skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Italian expat myself (now an American expat to Europe), having been in the same situation you are now, I'd like to give you my opinion, based on my experience and life (with all the caveats that those two imply).

It sums up in a few steps:

1. Save some money for at least two months of surviving (not living large.. surviving).
2. Pick a city among London, Edinburgh, or Amsterdam.
Find a cheap place to sleep & eat.
3. Book a ticket.
4. Pack your bag.
5. Move.
6. Apply to any job in your field. Do start with internships or entry level jobs.
7. Get better at the craft.
8. Repeat from step 6, optionally step 2, till you are content.

In short, it's all up to you, so just do it. Seriously.

You are young and in a field wide open. You live in a first world country surrounded by more first world countries. Today is so easy to emigrate that it's ridiculous.
By the way, you'll find out that the grass on the other side is not that green.. but that's something that will take time.

I'd like to add two more controversial opinions:

. It's really hard to be an expat. No matter where you're from and which country you go.

. Forget the USA for now. Is not what it used to be, and this coming from someone who went to the US, and is now an American. Go to England or the Netherlands. Germany is good too!

Cheers.
I seriously consider Steve Jobs to be a sociopath.
Too fast, beautiful and perfect to be called a true Mac ;)
You see that everywhere, unfortunately. I'm on a 2012 Macbook Air, and the Bootstrap documentation's sidebar navigation doesn't fit in the height of my screen.

If that doesn't demonstrate how hard it is to get responsive web design right, I don't know what does!
A quick note to say I've received an email from Google - the calendar team are treating this as a bug and are implementing a fix.

Hopefully it should make it a lot more obvious to users when a meeting invitation is about to be sent.
Plus, the article is computer-searchable (Ctrl-f) and you can more easily point somebody to a specific passage or quote it.
Can you rate something 0 stars?
Using Atlas Probes to diagnose intermittent performance issues
For the latest version (7.x +) go to https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3273567?hl=en&ref_topi...
My point was exactly what your last sentence said : they are already printing so much money and it doesn't provide inflation.
Your point i guess is that china has 1 trillion in USD, which is such a huge amount that emitting this on the market will create inflation.

I just checked the numbers, and in 2011 the second quantitative easing (aka "printing money") was 600 billions, and the third is 40 billions every month. And it doesn't have any impact on inflation (which remains a bit of a mystery to me, unless this money is instantly used by the banks just to balance banks internal debts and taken out of the economy).
Building an application by rendering static webpages is just a horrible cludge. How did we even get here? How are we still even considering that the godawful turd that is string concatenation of DOM descriptors polished by a layer of templating languages is actually a decent way of writing applications?

Do you seriously believe this?

The virtual DOM is probably the biggest elephant in the room. It begs the question: why the hell isn't the REAL DOM like that?
I'm confused -- what big change happened in 2002? The "sunflower" iMac is the only thing I can think of.
I rather hated the Ruby DSL in Chef... turned me off the idea of DSLs in general in fact.

I haven't used Saltstack but the use of (jinja-)templated YAML or just plain Python for state files seems like a big plus.
The interesting part is whenever they use the same algorithm for hashing passphrases (there's an option to lock phone using a proper passphrase, not 4-digit pin).
$240k is not the upper bound though. Granted, it's a good salary for an employee, but that's really just an indicator that maybe you don't want to be an employee.

In reality, your salary as a developer is unbounded. There are plenty of examples here of engineers who have built their own software product businesses that bring in orders of magnitude more than the number you quote.

If you're good at what you do, there's really nothing stopping you from going out and getting that lawyer money. You just have to step outside the conventional path a little bit.
...says the crazy communist. Certamen ad hominem in infinitum, ac vicit nemo (or some such). According to the dictionary ( http://thesaurus.com/browse/libertarian ) we could go on for a while, it's just utterly pointless. Rather than pointing fingers (babies can do that much), I'm merely asking a simple question why said libertarians would be crazy. FMR
Why not throw in 'social stimulation' as well? Both rats and humans are very social creatures. It'd be interesting to see how an isolated, well exercised rat's brain compares to a socially active, non-exercised rat's brain.
To a degree I agree with you but I'm downvoting for the trollish and inflammatory way you phrased your comment.

However - there are lots of reasons to use javascript on the server even if we accept there are superior languages.
I'm in and out of recording studios all the time. I haven't seen anyone running a Windows rig in probably 8 years. Everyone I know is running Pro Tools or Ableton on a Mac. And even back when I saw people using Windows in that role, they used external audio interfaces, just like they do now. Except with Thunderbolt, you get the expandability with effectively no latency.

I love Windows, but the recording industry lives on Macs.
Should it be illegal to operate a website that hosts user-generated content, some of which is illegal, if you take reasonable steps to remove the illegal content when informed of its existence?

