skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only their resolution were better...
Oman was actually pretty decent, from my experience between 2004-2010. They also mostly have young Omanis doing things like working at gas stations, rather than importing labor. They have recently started building more of a downstream gas economy, but have a demographic bulge in youth like Egypt does. It's also the prettiest natural environment of any of the GCC countries.

Bahrain and Kuwait mainly have issues due to large minority groups being repressed. Saudi is huge, and relatively diverse, with lots of political strife under the surface. UAE and Qatar are the expected super-rich with mostly imported slave labor. Jordan, Syria, Egypt don't have meaningful oil so no one cares. Iraq and Iran are largely having issues due to sectarianism, war, and isolation; Iran seems like it was the best country in the region before the Shah and revolution.

There are friendly/warm locals in all of these countries, but there's a clear social hierarchy, and only white Americans and Western Europeans, or other Gulf Arabs, will be treated as humans (some exception for Japanese in Kuwait), generally, and even then, the culture isn't as accessible to complete strangers as a lot of other cultures.
oh lol, it's cause i had my figure in front of the lens in one of the pictures i took.

We had no problems, sending it through the airplane, i snuck a peek at the x-ray cause i wanted to see what the battery looked like. Just a bunch of cells.
How did it get a .edu domain? Is it an accredited institution?
PayPal has been trying hard to change this image. David Marcus, who took the helm, has been shifting focus on customer satisfaction. Here is an interesting article on David Marcus:
http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/12/if-its-not-broke-break-it-h...
Is that a normal option? Was there pushback when you requested no anesthesia?
There is ample research on how to facilitate interaction between individuals and/or teams, and that is via meeting rooms, tea kitchens and shared common space. It is a solved problem.

Of course getting a building with such facilities is expensive, you need to spend both for the building itself and for the architect who designs it.

Yet management pushes open-plan offices to facilitate communication. It's either out of ignorance, or it's wilful, to save cash.
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That's a good idea, especially because the charger is duel voltage.
If you want to search for a specific string, force it by putting quotes around it, e.g. "376718578383"
I don't dispute that there are economic reasons behind it. I'm not saying that enslaving people is done without reason in islamic countries.

The problem is those same economic reasons exist in the west. Yet slavery is not practised here. Why not ? Simple : the population would never allow it (not even in dictatorships). Yet the population in the middle east does allow it (or at least, they won't fight to abolish it). What is the difference ?

Note that the origin of difference goes back all the way to the later days of the Roman Empire. What changed was not that the middle east started to accept slavery as normal, what changed was that the west stopped accepting it. Why ? Well, simple : because of the rise of Christianity. Once slavery was gone, it re-appeared in the west twice (not counting slavery in, for example, Al-Andalus). Both times it was eradicated from within, and outlawed (after a while). Both times slavery reappeared because of trade contacts with muslim countries. In the middle east/asia/africa the reverse happened. Slavery was normal, the vast majority of the time, but every 300 years or so the slaves would successfully revolt, which generally lead to a decade-long abolishment of slavery (sometimes a once-off freeing of every slaves, sometimes 50 years of no slaves), but it would always return.

What is the difference ? I'm not claiming islam changes populations to accept slavery. Rather, I'm claiming Christianity changes populations to stop accepting slavery. And of course, I'm claiming that were Christianity/"post"-christian values lose sway, for example to islam, slavery returns.

This does not just apply to slavery, but equality in general as well.
Change your name. Seriously. Even without Yelp, you don't want potential customers hearing via word of mouth about how bad your restaurant was when it really was the one down the street.

Names are relatively cheap to change and if you select a name that is related (like say, shortening it or incorporating part of the old name in the new one) and communicate what is going on with regulars, you'll limit any short-term decline in business.
Machiavelli: Still Shocking after Five Centuries
I like that they're making use of URLs in an interesting way. IMHO these Web services (reminds me of http://deturl.com) are quite neat in general.

But: it's still far easier to click a bookmarklet. I'm not sure this has enough utility to get someone to switch bookmark providers.

If someone's looking for a good "power user" bookmarking service, http://pinboard.in is excellent and their business model is refreshingly transparent -- a one time fee of about $10 for an account.
Huge huge fan of Screenhero. We use it all the time to help our devs debug issues. When trying to help someone fix a bug in their code remotely nothing compares.
Be sure to check the tip archive for all the historical tips: http://elementalselenium.com/tips
Generalists work really well at startups or very small companies, but the paradox is that as they grow, generalists have to become specialists or they'll find themselves increasingly irrelevant in the general scheme of things. Its a hard one to realize but its a very important lesson to learn to avoid hard conversations.

But yeah, if you're applying at a bigger company (say 30+ people) focus on a specific skill but don't shy away from calling attention to your versatility as a secondary step in putting your resume together
Recruiters get paid when they place someone. First step in placing them is finding them. There's a spectrum of ethics associated with how they do that.

