skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would only hope that the posting is referring to Brazilian applicants who want to work remotely out of Brazil. Having said that, this job posting is very very ambiguous and can be interpreted in many ways. Some of my interpretations:

1. We do not want you to apply if you are Brazilian citizen. Remote or on-site . <Invites Lawsuits for discrimination>

2. "(no applicants from Brazil please). We need brilliant people ".

Brazilians are not brilliant. <I know I am going a little too far on this one but still>

3. (no applicants from Brazil please). Qualifications: Are you smart ?

Brazilians are not smart. we don't want you

May be someone should let SO know and ask them to fix this posting.

EDIT: And SO has already edited it out. But the real question still remains. What was the motive behind such requirement ? Simply deleting the text means that SO probably enforced it on the employer. What would be interesting is to see if any brazilians apply to this job now.
But...free soda...
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http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/10/26/playframework-securesocial-and-mongodb/
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I've been using it as my default shell.
It simply rocks. It's my best hack friend tool. :)
The UN is an interface that allows willing governments to interoperate.

It fails when various governments fail to reach an agreement.

That being said, I believe it would be a good idea to have cooperation on that matter via the UN considering that it could mean deploying weapons in space which is quite controversial.
The message this sends to me as a potential hire is that they don't know how to identify a good candidate, which immediately puts me off applying for the role.
The upside is that the higher price may be inhibiting squatting and thus you're more likely to find a good name available.
Mhm. This one is a bit of a long shot, since it requires you to use emacs, but if that isn't a hurdle, have a look at org-mode.[1]

Org-mode has a pretty intuitive mark-up syntax and can export naturally to pdf (via LaTeX), odt and html (this is what you want)[2]. It uses a publishing module[3] with which you can also directly upload to a server via ssh/scp/sftp, and it allows you to specify extra files that should be uploaded with your main file (css, images etc). It deals neatly with internal and external links, internal links (inside or between your org-documents) are neatly converted for html. As a bonus, you can just stick your org-files into git/svn/bzr, i.e. a version control of your choice, since they are simple plaintext (though, again, it depends whether this is relevant for you).

[1]: http://orgmode.org/

[2]: http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html#Exporting

[3]: http://orgmode.org/manual/Publishing.html#Publishing
Offer HN Free: we'll redesign 1 page and improve its metrics
After working in NYC for most of my career, I'm starting a product and UX company in Colombia (South America).

To test my team and to produce some quality work that we can show off, we'll redesign do 1 page of your web or mobile app for free.

It should be a page with a measurable metric (clicks, conversions, signups, engagement), and our goal will be to dramatically improve that metric, while also improving the user experience.

We'll spend 1 week doing it. Includes wireframes and PSDs. You need to be available to discuss your project and metrics and provide feedback, and you need to be able to implement changes.

We're not looking for new clients, we're looking to do a real project to show off the quality of the work that we do.

My email is in my profile.
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From the supplied link:

> The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) makes it illegal for an employer to discriminate with respect to hiring, firing, or recruitment or referral for a fee, based upon an individual's citizenship or immigration status. The law prohibits employers from hiring only U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents unless required to do so by law, regulation or government contract.

Also, Why didn't they say "Brazilian citizens"? Why did they use the ambiguous "applicants from Brazil"?
Yeah! It's also ridiculous because of the quote at the beginning:
" When a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in February, the world’s space agencies found out along with the rest of us, on Twitter and YouTube. "

which totally demonstrates how unnecessary this is and how
" it's pretty obvious one country or organization, somewhere, is going to try something about it if it means human race survival"

I guess the organizations that will be doing something about it will be either 'Twitter' or 'youtube', my money is on Twitter. Have you tried Bootstrap, they will totally be able to handle this issue.
What's nice about Namecheap is their UI doesn't suck. I've found nic.io confusing compared to my experience using Namecheap.

Why would you expect the domains to get cheaper anyway? That's not really within Namecheap's control.
I didn't down vote you. Nor do I think people are down voting you because of what you said in your edit (about where the UN gets their money).

I think you're being down voted because you said Asteroids almost never visibly hit Earth. It might be true as far as extinction events, but when (not IF) it does happen and it's the right size we'll all vanish.

IMO it's prudent to at least have these discussions and have something in place. If the UN is capable of the undertaking is a different story.
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The example is from the first hit for a Google search for "C++ lambda syntax" (an MSDN article). In any case, unusual language features still are part of the syntax. They must be parsed and they must be understood by programmers in case they come across them. The ugly parts of a language don't go away just because you don't use them that often.

