skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sleep doctor advised taking less, and earlier (1.5 mg around 5 or 6 pm).
As in another job? No. But something to work on yes, I also went to a couple of interviews in the first week of Jan (had to take PTO days to go to some of these interviews)
It's quite likely. I live in NYC, and pay $1000 a month rent. So "a few months" = 10 months = most of a year.

While I have over $10k in savings, I don't have so much money than I can just throw $10k of it into risk. I don't think I'm that uncommon.
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Apples to oranges. These are all examples of commercial infringment, which is quite different from the standard Hollywood claim that "unauthorized viewing" of a movie is exactly equivalent to stealing.
I wonder if his departure has anything to do with the delay of the other courses? Maybe he took some students/staff/resources with him that were key to the infrastructure?
I love the site, and can see myself using it in the future.
It'd be great if you could get Back behaviour working as expected, though.
First of all sorry if the list is not helpful. Kinda hoped for people like you to find santiy-checks for their current process in there.

Regarding your point about making mistakes: I assume the truth is inbetween.

As said it's harder for me to give advice "what works" because stuff that works is usually more specific.
But i will try in future to rather focus on actionable stuff that works instead of warning signs
I don't think its "the culture" that is "rotting", but rather the social capital, the social ties between individuals and entire sectors of the society, is declining since the mid-1960s (Book: R. Puttnam, "Bowling Alone").
AFAIK light text on dark background might improve contrast between different colors, which is useful when coding; however, for better overall contrast and readability, dark on white is preferable.

- Various studies suggest that white on black is easier to read and comprehend, which is important in presentations, especially for people who stand far from screen.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498698/white-light-vs-bla...,
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/07/code-colorizing-and...

- In printed media, the general recommendation is to use larger font for text displayed on dark or complex backgrounds, as it's considered harder to read. (This is from my experience and what they taught us at university, so no references here.)

Also, if there's need to include inverse text which should look to reader the same size as regular one printed elsewhere on white, the slightly larger / ‘bolder’ font is used. The same size font would actually be perceived as smaller.

(Edit: formatting.)
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> For example if you devalue the currency, your people become poorer. What is the difference to just paying them lower wages and thus selling your stuff for less Euros?

One important difference is in domestic contracts. Let's say you are an employee in a country that uses # as currency, and your current monthly wage is 1000#. You pay 500# of that every month for fixed contracts such as rent, health insurance, electricity, telephony, etc.

Now you are faced with two possible scenarios: A) There is CPI inflation of 10%. B) Your wages are cut by 10%.

In both scenarios, your nominal wages are down to 900#. But when you look at it more closely, there is a significant difference.

In scenario A, you still receive (nominal) 1000#. Of those, you pay 500# to your fixed contracts, and you use the remaining 500# for consumption goods, whose real value compared to before is now only 450#.

In scenario B, you receive (nominal) 900#. Of those, you pay 500# to your fixed contracts, and you have 400# remaining to buy consumption goods.

Clearly, inflation (scenario A) is better for you. Devaluation of the currency by 10% would be even better, because currency devaluation rarely punches through entirely to consumer prices: only imported goods are affected directly, after all.

Now you could argue that in the long run, those fixed contracts like rent will also be adjusted. But there is a huge difference in pressure and thus power between the scenarios: when your wages are decreased, you are immediately worse off as an employee, and it is up to you personally to try to get a better deal on the rent, forcing the landlord to decrease their rent in turn. In the case of inflation, however, it is up to the landlord to raise rents, something for which there are often significant legal hurdles.

Most employees probably don't think these scenarios through, but the gut reflex ends up being correct in this case: for employees, currency devaluation is better than nominal wage reduction.

(Of course, everything I've said changes for somebody who has significant nominal assets; but then, it would probably be incorrect to classify them as an employee.)
If you are unemployed, Harz IV, provides barely enough money to live a decent life (especially compared to other Western-European countries).

As someone in one of those other Western-European countries, I can only say this is a good thing. If unemployment benefits are so high that the cost of child care, transportation, etc dwarfs the extra income from a real job, you aren't going to work.

Harz IV was harsh, but it allowed the Germans to get their finances right, and they did so timely. Every other European country will face much more serious cuts or go bankrupt. (Or pray to the Germans to pay for their excessive lifestyle, which is what's happening now)
The strategy of RIAA et al seems to be working. Make an example out of someone and the rest of the weaker links runs for cover. Even if the megaupload team gets acquited later, it will still be a battle won.
Useful site.

