skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used to work in +6 and -5 (or -4) timezone. Given no overlapping work hours, it was pretty difficult to do it. So one person from either team volunteered and proxy the team during odd hours standup (and we rotated each week which side will join at odd hours). However, later we've converted to collocated teams which is working greatly.

There is still someone (now specifically product owners) who bridges between both sides but both team now feel better sense of ownership as they their separate responsibilities in same product.
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uh, money to the government doesn't end poverty, not even remotely. the question we should all ask is whether individuals, individually motivated, better allocate money than the government. the idea they don't give to charity or fight poverty with their billions is also preposterous.
> Why not regulate their use of the data (as opposed to preventing collection of it)?

If the Sec of State can't use top secret information appropriately, why should I trust that dozens of faceless agents, programmers, data scientists, actuaries, etc. are all using my data?

See also the OPM data breach:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
I think the 80% thing you're discussing is a bit like the 'duplo economy' that PG mentions in his essay. Very large broad-brush taxation, with little specificity.

It would be trivial to make the taxation regime more high-resolution so that people who reinvest their cash into other ventures are taxed at a far lower rate, whereas those who wish to retire early and do nothing else are taxed a lot more.

Better to start from the society you want to see and work backwards from there to design a taxation system, rather that say yes or no to one or two one-size-fits-all options, I think.
Oh shit! That's one hell of an endorsement [in the making]. I bet the excitement and suspense are thick in the office, eh? Hope it works out for adoption reasons.
For me up in the North of England, I only get two gyms. Both are in London which is not feasible in the slightest to get to.
> It's important to not remain stuck in your
"things I learned in the 80s/90s" mindset of C development.

Instead use C99 ... which is from 1999.
(Yes, I know most people didn't learn it in the 90s)
Because it sounds better to say job creators are being hunted than to say I want to keep my sweetheart tax breaks.
If this tax regime was put in place, people would find other ways to shelter their money; I don't think the government would end up with a significant windfall. Maybe they'd invest in their company or start a new company and invest in that. I'm sure that with such a large income, they would have many places to put that money.
Lets consider only the moment before the collision of the small planet pieces: these are all accelerating to the center of mass.
If you revert time, you still have a lot of pieces, with high speed, but these are going away from the center (and getting slowed by the gravity).
After collision, it gets more tricky, because the kinetic energy of a body will be lost (mostly transformed in thermal energy) and it will be less intuitive to imagine how to revert that.
>If a billionaire is taxed 80% on the year he or she earns that billion, they will still be worth $200 million.

Ah, yes. One can be rich, but don't you dare be TOO rich!
Please check our research papers linked on the webpage.

Our data consists only from normal (or natural looking) face images in the wild (from IMDB, Wiki, and/or BLINQ user profiles). On such data we get very good apparent age prediction (better than the human reference) and also very good gender and attractiveness prediction.

The attractiveness is highly subjective and its perception varies from one culture/region to another. We used data from Switzerland.

Our solutions are far from being perfect and the guessed results should not be taken too seriously.

We consider to update our models to explicitly deal with distortions and non-human face contents.
I would definitely agree there is great danger in purely logical reasoning, especially if it were someone who had limited empathy.

I wonder, if both extremes are dangerous, is the middle ground safe?
Did they really recommend the part of the Congo to which the UK foreign office advises against all travel (i.e. your travel insurance will be invalid)? Wow. The rest of the country is "advise against all but essential travel"

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/democratic-republic...
I once rented servers from Switzerland. I guess mainly based on the image of them being secure, privacy-oriented etc. It was not cheap, of course, but I was fine with that.

Turns out that they had really lousy security practice, their staff was probably some idiots. The granted access to our servers to some random dude with simple social engineering hack. In addition they never admitted their mistake, although it was clear from the admin console what had happened (I guess they didn't even research it).

The company in question was Private Layer Inc. Never use their services. I will personally never trust anything Swiss on any IT-related.
When I visited Japan, I saw many toilets that had a little faucet/sink built into the toilet lid, so you could wash your hands with it before it was used to fill the tank.

However, I'm not sure how practical that kind of thing would be to do at house-scale. You'd need to have extra set of plumbing, plus storage tanks for the greywater (and probably pumps to get it there), among other extra things.
The casts are needed for "dirty pointer math". Without the casts, &A[1] - &A[0] returns 1, not 4, for an int *A.
I went to Cesky Krumlov while I was in the Czech Republic, and driving from Budapest to Prague. It's a cute little town worth staying a night, but the best part was simply driving around the countryside. It's a beautiful area.
What about putting the prices in EUR or USD?? I know it only takes a google search to find out. But you see, other than Swiss no one really cares, thinks, calculates or anything in Swiss francs.
This is a rare situation / age we're in, because we haven't seen these levels of income inequality in a long time.