The answer is pretty clearly "no." But this position becomes more difficult to defend when the entire premise of the website is based on illegal content. Something like e.g. if YouTube was originally named ShareMusicIllegally.com.

Actually, at this point in writing my comment, I checked my facts. It turns out "revenge porn" wasn't illegal until Oct 2013, and then only in California. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/revenge-porn-banned-in-californi...

So this is a very unusual situation. We have a business built on a concept which wasn't illegal until recently. Did he continue to try to operate it in California after the bill was signed into law?

One position to take is "Who cares. This is a good thing."

That may be true, but remember that if you have the right to host whatever legal content you wish, then the first step toward losing that right is to not defend it. Sometimes that requires defending scoundrels.

Honestly, I don't know what to think. Maybe this isn't an instance of that sort of situation. On one hand, there are concerns about civil liberties in regards to webhosting. On the other hand, this website was clearly vile.

What does everyone think about how this has played out? Businessman builds a morally suspect business; business is outlawed; businessman is fined $250k. Did he deserve it? Perhaps it was karma. Is it a worrying trend that website operators are becoming increasingly culpable for user content? What if there were a subreddit dedicated to "revenge porn"? Should Reddit be liable for damages under California law, and should the subreddit be banned even though there are far worse subreddits, both from a moral and legal standpoint? So many questions (though most of it is conjecture, and hence may not be very useful).

EDIT: It turns out that the $250k fine wasn't due to user generated content, but rather because the website owner defamed someone by calling them a pedophile. So maybe the rights of website owners aren't even in question here. Was there any legal action taken against this "revenge porn" website owner stemming from the website after it was made illegal in Oct 2013?
In turkey, current government divides people into two groups (done through media, NGO's etc.): Pro-Assad, and Anti-Assad. Even though you do not fancy the guy, one morning when you wake up, you find yourself a Pro-Assad.

Even though you scream out that you are against war, and any crimes by persons or governments should be judged by an independent court, and war is not a solution, you still are a Pro-Assad. After sometime, I found out that this is not a local situation, this applies to the whole world. I know that once these are over, no war crimes will be punished, they will be loosely covered.

I remember when turkish prime minister visited Assad, handshakes, good wills. A few months later, you see that this same prime minister, just in a moment, starts to tell exact same words with some other governments which are very impatient to start a war (as if they were reading from a paper).

I know that no government is clean, they all have hands in blood, blood of a minority, another country or nation etc. Assad is not an exception but I believe that the other side of this war is not clean either. After seeing a lot of lies being told by the Turkish government and the media, I am more sure that this is not a fair fight, and this is not about Assad torturing the Syrian citizens. And I know that supporting bloodshed beheading islamic fundamentalist murderers is far from willing goodness of Syrian people.
Thanks a lot for your response. I may shoot you an email since you offered before. Would be interested in discussing further.
Windows is incredibly hampered by the desire to maintain backwards compatibility. There's a ton of ugly stuff that could have been jettisoned by now if it wasn't for the need to support some program written in 1990 for the windows 2.0 API.

I agree there are many benefits to backwards compatibility, and in some cases it is warranted (though these days you can use virtual machines to achieve much the same goals). Apple made a different choice, and their platform is all the better for it. I like that they deprecate things and don't keep us held back by ancient technology.
> "Trove is a digital news innovation group within Graham Holdings (formerly The Washington Post Company)."

Does this mean: Bezos bought the WaPo, the parent company rebranded, CmdrTaco works for the old owners, and thus is not affiliated with the WaPo any more?
Here's the list of people and things featured:

- 1984, original Macintosh

- 1985, Jon Appleton, pioneer in electro-acoustical music and key figure in the development of the digital synthesizer

- 1986, April Greiman, seminal figure in the New Wave graphic design movement

- 1987, Theodore Gray, co-founder of Wolfram Research

- 1988, Ahn Sang-soo, pioneer in Korean typography

- 1989, John Knoll, co-inventor of Photoshop

- 1990, Craig Hickman, creator of Kid Pix

- 1991, John Maeda, artist and pioneer of motion graphics

- 1992, David Carson, graphic designer and art director of Ray Gun magazine

- 1993, Robyn and Rand Miller, creators of Myst

- 1994, Hans Zimmer, composer

- 1995, Dave McKean, comic book artist and filmmaker

- 1996, Tinker Hatfield, Nike shoe designer

- 1997, Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, creators of Wired magazine

- 1998, Alex Townsend, creator of the Computer Bus that helped bring computer access to Manx schools

- 1999, Moby, electronica artist

- 2000, Nick Knight, prolific fashion photographer

- 2001, Takagi Masakatsu, musician and filmmaker

- 2002, John Stanmeyer, photographer for TIME and National Geographic magazines

- 2003, Philip Jackson, founder of Sportstec that makes sports analysis software

- 2004, Noemi Trainor, principal of Mexico's Varmond School which is spearheading a digital-first educational program

