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If you want to have financial privacy, start learning about cryptocurrencies.

Getting to know bitcoin is obvious, but there are also other kids on the block. Monero is the most successful cryptocurrency that has privacy built in: https://getmonero.org/home

In the medium term no banks in any country will be able to provide you financial privacy.

We're not there yet, bu it is coming.

And as a bonus with cc you get money that cannot be "frozen" because some government says so or money that disappears because your bank/government screws up.

In the future cryptocurrencies will be more real money then fiat currrencies. For some countries this is true alredy today.
These two are nice places indeed. But salaries there are so low and in Cordoba there are not many IT jobs so unless you are going to work remotely I wouldn't go there.
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The first thing to cone ibto my mind was "Mark it zero!" scene from "The Big Lebowski"
I advise Kazan (here pronounced caution) though:

Average low in Jan/Feb: -13 deg. C (~ 8 F)

Record low: -47 deg C (~ -52 F)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan#Climate
Reading RMS opinion, he said either 10 years or a escrow for source code (so that proprietary software really do end up public domain).

14 years seems plenty enough that its really shouldn't have any real impact on copyleft. Bugs, security patches, and plain reality changes makes 14 year old software kind of unusable. Many applications that is 14 years old won't even start on modern system and hardware.
It depends hugely on the size of your application, and of your team. For small applications and and a team size of up to three devs, your approach might be preferable. But I can't imagine that it would scale well beyond that. You will be able to test that your newly introduced feature works as expected, but you will almost certainly not be able to verify that you didn't break anything meanwhile.
In general, you write tests mainly not to ensure that what you just developed works, but to ensure that it keeps working while the application evolves.
I bought a used W520, as it was one of the last Thinkpads with full/normal keyboard. I just can't get work down as quickly using modern island-style keyboards. I recommend it especially if you are still using an older Thinkpad.

It's fast, supports up to 32gb of memory, 3 hard drives (regular, micro SATA, ultrabay), and has a good video card.

I also find the touchpad with its mouse thumb buttons to be easier on my wrists than the trackpoint or other laptop trackpads.

As a W (workstation) version it is heavy and requires a heavier charger. The T520 could solve this problem and also be a cheaper option.

Hopefully Lenovo's "Retro Thinkpad" project is brought to reality.
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Sorry to be negative, but can we stop touting companies solely on the mathematical concepts they rely on?

Deep learning techniques are indeed very efficient at solving a very large spectrum of problems, but it does not mean that every company using DL is remarkable. That's remarkable is the goal they achieve or aim to achieve.

If they use decades old technologies in a meaningful way for their target industry, does it make their company less likely to suceed? No it does not, for all that matters is solving the customers' issues...

My company use DL in several fields, but what we sell is simply a solution to customers needs...
This is great feedback, which I plan to use to improve the echo program. I'm just learning (on my own), and I figured I would just post my progress and I would get some feedback; it worked!

echo is far from finished, and it's safe to say "I don't know what the hell I'm doing", but hey, I gotta start somewhere.
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Some thoughts (I'm neither a CPA nor a lawyer, so caveat emptor):

0) Make sure you understand 409a valuation and Alternative Minimum Tax. These two concepts will materially impact the post-tax value of late-stage private company options.

1) Clarify what the $1300 price is. Is it a 409a price, or the latest preferred share price, or something else? Also, get an exact number if $1300 is approximate.

2) Make sure your options are ISOs (and not NSOs). Ask for the count of total outstanding shares.

3) Try to get a history of the company's recent 409a valuations. This will give you some idea of how fast the fair market value is growing. Fair market value at time of exercise affects the taxes you owe.

4) If you leave the company, check how long you have to exercise your options or lose them. The standard is 90 days - this is something to be aware of so it doesn't surprise you.
Due to memories, I'd pick India playing at Chennai over anything else. If I were to be unbiased, I'd pick the G, closely followed by Lord's in London, which is generally considered the home of cricket.

The G is awesome even on TV. Every boxing day Australia plays a game there, and I do my best to watch the first hour or so on TV.
Instead, because it's a self-promotion site, it's filled with content-light marketing posts. Slightly less harmful than fake news, but equally vapid.
I like the plain description of the action and violation.

