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Introducing new productivity tool for OS X [beta]
Is this tool open source? would be a great contribution to the accessibility community.
Ask HN: Small business bank account – who do you use?
We currently use PNC but their online interface is atrocious/broken and we have frequent problems transferring money. Furthermore, our experiences at their local branch have been disappointing.

Our needs are basic:
- Single checking account with debit card for each co-founder
- Send invoices online
- Make (sometimes international) payments
- Quickbooks integration
- Local branch in Denver, CO (not strictly necessary)

We're considering Wells Fargo. Does anyone have experience with them?

We also use Gusto for payroll but are worried they won't be around in a few years. What has your experience with Intuit been like?
This is surely sending shock waves down the data mining community.

Not really. From a technical point of view there is nothing impressive about this, except that they spend the time and money to collect all the training data. Also that it says "this image may contain:" tells you something about how accurate this actually is.
IMHO, the OP is missing a big, huge point: He is really in the best position. So, here is what he should do:

Step 1: Create a small business. For this, he should pick a product or service that can be that of a significant business, e.g., the one he would like to manage as as technical CEO and where initially he can develop the product or service mostly just by programming on his own. Then from that product or service, get revenue.

Step 2: Be the CEO of the business, still just a one person startup except with as much outsourced as possible -- e.g., rented offices, bookkeeping, accounting, taxes, benefits, business insurance, legal, colocation or cloud for the server farm, consultants for specialized technical topics he is not already good at, etc.

Then as the first hire, hire an office manager later to grow to one of an administrative assistant, chief of staff, head of HR, or COO. Hire the product development staff and then the CIO to manage that staff. Hire a CFO, CMO, etc.

Then for this business, be the leader he wished he'd been in the past.

His abilities as a programmer let him do well in Step 1 and also be good at the technical parts of management in Step 2.
Indeed.

The sagas describe the discovered land as Vinland because they found wild grapes growing everywhere.

Which does not describe Newfoundland, especially not the northern tip of it where the L'anse aux Meadows sits. (I've been there. It's cold and desolate. We watched icebergs float around 100 feet from the shore).

But up the gulf of St Lawrence a bit you'll find wild populations of vitis riparia growing like crazy.

Given this new site shows them as having traversed the western shore of Newfoundland and mined iron, presumably for the purpose of producing nails to build ships, I can't see why they would not have gone further up the gulf of St Lawrence, maybe as far as modern day Quebec City or Montreal.

It would be interesting to know what historical levels of the river was at that time. Maybe archaeological evidence is underwater.
You could try, but your internal view of "standardness" won't always coincide with the external view, just like with finiteness or countability. In fact, here's a proof that the attempt can never succeed:

Take any formal theory T that talks about natural numbers, like PA or ZF. We'll assume that T can be encoded as a computer program, printing out sentences about natural numbers in some simple language with arithmetic and quantifiers. We won't make any other assumptions about the theory's internal workings, it can use any axioms it likes.

Thanks to the miracle of Turing completeness, any facts about that computer program can also be encoded as sentences about natural numbers. So we can construct a sentence called Con(T) which says essentially "the program will never print 0=1", or equivalently "there's no natural number N encoding a proof in T that 0=1". That sentence encodes the idea that "T is a consistent theory" within T itself.

Godel's theorem says that T cannot prove Con(T). Therefore we can extend T with the negation of Con(T), and the resulting "self-hating" theory T+¬Con(T) will be as consistent as T itself. Like all consistent theories, that theory will have a model, which is also a model of the original theory T. In that model, Con(T) is axiomatically false, so the above-defined number N is asserted to exist. But if we assume that T was consistent to begin with, then there's actually no finite proof in T that 0=1, so N can't be a standard natural number. Therefore N is nonstandard, so T has a model with a nonstandard natural number. QED.
I worked as a cook for about ten years before I got into tech, my back still hurts to the point that I have trouble getting out of bed about 5 - 10 times a year from 50+ hours of standing/running around on tile floors. I'm 27. If employers don't want to provide chairs then they should be on the hook for medical costs (and none of this "pay a lawyer and sue us and maybe in 3 years you'll get a partial payment provided we didn't go bankrupt" nonsense). The new American trend appears to be that business should never have to pay any of the externalities they cause and it seems to be a model that both the left and right agree with lately.
Coding as a child often makes you a better junior developer. It very rarely makes you anything but a junior developer, your first few years full time at it.
>MEGAcorp product

