skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133047
But more interestingly, it appears that the law firm may have known about the activities of this lawyer and not done anything about it.
Check my profile.
I've had nothing but horrible experiences with iPage. Please DO NOT use them.
I was going to say that same thing...their strategy seems horrible to the technocrats, but they continue to push on areas until they are a major player. I'm no Microsoft fan, but you can't say their strategy isn't working for them...Windows, Office, and Xbox are all huge in their respective markets.
the fact that these people are now spending more money does have a significant positive effect on the economy

This sounds like a house of cards. Does Zimbabwe have a significantly positive economy because of just how many Zimbabwean dollars are being spent?
Industry expert just means self-promoting blogger or high-karma HN poster.
(Your points so coherently resonate I am nearly in disbelief.)
Agreed, I'm not saying tax reform will be easy. Just noting that blaming corporations for exploiting, though thats a bit of a loaded term, perhaps advantageously utilizing existing tax structures is a bit naive. The incentives currently mean a corporation would be wrong to ignore tax breaks, that coupled with for example the corporate tax rate for money repatriation in America for example means that less tax income is generated at current law interpretation.

Basically is 35% of 0 dollars better than 10% of N dollars? In the US that is effectively our current dilema is it not? Our tax rates for certain things are so high people have no incentive to get double taxed in two disparate countries so they leave the money outside of any taxable entity. Improving the incentives to bring money back would seem to be a no brainer as it is a bit of a win/win situation to both sides.

As to disparities amongst countries, I'm not sure there ever could be a solution outside of some overreaching treaty agreements. Past that I'm sure there will always be a Caymans willing to lower their costs at the expense of the rest.
>I have an MIS degree and have had no trouble working alongside CS grads my entire career.

Sure, but how much of that has anything to do with your MIS degree.

Sure there are CIS majors who can program, and there are high school dropouts who can program as well. But CS degrees teach you how to program while CIS degrees do not. They prepare you for two completely different fields. Employment figures for Software developers and IT people are very different.

>Likewise for my family member with an Engineering Technology degree

Engineering Technology is also a different field. Again, sure there are people with engineering tech degrees that work as engineers and are paid like engineers, but the vast majority do not.
The ctx global and 'from html import *' are just part of the demo code. Look at line 289 of the HTML file where ctx is initialized. It's not some magic thing baked into Brython, it's just sample code. Of course you could write either of these in any way you prefer.
Having just gotten off my first cruise, I'm amazed at how plausible this suggestion is, at least for a narrow category of folks of limited mobility but otherwise stable health.

Heck, I could see a modest startup taking on handling the logistics of such an arrangement.
Gawd, I just dusted and look at it!
- When you're a freelancer meeting with a prospective client, that client probably isn't meeting with 20+ other freelancers for the same job/project. On the other hand, when you're interviewing for a job, you could be one of 20 or more prospectives.

- I have been rejected in interviews for the most arbitrary of things. I was once rejected because I didn't know what __call__() did in Python, and because I didn't know about Partial objects in the functools library (part of the Python standard library). These are things that I was able to look up in < 5 minutes after the interview. This to me comes across as, "I don't know how to interview people, so I'm just going to ask a bunch of obscure 'gotchas' and hire the people that get them right." No one in their right mind is going to go into that level of detail when talking to a freelancer.

- "Having a Github account," seems like a requirement these days, but I don't think that anyone at any company I have interviewed with has actually looked at the code that I have written beyond maybe counting the number of repos and the types of projects. This seems like exactly the kind of thing that people would want to do to hire a freelancer, look at their body of work.

- It's presumably more difficult (more hoops, more paper work, more laws to run afoul of, etc) when terminating an employee, vs. terminating a contract with a freelancer. So there's less of an idea that you need to make extra sure that you're getting the right person.

- Freelancing is more of a B2B transaction than a job interview is. This seemingly puts you on more equal footing with the prospective client, than when you're running the obstacle course to 'prove' yourself for interviewers.
A tip from someone that just recently started using Go: read the spec! I wasted some time early on trying to learn things that are very clearly and simply spelled out in the spec. The Tour + Spec is really all you need if you're a somewhat experienced programmer.

The spec is well written and tiny compared to most languages, and it's probably the only thoroughly accurate and complete Go reference at the moment.

Step 1. http://tour.golang.org/
Step 2. http://golang.org/ref/spec
As long as you're onto spinning things, check out Mercury's rotation.
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Absolutely agree. The Bay Area is a horrible cancerous wart on the tech industry. It is a huge mistake that my employer is supposedly going to build a new HQ on old HP superfund land in Cupertino. There's a reason the people who need engineers claim they can't get enough in the Bay Area domestically, but they rarely will mention (because they are near dishonest) that Americans largely refuse to move there, for financial reasons at least, and huge cultural depravity (worship of money). Michaelochurch hit many serious issues dead on accurately. I've never read a more honest remark on reddit or ycombinator since either began. (And I knew what a y combinator was decades ago, so was saddened to see it moved to the west coast.)
That's the point of my post. The page <title> should be the anchor. But because Google thinks they know better, they do extensive algorithm parsing (and yes I understand the goal is to foil spammer) then come up with random crap. They test their crap against WordPress, and if all looks fine, then they call it a day.
Don't forget strstr(). So nice, they named it twice.
The level of sheer incompetence in management of European software companies is pretty staggering if you're used to Silicon Valley standards; it's common to hire programmers who have no idea how to write a program, use completely obsolete tools, have no clue about design or process and little clue about marketing etc.

