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US student interning at a startup abroad -- where to look?
I'm a CS student (will be PhD candidate starting August 2014) in the US and really want to experience a different culture before graduating by interning abroad (at a startup!).

Where can I find information on this? Trying to search for this on my own only brings up results like "Unpaid internships abroad"

Also, is this unrealistic? Will sponsoring me for a summer be too much effort for companies? I've met other interns in the US from out of the country.
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Frontpage article from Miami Herald: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562132
We're still not seeing charges for intentional lying under oath to congress. Well, it's not going to happen, but one can still dream of equal treatment under law, no?

I can believe that he's a good man and he did it with good intentions - but it's important for the society to state that actions like THAT are unpatriotic (literally, against one's nation and people) and immoral, unlike whistleblowing.
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No, in the eyes of the law, he is "not guilty." Innocence is a factual finding which has the same burden of proof as guilt because it is a definitive finding that the defendant did not commit the crime charged.

Judges admonish juries that people are "innocent until proven guilty" becaues most jurors aren't sophisticated enough to make the distinction.
Not bad, however with the ''.join(data) you're effectively doubling the amount of memory needed for large files, because it will build the entire output string in memory (and you've already got the list in memory). Better to use writelines(). You can also use sorted() to iterate over and sort the input lines automatically:

sorted_lines = sorted(open(sys.argv[1]))
open(sys.argv[2]).writelines(sorted_lines)
> Governments tend to at least have some interest in keeping their citizens alive, healthy, and happy.

Where would such an interest come from?
Should I be allowed to sell you a car that's a lemon just because you cannot see that? If I know the engine is about to die, but you test drive it and it seems fine, is that really right?
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#2 is a strong factor – it's not even better people so much as different motivations. If you believe strongly in, say, open data most of the jobs are in the public sector. If you like working with public domain data, again, there are only so many places where that happens.

There are also other, less appreciated aspects: e.g. federal employees work is in the public domain by default which means a lot of people can work on open-source software without fighting corporate culture:

http://government.github.com/community/

The number of jobs where that's true is a small subset of the number of jobs which pay more in the private sector.

The other big factor you're missing is the stability: if you have a family, disabilities or health problems, etc. something like the startup scene is a lot less appealing compared to a job where there are legal mandates against death-march project management. Given the skew towards mid-to-senior level positions, I'm also sure that a lot of people saw the appeal of an employer which has strict rules against age discrimination, too.

This is not to say that they couldn't make more money but that they're making tradeoffs for the likely future value based on their personal risk exposure. Arguably #1 is true but really it's irrelevant because anything as complicated as your career seems outside of the scope of microeconomics.
Indonesia mainly runs on thermal power, it is kind of sad that those crypto currencies indirectly encourage making profits out of cheap labor and the planet itself.

source wikipedia: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Ind...
Sure, but that's what code samples are for. If I send you code samples, and I can't explain to you what they mean or how I built them, or describe a variation of your choice about them, then you can assume that I don't know what I'm talking about. You can do this over the phone. There are endless, quality, revealing questions you can ask about provided code samples that are far, far, far, far superior to asking the equivalent of reciting the ABCs.

No code sample? Get some. Won't provide some? Don't bring them in for an interview.

The point I'm making is that you can pre-qualify candidates in a LOT of ways before you even bring someone into the office. If I get into your office and you ask me dumb, basic questions, then you haven't screened me effectively. You should theoretically be able to make those determinations before I ever step through the front door of your office.
> agriculture

He was a farmer. Agriculture was widespread in southern Europe in 3300 BC. One of his last meals included highly processed grains.
I can't compare the principles by which they work, but in terms of which to choose, I think you will never have to make that decision, since GCD is only for (Objective-)C programs, while Quasar is only for the JVM.
That was my thought as well, especially given what we can guess about the tattoos we've found on some ancient Egyptian women. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.htm...
Is this the type of organization that earns money through lead generation?
> Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter.

Becoming? Corporations have been the transcendant power in the developed world since the collapse of feudalism.
I had to upvote this as this is something I've been saying for years. The amount of things a college grad can do with a million dollars is vastly bigger than the choice an octogenarian has. A dollar simply doesn't have the same value to a young person and an old person. The potential of what you can do with your money greatly diminishes as you age and at some point money even becomes a non-factor. When you're pissing your diapers in an old people's home, what good is your retirement money?

I am not advocating recklessness with personal savings, but at a certain age you pass the point where you can reasonably enjoy money.
This is an advert. Don't make me read half of it to find out. Sick of these posts!
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> they create it from fractional reserve banking via the money multiplier.

