skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm really postulating that the only way to improve the educational outcomes of students that come from families who don't emphasize education is to surround them with students who come from families that do emphasize education.

The other way is to turn the family that doesn't emphasize education into one that does.

Example: Harlem Children's Zone. http://www.hcz.org/
You should take a look at monster.com. In Luxembourg it is very active (monster.lu). If you are moving to Europe get ready to learn new languages, although english is often accepted for technical jobs, if you go consulting knowing the local language is often mandatory. In Luxembourg most ppl speak 3 or 4 languages fluently (English, French, German, other)

Most companies are very multi cultural, and force english as main language if they have workers that don't speak the official language, but be carefull as not knowing the local language might affect your daily routine outside of the job.
how much is rent running these days for a 2 bedroom (3 ZKB)?
If you need a "yes" answer to all or most of these questions, you should be hiring an in-house development team.
I want to recommend "The Artful Edit".

It takes an all too infrequent approach to teaching how to edit and actually shows the before-and-after work of great authors. In this case, the reader sees quite a bit of Fitzgerald's process deconstructed. Having seen the changes required of the first draft, it left me with much higher hopes for leveling up my own writing.
I read a hypothesis that airlines would be unsustainable without price discrimination. That is: if tickets were uniformly priced, there is no price at which ticket sales (demand) would exceed fixed costs. Without gouging business travelers, there wouldn't be enough revenue to subsidize the
pleasure travelers, who would stop flying because they couldn't afford unsubsidized fares. And the industry would fail.

This hypothesis is an extreme case, but it shows a mechanism how price discrimination can be welfare-increasing. That there can be tradeoffs between first-sale freedoms and societal wealth. (Because first-sale restrictions -- tying tickets to names, like a contract -- is what keeps secondary markets from equalizing airline fares).
Some of the Plan9 people comment on and off how backwards going back to Linux seems: all these warts they had fixed decades ago, back from the grave! But a bunch of them work at Google now, so have to use Linux, since Google doesn't use Plan9 systems.
The iPhad and other 2013 tech predictions
In this particular case though, there's not a lot of complexity or nuance, is there? It's a blanket "We own all your IP" clause in a contract.
That hopefully will change.
"At the Dec 2012 OWF GOSS board, the board agreed to a 6-month re-factoring effort which would re-implement using OSGi on the back end and eliminate the dependency on ExtJS for the front-end. This work will be done on GitHub and will be completely transparent to the community."
Yeah "CreatesContract" is a weird name. ContractCreator, or ContractRepository (so it can do more than just create objects) makes more sense to me.

Plus he should probably just break the send_email method into it's own method, which he can then call depending on if create_contact returns successfully.
Oklahoma City bombings: how many copycats?
This seems like an error one machine will show to another machine trying to create an account.
Another possibility is that the developers implemented it and the UI designers/tech writers insisted that it be eliminated because it would "confuse the users".
EFF did take a position in the Kirtsaeng case, in support of the petitioner (Kirtsaeng): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/eff-asks-supreme-court...

(The "urging" there is a link to EFF's amicus brief in the Supreme Court -- https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/PKEFFCertAmicus_firs... if you'd like to read the brief, which was filed together with Public Knowledge and US PIRG, back in January of this year.)

Although I mentioned that there are reasons that people who oppose parallel importation or aren't sure if they support it should be concerned about the respondent's (Wiley's) view of the first sale doctrine, EFF's brief explicitly supports parallel importation (see section II(C) of the brief). Reasons to care even if you don't care about protecting parallel importation are found in sections II(A) and II(B).
Shut up and do it
> Someday, hopefully not too far in the future, someone is going to write a modern, practical, and free microkernel-based OS that implements all of POSIX with performance the rivals Linux, but that offers a level of isolation and modularity that Linux could never offer.

Why, when we already have VMs like Xen which are modern, practical, free, host guest OSes that run at full speed to provide whatever API the applications want, and provide a level of isolation and modularity microkernels never could?
People increasingly do ask these sorts of questions of lawyers and especially doctors. It's an inevitable march based on access to information. Informed customers are a good thing; it forces professionals to stay on top of their game to survive and enables transparency as you mentioned. Some number of micromanaging customers are also inevitable; perhaps the goal is to bring in enough business to fire the bad customers?
Agreed. While someone who saw my writing as a college freshman might have thought they had discovered a "natural", that would have ignored the years spent unwittingly honing my craft in online roleplaying environments.

Until we find a very proficient author with a demonstrable lack of writing experience, we have to assume they received direct or indirect training of some kind. The burden of that disproof lies with the proponents of the "natural/gifted" hypothesis.
Is GA something to do with a US state?

