skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are business expenses rather than things I am selling. As such, they're on my corporate credit cards. Regrettably, those don't have API access, and the best way to get information from them is currently "Log in once a month, dump a PDF file, and email it to the bookkeeper."
Well, that's only nominally true. Every single holder of USD lost around 1-2% a year to inflation, which is essentially a backdoor tax.

If you were in Cypress, or had a less trustworth (irony?) government that went out of business, you probably didn't do well either.
The irony!

I've just smiled to myself picturing those guys coming together and then slowly re-learning everything we know about statesmanship and politics. Like the moment they first realize different people have different values and want different things. Then they're going to come up with the idea of democracy and a parliament. Only this time around it will be the Aspergers among us who try to figure out how to influence people. :)

But, of course, the best bit will be when they, so rationally, decide to give up the final ruling power to a super-intelligent AI, and then the look on their faces when the AI decides to do something that, while 100% rational, nobody wants.
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As an MacOS/Linux user (at home at least) I'll say that this is a welcome decision from Microsoft and that, regardless of the reason for which it was taken, is one that benefits all the consumers.

Could we for once set aside our opinions on MS and agree on that ?
I was just like you, only I was just lazy in college and high school.

Now, I take the train to work, and try to keep up a github streak with projects and learnings. I suggest you download SICP, and try to get done one exercise a day. If there is too much reading to finish in one day (I only spend about 25 minutes a day) then type up the sample code and a paragraph about what you read, and commit that.

The streak is a powerful motivator.

https://github.com/steveshogren

The trick here is SICP is easy to start and stop, and by chapter 4 you'll have a huge amount of general purpose programming skills. Don't let the lisp scare you, SICP is the best JavaScript/PHP/Java/C#/Python/Ruby book I've ever read (assuming you already know the syntax of those). Once you've put some good milage on that, you can mix in other great books too. The goal here is to build up your skills slowly over years, not cram over weeks. Just like lifting weights or becoming a world class musician, becoming a world class developer takes dedicated time and deliberate practice.

I've been sailing the good ship Github Streak for 300+ days, and in just that time I feel like I've doubled my skills and speed. The best part? It's not just SICP, I've done a half dozen great books in that time (25 minutes a day * 300+ days adds up fast) and I have no intention of stopping.

Message me if you have any questions, I'm always happy to help a fellow person on the journey to being a better developer.

I wrote up a longer form here: http://deliberate-software.com/streaks/
By the way, a similar plugin for ReSharper also exists: https://resharper-plugins.jetbrains.com/packages/ReSharper.P...
I'm assuming it's 2 things:

1. These visas are for specializations. This implies that the job is unique and pays well above average salaries so a spouse shouldn't need to work.

2. They want to be attractive yet not too attractive. I'm sure in the subcommittee negotiations on quota it came down to spouses or quotas, (we can let 35,000 families or 70,000 workers). If you watch the government channel they negotiate endlessly over petty things like this.
> and I actually have a degree in Mathematics

this is getting ridiculous, stating your degree just to tell people your argument is backed by studies that really don't help you that much (if at all) in economics (yes I have a degree in mathematics too).
I run Mopidy on a headless raspberry pi to wirelessly play Spotify through my amp. Can use DLNA clients and a web interface to control. Wouldn't be able to do that with Tomahawk.
Not to mention the complete lack of customer support
Similar story here. Indian citizen with a US masters degree. Left after working in the US for a year, travelled around SE Asia ,and then moved to Amsterdam! Can choose to work four days a week, have side projects and take 26 days of vacation a year.

H1B is totally a sucker's game.
What about the extensive British investment interests in Russia? They have little to do with an exile elite. Reading around, a number of sources point out that sanctions in general are highly unlikely to influence Russia.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100026745/...

in which what would be the point and who pays?
What Bitcoin does better than anything else is to highlight the current state of computer security, which is plain terrible. For that alone Bitcoin deserves to exist.
> How's Facebook different having a mission statement?

Every public intervention from Mark, every decision (admittedly from my undocumented point of view) is explicitly tied to that decision. I can’t remember when any of the Google triumvirate justified anything, ads or docs with their mission statement. Even negative decisions: Facebook justified not making cellphone hardware with their statement, because an OS would be more sensical -- a convoluted distinction to most, and one they might as well regret and tip-toe around when they start building antennas in Africa, but… no one would fail to see on that is directly in line with Zuckerberg’s initial idealism of “ending the conflict between Isreal and Palestinians by making them shares their stories”.