Except only MEGAcorp product is competitive. Sorry, the GIMP doesn't replace photoshop and GnuCash doesn't replace my accounting suite.

Maybe FOSS needs to try harder to compete with MEGAcorp product instead of mocking people. The year of the linux desktop didn't happen for a reason. Stop pretending the problem isn't the product.
The Smartest Guy in the Room Is Not the Best Developer
Actually it is a safeguard against the TSA
"Scam" means dishonesty. It means attempting to deceive and defraud people. There is no sense in which that word is appropriate to apply to my business, and I won't participate in a conversation predicated on that falsehood.
> I think having kids, which I have not done, might slow time down a bit.

It's a paradox best expressed by the old adage: the days are long, but the years are short.
Circle Launches Its Social Payment Service in the UK, Partners with Barclays
In America at least, the median salary for a Programmer is more than enough that with properly managed funds, you can have a spouse who doesn't work and still live quite well.

Remember- the median income here is $52k. I'm in Boise, ID, one of the cheapest cost of living areas in America, and our junior developers start above that.
Fixed Mindset vs. Agile Mindset- a Comparison
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/11/the-most-misre...
Not only is it a personal blog, he did not post the article here. I don't know if he's even aware that it's now on HN. Expectations of disclosures seem absurd.
That's not too much of a bad thing on the consumer end. Hopefully a few of the smaller players won't catch on and fail.

Then we can all pick up solar panels for pennies on the dollars.
Lol, that poem. That poem is meant to be taken literally, the poet wrote it for his friend who wouldn't shut up about nature hikes.

You had a much better saying at your disposal "The grass is always greener on the other side". Alas, you chose not to use it and now we don't know how your comment would have turned out, had it made sense.
Black carbon ages once it hits the atmosphere
Kid Pix – The Early Years
Or a little cubicle and a desk like the managers have. This way both the customer and the employee can both sit. The guy next to me in line doesn't need to know I just put $1000 in my pocket.
Tested a few things. "ls -U" seems to be the fastest approach I could find. -U disables sorting.

$ mkdir testdir && cd testdir # make 200k files
$ perl -e 'for (1..200000) {open(FOO,">$_");close(FOO)}'

$ time echo * >>/dev/null
real	0m1.607s user 0m1.480s sys 0m0.128s
$ time ls >> /dev/null
real	0m1.458s user 0m1.324s sys 0m0.132s
$ # globs
$ time perl -e 'for (glob("*")) {print "$_\n"}' >>/dev/null
real	0m0.679s user 0m0.404s sys 0m0.272s
$ time find . -maxdepth 1 -print >> /dev/null
real	0m0.239s user 0m0.128s sys 0m0.108s
$ time ls -U >> /dev/null
real	0m0.195s user 0m0.064s sys 0m0.132s
>My sister started as a programmer 30 years ago but jumped into management [...] My sister has 10X the assets I have.

It's so hilarious that he calls himself a "programmer". With 30+ years of experience, you're a software engineer, an architect, and best of all, a consultant.

Then you charge 5x the normal rate of a salaried engineer, work normal hours, and start accumulating real assets.

He needed to put down the technical books, read a book about personal branding and then he could have had his cake and eaten it too.
I don't know what your metric for significance is, but for me it is related to the extent of change of history it causes. A Viking discovery which did not influence Columbus in any way is IMO of tiny significance, because whether it happened or not would have made no impact on history.

