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If you have more than $250,000 and didn't use one of these services[1] then you were really negligent with your money.

[1]http://www.bankrate.com/finance/savings/6-ways-to-insure-exc...

Basically there are banks that will divide your money amongst a bunch of independent banks, and let you access the money as if it were all in one bank.
This makes me want to have JetBrains' baby. Again.

If I had a baby for every time I've said that, I'd probably have a sizeable brood by now.
No one loosed UDS in the crisis but the value of the USD is decreasing every year. Since the 2008 crisis the amound of usd M2 has increased by roughly 50%. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2
That means Your Money have lost 30% of its value in 5 years. The official inflation numbers excludes some items and incorperate others and was different 20 years ago then now.
What are the arguments in favor of this regulation? I'm sure that anti-competition lobbies from limos, cabs, etc. play a role, but is there something safety-related as well? And if so, why would 150 Lyft drivers be safer than 400 Lyft drivers?
Nice article but i was wondering why didn't you go to university/IT School to learn computer science?

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"To me, the object-oriented approach was just a bunch of unnecessary overhead and boilerplate"

If you had made real C++, you would'nt have think of object oriented programming as an overhead. I suggest you to buy a few O'Reilly books (Probably the best code book )
It still centralizes risk by putting it all on yourself. There were MANY cases of Bitcoin theft from user computers - allinvain's 20k theft among others. This is by far not the best way yo store Bitcoins.
Interesting.. That's indeed rather limiting.

That being said, I don't think that's true in Germany (where the balance in your bank account is pretty much the only limiting factor for getting some cables into the ground) and still the ISP market is not to doing too well. Regional ISPs are pretty much the only ones capable of delivering a decent service (if you are lucky enough to live close to one).
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While not publicly announced, a RESTy JSON API has been available since day one since that's what the web interface uses - it's very easy to access and there are plenty of open source libs like https://github.com/btroia/basis-data-export

Heart rate isn't exercise-class (like the Mio Alpha) but is using the same green LED photometry, just not running at a very high temporal resolution.

Agree that the Bluetooth implementation is terrible on iOS. Slightly better on Android, but I still end up using their (proprietary! ugh) cable to sync more often than not.

The Basis is unique in the sense that besides the (Jawbone acquired) BodyMedia devices, it's the only multi-modal fitness sensor on the market right now, and IMO the photometry heart rate tracking, and the habits are a big step in the right direction.

That being said, Basis seems to have made surprisingly slow progress and I have a feeling that Apple will eat their lunch sooner rather than later.
Yeah, we know already that the US isn't a civilised country, you don't have to rub it in.
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Cyprus. I don't have a great deal of sympathy for people with large deposits in Cypriot banks, given how many of them were only there for the tax evasion in the first place, thereby promoting a less trustworthy government.

I should probably write up a good explanation of why asking for zero inflation == asking for price controls, and is not a good idea either.
I can understand the case for hiring a recruiter for a small business (what I would consider less than 50 employees), where a HR department might not be a permanent fixture. But when I see recruiters for Fortune 500/50 etc companies, I do wonder what's going on there.
How could bitcoin ever reach mainstream adoption if this is the best kind of security available? I am going to have to worry about providing my own security? USD is far more attractive if that's the case.

I believe in the potential of bitcoin, but if cloud wallet services cannot succeed, then bitcoin can't succeed.
Mt. Gox or not, France will have its Maison du Bitcoin
First part here https://github.com/dz0ny/mopidy-youtube. You can also search all providers at once as you can see in this screenshot http://drp.io/ge6z.
A while ago I wrote a Haskell compiler for a simple functional language that uses the JIT features of LLVM in order to make the Haskell-level "compile" function lazy in the term being compiled. Quite a fun trick I thought: https://github.com/batterseapower/productive-compiler/blob/m...
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> You may evade or buy your way out of the laws of the land, but you can never escape the laws of mathematics.

Very true, but the laws of mathematics don't have feelings, desires or empathy. That might be good, except for one thing: we're human and we do. As people, we should want to have the freedom to decide our own fate, not put it in the hands of an alien entity. That entity might be right but it won't be right for us.
Ruby has a sane syntax. It probably seems a little foreign if you're new.

'#' is the standard notation used throughout the Ruby language for instance methods.