Yes, but they need cash in the first place in order to use the "multiplier" defined by regulators. They cannot create money ad vitam eternam without cash deposits. When there is a crisis, a bank low on real cash value will go bankrupt very easily. Have you already forgotten?
Is there a single payer program anywhere that denies treatment for risky behavior, or that even has tighter restrictions on transplant candidates?

The big concrete example of how a national health insurance system operates differently from a "free market" in insurance is that pre-existing conditions are covered. That's a pretty big step away from restrictive conditions. How do you make the argument that a single payer would reverse that?
New York City is getting wireless EV chargers disguised as manholes
Guilt is a binary state, but a jury's finding of guilt is a trinary state.

Guilty = beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime alleged.

Not guilty = the government did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime alleged

Innocent = beyond a reasonable doubt (i.e., factual impossibility) that the defendant did not commit the crime alleged.

It is exceedingly rare for a jury to make a finding of innocence since (a) few prosecutors will agree to a jury instruction allowing this finding, and (b) if there is the necessary evidence to prove innocence, the judge will throw out the related charges before the decision gets to the jury. If the judge throws out the charge, whether the judge will further make a finding of innocence depends on the defendant--usually the defendant must move the court for such a finding and few do. However, in some jurisdictions judges have the leeway to make that finding without a motion by the defendant.
It's a risk but it seems likely to only be a problem in places where there are significant variations in income: if you live in a neighborhood where the average house costs $500K, your hypothetical burglar is going to assume that they're all good targets – or they'll just go to the house with a Mercedes in the driveway.
Yes, you are entirely correct, my point about actors vs agents was only taking in consideration a shared memory situation (only one local multicore processor), in case of a distributed system with multiple nodes located on different memory spaces and machines the erlang approach is much superior, especially for actor discovery, monitoring (ie heartbeat) and fault tolerance in general.
The issue with the Pharma industry is that in most countries, the consumer/patient is NOT the one who pays directly for the drug. You have insurance systems, social security groups and so on who are in charge of paying most of the expenses, and on the other side, doctors who are the only ones in charge of providing the drug. So, the pharma industry is very much prone to corrupt practices because they do not have to sell directly to patients and can control who delivers the drug to who in the end. Therefore they will not see any hurt in sales no matter what they are found doing (except for cases where they have hidden deleterious health effects, which is really the worst practice of all).

In the car industry, if you make a crappy car, people will notice it and will stop trusting your brand. In pharmaceuticals, you will never see that. I even wonder how companies like that are allowed to keep operating when they are found blatantly lying about serious health consequences. They should be put out of business.
Hey, I have those abnormalities. Missing M1s, and missing ribs. And I have Austrian ancestry. Damn, if only I could sequence my genome at home.
So, I am wrong if your entire audience is using Apple computers?

I will take those odds.
> Rubbing charcoal into lacerations is not how one does acupuncture.

Nit: charcoal was probably rubbed into incisions, not lacerations. Tearing flesh instead of using a sharp instrument is probably too hard-core, even for Otzi.

Also, if tearing the flesh and rubbing charcoal in isn't how acupuncture is done, my aromatherapist is about to receive a VERY sternly worded email.
I'm a developer so I know how to do these things but for the average person...

Where do I type that?
By the way.. What is apt-get? What is nginx?

Why put the index.html in /var/www?

Why use nginx I've heard of apache why wouldn't I use that?

You haven't even detailed how to setup a linux that would use apt. And why not centos?

Where is the site going to be hosted, AWS/Digital Ocean/ Linode/ Heroku? How do they properly configure the machine to serve to internet?

How are my non-technical clients/employees/founders/etc. going to update it without bugging me all the time?

In other words my friend you've grossly over simplified the process of putting a website on the internet where other people can get to it and making it easily updatable by laymen
We the people.
The equation is provided on the same page. It is using the Heaviside step function which allows you to piecewise define the curves and add them all together.
8 cores != 8x speedup
… and don't forget the politically charged atmosphere. You're still going to hear about how government agencies don't work but most of the attackers won't mention things like e.g. the way the VA was making progress on their backlog until October 1st:

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/10/09/backlog-of-va-disab...
you do realize that a default means banks and pension funds and insurance will not give money back to people just like yourself ?
Perhaps replace them with Snowden and let him deal with them?
Ah, cool! I just assumed this wasn't possible and Chrome forced developers to do this as extensions always seem to ask for these overarching permissions when I check them out, sadly.
Great feedback! I love to hear it anytime a young kid was able to enjoy the game, even in the rough form it's in.