Another US Government agency (FBI, maybe) has a similar document and the way it's written is unbearably smug. I think that got posted to HN sometime, but I have no idea when or what it's called.
oh sorry, I meant I had the side business back in Germany. I terminated it when I emigrated because none of my German customers would be willing to pay Swiss rates ^^. But I think it should be no problem to have one as long as your employer is fine with it and you work less than 45h per week (your normal job will probably be 42h/week).
somewhat, but (a) I think this transition is mostly complete already and the Swiss economy has survived it so far, (b) banking in Switzerland is about 8% of GDP, not significantly more than in many other developed countries and (c) a big chunk Swiss banking revenue is AFAIK still in the domestic market. Will it show up somewhere in a spreadsheet? Certainly. Will it destroy Swiss banking or Switzerland as we know it? Most probably not. [1]

That being said, if 2008 has taught us anything, it's not to underestimate greedy bankers and their favourite puppy 'leverage'.

[1] Some small private banks specialised on this sort of business may go under though.
Ahh yes, you're quire right.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
It hasn't caught on here much and not many freelance employers offer payment in Bitcoin anyway. Most of the time it's Paypal, which you can't even access online in Cambodia. I have to have my dad log on to my Paypal account from the US, transfer the money to my US bank account, then either bite the bullet on the international ATM fees or do a wire transfer to my bank account here. The fees add up as you can imagine, especially if you find freelance work through some place like Upwork, who then take their own massive cut. It would be amazing if cryptocurrencies caught on, many hundreds of millions of people would benefit greatly from that. It would also be amazing if I had not spent the 400 or so Bitcoin that were once in my possession ;)
That's funny, and appropriate. I recall Michael Lewis saying that he'd written 'Liar's Poker' as a cautionary tale, but that people were excited by the life described, and took it as an operating manual.
I avoid running main by testing at compile-time :-).

https://github.com/billsix/bug/blob/master/demo/src/bug-demo...
After one year, moved to a closer place to work (in a walking distance). Most companies in Istanbul have shuttle services, so even when I had to commute it was not that bad.
It will as I continue to work on echo until it's "finished". This is the result of 4 hours of learning and writing my first assembly program.
Creating frameworks by reversing the works of others is something I'd call art. I really enjoyed your article, and I'll surely use some of it for a personal framework that I'm currently writing.

Great work.
Yeah Boi
> Inventing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena

If our mathamechanical minions ever start musing about 'The Supreme Eigenvector' that would be the time to start worrying about machines taking over.
The nuances of the game are different from strictly trying to predict the future.

Casinos don't try to predict the future of every spin of the wheel or roll of the dice. Every individual game is random. But over a large enough sample size (number of games played), the odds are not random.

The same principle is at play in trading the markets, except the "odds" are determined by the traders' skill - their "edge." Which is roughly some combination of access to the right people, access to better information (where better might but not necessarily mean quicker), and experience (gut feelings, hunches, what-have-you).

So the real question is, can machine learning algorithms develop an "edge", and if so, can they stay solvent long enough to do so.
Doesn't that depend on whether they are RSU's? Then there is no strike price as far as I remember only capital Gains.
I don't work in the public sector but I'm curious, how does one protect their browsing habits on a work computer?

I see there are a lot of cases of personal computer usage. While browsing 'sexually explicit' material at work is just plain stupid, I know I'm guilty of logging into my personal e-mail or browsing Hacker News' latest.
I can't see the problem with having a select group of people maintaining the repository (i.e WCD users) and also distributing the content of the repository on the Internet for all.

As another commenter mentioned, GNU/Linux package management and in fact most free software projects are managed this way.

The only downside would be that maybe some of the information would be infringing copyright, even if it's just the database rather than the music itself.
I wouldn't be interested in selling my exercised options, but my unexercised ones that could work, but you would need to offer at least the purchase price. Unfortunately, only employees can own shares... :[
Do you have any idea where to? I was going to do the WCD interview a few days before it closed for good, not knowing this would happen.
A lot of people who buy Thikpads, myself included, are doing so mainly for the track point, which the XPS doesn't have.
I got cheap HP envy 360 ($699) with convertible design.

Love that feature - use it a few times.

Great to convert it as huge 15 inch, 1080p, 16GB RAM tablet and browse the web/amazon with a few people together. 16GB makes is much better browser experience than ipad and most of the android. The con is that it does weight a lot more than regular tablet.
An RSU is not the same as a stock option.
This may not be the right place for this question but what happens if you'd like to do a long-running Lambda? Something that might run for hours, days, maybe even indefinetly? How do you schedule something like that?
True, the net rent is higher. But look at it this way: in Germany rent was 30% of my net income, in Zurich it is less than 20% (though it would be closer to 30% if I lived by myself)
There are websites like Upwork which only work with cryptocurrencies.