Some recruiters work on the "relationship model": they have a stable of candidates that they maintain some periodic contact with, generally know what their looking for, and when they get a requirement that fits, they'll present it (or ask people in their stable if they know anyone who'd be a fit). A good relationship oriented recruiter can make a lot of money and be a big help to your career. I encourage everyone to get to know a couple of recruiters like this.

Other recruiters are working on the "spammer model": they get as many resumes as they possibly can in their database by any means they can (just like spammers collect email addresses), and when a requirement comes in they do as broad a search as possible and send an email or cold-call everyone found with the requirements in it and say "if this is of interest, contact me". Just like spammers, they're hoping if they mail or call 1000 people that one qualified and interested person responds. These people generally work for an agency, and they're working strictly on volume. This is why I get, almost daily, email about low- to mid-level contract programming gigs even though I haven't been a programmer in 20 years and have hold a senior position at my company. These folks have to place a lot of people to make good money, which is why they're aggressive and persistent. They're the recruiting equivalent of debt collectors and telemarketers. Treat them as such.

For completeness, I'll mention there's an even lower form of recruiter: those working on the "fraud model". Anyone who wants you to pay to be presented for a position is a trying to scam you. Legitimate recruiters are payed by the hiring company.
Google goes old school to celebrate 15th birthday
Yelp itself asks business's for $$ to lower/hide the bad reviews. It's not a fair place to see honest reviews anymore folks.
Or a 50" TV screen.
This prioritizes the T candidate over the O candidate through institutional logic (McKinsey). It also ignores the XY Problem tendency in hiring people where they think a certain set of skills is necessary and try to target that, rather than have a conversation about the actual problem and see how the candidate can satisfy it. In this way, it's valorizing the Ninja Rockstar (see also: Big Data, "we're changing the world of X," etc.).
In a centralized system a central server routes calls and can make mistakes.

In a decentralized system like BitMesasge the likelihood of a misroute is so low that it would take a trillion trillion universes a trillion trillion lifetimes before the chance of it happening once was even remotely likely, given every atom in each universe were sending a message to an other atom each pico-second.

It's just not going to happen.
Ok. Just because you have a private micro-office, doesn't mean the team doesn't need to communicate regularly, e.g., agile-standups.
The speed of https://github.com/cobbzilla/s3s3mirror is quite impressive, I suggest you give it a try.
Fifteen years on—and we’re just getting started
To be frank, I'm surprised that you find it surprising. Employees are assets.
This advice isn't really universal. It really depends on what type of job you're looking for. If you want to work at a startup, being a specialist ain't going to get you much attention. What's important is that you've had a broad range of experiences and can adapt quickly in any situation.

If you're a founder or early employee at a fast-growing startup, you'll have to make the choice to either remain a generalist (i.e., C-suite), or join the majority of other employees and focus in on something specific. Either way, being a generalist in the beginning of a company's lifecycle can only help you.
I guess that's what Paypal used my "rolling reserve" for.
It's a default app. It doesn't come with any content, nor any branding on it's icon. You're analogy does not hold.
Amen. Bad lighting is one of the things about my current job that make it likely I'm going to quit sooner rather than later. It's at the point where I'm often more productive using just my laptop (no secondary monitors) at home in controlled conditions.

Of course, if you don't have an open floorplan, it's easier to adjust your lighting conditions.
Do they document an API as well as provide a form, or do they require (perhaps as part of the ToS) you to use their form? Because, really, its sounds like the best option is to build your own form against their API, if this is permitted, rather than using their form.
COMICS VS ETSY
We do exactly that. I've never been more happy and productive in my life.

And before someone jumps in to say it doesn't scale, we're 600 employees, or of which about 400 work from home, so while we're not huge, were definitely past startup size :)
Well...

to be fair...

China has to build their own space station because the US objected to China's participation in the ISS program.
Tech changes so fast that "specialists" in a language or platform can become jobless in a matter of a few years. It's an adapt to survive scheme. In the case of programming languages, the most important thing is to understand the underlying concepts. They always repeat, with different syntax and maybe some incremental innovations, but the basic thinking behind them changes way slower than the languages themselves. As some of you have pointed, I'd always hire a generalist when given the choice.
Actually not at all. It implies you can send cost reduced rockets up with tanks filled with cryogenic fuels (LH/LOX), if you lose them their cost is amortized over all the expensive rockets you didn't have to send up with a full fuel load.

One of the most interesting talks at the AMW conference one year was ULA talking about cryogenic fuel depots [1]. Not Hydrazine, these are not hypergolic fuels just "regular" liquid oxygen and hydrogen.

