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I'm struggling to understand why this entrepreneur has any moral obligation to hire locally. It's a world economy; the people he is hiring probably need the jobs more than the Canadians he is not hiring. As he says, it is win/win.

The vitriol here on HN against the fact of a globalized free market is somewhat surprising, especially considering that the successful startups will inevitably be competing globally.
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>windows phone is a bit crappy

I think it is rising up, especially in the Asian market. From the business point of view, the best thing they did was to partner with Nokia. If it wasn't for Lumia, I don't think I would got a windows phone.

>Why Microsoft is involved I don't know.

I think it has more to do with "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". They hold the grudge against Google for cutting windows phone from Youtube Api, Google Maps, Calender, the whole exchange debacle.. etc. I hate all these corporate fights, because at the end its not them but us who lose the most.
I learned never hire non-software engineers.
Marketing, and etc it's child work compared to what talented hackers can do.
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Plus, if you look at the guy who asked the question, he's a programmer from China, so it's not hard to imagine that had something to do with the fact that these dates popped up in development.
A phone switch can only accept a finite number of connections at a time, and a dial tone indicates that you have succeeded in connecting with the switch. If 100% of the capacity of the switch is currently in use (as could happen during a natural disaster), then you won't get a dial tone. We tend to take the dial tone for granted because the phone system almost always has enough capacity to let us make a call without waiting.
IIRC MSFT gets paid a royalty of $10~$15 per copy of Android deployed by carriers, so they do have a hedge.

(Though the fact that they have that hedge in place at all is proof that they are "opponents of Android" which they naturally have to be given their agenda. That makes me think though, is there anything preventing them from jacking up that price 2-3x once WinPhone 8 launches?)
Looks like a lot of value here, and congratulations to the author / editor for shipping! One niggle though: no audio format (and if there is I didn't see it).

Anecdotally, I saw noticeable jump in sales to my eBook No Budget Budget: https://leanpub.com/nobudgetbudget when I added an audio book with it. Some people either don't like to read or don't have the time.

Something to consider.
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Let me get this straight. You're saying that you're entitled to a salary that is substantially higher than developers with more experience (and likely more skill), and you're the one who feels insulted? Give me a break.
That's kinda surprising; WebKit's has had support for this for 6 months now: https://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/inspect... (I thought chromium was pretty quick to bump webkit revs)
> Why would Main Street transact with them at all if that were the case?

Because we force them to, through 401k's and the like.
It may just be a signal to the caller that something is happening. Otherwise you're left wondering with whether the call went through or not.
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Adam Smith Hates Bitcoin
I worked with someone who has Aspergers and I would definitely say it's a legitimate condition and not simply a case of people having "various styles" or "different traits". I think it's one of those things that you can't really understand until you experience it first hand.

To be completely honest, although he was very smart and I understood his condition, I found him extremely difficult and uncomfortable to work with. Which is really unfortunate.
A minor is really not worth the trouble if you plan to get an MBA in the future. Take all the courses that seem interesting to you. Down the road the lessons you gain will broaden your thinking immensely.

Some course ideas:

Economics (Trade Theories)
Business (Marketing Research + Stats)
Philosophy

Good luck,
Philosophy and/or art/design.
> The cynic in me just doesn't get over the value handed over by competitors to the sponsors

I would think you don't have to hand over your algorithm, if you forego the prize money. Another way of looking at it... as alluded to by other posters, the "winning" data model may not be the best, so there might be less value handed over than you think.
I disagree: I think ebbv's analogy is fair, and talking about CISPA (designed to encourage .com->.gov/.mil data flows) as akin to the Patriot Act (designed to increase .com->.gov data flows) and FISA (designed to regulate .com->.gov data flows) is appropriate.

So is asking about unintended consequences of legislation that's touted as accomplishing one thing but will be far broader. CISPA's sponsors say it's necessary to respond to the real threat of Chinese military hackers, but of course the legislation isn't limited to that.

If there are a series of related and bad bills, offering the same general criticisms of them is reasonable. If you're pro-choice and are upset by state efforts to ban abortion, then you can use similar language ("fully against..." "we shouldn't be putting more power in the hands...") to talk about bills in Arkansas, Colorado, Mississippi, North Dakota, Kansas, etc.

Of course a more detailed discussion involves going into more depth and talking about the differences between each state's anti-abortion proposals.
Does that make it a reasonable business decision to hire someone when you have the skills and environment to leverage labor from other markets? I suspect the salaries are high partly because most employers are willing to pay a high premium for on-site workers.

