skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OneNote is pretty good for shared documentation. If you use a Notebook shared via SkyDrive and turn on "Sync automatically", it works really well. For example, if both of you edit the same page, but different parts of it, it manages to do a graceful merge of both of your work and not show a conflict. You have to fiddle with the exact same sentence for it to conflict, in my experience.

I suggest 2+ Sections in your notebook : one dedicated to planning, TODOs, and the like, and one section for shared knowledge. Your "Useful links" would go here.

The planning section we have has individual pages for : Business Paths, Quarterly Goals, Work To Be Done, and Daily Worklog (updated at EOD). That's it! From vision to actual work in one place. Let me know if you need more info. We invested time to design the Planning section, and it has really helped.

This setup probably doesn't scale to beyond 3 people, but it works really well in keeping everyone on the same page for up to 3 people.
I just want to pitch in saying that India has faster and cheaper internet than San Jose. Sad, true and 'WTF' unbelievable.
It's only united in war. Other than that it each state, county and municipality is run like it's own little fiefdom.
Lucky that "literally" can also mean "hyperbolically".
Capital. Capital. Capital.

The US has investors, angels and funds that are willing to take chances and put money into startups.

You simply don't have that here in Europe.
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I'll bet a lot of startups are using parts of it.

Servlets and JPA are both part of Java EE, and I've worked at a startup that used at least those parts of the EE stack. Any startup that uses Grails is using Java EE, albeit indirectly.
Let's just be honest with ourselves. The people who become research doctors working on curing cancer have very, very hard lives, and most aspiring cancer curers never get to do any actual curing. They have to do a PhD/MD, survive their internship and residency process, and most likely publish papers before they're even out of school before a cancer lab will even hire them.

Substanceless apps are not only objectively easier than curing cancer, there are much lower barriers to entry. In fact, for some perverse reason, our society seems to feel that the most trustworthy process for handling real, major problems like cancer research is to erect the highest possible barriers to entry, throw even the survivors out of the field at every least opportunity, and then place absolute trust in the few who survive this winnowing process.

The concept that treating everything serious as a tournament-structured winnowing process might have some negative impact on the ability of our research institutions to actually treat and cure cancer does not seem to occur.
If your company is incorporated in Europe, say Denmark, then you have to pay corporate taxes in Denmark. Hiring someone, e.g. in Portugal, Switzerland, etc. Does not force you to incorporate in those countries.

However, the employee will have to pay taxes where he lives, independent for whom he works for.
that's about a month's distance to run for a normal long distance runners (90 miles/week).
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I moved to the UK a few years ago and I couldn't agree more that the IRS rules and regulations unfairly penalize "average" US citizens that live and operate abroad.

FBAR, FATCA and if you start a business, form 5471 and friends. I got some quotes from a few accountants and I will likely have to pay thousands of dollars for assistance just to fill out informational forms and pay (maybe) a few hundred dollars in US taxes.
* Population growth in the first world is stable, low, or even negative.

A quick google search shows that whilst population was pretty stable in UK in the 80s, since then it's been steadily rising. Growth is now 0.75% a year.

But that growth rate is deceptive. Look at

https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...

But that growth rate is deceptive - it "looks" low. But if you check the absolute numbers:

In the UK, population has grown by around 10% in the last 20 years, and it's on an increasingly upward trend.

https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...

Just anecdotally, if you live in the UK, you'll know how many new homes they're building all over the countryside.

World population: https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...

I'm glad you can see that graph levelling off, but I can't see it...
Exactly, one of the (major or even only?) reason to be in the US.
Our basic needs are taken care of for now. We have a strong group of friends and family who have been by our side throughout this entire mess and provided us with indescribable support. Spiritual support of any kind is always welcome.
For me, the most important selling point of a laptop has become how good the keyboard is. Usually, that starts with an evaluation of its shittiness. Hires version of the keyboard: http://assets.razerzone.com/eeimages/razer_pages/16039/razer...

- Has delete key in usable position. Good.

- Ctrl is in the bottom left corner. Good.

- Right Meta key is Fn. Bad.

