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I find the idea of trading stocks on a frequent basis too much work. Therefore I keep it simple.

Every time we have a stock market crash I buy once the market seems to be stabilizing again. Then I sit on those shares for years. Then I sell (hopefully before the next crash).

I think we are nearing the next crash, therefore I'll be selling it all again (probably before 2014 or early 2014).

I only buy tech stocks. I don't know the companies in other verticals and I don't have the time or energy to research them.
Kotlin is certainly in the "Java philosophy" camp (alongside Go, Dart), and yet achieves most if not all of Scala's original goals (though, unlike Scala, it is not a superset of Haskell, Lisp, Javascript and Java, so if you want to write Lisp, Haskell and Javascript, and insist on having all three compiled by the same compiler, you should stick with Scala :)). I have high hopes for Kotlin, and can certainly see my future projects being written in a combination of Kotlin and Clojure.
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I think it's a great idea that solves an actual problem and it would probably help smooth out voting rings that slip past the detector.

However, that would probably mean HN couldn't optimize or cache the front page. On the other hand, this is a feature for logged-in users only, so it might be feasible.
It's going to relate to you as a person, whether you're 'right' for freelancing.

I'm not a freelancer, but I have some experience of helping set up other companies, so perhaps questions to help you decide for yourself (and the reasoning behind asking them).

1. Can you relate to people? Are you happy in a social environment? Can you 'market' yourself?
Part of freelancing is you're going to need to find work for yourself. If you're happy cold calling and asking a company if they need work done then it'll work out, but you need to be able to sell yourself.

2. Are you self motivated?
It's all very well getting out of bed to travel to somewhere you /have/ to work, but actually doing it for yourself when you could just hit that snooze button until midday, and then play some of that new game you just got...

3. Are you good with numbers?
Starting out, you're probably going to be doing your own taxes, it's dire, and something that is frequently put off until the last minute. However, you're going to need to balance your own books, or hire an accountant ( which increases the initial money you need to earn ).

4. What capital do you have?
If you get no money at all for the next 6 months, can you still survive? People throw figures around all the time, but the one that (for some unknown reason), has stuck with me is 1 year. Do you have enough in the bank to survive for a year without work, scraping by?

I can't answer the 'local or remote' part. It'll be related to what you know, what you want to be programming/doing, where in the world you are. Essentially - the opportunities around you.
Well, kinda. It's got a strong vinegarish flavour and some mustard to it. I'd say it's more of a mayonnaise-based salad dressing than an actual mayo.
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> Lesson Learned #5: When you invest in something, you are NOT making money off of that product/company/currency existing. You are making money from the growth of that product/company/currency.

Let me introduce you to a concept called "dividends"...
> If you want to run Linux on your laptop, don't use either.

Actually CentOS 6.4 has been the most reliable thing on my Lenovo T61, T400 and Dell T3500. Everything works from hibernate, sleep, WiFi, SAS, SSD's out of the box with no configuration.

This is the polar opposite of Ubuntu, Debian stable, Debian testing and Mint which are royal bastards to get off the ground.
You make a very good point. The patent office is like a public email inbox sitting on the internet, to which anyone can submit source code to have it be compiled and run. The output of these programs is then made the law of the land and enforced by the power of our judicial system. What person in their right mind would want to be the person who has to verify all of the source code coming into this email box?

It's such an extremely absurd idea that I'm amazed at how many people accept it as being normal. Patents are the closest thing we have to literal buying of laws.
I'd be great to read another Bitcoin article instead, wouldn't it?
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That's because short positions are defined by using borrowed money. Not only will they lose money in a crash, they will be bankrupted into unrepayable debt by a crash. So if they think it's crashing, they have to sell before a certain price because they do not have the money to cover their position.
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I wholeheartedly agree! After spending half my career cleaning up malware, this seems to be the #1 reason for performance complaints.... That, and the fact many vendors pre-load crappy software to subsidise the cost of the PC... It is hell for the average everyday user. We here know better than to click on the numerous green ad 'Download Now' buttons that litter a single page.
Normally, being willing to lock up your money for longer gets you the liquidity premium (e.g., term structure of interest rates).

