skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the context of Epictetus' writing, "they" in fact do not hold power over you. That is in large part the entire point of Stoicism.
Three rules for dealing with recruiters.

Don't let them near your cell phone number. Keep it off your profile. Put a Google Voice number in there instead. It's like Craigslist, there are advantages to using them, but you need to wear your big boy pants and take some simple steps to protect your privacy.

Recruiters are not technical and never will be. "I think I'll quit programming and start recruiting" -- No one, ever. Do not expect them to know anything about the jobs they're pitching. They're sales types, skilled at making connections with people, not machines. Try to appreciate that instead of demanding they learn two difficult skill-sets just for a fairly-poorly compensated job.

Keep each email to a single question until you've established that the opportunity is worth pursuing. Don't let them set the direction of the discussion until then. In the situation described, I would have simply asked, over and over again, "What is the salary range offered?" until they coughed up a number.

A recruiter found me my current job. I might be here a month until another recruiter will find me another making more money.
Great demo. Really curious about the nuts and bolts of the set up. What OS, and what is actually launching at startup? Again, very nice job.
I have understood “performant” to suggest a soundness of design that causes something to be “fast”. In the context of algorithms, certainly the distinction is blurred, but in other, higher-level contexts, it can be meaningful.
Creating incredibly complicated advertising auction houses to the point of academic economic masturbation.
Leap Motion with Windows
Enthought awarded $1M DOE grant to develop open-source Python HPC framework
As part of properly generating RSA keys there are restrictions as to how close together the two primes numbers chosen can be. So no, twin primes bear no relevance to the problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)#Faulty_key_gene...
I happen to know a thing or two about the Android compatibility technologies available for Tizen. At least one of them is a port of the Dalvik bits from AOSP, so, inherently, compatibility is really very good. On top of that, one can even blend the Tizen "Home" and task switching with the Android back-stack and task management. That's tricky because "task" in Android doesn't necessarily map to one process. It's an interesting engineering problem and I hope, for entirely selfish reasons, Samsung makes a good choice there.

However, that doesn't make the resulting product a threat to Android. It would start on one or two handsets. It would lack Google's ecosystem, and building the right alliances in the right regions is a heck of a product marketing problem. It would have to be refined over multiple product generations.

Right now, RIM's whole business rests on 1% market share. That's a tall mountain to climb starting from zero.

So, what I'm saying is, even under optimal circumstances regarding Tizen, Google is rational to think they don't have to consider Samsung a threat this year, or for a few years.
Earn your place. You'll be better for it.
There seems to be a large overlap between several of the projects mentioned here and those developed by Continuum through a DARPA grant. For instance Seamless (Enthought) seems quite similar to Numba (Continuum), and ODIN (Enthought) looks a lot like Blaze (Continuum).

http://numba.pydata.org/

http://blaze.pydata.org/
That would be spectacul.ar
In many public companies, employees (even rank and file) are prohibitted from shorting or buying puts on their shares.

Some companies even prohibit selling covered calls, regardless of strike price. (A deep enough in the money call behaves somewhat like a put.)

I'm a little surprised that Cuban would be locked out of selling the shares but able to enter into the collar. I'm sure it was legit (since it's well known), but still...
... and the good news is, that this wasn't all that can be squeezed out of Go.

Go 1.1 comes with some impressive performance optimizations, but there are more optimizations that can be done and there are already some great ideas discussed, like a Preemptive Scheduler.

Just see what performance related changes where already made since the Go 1.1 release last week:

• SSE-powered string/bytes compare: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=b2f1f8cb2fcb7025...

• less allocations in the JSON package: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=00d69aa6619e77d8...

• optimizations to malloc(): http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=0fe374e887455a57... and http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=931a7362e30c2139...

• optimized aeshash: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=80c8a9f81e4816e0...

• faster x86 memmove: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=4cb93e2900d0c748...

• less allocations in the buffered I/O package: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=bce231eb0fdd4bbe...

• optimizations in the flate compression package: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=bd653e485f1d9b5c...

• optimizations to the net/http package: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=647f336edfe88a31... and http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=d1d76fc0ab6a33f1...

• integrated network poller for BSD: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=9d60132d77847262...
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It helps that Go is a relatively new language and the easier optimizations are getting taken care of. I doubt we will see this much of a performance gain from another 1.* release. There are definitely significant improvements to come, but I don't believe it will be this substantial.
They are one year agreements (4 treatments) then quarter by quarter after that.

As far as customer experience/service I think there could be a better way for customers to schedule appointments, they should have a complete job done each time, and something extra to put a cherry on top.