- No Home/End/PgUp/PgDown keys. No-go. Next!
In the early 90s I saw a control system for a destructive ammunition test center being run by a TRS-80 Color Computer I. They wanted to know if I could update the software and handed me a thick greenbar printout of assembly code. I didn't take the gig.
Agree. "Agile" methologies are a great way for:

1. Good managers to manage new or mediocre engineers.
2. Good engineers to control new or mediocre managers.

No system will completely mitigate bad managers or bad engineers, and if they're both good the right system will manifest itself.
Something similar - 10,000km from Mongolia to Hungary by Horse on the Trail of Genghis Khan:

http://www.timcopejourneys.com/page/journeys/on-the-trail-of...
>> Do people really not take into account stuff like children's education, cost of living expenses per additional member of family, emergencies, black swan events?

If you have a life insurance policy, and Aflac, you'll get a ton of money from having cancer. Aflac will pay cash for every hospital visit, every procedure, transportation (not pay FOR it, your health insurance will do that, but give you cash on top of that) and then the life insurance policy will cash out when you pass away.

Your family will miss you but at least they won't have to worry about paying for stuff.
As the article states, Denmark, while having high taxes, is very business-friendly: Very little bureaucracy, almost zero corruption, English-speaking population, relatively cheap apartments ($1,850 per month for a newly constructed two-bedroom apartment in central Copenhagen) and very low expenses of health care and firing people. Also, while wages are generally very high, they're not high compared to Silicon Valley wages, which is an advantage if you want to start a business here.

We rank as no. 4 on Forbes' list of Best Countries for Business (http://www.forbes.com/best-countries-for-business/list/) and as no. 5 on World Banks' Ease of Doing Business list (http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings).

So what's bad about doing business in Denmark? The cloudy weather (think UK) and the personal income taxes :) The corporate tax isn't particularly high, though (24%).
This recent meme about agile is so dumb that I feel like I shouldn't say anything at all, but here goes anyway. I'll keep this as short as possible...

Agile works fine for teams that embrace it. It's going to work totally different from team to team. The real point is to find the process that works best for your team to deliver software that meets the customer requirements and budget. Agile for a team of 1 or 3 is not the same as agile for a team of 10 or 100.

Agile tends to fail in two places and they are both communication related. First, developers give terrible estimates because of pride. They don't think through the problem, they don't consider complexity, and they want to look awesome so they ALWAYS over promise and under deliver. That makes them look bad and destroys confidence in the project because it's dishonest.

Second, managers will take estimates and turn them into deadlines because that is kind of their job and they are doing the best they can with the bad information that developers give them (see bad estimates above). A good PM needs to really push their team for real esteems. Poor estimates lead to poor communication because when things go badly, nobody wants to send up the signal flare for help or tell the boss that the project is not going to hit the deadline. This is often compounded when the client decides to firedrill a feature or bug fix mid sprint, and the manager doesn't push back and say that it is going to push everything else back.

The best estimates are the ones that are the most honest, not the shortest.

Between the bad estimates and the poor communication that comes out of it, there are plenty of times that "Agile" goes wrong, but it's not agile's fault. It's your fault. It's your team's fault. It doesn't work if you aren't willing to continuously tweak and reevaluate the process until it fits your situation. That means doing retrospectives and making improvements based on them.

Continuous improvement makes agile work. A stagnant process is doomed to failure as requirements and resources change over time.
Historically the state of OpenGL debugging and profiling tool is quite a mess unfortunately, especially on OSX and Linux. D3D always came with a matching PIX for capture-analysis (capture frames and step through them), and NVIDIA's PerfHUD for live-analysis (analyse the running game with a realtime overlay). For OpenGL there was gDebugger which was commercial, then free, and hasn't been updated in years and probably is stuck to an old GL version. Then there's NVIDIA Nsight which seems to be limited to NVIDIA GPUs (but has a very nice VisualStudio integration). Apple only seems to care about GLES on iOS, not desktop GL. So VOGL could really fill a gap.
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> I have always wondered why don't Government have regulations in place that forces a borrower to purchase a life insurance

It's the old "nanny state" debate... In France, life insurances are mandatory when you get a mortgage. However, one still has to be particularly careful with insurance policies. My mother died to a cancer, a few years after she contracted a loan. However, the insurance company refused to pay off the loan. The contract was nullified as she didn't mention a disease she had 15 years before (unrelated the the cancer that killed her).
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"When the user rotates the device your activity is completely reset"
You just need to set " android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" in the manifest.