This argument of long-term investment I have heard used pro the German and Italian (sleeping giant) economies, which are dominated by family owned SMEs.
the worst offender on this list is Adobe Analytics. If not loaded, it breaks most websites, as I can only imagine that its calls are ... (shudder) ... synchronous.
How can I draw a circle using this app?
What sucks is that latency hiding techniques are not applied. For example, prefetching HTTP requests unfortunately breaks a lot of (HTTP GET misusing) web apps.
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I call it cheapo mayo with just enough corn stash to benefit from government invectives on corn products.
Actually it can - everything but the asics themselves. And the asics - this is ultrapure silicon - I suppose some of the fabs have some sort of recycling program.
Yeah, it is, essentially. But then, if you call a slice of toast between two slices of "bread" a sandwich, I can imagine how you would think that mayonnaise is something that should be put on a salad. ;)

Local view: The sort of bread I've seen people abroad use for toast sandwich, is essentially what we call "toast" in Germany too.
Specifically, "toast", in Germany, refers to mostly pre-cut, soft bread with a squarish cross section so bland in taste and so deprived of nutrient content that only toasting will turn it into "food". Nutrient content is just as absent, after toasting, but at least the burned parts help digestion. :]

So here, a toast sandwich is a slice of (toasted) bread between two untoasted slices of the same bread, more or less.
I've never seen any native eat sth. like this, in Germany.

On the other hand, we do have gustatorially misguided contemporaries here, too, that do think that mayonnaise-derived stuff belongs on a salad.
Oh, don't worry. She screwed over 40000 people. The number of lawsuits she'll have to defend against should see her ass parked in court for a decade. Even without any conviction.
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Bare in mind that the Titan is not the fastest GPU, the 290x and the 780ti are. And they're decent at 4K: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/11/11/geforce_gtx_780_ti...
Just run the (for now non-existent) numbers.

How many people die because of a manual override that does worse than the computer? How many people die because the computer itself did a mistake that a human could reasonably have overridden safely?

I fully expect the second number to be much lower than the first —eventually. And when it does, I'll be glad when manual driving is considered a lesser crime. Because make no mistake: risking your own life is your choice. Drive on tracks, smoke, drink, have unprotected sex (with an informed and willing partner), whatever. On the other hand, driving on public roads put everyone else at risk. A small risk, but still. I say that having such control over their lives is simply unethical.

> Yet they seem to implicitly trust the result of those same humans building the network and infrastructure to do the driving for them.

Of course, never trust them farther tan you can throw them. But you can throw them pretty far: just sue their ass off whenever they're responsible for an otherwise avoidable accident (like a bug in the software caused by sloppy practices). Also, they can test the cars, and you can expect more consistency, compared to human drivers.
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S America. We used old bread, toasted on that tray under the oven when cooking something else.
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It's unfair of you to pick the first quote and ignore his mentioning that he worked in finance.
That also sounds a lot like the Australian 'delicacy' Fairy Bread - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_bread
Plus they don't have to roll out worldwide simultaneously, they can just do a few select cities at first.
Great idea. Would be interesting to see it trialed.
I can think of a few problems:

1) Scale: a small store might not have enough sales to justify buying a single drone and training the staff to use it.

2) Regulation: licensing and certifications to be allowed to use these - particularly in a completely hands-off way - may have high fixed costs that a small store can't afford.

3) Lack of knowledge: most small store managers probably don't have any idea of how to set this up, or that it is even possible.

And in the end, why would you buy from the local mom-n-pop store? Nostalgia? Helping the people you know? I think that'd wear out pretty soon or just not work for many people.
As others have mentioned, consistency can be important in coffee. I ask for the same coffee every time in Starbucks, and make mine the same every morning at work.