No one is saying they are markedly different from the inside, but Google founders, especially with Glass, comes off as Borg operators with “God vision” (cf. the first description of a screen showing live queries on a global map on Wired, 15 years ago); Mark is still that (annoying) teenager just out of the Peace Corps who own nothing, and wants everyone to get alone.
Why not saving all in a good USB storage, go to a bank, open a vault, store it. It's almost imposible break trought and get robbed. You only operate from bank, then move it back to the vault. That if you're too paranoid.
Interesting that you view it that way. I also compare my convenience to time, and every time I use a plastic container I think about how it came from peat that was built up over millions of years and took a certain amount of energy and fuel to travel across oceans to reach me in final product form and now I will handle it for approximately 15 seconds and it will proceed to the landfill where it will stay for a few hundred years and outlive my children's children.
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I don't think physical bitcoin muggings should be crimes for police to handle. Let's see how deep the anarchist rabbit hole goes. Not much of a "trust less" system if its all backed up with guys with guns anyway.
They do credit that at the end of the linked blog post.
Nice. The most useful postfix completion I would be using in casting. It involves a lot more jumps over braces to wrap around couple of casts.
I know two women who have tried those. In both cases they tried for several months to get used to them, but they gave up eventually because they're so unpleasant to use, and it never gets any easier. Apparently.
If you select "All Banks" in the drop down at the bottom and run a report, you see a bunch of "Final" dividends where the percent paid is less than 100%. I'm pretty sure that's people losing value of their deposits.

(remember, those are 'dividends to claimants' and the claimant listed is almost always 'depositors')
Thanks -- I'm going to work on the the presentation style and put together some use cases. You're right -- the blue is hard. I need to move the description above the carousel and outside of the slides. There are also some decent cartoon tools I've found that may help for the examples. So will definitely refine this. Greatly appreciate your input--very helpful, on the mark, and much appreciated!
I work in a lab that does high throughput screening, and I do develop internal web-based toolsets. After several years of iterations I can say that so far electronic lab notebooks never worked; there are even several commercial software available.

There are several reasons behind it:

1) Protocols are not a fixed predefined setup. One of the most important part of a protocol is the annotations on top. What went wrong, what did you change, etc. Today I have a repository of hand-written protocols (see [2]) that people print before going to the lab, write a date on it, and write comments on it. I cannot imagine this process of taking notes will be disrupted in near future, unless a very easy to use note taking system is there. IPad, LiveScribe (even wrote an app for it) et al are not there.

2) Writing protocols for lab people is cumbersome. Especially in our lab that has a protocol for every little process, to ensure reproducibility and standards. Asking them to sit behind computers (or mobile phone) to write is madness. The best that worked so far is I ask them to write and draw the process. Scan it, store in db, and print it with a click before experiment. They are happier than ever. Once done, I scan them back into db with date attached, and use evernote to search inside in case. The drawback is th editing part, but surprisingly they prefer to rewrite the whole thing rather than edit it behind the computer.

3) Protocols are subject to change, unless they are standard protocols (probably the market that this kickstarter is aiming). How should people store the revisions of the protocols? which one was used in the last experiment? did this modification work? think about a "git" system for protocols!

4) Lab people hate computers. They hate to use mobile phones to do anything than checking mails and calls. They love paper. Anything touchable. Taking mobiles into the lab is messy (google glass?). I have a feeling this can work with a geeky lab person but majority will oppose strongly.

5) Try to enter a protocol inside the tool. It will take ages until I have a smart protocol that may use non-standard agents inside. They need to work on a smarter way of entering protocols. Forms are too rigid.

6) I did an A/B test for some time, and what I found out was that pictures and text combination work great together, and minimized the common errors a lot. Printing a protocol, taking with them and ticking steps added another level of quality. So, adding hand-drawn / google images to the protocols may help besides an option for printing the protocol in the mobile app.

7) I love the common repository idea. The share button will be easy enough for even the laziest laborant.

I believe this is a good step toward the mess that is happening in the labs. Still the solution above currently is a local one to me; good enough for iteration 1 and will donate to push the idea forward.
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If you are as inspired by this story as I was, you can mail him here: muruganantham_in@yahoo.com

(His email address is public on his company's site [1])

[1] http://newinventions.in/contactus.aspx
This is really cool. One problem (yeah I know, Vim and Emacs commands are useful here too!) I always had was going forward is easy in a text editor, but going backwards a few characters, or to wrap something like this, is inconvenient.
I totally agree, you can't just set a goal and aim for that, chances are by the time you're there, everyone will be racing off to the next thing. Better to setup a habit of constant improvement, and soon you'll be the one leading the pack.
Interesting to know about the difference. I never cared about boot time or wake up from hibernation. I always keep my mobile systems charged and in stand by when not used and I do a shutdown and cold boot maybe once a week (I know, waste of power and battery cycles and all :) ).