Think of it like this:

Blog::Application.routes.draw do |implicit_self|
implicit_self.get( '/patients/:id', { to: 'patients#show', as: 'patient' } )
end
Goto is quite common among c-programmers when it comes to error handling.
I'm genuinely curious: what is it that distinguishes these services from taxis? Why is it okay for one to be regulated but not the other -- or do proponents of these services generally think that taxis shouldn't be regulated either?
This is for enterprise Java developers I guess. Interfaces, templates, whatever, ... thousands of lines of code that does nothing so one guy at the end of it can write a few lines of logic.

Or even better for testers. Lots of code. Some initial thinking and then you need to write 50 lines of something before you have to think about it again.
Pretty high.
It will take you 1-3 weeks to find a job as a developer.
FWIW, we disagree less than you think. ;-)
It is not any less of an issue for bigger companies. They have proportionally more positions open.
Can mopidy play several streams at the same time, through separate sound cards? I'm looking for something like that for a multi-room audio system.
I haven't heard anything about Intel selling ARM manufacturers fab time, even on obsolete processes. AFAIK Intel has not really been in the foundry business until very recently. And even that has been with extremely high margin products that don't compete with Intel, such as FPGAs.

Even if they were fabbing some ARM chip, I don't think it could be one of the big players. For example Qualcomm, Nvidia, and TI use TSMC. Apple and Samsung use Samsung's fabs.
Not the author, but personally, I chose Maths as I felt it gave me a broader basis to approach my career. I am now happily employed as a Software Engineer. I do find I've missed out on some things (TDD indoctrination, for example), but I've gained in others.
Actually, they say so, and mention onion. I think it’s part of the overall decentralised approach that the article mentions, showing brands, but doesn’t entirely cover: price, product bundle, marketing efforts all appear to be locally decided.
Could you say something more? How UK people look for guys like me, with no college? In Poland almost everybody goes to college.
Agree 100%. Can you point to a country that doesn't have violent prisons? If so, I'll change that to "most countries".
Why agile? It works. I think.
Nope, just copy & pasted the same comment to promote it, in all the places it's relevant.
One advantage of recruiters is that it allows "illegal filtering". You can give the recruiter instructions "No candidates over 40 years old!", and then it's almost impossible to prove that you did something illegal.
AFAIK one of the reason people moved away from their own BTC wallets was because of Bitcoin-stealing malware. Your own 100% trustable wallet is only one keylogger away from being empty.
>I wonder if any tests were made about how much time is spend to actual thinking versus coding the idea? Which area is more worth to work on?

I doubt it, if they did it would almost certainly be disappointing.

This is a question I have posed in the past, how helpful/useful is auto-complete/intelli-sense?

I think it is one of those IDE features that is similar to the automatic window slider in your car, you come to expect it because it does offer some convenience but adds little to your overall driving comfort.

It is indeed the case that most of what you spend time on isn't the code writing part when trying to solve problems. Typically you spend most time thinking about the problem and the actual code that results from that thinking can be just a few lines. Heck, sometimes the end result of thinking is to eliminate code:)

For me I think syntax highlighting and automatic syntax checking offers more utility than auto-complete. My startup's product is a web development tool that I now use as my primary IDE but it currently lacks automatic syntax checking, I can definitely say that this is something I miss from when I was using Netbeans.

Overall I think auto-complete has utility but the reverence for it far outweigh its actually utility.
For a good motivated treatment of calculus I'd recommend going back to Isaac Newton's Principia. It is surprisingly accessible, and really quite beautiful.
I respect your personal opinion, but I find that these little things make programming a joy. Less time spent fixing and changing little things is more time you can spend thinking about the problem.
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No formal education is needed.
If you have skills and you are able to demonstrate it (usually by passing a technical test), you will get a job.
Yeah, though I refactored their code to avoid the "goto", as an exercise. It would indeed facilitate making separate functions for common swaths of code, notably the duplicate code blocks beginning with ReadyHash and ending with SSLHashSHA1.final. Exactly as I said, goto makes it harder to refactor code.
That theory relies entirely on the supply side. But what about the demand side? Without accounting for both you know nothing about the price of something traded on a market.

