skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right now I live in Germany. Don't go to Germany - the bureaucracy is absolutely @#@#$ crazy. Today I went to a lawyer and to AOK (German NHS), they said two contradicting things, the system is insanely complicated, I waste SO much time an energy, people usually don't speak English and are absolutely NOT proactive, if anything happens they will not provide you solutions, and since they have a particular understanding of "professionalism" they will not smile, which makes you feel you annoyed them, offended them etc. and you will ask your self: "have I done anything wrong?".

I lived in Denmark and Sweden before, in both 99% people speak English, system is clear, helpful, forgiving, supportive. Coding environment is rich, strong, creative and growing. It comes at a cost - taxation is merciless, but if you plan to have a family and like outdoors, Stockholm is the place to go. Working conditions, days off, healthcare, childcare, you name it, it's great. In Denmark I lived with a woman who had a rare lung desease, lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and was waiting for a transplantation (M., rest in peace), the state paid for everything, a cab came twice a month to take her to cinema or restaurant, she had an extremely expensive light oxygen machine with which she could go for a walk or take a shower like a human being. So it's really great.

Poland and UK I would not recommend because of the political situation there is not sane or predictable. But both have surprisingly low taxation, I ran a company for two years in Poland, costs are very low for a big European country with good developers (e.g. you pay flat 18% income tax + ~300euros social&health insurance) and you can get junior developers (I know about .NET C#, Sharepoint) working for you for 1000 euros a month, seniors for 2000-3000. And life is extremely cheap minimum wage is something like 400 euros a month. I did accounting myself, the tax authorities did not penalise me for making a lot of mistakes and being weeks late with paying VAT (!!!) or totally messing up with the tax declarations (confused net with gross income and costs calculations). Most of the paperwork is done online, accountant will take as little as 30 euros a month to take care of it for you. To get incorporated (ltd.) costs about 500 euros for the lawyer and then a bit more for accounting, but you (if I remember correctly) don't have to have any initial capital - marvelous! There are also companies that sell ltd's with good credit history, so you can also easily buy a dormant ltd. company without much paperwork and quickly get a credit/ apply for European funding.

But now they are messing up with the law so I'd be careful.

A lot of warm things I've heard about the Netherlands and I would consider Amsterdam for myself as the next stop. Same situation - good social support, very open and direct culture, sane and predictable state and rules of the game, great high-tech environment, everyone speaks English. Big minus - once you employ someone it is VERY difficult to get rid of the person. Workers protection is great for the employed, not so much for the entrepreneur.
As they say, "it's funny because it's true".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bVIBJYQ_k
Venezuela is buying crude oil (the stuff from the ground) from the United States that they will refine into other oil products to be sold.
Venezuelan oil tends to be very heavy and needs to be mixed with light crude for refinement. It does have its own light reserves, but they've driven the oil industry into the ground and are unable to produce enough light crude to refine their heavy crude production.
Happy they finally got rid of Firefox Hello!
So your idea of R&D is essentially random, but because you'll occasionally happen upon something useful, don't knock it?

Truly, the philosophy of science is dead.
GUIDE: How to Design Lead Nurturing, Lead Scoring, and Drip Email Campaigns
In this guide, I will make an attempt to describe how SaaS/enterprise companies design lead nurturing campaigns and how lead scoring can help prioritize leads and improve conversions, as well as how lead nurturing strategy affects the creation of drip email campaigns.
The primary goal of this article is to help you design or improve your current lead nurturing strategy. But the ultimate goal is to provide marketers and founders with some core principles on the topics of lead nurturing, and lead scoring. My intention isn’t to provide a cookie cutter solution, but instead to stimulate ideas and encourage a new way of thinking around these topics.

