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I looked up the actual figures after posting -- seems London has about 5x as many international visitors, so you are absolutely right.

But, I think in Rio there is also an argument to be made of how many of those "estimated" visitors are actually simply displacing people who would otherwise have travelled to Rio. To your point, if Rio is in fact no set-up to accommodate as many people as London, then a lot of the effect of the games will simply be substituting regular travelers with Olympics watchers.

Either way -- the only point I guess I was really trying to make was that the variable of interest is the delta in the actual visitors to Rio -- you want an economist making this argument, not a health expert
It certainly doesn't give the readability of Python or many other languages
My colleague had his phone stolen as he was talking on it by two guys on a moped - that was in Bond Street, London.
I wonder if the problem there is legal coverage. Would it be possible to have some sort of co-op that accepted a flat or percentage and in exchange handled some of the non-technical steps between "we have this work" and "I completed this work for you".
Per your second point, there is certainly a strong profit motive for keeping terminally-ill patients alive longer than they otherwise might want on the part of health-care providers. End-of-life care costs are no joke.
Also a book of maps.
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Ask HN: Do I have to go through recruiters nowadays, how do you find new jobs?
I posted on the Who wants to be hired thread last week. I have received a ton of recruiter spam, all saying "We have the perfect position for you". I quickly realized they say that to everyone. I'd rather talk to a company directly.

What's the procedure for getting a new job without going through external recruiters?
I'm surprised that people need to look up such a thing. Brazil is a hot tourism destination, especially from other South American countries. It's also has a huge economy and has excellent manufacturing capabilities.
Most will be three months initially with an extension where required. Obviously there's shorter ones available too, but 3 months seems to be the most commonly quoted initial length.
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To badly paraphrase the words of Jack Bogle - "I don't know anyone who can successfully time the market, and I don't know anyone who knows anyone who can either."
Thinking critically is only the second order. The first order is to read, understand, memorize, and think. Also, if kids are fed with good books, they'll learn from the book itself to think "critically", because good books will push them to do that.
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Not the OP, but AFAIK, Nylas does store your email in their cloud.

This allows the client to be thin, since it's only using the APIs and is shielded from the intricacies of dealing with mail protocols like IMAP and SMTP. It also allows Nylas to offer a single API that works across all your email.

https://support.nylas.com/hc/en-us/articles/217518207-Why-do...
That last bit sounds a little "Texas Sharpshooter" to me.
Well you have to be fair that that is taking ALL of Brazil into account, and some regions are unaffected by this virus -- but the largest builk of it (I think around 80%) are the cities of São Paulo and Rio, which are affected by the virus.
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If you transfer copyright at all, you typically only transfer it to the ACM, not Springer. Springer is just a contractor running a website and occasionally printing up phone books of papers that no one reads, and USB drives of PDFs people use for the week of the conference.

See http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy
Thanks for the clarification Thomas. I'm still a bit fuzzy on the potential impact of wholesalers and such with regards to regular Joe '401k' Investor. I'd love to read more if there's any solid articles you're aware of that explain this.

As a regular investor who is making his way through "A Random Walk Down Wallstreet," it is hard to look at how Wallstreet has behaved over the years and not feel paranoid that I'm being taken advantage of at every turn. Right now I like the Bogleheads approach to investing, and the logic behind it, but am interested in how even that approach is potentially being taken advantage of, and what those real risks are to investors of that philosophy. Or...is that even something to be worth getting concerned over and is there a bigger threat I should be focused on learning about?
I've heard that in Japan programming is just another job. Are they ahead of the curve on this?
I'd say the same for Vancouver or Victoria.
Alas, these are not edge cases. This is how software works now, which you and Oracle would desperately like to paint over.

There is a reason why countless attempts to make APIs copyrightable have been overturned in the 80s and 90s.
Zika is a big threat to fetuses that are gestating while the mother is infected. After a woman gains immunity, there is little threat to any babies she might carry.

So it is a very serious concern at the moment, but it is not any sort of existential problem. It will likely not even be a medium term problem (there is early research towards vaccines).
My entire family has blonde hair and they are from Brazil. They're from Florianopolis though.
That's the thing about language though. It is because you choose it to be so. Other people choose for 'guys' and 'dude' to have a different meaning.

Collectively we decide who wins. Nobody is right or wrong in the present because it's a never-ending battle over an idea. Words change over time - always have and always will.
You can only be right historically in context. 'Guy', _historically_, does not mean 'man'. What it means now is your interpretation. You should not get so bent out of shape because other people disagree with you.