The change in the cost dynamics is quite compelling though. Consider a 'space tug' which is in orbit and only needs fuel to meet up with a satellite, and move it into any orbit (supply the 'delta V' as it were). Now launching a satellite doesn't have 'launch windows' nor is it constrained by geography. Costs go down, response rate goes up.

Going to the moon and back? No need to launch all the fuel you need. A vehicle that 'lives' in orbit can take your service module/lunar module and put it on a trans-lunar injection orbit with enough gas to land and return. Catch you on the return and put you in an orbit ready for re-entry.

[1] http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
That's why hiring managers should have little say in the final hiring decision. Their job is to attract interested applicants and weed out the clearly unfitting among them (e.g. those who fake their credentials).

The rest of interviewing should be done by actual engineers, peers and colleagues of a prospect employee.
Fintech is a lot smaller than I thought it would be.
I always thought of it as more about escapism than anxiety of being under stimulated although I guess it's a small difference. Compulsively distracting yourself stops you from thinking about aspects of your life that stress you out or worry you.

I just recently changed my habits around this a bit and with hindsight I really agree with the narcotic/self-medication comparison.
Probably not. Enforcing a patent is expensive (as most litigation is). If this law penalized trolls who filed worthless claims but rewarded those who were legitimately being infringed on then if anything it would make it less risky.
Google's Patchfield audio library for Android
This is a huge overreaction.
Show HN: Simplifying 401(k) Advice - Feedback?
First thing that comes to my mind is that each of those needs to be broken down by section, possibly line, and made machine-readable. I'd like an API that I can use to retrieve text and context by passing in "Sec. XXX Paragraph 1".

Not sure how useful that'd be, though.
Rick Falkvinge: Why “Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear” Is Wrong
Being following for a while, looks very interesting. Key thing is what the pricing structure is will be. We've had the Enterprise Teamviewer for some time, I like it, but I'm very open to finding an alternative, for various reasons.

I need to test this out, also. I'm wondering how it compares against having real-time collaboration natively in web applications. From the video it looks like other cursors are disabled while text editing is in progress, i.e. one at a time editing. Although, it's not the same as everyone being able to edit concurrently, having people edit at the same time as you is pretty off-putting, this looks like it might actually be a better solution in that regard.

The advantage is, of course, is if it works OK it's a generic solution to giving all web applications real-time collaboration.

At a technical level I wonder whether it'll be able to properly detect when to disable the other cursors correctly for applications more complex than text editing, maybe an API is needed to signal the correct behaviour where the sharing couldn't realistically work it out for itself.
Hi all,

"Edit: I'm the co-founder of Kivalia." We've spent about 1 1/2 years developing the above-linked community-based 401(k) advisory service offering, which is now live. We'd welcome feedback from the community to help us refine the design/flow/usability of the service offering.

The specific problem we're solving is "How should I invest my 401(k) money, given the market environment and the options available to me specifically?"

My partner and I have deep domain expertise (quant finance & investment advisory experience - 25 years or so between us) and as such, run the risk of creating something intuitive to us, but too geeky for mass consumption.

I’ll be active in the comments section

Thanks! B
At least this would make it easier for a company to justify digging in and fighting a patent. If they're confident they can win, they can anticipate legal expenses being reimbursed. A lot of companies who today are on the fence about whether to stand up and defend themselves would suddenly be willing to go to court.
One of their innovations was to have the bathroom in the middle so everyone bumps into each other. Sounds gross but they say it works.
Nice troll. You can get the same plan with any GSM phone.

T-Mobile is about the same as Sprint and AT&T, and all are sub-par to Verizon. But what's nice about T-Mobile is that you get unlimited data, whereas with Verizon, you'd better cash in your fleet of 777s to afford your bill.
Because once you've got a gas station up there you can do things faster, and less expensively than folks who don't have that capability.

Anyone "can" do it, but there are a bunch of technologies that have to be mastered before it can be done (sort of like the nuclear fuel cycle). So the US has the lead here but with a sprint I don't doubt the Russians could do it as well, and eventually the Chinese.
I don't think the article is arguing against being a generalist. It's arguing against selling yourself as a generalist. Being a generalist is fine. But when you're applying to a particular job, emphasize the specific skills that you have which would be applicable to that job.

The advantage of being a generalist, of course, is that you have lots of specific skills that apply to lots of different jobs. You just shouldn't list them all on your resume all the time.
Meanwhile everyone else are "losers" using overpowered phones on extortionate carriers and forced into paying for stuff they don't need.