Colombus discovery of America in contrast caused a dramatic change to development of world history. It could be claimed it was one of the major factors in European world dominance which has affected pretty much every society on the planet the last hundred years.

I am saying this as a Norwegian. As much as I'd loved the Viking discovery of America to mean a lot it is completely overshadowed by the dramatic impact of Columbus discovery on later world events.

Of course there are alternative ways in which Viking discovery could have been important without influencing Columbus. E.g. if they caused significant changes to native American culture, technology etc. But they seem to have had zero influence on native american culture. They were simply too few people to make any sort of influence.
FWIW I'm pretty happy at NASA GRC. If I wasn't though, Its true that I probably would have already left for Pittsburg or Chicago. I am one of those suckers that does like the midwest ultimately.
Farallon Tectonic Plate
TextExpander 6 or How Not to Launch Your SaaS
This is what we learned after diving into Lisbon's thriving startup scene
When 95%+ of Android devices are non-Nexus, that means that's easily the majority experience of Android users.

I think that makes it fair.
In 1492 Columbus was a Jew.
Example from another field: data recovery on a hard drive yielded over 1,5 million posible JPGs. Linux died whenever we tried to get on the folder to do anything at all (we couldn't even move/rename the files with perl or python). Finally, we just deleted the directory and modified the carver program slightly[0] to extract 10k files, then make a new directory for another 10k files[1]. This was a few years so it might not happen anymore (with "just" 1.5M files)

[0] this program was an in-house solution that handled some edge cases other programs available at the time didn't handle so well.

[1] which is pretty much standard behaviour in file carvers, but wasn't part of the in-house development yet.
The Seinfeld Strategy
In general, of course.

But if you had a database of 1000s of people with STDs, how many lives might get destroyed if that got hacked?
It varies quite a lot from neighbourhood to neighbourhood, and of course proximity to major public transport ingress/egress points.

I haven't looked recently, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find anything below $1000/month that wasn't out in the middle of nowhere.

Also: beware. Some basement apartments aren't actually legal; make sure you sign a legitimate lease agreement, and get confirmation from the landlord that the unit is up to code with the housing board. Happened to a friend of mine not very long ago.
I have to add this as I just returned from vacation myself. I have caught myself stuck in what I like to call "click and walk" syndrome when traveling so on this trip I resolved to significantly reduce the number of photos I took.

Being aware of it made me watch the people around me more. A large number of people don't look at sights anymore. They see it through their phone because they hold the device up constantly as an intermediary to the real world. They walk towards something, raise the phone, look at it through the camera/screen, click a photo, immediately turn away. My hobby on this trip was observing the people who really weren't looking at anything at all and it surprised me how many there are.

Made me think back to the trips I have taken where I returned with hundreds of photos of things I had barely taken the time to actually look at. If you're doing that, just travel via the web, it's cheaper.
I had the same thought. What sort of maniacal startup requires their employees to use standing desks?!
If you're an expatriate who hasn't set foot in the U.S. for 20 years and don't intend to return, maybe you shouldn't maintain your U.S. citizenship. But I don't think that's the typical case. I think the typical case is someone from the U.S. living abroad for a few years, regularly visiting and intending to return.
There is no requirement legally or from an accreditation board, sure.

However you should always do this in any context where it may come up. It's not just that this is the ethical path (it is) but failing to do so and getting caught out really undermines your credibility and thereby whatever message you were trying to get across (serious or no). There is literally no downside to doing this unless you are trying to obfuscate your connection.
Uh, I don't get push notifications in real time.

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile don't serve my place of work, and in fact, they'd like to discontinue wired services of any kind. I am sick and tired of seeing this story erased.

Email has been a source of stress for me since the 1990s, maybe just because I am an early adoptr.
'Leadership' is not a job description. I hate it when people act like it is. Even if your job is making decisions; leadership isn't making decisions, it's making them in such a way that those under you feel empowered by them, rather than powerless in the face of them, and that you take responsibility for any fallout from those decisions rather than letting that shit role down hill.