There is an inherent problem with basing gender-politics around the meanings of words. How do you deal with people coming from languages that do not have gendered pronouns that are trying to translate their language into English? Do you beat them over the head for how wrong they are (before you say no, I've seen it countless times)?

Also hey, guess what. 'He' has seen use as a gender-neutral pronoun well into the 1960s.
Ha, fantastic, thanks!
IMHO it will do the exact opposite. People basically vote to keep the other candidate from winning. More radical / "scarier" candidates shore up the party lines.
I don't see why, it would just look silly if it was framed that way for anything else.

"Mathematicians make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to count!"

"Authors make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to write!"

"Cartographers make a lot of money! Everyone should learn to read a map!"

"Micheal Phelps got a lot of Olympic gold medals! Everyone should learn to swim!"
Why don't they know that anyways from basic traffic analysis?
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Thank you. Actually surprisingly useful.
I think the concern would be dominated by the side-effects of the method we use to perform the total extermination, rather than the side-effects of Aedis Aegypti being extinct.
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The bulk of the tourism to Brazil is either from Central & South America, which already has the virulent strain of Zika, or it's from Europe and northern North America, which does not have the Aedes Aegypta mosquita.

Olympics tourism will be much more widespread, including many from vulnerable areas in Africa and Asia.

And the OP does not say that it will prevent the spread of Zika, only slow it. Even a few extra months could be valuable -- lots of effort is currently being spent looking for a vaccine.
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If it should be banned, then any article sourcing only from it should be banned as well. That's an obvious loophole.
In cases like this when I ask why TDD isn't done the answer is usually some variant of "its working" to which I usually reply "how do you know?". :P
I did not mean to imply it could not happen anywhere. Only that this was exceptionally bad, and Rome was the only other place I had seen with the swarms of kids blatantly stealing.
Your understanding of the law is really weak.

Your understanding of how software works is non-existent, and knee-jerks legal rulings will not change that I'm afraid sweetheart.
okay but should high school really have required classes for Calculus but NOT intro to programming? I don't understand why our kids _must_ learn math at a high level, but even basic programming is not required.
Yeah. Three months is usually the minimum for a contract. 6 months is more common in my experience. And then there is the chance of renewals on top.
Googling "the name of the company you're interested in + careers" usually does that. Or you can go on linkedin and search for internal recruiters from that company, but you'll be wasting time.
I went and found this resource as a result of reading your article. Your write up had the intended effect :)
I have no idea why people are down voting this. In an alternative universe, we would all be using bit keeper. The reason we are not is mainly because Larry McVoy ceded the market to git and mercurial because he was afraid of disrupting his existing business. git and mercurial would never have existed had he practiced at Bit Movers what he preached at Sun.
You could make the same argument about algebra.
I ported my Cingular/AT&T number to Google Voice many years ago and six months ago ported it to Ting. There are a number of companies who consistently fail to deliver texts to that number. The most notable (for me) is Amazon. Yet dozens of other companies (Facebook, Google, etc.) are able to use it just fine.

I don't have the slightest idea on how to fix it. The only reason it worries me a bit is that I might miss texts from other people.

Switched to an iPhone so I could use "Find Friends" with spouse and kids.
"It's of my opinion that we are in an asset bubble, but we could have a "blow off top" before we really see what happens. Stock declines also generally occur during election years after a 2 term President, so it's a generally good bet for a correction at the very least. But, if I really knew what was going on, I'd be rich."

What's missing right now is the taxi driver sentiment ...

I don't hear inexperienced investors talking about playing the market or about average folks day trading. Yet.
Yes, by using a model. The assumptions of the model are subjective in the sense of making judgments about what's important. For example, they don't take into account catastrophic collapse of the environment (overfishing, species extinction, ecological collapse eg from bees dying out, acidification of oceans from CO2 release). They also make assumptions about people's utility functions -- the famous example by Bill Gates that baldness has much more more research being done on it than malaria relative to the suffering, because people with more money speak with a larger economic voice and skew the results.

In your model, given certain starting conditions, can you ever get a positive value for human suffering? For example if rich people are willing to pay to see gladiators fight animals to the death, or just to see the poor people subjugated as slaves. I am pretty sure you assign positive financial value to animal suffering because factory farms torture animals to save a buck and therefore in purely economic terms they are doing "better".
The problem with the PHP market at the moment is that there's a split between semi-skilled Wordpress / Joomla / Drupal development and more highly skilled development work that would fall under the same rate as Python / Rails / Node contract work.