For the existing employers, you could offer your employers a discount on your rate if they use bitcoin (or rather, ask them for a surplus percentage if they don't ;) ).
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Even on planes, we've had problems with people being too reliant on autopilot.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magent...

With self driving cars where we're relying on the car for moment-to-moment instantaneous reactions, I think it's very unlikely that human drivers will be able to pick up the slack in a system failure. If you're expecting the car to stop it self and it doesn't, you have what, a quarter second to jump in manually?

The recent video of a self driving uber going through a red light is probably a similar scenario. Even though uber insists it's a "driver assistance technology" and not a self driving car, the driver expected the car to stop itself, so they didn't bother applying the brakes. And that one was at low speeds, maybe 10 mph.

The saving grace here is that they're competing against human drivers. The technology doesn't have to be perfect, just better than us. But relying on human oversight to maintain 100% perfect attention for a six hour journey of doing literally nothing but watching a car drive itself in case you need to step in? I think that's a non-starter. For these to work, the car has to be able to manage on its own.
I had the touchpad problem on my T430. Installing Touchfreeze greatly reduced the problem. That was 3 years ago though, now gpointing-device-settings is recommended. Haven't tried that.
How's the Internet speed and cost and uptime there?
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The joke in Switzerland is the U.S. Treasury took actions against Swiss banking secrecy to defend its own business [1]. Indeed, Delaware and Nevada are notoriously light on what paperwork they require to spin up an entity [2].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world...

[2] http://www.financialsecrecyindex.com/PDF/USA.pdf
Readability does that - well sorta. It sends it to your Kindle.
If you're able to pull it off (i.e. have the time to iterate until it works) this is probably the best solution for the blogging part. Highest level of flexibility, a lot to learn, not too hard startegic-wise.
"PIVOT!...PIVOT!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_PklVas9cA
Can you point me to some? All i've seen are fiverr like and have many sellers but no buyers it seems
Do they mean a Relational database? SQL is a language.
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Touchscreens do use more power than equivalent regular screen.
Somewhere in Scandinavia. I don't know much about the area other than they score among the highest on self-reported happiness indicies[0]. I'm curious about what cultural differences are responsible for that result, and I suppose I'd like to enjoy them for myself.

[0]: http://www.medicaldaily.com/world-happiness-report-scandinav...
Well, it doesn't play out negatively in every city. The proliferating loft towers in Las Vegas don't really affect the housing stock available to local residents (most of which ranges from single family detached homes to 2-floor apartment complexes), and the fact that the lofts stand empty most of the time (it isn't just foreign investors, there are also snowbirds and empty-nesters buying a vacation home) means that they don't strain the local infrastructure much.
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I thoroughly disagree with you on this, it's not childish when a whole lot of people are using your software in production to want the software to be maintained by more than one person. Bus factor and so on. He frequently goes away for not just one month, but several. That's not healthy either, but it's his project and he runs it as he sees fit, which obviously the community at large disagrees with.

And forking is exactly how open source is supposed to work, you disagree with how something is run and you fork it. A lot of contributors weren't happy with how things were and they forked it, it's how open source should and does work.

And yes, I do think you are overreacting. I've been following and using Gogs for over a year now and the maintainer going away for months at a time has been very annoying, so I'm happy to see Gitea work.
That's not what I said. We never require front end work from someone who only wants to do back end work.

My point was if you have intermediate backend programming ability with a DBA background and you're concerned about getting a backend role you should be careful, yet clear about what you're willing to do.

Generally speaking, if a candidate comes across as willing to help out on a case by case basis but the vast majority of their workload is backend that's an easier hire by far. Is the trade-off of a potential 95/5 split of time worth it to the developer? That's a personal decision to the developer.

Unless you're never going to be writing code that is directly consumed by a front end or full Stack developer it is a good idea/practice to understand basics of the front end.

So yes, you are correct that if the poster never was willing to touch the front end he'd be harder to hire for the company but that's just because we want people to be open to new technology and the full Stack.

Either way, I think it'd be unwise to not learn basics of the opposite side you're on to stay relevant and be an attractive hire. N=1.
The advice really is to avoid the quick dopamine hit of running the app and seeing the new feature work by manual testing.