Maybe it will never be the "want" that cable or direct tv is... In some areas it is more important than tv but never will more people have pest control than direct tv..
This is fantastic, sorry. For newb question but how do you do inject into guy history like this?
When will Go have a completely precise garbage collector? In 2013 it seems like poor form to have automatic memory management that isn't asymptotically safe-for-space.
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Yes, and that's only possible by removing many exemptions, deductions, special cases, etc. Congress should absolutely reform the tax code, and it must be by reducing the number of ways it can be worked around.
Hmm, I guess I will degrade my account and flickr will lose a paying customer.

Seems like most users either a) are resigned to seeing ads on every website or b) have installed an ad-blocker. I don't see how paying for ad removal can generate much money.
Haven't done so myself - But you can edit a git commit's information (Such as author and date):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/454734/how-can-one-change...

Edit: Haven't looked at the repo - But I'm assuming this is what's being done.
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>Yes, Hollywood and Silicon Valley executives are tied to California because that's where the jobs are.

That's where the jobs are because that's where the employees are and vice versa. There is a reason you don't see many software companies setting up shop in Des Monies and trying to attract engineers with the low cost of living.

>Facebook could move its place of incorporation to Delaware overnight, but the place where it 'adds value' is rooted in California.

That's what I'm saying. You should tax the things that "add value" (employees, real estate that implies use of local infrastructure, etc.) rather than trying to tax profit, because profit doesn't have a country.

The problem with the alternative is that just because your country contains something that "adds value" doesn't mean a corporate entity in your country can make any profit from it. Suppose your country has great engineers. If the engineers are the valuable commodity and the market is efficient then they'll get paid close to the value they provide to the company and leave little as profit for the corporation. You can have a company which is providing huge value to the economy but is having to pay its employees the lion's share of that revenue in order to retain them. That company won't have very high profit margins because if it kept more of the profits for itself its engineers would quit and join a competitor that pays better.

The only way that doesn't happen is if the company has something its competitors don't (strong trademarks, trade secrets, some unusually valuable copyrights or patents, etc.) But then the value of that non-geographically-dependent asset (which is all that keeps the company from having razor thin margins) can be whisked off to an entity in a low tax jurisdiction, leaving the entity within the higher tax jurisdiction in the position of having extremely small margins again while the profits accumulate in the entity associated with the movable asset.

>Regarding the widget manufacturer: Yes, in some cases a transfer profit of 20% will be sufficient to wipe out all reported profit in the high-tax jurisdiction. But how common would that be?

You're asking how common it is for a company to have a less than 10% profit margin? I would say that covers most companies. The primary exceptions (which Apples clearly falls into) are the companies that sell products covered by high value copyrights, patents, trademarks, etc. Which leads to what we've been discussing with software licenses.

The problem simply is that you can't have significantly higher taxes than the next country on anything that can be easily removed from your jurisdiction, or that is exactly what will happen. And the profits of international corporations fall into that category.
I say the response should be pretty simple: a statement that, when the economic damage reaches a certain level, we repudiate all Chinese owned debt. Then start running a countdown.
I get tired of them never disclosing the client. If they're soliciting me while I'm currently at a position that they can only assume I'm happy with, they need to present a pretty damn good case to get me out it; ambiguity just won't cut it.
Actually some "real" results in Mathematics use the laziness of light. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone_curve#Johann_Be...
I was thinking of someone who tweeted "I really need to find a bathroom!" Then put down your phone and go look for a bathroom--I don't think anyone on Twitter will help you with that. (In addition to the usual, "here's what I ate for breakfast" tweet.)

I do endorse people on LinkedIn when I know that they have that skill because I've worked with them on that particular topic; in that case I agree it's a nice thing to do. A lot of times, I know that skill is part of their job, but if I haven't seen them do it, I don't feel qualified to endorse them. I guess I'm missing the point by not just blindly endorsing people...
$50/year is for the ad-free. They are talking about the two terabyte plan. The (understandable from the perspective of the consumer) cognitive dissonance is, 999 Megabytes is free, but 1001 Megabytes is $500/year. How can two things, so close to each other, be priced so differently?

It's a very, very small number of people (though they certainly exist) that have photo libraries of > 1 Terabyte. And, and an almost insignificant number of people who have 1 Terabyte of curated pictures. (I.E. Eliminating Dupes, Poor Composition, Focus/exposure issues, etc...)

Flickr as backup doesn't make sense - backblaze, at $50/year, makes a lot more sense. Perhaps this is Flickr's way of encouraging people to start using them as a curated upload site, and not as a backup of their entire photo library.
"Square Cash is only available in the United States at this time."

Anyone?
Yeah sure. Keep thinking that.
At 9:37 this doesn't seem to be working. Clicking the button takes me to http://www.www.startupnyc.org/jobs/?utf8=✓&techjob=techj...! and an error message.
You can definitely self-learn, I started coding at age 13 though and it is definitely a different ballgame when compared to web programming.