Everyone I know who has wanted to 'bring leadership' in their role, and nothing else, has been a complete waste of space, at best useless, at worst an obstacle. I have never been glad to have such a person working with me.
>This is fascinating. The word you're looking for is "features".

This is fascinating. You are confusing "features" with "interacting with closed software".

Want to take an example? Go have a look at Krita. It has so many "cutting edge features" it's impressive, and many people honestly think that it's better than Photoshop. Yet what I would even say is its biggest problem is its inability to open PS brushes. Now if you spent some time on HN, you must have read about the sheer horror that is the PSD format. So it's not just comparing the two softwares on an objective basis.
> The only thing stopping companies from investing in the US right now is lack of demand / lack of disposable income

That's clearly not a problem. The US has one of the highest median household disposable income levels, thanks in part to low (compared to most of the developed world) middle class income taxes. It's over 50% higher than Sweden, Finland, Japan and Britain. It's also about 25% higher than Norway. And those figures are calculated before the dollar hit its recent highs in 2015. Americans have no lack of disposable income.
Used+Waring+HGB140+1.5+HP+Commercial+Food+Blenders+W/+64+oz.+Pitcher
Yeah, it is interesting. And it's not only with Pantone. I think it happens when a brand is popular (generally, or within a niche such as Pantone within the design community), we "adopt" the word with local phonetics.

For instance, almost everybody here articulares Microsoft as "Meeh-craw-soft" (just like if it was a Portuguese word). The same happens with initialisms, such as HP (the H is articulated "uh-gah" and the P is something close to `pet` without uttering the final T).
Do you live in Vegas? Go to London, LA, or NYC and you'll find popular nightspots are not corporate affairs.

I didn't specify brand. £230 Moet Jeroboam (including 20% VAT) - http://www.drinksupermarket.com/moet-chandon-imperial-brut-n...
I don't think it has anything to do with MEGAcorp not liking freedom in this case, the problem is just money here, no? As in, MEGAbank not wanting to spend time a.k.a. money developping their apps for a platform with < 0.1% (or whatever the market share of Ubuntu Phone currently is) of their userbase on it. Note that the same tends to happen for Windows Phone, so there goes your freedom argument as well? I've also seen the same happen for MINIcorps often enough btw, maybe even more cause they have even less resources.
C++ – What is the name of the '--&gt;' operator?
OP must be very young. In corporate environments there is no sidestepping.

Say there's 20 pounds of work for 10 pounds of (recently downsized) people across multiple departments. The way you'd like to see technology work is turn 20 pound of work into 10 or less pounds of work for the entire company. The way technology is actually used in the real corporate world is your boss has you automate procedures and policies such that you push work out of your department and onto even more overloaded competing departments. That's how the strongest competitors are determined for promotion and bonus.

To some extent its a startup vs old company problem. Trust me, if technology could be applied to solve the whole company wide problem, grandpa would have already done it with punchcards decades ago, the only innovation that happens in old companies is pushing work and blame onto other departments. Hey, I have a number that proves we're now better, and that's all that matters.

The other way it works is as a weapon / scapegoat. They don't wanna work with us and I don't want to force them, or can't make them. But I can tell my programmer to change the bounds checking on that input field and they'll be forced to cooperate or shut down. If it works and they cooperate with us, I'll take the credit, if it fails, I'll blame and fire the programmer. Or if you don't want them to work with us (as in dump work on us) the programmer can sabotage their system, and again you can guess the different pathways for reward and punishment.
Huge as compared to? Yep, on HN you will get a sizeable proportion of those interested. The world is not HN though.
How do JavaScript closures work?
Bill Atkinson: Birth of the Mac
ImageNet is not going to have something like "smile" in it's dataset like they showed in the video. It has all kinds of possible dog breads instead.

Maybe someone should create a website that lets volunteers label images for this purpose.
This is very personal. I couldn't sit with the suits talking high level about the future company directions, new improvement and efficiency processes bla bla.