Please spell these things out in full. It's only a few extra characters and it helps the rest of us pretend this site is global.
"who's going to build a factory if building the factory is going to be significantly cheaper next year, not to mention everything it produces?"

That statement is true of just about any technology I can think of, and yet investment in tech doesn't seem to have collapsed as a result.
> Linus Torvalds had begun his project to write a UNIX-like kernel for the IBM 386.

IBM 386? What in the world is an IBM 386?
Does anyone have any similar advice for relocating to Asia?
I've lived in both Berlin and London, and while Berlin definitely has much cheaper rent and some great startups (Amen, Soundcloud, etc.) the London startup scene is still larger by an order of magnitude on pretty much any measure (number of startups, money raised, exits, etc.)
I am convinced that lightbank is either a scam or ripoff. They offered my partner and I 100,000 for one year and asked for 35%. The reality is that they are a idea company and not a vc firm. They would pay me 50,000 to work for them, which is not competitive.
write syn? think about having 20 users trying to write. this is why sqlite is not used for production. besides, installing PostgreSQL doesn't take up that much of space and it's a lot easier to maintain.
Release everything in the original language as quickly as possible. Then screw around with voiceovers and such. There's people in other parts of the world that understand English, and people in the US that understand languages other than English.
Indeed.

https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/cakey...

Caveat: While browsing repositories you can press 't' and fuzzy-search filenames.
This Samsung model is the most popular one in Sweden currently:

http://www.samsung.com/se/consumer/appliances-kitchen/microw...

But when you look at the Samsung US range of microwaves:

http://www.samsung.com/us/appliances/microwaves/all-products

...it becomes clear that (Samsung US belives) simplicity doesn't sell as well there...
> …without creating a large framework to specify all this stuff in the first place.

It is, in most cases, significantly more work to create a plugin architecture that could allow for some feature to be implemented than it would be to implement that feature statically — and most of that extra work is not shared.
Based on years of research by folks like Cal Newport and Scott H. Young, the bureaucratic world epitomizes the antithesis of an efficient learning environment.

To learn, one needs:

* A constant influx of new and increasingly difficult challenges.

* Opportunities to step back and review prior learning, in order to develop a more holistic understanding.

* As rapid and accurate feedback as possible.

As learning animals, we love video games because they hit all of those buttons of ours in rapid succession. The start-up world hosts a disproportionate amount of innovation and technical proficiency for the same reason.
This is roughly the scenario under which Gresham's Law was discovered. Long story short: the inflationary currency wins.
Well, i'm a lawyer, and his position is at least defensible.

After all, the difference between leasing and buying is exactly right to use vs ownership.

Leasing/licensing have retention of ownership in the provider, buying does not.

Without having thought about it for more than 5 minutes, I can't think of any legal difference other than terminology.

Note that there is a difference in real property: Licensing is about giving someone the right to do something that would otherwise be unlawful, whereas leasing is generally about right to possess.

However, this is not the distinction software "licenses" are making.
>If we learned one thing from the music industry over the last 15 years, it's that the internet gives your customers the power to destroy you if you treat them with contempt for long enough.

Couldn't agree more with this sentiment.
Yes, like an ancient fossilized turd :)
Well, like I said above, credit information is also not so easy to obtain.

But remember, this is all when you're strictly following the law. There are plenty of PIs who are willing to bend the law.
This could serve as a starting point: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~lex/files/dict.pdf.
> Personally, I don't consider mild deflation to be any worse than mild inflation.

A priori this sounds reasonable.

But would you rather live/invest in 1990s Japan (mild deflation) or 1990s America (mild inflation)?

Mild deflation is absolutely terrible in practice. Mild inflation is good/not so bad.
31 Days of Android
I've always had the opinion:
"Let the site make the name, not the name make the site."
>If they enjoy it

That's a big "if."

I take issue with the position that leisure time should not be part of people's lives. Especially the notion that school should be set up such that students cannot have leisure time and be successful. If someone wants to make that sacrifice, more power to them. But it shouldn't be required or expected just to achieve/maintain a comfortable life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_386SLC
That's true in that case, but strictly it isn't quite true that any act that doesn't involve copying isn't restricted by copyright law.

E.g. in the EU, doing a public performance of a work is restricted by copyright, as is renting/lending to the public, though neither involves copying. (Don't ask me why someone thought it was a good idea to make copyright cover renting/lending, but there we are: http://goo.gl/WneMs ).
"Better Nate than lever."
Chris states repeatedly that part of his experiment was to see if he could find valuable (non-"deservedly empty") investors, and it seems that he has. This may not be a good general strategy that everyone can emulate, but it appears that it can work in some situations.