If you are a skilled polyglot developer and want to seek out PHP contracts at the senior end of the market you will be able to earn the same day rate as with other languages, but there are also a lot of agencies that are hiring not highly skilled developers to pump out cookie-cutter sites and so many of the PHP jobs will be for this sort of work and thus pay a lower day rate.
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We're at 394 repos and 13 active users (with 32 disabled users) on our self-hosted GitLab install. All repos are private as well. We're a software agency that usually has 15-20 different projects being actively developed. It adds up quick
Please don't learn to procreate.

Edit: Actually no. "Please buy a smart phone" is the next step after "please don't learn to code".
It absolutely does, if you stay away from bad libraries. Most of the time you can translate Python directly 1:1 into Scala, or do better (e.g. none of the junk repetitive "self.x = x" constructors you get in Python).
I recommend just flagging it and moving on.
> Software engineering is a lucrative field, but the transformation from “coder” to “engineer” is challenging.

And in other news, going from "I know how to read and write" to "I just wrote the next Harry Potter" is also lucrative yet challenging.
Assuming the goal is to both investigate and report I don't think this can be punted. Looking at the past there is likely corruption of one form or another at more or less every single county in the US, every major city, all states, and of course every major federal department.

Saying 'not my job' is fine if you accept you might not have a job.
Angular 2 vs React? Pff.. Haven't you heard, now the cool kids are going with Elm nowadays.
I'd like to add that ScalaJS on top of Scala + Play is really a pleasure to work with for web applications. The integration with existing Javascript libraries is very smooth and Play/SBT transparently handles the transpiling when you reload a page.
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Fantastic, a searchable collection of graphs that take specialists from the media can misinterpret.
But will you at least concede that THIS is what should have been the focus of the article? While perfectly valid, all of the scientific discussion around Zika is mostly irrelevant to the point the author was trying to make -- the true variable of interest is how the games shape the quantity of visitors and the distribution of those visitors around the world. But there's hardly a line in the article about that -- just the 500,000 number is thrown around with absolutely no citation.

Instead,the article does some of the worst things we'd expect from scientists with sentences like "All it takes is one infected traveler" -- this is fear-mongering and irresponsible and the author should be ashamed of that comment.

I maintain that it is not a careful, reasoned argument about the issue.
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Anything that Mohammed commanded has to be followed. For example all Muslim men must grow and beard and shave their mustache because that is what Allah through the prophet commanded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpSgEr2vnwk
You're half right. The rate is for a professional day, and even as a contractor in banking the last time I did a 60+ week was a one-off working on overnight deployments.
Most people are probably going to stay at Air BnBs. There literally aren't enough hotels there to support the influx of people there. It was a mess during the world cup and that was held throughout the entire country. The only place I could find to stay during the world cup there was an overpriced AirBnb.

It was totally worth it, but I've been wondering since how the hell the city is going to handle that many people there at once.
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While price gouging by monopolistic publishers is certainly unpleasant, the very same universities complaining about the issue raise tuition and fees disproportionately.

Save a few public universities, the Canadian and American universities operate just like the publishers they complain about.
Agreed that the Olympic games do not have financially benefit the host city. But, Rio has probably already spent a lot of money on the games. Not hosting them would probably hurt, financially, even more.

Please note I am not arguing that the Olympics should continue in Rio. We should do what is best for world health, even if that negatively impacts Rio financially.
article suggesting that, and lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536074
Congrats to the Electron community!

We've been excitingly using Electron at Wagon to build SQL analytics tools. We're using Haskell + React + Electron as our primary technologies: wagonhq.com/blog/electron
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Anyone finding any of this resonating really owes it to themselves to try elixir / phoenix and, at the very least, keep an eye on it.
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Thanks for responding; I'm surprised and dismayed that records retention training isn't universal. Not that I can see the SecState clicking through hours of computer-based training, that would be delegated to an assistant.
Just wanted to reply to all and say: If you are afraid of Zika, Dengue or whatever the mosquitos transmits, don't get out of your houses! I will go after those bastards!

Best to all,
Signed: The mosquito killer! :p
You make a good point. There's lots of accomplished musicians who never learn to read. And some "full-stack" musicians like yourself who start with tabs or similar, and who come to writing earlier than reading. I think several of the Beatles never bothered to learn western notation.

My analogy has some problems. Still, I think it's interesting to consider the real possibility of a future where code-reading is a mainstream skill, and where writing is considered a specialisation. And where code writing is done with the expectation of serving the reader.