It's a motivation thing, and I think it can be very valuable tip how to motivate yourself to keep up your unit test suite (for those of us who need this behavioral trick).
I can assure you that if your idea is any good you would have to force it down peoples throat to get them to steal it.

Unless you post the instructions for a cure for cancer or infinite energy most ideas are born out of your personal experience and is something you see that no one else sees.

Otherwise someone else already have the idea and you are really competing on who will be the best on to build the business.

So decrypt your powerpoint and start sharing your ideas. Thats the best way to get to the next stage.
TiDB just rolled out RC1, this google groups post might be helpful to get an idea of where they are at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tidb-user/4_cpTCSkKZ...
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Ah, I forgot about tennis. I applied to UMelb and Monash back in 2011 when I was applying to grad school, but was scared off by some attacks on Indian students at the time. My sports watching life would've been so different if that had gone well.

I'd put London slightly above Melbourne, it's got Tennis, Football and Cricket among others.
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I am wondering how a practice of an employer requiring non-union members to pay union dues would be legal. Doesn't this constitute a tax?

Edit: it looks like this practice is not legal in right-to-work states in the US. This article seems to explain "Union security agreements" pretty well if anyone is interested:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-r...

I wonder are non-union workers in union shops ever pressured to join?
Is that not how you keep yours?
I love that question! I honestly have no idea. I do think that LED bulbs are a lot more fragile than they advertise. Sure, they won't break as often as old style, but neither will they last 25 years in many cases. (Specifically, they are a lot more intolerant of power fluctuations, if I recall.)

My hunch is they are mainly banking on upgrades to technology driving new purchases. Consider, your computer will probably last longer than you will keep using it. Difference is computer manufacturers don't bother with advertising how long they could last.

Also, I should confess I don't know where I was on the original survey. I probably had the wrong intuition, but seeing the question asked would tip me to it being wrong. I can't remember my answer at the time. :(

Finally, my guess on why they advertise the long life in stores may be because they are keying off emotions attached to home ownership. Home owners like to think of their house lasting a long time. So, home stores like anything that strengthens that.
"Here, put your money in this magic box. It may double in value in a week or it may be worth pennies on the dollar tomorrow. Nobody will know what you do with this money if you shake the box right. Put the box under your bed -- if you lose it, all your money is gone."

Bitcoin and the Swiss banking industry are apples and oranges.
I see static site tools are still trending. I've used a variety of static site tools for play but never had a client opt for it. Probably the only static site I'm currently running is for my local Auckland CSS meetup and that's just plain ol' hard coded HTML.

For those clients that require a CMS and not specifically a blog, I use http://processwire.com

The plugin ecosystem is lacking but I've always been impressed with its performance and intuitive API. I don't currently run e-commerce on it but Gumroad would be my first choice if I had to.
It's not going to produce "perfect" tests according to the test pyramid folks, but a good way to write your first tests is this:

* Consider: when you make a change, how do you verify that it worked?

* Write a test that does THAT and verifies the result. Don't stress out about DRYing out setup yet, write a test that WORKS first.

* Repeat. You will start to spot places where you can apply patterns like factories etc.

* The tests you write this way will pretty much be "integration tests", with all the baggage that carries (brittle, slow, heavy). You'll want to keep an eye out for seams where you can add more focused testing - for instance, can you isolate the part that needs to be tested with "multiple types of fake data" and test the output of that?

You may also want to try this out on a side project first; adding testing an existing codebase that doesn't have any is pretty much "hard mode".

I'd also recommend checking out talks on testing from Justin Searls (@searls).
Firstly, check your policy.

Then check whether it's actually enforced. Ask around. See if other people are routinely personally browsing.

If the admins are serious about it, they're monitoring you at the firewall. Or snooping your screen. Just don't mess with this. Comply with the policy or browse on your phone instead.

If there's no real enforcement, then the policy is a figleaf. If someone is abusing it and someone complains, it will be used against them.

If you're handling actual personal confidential or classified material on your computer, be very careful. If it gets compromised and traced back to an infection on your PC then the policy may be used against you there too.

Try not to do personal business on your work email, even in Europe this is not legally protected: http://www.eversheds.com/global/en/what/publications/shownew...

BYOD tends to erase the "work/personal" distinction, so watch out for other policies that try to enforce it. It may not be worth BYOD.