The result is that companies don't actually make a huge amount of money from each programmer so they often genuinely can't afford to pay good salaries.

On the bright side, if you are a competent manager or willing to learn to be one, and willing to either stomach European employment legislation or hire remotely, you could treat our continent as a bounty of little-used resources.
Skulpt, PyJS and this, all good and fun experiment but all do the first 60% then they linger around. I wish they all started talking to each other and just got one single project to 90%.

Have any of these been used in production with any success. It seems like PyJS had most traction?
The kindest offer you can make is to give long notice of your intent to leave, to offer to help them recruit a fit replacement and stay for a short transition.

Just mentioning the possibility of leaving can feel like betrayal or the risk of a disgruntled employee. Second worst case: you'd be asked to box your things and leave immediately. Worst: you'd be asked to stay.

Unless this is a three-person startup and you're a co-founder, you don't owe the company anything beyond courtesy. Their loyalty to you is conditional.

Generic advice:

- Don't bring up leaving until you have a new job ready.

- Notice is a nicety. Give two week's notice or whatever notice you'd expect if they decide to kill your project and lay you off; often none.

- Be prepared to be leave the building forever once you bring up the subject. Pack first. You could be gone in minutes.

- Have reasonable expectations for your new gig. It's likely to have its own problems.
There's clear protocols set. The page <title> is supposed to be the anchor text. Google thinks they know better, and expects everybody to adapt.
Yep. And people still wonder why most developers prefer developing for iOS first...
Using the latest DSLRs you can film under moonlight now.

https://vimeo.com/21311814

What we need is lower noise.
I agree with you about not being able to get by without using marionette any more. The funny thing is, that I had to build something without it, to understand why I wanted it in the first place.
BFL has yet to ship any ASIC miners but has already begun selling loose chips
I am once again working outside India - intend to move back to India again!
Hey, nice idea, thanks for the plug! :-)
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Look carefully at the whole quote. He treats the collection and retention of data by Google as a fixed reality that everyone needs to work around--despite the fact that he was Google's chief executive at the time and had the power to set or alter those policies.

U.S. law does not require this collection or retention of data; federal access is a consequence of Google's policies, not a cause.

I don't think Schmidt is cruel. I do think that like many ambitious people, he has a blind spot for conceptions of the world that conflict with his goals.
This was posted and somewhat heavily discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796935
On a historic building 100+ feet off the ground? Yes, permits are generally required wherever you are. It's not quickly replacing a ground floor window in the suburbs.
They say that litigation is often a last ditch effort by companies that know that they are in trouble in the long run. Google and Nokia's respective behaviors certainly reflect their current predicaments accurately.
In PHP's defense, strstr() originally comes from C: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...
And so the lizard cuts off its tail to survive...
Not all contractors are consultants. I just walked out of a gig at 100/h where I could, optionally, have billed overtime, worked 60h, and been making over 300k. As a consultant, I've billed nearly 500 an hour, so do your math on six hours a week of that. ;)

The terms didn't feel permanent in this situation, I also couldn't drive myself to work more than 6 hours in a day, so I moved to a position with a salary closer to that which wasn't tied to a weekly timesheet.
This seems very cheap. I can't believe I haven't used them before. Has your experience been positive for the $5 and $10 packages?
His post is suffering from a year-1900 bug. The guy graduated in the early 1890s. /s

Nothing says how old the guy was when he graduated, or how far he went in academia (i.e. Masters? PhD?). It's also possible for people to have greying hair in their 40s, which may lend to someone looking older than they are.
Everybody compares Go and Python. How is it so? Go compiles to a binary, implements static typing, got rid of classes, got rid of exceptions, and added lots of special purpose keywords on top of reinventing C's syntax. The only similarity I see is the "import" statement.
Can this act be called unethical? This is bad. Using law for profit is like pimping.
A demo of a new way to use a programming language shouldn't be full of these "Oh, that crap is just for the demo, it would look better in practice." It's a programming language demo, show us something that makes us want to use it.
Working in London is not great as a dev or in technology as a whole.
I'm a dev working in London. My 1st job out of Uni I was paid 15k working for a start up. After gaining an years experience I left and move onto a US company that paid me 25k initially and now after 2 years my pays 45k.

Pay in London is a lot less then SV but that's acceptable we don't have as much VC funding for start ups. One issue allot UK companies/starts ups have is that they all think they can offshore all devolopment work, allot companies are slowly learning that having in-house devs are the way forwards. But the UK has got that dev is somthing we can off shore mentality an due to that pay for dev is substantially lower then some area's in the US.

Also don't let some of the high flyers pay( from the banking industryy ) fool you into understanding the average wage in the UK. The average wage in the UK is fairly low.
I'm an autodidact and I found "higher ed" limiting and throttled to an artificially low rate of learning.

