skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is I "can", not that I "do". Though, in fairness, I might if Netflix still had content worth watching.

At the moment I do have some Daredevil episodes queued up, but Netflix doesn't produce original content I watch at a rate worthy of keeping my subscription. Out of laziness or habit, I have my subscription year round, but the smarter thing would be to sub up for a month or two per year to binge watch Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Orange is the New Black.
But the group of people within your anecdotal range is a heavily-skewed sample set.
Nah, the analogy was good and got your point across. I just can't stop myself from sharing tangential bits of information ;).
Do you also have this feeling when you use some web page, and the someone decides to do UI refurbish, that many times, it will look better but the feeling when you actually use it become worse? I'm not talking about simply becoming used to the old, and resisting new. It's rather that many times in the first version of the UI, many things become clear once you see it, but making it more aesthetic means many times to hide or obscure some otherwise natural or common actions.
That's laughably untrue. In fact, in the 70s, most system programming was done in anything except C. Off the top of my head:

IBM: assembler & PL/S
Unisys: Algol
GE/MIT (Multics): PL/I(-ish)
Control Data: Cybill (Pascal-ish) & assembler
Intel and Digital Research: PL/M
DEC: MACRO-11 & BLISS
DG: assembly & PL/I
Xerox: assembly, Smalltalk, Mesa/Cedar
PERQ: Pascal
Yeah, like how to write well. Most adults these days can't seem to do that any more, so it'd be great to have kids learning this by being local journalists. Plus they'd probably do a far better job than adults since they'd be more idealistic and not lazy and not handcuffed by corporate interests.
60 sounds like a pretty normal winter time temperature to me :-) (OK, I usually turn it up to 64 or so if I'm around.)
Every article about remote work makes it sound harder than it really is, and probably scares a lot of people off. I've been doing it for 3 years now and don't suffer from these problems. There was some initial shock for the first month or so where home = work = home but once I got past that it became easy. Now I wake up, grab my laptop and sit on the couch and work. When someone wants to talk I go to my office, or if I need heads-down time.

Otherwise I just live my life. I usually sign off around 5 and take my dog for a walk. I do normal hour-ish long lunches. If I need to mow the grass I go do that, no big deal.
On the flip side everything in my house has been automated and it makes our life better and easier, especially with a young kid around. One thing I don't have to think about. Additionally, the Echo makes a fabulous input device.

Is it a must have? Not yet, but definitely worth the initial setup time.
Personally, I think for people like that, who think that "taxes are theft" and that they shouldn't have to pay for stuff they don't agree with, that we should allow them to opt out of paying taxes and the entire social contract.

In exchange, they give up all police protection. If someone wants to rob them or kill them, no problem, it's not a crime and the police won't intervene.
Yes, it's not the same as with wines, though many cheaper wines are more like "cocktails" in your example.

The fund is not mislabeling itself. Words can mean different things in different contexts!

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/vintage_year.asp
you sound like a libertarian invoking libertarian principles which I don't agree with so I don't see the "obviousness" of it that you see.

Even if Blizzard hired Howard Roark himself as their architect, seems to me I should be able to make alterations to the design of my own building in which I wish to park a Howard Roark designed car, no matter how angry it makes Howard, Eugene, and Blizzard.

And a court may rule in my favor even if you seem to think I should take your word on it, from your perspective of the zany libertariangasm you guys get from thinking about the ownership of ideas and not having anybody tell you what you can't do so long as you get to tell other people what they can't do.
> I don't know if I'd go quite so far as to say that the fundamental challenge of mass computing is the final destruction of JavaScript — but I want to say it, even though it's false.

Well, as long as you're having fun!
Your 50x assumption is probably overly generous, but in general yes: the best VC funds do have great returns. But we're talking about less than a dozen firms with returns that good and they're all heavily oversubscribed.

The average VC has a much less attractive return profile. USV is not your average VC.
It takes a bit for you to change rings. Give it a day or two.
You would think that Google wouldn't implement a copy of the Java APIs in their operating system without making sure it was legal to do so, but apparently not.

Ozweiller is quite right. Big companies copy other people's stuff, breach trademarks (Metro?) and generally mess up all the time.

I doubt the ABI emulation is actually a problem, but calling it "Windows Subsystem for Linux" might well be a trademark violation as it doesn't involve Linux itself. Imaging if Wine called itself "Linux Subsystem for Windows". I think Microsoft would be deploying their legal team right quick.
+1 for that recommendation, a really good resource.
Regarding point 6, I wonder how much a decent expat community from your own country, or at a minimum native speakers of your language, might help. For example, I imagine living in Hong Kong might be alienating after a while (I suspect this is because you may feel like you are a member of your own culture less as time goes by, but never quite feel fully integrated into your host culture), but if you have a core group of people with a shared original culture around you, that might go a long way towards staving off feelings of alienation.
I've been interviewing developers since 1996. Everyone who has ever done a whiteboard interview says this.