He also marveled that he closed the funding round in just a few days. I constantly read here and elsewhere that one of the huge pain points when you're looking for funding is that you spend so much time dealing with fundraising that you have to drop the ball on developing your actual product for a while. Courting quality investors that tend to be priced out by many startups with high valuations could reduce that problem's impact.

Again: I recognize that this certainly isn't a general solution that every startup can pursue. But it sounds like you're dismissing it in general.

Then again, I'm just an armchair non-entrepreneur commenter who has never faced any of these problems. ;)
If you apply for jobs, you might get one and take months to discover the bad

If you apply for small projects, you might get several and
Discover good bad and ugly much quicker

Honestly a blog is a resume these days.
Well, the business logic that the given model is responsible for belongs in the model. For instance, calculating an order total belongs in the Order model if you are building a shopping cart. However, you shouldn't break separation of concerns just to keep 100% of the business logic inside your object models.

Having tightly coupled objects that depend on other classes in your application that you wouldn't expect is worse than having a little bit of business logic in your controller (or some service object), in my opinion.
This year I left booking my tickets back to the UK for the holidays until the last minute. The cheapest fare I could find myself, after what I considered to be extensive searching, was $1800.

I ran a contest on Flightfox (http://flightfox.com) and offered a $49 finders fee. Someone found me a fare for $1000 with only one stop (vs two on the fare I found).
Now if you will ever crash you will also be remembering very well how you used two very important minutes of your life in order to comment on HN about how the article was not really useful, instead of looking up for some damn precious helicrash survival step guide.
Nevermind, it will be my last thought, as well.
This is what they used to do, but they've gotten more sophisticated - I've been running VPNs for China for my family on EC2 for a while. As far as I can tell, they almost never flat out block an IP. Initially they block a DNS hostname from resolving to a specific IP, then they start filtering out various different ports (including the default VPN ones). You can normally change to a random port and get OpenVPN to start working again, but it appears in the last couple weeks they've been able to identify and block OpenVPN activity on random ports. This happens so quickly, now, that it's pretty futile to try to IP hop unless you can come up with a traffic pattern that is less detectable.
It's also entirely possible to write a webserver in bash.
yep, 10000 hours of programming
Substance: fancy collaborative content creation tool, standard, API
Oh wow, this is not good. Is it possible to evade this sniffing? I have my own Linode VPS, and have learnt to use Tinc VPN software. I'm learning Mandarin and plan to travel to China in a year or few, so this censorship makes me sad and hits my motivation.
I commented in here a couple times and I do ASP.NET MVC development in C#. It just seemed like the concepts are so similar that whether you write it in C# or Ruby doesn't particularly matter.
I don't know if Jaron is right or not about the web, information freedom, and its effects on musicians, translators, and other content creators. It will take a few more years to find out what happens to a society with true freedom of information once the dust has settled, assuming we actually manage to build one.

One thing from the article that did really hit me is the quote, “This is the thing that continues to scare me. You see in history the capacity of people to congeal—like social lasers of cruelty. That capacity is
constant.”

I see it on a small scale all the time. The tendency that lets middle-schoolers pick on ugly kids and the Westboro Baptists to spread hate about gays is the same flaw in group psychology that gives us witch hunts and holocausts and suicide bombers. "Kill the outsider! Shun the nonbeliever! Purify the tribe! Root our the Communists!"

To the people involved it feels so perfect and righteous and true. We never realize until it's too late what a horrible thing they've started. This pattern, this tendency toward purges and mass hysterias, has probably been with us as long as we've had tribes and it's not going anywhere unless we do something very serious about it. Human nature is old and big and it doesn't go down without a fight. This particular quirk of human nature scares the shit out of me. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say it threatens the very survival of our species.

Again I don't know much about this Jaron character but I get the feeling we're on the same side. "Social lasers of cruelty" is a perfect name for something I've been trying to pin down and name for a while now.
I think you should apply for permanent residency first. Once you get it start applying, or even better, go to your target city and rent short term housing and try to find something fast. Being local always helps, and you definitely want to advertise that you have a work permit already.
In California the contract is often modified to include something like "except where prohibited by law" which means that the company gets IP assignment any time that 2870 doesn't apply.
Almost all the microwaves I see in Finland require that the user rotates the dial and off you go. With US microwaves I use the first 30s to scratch my head trying to figure out into witch category my food belongs to. But then again, the same happen with other devices as well: US products are full of settings and preconfigs.
OpenVPN has an AMI that you can install on an EC2 Micro instance which works fine as long as OpenVPN in general works -- which unfortunately is no longer the case as of the past few weeks.
One important solution is to switch from journal mode to WAL mode. Journal mode (the default) makes readers block writers and vice versa. WAL mode makes it so only writers block writers.
Unions are actually cartels.
I will never support any sort of gun control that does not also include disarming law enforcement. Is this not something other people are concerned with?
The advantages of monetary stability come with a stable growth rate, because contracts are bets on the future growth rate of money and stability means those bets can be made reliably.