If anything, dropping out of college was in many ways a god-send though it does make it more difficult dealing with the professional population for whom the old college experience was more "meaningful."
Ask HN: Where to get $4-5k per week django gigs?
I became a very competent Django developer in the last two years because I wanted to earn $10-20k per month to save up enough to bootstrap a web business.

I've been working all the time for clients but they all have low budgets and are cheap. How can I break into the $100-$150 per hour Django market?
Zimbabwe had hyperinflation resulting from printing money.

The classical cause of depressions is that once people are unemployed, they no longer spend money so other people can no longer make money from them. The logic behind stimulus programs is to get people spending again to bootstrap the economy.
Link to console demo from that page is broken, sadly.

edit: looks like if you remove "_en" then you get to the right place, http://www.brython.info/tests/console.html

Looks like pyjs, in that it has python syntax but JavaScript semantics, for example numbers turn into doubles here (but should be arbitrary-precision ints in Python).
I also work in Australia (having come from UK after finishing my uni degree last year), and am already being paid $75k AUD (nearly £50k). For this reason I was shocked to see how low the salaries were for London, and working for an Australian company remote in England is what I'll aim to do in the future. Being here has been a great way to form connections.
I could not agree with you more!

I went to Taft (the camp) which is privately owned by a company called MTC. When I was there, I hurt my leg extremely bad to the point where something popped (I was only 22 and a jock in HS, so it was bad). I couldn't walk on it at all. The nurse guy came out to the yard and made me get into a wheel chair and he pushed me to the nursing area. He ran my hurt leg into a concrete pillar. Everyone told me don't get hurt inside, because you'll stay longer, your release date will somehow disappear, and it looks bad on the facility so they don't release you until your better. When I got into the nursing area and he checked it, he made me stretch it and I swear I held back tears from the pain and said I'm fine. Other prisoners would tell you that Taft is good, they sell tobacco in the commissary, or they're more laid back.....prison is prison and PRIVATE ones like this make money off of you being there. Don't get hurt, don't piss off the co's, or you'll end up with no release date like 1 person I met, or dead like a healthy person that needed their medication, but didn't get it in time.
In Detroit?
| I prepare for this question directly by perusing
| the company's website and Wikipedia page, if they
| have one, along with doing a little basic research
| on the industry before I go into an interview.

The problem is that this seems more like telling them what they want to hear (or at least what you want them to hear) rather than the truth. The problem is that the truth ("I'm looking for a job, this is a job, and the company seems interesting and like it treats its employees well") isn't necessarily what they want to hear, because it's boring and doesn't stand out.

| The real way to answer this is to start asking them
| questions about their business needs and have a short
| conversation about it.

To me, turning around and answering with a question comes across like I'm trying to dodge or deflect the question.
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Were you by any chance referring to Project Cybersyn[1] started by the Chilean government under Allende? It was meant to be a strictly centrally-coordinating body than a "top-down command and control" system.

The room that you mentioned in this case is the "Opsroom[2]", where the officials can see the relevant economic data from different industries across Chile and advise accordingly.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
[2]http://www.cybersyn.cl/ingles/cybersyn/opsroom.html#
Why is this dependent on redis, let alone any database ? Couldn't you just encode the username and expiration date in a URL along with a message authentication code or cryptographic signature over the data? It should scale way better and not involve installing a whole new database.
Interesting post!

Tablets are definitely a new and a separate category. FWIW, there must have been reasons why Steve dismissed smaller tablets (or phablets) earlier... and that seems to be the new type of content that could come by with larger surfaces.

Handwriting and doodles?

iPad introduces doodles and handwriting very nicely with its immersive experience and ample space to express that way. Mind you it is not about HW recognition, but only real handwriting. Such content wasn't possible or easy enough on pre-PC devices like desktops or even smartphones.

Well, that's what we hustlers at Bubbles (https://bubbleideas.com) think and are betting on - we're trying to reinvent mails with doodles and handwriting. Also another pointer to share here is that lately note-taking and note-sharing has already moved doodles, so what would be next? :-)

[Edits: Additions/subtractions etc.]
Cutting food for soldiers in a crazy hellish warzone just seems pennywise and poundfoolish. Even if you don't believe all that the article talks about, why short change your million dollar soldiers on food that can make them more effective?
For prices to rise, the nominal amount of money flowing through the economy must increase somewhere along the line.

However, what occurs in basic income is a straight-up "redistribution of wealth" from richer to poorer, which means that the nominal amount of money in the system should be no different from the laissez-faire situation.

This in turn means that prices aren't going to change as a direct result, as in inflation(where there is an overt increase in money supply). But they are likely to change when consumer demand changes, which could happen if, for example, people receiving basic income start to upgrade their lifestyle away from abject poverty.

Some prices may actually drop as a result; for example, if more people can afford health insurance and get preventative care, the economies of scale for health insurance coverage improve. On the other hand, luxury goods with limited supply are likely to be pushed upwards to remain out of reach of the masses.
Is it possible to minify and obfuscate python code?
Whoops. Sorry I did not read it that way. :)