My first job was at a crapy webshop with all juniors. Worst code I've ever seen (except offshore code). Last years I have had projects with developers all >10yrs experience. It is very rewarding!

I like programming, I like technical discussions, and I like to tell management they are wrong (which they very often are). You can have a lot of impact being someone who actually knows what he talks about.
People get the security they pay for. Look how much a security expert will get paid. Look at the training offered in our society to developer people into security experts, be it during childhood, at college, or once they are part of the work force.

Now look at how our society handles sport stars. Their pay. The training kids get which is needed to give rise to the stars.

I'm not convince our society cares about being secure when you measure by actions instead of words.
I thought it was pretty funny. I took a great picture of the mass of people fighting each other to photograph the Mona Lisa. The ones with the iPad are the dorkiest.
Pretty much everyone in or from Scotland (true or not) does this to some degree.
You do sound like a nut. Watching fireworks is not stargazing, it's never that dark to begin with. And unless you're in NYC on the 4th of July, it's not that hard to find a spot a few feet away from someone with a camera and ignore them.

And yes, cell phones at the movies are annoying. Sometimes people are annoying. If they didn't have cell phones, they would talk, or open loud snacks, or something. It's not a sacred temple, it's a movie theater, get over it.
Being tired isn’t a badge of honor
According to what source? I've not looked into it, but everything I've seen shows that self-driving cars are much safer. Likewise: Self-Driving cars are going to get safer, whereas I see no reason for humans to do so.
The only truly terrible part of JavaScript is all the implicit coercions around equality checking. It would actually be a decent language if it reported type errors instead.

There are a few other smaller issues that are nuisances, like not being able to actually check if a value is a number, but I think coercions cause the most headaches for discoverability and debugging.
Sliden'Joy gives your laptop two additional portable screens (2015)
The app provides pictures of art without permission. That part seems clear.

The OP claims 'even when its in a public place and owned by the public'. That part seems odd. It would be good to (be able to) read the decision.
Software development trends varies by industry and location
Oh, with cloud services you defiantly need devops.

Without AWS you also need dedicated infrastructure, networking and hardware people as well as devops.

You need people who know how to configure cisco networking gear, who understand SAN's, iSCSI, Fibrechannel, Racks, blades lots of stuff even devops people don't think about.
In my experience Go is a better choice than Node for reliability and stability reasons, rather than performance most of the time.
> If you are worried about it. Don't use their services.

I don't use their services but apparently I'm still tagged in Facebook photos. I never accepted ToS permitting that.
There's a big difference between coastwise travel in the Indian ocean and crossing the middle of the south atlantic. Even the big portuguese ships couldn't round the cape of good hope til what - the mid 1500's?. Also it's ~5200 miles from Madagascar to South America.
Thor Heyerdahl made various sea voyages using pre-modern sailing technology in order to demonstrate that this sort of journey would have been feasible in ancient times. Morocco to Barbados was one such journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra...
Use SQLite to Save Data in a Telerik NativeScript App
I don't believe the "at ALL points" is true. What if I'm running a small system myself? My time is worth something to me and I'd rather not have to think about setting up my own backups and monitoring. On AWS I can do this with a few clicks. I can manage it, but I'd rather not.
I think people care about open standards a lot, even if they don't know it. EG: When someone buys a USB device, they expect that they can plug it into any computer and (for non-specialized devices) have it Just Work.

A lot of the home automation world is a closed, proprietary mishmash right now. (Although there are some open standards ranging from old school stuff like X10 to newer Zigbee stuff, I don't think products like Nest use them).

I also think people expect that when they buy a device, some corporate decision isn't going to brick it. (Stories in this line in my opinion will eventually kill the current hype on the "cloud").

"Open source" is probably less important to most end users, but it can be quite important to developers, power users, and tinkerers. And enthusiasts can drive products.
>shoot someone with too much

>shoot someone with too little

>shoot someone with a dart they are allergic to

>dart in eye