You have proposed a stable CPI growth rate of 0%. There are two problems with this: the first (more important) problem is that arguably stable money supply is more desirable than stable CPI. During a downward supply shock, tightening the money supply can lead to a financial crisis by causing contracts made before the shock to fail. In that instance, rising CPI is good because it reflects a real fall in supply (prices should be higher).

The second problem and the reason why they shoot for 2% CPI inflation is that many prices are sticky downwards so an average CPI growth rate of 0% leads to problems. For example, people are known to find a paycut of 1% under 0% inflation more aversive than a pay increase of 1% under 2% inflation. As a result, during deflationary periods wages are often frozen at levels higher than equilibrium, leading to greater unemployment.

Despite these reservations, I agree that 0% CPI growth would be an acceptable policy, particularly as opposed to erratic policy as we saw in 2008–9. But you should recognize that moving from 2% to 0% would itself be a strong downward demand shock that in most countries would likely cause a recession.
They also appear to have stolen the image from someone else and cropped off the attribution in the bottom-right corner. Classy.
For all individual chapters goto http://www.movesinstitute.org/~mcgredo/HammingLearningToLear...
Are you serious? Just a quick search on their website shows exactly 3 jobs across all of Europe in the technology sector, and that's it?
California law only seems different to other states.
In practice, it's much the same.

Engineers often misinterpret the provisions of the law.

" (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of
the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably
anticipated research or development of the employer; or
(2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the
employer."

#1 is pretty vague, and it has been interpreted broadly by most courts.
Almost every engineer i've talked to think it means "unrelated to the work i'm doing for the employer" (which is really part #2 of the law).
However, it in fact says that not just "work related to stuff you are doing for your employer", but "work related to stuff your employer does at all or has said they will probably do in the future" can be owned by the employer, even in your spare time.

So if you work for a company that does a lot of things, you should not expect to own anything.

In practice, this is not very different from the laws of most states.

While I am a lawyer, this is not legal advice. Just trying to correct a misconception.
What is your nationality and which country are you aiming for?

Depending on your nationality, you might not need to a visa. Just board a plane and show up.

Asia is pretty big...and needless to say, the laws change from country to country. So, you need to decide the country first.
Article is from 2011. I think by default articles which are not from the current year should be noted in the title.
No right answer to this question. I can definitely see some circumstances where it would be worth it. Owning the category killer domain can be incredibly valuable. The brand recognition and instant credibility of a good domain is also undeniable. Many have type in traffic which means potential customers looking for that service show up every single day without any effort. Some search engines also give you an SEO boost for exact match domains.

Worth 100k? Depends on the name. But I thought after reading all these negatives, I feel like many of these people haven't actually owned any good domain names and seen the value that can generated from them.
In a past blog entry (http://blog.neekanee.com/2012/11/working-overseas-finding-jo...), I wrote about two companies that hire internationally: Secunia and Booking.com. There's also a couple of companies in Berlin that state in their job postings their willingness to sponsor work permits (even for non-EU citizens)- http://www.neekanee.com/jobs-in-berlin-de?q=permit
> You'll never get the intuitive understanding by working your ass off

Maybe this is true if you're a savant. I'm not a savant. Everything that I really understand has thousands to tens of thousands of hours of practice and study behind it.
I hope you're aware that pptp connections (including via poptop) can be broken easily.

https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-cha...
I'm not saying that leisure time should not be part of people's lives. Do you want leisure time? Take it! Do whatever you want.

Many people don't want it though. They would rather be working. Don't be angry when they have more success than you! They work more than you do.
Hence we punish those who don't want to take risks.

They already get lower yields in proportion to their risk. Why punish them further by fiddling with yield curves, forcing the spread to be artificially larger?

When one pulls low yields one shouldn't complain about the government, one should find higher yields.

If you want government to purposefully manipulate yields, than of course that would become a political complaint.
tell me you find any. I use matplotlib as I have not found an alternative.
Looks like the project is specifically mentioned in the ndaa. That's enough to peak my interest.
Your password must contain at least one unicode character; one space character, one control character, one mathematical notation character, one non-spacing character, one cyrillic character, one tonemic character and remember NOT to use any basic alphanumerical characters ([A-Z0-9]) as those are widely used in brute force attacks and therefore can't be considered safe.