https://medium.com/@myxys/how-to-design-lead-nurturing-lead-scoring-and-drip-email-campaigns-9961024f6605#.o3fsqke02
No, the second person to climb whatever pitch (section of a climb) will take out the ice screws or pitons (although sometimes pitons will be left in because for safety of other climbers). Sometimes, if stuff goes south, you'll leave gear in a wall/ice to bail (rappel) off of.
The wonders of socialism.
> I do wish the GPU could fade into the main CPU though,

Like this, maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Accelerated_Processing_Uni...
My Encounter with Python Debuggers
I just meant for servers to maintain a local chain. Cross-server checking would be free, sort of, as clients that talk to multiple servers would inject the chain state from the first server into the second via their nonces.
Correct. The title should be changed to state it is an application, not a patent.
Why not postgres?

with the JSON(B) datatype, you can start out with full documents and pull out relational fields/create tables as it makes sense
I don't need the latest and the greatest, but a good 4:3 or 16:10 screen and linux compatibility.

I haven't found the good combination and bought a new MBP and still happy with it.
>AS an outsider looking in. What is holding a developer from moving to Linux? I don't understand the draw of OS X for developers especially the past few years

I've used UNIX for ages, started on Sun OS (pre-Solaris), HP-UX, have used several early Linux distros, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake (!), FreeBSD for a year or so, and now I use Ubuntu for personal stuff and Centos professionally.

I wouldn't use a Linux loaded laptop.

What OS X has?

Great hardware (Linus himself used to praise the Air for example -- which he used as a personal machine until 2014, and complained why no other company could make something like that -- he now uses a hi-end Chromebook).

No messing to get it to sleep, work with external monitors, including dual 4K, import camera photos and videos, work with new RAW formats, external peripherals etc. And by no messing I mean "an order of magnitude less messing that those things take in Linux".

Certified UNIX with full terminal access, bash, classic userland, etc.

Several package managers (brew, macports etc) to get 99% of anything one will need in Linux. And make && make install etc usually just works too, if one is so inclined.

Runs Linux on a VM just fine -- why would a developer pollute their OS with development environment stuff like installing DBs, compilers etc directly? And if you don't run it directly, then OS X is as good as Linux to host your developing VMs -- or SSH to some remote host.

A full, well thought out UI, even if it's not perfect. Even from 10.1 to 10.12, it never has the sudden "let's change everything and break everybody just because we can" turns that Gnome and KDE have had (I've used KDE but stopped with the 3 to 4 transition -- now I just run bare Linux or when I need a UI Linux whatever comes with Ubuntu).

Ability to run basic proprietary apps: Adobe Creative Suite, MS Office, etc. Lots of developers need those too, and I, for one, sure do for my sideprojects.

>These yearly updates seem to break everyone's workflow for a while.

No, it's just the vocal minority. Have used OS X since 2003, using it for programming (JS, Python, Java, Go, PHP, some C), video editing and music (various DAWs), and never had my workflow break, and I usually jump at a new OS the first day it comes out. The worst case was having to wait 1 month for Cubase 8.5 to support 10.11 -- but that's the fault of Steinberg for milking their customers, as other DAWs I have worked just fine, or had updates within the week or so.

Linux changes break just as many workflows (percentage wise) but there are so fewer (1/10 or so) Linux desktop users and even they so fragmented (different DEs, desktops, WMs, etc) that their laments are not really heard. Of course most major tech outlets hardly ever publish Linux related stuff in the first place, in contrast with Apple stuff that helps get eyeballs...
Super annoying feature, since Google hijacks the URL in the process.

There should be a way to opt-out that is simple and does not require the user to be signed-in to do.

Ironically, almost positive that Google hates when links are wrapped like this.
At our company the overhead is about 40% of the salary, and could easily reach 80-100% with bigger and better benefits packages.
http://canaryusa.com/crude-oil-refinery-primer/

chart indicates venezuela produces mainly heavy crude oil, which isn't as good for making gasoline, which i'm guessing is used pretty extensively to make and ship petroleum products from heavy oil.
I wouldn't start complaining about Google providing a good experience on Android while making users suffer on iOS.

