skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are country averages. Go look up living costs in Rio/Sao Paulo, you're in for a surprise. Living in Europe sounds reall y attractive right now.
Or fecetious...
the one thing I can conclude from reading this.... is the secret service needs a serious technology upgrade
Yes, but only via the gift tax and after you've reached the gift tax exemption, which is pretty big.
I thought this too. How many months does he think it will take to accomplish each one?
The total price of flying may be higher than you think. Don't forget to include:
* transporting you to and from the airport
* getting to the airport ~1h before your flight
* flight time of ~1:30 vs :30 on the Hyperloop

If the Hyperloop works as Musk imagines, then it'll be more like hopping on the subway: go to the station in the middle of town, wait maybe 10min at most, ride, get off in the middle of town.

On the other hand I sure don't wanna be crammed in that recliner looking at a ceiling five inches away from my feet for a half hour. Room to stand up and stretch please.
Ubuntu's desktop "on its own will die"
Did someone told him about « windows » ?
I'm pretty sure it does. Binary blobs hidden in the GSM module and communication with the GSM module is done with AT commands via some serial bus.
I think you’re not really understanding the kind of housing this is made for. Shacks in slums don’t generally have nice triple glassed windows.
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What a troll Larry is.

A super-wealthy, billionaire troll.
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He says he won't do it himself for a long time. He's busy with other things.
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> the unions are primary driving force behind 200-300K/year gov employees pensions

200-300K/year (and higher) pensions are pretty much entirely executives who weren't union members, it has nothing to do with unions.

e.g., the #1 highest: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/27/opinion/la-oe-cole-v...
I wrote about this issue a couple years ago, observing similar behavior. I used a modified horse gambling game as a metaphor for the investor dynamic.

"It's easier to play the option than the bet." http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2010/12/13/its-easier-to-play-the...

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Charge ahead suddenly and you might get your 3 spots
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I installed it on my phone, it wasn't fully compatible but I jumped at the chance when I saw a rom on XDA.

The app situation is extremely different to other platforms, a lot of the apps are just bookmarks for websites which doesn't really interest me as an avid gamer. No Dropbox and no 1Password also made it uninteresting to me, I actually bundled 1Password Anywhere (a html/js interface) into an app but then I discovered no copy/paste. I only tried a few apps but some were really rough or underwhelming, like the file manager I couldn't figure out how to put a shortcut to my 1Password html file (which is why I bundled it in an app).

The keyboard was great, it was the first time I had zero spelling or other issues for the first time on my phone. The seamless updates were also great.

It was so fast on my phone (2011 sony xperia) it was incredible but it doesn't feel ready without support from top developers and top apps (or alternatives).

I think the Ubuntu phone is more interesting for me because with some adjustments I might be able to work from one, but the Firefox phone is more generally affordable and suitable for everyone.
Hi, thanks for the advice. I've been working at a web development company for about a year (having had very little experience beforehand). I've mainly been working on sites in php and .net, though I'd really like to learn something that will contribute to my future career options and allow me to expand my portfolio.
It seems like everyone on hacker news loves python, ruby or node, so I'd like to have a go at a larger project with one of them, I'm just being indecisive with hosting (I also have about zero cash, so the cheapest hosting would be preferable).
>Did someone told him about « windows » ?

From the article...

"Most homes and businesses in the slums of Dhaka have no
power and no windows, so 80-90% of them hook up to
electricity lines illegally - and fall back on candles or
kerosene lamps during regular blackouts."
Three.js has OBJ support natively (I've written a extension to allow you to view them directily on your github[1]). COLLADA and glTF, which provide support for animations, are also supported[2].

Cannon.js is a promising physics engine[3].

Nonetheless, it is exciting to see Microsoft not only supporting WebGL, but also promiting open source libraries to ease development on the platform.

[1] https://github.com/danielribeiro/three-hub

[2] http://threejs.org/examples/webgl_loader_collada.html

[3] http://cannonjs.org/
Don't forget about time... if this is faster than air travel, that alone could be wroth something. The fact that the cost might be equivalent to air-travel and be significantly faster would be the game-changer.