Also, I'm not sure what you're objecting to. The throw clause? The ugly part here is the overloading of the brackets and equal sign to specify the capture list.
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This reminds me of Caller ID spoofing. It was nicely described in Kevin Mitnick's book "The Art of Deception".
This is an interesting point.

We want to be able to share things about where we live and when we were born, but since these variables are used for identity confirmation, we are stuck with a trade-off.

A unique reference to be used for identity confirmation is an alternative, but it also has drawbacks. The identifier becomes concrete over time, so we become bound to the identifier. Anonymity becomes more challenging and the identifier slowly becomes a requirement rather than an option.

An challenge to get the right balance.
Actually, this is something I've found too, and people seem a little bit more motivated to actually use the domains they've bought. Plus I love this extension for web apps that are used by the tech community because they actually understand understand generic ccTLDs.
There is a thing in most kinds of investing and trading called slippage. This is when you decide you want to buy something at say $100/unit but by the time your order reaches the market, the price has moved, maybe it's $101, maybe it's $99. If you are buying a lot, then it's unlikely there's a single counterparty you can trade with, so you will actually be doing it as many smaller trades. Sometimes slippage moves for you, sometimes against but that's not the kind of trading you want to do because it involves taking on more risk, you want confidence that the price you ask for is the price you're going to get, and you don't want your trades to affect the price. HFT techniques are invaluable here.
The United Nations is not a world government. Please keep repeating this until it sinks in.

It's a treaty organization designed to prevent another world war. As such, it's worked kinda sorta okay. Not great, but you could argue that it worked, so that's something. It's also provided somewhat of a permanent diplomatic forum, that's pretty good too.

There are a lot of technical reasons why the UN is not a world government and can never be. The biggest is that there is no representation of the actual people being governed there. Because it's a treaty organization, it just has the representation of the world governments. Unfortunately, we live in a world where your government's interests and your own do not always align very well at all. It's also bound by treaties. Treaties have a tendency to be interpreted all sorts of ways by the various parties involved. The more parties, the more room for interpretation there is.

There's also no feedback loop for the possibility that they might do something wrong. There's no independent judiciary, there's no rule of law.

I could go on, but it should be obvious. The UN isn't a world government. Folks can pretend that it is, and the UN itself can labor under the illusion that it is, but structurally it isn't made to be one.

So sure, let WHO do it's thing and let various nations pitch in to put those little blue helmets on guys to try to prevent conflict. Lots of good things for the UN to do that kind of fall under the "treaty org to prevent future world wars". But asteroid defense? Not even close. Not unless there's a chance the Russians might start lobbing asteroids at the US or something.
if you take a human at say classification task, they'd be able to explain why they identify bicycle as bicycle and not, say, bulldozer.

I don't think this is such an easy task. In the professional world of scientific taxonomy there are many problems with classification. The problem seems to stem from the tension between intensional and extensional definitions.
Haha would be ok for me. i'm trying to lose some fat ;)
> If you include ethics into your decisions...

By definition (almost), ethics is the systematic study of what one should or should not do. Are you suggesting ignoring the systematic study of what one should or should not do when one has to decide what one should or should not do?

> then suddenly you are not able to work for a lot of companies...

Well, every person has their own levels of comfort with various practices. Ethics doesn't give you clear-cut answers, it's just a way to think about decisions.
There was no implied consensus in what you quote. It wasn't even about approval or people's opinions of the UN. I think you read this statement as something like "everyone believes that the UN is mostly incapable" (which would be about popular opinion) rather than "the UN is mostly incapable" (which can be measured, in this case, by reduction of deaths after the UN gets involved (or lack thereof, if that's the case)).
I just re-installed Fish this morning. One of the first things I install when I have a fresh install on a workstation :D

The thing I appreciate most about fish is the clever suggestions from my shell history - the simplest things can be the biggest time-savers when it comes to entering obscure commands a few weeks apart (I don't have to look them up each time I do it now)
"The mainstream press has had its failures — episodes of credulousness, false equivalency, sensationalism and inattention — for which we have been deservedly flogged."

From that list, the stand-out failure of the mainstream press is unquestionably "inattention". The decay of in-depth reporting of stories that will impact society in exchange for focusing the spotlight on more-marketable content is a self-inflicted wound that shows no signs of remission. One of the most talked-about pieces of content that's come out of the NYTimes in recent years was their Snow Fall piece. It explored a new way of communicating a story, and may serve as a model for how they present some content in the future - but ultimately, a story that provided the Times with some of its greatest exposure in recent memory was just a story about an avalanche that affected an infinitesimally small percentage of the world.