Traditionally the Google services experience has been better on iOS than on Android. iOS had the most amazing Google Maps long before Android got that update... Even after so much time and updates, I still prefer the Google experience on iOS to the one on Android.
Short term contracts might be different, but 95% of normal software engineers in germany will e.g. never reach 100k. Including those in the large corporations. I think 200k might be barely in reach for a senior manager. In other countries/regions this will even be far lower.
It'd be a stellar price list:

- $100: Donate $16,100,000,000 ($3.50/year for 4.6 billion years)

- $200: Donate $32,200,000,000 ($7.00/year for 4.6 billion years)
Contra an earlier decision: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article91682102....
8 Reasons Johnny Does Not Write Bug Free Code
> Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

You were the one proposing that you could: "you can still obtain the benefits of the suburbs while not having to live in a suburban desert"

If you "fix" the suburbs, they won't be the suburbs that people want to lie in anymore.

> And mostly you wouldn't have traffic problems anyway because people who did happen to be driving to the downtown area for shopping/food would primarily use the main avenue and wouldn't have a reason for going down side streets, so long as you design it such that those streets don't take you to outside highway arteries.

Your vision of the "fixed" suburbs must involve either tons of parking garages or mass parking lots. Otherwise everyone driving in will absolutely be driving down side streets because they need to park.

I think what you're envisioning is not the suburbs at all but neighborhoods that you'll find in any city. Seattle is full of neighborhoods where there's mixed-use buildings and other shops and restaurants along "main" streets and single-family homes surrounding this. These aren't the suburbs, though. These are urban neighborhoods.
No silver bullet. I've built a community site to help operators build and grow their startups (https://www.joinradium.com/posts/tagged/growth). You can check out the growth category and I'm sure you'll find great content on how to grow your business.
> Can some one apply for a patent for ...

Answer: As long as they are willing to pay the fee, yes. You can substitute anything for "...". All that is required is a willingness to write out the required documents, fill out the forms, and fork over some money for the fee.

Now, whether what they apply for eventually gets approved to become a patent, that is a different story.
>Debian + stumpwm + emacs + Firefox: why use anything else?

Because it's 2016? What about multimedia? Or an IDE? Or my proprietary apps like Photoshop and Premiere?
The tax deduction happens when the money (or stock/equity) leaves your (direct) control and is deposited in the DAF. Later suggested donations from the DAF to charities are not tax-deductible.
Presumably the 'novelty' lies in the specificity of the bag's design. But even there, it is hard to see--it is not as if bags with loop handles, cardboard stiffeners, and so on, did not already exist. One wonders how close another bag would have to be to 'infringe'. But I like this bit:

"Bags are often used for containing items. "
Do You Know the Answers to These Hanselman Questions?
They should just lease out licenses to allow foreign companies to draw the oil themselves and use the proceeds to fix their own oil infrastructure.

They have so many options to chose from to fix their economy. It seems like they don't have the will to fix anything. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some sort of corruption going on.

The leaders of the country seem to be intentionally draining the money out of the country (and personally profiting from this).
Amsterdam canals picked to test self-driving fleet
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12468573
Really nice update as a developer. As a user, I still can't use any browser that doesn't have something like [self destructing cookies](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...). Cookies are just way too sticky and invasive, and turning them off breaks just about every site.
Says a Canadian who lives in the US who overgeneralizes.

It's not entirely true, but its way closer to the truth than you'd admit.
I wonder more what goes through the mind of those who create such patents to begin with... They really have nothing better to do, or they are intentional parasites?
> Hrm, how exactly is it novel?

It's not. This is just a patent application. All that was needed to get this far was to 1) write some documents and fill out some forms 2) pay a fee.
If you're using it to filter out employees or companies to invest in, it may be helpful. But if it's advice for people trying to figure out what to do, I think it falls quite short, in the same camp as "do something you're passionate about".