But... That's not to say you aren't on to something. Cranky folks stuck in their ways probably aren't any disrupter's target market. And you could always introduce, "Just stick with last month's beans" as an option.
You never work with scripting languages? (i.e., why is there no Python, Ruby or Javascript in your lists? or maybe I do'nt know Haxe, does that replace them?)
What would be that? I don't like to click in random stuff...
You ought to get points for remembering the punchline for the NoSQL one, so I upvoted you. All I could remember was "it was really funny."
I often see this happening... with programming.
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$5000 to enter a top high school? It shows how little currency there is there! In some US cities $5K won't pay for the admissions consultant, let alone the first 3 months of tuition!

And yes, it seems fascinating that someone from NK could write on a public forum. I would think that it's very censored, no? But is that just my view of a situation that I know nothing about?
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I showed an example of using Unicode operators in a presentation I gave to the Atlanta group back in 2010. It doesn't say it in the slide, but when I gave the talk, I explained that while it sounds like a neat idea, you should probably avoid doing this. You can see the slide here, where I used a Delta as an operator slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/2923973?startSlide=9
It's basically weak, pickle-less tartar sauce.
It's a greasemonkey / tampermonkey script which removes the table rows that contain irrelevant bitcoin related stuff.

This is just a link to the userscripts page, you can see the full source code, and you don't have to install it if you don't like :)
Either that, or disruptive innovation that media has picked up.
Given that Oberon was originally designed to run on a 10MHz CPU, that won't be much of a problem :)
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You could have two versions of the site, one with random noise, one without. Or maybe even specify the noise.
Depends what you call decent. 15 FPS(minimum) at medium settings in Crysis3 is hardly what I'd call decent for the best graphics chip out there. I'd say it's playable at best, but far from being where you want to be.
CentOS is one of many distributions built from RHEL sources.

You use RHEL or it's derivatives for a series of reasons which all orbit around the same theme: supportability.

Red Hat works with major software and hardware vendors (especially 'enterprise' software and hardware) and with that you get official support between OS/Software/Hardware.

Red Hat releases stay viable for years and years so that the software you write will keep working with the same OS for years and years – OS updates won't kill software that used to work, and the setup you create will continue to work for quite a long time.

Red Hat keeps on top of security problems, fixes them quickly, and tells you about them in a professional manner.

Rogue hackers, brand new start-ups, and the like are very often much more interested in the latest and greatest thing and _not_ the long haul. Red Hat is conservative with what's new and popular focusing instead on maintainability and supportability.
I'll look forward to pulling that cable down and taking the contents of the packages
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And if I am asking you in an interview, it would be a given that you would be actively encouraged to figure out how to break it. One key skill in knowing how to break it knowing how one might be built.

Learning how to think abstractly is one thing, but the ability to "puncture" abstractions is quite another. The latter is more valuable in this context.
As upsetting as the story is, I'm trying to reserve judgement until more is known.

Having known people with acute mental health problems, I know that people are not routinely sanctioned in the UK -- even when police become involved. The fact that they committed her and carried out a forced caesarean makes me think she must have been self-harming, attempting suicide, or a self-induced abortion; in which case, I can fully understand why this was done.

Of course, because of patient confidentiality, the authorities aren't going to disclose the details unless it goes to court.
I appreciate DO a lot. I am a 23 year old math and physics engineer, used to understanding how stuff works, and converting to code and development, and it's surprinsingly hard to find articles like these that give instructions then explain the why of it.
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So was Ireland, were not doing too bad now, thank you
Grapher is such a handy tool. Unfortunately, it hasn't received any updates since its introduction. There are a couple bugs, e.g. when right clicking on an equation in the sidebar, the context menu does not appear properly.
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That's what I meant when I said it was for logged-in users only.
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I'm the complete opposite - I've never even seen a drone-like machine.

Could you squeeze in any more minutes with solar panelling? I mean if they have to fly in decent weather anyway they may as well try to get a bit more charge in them while flying
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Awful code written in anger. I would be ashamed to claim copyright on it too.
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>>It's an empty statement that could apply to almost any development language no matter how objectively 'good' or 'bad' it is.

No, it isn't really contentless.