- 2005, Jürgen Mayer H., architect

- 2006, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, co-creators of the Radiolab podcast

- 2007, Nicholas Felton, prolific graphic designer known for his "Feltron Annual Reports[1]" and supposed progenitor of Facebook's timeline

- 2008, Es Devlin, prolific costume designer

- 2009, Dr. Pardis Sabeti, pioneer in genetics research and bioinformatics

- 2010, Dr. Maki Sugimoto, surgeon who uses 3D printing to model patients organs to help prepare for surgery

- 2011, Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski, co-founders of Codecademy

- 2012, Daito Manabe, artist who specializes in electronic and holographic installations

- 2013, Éric Fournier, Sakchin Bessette, and Dominic Audet, co-founders of Moment Factory

- 2014, the new Mac Pro

[1]: http://feltron.com
Every newer language can do "this". First class functions and anonymous functions have been a standard feature for a while. Does not mean that say Lua or Ruby are functional programming languages. If you just require the ability to pass around anonymous functions even C++ is a functional programming language these days.

To meaningfully distinguish functional from imperative programming you have to add purity/immutable data to the definition at least.
Not that I know of...
Your kickstarter was the VMX Project ?

What I needed to be able to back it, was a concise description of what it was and how I could use it.

I didn't see any of that in a form that I understood. I'm not an uneducated person and I consider myself highly technical (though what that means/is worth to most is debatable).

It didn't pull me in, unfortunately, because ultimately I didn't know what it was.
The aluminium Unibody MacBooks are extremely robust in my experience. I've treated my early 2011 MBP pretty badly and all it has to show are two tiny dints...

The glass covering is way easier to clean than my old plastic Mac laptops, and most of their plastic cases are cracking.
UK "Privacy not Prism" organisation
well at least he's continuing the tradition of butt-ugly websites.
> Mr Moore is said to have paid Mr Evens to hack into hundreds of victims' email accounts to obtain more nude photos to post on the website.

I think this is what they are charging him for - not for hosting genuine UGC.
>> For a very topical example here is the regime's Syrian State TV split screening opposition talking at Geneva2 with stock footage of bombing carnage[0].

Then, you should come and see the major turkish media. I will gladly translate every single word for you.
JavaScript – The monkeys in 2013
INT. VOID_'S ROOM - DAY

CLOSEUP OF FINGERS TYPING

VOID_0
I love Macs because they have the unix core, so you can compile anything written for linux servers natively without using a virtual machine.

CLOSEUP OF CODE BEING TYPED

CLOSEUP OF TERMINAL COMPILING CODE

VOID_0
So yeah, that's pretty neat I guess. I mean it's not that flashy or anything, I'm really just using it as a fancy text editor. The build quality of these things is pretty good. All my friends are doing the same thing on cheaper linux computers, but I don't like those as much.
well its all about people being creative and how the Mac helped them achieve it. Surprisingly, well maybe not, it never showed anyone using it for typical business work which pretty much sums up why Macs (OS X) never made it in the real business world.
Good point! Although really, breaking the unlock password on a phone isn't that interesting to an attacker unless the owner has encrypted their phone or, more likely, they suspect the owner uses the same password for other things.

I think most people just use face or pattern unlock these days though?

Android actually does quite well in this regard: KitKat now uses Scrypt... although both PIN and Face Unlock can still be used with encryption, which very secure. Oddly you can't use pattern.
Beleaguered Microsoft posts record revenue for Q2 2014
But it also results in a mess of what-can-override-what. You can't have just #override. You've got "automatic", "default", "override" and later added "force_override" and "force_default", because "override"/"default" were not enough. And I'm still running into situations (especially when working with different teams deploying on the same host) where I want to override something that can't be changed anymore (or doesn't merge the way I need to).

This is one of the most annoying parts of chef for me. And it is quite complex: http://docs.opscode.com/essentials_cookbook_attribute_files....
Why is it not n! ?
You think so ?
It is the latest legal setback for Mr Moore, who was ordered in March to pay $250,000 (£170,000) in damages for defamation resulting from a civil lawsuit.

I may have misunderstood, but didn't this $250k fine originate largely due to the UGC on the website?
I'd say it's more an illustration of how "technically superior" can be difficult to measure on paper.

It's easy to compare specs, it's harder to compare the things that really matter: usability, elegance, workflow, functional performance, robustness, and aesthetics. These are the enduring characteristics of every product, and often it's easy to ignore such things given that they are very difficult to objectively measure.

Performance, for example, can be measured easily in terms of responsiveness of the UI, etc. But that doesn't reflect the actual end-to-end performance and perception of performance as experienced by a user performing real-world tasks. The same goes for usability, which is almost impossible to fully objectively measure.