Are you interviewing people for some kind of live coding game show? If so: I concede your point.
If soundcloud goes under, bandcamp could potentially be in a very happy place.
Well, that haven't been getting it correct, so they've got that going for them :)

https://github.com/kernelslacker/trinity/pull/9
Venezuelans are really feeling the Bern.
It's the 90s on the European internet in other ways, or almost.

For instance broadband penetration in Belgium is about where it was in 2003. There are lots of internet cafes.

Edit: This is incorrect. European broadband is fine.
That's the idea behind democratic socialism. Socialist programs within democracies work all over the world in Europe and Canada (those countries are albeit more towards capitalist on the spectrum than socialist).

I'd also re-examine the degree to which our representative democracies centralise power.
Yes Windows does provide such a thing: http://j00ru.vexillium.org/ntapi/

Would be very interesting to see a Wine based on this concept instead...
lol tor... why even bother, you'll be lumped in with all the pedos and terrible people of the world...
Better together: New Microsoft integrations for easier collaboration
There's been lots of evidence of the harm caused by sugar in many other studies, and mentioned in this article, besides the ones Lustig did, which I think, confirms he was right.
hmm, can you please send me the url of the articles?
GE CEO: Bernie Sanders says we’re ‘destroying the moral fabric’ of America
I have a Nest and if the cloud service went away and I couldn't control it from my phone anymore, I really wouldn't be sad. It's a feature I use maybe twice a year at most.

The Nest does look cool and has a much better interface for programming a schedule, but it is hardly revolutionary.

In particular, I've been disappointed that the "the Nest will know when you aren't home and automatically adjust!" feature never worked, although that's maybe not a surprise since it's basically magic.

But I got it for free, so I can't complain. It looks cooler than the old Thermostat I had and they send me an email every month telling me how I'm like the bestest person in the world for turning off the heat and opening the windows in the spring.
My 'fantasy VC' scorecard since 2008 is nearly perfect, having hypothetically put money into snapchat, air BNB, Uber, and Facebook. Picking the future winners from the losers seems very easy, but the problem is if everyone did this strategy many companies would go unfunded. Just simply funding companies that are already big and growing rapidly and riding the momentum, seems to guarantee the most consistent returns. Investing in tiny startups seems not worth it since the expected value is not high enough and the liquidity is probably poor.
> Can't the country buy power from a neighbor?

If they have good credit, which Venezuela doesn't.
My favorite chat/messaging interface was Google Talk: http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/en/scrn/43000/43041/google-...

Clean, beautiful, minimal. RIP.
I am sure that having a family will change everything about how I work and I hope it will make even more sense.

Thanks for advice!
* Foundations of Machine Learning

* All of Statistics

* Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

Also the ML specialization on Coursera
Even though I tend to agree with your comment, I think we should not mix sleep deprivation and overtime. Sleep deprivation is really really bad, whatever the context. Working more than 40 hours might make sense if you do various tasks and you like your job and its environment.
Everyone knows that pure socialism and pure capitalism is both evil. The good ground lies somewhere in the middle.
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Anything particular about taxes that sucks for you?

Are you working for yourself or remote for a company?

I'm about 5 months into a remote job for a health company and I love it so far.
> Let's never forget what socialism is actually like.

The term socialism has no clear meaning, and trying to group failures together is just as unhelpful as trying to group successes.

The key is to find a balance. Europe has had some success with socialising things that make moral sense (e.g. healthcare) while leaving everything else to the private industry. That's still socialism, it just isn't absolute socialism.

Even China is experimenting with the levels of socialism they want. They've been moving towards a more capitalist-style market and they've found a more workable balance.

Socialism is a dirty word in the US, but is a complex word everywhere else. Hopefully with a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" running for your highest office we'll see people's understanding of socialism expand.
Etoro you are able to see other portfolios, through payment. We are also mobile first and we use machine learning to develop a system that eases mirror trading and creates a better experience for these novice traders
> Just simply funding companies that are already big and growing rapidly and riding the momentum, seems to guarantee the most consistent returns

if you ever try raising money, you'll find this is pretty much what 99% of money people do. and they'll say it to your face, because what are you going to do about it? beg harder?

it's a bullshit job, to be honest. anyone with decent intelligence and basic social skills could do it. that's why they guard the industry tooth and nail.

i'm no yc fanboy but in my opinion that's what makes them "the 1%", they actually invest in risky startups, en masse. i try to picture some of the vc/pe firms i've talked to doing this, and it doesn't even compute.
Apple invented a laptop concept that reimagines the keyboard
American. Spent a handful on a CZ. Spouse would shoot me if I blew that kind of money on a rock we derive so little value from.