I also suspect many employers have this preference partly because they are more comfortable working with people of their own background, culture, and class. I don't think that is an attitude anyone has a moral obligation to encourage.
I understand your point, but as a currency, it does have fundamentals. The price of a currency is determined by supply and demand. The supply side of bitcoin is fairly well understood and aside form the periodic adjustments, its pretty easy to forecast. The demand side is far murkier and, like a currency, based on several uses. You have store of value, which may explain part of the recent spike due to failing currencies in Europe. Transactional uses, which have also been increasing as more retailers have begun accepting bitcoin. Unit of account, which is, due to a lack of stability right now, the worst use of bitcoin.

So, if you view bitcoins as a stock, you are right, the fundamentals aren't there, but its not a stock. As a currency, the fundamentals are there, but until you can quant the demand for alternatives to gov based currencies and the transacitonal demand, it will be tough assigning a "correct" price for bitcoins and thus the market will be volatile.
Why doesn't it help Canada? Startup is still in Canada, profit goes to the country. And he creates some jobs for Canadians as well. Maybe it would be better if all staff was local, but Canada wins either way. And it's just one of the ways for business: some hire locally, some hire remotely, some do both. It's just business playing by the rules of the country.
There exists one of these built into the Rust compiler, but it's not very good right now. The process of creating an "official" style guide as per the above wiki page might help build the momentum needed to actually make the pretty printer usable.
You should read that book if you haven't already. The old AT&T stressed that type of mindset and had the researchers thinking 50 years and more out while having other groups focus more on development/manufacturing/marketing.

I'm not sure many companies can afford to think that way any more given the stock market focus on the short term. I think Google is doing the best job now with the self driving cars/Glass projects.
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Yeah, because the scene totally needs more drama to distract us from the latest Bitcoin / Mtgox debacle...
ebbv: You're right that you can't learn everything about legislation by reading it in isolation.

You generally need to read it side-by-side with the law it's amending. You need to read any amendments, and the rejected amendments. You need to read caselaw on point so you're aware of how courts have interpreted certain terms. You need to read existing laws in the same area. To the extent that courts will consider it, you need to read the legislative history, floor debate, and committee reports. Ideally you'd want to talk to a lawyer specializing in this area. Obviously the shorter the law, the less all this is necessary, but the text of the law tends to be merely a starting point.
> it's weird to feel sad for someone making $250k+ per year, but I've heard their first hand accounts of how much they hate their jobs.

Most people hate their jobs. And very few make $250k+ per year.

Investment bankers and traders are smart enough and rich enough to make a leap into a new career, if they really desired.

Your friends should grab a wad of $100 bills from each of their wallets, wipe away their tears, and do something proactive about their lives.
I mean no disrespect, but tell me that when you're employer sends your job abroad and all the companies that you apply to only outsource their positions or pay you below market salary how you would feel?
It's really not like that though. People with Asperger Syndrome behave and act very different from "normal" people. It's not simply a different personality, an introversion preference or anything like that, they genuinely have a very different brain.
Amazing that a guy who disappeared almost 4 years ago can make it to the top of Hacker News, more than a few times, just by an obscure change to a basically defunct website.

I think it's pretty safe to say people love why the lucky stiff. He's funny, provocative, mysterious, strange, smart, creative... how could anyone _not_ want to see him back? We need more men & women in the world like _why.
The pension fund managers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. States underfund pensions while state employees keep demanding ever larger retirement benefits. So as a result they have to seek insane returns on their portfolios.
I've noticed this caller-hears-ring-before-actual-ring thing, too (also on AT&T). I always presumed it was a way of giving them (the network) a little longer to make the actual connection, without the caller giving up thinking "it hasn't even begun to ring yet! Something's wrong!"
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Twitter Music Site Goes Live, Teases Imminent Launch
A lot of commenters here seem to have missed this: "The really disruptive thing about Kaggle, though, comes through the company's new service, Kaggle Connect. Here, Kaggle acts as a match-maker, where customers with a specific problem can hire a specific data scientist well-suited to their problem; candidates are drawn the top tier of Kaggle participants: the top 1/2 of 1 percent, or about 500 data scientists."

The competitions are a good way to learn, practice, and get feedback on your methods. Kaggle Connect is where you can make a good living while doing a range of interesting work.