Will definitely use it in the future to look up features.
I got frustrated with the web this weekend. My ability to use it as an expert has waned. If we can make the assumption that the proportion of self-promotion increases over time, I believe there is a personal inflection point where the average new information being consumed is a falsehood. I say personal since every person has their own threshold for truthfulness.

When I claim to be an expert, I just mean that I used to be pretty good at finding stuff I wanted to find. Google is the tool I have overused, ignoring better, newer filters as they have come wayside.

So I feel like just turning the whole damned thing off and learning the "slow" way might be the new way to be the fast way.

2015, want to find it fast? Flip open the index of a hard cover and start scanning.
Search worked fine for everything I tried. I will say that the "link to this search" button is where I would expect the "go" button to be, but it's a live search instead. A tad confusing.
Hartz IV is not unemployment benefits, it is social welfare (which you get once your unemployment insurance runs out). Unemployment insurance pays a percentage of your previous salary, but you also pay for it while being employed with a percentage of your salary...

How much is social insurance in other countries, if it exists at all (does it exist in the US?)?.

It has a bad reputation, but I always thought that Hartz IV is actually quite high. The numbers that are being floated in the press seem very low, but they always forget to mention that on top of that the state also pays the rent and health insurance for Hartz IV recipients. Where the system runs into trouble is when it sabotages the recipients through bureaucracy, for example some are being forced to move to a smaller flat even if it is more expensive. If they don't find something suitable in time or are simply unable to keep up with the bureaucracy, they might end up on the street. In that sense it is rather demeaning to people, but I think the amount of benefits received is probably OK.

Healthcare still works very well for publicly insured people, although I worry for the future and it has some annoyances. But for example I personally am scared of going private because I worry that physicians will do too much useless stuff to my body just to make money (I know enough stories of that kind). Sometimes more is less...
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I think, on one hand, that this movement is doing itself a major disservice by naming its enemy "Hollywood". I think that institutions like the MPAA are very clear in their support of ruthless enforcement like SOPA and PIPA, as press release and social media response after another have underscored. Particular writers' associations have also voiced what, to me, look like sentiments that agree with MPAA's approach.

But "Hollywood" is a misnomers that will inevitably throw innocent people under the bus in the crusade against the abstract concept of the entertainment industry. I also think it would help the campaign tremendously from a PR stand point not to be so abstract as to inculpate a vast industry - imagine the reaction here, if they made as broad generalizations against the tech industry.
The thing I love about youtube is that there is never any problem loading the pre-video commercials for Cox internet or whatever. They always come through in HD and without any lag, ever. And then more often then not, I have to turn down the quality of the actual video because it can't stream at a high resolution. Suffice it to say, I don't really use youtube.
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And we’d love it if you:

* Have read and understood the pragmatic programmer
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More business should have these kinds of requirements (as long as they live up to them in the actual day-to-day)
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One interesting side effect of this tactic is that actual LOIC users may now have some plausible deniability, as they can claim they were duped into participation.
As far as "sanity-checks," I feel like you've accomplished this. When I see lists like these, though, I hope there's something I can chew on; a couple of sentences that further articulate the point being made (this may be a personal thing, but it helps me to really "get" the point). There's nothing wrong with warning signs, but warning signs aren't necessarily what you're doing wrong (rather, just a hint that you might be).
The other courses (i.e ML and DB) seemed to have a different arrangement. The slew of new classes seemed to be following the same arrangement as ML/DB rather than AI.
I'm sure that on file sharing sites when you solve captchas this is exactly what is happening ...
It doesn't matter if its a dupe of something everyone missed before and people up vote it this time. So much stuff gets submitted now that links are only on the first page of the new list for a few minutes and can easily be missed. This time its hit at the right time and there could be a good discussion about it.
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Metro is sounding a lot like Microsoft Bob. I loved Bob it was very interesting and fun for a couple of minutes
Some years ago I read about one of the best ways to solve captchas: you need to set up a porn site and require visitors to solve them for you, in order to "view" the content. They have no idea that they're doing. Free labour :)
Well, the GNU Project has a pretty extensive list[1], so I'm not sure whether you just haven't seen this yet, or whether there is a different concern here.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Well they love their users. You know, those people who are already using the product. Which is, erm...
What law justifies the DOJ in removing all content from a site that is allegedly hosting copyrighted material? This is why the DMCA was supposedly a safe solution.
It's a lot more than a beautiful country: there are lots of smart, hard working people here too.

However, the incentives currently in place are such that for many, their best course of action is to go abroad.

For instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
Still it is EPIC especially in HTML5.

Quite impressed how far you can go with HTML5 and javascript :)
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Though as far as I know there was this idea of using Aiqus as the discussion forum platform for all the courses, rather than each course having its own separate forum. Aiqus was used by AI class during last session.

Although I am not aware who was behind the development and operation of Aiqus.
Is 10.000$ really a problem to raise if you call an apartment your own which sells a room for 125$ a day?
Matt,

Thanks for sharing. I did the same for several months, I would call each session a mini iteration. And I kept a kanban board on my moleskine...which is imperative. I had times where other things would take precedence and I would stay away from my project for several days but due to my physical kanban I could easily pick up where i left off.

What I did different is this: at each iteration i would set a goal that I new I could accomplish within the mini-iteration (1-2 hours, sometimes a little more). Then at the end I would check off my accomplishments and would quickly "trim my backlog" and create a list of "NEXT:" for the next time. Then the next time I sat down I would review this list and adjust it as necessary and begin.

I found that have a physical notebook was beneficial because at the first sign of discouragement I could easily look back and see where I was just a few weeks ago or a few months ago. And nothing feels better than marking something complete. My lists are segmented by each iteration by day and have three categories: DONE, TODO, NEXT. it worked great for me.

Though I never delivered my product it was a great talking tool at an interview that led me to a job with a 30% pay increase. And I'm ok with this.
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Took the AI class and it was just amazing. I never had a professor more passionate (yet still rational :) about a subject.

Even though the course made the math and the background sound simple, it wasn't. There is a probably thin line between breaking-down things into a set of well-partitioned and easy to understand statements and oversimplifying really complex systems.

Also, the applications (edge detectors, robotic cars, particle filter based localizations, ...) kept me very motivated throughout the course.
> This is a bit silly to say 'Hollywood' is trying to destroy the internet

No, unfortunately it is not "a bit silly". The content industry MUST finally get control over the Internet to survive. I am convinced they use SOPA etc. not to fight piracy at first but to ultimally destroy Youtube (Google) and other competitive independent video platforms which will surely make the whole movie industry obsolete in the future.

Why? Because even NOW private people have become high quality movie producers. The first movies with Star Wars quality have already been made by private enthusiasts. Look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Revelations

This movie is really competitive to the Star Wars series and was made 2005 - seven years ago! It is obvious that coming professional movie producers don't need middle men in the future at all.

I am not against the content industry but their attempt to use SOPA et.al. to do collateral damage by establishing a global censorship infrastructure which would ultimately destroy our precious fundamental human right of free speech cannot be tolerated at all.
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I've never seen a real example of this (having asked many times when people have mentioned it), it is one of those ideas that on first though everyone things must be real.

The problem with that scheme is that you need to create or curate enough content to make it work and somehow make the people who might want that content aware that you can give it to them, and that is a lot more hassle and expensive than paying some impoverished 3rd world farmer to parse the captchas.
I actually live only 10km away from where I work, and my commute amounts to less than an hour per day.

I'm at the office by 0700 and I leave sometime after 1700. My work situation deviates significantly from a programmer's "standard" in a lot of respects, unfortunately. I do get paid for overtime at least, but I'm beginning to question whether it's worth it.
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> there was this idea of using Aiqus as the discussion forum platform for all the courses

Not sure if you're referring to the current bunch of courses or the first three (AI/ML/DB). I'm assuming it's the latter. Aiqus was only used for the AI class. IIRC it was set up independently but someone before the course began and ended up being the pseudo-official Q&A forum (linked to from the main site).
Luckily there are more than just 2 parties to vote for... true, the PC and Liberals were the top dogs but the oft-overlooked NDP certainly bumped things up last time and the Green - well, they were given a seat off in the backwaters of BC... oh, and a few other regional/sort-of-national parties as well - there are alternatives if you're willing to test them out.
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Becoming an expert at something is hard. Training requires a lot of mental and phisycal effort, and not a lot of people are willing to sweat it.