The ghost option is something I've seriously considered, although frankly it is closer to the bottom of my list at this point as there are a few other things I think are more important to get in first like loops/user defined functions/etc..

The delete X is a good point and insertion point comments are great, and are issues I've struggled with how to deal with it properly. I have "drag and drop" reordering on the roadmap, and so I forsee deleting/insert point becoming something more natural like simply dragging the command out of the timeline to delete it and dragging a command to a specific point in the timeline to add it vs. simply tapping to queue it at the end.

I like your comment about progression too, as I've really tried my best to make the game be something that's more relaxed in the way that concepts are learned and lets the user get comfortable with the idea of simply separating logic from actions and building simple "programs".

I would agree wholeheartedly too that the game most certainly doesn't teach programming at this point as much as it gets kids excited about the idea of programming. I think once we have some more functionality around loops/functions/etc.. than it will be a little more feature complete in that aspect, but no matter what my ultimate goal is to demystify the idea of technology and programming and let players feel the power of building programs, making mistakes, and ultimately successfully completing levels while using logic, reasoning, and basic "programming" skills.
Love how they used Qualaroo to harness visitor intent through a thoughtful combination of implementation rules and question asking. 500% is an epic win by any measure.
This is a pretty good overview of the case for Cuban:

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/20...

Apparently, simply owning stock is not enough to make you an "insider". You have to be a fiduciary (i.e. be an officer, or a controlling shareholder, or on the board, or similar), or owe a fiduciary duty to the company.
What is your point and how is that relevant?
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This isn't a landing page, this is the about page...

https://mail.google.com/intl/en/mail/help/about.html

gmail.com redirects you to mail.google.com/mail which will redirect you to /?ServiceLogin

curl -v gmail.com
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7fa939804000
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7fa939804000) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to gmail.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 74.125.225.86...
* Connected to gmail.com (74.125.225.86) port 80 (#0)
GET / HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> Host: gmail.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: http://mail.google.com/mail/
What are your customers thinking?
Because if you don't use a passphrase for a long time you tend to forget it, especially if there are minor abnormalities in the phrase to defeat the dictionary attacks.

And the phrase isn't in english, but in russian translit.

Kinda like this: PustVsegdaBudetSolnze$PustVsegdaBuduYa

Good luck cracking it.
It's possible for an action to look like clear cut insider trading, but not be. I don't it's SEC bullying for them to investigate things that look like clear cut insider trading. That's why we have the trial, after all, to determine if the action is what it looked like.
UNC student startup uses fake campus shooting to announce launch
> can code their way out of a box in an interview, but cannot deliver working code in a production environment

> perfectionism seems to be a common thread to not delivering in my (limited) experience

I'm afraid I'm the engineer being described here. I pride myself on technical excellence, theoretical understanding and practical experience with lots of different technologies.

Yet my work history mostly consists of an unbroken trail of unfinished projects and undelivered deliverables stretching back decades.

How can I cure myself of this? Or should I switch careers?
What's to stop someone from just taking the wheel when it's locked? Or removing the wheel and taking the rest of the bike?
Code for America publishes book on Github: Beyond Transparency
Yes! It is a good idea to document family stories, recipes, etc on audio or video. You will learn a great deal about your relatives in the process.
The cyberpunk genre has existed for almost three decades. His embrace of the fears of that dystopian movement is pretty disconcerting.

Not to mention inaccurate. Companies are certainly powerful, but what is the power or influence of Silicon Valley compared to the titans of industry such as IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon, and yes, the financial firms and banks of NYC?
I use the word "rent" in a general sense; I could have just as well used the word "licence".

I'm used to the old days when you bought music and it did not come with terms attached. But times are changing as more people forget about the rights they used to have, not to mention future generations who may never know what it is like to "buy" music with no strings attached. See http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/uk/terms...

Note the headings like USAGE TERMS and words like "nontransferable"; this is not your usual "purchase". Imagine seeing those terms on the packaging of a CD.

The reason you see these terms is that you are not "buying" music - you are licensing, or "renting" it. When you "buy" something, normally the seller does tell you how you may or may not use it and require you to enter into a private agreement governing the usage of what you just bought (regardless of the legality of such usage). "Licensing" or "renting" is a different matter, however - you must agree to terms.

A few years ago a story made headlines where a certain celebrity in the US wanted to tranfser his enormous iTunes music collection to his kids, but his lawyers advised him he might not be able to do that given Apple's license terms. He responded by announcing to a journalist that he was considering suing Apple.