We would take the cheapest reasonably durable stone that looks shiny.

I would not marry someone who wants a diamond. Perfect litmus test for knowing what they want out of life and having it match what I want out of life.

I'm pretty sure we are not representative, but financial literacy is not exactly common. IMO people are pretty bad at understanding what they want vs what will make them happy.
I had a similar experience when I removed sugar and almost all carbs for 5 months. Switched to mostly protein and fat (meat/tuna/eggs/cheese/vegetables)

One major change was much higher "energy"/"alertness levels after lunch and after dinner. No more sleepy low energy "food coma" feeling after meals.

Where I would usually feel like laying on the sofa after a long day's work and dinner, now I had the urge to go out on my bicycle, even at night and in winter cold.

Although I have to admit that like most people who do drastic diet changes I had a relapse and went back to eating sugar again after the five months. This relapse happened gradually, where I naively convinced myself that I was no longer addicted to sugar, and started by having a treat once a week, which quickly became once a day ...

The mental change is still ingrained in me though, I now treat sugar like a dangerous addictive substance and I'm trying to get rid of it like any other "substance abuser".
It's almost impossible to have a different VC model though.

If you want to remove the variability in your outcomes, you have to do substantially more due diligence on each investment and decline a lot more. When your model depends on each investment doing okay instead of a few home runs, there's a lot more pressure on each investment to not fail. Eventually this forces you to only accept the least aggressive plans and you become a bank.
This is a quite big problem as well, I have lived for a while in a city with virtually no expat community, which made things even harder.

I suspect that living in a more expat-friendly city will make the transition easier, however my point remains, won't be like living the dream.
> General Electric, the nation’s largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010. The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/business/economy/25tax.htm...

> General Electric Routinely Pays Little or No State Income Taxes

http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2015/06/general_electric_routinely...

> As a group, the 15 companies paid no federal income tax on $23 billion in profits in 2014, and they paid almost no federal income tax on $107 billion in profits over the past five years.

http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2015/04/fifteen_of_many_reasons_wh...
Sweden is at best Social Democratic, and not all of its political parties subscribe to that. It certainly hasn't been through mass nationalisations of industry or utilities.

Socialism is the workers controlling the means of production, not anything deemed vaguely left wing by American standards.
of course it can owning those assets yields them nothing, selling and paying rent is cheaper, if rent becomes too expensive they can move out.
Instead of working to make VZ better for everyone they took the course of vilifying one group at a time and confiscating the wealth which was then concentrated to those in power. They even did this to foreign companies which had made investments there.

Eventually they ran out of other people's money. While not the fault of socialist policies no government ever really executes them because those in power still see themselves above the people and refuse to live under the same conditions.

This is not a socialism issue, any government run by the corrupt can end up here. It is more a failed form of fascism which also occurs in the US
The HN title is missing a key phrase that is actually present on washingtonpost.com site.
Yes. Netflix is causing a similar shrinking to the RENTAL market that Craigslist did to classifieds, albeit less severe. However, the SALES of Physical Media (DVDs/Blu-Rays) are down huge over the last ten years and there hasn't been anything to replace that revenue. Essentially selling 30 DVDs to you and all your friends was replaced by selling 1 DVD to Netflix.

One more piece of history that you may already know: in the prime days of the rental market companies like Blockbuster paid ~$100 per movie and had access to the titles before a consumer could purchase them. Netflix didn't play ball, rather than pay those prices they'd wait until the DVDs were generally available and buy at consumer/bulk prices.

I wouldn't shed any tears for the industry though, they'll survive. Besides, just to be clear, I love Netflix, they're great.

More info: http://press.ihs.com/press-release/technology/spending-movie...
Just found this gist: https://gist.github.com/luoyetx/a44eea84272123f608dcf737588c...

Avoids the awkward file system structure by using pdfkit.from_url, but creates one .pdf for each chapter. I tried using a list of urls, but pdfkit failed because my version of wkhtmltopdf did not accept multiple input files.

Edit: pdfkit.from_file also fails on my system when passing multiple files. If that works for you, multiple urls are probably fine, too.
It gets even worse if you really quantify it:

Assuming, roughly, 250 working/commuting days each year, every 2 minutes you spend on your commute equals 500 minutes annually, or just over one 8hr work day.