To the degree to which I would apply labels to myself, I'm a capitalist, and I'm a libertarian. I don't trust our corrupt political system anymore, and I certainly don't think the government has the ability to help society as much as it hurts it, at least most of the time. Because of this, I think that any extra taxation that the government levies will commensurately damage our society.

That said, I can't help but think that our entire economy has been swept out from under our feet by the financial sector. It's not tech companies and supposedly "rich" tech founders that capture our economy. It's VCs. A VC can give a company that would otherwise be insolvent the capital it needs to capture an entire market, and then raise the prices. We see it time and time again.

We're trained to believe that, without VC, the tech industry would somehow be stifled. This is simply untrue. Without VC, a lot of our "side" projects that create true innovation would have a chance at success. The reason many of them don't is because they're up against the same thing from a VC-backed competitor. Except, the VC-backed version is cheaper (or free), is backed by an unsustainable, large team of skilled developers, and doesn't care that it's hemorrhaging money, because once it creates a monopoly it will pay dividends for life to the very few who own it.
I agree, which is more reason against it.
You can get most of this with the gpl2 plus classpath exception at the university of linz site. Or the relevant openjdk repository. the other version has autovectorisation and this graal.js. But the team hopes to opensource that too. So once it's production ready the license will change to the standard oracle jdk or openjdk one as you wish.

http://lafo.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/builds
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Not where I live. It is not in USA, but I imagine the same is true for Nevada.

There is an additional charge for consumers, for 'electric grid distribution' charge. This distorts the symmetry of net metering. The result is that a grid company makes money even at retail prices.
The problem is that the anger over the employer's illegal actions is now being directed to the customer. This makes it easier for the employer to get away with this because they can shield themselves better by focusing on the customers who don't tip.
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sounds both oldschool and fun, but i suppose it doesn't work for a grown up man with some obligations ;)
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What virtualization do you use? OpenVZ, KVM, XenPV, XenHVM?
they own walmart equity, you know, one of the largest employers on the planet. they have foundations, you know, that help the less fortunate: http://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/

you guys have a lot of neat ideas for other people's money.
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Remember, a critical part of Google Fi is that it's supposed to automatically switch your voice and data to WiFi, and that Google has rigged partnerships such that they have lots of WiFi available for you to use.

So, if you currently use 5-10 GB/mo on one carrier, the theory is that you'll use less - possibly significantly less - on Google Fi.
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still have to check Mint. Maybe it'll make me cancel Blinq development, or give some great ideas!
> allocating the memory for variables

Allocation of N variables on the stack is O(1) since it just moves the stack pointer by the total size of all variables.
It was an extremely, easy-to-use language that even laypeople could write business logic in. Similar to how BASIC got so many people started. Except, Fortune 500 companies were writing all their backend stuff in COBOL on mainframes from the 60's onward. Needless to say, there's a lot of it around dependent on existing libraries, interfaces, language variants, compilers, etc. Porting it is huge risk. So, they just maintain and extend it.

Main vendor even has it on Visual Studio:
http://www.microfocus.com/solutions/cobol/index.aspx

The job is boring, predictable, and 9-5-ish at most places. Exactly what some types of people are looking for. They figure they can play with the fun stuff at home. One person even jokingly made a web framework for it: COBOL on Cogs. So, yeah, I throw COBOL at anyone using the "use language X for users or jobs" argument to see how they react to what they're actually arguing.

Interesting that you at least looked it up and didn't go into denial mode. I'm impressed. ;)
> Both problems are being avoided if you use [u]int_leastN_t

No you'll have the exact problem I cited in that case.

> Or if you do not make assumptions of the sizes of int, something that only bad programmers do.

Requesting a specific data size is the exact opposite of making assumptions.
Remember, a critical part of Google Fi is that it's supposed to automatically switch your voice and data to WiFi, and that Google has rigged partnerships such that they have lots of WiFi available for you to use.

So, if you currently use 5-10 GB/mo on one carrier, the theory is that you'll use less - possibly significantly less - on Google Fi.

That's SIGNIFICANTLY different from what you can see reported about how you manually configure the WiFi you have used today.
Just curious, but are there proper heuristics that are easily implementable to improve the ranking a language receives from github usage?

For example, only count repositories that have more than 2 stars.

I don't like cutting repos because they are under a certain size, because even a few bytes may be genuinely useful and widely used, but a repository nobody is looking at or really using is most likely a pet project.