Sheesh.
I know nothing abut the biz. But getting a slice of a great many transaction seems like a pretty sweet position to be in.
g-truc.net tests desktop opengl status regularly. This is the report from last spring:

http://www.g-truc.net/doc/OpenGL%20status%202013-04.pdf

I suppose same methodology could be applied to mobile drivers too.
This is specifically looking at the legacy format, in which Skullclamp is banned, thats the same reason that Jace is where he is. Many slow blue decks in Legacy want to play Jace, but that is not an overwhelmingly huge set of decks.
It often gets completely ignored.
This domain was grandfathered in before October 2001.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu
I bought mine from Google Play and this message was not included.
But the whole point is that it's quite likely that I don't want that conversation. As you say "it's possible .. if you want to". Usually I'd prefer to just continue thinking whatever I was thinking before someone initiated that conversation, the interruption was unwelcome, and I'd be glad if it hadn't happened - i.e., if (s)he had looked at me and decided for whatever reason (such as a phone) that I don't want to be talked to right now.

Being capable and comfortable in such conversations is very, very useful in life (correlates with all kinds of life 'success' measures), and it can be acquired, and acquiring it requires a lot of such practice. However, even with all that, the preference doesn't change - if you are an introvert, you then can do it very well, but you'd still rather prefer not to do it.

For smalltalk - it's likely that I don't want to break that ice; I don't want more friends - I don't have enough free weekends/evenings to spend with my existing great friends, as we've all grown more busy, gotten families and moved miles apart; starting new relationships would decrease quality of existing ones. I don't want to meet hot girls - I'm happily married. I don't want to get to know a random person - if we meet on business, I'd rather keep that a purely professional relationship. If I'm in a mood to meet people and new experiences, say, while traveling - then great; but if I've spent all my "communications batteries" already today - then unless we're very close, I'd rather not have any unneccessary meaningful communications.
Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples
Narratives are important.

While it's true that companies often look to hire for a particular skill set and therefore eat up the narrative of a specialist, the skill set of a generalist is a lot more useful in a small startup or if you decide to try to form your own company. (Likewise the skill set of a specialist is often more appropriate for contracts or permanent roles in large companies.)

Either way, the article is right in saying that for a manager trying to hire to fulfill a specific role, the narrative of a specialist will often win. However, I personally despise this idea of "taming your inner generalist" as it is natural and human to be so. There are companies that will filter you out because your experience is too broad and they are at least being helpful in removing themselves from your market. I would not wish to work for a company in which employees of hiring capacity treat people as fungible resources that perform set roles. The companies that are left which look for individual potential, perspiration and personality in whatever form it comes, show, as far as I am concerned, a far deeper understanding of where innovation comes from; criss-crossing domains[0] gives a huge amount of idea optionality.

Additionally, the advantage of being a generalist is in de-risking yourself against the movement of the employment market.

[0] http://www.fastcompany.com/3009649/leadership-now/steve-jobs...
Okay. Because you posted it and then deleted it when it got flagged, which is cheating.
I'm on a 5S - was trying to do it via iTunes, but I may not have the newest version. Of course, that bug mentioned might be a problem. That aside, I can do it via phone. Thanks for the heads up.
I was offered a hotel discount if I posted a (good) review for the place. Just another source of biased commentary.
If only browsers sent some kind of message to the server to tell it what languages you'd prefer
Are you including those polyfills on your site? It would be a good idea, there is on IE11 for Windows Phone yet.
I really miss the + operator in Google searches. Back when Google disabled it to make their Google+ easier to search for, someone posted some good examples of where " " fails to reproduce the + search behavior.
> I don't quite grasp how you can purposefully ignore the general bias on the possession of wealth currently in the common mind, much less the mind of a Berkley student.

I am ignoring it because if you bother to read the papers and look at their manipulations, there is no reason to expect the manipulations which increase a subject's 'wealth' or 'power' by trivial amounts to then trigger cultural preconceptions or ideologies about plutocracy and 'the rich'.

To be honest, once you've read the actual papers, the main question becomes the opposite of what you and the other commenters are claiming! These manipulations are so minor and represent so little real 'wealth' or 'power' that it's not clear why I should expect these results to have any meaning in the external non-laboratory world.
also use - and + to force or remove certain results. (You can use this to limit areas of a website for example)
anyone who considers this news hasn't hang around freelancing sites. You can pay $10 for 20 yelp reviews.
Browser screenshots with accurate DOM state
Why was this voted down? It is the correct answer for searching for serial numbers, for example an Adobe Photoshop serial number: "1325-1576-6224-7891-3222-6645"
hahaha! See what I mean?!?!?!?!
That's a perfectly reasonable suggestion, but I don't foresee it happening. They've been there for >10 years, and have been very successful. The name isn't actually similar, and they're in very different parts of the city. There generally doesn't seem to be any real confusion except for a few Yelp reviews.
There's also a bit of "people in glass houses..." to this comment. I don't think git really wants to start a fight when it comes to poor design decisions.
Yeah, from the linked paper it looks like 20% is only the percentage of fakes that are statistically obvious.
Rust 0.8 Prerelease Testing
have you tried this yet? i'm curious
Followup: http://rajivsethi.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-romney-whale.html
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