What if next year some other cool new "currency" comes along and no one wants your stinkin' bitcoins any longer? Does it matter that supply has a cap? No. It matters as little as the limited supply of paintings created by some forever unknown artist.
You actually can't imagine this? Even in today's world, there are many cultures where debt is a rare resort for the unfortunate, not an acceptable status quo.
This is exactly right. He has broken down a serious taboo already, as these women are now discussing these health issues among themselves. Even beyond that, they are taking it upon themselves to educate and empower other women and girls on these issues. Soon (if not already) the women will start talking about other issues in their community. Think about it: once you've talked about something as private and personal as a menstrual cycle, what other topics are really off-limits?

Also: never underestimate the power of convenience. These sanitary products make it much easier for women and girls to work, go to school, care for their children, and a whole host of other things. Things that make life easier for women have a way of catching on in communities.
> Just don't store your Bitcoins in someone else's control, like an online wallet.

This AND hire your own pentest team to make sure you keep your bitcoins safe. There's a reason people use banks for "normal" money.
I'm fine with abolishing almost all those regulations - they are a huge barrier to entry, and they serve very little public good. However, hotel rooms are highly taxed, while most AirBNB rooms are not - apartment rents are often rented at submarket prices under rent-control schemes, yet the tenants charge full fair to rent out their rooms.

Right now, AirBNB and Uber are basically trying to avoid all regulations by pretending to be just middlemen, but that argument is transparently bullshit.
That’s how I understood it, possibly like some ‘Chicanos’ in the US tend to have darker skin than ‘White folks’, but not all actually have; is that wrong?
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Less keystrokes make my fingers and wrists happy. That said, I also do not care about "writing code" because if I could have a programming language that could read my thoughts to figure out what I wanted to create I would be just as happy with that.
Regulations is not a yes or no question. Many proponents of such services are OK with certain regulations (e.g. safety), while being opposed to others (caps on number of vehicles).

Others are simply opposed to all industry-specific regulations, and a few are opposed to the concept of the State as a whole ;)

And yes, as far as I've read, many are opposed to caps on all taxis, not just on Uber/Lyft.
... what the fuck.
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You can apply for jobs in the UK while still in Poland, just mention that you're currently in Poland but looking to relocate to the UK (I'm guessing London?).

Some companies (especially smaller ones) will only follow-up with local candidates, but plenty of medium and large size ones are happy to engage with candidates looking to move.
The word "correct" in "politically correct" means "as we want it to be", not "as it really is".
Thanks for that info.

Can you tell me where is the best to look for a job? It's better to reallocate first or search while i live in poland?

I am targeting at Cardiff
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And using Windows ME, aged 14 years like a nice wine...
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i'm surprised no one is mentioning the eb-2 visa. if you have a masters or higher in cs and are not born in the india or china the wait times seem to be reasonable. [1]

the h1b is a dangerous game. it's essentially a do whatever i say, and i "may" sponsor your green card "eventually", with an emphasize on the may. not everyone uses it that way, and i would would be leaning out of the window saying most do, but it's definitely enough to be a common issue.

i was brought into a university with an h1b under the premise that i could work on my own startup. what didn't tell me was that that what they meant was that i should work for them for 5 years before they would consider sponsoring a green card application, and that they expected me to work unpaid overtime whenever they asked me to.

i've heard from a friend running a consulting company in the area, that a lot of companies bring in workers with h1b's and then don't even have the decency to sponsor a green card after keeping them for 6 years.

to my remembrance there was a house voting sometime last september about an immigration reform. one side of the table was asking for better accessibility to visa's for specialized workers(including cali afair), and the other was asking for more audits.

sadly i can't tell you how much good came out of it, maybe someone else can elaborate on that.

edit: there is a reference at the end of the ops post, but it's not really prominent. eb-3 wait times can be years, which is why it's not really a reasonable choice, but eb-2 is different

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-2_visa
>The First Estate of Silicon Valley (here, including San Francisco) are the highly influential angels, VCs, and corporate executives who can force acquisitions.

That would mean the Zeroth Estate are the landlords. Remember, Google proposed to Mountain View to build their own damn neighborhoods of townhouses and apartments for housing their own employees. They got denied. The city council somehow felt that the current situation was better than letting a company, God help them, actually get some housing built for all those employees they hire.
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It would. But you'd need to know, or at least guess, how many pubs there were in the city (to know when you'd reached n/e), and it would also depend on whether the pubs were randomly distributed or not. If there's nice end and a trashy end of town, you could easily have exhausted all of the good pubs before you hit the n/e.
Taxis can be flagged down on the street. All you have to go on is that it looks like a taxi, and has a medallion. If they aren't part of a regulated system with mandatory fares, medallion numbers, safety regulations, you have no idea what you'd be getting into when you flag one down without some kind of regulation.