After realizing that my current 40min commute costs me 20 working days of time per year, with further costs of car maintenance, stress and risk, I've committed to finding a gig closer to home, or even better, one that allows working remotely. The opportunity costs of commuting by car are just too high.
don't apply to things because you might get rejected from them is certainly good life advice
the daft version is clearly mixed (eq'd, compressed, etc.) and probably done so in a nice "easy" to use DAW. i doubt he could get that sound (without working long hours) when hardcoding everything.
Right now it's only on the insider builds, not everyone. Unless you are getting beta/alpha builds, you're not going to see it for a wbile.
*nix servers now handle 99% of the web. Microsoft isn't going to push through breaking standards.
I'd be a little cautious about the domain name and the singling out of presence of beer and pizza (over other characteristics of the event). This just reinforces biases within our industry, without mentioning all other perks.

What about people who do not care about beer and pizza but care about London startup events?

What about the actual content of the meetup?
This doesn't always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5'9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months. At 148 I still had excess fat on my body and no matter how hard I worked out it went nowhere. I was borderline starving myself and everything I read said "it's simple calorie in vs out". It became obvious to me that wasn't always true. It's frustrating to hear people spew that when I'm weighing chicken breasts with 110% certainty of what my caloric intake is vs my out and here I was, not losing a damn pound.

I wish I could say I know what was going on. I have theories as I spent months of my life trying to turn the tables. I eventually gave up and just continued to lift weights and eat normal. Now 4 years later I still have that fat I couldn't lose but I'm a lot bigger (muscle). That fat hasn't gone anywhere and in the 4 years I've yo-yo'd with different attempts to get rid of it. The fat I have is not normal.
Are we a product of nature or nurture?
If you think it is split, then at what percentage?
Cool! One thing though - pleeeease don't scroll hijack :-(
FWIW my wife puts the odds of victory on this at something like 70% at this point. She's a director at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, working on freedom of expression.

That's based on this study:

http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/01/measuring-influenc...
Probably I am wrong but there seems to be no folding support?
No, at least its never been done on a country level. Socialism requires group decision making and that can only be accomplished with a centralization of power. Of course the quote "The goal of socialism is communism" by Vladimir Lenin applies.
Sales of desktop 3D printers explode, growing nearly 70%
Chrome no longer supports NPAPI (technology required for Java applets)
> I have a little more perspective now and realize that it was practically insignificant to my investor.

Depends on the investor. There are probably thousands of VC's, and not all of them are comparable to union square ventures.
Really have to disagree. "No one is talking past anyone" means you're not actually interested in having a conversation about this. Intellectual dishonesty is believing you have THE TRUE MEANING of the word. You really don't.
You are true, being a remote worker is not so complicated, the article was written from an expat/nomad + remote worker experience.
No, it's windows 10 only, and still in beta at that.
DRM free, high quality videos will get bought once, shared with friends, etc. And I'd suspect a whole load of people will just go back to torrenting (or whatever is popular at the time) because they know they'll find a perfect copy straight away. If you give them the model to buy and play immediately (the convenience of a streaming service), you're just iTunes. Or you may as well stream. You can't argue that for John Everyman, Netflix/Spotify/etc. are super convenient. I make one payment a month, of a set fee for which I have budgeted. I open the app, I choose, I press play. Or I don't. I can do it once a month, or all day long.

I understand your point regarding financial sense and artists, but times change. Just ask most people driving taxis. They'll tell you Uber is destroying an industry. It may be. But we're all using it. I don't know the answer. But clinging on to something that's slipping away, rather than letting go and channeling your energy elsewhere usually hurts more in the long run.
This demonstrates a flaw in the startup-funding process more than it demonstrates a flaw in the Craigslist aesthetic.
I disagree; guitar has multiple fingerings for each note or chord and it's not necessarily clear which one will be the simplest to use when given regular staff notation.

There's a huge jump in the complexity of how you need to reason about translating the music to the instrument with staff notation. Tabs solve this by explicitly telling the musician what fingering to use.

Guitar players should still learn to read music because it's useful, but anyone who wants a guitarist to play their music (especially by sight) should use a notation similar to tabs, but with rhythm indicated as well. Good software to convert between the two could be generally useful, but I imagine there is a bit of nuance to what fingerings sound the best.
Ah - the autodesk diet.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
It's true that a lot of people working remote need a quite place to work, but there's a lot that don't.

Your comment about having a second sets of personal devices for personal use reminded me of how given given I do all of my owned IT support that doing backups and having the data encrypted is really important if you're using device in public; lucky I've never had an issue, but I've know people that had a device stolen, stranger spill coffee on it, etc.; worth noting that a backup is worthless if you can't recover it.
The $15 Minimum Wage Will Kill Jobs. Should You Care?
Nest is product very few people want. Period. A thermostat is not difficult to operate and why would regular people introduce complication into their lives over something they think about as little as the thermostat? The IoT will only take off when someone can come up with a value proposition besides "isn't that cool?"