I have 2 successful companies (one consulting/services and another subscription business) and neither one is attractive to me for 10 years. I'm in about year 5 for both. I went into both knowing that they wouldn't excite me for 10 years.

They both excited me to build though. Entrepreneurs often like the challenge and the process of the build. So having a shorter time frame or commitment is not necessarily a bad thing. Some people are good at, and enjoy, incubating.
Texting Bots: The command line interface rebranded?
I get your points, but Apple's inattention poses a few issues for certain users:

a) There are machines with better spec'd hardware from other vendors while Apple sits around doing nothing or close to nothing for a few years.

PLUS

b) At any point in time, there are people with older Macs who'd like to upgrade to the current state-of-the-art...or more importantly, to get the best bang for their buck.

PLUS

c) Apple continues selling older hardware at the same prices and does not reduce prices over time until it releases a new model, which could be several years later. This makes the hardware overpriced compared to non-Apple ones.

The above combination of factors make it quite hard to justify expenses on older hardware for a good number of Mac users (as can be seen on various forums) who're invested in the Mac/OS X platform and wouldn't want the hassle of switching to Windows or Linux. It thus creates a lot of fence-sitters who keep refreshing the Macrumors Buyer's Guide regularly and hope for something to happen.
The premises of the first step are often true, but strictly speaking they are false.

Some NoSQL dbs have schema. Cassandra does https://docs.datastax.com/en/cql/3.1/cql/cql_reference/creat... and I think hbase has too.

FoundationDb was (is?) ACID.

NoSQL literally means that it doesn't have SQL.
I was wondering what 'AMP' meant.

I found it great for searching breaking news events and scanning quickly through reports from different sources.
> Anecdotally, in one department within the DoD, it's ~90%, which sounds insane.

If you consider how little uniformed military personnel are paid and how high the other costs associated with them are to start with, I'm actually not all that surprised that somewhere in some specialized area in the DoD this ratio is reached.
Until then you can print 'patent pending' on your product/website.
> How many silly workarounds have we used for this?

As a Linux and android user, I would have to say none. KDE Connect does this and is absolutely great.

It's a good feature and I'm not surprised that Apple copied it.

What does surprise me is how it's seemingly copied in a insecure way which includes cloud transfer, and not keeping it constrained to your LAN.

Oh well.
This epitomises the corporate establishments reaction to disruptive and uncontrollable technologies.
This is an interesting idea. Are there good examples you could point to of analyses of externalities of a company? Other than an oil, or chemical company.

For a pure software company, is the answer ever much different than the amount of electricity they use?
https://danearthur.com/mn/akeley/residential

On Chrome, if you expand the listing, the description's text-overflow isn't working. You need overflow:hidden for the ellipsis to work, but I'd rather see the nowrap gone.

Otherwise I love it.
Carl Sassenrath, the Amiga OS architect has been working on a new language for the last 20 years:

http://www.rebol.com

It has been cloned:

http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

Both are open-source. Red has a Windows GUI and the OSX GUI is close. The language ranges from high-level DSLs to system programming.
It looks like the novel things that they're claiming for are probably lines 0025-0027, and then later lines going into more detail on those:

"Generally, the greater the proportion of post-consumer content in white or SBS paper, the weaker the paper (e.g., the paper will more easily tear (including scoring or cracking)). For this reason, conventional bags formed of SBS paper are made with 50% or less post-consumer content (usually 40% or less) ... To strengthen areas of the bag container, such as folds or gussets at its corners or edges, ... reinforcement inserts ... formed of the same material as the bag container ... can augment the strength and resistance to tearing of the bag container material to make it structurally suitable for use as a bag, thereby increasing the amount of post-consumer content usable ... Typical paper handles are stiff and inflexible; these qualities contribute to a rough, unfinished feel. ... the bag handle may be formed to have a feel and flexibility unlike that typical of paper ... To effect this feel and flexibility, the handle may be formed of knitted paper fibers in a tight-knit pattern with a large diameter. For example, the handle may be formed in an 8-stitch circular-knit pattern"

It may be that plenty of other bag manufacturers are doing the same thing, but it generally seems like a good idea. Novel enough to patent? I have no idea.
Does anyone know if a different storage engine can be used in place of iCloud?

