skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is my point exactly to them, but it seems tougher to leave family and friends when you live comfortably and still save some cash.

Here is a sample of excuses my Portuguese friends (SW Engineer related) gave me to not even consider job opportunities in London:

- can't leave my family now, I have a girlfriend and don't want to leave her

- my English is not good enough

- I don't like the weather there (sounds stupid, but I hear this one a lot)

Also right now in Portugal there is bullshit talk from employers that younger people should stay and help revamp the economy (by working extra hours for free) and the situation is so bad that in some areas like Design/Architecture people do internships for free and the interns keep being replaced with new ones after 3 months or so.
If it was coincidence, no problem.

The issue here is that she got some notoriety exploiting the gender issue, and now she's burned out because of the gender issue and she doesn't want that.

Typical case of wanting to have the cake and eating it too.
lukifer is asking about whether a normal bill (law) would be sufficient, as opposed to yuhong's suggestions of a constitutional amendment.
It's quite likely that natural Sanskrit did not have those properties, and all that has survived is the well documented formalizations of its grammar.

EDIT: By natural, I meant Vedic. Speaking as a linguist, I doubt that all of Sanskrit was accounted for when it was formalized.
This is the first I've heard of the IRS retroactively taking most of the proceeds from selling stock. Is this a real threat? How should you protect yourself?
GNU/Linux, and Free software and hardware in general, look to be the BIG winners out of the NSA brouhaha, because all non-US governments, businesses, organizations, and individuals around the planet who need to safeguard their private or confidential information now have reason to mistrust proprietary (unauditable) software and hardware.

Free, open software and hardware are less likely to have secret 'back doors' installed or embedded in them because their innards are under constant public review by multiple eyes -- out in the open, not behind closed doors.

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Edit: added last sentence.
Like how TCP is a hacked-together impression of reliable transfer over an unreliable medium?

Nothing wrong with layering approaches, but the problem is knowing where to place the borders in order to give clarity at every level.
Resolving conflicts is hard, and if you try to do it yourself you will get it wrong. AFS is the Right Solution for this, but is complicated because it's a complicated problem.

They have really worked hard to get the primitives correct though, so if your end goal is something reliable that everyone can use easily, I think the best approach would be to improve the admin tools for AFS. Like crypto or databases, filesystems are an area where you really don't want to write your own.
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Great, I gotta write (as if) in FORTRAN :-)
A lot of critics of evolutionary theory believe that the fossil record is the most important piece of supporting evidence--hence the focus on "missing links" between species.

The scientific reality is that Darwin formulated his theory by looking at living species, and the modern study of evolutionary processes does too--primarily viruses, bacteria, and insects, because their lifespans are so short.
We've been operating the warrant canary since early 2006.
Set up a landing page and way to preorder your product. You could also use something like https://gumroad.com/

Then, go back to the people you talked to and ask them to preorder. "Yes I would probably pay" doesn't count. Make them pay. If they pay, great, talk to a few more people and repeat the process. Maybe aim for about 10 people or so?

If they don't prepay... start listening closely. You should get some good feedback on the idea.
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Cheers!
I wouldn't believe for a second that Meg Whitman, Marissa Mayer, Virginia Rometty, or Carly Fiorina have this problem.

Parmer's column is accurate but not perplexing given what she said about being the CEO of Lady Geek. Her choice of target market (explained fairly well in its name) defines the context of her target audience.
Sorry I missed this earlier!

I do mean explicitly adding a link to the source from the site itself. Sure, you may not get anyone to contribute, but at least there are no excuses not to. The best feedback almost always comes in the form of a patch :)

If you wanted to make specific components more of a project, consider splitting them into their own repositories. If you have a branch 'gh-pages' it will be served under username.github.io/repository

If you know of existing issues or feature requests, make use of the Github issue tracker. This shows people that you are thinking about the future of the code, so they feel comfortable that if they contribute it won't be wasted effort. This also lets people know of an easy way to provide feedback that won't get lost into the aether.

Lastly, continue to invite discussion and ask for contributions. If somebody says "The contrast is too high" say to them "here is where the colour scheme is defined, what should the values be?"