I've started to mess with figured bass recently. I have an old ukulele and am seeing if I can fit some lute songs to it, and get used to taking my finger patterns from those marks. Kind of a step up from tabs.
And all the studies showing software developers or "IT people" make the most money.

Individuals can understand nuance, people don't.

I'm reminded of that exchange from Men In Black. J (Will Smith) insists that people will understand about aliens, K (Tommy Lee Jones) disagrees:

J: "Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it."

K: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
I strongly believe Trump and Sanders signal to the rabid balkanization of media (aided by proliferation of web, mobile, and social media), rather than an oligarchy on the brink of collapse. It has never been easier to read clickbait radical news that provides ample confirmation bias. Globally speaking, Americans have by far one of the best quality of lives anywhere in the world. But hearing Sanders - Trump, you would think we live in some war ravaged developing country.
I vaguely recall hearing about an effort to release sterilized males that would effectively reduce the population local to where they're released. That seemed to be a very safe way to change the environment. The only difference might be the scale by which we could execute that method.
A lot of banks (and I assume other large corporates) have an in-house contract recruitment function now. I often thought of aggregating roles from those people only.
"I've got put options on SPY as well as a portfolio hedge. They lose value every day (theta or the premium you pay for time) and if the S&P goes up puts lose value so fast it would make your head spin"

I wonder if you would compare/contrast with short selling UPRO ?

That is, short selling the triple-long S&P 500 ETF.

The thinking here is that a long ETF (especially a triple long one) loses value every single day[1] due to the natural decay of long ETFs ...

So in a flat market, your short position is positive, and in down markets it is very positive. Further, it's not an option - you're simply short an ETF - so you can hold it through a market rally if you wanted to.

I have never employed this hedge, but it interests me.

[1] except for up-market days, of course ...
Article said the virulent strain came from French Polynesia (aka Tahiti).
Yes to be honest I've been treated far better and been able to make much bigger changes within code and organisations as a contractor than I ever could as a permanent person. The money is nice but it's just a bonus to being able to build great things.
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The vast majority of those on Facebook were not the ones participating in the open web.
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sorry but no, Rio sees visitors from most countries out there. it's not an even spread like it would be in case of olympics, but not that far from it.
> The article notes a cycle, which is closer to my understanding of history

That's because either your understanding of history, your written comprehension, or both are quite bad actually.

The article notes a cycle that is always corrected with some kind of revolution, armed or not.

The article also notes that in open societies sons never end up living worts than their parents (in general, not with your naive example of a particular case where a son ends up living a worst life than his parents because of some hurricane) because either society functions properly and that is not a issue, or if it doesn't revolution takes place.
As opposed to the many private institutions in the US, Canadian universities are all publicly funded and tuition costs a few thousand dollars at the most.
I watched the HBO show "Vinyl". It struck me how analogous the music industry back then is to software today. Everyone was starting a band. Everyone was pitching to A&R guys. All kinds of characters were attracted by the money and the glamour.
kinda like my own personal HN(lol)...I post links with hash tags in the title. I added a login but you can post anonymously. I just haven't worked on it in ages.
> Something egregious like this (sexual harassment) definitely warrants an immediate termination.

Why should one incident that occurred outside of work, warrant termination?

Are our private lives subject to the scrutiny of our employer?

Is it sexual harassment if the victim doesn't actually feel harassed?
Your response is typical of leftist methods of argument: latch on to a neutral part of my comment, imply that I misunderstand it and incorrectly criticized it, condescendingly correct me, and ignore the relevant parts of my comment, i.e. the fictional location and politically charged conclusion from which no reasonable inferences may be drawn.

In fact, in principle, it's the same flaw in the survey we're discussing, a blatant red herring. It's almost as bad as an exchange like:

"Did you stop beating your wife yet?"

"I'm not married."

"Aha, so you finally stopped!"

And it's interesting to note that you created that account solely to make that comment, and it was upvoted 4 times long after the story was fresh on the front page.
Not enforcing TDD? Rails' own creator bemoaned the culture of test cargo culting in the Rails community. This is pretty well documented. If there's something Rails falls down on it's certainly not testing.
A counterpoint to that is that if a company is hiring a recruiter they are serious about hiring somebody.

There are some places where they bring in a huge number of candidates, interview them, and then never hire anyone. For instance, at a local Uni, they had a position open for 2.5 yrs.

If there is a recruiter involved there is a sense of urgency at least.