If I could take one of these from SF to LA in a weekend to take my kids to Disneyland, that would be awesome. As it is now, that's a multi-hour process on each side of the trip. Reducing that to 30min (+ some logistics time) would be wonderful. Especially if they can reduce the amount of time required at the terminals.
I am a co-founder of Aha! and we just opened up the app to the public today.

Product managers and engineers should be the happiest people on earth. But most companies never benefit from their love of innovation, because they are beaten down by soft strategies, weak tools, and squishy communication. This leads to mistrust, frustration and anger. And that's too bad because creating great software is invigorating. We just launched a new app that might help bring back the love.

Let me know if you think there is a need for Aha! and a roadmapping tool.

Does engineering and product get along at your company?
The evidence we have (his grooming of the executive team, his appointment of Cook, the existence of Apple University [http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/06/business/la-fi-apple...], etc) seems to say otherwise. Apple's continued success after his death appears to have been extremely important to him.
Looks to still allow direct GPU access, due to the missing GL proxy (there's a comment to that effect in the patch). IMO, this is a hole big enough to fit a truck through. Particularly with gralloc (GPU memory allocation facilities) being there, the risk of being able to completely own the system via the GPU and its driver is very high.

This is a great step in the right direction, but without the GL proxy, any sandbox is effectively made of tissue paper.
So the natural follow up question here is, do you have an interview process that will give you this information for a given candidate?
I believe it is more correct to think of cowboys along the terms of freelancers and lifestyle business folks... people who don't need massive success, just freedom from having to be at a highly structured job from 9-5.

Or at least that is the idea that I get from the many I know or have met.

In that sense, the larger market "winners" like the king ranch aren't really a factor, except as their presence begins to foment regulations that must apply to every single person and begin to restructure the world into one where it is increasingly difficult to live outside of a corporate structure.... ie. they fence off formerly commonly held land.
In Canada, even if you destroy all paperwork and tell the taxman that you don't remember anything, the law permits them to look at your assets and decide how much you owe. Then it's your burden to prove otherwise. Is it different in the US? Hell they could even force exchanges or code mainteners to build in a tax system.
The Verge's rumored 'authors' turn everyone else's work into their ad impressions.

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-hot-first-images-of-the-n...
Because they collude.
Or at the very least someone who can accurately place a piece of paper on a photo copier.
I wonder how Oracle will look without Larry. Not like he's super young and known for building his successor.

We know how Microsoft looks without Bill.

And how will Google look without Larry and Sergey?

blablabla.
If you like the Iverson, don't miss the famous piece of Whitehead's where he talks about notation too:

http://introtologic.info/AboutLogicsite/whitehead%20Good%20N...

Iverson took one of his epigraphs from there, but the whole thing is short and well worth reading.

Fun fact: Iverson, Roger Hui (the J guy) and Arthur Whitney (the K guy) were all from Alberta.
This isn't an alternative to the light bulb. This is an alternative to the window for people living in slums that can't afford glass.
WRONG.

Such machines are still in use and besides, neither machine machine has provably been better than plain old metal detectors.

http://tsastatus.net/
It's possible they could take that position, but I suspect you or your lawyer would be able to come up with a way out of most of it. For example, you could argue they were a series of interest-free loans, so there was no income to anyone (other than the forgiveness of any interest the IRS would impute to the loans). Or maybe there's an exception in the tax code for the situation you describe - I'm not a tax attorney :)

And as ebiester noted, there's an exemption for gifts under a certain amount.
What a cowardly title. Clapper himself admitted to giving Congress the 'least untruthful' answer. He's an admitted liar, not an accused liar.
I imagine you might be able to locate flaws with a custom capsule along the lines of a pipeline pig[1]. It would be exceptionally hard to actually fix it from the inside whilst travelling, so you either need to do it from the outside (which requires site access and elevation gear), or bypass/shut down the tube and fix internally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging#Intelligent_pigging
There is only one, the NSA
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If ALL Musk does with the Hyperloop announcement is shed more light on the potential debacle that is to be our $70b+ high-speed rail in California, we owe him a debt of gratitude.