Hope that all helps, I really like the ideas that you have. Innovation is always important!
Hubris: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v_lrohZ_1rU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
Reread this part of your quote- "in the long term, we could switch... in case we agree that's a reasonable decision at that time"

This is a blog post by a Debian developer that would like the project to switch the default init system. It includes some discussion of how Debian could make the transition. It's nothing the project has committed to, so saying "that in the near future nearly all debian users will be using systemd" is unwarranted.
I know, but I think it doesn't help with the "international-friendly" image that they want to display.
Excellent point. Why doesn't dropbox have an "upload only" or "on demand" feature, I don't get it. Apple's iCloud solved this quit well : if you delete an aac file, it asks you if you want to delete it as well on the cloud. If you don't, the music is still available for streaming or downloading & you've saved space on your HD.
To sum it up, the writer probably has the mentality of William Jones: sort of romantic, but essentially flawed.
this is akin to having to put all of your snail mail in a lock box and set up your own post offices just to get mail to where you want it to, hoping it won't get intercepted along the way. I think the government needs to change, not us.
DEF CON fed uninvite: not everything is political
It shouldn't. Our laws aren't designed to protect you.
The syntax and the APIs.
It seems like a failure of legislative branch too. But I want to ask you what can be done if the judiciary branch fails or is corrupt?
I wasn't an intern and I wanted to go towards Java/Hadoop. Which was not required at Lokku at that time.
Java can inline many of virtual calls, making them essentially as fast as static methods (= much faster than C++ virtual methods).
Linux users are no better (or worse) than the average human, in my experience. There will always be those who use it because it's trendy (in certain circles), iconoclastic, or quirky. There will always be those who are incapable of conceiving that reasonable people could differ in preference and will lash out at those whose preference differs from theirs.

And there will always be people who see an article on /. or reddit and will go leave an incendiary comment on a weblog after having only read the title.

I think this is less of a commentary on Linux users than on Humanity.
Good tutorial but its does not make it fully secure. SMTP is an unsecure protocol, so if your host decides or is compelled to sniff the traffic, all emails received or sent could be recorded in plain text. Not to mention emails from senders using 3rd party services are already compromised even before it gets to you.

How is it that we still don't have proper support for secure SMTP among most email providers?
Like bleach only killing 99.99% of germs!!!
Very cool, really like the DSL, eminently readable.
Skype Will Die In Less Than 5 Years
It's a base64 encoded image. What's the big deal?
Mistrust of commercial solutions does not translate into trust for open-source ones. Have you audited the crypto code of all your packages? Would you even know how?
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Thanks EFF for outlawing code
A good project manager has to be technical enough to understand the the details, ask the right questions, and make informed decisions, but also important to be able communicate cleary with business stakeholders in a language that non-technical stakeholders understand such as cost, timelines, priorities, and risks.

Engineering is an art, and a good PM can coordinate the artistry in a way that provides certainty and clarity to the stakeholders who only want to know when will the art be ready for public consumption, they don't want to know how the art is being made, but when will it be done and how much will it cost. There are many great artists but they only know how to communicate with other artists and talk about art, but when dealing with patrons you have to talk a little about art and mostly about business.

When a company starts talking about hiring PMs that's a sign that the business managers feel the development work needs to be more coordinated and they need more clarity about what all these developers are working at on. If a business manager were to ask a developer what are you working on, and the answer is a deeply technical component without any clear context of how that component matters in the bigger picture of the business, then that business manager will go ask HR to hire some PMs to talk to instead.
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So... where's the joke?
> Would a bill to explicitly define the 4th to include data storage have sufficient force of law?

I don't think it would be a separation of powers problem in and of itself, but by virtue of separation of powers the judiciary wouldn't be bound to follow that interpretation.
Hahahahaha! That's a good summary of what we've seen recently.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6039665

Looks like improvements were made since the last time, although the issue of "good" data is still present.
Maybe they were using it as leverage.
I am myopic with a spherical power of around -4 on both eyes. I used to love high-dpi displays until recently. But now I can't seem to look at them for long. I am sorry, but I can't figure out the exact reasons. I have tried changing the resolution on the retina display and even turning off the over-sampling in the lower resolutions, but nothing feels comfortable. I also loved programming with font anti-aliasing/smoothing turned off, but this alas no longer works well on the retina display.
FYI, Mishary Al Afasy isn't popular just in Kuwait, he's popular through out the entire Middle East.
Reviving a font
You're spot on, the argument is completely invalid. It's the same premise used when people claim you have no right to voice your opinion about an election if you don't vote.

It's an argument form of attempting to intimidate the reader, and very lowbrow intellectually.

It's a pretty comically police state'y attitude to say that anyone's right to complain is ever revoked under any circumstances. The author apparently is immune to being aware of his own hypocrisy.
I found the slides to be quite informative.
Continuous Integration for Meteor Apps
I don't think the article is knocking JS, it is knocking the over/miss use of JS on the client side. So, yes, any other language would have the same problem, but to take this as another "JS suckzzz" article misses the point.
No dice. They've taken the cellophane off of that gargantuan data centre, so it's too late to return it for a refund.
2) If you're an EU citizen, you can work in the UK (with a few exceptions, e.g. AFAIK Croatia citizens can't access the common jobs market for a certain period after Croatia has joined the EU). If you're not, it's a lot of paperwork to get a work permit, and usually not worth it.