I have a young high schooler apprenticing with me right now, and he was able to get a basic 2D game going with some help in about 6 weeks, working with me for an hour a week. So it is doable, but it helps to have someone who has walked the path before.
You could argue that the money they introduce into the local economy via salaries and costs for rent/leases/purchases IS taxed and providing compensation for the governmental services being used.
I found Umbraco very pleasant to work with.
Amazon S3 has a monthly charge. Kind of hard to pay when you are dead and it'd be kind of a dick move to expect your kids and grandkids to pay it.
You can send money to debit cards using the ATM rails a la Pulse, STAR, etc.

It's something we've explored at Balanced: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/32
First impressions: awesome Looks beautiful at first glance.

Quick second impressions: I kinda miss lots of the information I used to have. I don't get why there are still pages after scrolling for a while. Some of the old interface still bleeds through a bit. Looks like it's being actively worked on (even after launch).

Space is impressive, I haven't even gotten close to hitting that much with my pro account let alone a free one.

I wish they'd fix the crappy upload app.
Unfortunately, I think Braintree in the UK is probably doomed at this point.

They looked good a year or two ago, and we did consider using them. They were certainly a better prospect than old school card payments where you had to apply for multiple services, make back room deals to get good fees, and all that nonsense. However, to start the application process with Braintree, it seemed you would still be faced with a lot of form-filling, followed by multi-week delays to get approval (or not), and on top of that the fees were unclear but didn't look competitive in most cases.

More recently, the likes of GoCardless and Stripe have become serious players on the UK scene, and both seem to be working on expansions further into Europe as well. They have all the same obvious benefits that Braintree offered: a single company to deal with, staffed by human beings rather than robots, reasonable APIs. But they also offer much faster sign-up and reasonable, transparent fees.

At this point, to be brutally honest, the likes of Braintree are simply outclassed. Unless anything very surprising happens, I expect the payments market for UK and probably European small businesses and start-ups to be completely dominated by GoCardless and Stripe within 2-3 years. Unless you're big enough to approach the old school players with enough leverage to get favourable terms, it's hard to see why you'd look any further if these are options, and I think both GoCardless and Stripe will do well because they're different enough not to be in direct competition but similar enough to keep each other honest.
I hate this new layout.

Artistic images need space, especially images that aren't meant to be place together. Otherwise their color would collide with each other and ruin the visual experience for them.

If flickr wants to become a social network that features family photos maybe that's the right layout, but I think most of the pro users weren't paying $25 a year for that purpose.

Flickr is no longer a valid place to share pictures for photographers who care about their visual quality. That made me really sad today.
Flickr, I'm disappointed. The truth about the free terabyte.
I once refused my grandma's money.

This turned into a lesson on always accepting gifts. It was awkward.
what do you mean "could replace paypal"?

I use google checkout for pretty much everything I can't buy at amazon. It's accepted at lots and lots of places. and usually it's my deciding factor when selecting for two stores.

I don't use paypal because their system sucks if you have international credit cards and because of the lack of moral grounds they showed. never missed it (but then, i don't send money to random people, just merchants)

edit: well, used.
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hmm, i don't think you can model this without a possible random distribution of cars and their and my respective speeds. i actually cross the street in a curved manner, sometimes dangerously close to passing cars. it also depends on my estimate on when the nearest light turns green.

So yeah, I agree that it's oversimplified. Yes, it doesn't consider pedestrian crossings, but what about the cars, their acceleration, and the lights at those crossings?
...do a kickstarter :)
Crap, it's a bizarre DNS/heroku config? issue I'd been having intermittently earlier. I thought I'd it worked it out - does http://startupnyc.org/jobs/ work for you? I'll get a mirror up momentarily

EDIT: fixed link
http://startupnyc.org/jobs
Laughing at sure, but the people in that subreddit do not condone bullying or harrasing those people.
A hypothetical scenario - someone straps bombs to himself and detonates in the middle of a crowd. I think you'd agree that this is "clearly immoral" too? But to the other members of the terrorist cell this is either a moral thing to do or at least "questionably immoral", otherwise they'd have left the organization.

This is the relativity of moral decisions and the only way out is to try to define morality in absolute terms, which has resulted in many religions and philosophical works. The purest (i.e. simplest) form of a moral framework is that of Jainism - it promotes full restrictions on all forms of violence except when necessary for survival (e.g. a farmer killing a farm animal to feed his family).