Maybe count only projects with > 2 stars (or forks?) OR projects with over a kilobyte of code? Perhaps such a project with no forks, no stars, but a lot of code might be a reference implementation or used in a talk or blog post or something but isn't useful other than to reference.

I agree counting all github repos is a silly way to do it.
Musk is not an exception. History is absolutely filled with entrepreneurs in the same vein. Disney, Rockefeller, Ford, Jobs, Branson, just to name a few.

And those may be some of the more standout examples, but there are hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs who have made similar reinvestments or expansions to some smaller effect.

The carpenter who invests his post-tax capital in buying better tools or increasing his skill is producing a net-positive effect for society by improving the quality of carpentry available to people in his area.

Our economy is in large part, the net effect of the sum of all those micro-improvements.
Assignment of blame is important, because it determines what component needs to be fixed to solve the problem. It's all about correctness in the end.

As an aside, I want to clarify that I'm not advocating being a bad team player. The point to assigning blame isn't demonizing the developer of the faulty component, or reducing cooperation between developers of different components to the bare minimum. The point is just reducing the cost of fixing the problem.
> Case in point, is Elon Musk. If he didn't take home most of the money he earned from his involvement in Paypal, the odds of Space X, Tesla, and Solar City ever happening are decreased dramatically. When in the hands of an extraordinarily talented individual like Musk, capital can work to create long-lasting ripple effects that benefit society as a whole.

What you're claiming here is that Musk can allocate capital better than a government, right? That leaving the money in his hands was better than taxing it and spending it on government projects? (note that all three of SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City received substantial amounts of funding from the US government (directly or indirectly) and would likely not be viable without it, even leaving aside all the USG-funded basic research that was necessary to make them possible in the first place).

Even if that's true for Musk specifically (which I doubt), is it true on average? How efficient is the average billionaire at using their money for social good? You gloss over a lot with "While not always the case" - how does the average return to society on a private capital investment compare with a public capital investment?
The UK has some of the best drinking water in the world, my local water company does hundreds of thousands of tests each year of which <.3% where over there own limits which are mode stringent than required standards, you can do these things to a given standard if you want to.

Example report for my region

http://www.ywonline.co.uk/web/WQZ.nsf/0/26AA27A47E437B1B8025...
It's an ad for an app.
I'm coming up on my 5-year standing anniversary.

One thing I've noticed that the video doesn't mention is what it's like to work at a sitting desk after having exclusively stood so long.

It sucks.

My hip flexors aren't used to sitting for more than short intervals, which means I can't work at a sitting desk for a whole day without having hip pain.

This was an issue last year when I did some consulting at a company where they didn't have any standing desks available. (At some companies I've actually started the standing desk trend, but this Major US Cable Company was having none of it).
Power consumption.
This is not specific to only Nevada. Utility companies have started pulling back power-bill credits in other states too, just not as aggressive as Nevada. Arizona was effected last year which caused job loss and solar downsizing and this is happening in CA too.

Lots of state rebates are starting to go away and utility companies are pulling back on credits.

We worked with over 50 solar companies in 2013 to 2014. It was a gold rush during that time. 2015 was a completely different story and I think 2016 will continue in that downward spiral.

Solar companies really need to figure out a way to survive without state & federal rebates and utility company credits.
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musk is young, and gates is probably the great living human being. of all the people you gripe about, you've chosen a guy who gave, what, everything to humanity?
This article is on point.

One only needs to go to NYC's Upper East Side to see this in action. Right above the UES (Yorkville, specifically) is Spanish Harlem.

Before 96th Street? Multi-million dollar penthouses and rentals abound that will impress your friends and family guaranteed. "Gourmet organic" bodegas. Expensive-looking restaurants. Upper-middle-class creature comforts all around.

After 96th Street? Projects. Junk-food bodegas. Domestic abuse shelters. Police cameras. Unmistakeable poverty oozing through the sewers. It's frustrating to watch.

(This contrast is even more stark in much of America. My girlfriend and I went to Memphis during a road trip last year. She went to college there and wanted to show me how quickly Memphis goes from "filthy rich asshole" to "filthy shithole".