As a consumer, I'm not a fan of the idea of restricting content to a particular device or set of devices. I prefer my files (including music files) to be portable. I have choice and I'm not married to Apple by any means.
This is a ridiculous article. It leaps from a couple of government-critical comments to declaring a "fetish" for "dysfunction"? Based on what, exactly? Why aren't the people tirelessly defending the clusterfuck that is democratic government in most of the western world the fetishists?

And for the comments on this thread suggesting that silicon valley can't be critical of government because government once had a hand in the valley? That's roughly the same level of hypocrisy as a government-fan shopping at Walmart.
It's an invented difference that has no observable (as in, non-semantic) manifestations. As far as his legal treatment from here forward, he "did not commit insider trading" to the same extent that my grandmother (who has done no trading whatsoever and has never been accused of such) "did not commit insider trading."
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But what gives the politicians the incentives to care about We the people? I'm just trying to challenge the notion that government inherently cares about The People because it's chartered to do so, whereas companies supposedly are chartered to care about only themselves.
I think your messaging could be a bit more clear. What you do is pretty abstract. After reading the article and your landing page, I'm not actually sure what your product does or why I would want it.
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> Electricity in Jakarta, Indonesia costs three cents per kilowatt hour. That’s 30 cents less than power in the US and Europe.

Uh...Power in the US costs 30+ cents/kWh? In which part of the country??

In Ontario, Canada, the price is about 6.7 cents/kWh during the night and peaks at 12.4 cents/kWh in the afternoon.

http://www.ontarioenergyboard.ca/OEB/Consumers/Electricity/E...
It's an interesting idea. But there are some big obstacles:

1. I question the need for a retrofit product. There are many mature e-bike designs on the market. I doubt it would be hard to find an ODM or CM that could sell you a good design off the shelf.

2. Many e-bikes have removable batteries. You can charge them at work. This doesn't look like it could.

3. Maybe the e-bike isn't the sweet spot. Maybe a slightly larger electric scooter is it. Or maybe an even bigger three-wheeler like Toyota has shown.

4. Outside of China, where gas scooters are prohibited in many (all?) cities, e-bike have not caught on (though I see quite a lot of them in Manhattan, still not enough to be mainstream)
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The article also makes the claim that it's a -- "digital wristwatches that don't tell time."

Turns out the watch actually tells time, and has an alarm. You can look at FAQ section @ http://www.readiband.com/pages/trials-pricing
"Vaccines are a component of modern medicine."

Given that the argument was about the reliability of modern medical studies, it would probably be only reasonable to include studies that came onto the market after the era of plabeco controlled RCTs. But many if not most of the most impactful vaccines came out before then. Of the remaining important vaccines, they account for only a tiny fraction of the literature.

But more importantly, it's not even a valid argument to begin with since the increase in life expectancy has nothing to do with the percentage of medical papers that are flawed.
Sure, but that's what code samples are for. If I send you code samples, and I can't explain to you what they mean or how I built them, or describe a variation of your choice about them, then you can assume that I don't know what I'm talking about. You can do this over the phone. There are endless, quality, revealing questions you can ask about provided code samples that are far, far, far, far superior to asking the equivalent of reciting the ABCs.

That seems like a reasonable idea, but we've tried that before, and it's just a terrible filter. Let me try to make a more general claim: anything that lets the candidate have outside resources or unlimited time is going to be a bad filter. In this case, the candidate can prep the code sample and be able to explain it well.
This makes me giggle a bit, because for me, when I saw Robot Turtles launch their campaign on Sept. 3rd (1 month after we released the BotLogic prototype on August 1st), I said "hey, this sounds pretty much like BotLogic!" :) I had hoped we would see the quick success they did as well considering the similarities, but I guess that's what you get when you aren't a fancy big name Google employee. I certainly have my work cut out for me.

For what it's worth, I ended up backing Robot Turtles too because I think the idea is cool! I think it's also cool to be able to use "pseudo-code" to build your programs and watch the program execute on your computer, and I think each has it's benefits and drawbacks.
> If insider trading were legal there would be a huge incentive for insiders to keep inside information away from the public.

Could you explain this claim?
> Sure the US government is seeming ineffective

A small group of people who have decided that government is ineffective have managed to get themselves elected with the help of a couple billionaires and have managed to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as long as a small group of people who have decided that government is ineffective are in power, that government will be ineffective.

It's almost tautological.