This may seem like common sense, but it helps that it's defined in a simple form. This is why we don't agree with Tsarnaev or terrorist groups - what they do is not necessary for survival, it serves other purposes. This is why we sometimes just as easily don't agree with president Obama's choices. It has nothing to do with "proper channels", "authority" or any of those words.
If they don't want to manage them, they won't.
I continually get redirected to http://www.www.startupnyc.org/
Technical recruiters are hardly poorly compensated. They rarely work more than 40 hours a week and any recruiter worth a crap will be making and sustaining 6 figures within 3 years.
That's an old, cached message. There is no 300mb limit anymore.
They were called TeeLaunch before this and they've been around for a while now. They are competitors to TeeSpring.
That does not negate taylodl's claim. See http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/International-Taxpayers/Forei...
I'm sorry, but that's a load of pretentious BS. Y! Finance has all the same data and has 15x the traffic of Google Finance, for good reason. Source: http://247wallst.com/2012/04/24/will-google-dump-google-fina...
Even though they removed the limit from the terms today, it was still active when I tried to upload images to Flickr just now. They'll probably correct that soon, still not the most trustworthy way of making this kind of announcement.
Third Party ECat report on Arxiv
The pricing changes might not be great (I won't attempt to evaluate them -- I'm not a Flickr customer nor in the target market whatsoever), but the 300MB cap claim is silly. You say it yourself: it's only been a few hours since they made this announcement at all, and they just removed that cap from the terms of service. They'll get to removing the technical restriction soon, I'm sure.

C'mon guys. I'm as big a fan of rage-fueled blog posts as anyone else, but can't we give them even a little breather before breaking out the pitchforks and torches?
More poor live in suburbs than in urban areas, research shows
Cool blog post on vagrant / chef / rails
I'm pretty sure Karp announced their funding at the Nov. 2007 New York Tech Meetup, if I recall correctly.

That was a darn awesome Tech Meetup (presented my 1st thing there & Marco graciously took pictures of the event, some of me presenting too; thanks Marco) as there were only two unknown start-ups presenting that night amongst giants.

Congrats to them!
They don't want you to just say, "Oh, Company X is hiring, I'll decline this, and send my resume directly."
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Gmail was, sort of anyway. It opened another avenue to deliver advertising, which is the center of what google does.
The way to get this information is to signal interest. What they're trying to prevent is you just getting the name of the company and then you going around them and applying directly. Honestly, the name of the company doesn't matter while you're in the pre-screening stage. Ask questions like, "what is the environment like? Is it a large company? Who will I be reporting to? Is it just dev or are there other roles I'll need to fill?" Eventually you'll satisfy their prescreening and they'll open up.
Of course, this is only a workaround. Probably a good example, BTW, is the AOL-TechCrunch acquisition.
I saw that - but I haven't been able to find out what price we can renew at. If it's still at $25 - every pro user in the universe will renew. If it's even $50 - for unlimited storage (versus $500/year for 2 terabytes) - still sounds like a no brainer.

I wonder if Yahoo/Flickr are really going to take that good a care of their existing pro users?
One important detail to remember is that Facebook, Tumblr, Yahoo, Google, etc are not in the search/blogging/social media industry. That's all a smokescreen. People who follow the money and value chain see past the porn and cat GIFs and consider these companies to be in the advertising industry. The average EV/EBITDA ratio for the conventional advertising industry is 7.77 (src:
http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/... ), while Warner Chilcott's is 2.94 (src:
http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Warner_Chilcott_(WCRX)/Data/E... ). This implies that the market (in general) gives a higher valuation multiplier for advertising companies than this healthcare company. Then again, Facebook's EV/EBITDA ratio is 49.8 (src: http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Facebook/Data ), which makes one wonder: what makes these high-tech mobile advertising companies more valuable than TV/print ads?
The new Flickr: What you need to know
As much as I'm excited about the new Flickr, redesign is not complete. For example, the collections pages and batch editor remain the same. This causes some UI inconsistencies.

Edit: along with copy inconsistencies pointed out in other comments (concerning some important aspects such as new policies, esp. regarding paying customers), this makes me worry. From my experience, Flickr generally has been very consistent about their UX. I hope the redesign is just a minor screw-up.
The upside of Silicon Valley is 99% of the time, they disclose the client on first contact.
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AWS, is simply amazing infrastructure automation. Learning how to use it, even if your not a sysadmin, is going to be a part of your job as an engineer at some point in the future.

How many times has your boss or your organization said "we want xyz", but we cant hire admins and we have no hardware?

Every time someone hits that brick wall, AWS is right there. Although I rarely use the retail side of Amazon.com, I think AWS is a stroke of genius whose full impact wont be felt for a few more years.
Well I was with him up until:

Three days later (on a Monday), she calls me, and tells me
that she has organised an interview for me for Tuesday afternoon.

What? I went to the interview [...]

Why would you go on an interview under these circumstances? You're just giving positive reinforcement to their bad behavior.