Broadcast news has decided to follow a formula. Evening news dumps the real news out in a half-hour, usually capping the 24-minutes left over after their pharmaceutical or insurance commercials run to finish their show off with something to make viewers feel good about the world - maybe an inspirational story about some kid that got to score a touchdown, or a new baby animal at the zoo. But that touchdown, or that baby animal video, or the story about the royal "whatever" comes at the expense of inattention to something that impacts a whole lot more people than the puff piece.

But maybe they have no choice. If the NYTimes runs a piece on a subject on their cover every-day for a year, a majority of their readers might stop reading. If broadcast news started their evening newscast with a story about the environment every night maybe people would change the channel or turn them off completely.

Greenwald, and others have the advantage that they currently can take a story and carry it for days, weeks, months, or years if that's what it takes to tell the story. The NSA story is big enough, and apparently the source material is numerous-enough, that 5 months later there's still enormous repercussions for the revelations just-now being published. The attention he's giving to this one story must be unsettling to a business setup to cover NSA revelations in the same publication as a story about twerking. Makes you wonder how many other stories of this magnitude are just waiting to be revealed - but aren't due to lack of focus by those entrusted to report.
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You can still play around with computers like that! In fact, just `pacman -S qemu` and you're set! Mode 13h is awesome. I wrote a little quine[1] in x86, using mode 13h.

[1] https://github.com/jdiez17/quines/tree/master/bootable_quine
What OS are you using ? If you are on Linux, you can subscribe to our repositories from http://fishshell.com/files/2.1.0/linux/index.html and update your package.
The great thing is, author provided all platform installer.
Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, Fedora, even readhat 5,6 and so on.
So great for people lazy to compile by themselves for trying little software.
Good job! I up-voted you!
What's the difference between remote Brazilian workers and remote Peruvian workers?
I think they are referring to applicants specifically located in Brazil. I'm not sure if that would qualify as discriminatory if they are using the term as a geographic qualifier as opposed to an ethnic one. I'm also not sure if that law even applies if they are recruiting possible international employees. (It certainly would though if there was a US based Brazilian citizen applying).

They should probably clarify the posting.
I just had an argument with some folks around Bash vs Fish, my argument was as simple as "i like it", their was "you won't learn anything, fish sucks, you can do anything it does with a modded bash" ... but that's the point, i don't want to modify and configure, i want it to work out of the box.
Is that it? That sounds basically the same as the UK, although with redundancy pay in place of the fine.

The US is the outlier in allowing people to be fired for no reason.
gandi.net offers a better deal at 29€ for an .io domain.
With love: I always felt like fish and even zsh are kind of beautiful OCD-induced bouts of counter productivity in the same vain as Dvorak keyboard layouts and Plan 9. We can't handle things being messy and imperfect so we solve it by building our own parallel universes.

What do you do when you have to use a computer without your customization? Perfect is the enemy of good, worse is better, join us on the dark side, all that jazz. :)

Is fish really really REALLY worth it?
Let's put it this way: if the character of the people you work with matters to you, then HFT is not something you'd want to do.
I guess it could be if they were to be able to buy in significant enough bulk (although not sure how much of that is already factored into the price): http://nic.io/join.html#benefits
I would disagree strongly in that they've been ineffective at accomplishing anything.

OK I've heard from every distant acquaintance and social media connection since 2007 who's even vaguely neo-con that 'bama is absolutely positively a verified practicing Muslim. OK so lets say he is for the sake of an inductive proof. He's been in power quite awhile, and my kids haven't been forced to attend Mosque school, Sunday school has not been made illegal, the rapture hasn't happened, we haven't nuked Israel, Sharia law hasn't replaced our local laws, OK you clowns, if he is in fact a Muslim, aside from the thought experiment above, give me one reason, just one, why I should care? Because it obviously doesn't seem to matter. And next election, if an out of the closet Muslim was on the ballot, I'd vote for him, after all nothing relevant happened with "'Bama the Muslim" in charge, so the next Muslim president isn't going to be any more of a problem, right?

Ditto the jew thing, where people who hate jews to a ridiculous level seem quite competent at making themselves look like idiots, which seems fairly effective at discrediting their position. Their position may or may not be correct, but if the only people pushing it are morons, then ... at least from the "victims" point of view, that's a good thing? If the only people who hate you are widely viewed as morons, that's probably a good situation to be in?
keep fighting the good fight :) eventually they'll learn, and the next programmer/creative/etc that has to deal with them will benefit. thank you in advance :)
Oh good. Now to setup a blog about programming web api's in GO complete with a little round picture of myself.
Yes, fish is not bourne shell compatible and never will be.