These, instead, generally count as livery services. If you are calling a specific business to be picked up, you know who you're dealing with ahead of times, and can check their rates, choose based on their reputation, etc.

At least in Boston, Uber drivers are regulated, but as livery not as taxis, as you "call" them rather than hailing them directly on the street.
How did you move to Amsterdam ? Is it like fulltime work or did you sponsor yourself with an EU Blue Card ? I'm always interested in learning about the various possibilities engineers have around the world! :)
Perhaps, but the difference between butterflies and mosquitoes isn't really in damage to the food (virtually zero in both cases)... it's in the fact that butterflies perform a service (pollination) for the flowers. Mosquitoes quite literally live and die by the lightness of their touch; compare the survival rates of human-feeding mosquitoes (not 100%, but not far off) and human-feeding horseflies (0%).
Autocomplete/parameter help isn't about "hey, look fewer keystrokes!". It's about context-aware lookup of what you need, and avoiding stupid mistaks (reordering parameters, typos in method names).

The time it takes to write a the first few characters of a method name and then hit the completion key is a tiny amount smaller than just typing the method name outright. But that isn't the point: if I didn't have autocomplete, I'd alt+tab to a browser with class documentation or start searching in the code for a previous invocation of a method with that name I only vaguely remember.

With autocomplete, I don't have to remember variable/property/method names, I can either list them or see a list that begins if I just remember a prefix. This is less unnecessary state in my head and thus more time to think about the actual problem.

It's an absolutely enormous difference in time spent, and considering the time it takes to context switch back to where you were, I'd say it saves me hours every day.
Is this compatible with the latest version?
> you can't loan out bitcoins the way you can regular money

Why not? I mean sure, it would mean losing the anonymity, but the receiver would owe you the interest-adjusted amount just like someone you lent money to. A loan isn't magical boomerang money, it's a legally encumbered transfer, which can be done with dollars, bitcoins, tractors or anything else.

In fact here's bitcoin lender right here: https://www.bitbond.net/
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Yes, but pirated Windows actually works better for Microsoft than free Windows. Why? Because at least they can keep asking $200 with a straight face for a version of Windows, if Windows is just pirated in countries like India or China.

But if they give it for free there - then the whole equation changes in western countries, too, and people will be demanding they get a free version of Windows as well - and then how will Microsoft make money?

Anyway, I don't think Microsoft will do this. At best they will either make it free for OEM's - not consumers - so their devices don't cost more compared to Android devices at the same specs, or they give a free version of Windows that's so crippled people will still prefer the pirated "Pro" edition.

Either way, I truly believe Microsoft will get out of the consumer market within a few short years, because they won't be profitable in it anymore, either because of forces they can't handle, such as simply losing market share and people not wanting Windows anymore, or because they give it for free, and as I said, that will get everyone to not buy Windows anymore anyway, if they truly give it away for free.

Whichever way they go, Windows is getting commoditized, and it's not good for Microsoft. This is a reactionary move, and reactionary moves are never good.
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He's not the only anti-startup commenter here. I'm curious, have you ever worked at a startup as a programmer, not as a founder? Sometimes, it's easier to see the downside of a system when you're not the one profiting from it.
This looks like a pretty sweet non-Windows solution to the lack of foobar2k. As I'm currently using Windows, though, I can't see myself changing over. Foobar2k is just too good.

Anyone else have experience with both, and would like to share their experiences?
> Same for diapers.

Much of the point of having any money at all is so I can avoid doing things I hate doing. Are things really so different for you?
Keep in mind that thanks to my Aussie wife I have permanent residency.

Even if you have a non Australian wife the process of being resident in Australia is pretty straightforward. I have a friend who is Argentinian and emigrated to Australia after finishing the university.
Ask HN: Do we need another email service?
I got a chance to work with email recently and thinking of starting an email service, but wondering do we need one now? if it is paid, what makes you pay for it?
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