(I work for, and compete on Kaggle).
I think of it like a casino. It's offers a service, sure, but financially operates like a black hole by in all likelyhood removing more value from the economy than it creates.
Even on land line phones, the ring indication tone is not evidence that the remote phone is actually ringing. If I remember correctly, the tone is generated by the equipment at your central office, not at the remote location.
No. That's grammatically incorrect. The word media is plural regardless of whether or not you're using it to describe a general concept. Consider another example. You wouldn't write "Is People Useless."
But not Last.fm? I hope that's not true.

Honestly slightly annoyed that each of these social media companies want to become everything for everyone.
So he opens in Argentina because he can speak Spanish but he hires based on a criteria of english speaking?
$1M Prize for Algorithm to Identify Organisms From a Stream of DNA Sequences
It got updated maybe a few weeks ago. The style was tweaked and I think there were some changes to fix how the 'Last Visit' break is shown. When I go to read HN I type hckrnews.com.
A quick implementation of cool iOS Blueprint3D in Mathematica. This is the original game:

http://www.fdg-entertainment.com/en/iPhone-Games/Blueprint-3...
The redesign looks really great! I'm curious how this will affect conversion / clip creation.
I see that some of you disagree with me for the downvotes, so please leave a comment on why, I'm not trolling and I still don't see the point of the post. Thanks.
Presumably they're involved because they have a number of APIs, and they believe that APIs should be copyrightable. I don't think they would take a position on this issue due to an opposition to Google alone.
>I don't think you understand how shortcuts work..

I've been using computers since the late eighties, worked on from Sun OS to OS X 10.8, and have used Vim for decades, so I think I do.

But I don't find them that useful anyway.

As they get more numerous (aside from standard stuff) they only serve to give your mind a slight pause (to trigger shortcut recall, because not all are in muscle memory) and they trick you into thinking you're doing something useful for 0.5s, which for a lot of operations mostly the same time it would have taken for you to do it with a mouse. Just that with a mouse your mind is not working that hard (whereas the effort to remember the shortcut makes your mind think less time has passed).

You might think that doesn't apply to you. You'd most likely be wrong though (unless you stop-watched compared it). That's the kind of tricks the mind plays. I've not speaking out of my ass here. Here's from UI expert Bruce Tognazinni.

"We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

-- Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
-- The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding."

Citation: http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

Anyway, I'd rather turn up a fader in a DAW by touching it, than by pressing +/-.
Same goes for me.
He has a very punchable face in his photo. He obvious thought of this photo based on needing to showing off his watch and car.

http://www.techvibes.com/author/mario-zelaya
Krugman: Adam Smith Hates Bitcoin
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This reads a bit like a hyper-condensed version of Liar's Poker [1].

1: http://www.amazon.com/dp/039333869X
> I don't disrespect them for it, although I do wish more young smart people were focused on making things rather than transacting.

It's six of one, half a dozen of another. You either peddle exotic financial instruments on Wall Street, or peddle advertising in Silicon Valley (or work on something like Glass or self-driving cars that's completely subsidized by advertising profits). I don't think there is anything more noble about finding new ways to convince people to buy cheap Chinese crap they don't need.
The term you're looking for is 'ring-back', and it's original use seems to have gone the way of the do-do in North America.

Most of the PBX/VoIP systems I've worked on (North and South America) provide one arbitrarily to give the caller the warm and fuzzies, regardless of what's actually happening to that call leg.
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The same way when GM is located in Detroit but it decides to move the plant to China.
Canada would win a lot more, and be more self-sufficient in the global economy, if employers acted in their long-term interest instead of shorting their shares in the Canadian economy.
What if the callee has their phone on silent?

j/k

The "ringer" tone is to let you know the call is going through, and in the case of you calling a cell phone, that the network is trying to connect to your callee.

A cell phone gets a signal to play it's ringtone, not a "ring now"..."ring now"... on / off signal. Did you expect to hear my ringtone on your end?
That's a valid point, if you don't rely on Webmaster tools and analytics. If you do, they can extract this information anyway.
Bitcoin is ludicrous, but it tells us something important about money
Calling `console.log()` in “production mode” is a bad idea, anyway.

Ideally, you’ll want those calls stripped at some point, in your build script.
>Microsoft is not shy about "posturing themselves as opponents to Android".

So does Apple. The business world is as nasty as politics, everyone pretends to care for the users, no one really does.
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Gold prices dive 5% to $1,487 an ounce
I'm always curious when I hear things like "Lehman for 4+ years" because, based on the numbers thrown around on HN and blogs like this, it seems likely you could have a net worth over a million dollars.

While not the "F You" money many here dream of, it still seems like a few years on wall street would give you a nest egg that would make it easy to live comfortably on any other salary (whether that's tech or teaching or bartending).