I believe that in order to stay motivated to become an expert, you need to have a clear goal. Why do you want to go the gym everyday? Why would you spend hours after office researching and learning about new technology? If you can't define the why, you will probably fail.
As it should be. Basically everything that Ubuntu brought to the table is now in Debian, except for all the crap.
Totally agreed. Prof. Thrun and Prof. Norvig made math an interesting part of the course. At the end of the course I found myself more motivated to learn mathematics than ever before.
The recruiter is supposed to be on your side, so it makes sense to share this information. I went through a recruiter to get my last two jobs, and was able to secure a 35% and 37.5% increase each time (same recruiter), and she was well aware of my compensation each time. She said that in both cases she was prepared to share it with the companies, but they never ended up asking. I think that if the companies like you enough, they will offer you what you're worth, regardless of what you were making before. And I'm sure they can figure out the number within a reasonable range using Glassdoor and salary.com anyway.
Gernan wages are higher than most in the Eurozone. It's just that they were not growing. Plus we added a lot of jobs which are relatively low paid. But many of those jobs don't exist in, say, Spain. In spain you are then unemployed. Which is especially common among young people.
One thing that he mentions in the video is the fact that Facebook Like buttons are everywhere. They can track many of the sites you visit.
OK, point taken, surely it is easier form an organizational point of view.

But then another question: suppose the governments wants to make it's goods/exports cheaper, maybe there would still be lots of other possibilities, like changing/lowering taxes. Obviously still more complicated than just printing more money, but still.
Or Herzog Zwei or perhaps earlier games (Ancient Art of War anyone?).

(sadly I guess this discussion somehow has to come up every time someone mentions the word RTS.)
They are missing an underscore there... #founder_sex_ehh... #founders_exchange
Oh, no doubt. I'm just being a pedant, like any good geek would be!
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Exactly wrong. Imagine there wasn't a good number of experts in JavaScript/HTML5 (my field of expertise); there wouldn't be HTML5 BoilerPlate, Modernizer, Respond, Require.js and the handful of books I read. I couldn't reach the level where I am today.
ok, I was not aware that Aiqus was independent of the AI class. Though one of the developers of Aiqus posted in an unofficial FB group of AI class that all the rest of the courses will also use Aiqus during the next session.
You make some good points, but I think there's a difference between having a few personal details about someone and surveillance. The clincher with Facebook is the amount of detailed information about the time and place that you are doing things, all in the hands of a single private entity. There's no telling what kind of analysis this data gives them and perhaps law enforcement (if not today, tomorrow?). For example, a few weeks ago there was a post circulating about how FB inferred the location of a photo without any location information in the exif data. Even if you use their ever-changing privacy controls to hide your data from people you don't know, Facebook still has access to all of it.
That's the problem, I'm the only one supporting/coding this excel thing. Guy who was in my position before me quit the company and person who made these sheets is no longer on the project (Plus there is no documentation!). So while Im here I will be doing only VBA/support until the project ends
I wanted to give a little back to the HN community! Here is my weekend project for watching realtime stock price news.

I got to learn an enormous amount - feel free to ask any questions or give some feedback.
They say that Debian servers come from new servers, and many subsequentially change to Ubuntu. From the graph it's clear that CentOS and Debian is mostly steady, Ubuntu is on the rise and everything else is on the way down (in percentages of course).
Enforcement of Apple's intellectual property? Protection of their brand and trademarks?...

These are all benefits received by Apple USA, which pays income taxes to the US.

Apple's Chinese subsidiaries (which is what we were discussing) do not receive those benefits from the US government, and hence do not pay for them.
Does this need a specific version of tmux? The tmux -C command just gives an illegal option -C error.
But none of that information is auto-profiled by a machine. That's already a big difference since it's not being sold/bought by companies or states.
A simple grep of your HN comment history shows equivalents to 'Like'

http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/javascript/35764/For-all-those-jQuery-fanboys
https://github.com/derwiki/redirect_tracker
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ltwatch/id482807766
http://angularjs.org/
https://github.com/ludicast/angular-peepcode-todo
etc.

How is Facebook worse than this??
You just said that the culture is rotting. The relations between the people of a nation is a massive part of the culture of a nation.

What people place value on, and consequentially how people relate to eachother, how they value eachother, whether they respect the rights of their fellow citizens, and on and on. All critical aspects of a culture.

A nation's culture is made up of the individual beliefs & values of each person. And all of those things determine the social and economic fabric / makeup of said nation.
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The simple fact that GmbH law greatly differs from UK/US corporate law makes it uncommon, and therefore cumbersome for any interested UK/US investors. Though obviously if you've got the traction they'll just bite through.

Also things like stock options, reverse vesting, convertible notes turn into overly complex issues when trying to re-create them in GmbH law.

And besides the additional bookkeeping/accounting burden, I have not encountered any issues with our current setup.

In regard to why Ltd+GmbH: We found the move-the-Ltd-to-Austria process a bit complicated, and also encountered the issue you mention, that people think of Ltds being shady/not trustworthy.