It's easy to dismiss a product as inferior because it lacks features or has a different set of characteristics compared to an existing popular product, but that only works when there are no significant underlying differences in the above meta-features.

When Japanese car makers started to introduce their automobiles to the American market a lot of people made fun of their cars. Often the cars were small and underpowered in the muscle car dominated American market. But what those detractors didn't realize at the time was that those cars were extremely reliable and efficient, even if they lacked power and "cool" points. And eventually those types of cars came to be hugely popular.
Indeed, some time is better than being on a plane that night.
I hate king.com for the many hours of potential productivity that I have paid them for the privilege of losing. Whenever I talk about how I was stupid for playing Candy Crush I feel like I'm victim blaming.

Anyway, horrible company culture; I don't think they can reasonably expect great success from behaving in this manner.
The first 20 seconds of the ad features John Maeda, who is a programmer, and there are a number of other programmers featured in the ad and on the timeline: Theodore Gray, John Knoll, Craig Hickman, Rand Miller, Philip Jackson, Nicholas Felton, Dr. Maki Sugimoto, Ryan Bubinski, and Daito Manabe.
http://javascriptissexy.com

Object orientated Javascript and inheritance explained well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMfcsYzj-9M
After all this why does Steve Wozniak stay with him.
One key component that neither the article nor the commenters have explicitly mentioned is the threat that cartels pose to the the legal marijuana business.

Since legalization could potentially eat away at a sizable chunk of a cartel's marijuana revenue stream [1], dispensaries already run the risk of being targeted by cartels/gangs. The fact that these dispensaries are forced to hold large cash balances in their back rooms makes them even more appealing as a potential target.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-us-marijuana-legalization-...
When I was a little kid we had a Mac II and a Mac LC. I spent so many hours with them... The software I used and the machines themselves inspired so many interests. The computers themselves eventually became a life long passion.

I've heard of Commodore users having that affinity for C64s and Amiga owners and a few other manufacturers... I've never heard a person say they fell so in love with their Compaq Q2150... There's something special about the Macintosh. I think it's that it's so clear that the manufacturers really cared about the user experience that they inspired the same in the software developers for the platform.
Which changes nothing.
'What is a Raspberry Pi?' Animation
But soon, the peril will be over
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541
Don't forget the little things
The video is relatively bland but its just a series of 30 (one for each year) endorsements by creative/engineering professionals.

I actually prefer the timeline view (of the same people):

https://www.apple.com/30-years/#timeline
> Healthcare is approximately the same cost now from what I've seen with ACA prices in the US.

Germany has $6,000+ deductibles? Thin provider networks that leave out the good doctors and hospitals, and large or even unlimited out-of-pocket limits for out-of-network care?

Monthly premiums are just the beginning of the story.
I don't think they can reasonably expect great success from behaving in this manner

Zinga made a lot of money for its owners and investors before imploding.
AFAIK users didn't actually upload content to the site. They submitted it and then Mr Moore or someone else posted it. I'm also pretty sure he wouldn't honour take down requests.
Hmm? What doesn't that apply to?
Hmmh, now I can see the Apple Timeline in Firefox (Nightly) at
http://www.apple.com/30-years/
As Google continues its refinement of Android and mobile hardware is further commoditized Samsungs profits are destined to fall.

Apple on the other hand has a cyclical money printing machine by just releasing new versions of hardware design that fits the margins they would like.
no, it's because he accused the owner of an anti bullying charity of being a paedophile - maybe not a great source but - http://www.dailydot.com/news/hunter-moore-revenge-porn-defam...
Ordem dos Engenheiros Organiza Visita Técnica à Fábrica da Secil em Setúbal
> If we're going to get to a point where coding is a basic type of literacy like math or reading (and I'm not necessarily saying I agree with that goal), then you have to start small when kids are young.

This type of literacy would be something akin to "computational thinking" and then programming is to computational thinking as arithmetic is to mathematics. Programming shouldn't be an end in itself but a means to develop a deeper understanding of our modern information-rich technological sophisticated society. And yes, in my opinion, in that society one should be able to "program" as much as one should be able to "do arithmetic" or "can read/write". "Programming" can mean a lot of different things to different groups of people, but the basic idea of information processing and automatic repetitive tasks should be understood by all.
I was surprised that in a way "justice was served" (and rather quickly, at that) in Zynga's case. I hope we see that happen to king too.

But most likely they will get away with it, as usual.
Was the science that terrible? Or rather, was the methodology so terrible or was it the data, or was it truly both?

Studies are only ever useful in aggregate, anyway. It's about metaanalysis, not just what any singular study says.
I think this 13-part series by Erik Meijer is great: http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Func...

More material here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Video_presentations#Intro...
ROMA: a distributed Key-Value Store written in Ruby
Good. This guy is a scumbag, and I hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.