All really complex systems will have ... well, less than perfect parts. That goes for programming languages in (at least) a subset of their use cases.

You can either live in denial of "cruft" when choosing programming language or accept that you need to enforce a standard of best practices in your group.

Then you evaluate languages with how they works if the best practices are followed. JavaScript's "good parts" -- and bad -- are well documented and discussed, most everyone knows about this subject.

The overhead of designing/teaching and following those "best practices" needs to be factored into the equation too, of course. It might e.g. be too much of a pain for the std library of PHP (example chosen because I don't know PHP enough to have an opinion.)
There is generally nothing anchoring the value of any asset trading above the costs of the inputs required to make it.

For example, any real estate with a premium for its "better location," suits by Armani, sunglasses by Gucci carries a similar premium. This applies to gold as well--a huge part of the value is the expectation that others will continue to like shiny things.

Nothing anchors their price, or premium, other than a system of social beliefs and expectations. Specifically, beliefs about how others will perceive them are all crucial in how people value these items.

The same is true for bitcoin. It starts with a belief that others will also prefer to store value in currency with a higher utility--storable with no fees, and instantly transmissible lower fees--lower friction. It isn't so much the greater fool theory as it is the starting of a journey toward a Nash Equilibrium. But first everyone has to come to a belief about how they, and others view the currency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_equilibrium

Once this has happened and additionally the markets have become more liquid, things can level out. Right now, the world-brain is confused about how it feels about bitcoin.
I can safely say I won't tolerate less than 20Hz, 50ms. Anything below that, even if the color 8-bit and a little wonky, and the viewing angle poor, and it is a bit dim, I'm taking it. I guess the other considerations are price and compatibility.
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The facts as reported are almost certainly incomplete - to the point where they completely fail to represent the truth.

This is necessarily so - in the UK we have strong privacy laws to protect both the mother and the child but make no mistake despite the barrier to public review (shall we call it kindly) everyone will have been represented properly by the best available legal, medical and social agencies.

I speak from a little knowledge (not of this case because if I did know something of that then I would be silent) but because my wife and I are foster parents and are regularly involved in the processes that secure the best available outcomes for each child temporarily in our care.
But there is a fundamental angle that I find odd about people's perception of intelligence. People expect intelligence to be always found alongside ambition.

In many cases these don't go side by side. People with higher intelligence don't have to work hard in school, and skate by. The people who work hard their entire life later on appear to be smarter.
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She also made her colleagues production figures look very bad.
I'd sue her too over lost bonuses.
I wouldn't be worried about dogs either.

I am worried about the 16-year old holding a mobile phone or an old lady throwing out the garbage.
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I remember Ed Kroll's books from the early-mid 1990s when I first started getting online.

Clearly they didn't date well, but his books along with the "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook" (I had the red one, not sure which edition), set down the foundation for me.

Off the back of those I ended up going down a path as a Senior Engineer at one of the UK's largest ISPs and then getting back into development in the Internet industry ever since.

I owe a lot to Ed Kroll, amongst many others. Great to see this released through PG.
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we've been flying with drones with heavy payloads for a while now - http://londonhelicam.co.uk

The main thing is energy density - the batteries only allow for about 10-15 mins flight with a reasonable payload. Considering Amazon will have to do a roundtrip, this will not give them a very long range.

The second thing is safety - we never fly above people. I don't think the authorities will allow Amazon to fly over populated areas until the tech is 100% safe, which it isn't yet.

I think we're looking around the same time frame as with self driving electric cars becoming commonplace.. Many of the problems with battery life and safety are shared. Maybe 7 years?
> "As soon as one of these kills a dog it's done for"

As soon as it kills a dog, you'll have to put certified accelerometer-triggered parachutes on them, and that's it.

When accepting a risk improves logistics dramatically, we get used to that risk: just look at the death toll (and city-planning horrors) we gladly accept in exchange for pervasive car usage.

I think this will end up as important as the invention of the lorry for deliveries, and Amazon makes sure it'll master this technology before it even comes on its competitors' radars.
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