The cpus are irrelevant here so it might be a real filesystems perf difference. What do you use, ext4?
They tried making that platform more open, hired coders close to the Open Social Web to develop tools to allow you to export all your information, etc. They hit a lot of snag: negative opinion like yours challenging their sincerity, lack of significant adoption, more general ethical dilemmas on having your interactions recorded by a third-party media: who ‘owns’ what (owning being a terrible metaphor for right to access, right to erase and the absence of sensical editing).

I agree their importance and idealism should have put their goal much higher, but I believe (as in: that’s my PhD conclusion) that they are going for the most successful and fastest approach of connecting as many people as humanly possible first on a coherent platform, and will open it once the impact and feasibility of that is the greatest.
The cotton was 1/40th of the cost: "10g (less than 0.5oz) of cotton, which at the time cost 10 paise (£0.001), should sell for 4 rupees (£0.04) - 40 times the price"
I hope you get paid well.
Have you seen the real garage band?
These guys are incredible
That's harmless and more or less unavoidable in this case. While the official Bitcoin client uses safe fixed-point arithmetic internally, the JSON API it exposes uses floating point all over the place. This isn't a problem so long as you correctly convert the data back to fixed point as soon as you get it before doing any other arithmetic on it, exactly as this code is doing. (All the numbers are guaranteed to be small enough that this isn't going to lead to rounding errors if done correctly.)
First thought: great, main.cf is always a pain to write.
That person is from England/has lived in England. I'd say that the only thing one could say is that tech worker from England thought the US was better.
Project release .. extreme stress
Working on a small startup .. a fresh developer
been working on web development for about 5months now .. 3 of which were just HTML/CSS/JS
then we had a project a private project built using node.js and mongo
i learnt a lot .. first release was a very good job everyone was pleased including me ..
but then we wanted to add new features .. and i have a deadline of a month .. which basically ends today and i do not like the way i wrote the code
and i am not ashamed to say that i needed some sort of management/help because i am still learning .. but i did not have that the whole past month .. and i feel that i fucked everything up
it works .. but the code is sloppy and the logic is not good enough .. too many bugs which has been solved using brute force .. just solve it
no good design .. not good thinking about problems and how to solve them .. just solve it using whatever code .. that's what i did
and i don't like it and i feel it will be a major screw up

maybe there is nothing to do about it now .. too late i mean
i am just looking for some comfort in your stories .. maybe someone has been there before ..
i don't even like web development but it pays off and i need it just like anyone needs the money
although i am really happy despite everything that i learned new things

but i really do not have a clue how to deal with this stress
i am actually scared !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

I know people keep making the comparison between bitcoin & tulips. I still don't understand why. I do understand that there is a lot of speculation driving bitcoin prices up & down right now and I also understand that BTC is experimental tech where the chance of a random disastrous event killing the whole thing is possible(like almost anything else that is new), but I also think that bitcoin, its protocol & services built around it can't be compared to a flower.
> I'm going to hazard a guess that the problem is not the physical keyboard, but rather the OP's use of a non-US keyboard layout.

You're exactly right.
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Well in my case it's easy: I don't need people. :)

Or to be more precise, I don't need employees. I do work with other people, but they aren't my staff. I do some collaborative projects with colleagues, work with masters students doing their masters theses if they're interested (usually 3-5/semester are interested in working on either my projects, or projects I'm interested in), and also work with some people in industry.

Some kinds of research require an army of minions, but I don't really need employees to do mine. In fact generally I prefer having a smaller number of collaborators so I can really be a researcher doing research and writing papers myself, not a research manager, the kind of professor who's the last author on papers written by their students and postdocs. The institution I'm at doesn't expect American-R1-style large labs, so I can do that. Fortunately there are a pretty wide range of institutions with CS departments with different expectations, so there is quite a bit of choice.
That helps, thank you! Given that bars contain beats, why is the Terminator theme such a mystery? Doesn't it also have bars that contain beats? Or is the problem that the beats are so irregular that they aren't spaced somewhat evenly in the bar?
I have been working on my own code base for the last 3 years. It is constantly evolving, and requirements constantly change. I often have to revisit a piece of code I worked on 6 months ago. That is the best time to tell. If your own code doesn't make sense to you fairly quickly, it is worth refactoring. Look it and ask yourself why it is difficult to understand and what you could do to make it better.
I really enjoyed this story and remember first hearing about him a few years ago. Truly inspiring man.

