to use.

I find it very difficult to get people to switch from the walled gardens of iOS messaging and WhatsApp (WhatsApp dominates the Dutch market for interesting historical reasons). I've been able to get a handful of privacy conscious friends to switch to Signal/TextSecure, hopefully the cross-platform branding makes this a bit easier.
Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore today
"There is a massive disconnect in late-stage preferred stock, because if you’re using it to synthesize debt it doesn’t matter what the price is."

Actually, price is crucial with this weird 'debt' since you're betting on the cumulative probabilities of hitting your liquidity preference and liquidity cap numbers. (Really it's an integral over that range, but whatever.) Whereas in equity venture investing the power law distribution of returns dominates linear optimizations of price.

Thanks for reporting on this. I don't think many people knew about this insane liquidation straddle instrument. I sure didn't.
British pavements are a dream, you should come to Italy. Here is the 'pavement' on my walk home (the yellow pole is a bus stop): http://i.imgur.com/30ujPfb.jpg
Can you provide some specific examples of reduced benefits for non-profits? I have been an IT admin at a non-profit for three years and found O365's introduction of Enterprise level non-profit plans has been a huge money saver for us.

I do agree that their availability has been less than stellar. We have lots of odd issues with Exchange and SharePoint can be a real damn pain at times.
Rare early photographs of Peking
>I'm coming round to the belief that the big downside of free movement of goods/people/capital is the possibility of "sloshing"

High capital flows do correlate with frequency and severity of financial crises:

http://www.voxeu.org/article/ez-crisis-and-historical-trilem...

This is why poorer countries tend to enact capital controls. Foreign capital has a tendency to flee all at the same time (for a safe haven like America), which is ruinous for the economy. There's something of a feedback loop there.

This is why some investors describe emerging markets as markets from which it is difficult to emerge in an emergency.
I know of many ad agencies and management consultaincies that use Lotus Notes.
VWO launches on Page Surveys
Low-carb diets do work.
>People's happiness depends more on the relative quality of their lives compared to others. It's a basic property of humanity.

This used to be called "envy", and seen as a vice to be avoided. Interestingly, the description of it as a "basic property" of humanity is in a way similar to symbolic interpretations of the Christian notion of "original sin" (Christians/theologians please correct me if I'm wrong).
Well, one complication here is that the only reason they were allowed to do so was that their CLA gave RoboVM AB an unrestricted license to the contributions, not merely the license the code was released under. If that were not the case, the compiler could not have gone simply gone proprietary because it was GPL licensed.

In practice, I suspect they would have been able to do this anyway because the biggest independent contributors joined RoboVM prior to this move.

edit: typo
I can't imagine these roaming around the streets of Birmingham, they'll just be picked up and dismantled for cash.
If the "world" as defined as other countries, the comments suggest it's because the "world" can't tell them what to do. If the world is referring to people, we can see that the article has 386,059 shares and 1569 comments. The world is definitely not looking away.

If the question was, "can we change how some people are apathetic to Indonesia burning?" I think that would be an interesting question.

Nice hook btw, the title got me to comment. Then, I looked at your website. Of course OP has experience in click baiting and copywriting ;)
I don't think Xamarin has open sourced anything that they didn't have to. All tools developed exclusively by Xamarin are closed source (e.g. Xamarin build host, the Mono packager, Xamarin.Insights, Objective Sharpie, etc...).
And switching is a pain in the ass. Dropbox looks very strong.
This is awesome. I am always struggling when I open HN with my Phone.

Bookmark saved!!

Thanks man.
Yep, it's a chicken and egg thing, small groups with money -> small groups with political power -> small groups with more money -> small groups with more political power -> etc.

Though other political factors do have a role to play, a dysfunctional two-party political process where many feel disenfranchised may well be the link that explains the graphs for english speaking nations differing from the European nations for example.
I experienced this myself when I built a new browser based single dealer channel for the interest rate trading business of a large UK bank in 2008-10. Part of the motivation of single dealer channels is to get wholesale bank clients off the people intensive voice & email channels (phone calls to highly paid sales people) and on to self service electronic channels. For instance, for an index tracking block trade, we'd want to deter them from emailing a sales person a spreadsheet, and encourage them to upload via a browser for automated processing. The resistance to changing entrenched manual workflow among Japanese clients was phenomenal, and far greater than in London or New York.
Would you rather feel undervalued, or would you rather be underpaid? Sometimes you can't have both vocal appreciation and good pay at the same time. Being paid without hassle can at times be the only show of appreciation, at least in contract work.

Afterward, instead of trying to buy happiness, it would be more advisable to appreciate yourself. If you don't appreciate yourself, then you may want to find something that gives you a purpose in life, even if outside of work. There are many worthwhile causes in this world -- many things in need of care. If you can find something where (a) you care personally and (b) you can make a difference, then (c) you may have found purpose.
More or less what I thought reading down this thread. 'New' tech in the consumer market is tech from 10+ years in specialized trades (4K in 2002 from an earlier comment, touchsreen on your Win8 box? Had touchscreen on the retail POS 10 years ago[1]).

So what is around now that I don't want to wait 10 years for?

[1]cslight differences may occur
their official line of reasoning is:

RoboVM is a complicated piece of technology that we have worked hard for years to create. Over the past few months, we have seen competitors actively exploiting our good faith by using our open source code to compete with us directly in commercial products. On the flip side, we have received almost no meaningful contributions to our open source code. You can imagine how disappointing this has been to us; we had hoped our initial business model of OSS with proprietary extensions (like our debugger and interface builder integration) would work. But in light of the low contributions and behavior of competitors, we decided to stop automatically releasing changes to the core of RoboVM as open source.

tl;dr they weren't receiving any contributions, and people were using their open source code directly against them.
What does it send via googleplay other than "please connect to the server now"?