Really? Because it looks like this is an attempt to derail CA HSR using a proposal for an experimental technology that offers a fraction of what CA HSR does, but is potentially faster.

CA HSR replaces/upgrades two metropolitan rail systems (Caltrain/Metrolink) in addition to connecting SF (as opposed to Oakland!) and LA, requires no R&D, is supposed to handle significantly greater ridership, has detailed cost estimates which include things like take into account electrification costs (because it does get cloudy), support facilities (because there is maintenance of these cars), administrative buildings (because someone has to run the system), bypassing/rebuilding overpasses (which are all over I-5) that are in the way and grading land.
Yes, because tumbling services aren't designed to launder money or anything...

Just using Bitcoin for transactions doesn't eliminate legal obligations. I imagine that if they ever got popular, tumbling services would be the first things that would be regulated (or shutdown by the gov't).
I still don't think SF/LA are as interconnected economically as Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya are. You have a lot of manufacturing in that area of Japan, while the big population areas of California are much more separated and specialized. One could live their entire life and career in the Bay Area without any reason to ever visit LA, and the other way around.
One of the most unpleasant (although memorable) experiences of my life was having to hold it for over an hour while sitting over the wheel well on a bumpy bus ride in the middle of Belize.
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I was halfway through buying from namecheap, when I kind of felt odd about giving all of my details over to an American company. I know it's probably pretty biased of me, but after everything that's happened recently I thought I might have some tiny smidgen of legal protection if I went with a British company.
I'm not an American citizen, so I don't feel like I would have any rights if there ever was a problem with my domain.
It's not that I think I'm going to do anything that would warrant shutting down my domain name, but it's one of those things that just makes you think twice.
p.s. I'm well aware how terrible my own country's surveillance methods are, but at least I'm considered to be a citizen here.
Wow, I didn’t think there’d be two comments saying this. This is about slums in Brazil and the Philippines, you should look up the conditions of the housing the people there live in.
This is pretty high on the disconnection from reality scale.
I made my own cellphone once by purchasing the battery separately.
Yes, the alternative would be going outdoors. But in the tropics you don't want to do that during the midday sun.
Can I get a link to that post? I found this[1] one, but the post says straight up that in person interviews are deceptive and shouldn't be trusted.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346119
>executives who weren't union members, it has nothing to do with unions.

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=24566
I just signed up for a Heroku free account, so I may well give this a go.... I'd like to do some experimentation. I want to pick the most fun/difficult way to do this if I can.
It's doublespeak for we are taking an interest in this burgeoning opportunity and will likely be adding requirements to exchanges that will help to limit fraud, and ensure that the government gets whatever tax revenue they are obligated.

Frankly, I see it as the powerful interests (banks/gov) taking their first step to assert their control of the new market.

Someone less pessimistic may feel this is a good measure to ensure that something good will stay good by helping to keep fraud out of this new system.
It has everything to do with the capabilities of Internet connected computers. Your previous post asked why you couldn't saturate your connection. While we would all like to believe every node on the internet is equal, there are physical engineering limits and cost constraints we have to adhere to.

Simply put, the economics simply don't make sense to give everyone in the neighborhood the ability for 24/7 1Gbps. It doesn't make sense because your grandma, won't max the connection 24/7, however she would still like for her Netflix movies to download quickly. So its been decided upon that ISP-x will only put $10 million rather than $20 million so that everyone can enjoy 1Gbps internet, just not 24/7 and all at the same time. If you do need this type of connection, then get a business class connection where you do have these guarantees, and the extra money you pay goes into making sure the infrastructure can meet your demands.

However, at the end of the day it doesn't make sense to charge everyone more, for the needs of what must be 1% of the population. Remember for the most part this isn't used to stop you from SSHing into your home computer. This is stop people from using the connection in a perverse way from how it was designed. Its a simple engineering tradeoff.
Thanks, this was exactly what I was thinking about. I took the plunge just now and registered dajomu.com for a couple of years.
Now I have to build something!
It's not that big. It's $14,000 per person per year.
A RESTesque Java Web Server
It was an example, Netflix and the people who play well with YouTube do extensive work to make sure their videos stream quickly.
>>Then you need to ban gossip as well.