1) EU travel is really cheap - London is one of the most frequented destinations for the low-cost airlines (EasyJet, RyanAir, WizzAir, ...), so it shouldn't be more than 200EUR return from just about anywhere in EU.
I disagree. Normal people overwhelmingly (and often annoyingly) want WYSIWYG, so I think relying on Markdown warrants the "for hackers" claim.

If they'd said "perfectly addresses every hacker's every need" — that would have been over-reach.
There is nothing called natural Sanskrit(refined) - Sanskrit is a specialized language built and used for only scholarly purposes - ordinary people always used to communicate in Prakrit(unrefined)
Several points I'd like to make here:

1) Quit letting the media do your critical thinking. There's no racial factor to this case.

2) The media was frothing at the mouth to turn George Zimmerman into a "White Hispanic." What the hell is that? He's Hispanic.

3) I hate to burst your bubble, but black-on-white crimes happen every day and they go largely unreported. Statistics don't lie.

4) Blacks that whine and have this "poor me" victim mentality need to wake the eff up and realize they don't have to subscribe to the thug culture everyone seems to promote (which Trayvon was a part of). Opportunities abound. And whites need to stop being apologetic about something that happened ages ago.

5) This isn't the 50s and 60s anymore. Race is not a factor. Stop perpetuating the BS.

6) Lastly, if Trayvon's parents were worth half a shit, he'd have never been in this situation. They should turn themselves in for failed parenting.
Well, PRISM seems to have been created in '07. Plus Apple didn't matter very much in '06 -- not in the same way Google mattered. Apple didn't have much user data for the government to be interested in, because iPhone didn't launch till June '07.

That's actually a perfect example of leverage that the government would have used against a technology company to pressure them into doing the government's bidding.
I wouldn't mind if Dart didn't support older versions of Chrome or Firefox because that's just much different than IE 8.

Most people who are running IE 8 are random non-technical folks who are using the browser that came with their OS. They don't even know what "internet explorer" is.

There are probably a small sub-set of people who have Firefox 3.x because their brother's uncle's nephew installed it once like 5 years ago but I honestly don't mind losing these people as potential customers because it's such a ridiculously small %. I also feel like these are the type of people who would be more than capable of upgrading if they kept seeing messages like "your browser is old as time itself, upgrade or find someone who knows how to do it for you!" through friend/family assistance.

I can't justify throwing away almost 10% (IE 8) market share for Dart and the idea of supporting multiple versions of the app is just too much work for too little return.
I doubt that is the case. Panini wrote Sanskrit grammer in around 4th century B.C. and it is still the base of Sanskrit education.
VVX.IO: Video Exchange concept
Sure! This started as a learning exercise, so to get the maximum learning, CHOOSE WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW AT ALL. (No really.)

So Android, (full disclosure: I've done a bit of Java, I'd rate myself as not beginner but nowhere near experienced). Android is hard to develop well for, it's activity lifecycle took a long time to get my head around, and once I hit real-world testing with different devices it was just a roller-coaster of debugging that was highly, highly challenging. Also, everyone is doing things iOS first, and that's boring. We wanted to give Android users an awesome, fun, show your friends app that was hilarious, silly and pushed things forward, even just a little.

Nodejs - I'd wanted to do something in anger with node for ages, and this was the perfect opportunity. Also no proper nosql experience, so mongo!

Full disclosure: It's on top of heroku, to save time.

Id like to say there were more deep seated reasons, but they are the most honest - try something you don't know, then just focus focus focus until you nail it.

Love to port it to iOS, of course - but that's a whole NEW learning experience. Let's see how we do android first!
I can remember that I've had a free .me account before iCloud, so I believe even .me must have had enough users: it was freely available to every iDevice user. There were millions of them fast.
Travel TO London is probably not going to be half as expensive as travel IN London once they get there
I think pg is saying that as long as you're not sure of what your product is doing and/or how much profitable it can be you should have a craftsman approach and once you get traction you go into the industrial/scaling phase.

If you try to scale/automate everything it's a recipe for a lot of wasted efforts. Make money first. Scale second.

In other words, scaling too early is premature optimization.
Startup culture has mostly become a get-rich-quick scheme, and most of its participants will go where the money is.

If the less risk-averse minority believes innovating will make them a quick buck, they might give it a go. The majority, however, will try to follow the rest of the lemmings to the pot at the end of the rainbow, which right now seems to be Facebook games, iphone apps, and web services.
Disguised ... ?
The winter solstice may have also been practical.

The question calendars are typically trying to answer is "When should we plant?". Harvesting is easy, you harvest when the crops are ready.