It makes me wonder, how many other people are out there who have the same passion for something, but haven't had any success? Only a select few will have success, most will fail. I think we should celebrate the people who took risks and failed too. But sadly you won't find articles written about them as it isn't a happy ending like this one.
FYI, they got into TradeHill but couldn't compromise[0] any of the user accounts because of the architecture of the site.

[0] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=r2dliaaebhrctppc...
Maria co-authored a great book aimed at making higher level math concepts fun for schoolchildren titled Moebius Noodles. The site appears to be down now, but here's the FB page: https://www.facebook.com/moebiusnoodles

I highly recommend it, as well as signing up to receive periodic emails from Yelena/Maria with additional activities, tips and information.
> I would think the decentralised approach would always be able to compete when we factor in transportation costs which usually make up a pretty significant percentage of the actual sales price with centralised mass production.

For non-perishable goods they are actually much less than people generally think. For a benchmark, shipping t-shirts from Hong Kong to LA in bulk costs less than 5c each. The total transportation costs of a system is completely dominated by the last leg of the route, where things are shipped in the least quantity. Typically, if someone walks half a kilometer to pick a good from a store, the energy cost of that is more than all the transportation costs up to that point, regardless of where the good was made.

Given that, the centralized approach only needs to be a few percent more efficient than the decentralized one to completely bury it. That is usually achievable.
Why buy disposable pads when you can use rags and wash them? Same for diapers.
Looks like a nice implementation, and I really love JetBrains products, but for me I just don't 'get' this (or most code completion in general).

For me, and it is a personal thing, actually writing code - that is physically typing braces etc. is not the time consuming part of coding. Far, far more time is spent thinking about my code than actually typing it. Shaving off a few seconds when working in my editor feels like an optimisation too far, especially if it essentially means learning new syntax.

Like I said, it's a personal thing - I know others have good reason to love code completion tools. Now if someone could come up with something like this for when I'm writing in my notebook....
my 2 cents..i dont have a degreee in econs...ha!

i think the problem is deflation, actually. which leads to 2 practical problems..lack of credit and hoarding.
shutting down the ability to spend newly created fiat money i suspect will reduce the amount of credit alot. that probably makes most businesses as we know them now unoperable.
hoarding is a social problem i guess. it just increases the wealth gap. not sure if most societies want that.
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If you wrote more, probably online somewhere, about bitcoin and the like, I would probably read it because you seem smart and stuff. I really mean it. I hadn't considered the fact you can't loan out bitcoins the way you can regular money.
This is pretty awesome. Just created an account and it looks really useful. I'll spend a little bit of time playing with it today and see if I can integrate. Nice work! Thanks a ton for the suggestion (and good luck with this)! Stephen
> Like most companies, we don't post salary ranges for the positions in the job posting itself.

Here in the UK I wouldn't even apply for a position if the salary (range) wasn't specified up-front.
Walkers. Flesh Eating Personas.
A fun/dark perspective in looking at what personas are and why you should be using them in the development and design work you do.
Oh, I must have missed that. Thanks.
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> Every single holder of USD lost around 1-2% a year to inflation, which is essentially a backdoor tax.

That's only true of cash, and money in checkings accounts. Money deposited in savings accounts yields interest, which (on average) more than compensates for inflation.
Straw man #1: The cost of living -- food, shelter, clothing, services -- is simply higher in the US.

"...100 rupees/day. Adjusting that for purchasing power yields about 6-8 USD."

"...labor can be produced at far lower cost (adjusting for PPP)..."

Straw man #2: You're arguing against US Federal standards for poverty, quite standard definitions, by the way, and which, contrary to your assertion, are not normalized for high-cost coastal cities...

"some of those luxuries [which you seem to think are part of subsistence] include living in highly desirable areas like NY or SF, which even the federal government doesn't include."

Billions of people worldwide produce labor at a PPP ADJUSTED wage vastly lower than the US minimum wage. About 95% of India lives on less than the bottom 5% of the US, PPP ADJUSTED [1], yet still manages to be productive. So clearly your claims that people paying below the US minimum wage are obtaining an input at less than the cost of production is incorrect.

The definition of the federal poverty line is irrelevant. The cost of producing labor is far less than what US employers pay for it, and far less than what they would pay absent a minimum wage.

[1] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t... (Just in case you missed it: these numbers are adjusted for ppp.)
Correlated, no caused by.
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It's not worth it

You can get a "similar to H1B" visa in Ireland in 2 months time and a lot less paperwork. Germany (and other countries I believe) has a similar schema.

With some requirements slightly higher than an H1-B you can be a permanent resident of Canada (maybe Australia and England as well, though I'm not sure how the conditions are on the latter today)

So, why bother?