That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing and stigmatizes it. It does not meekly accept that because some gossip exists and cannot be eradicated, all should be free to gossip however much they like.
Local wallets is not a really accurate term - all BTC transactions go in the public ledger. It's kinda one of the flaws of bitcoin, there's no such thing as an offline transaction.
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If you don't necessate to use WordPress and want to try something cool, I'd suggest Octopress (http://octopress.org/) + github pages to setup a static blog. There are lots of nice themes around for it as well. You can add a domain by simply creating a CNAME file with the domain adress or you can tie it to a subdomain on your domain and use the main domain for your host (if you plan to get).
At 700+ MPH you'll need more than 100' of freeway median to contain potential incident fallout.
If you want a good challenge, get a private VPS for $5/month and set everything up yourself: SSH, Apache, users, permissions, Git repo, etc...
Sorry I should clarify, I wasn't suggestion they want to produce cheap food for charitable reasons at all - but yes, that absolutely is their intent, they're a cheap food place with cheap food prices.
Would it really be expensive? 1 mbar is a low grade vacuum. You can achieve that with mere rotary vane pumps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_vane_pump
Except in rare cases creative genius does not transmit well from individual to individual. It needs the appropriate level of talent and a shared vision. Thus far I see no evidence of such a transition. The level of performance could just as easily have come from an apple-centric version of 'Eliza'. Scripted and performed by actors uncomfortable with their lines...
"The coder" probably should spend time talking to customers, testing designs, interacting with their peers, reading other code, learning.

None of these contribute directly to achieving a theoretical maximum output of SLoC. If that's you're metric, I don't think it's a good one.

Aside from niche projects - A great deal of time goes into realising software. The incremental cost of comments is minuscule.

I have lots of challenges and bottlenecks. The time to type comments isn't one of them.
The man who misled Congress on spying to pick Obama’s intelligence review panel
PingFS
sorry... high speed rail to nowhere?
While I eat my hash right?
This still seems to block "many" calls (the whitelist has other notes regarding other things waiting to be fixed).

Ie this still noticeably raises the bar regardless, even thus all these allows have to be fixed for the sandbox to be on par, with, say, Chrome.
If everyone launders their money in a deliberate attempt to circumvent government regulation, they'll simply impose broader and harsher regulations. If crypto currencies are going to take over the future, then Bitcoin is a huge win for governments because of this. Your anonymity depends on your actions as in the real world, except the paper trail is significantly improved. Central banks may be perturbed by all this but the IRS certainly won't be. The only way to get past this in the long run is either to A) be on the other side of the law or B) use an implementation that forces anonymity, in which case there is still the threat of it becoming illegal once it's considered to be a large enough target.
Satoshi, the "Creator" of BitCoin went 'dark' and nobody knows who or where he is. So any "hint" of his existence is big news in the Bitcoin forums and elsewhere. While its an imperfect analogy it is sort of like having an image of the Virgin Mary appear on the toasted side of a bagel.
> Holding an amount of currency isn't taxable

It is in Norway - any cash or deposits in excess of 750.000 NOK (around 125.000 USD or so) is taxed in addtion to interest being taxed as income.

Now, cash isn't easily detectable, so it is a very easy asset to hide -- but while possible, that would be tax evasion and is illegal.
I tend to be dismissive of OBJ support since it's so easy to do and doesn't get you terribly far, but yes that's nice.

Collada support is a lot more impressive, but FBX support -- even though FBX is proprietary -- is much more useful given the wider and broader support for FBX out there (even Blender can export to FBX).
They are also colloquially known as 'mafia blocks' for some reason...
In this case it looks like you could have a great view.
I'm trying to think of a way to "test" this, like set up a couple of accounts and programmatically transfer money back and forth. I imagine most banks/processors have some sort of mechanism to limit transactions that would be considered suspect (such as automated back-and-forth transfers). But the lower limit's not a problem -- by repeating the transaction, you'd be contributing to the limit of $/year, even with a miniscule amount.
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you're probably referring Work for pie: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148832
> Particularly since Firefox OS is built on top of Android

Source? I don't think this is the case