Summer solstice is shortly after the start of growing season even in Scotland, so if you recalibrate your calendar with the summer solstice you'll have nearly a full year of clock skew to contend with. If you count from the winter solstice, you only have maybe a third of a year of clock skew.
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I don't necessarily disagree with you that there are problems with the DOM API. However, would you rather that higher level APIs were designed by standards committees, or would you rather they were worked on and "de facto" standardized in the wild - the situation we have now. The situation we have now is a case of worse is better I think.
It really isn't that big of a deal. Trampolining is pretty straight forward and a caching of memory addresses isn't a big deal either. So I don't know why Apple wouldn't add this optimization to the iOS obj-c runtime.
Haha! Nice monetisation idea! We just have 'Yarrly.com' - going for high viral-coefficient first, but not going to overpower people's output with advertising/watermarking --> USER FIRST! ...but we'll keep it in mind!
It's silly to call this Congress a "rogue" Congress because of its low approval ratings. Nationwide, people still strongly approve of their elected representatives. They just hate the ones all the other people chose.
(It's poking fun at the recent posts along the lines of "(object) created in CSS!")
What does he expect? He clearly thinks Windows is a better operating system, and it shows.

Okay, I'm kidding. I've tried some comedy stuff as a hobby and quickly realized that no matter how obvious to you think the jokes are -- hell, you probably think you're making it too blindingly obvious -- someone won't get it. They simply aren't your target audience. Maybe if you filled them with memes or rage comics it would communicate "hey there doofus, this is a joke!" But you'd lose the very people you're trying to target.

The people that appreciate a slight turn of phrase or subtle, dry wit don't much cross over with the those who find least common denominator humor funny. Oh well.
And serves them only.
The other part is most corporations already have the feeling that the government is spying on them, and a public acknowledgement of the fact wont change their implementation details.
Now, if you said "Microsoft is spying on you with your direct competition." that would make them sit up and take notice.
FISA give them the right to install real-time monitoring on premise.

That means if you fight, they put a server in your shop.

It was just not worth it until now. That's going to be the real legacy of the Snowden leaks.
We are all abusing the technologies originally developed for hypertext documents (HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) for building applications. If you today started working on a set of standards for handling what people currently build on the web proposing those technologies would be completely ridiculous, so ill suited are they for this job. And JavaScript is probably the worst of all, it is designed badly enough that there isn't even a standard way of defining modules or classes so you end up connecting shit structured in a 100 different ways.
And by "earn low but enough to live comfortably there" you mean around 1000 eur/m, a little bit more but not that much if you are lucky. I wouldn't call it living comfortably if you're not living with your parents.
Sanskrit was only used for scholarly conversation between learned people - Ordinary folks always conversed in Prakrits (unrefined tongues)
His essay nails it.

This is priceless advice. For free. If you could follow it without coaching hep, you wouldn't need YC (except maybe for the connections and networking).

The tricky part is that the wisdom is utterly simple. [1]

So if you say it concisely, it sounds like a fortune cookie. A lot of people won't believe it. They'll ignore it. Or they'll twist it into something unnecessarily complicated, and/or remap it into what they want to hear.

Maybe you could drop some Zen koan on their asses to stop them cold, a sort of mental slap to the face. Or more realistically, you could do what pg did -- write a somewhat long but clear essay. Hang enough flesh on the skeleton to get people to consider it.

- - -

[1] Simple is the sense of "not complicated". But not in the sense of "easy". It's hard work. On the other hand, it's gratifying work when you're getting feedback from real people and acting on it. Running that loop is energizing. But you need the energy because it's incessant.
You can't take it for granted that it is, in fact, unconstitutional, just because the EFF says so. The EFF has its interpretation of the 4th amendment, just like the ACLU. They take very expansive views of what those amendment means. Taking narrower views is not a "failure of the judiciary." It's disagreement over a document that can legitimately be interpreted in different ways.
The idea that HR could actually pick the most qualified person?
Nice work!

Do you generate the images in the app and upload it to your servers or on your server & download the image to the app?
Another one is that people are too attached to stay in Portugal as well.

I am living abroad since 2003 (FR, CH, D), and still meet people that moved back, even with the crisis, or tell me that they can't imagine themselves living abroad.
One of the reasons that autodidacts are autodidacts is because many are working $10/hr jobs and we didn't have an honest or fair shake at getting into college.

Given that, why would someone want to spend three week's salary just to download your app?

I also disagree that determination is the the problem for many autodidacts. Many of us really do enjoy the experience of learning and there is a mile of difference between slacking off and quitting. Personally, I would never pressure someone into learning that isn't into it. The Autodidact brain is not built like this.

With the iPad requirement (too poor for that + refusal to buy Apple anything and no I won't change my mind when I have enough money) and an apparent misunderstanding of who I am, I'm probably not in your target audience.

This really should be a web-based business. What is the obsession with making everything apps these days?
I'd imagine for Steve Jobs...

everything is worth a fight.
Which would you trust more?
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