Fish is as the name (Friendly Interactive SHell) suggests an interactive shell.
You should just set vim/emacs/whatever to use a bourne-compatible shell.
It's one line of vim config:
set shell=/bin/sh
This shows a Macintosh Plus running System 7.0.1. The computer could actually run versions up to 7.5.5 – an OS that came out in 1996. That’s quite amazing, given the Plus was released in 1986.

Try running Windows 8 or OS X Mavericks on a 10 year old computer.
It really depends on how you define HFT. If we define it as the author does, then it's not so much a dead end, rather it is really hard to move in on. I like to think of latency arbitrage (including pairs trades, exchange arb, etc.) as a utility. It takes a massive amount of investment, but if you do that you can get a very steady return. The problem is that in most of those trades there is no money in being the second best. These leads to an environment where the people already invested are in an arms race to keep at the front.

If on the other hand, you are talking about other forms of algorithmic trading, there is still money to be made by being smart, having insight, having better procedures, or faster time to market etc. The arms race in latency arbitrage has actually made a lot of this easier as it has dramatically brought down the cost of entry to the non-bleeding edge of latency use cases.
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Fitness is both difficult to do and simple to think about. Selling fitness products is a great source of money because you can always convince the customer that it's their fault they didn't become fit. Of course it's not what the consumer needs, it's what the business needs.
I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39).

Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?
js is turing complete. In theory you should be able to write an emulator for an OS using js your browser runs. Turns out people are doing this.

From there its just the everday craziness of emulation. Emulating the instruction set, the IO devices, etc.
If inflation is much higher in one country than another, then exports from the country with lower inflation will be more competitive on the global market.

Depends on what the inflation actually does. For global trade, it's only relative prices that matter. If relative prices did not change in the inflation, the exchange rate would adjust and that's all that would happen. This is because exchange markets react much faster (orders of magnitude) than export/import markets.

If the inflation reduces the real wages of workers in the country, then high inflation actually means that the country's exports will become more competitive. (But the workers in that country might not like it... so much for the benefits of "competitiveness").

As to the question about international investments, let me put the caveat that most of what people talk in that arena is nonsense. That said, even accepting some of the rather absurd premises: it is still a question of relative prices. If you have 0% inflation domestically, but also 0% interest, then perhaps you may want to put that money in an account abroad where you have 5% inflation but get 8% interest.

Again, it is not the high inflation itself that makes investment unattractive. Volatile inflation is another beast, but stable and high inflation has so far not been shown to be a problem.

Also note that in your last paragraph, you simply rephrased your original claim without giving an argument.
A lot of the commentary places importance on getting stuff done in a single day...

I think sometimes we overlook that really strong problems require many days of active/passive thought. Soooo, sometimes interruptions are good!
I suppose they could, in theory, negotiate a better deal with the nic.io folks, with the pitch that making it easier to register domains will increase overall registration. Like you've said, nic.io isn't the most user friendly experience. I stopped myself a few times when registering, wondering if I was indeed on the correct site (because the official domain registry for a TLD couldn't possibly be this awkward).
I had similar problems, and found a work around that works great for me:

bash is configured as my default shell. So every program that runs my default shell and just assumes it can use POSIX syntax, gets what it wants (even though it should really just use /bin/sh).

My terminal on the other hand is configured to ignore my default shell and run fish instead.

I also have a line in my .bash_profile (meaning it only runs for login shells) that checks whether it's running in a virtual terminal and in that case exec's fish in a new tmux (because tmux is a terminal emulator, which means that any bash instances within it won't know they are in a virtual terminal and behave like a normal bash).
It's very possible that Air France couldn't have them on a plane sooner. This can happen. But Air France would be smart to communicate this more clearly. It's bad enough having to be stranded somewhere, but to leave your passengers -- which paid you to be taken from point A to point B -- wondering if and when anything is going to happen is not a very good idea in my opinion. This whole story would not have been written if they'd had that in order.
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The following bit -- "now who seriously expects" -- makes clear the author's intent. The expected answer is "no one", in conflict with reality.
It's not a zero-sum game like trading, though. You do try to benefit society and the economy, and even if you don't succeed, people make a living off that "blown" money.
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What do you do when you have to use a computer without your customization?

Uh, by that logic I would only use notepad.exe.
Yes it does, for some reasons I'm an idiot that was using buttons on the left and didn't see the C.
Yep, outside Des Moines. I don't have a reference for the rest of it, that was from conversations with MS employees.

http://www.eweek.com/cloud/microsoft-parks-cloud-over-700m-i...