Do many of wall streeters who left after 5ish years do that? Or do most of them blow all their money? I think being under 30, a millionaire and having $PRESTIGIOUS_FIRM on your resume would be a pretty good setup, even if the work itself sucked.
>A genuine question: Why don't you want your YouTube account linked to your Gmail?

For one: because.

Second: I don't want people from work etc to know I'm the same guy writing the cheerleading comments on Insane Clown Posse videos.
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I find irony in the cognitive dissonance betwixt these comments, and these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5540841
This is similar to stealing Hotmail accounts. All you needed was information like the name of the person, the IP, a few contacts on the contact list, (maybe) type a convincing message about being hacked, and voila!

Somehow Microsoft assumes knowing a small number of contacts ensures you are the owner. Close friends or even co-workers and classmates can easily get their account compromised by someone they know. Knowing any mutual friends pretty much convinces them it's your account.
If you're in to web development and are currently more focussed on the development side then I think some design courses would be really beneficial!
You are right. There are two things going on here:

1. They added background noise to the actual calls to let people know they other end wasn't disconnected. The clarity got too good and people couldn't tell they were still connected. Fun fact: PCM - g.711 - is 64-kbits - hence max modem speed.

2. Dialing used to use in-band signalling and the tone lets you know you can dial (phreakers could use this to get free calls). When the dial tone ends, you know that your call is going through.
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I believe there are MANY pros and cons to hiring outside of your country. The problem is that this article doesn't touch any of them other than mention some of the pros experienced by one.

Discussing the LONG TERM effects are always the most constructive.

The company I work for does this to a degree, but their emphasis is always hiring locally.
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Do we all disdain math, writing, science, and history because they are forced? I imagine most of us did to some extent, but then again, some of the forced skills have turned out to be useful.

I'm not arguing for either side but I question the idea that CS deserves less attention than the natural sciences in a school curriculum.
This woman is just an extremely negative and hostile personality. She's technically competent, so she can justify her behavior in her own head, but she's basically a female bully who thinks people don't like her because she's female. No, they don't like her because she is an unpleasant and caustic personality. After leaving Google, for years she writes stories about how smart she was, how irrationally they discriminated, how dumb they all were, and so on.

Yet last I looked Google was still standing up on its own hind legs without her. Just a little more than that, in fact. Maybe they just didn't want to work with a smart asshole with a perpetual chip on her shoulder.
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I think his previous statements are also significant.

"[bitcoin] has fluctuated sharply, but overall it has soared. So buying into [bitcoin] has, at least so far, been a good investment. But does that make the experiment a success? Um, no. What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions and make the economy as a whole rich. And that’s not at all what is happening in [bitcoin]."
I've never been asked if I was an engineer, but I've definitely experienced the latter of your two anecdotes. Sometimes it just depends on the person you're talking to.

At one point I learned that the best way to get a certain coworker of mine to finally get what I was saying was to pull another person in front if them, explain myself to the third party, let them acknowledge that I'm right, and then finally ask the original coworker once more if their plan was reaaally the right way to go. Only then would they realize that I had a point. It sucks, but if you have to get someone they trust to repeat what you're saying, you might as well have a reliable backup ready.

As for speaking up in meetings, I was recently told in my review that I needed to be more assertive, because I feared I'd experience the same thing you did. Hopefully I can find a good middle ground between meekly watching people march down the wrong road, and shouting about crack pipes... I haven't found it yet, though.
Well, you should consider an idle a circuit switched line as a waste of network resources. You get the 64-kbits/s when you are active whether you are sending data or silence.
How about a movie? Is advertising the only way to reach the top of the charts?

(The answer is yes. Box office hits need to be advertised to be box office hits.)
Using straight console.log statements seems to be non-negotiable for effective debugging, at least until a good workaround for the above is found.

For using Chrome's logging styles, we define a few short helper functions — l1(), l2(), l3(), etc. — that return predefined CSS strings, then doing our logging like

console.log("%cThis is a heading", l1())
console.log("%cLess important stuff", l2())

This means you're only adding 6 or so characters to get nice styled console messages that also maintain the nice line numbers and links to the source. Plus, it's similar enough to h1, h2, etc. that it's easy to remember.

We found that varying the font color (black vs. gray) and margin-left (2em, 4em) were most helpful in differentiating more and less important log messages.
Funny thing is that by making this post you may just end up with even more users.

You could move it to Heroku (or another similar service) who offer a free plan.