There was an approximate 2 block radius of really expensive-looking homes and tree-lined streets that bordered the college. Outside of it? Endless projects.)
Looks very cool! And with alterging too. Cool!
Thanks. I'm not sure it is as much misconception as it is wild variation in what the consulting life is like for different people. Not everyone has those one or two stable long term clients. In many ways, the wide array of different possibilities in the consulting world is both its blessing and its curse.
You are correct! I added it.
My father-in-law was using standing desk for past 40 years (works at street market). He is pretty healthy.
I did this with a single sheet of engineering graph paper in the 1980s. Rows were spending categories and columns were months and annual summaries. I spreadsheeted it in the 1990s and clouded it in the 2010s.
Simple and powerful if you can see it all on one page. Takes just minutes a month. Most the mobile apps I'ver seen use too small screenfulls. And I DONT TRUST THEM INTO MY WEB ACCOUNTS like Mint wants to do.
We operate out of several datacenters, the servers for this deal are located in Montreal, Canada. We don't have EU servers yet, but are planning in expansion.
The national parks are beautiful in ND. It would be like me saying I'm confused why the Caribbean is on the list because I grew up on the ocean. I'm in and around the ocean almost everyday still, so taking a vacation to see more ocean isn't that exciting.
Well cities have a somewhat captive market - if they pump it to your house, you'll either use it or pay extra for bottles, and at the least you won't shower or flush your toilet with bottled water.
More fail safe (like Arduino is). Just plug the power in, instantly booting up and no worry to damage something if you just cut the power without shutting things down. And more energy efficient. You can't compare this Chirimen board to a Raspberry Pi, nor can you compare it to a Arduino. They are different. Maybe you can compare it to a Espruino board (but not really). They all will have their niche.
First of all, congrats on taking control of your finances!

Also, good luck with the forthcoming app launch.

Sad to see the top responses didn't celebrate what you've done but instead complained that you are putting out an app.

I'd suggest going deeper into your philosophy of why you only need 7 main categories. How did you decide on those exact 7? Where would you classify: giving, investing, and short-term savings (tech replacement, saving for an anniversary, etc).

Edit: as mentioned elsewhere, there are a bunch of typos too. "taht" instead of "that", etc.
obligations? If/when you have kids....
Interesting the VB.net doesn't even show up until 2010.
What do rocket scientists have to do with designing water purification systems?
Yeah, i was strongly reminded of a MMORPG chat channel.

Then again, most of the guys doing this kind of trading is likely to be in their early 20s or so...
I live in Holland, which is 40 minutes from G.R. I second the comments: Grand Rapids is a great city. I recommend visiting in the late Spring or Early Summer: it's heaven.

If you do happen to visit in Winter, and you're near Holland or Grand Haven (also on the lakeshore) you should check out the downtown areas: both have snowmelt systems that keep the downtown area roads and sidewalks dry:

http://www.downtownholland.com/green/snow-melt/
Standing desk user here, since 2009. I'm in general agreement with the OP.

MY "PROS"

o	Standing eliminates post-lunch lethargy, for me

o	I perceive an increased focus while standing

o	I still feel a bit of back soreness while standing, from time to time—standing helps but is not a miracle solution

o	Some argue standing is good for dieting as it burns more calories than sitting: http://lifehacker.com/5798791/calculate-how-many-calories-yo...

MY "CONS":

o	Standing all day, like sitting all day, is hard on the body, but in different ways (for example, it increases the risk of varicose veins)--to compensate, alternate between standing or sitting, and take breaks, walk around, and so forth, as OP does

o	I lost two overhead storage cubbies, in transitioning my desk, to a standing desk--something to consider if you need to consolidate materials

o	I'm 6'1" tall and find colleagues shorter than ~5'5" find my high work-surface challenging, during desk-side meetings (a good reason to keep at least one lower work-surface)

Some random other tips:

o	Face monitors toward a low-traffic area, to minimize passer-by distractions/eye-contact

o	The OP stands on wood floors, but I think that's nuts; get a highly-rated anti-fatigue mat (I got one via ULINE)

o	A chair with an adjustable seat height represents a really nice-to-have; the Herman Miller Aeron Stool’s high variant represents the nicest one (again, personal preference, here), with a seat height up to 34"
I have to separate Food into Eating Out and Groceries. I value cooking at home much higher than I do eating out.
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Propane or natural gas are cleaner, and more reliable, than gasoline or diesel.
That's all very true but not the point. If you want to sell your product, you should make it as easy as possible for the customer to understand the value of your product and price is part of that judgement. And charging in CHF is not an excuse not to put the price in USD or EUR next to the CHF with the most up-to-date conversion rate that you get from those links you shared.
> [OP] I’ve worked hard for 3 years and am still making less than minimum wage.

> But it sounds like you have a clear vision that is driving you

I merely suggested that he consider expanding to businesses. I'm in no position to give advice about how to run a business but why not try?

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
ovecomplicated

morgage

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marathone

"You probably realised taht you won’t be able to makea cut"

tabacco (in the app image)

naturaly

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