(I ask because I'm not keen on my data being exported to foreign country with very different privacy laws and I'd also like to be able to shop around without being tied to a single storage supplier).
Venezuela's oil industry is nationalized.
I run linux myself, but I can certainly understand that.
It's free, adds lots of stuff in the backend (libs etc), it's the default version from now on (the one with all the new hardware support, security updates, etc), it fixes several bugs from older versions (and of course will introduce some new of its own, nothing is perfect), and for those "without an iPhone" it has better voice control, tabs everywhere, new Messages and Photos app, updated Mail app, and a nice Cloud integration to save you space, with on-demand transparently downloaded files.

OS X is not like some third party program that works for decades and you decide whether to bother to uprgade to the next version or not. It's more like modern browsers: it's evergreen and you're supposed, if your hardware supports it, to be running the latest version.
I think we can hack a reverse js proxy before it gets native DOM access.
L4 was created partly due to how much Mach failed in performance and such. The first generation by Liedkte was something like 5 times faster in overhead than Mach solutions hosting Linux. I haven't timed the recent ones but there's numbers of Mach vs L4 in here:

http://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/papers/Heiser_10:iids...
Exactly.

The reality is everyone is playing armchair quarterback/back seat driver/whatever and telling LE about that they COULD do. As if somehow LE was dedicated to overspending. As if they didn't scour the earth to find the people and save 25-50%.

Building a good team is hard. Building a good distributed team is harder. That they exist is just as much luck as anything else.
The whole point of Lets Encrypt is not to charge people for the certificates. But I agree that the amount they are spending per year is very modest compared to what they are doing.
Why? Aside from 'just because' and 'gaming' I don't really see much in the way of big beneficial improvements. Intel's CPU haven't gotten that much better since the 2nd generation core series, and aside for efficiency, you're probably not going to notice anything using a non-workstation setup.
They "hijack" the search result url on any result. If you copy the address from the search result link, you always get a google link. But you could be talking about another url.
What if we also solve fusion and build a Dyson sphere and farm unicorns for automotive fuel?

It seems somewhat unreasonable to assume that our energy usage is going to exponentially increase due to as-yet-unforeseeable future needs and at the same time assume that we'll completely fail to find additional energy sources in the same timeframe.
"But the oil extracted in Venezuela is very heavy and hard to refine and then sell to other countries. Venezuela needs to first mix its heavy oil with lighter types of crude to balance out the quality, according to Nilofar Saidi, an oil market analyst at ClipperData."

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/03/news/economy/venezuela-impor...
"...an item carried within bag 100 will typically apply force to bag 100 at bottom panel 212, due to the gravitational attraction of the item to the earth..."

:)
I only ever use Skype to talk to my parents back at home, it works OK.

I'm wondering if there is a better system though, the main issue is my parents are used to using Skype, it would be an uphill struggle to get them to feel comfortable with something new.
Bitmain CEO: Bitcoin Can Advance China's Economy in a Big Way
Sounds like a job that needs competence, and they don't seem to have much of that in the government.
>Like? I can't possible thing anything that got made more complex, save for a couple of trivial things (with an equal amount of other stuff or more becoming easier).

UI complexity: Apple keeps moving the goalposts on its UI focus, and it shows: The new interface is WAAY more complex.

EC did some interesting unix things, which broke some stuff IIRC.

The new FS will be nice, but it's not there now.
Untangling the Forget-Me Knot: Secure Account Recovery Made Simple
I had a checkout clerk at Target the other day with Down Syndrome who seemed to LOVE her job and was very good at it. Unfortunately I don't see her working her way up to CEO.