This is very well documented.
Special Ops fly NORDO-IFF/SIF off all the time. Check for activity at Oceana NAS and Diego Garcia NS for response. Like the Alitalia DC-9 out of Napoli that got splashed by the Brigade Rosa, no news is not good news.
Predicting Current Events (ie Ukraine/Russia) with Google Trends
#trenzi a Social Media Monitor about the Govern of Matteo Renzi
Idea: Fiddle for photos
Just want to float this to see if anyone has seen anything like it. Something like jsfiddle but for photos or any other uploaded images. Ability to modify, save and branch. Think it could be very creative. Tap into the meme space.
George Costanza is a genius
Anyone notice that the SSL cert for the donation page (https://secure.giveforward.com/donate/119408) has issues? Firefox says "does not supply identity information".

Someone noticed here but got a canned answer: http://help.giveforward.com/customer/portal/questions/124352...

Could anyone verify that this is fine? I'm going to donate if it is. Thanks!

edit: Looks like safari is fine with it, and a IceyEC mentions chrome is fine too. Probably firefox just being overzealous. Donate away!
I went to NYC/Philly/NJ last summer..

T-Mobile barely exists out of the city itself, and yeah, speeds are abysmal.
$50 for a sim card too...

Anecdotally I went to the Swedish countryside in january; where I got 16Mb/s over 3g. (and it was free because: EU roaming is free on my carrier)
If not money, you should get something else out of your job...easier, flexibility, good cause...maybe a non profit...but just doing charity for a company is very odd. You should realize your value even if that doesn't involve money. You might be happy as a phd student, pay is similar, you get to do alot for yourself.
Ah! that explains so much (and also why i've wasted a whole hour figuring out why what I observed was happening) I'm a CLI curl guy, rather than relying on these browsers which randomly would add a 0x0d 0x0a to my form submissions, for example. I also noticed that compiling (assembling-linking) the .S to execute it would not print anything (just hang there like a normal webserver), but I was getting stuff written to stdout with the final.c/webserver.c version using its shellcode.
Because the cost of upgrading the infrastructure to do chip and pin has always been more than the cost of fraud associated with magnetic stripes.
His priorities break down into

1) paying off debt so his currently income-less wife has some breathing room

2) spending time with family.

He's not snorting cocaine off a dead hooker's ass here.
It's surprising to me that there isn't a single positive comment in this thread considering how amazing this is. Sure, it has other implications, but were we really hoping to prevent computers from recognizing faces permanently?
Where does this stand in relation to IFTTT?
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One cool thing you can do with ansible-galaxy's CLI is initialize a role, so this may help, even if you aren't using Galaxy.

ansible-galaxy init roles/rolename

This will create the skeleton structure and stub out some of the basics.
gotta work on that math buddy
Direct link to video: http://vimeo.com/4636202
If you'd like to see some actual thuggery and lawlessness, I invite you to take a flight to Beirut or Istanbul and cross the border into Syria. Until then, please stop overblowing protests over real issues.
Filling out "a form" is not the issue outlined. Filling in "hundred of forms', taking up to 6 months and not being able to pay employees is.

Furthermore, Razuna is successful. All we wanted is to continue on US soil and expanding by hiring US people and thus paying US taxes = bringing money to the US.

That's what the blog post is all about. It has been written to show what it takes to incorporate for a European company.
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MH370 engines monitored better than the plan
The monitoring system is described here:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/monitoring_systems.jsp
China doesn't really have personal bankruptcy. Its pay at the door or die, and that includes various hongbaos needed for the doc to do a good job.
I live in Orlando, 30 minutes from all the parks. Please reach out to me if and when you and your family make this trip. I will help in any way I can. I know, from my personal network, that I can help in getting free tickets and an employee rate at one of the park hotels. I'd be more than happy to provide transportation for you and your family to and from the airport as well.

If you make it this way, please contact me, I'd love to help!
Very good point. We are in a country that's No.33 on business friendliness list and it shows. More hoops to jump through than there are in Northern Europe or the US. So incorporation in the US was an improvement.
Chrome is perfectly happy with the cert
If Europeans spent even half the time they spend complaining about America on building something useful, they wouldn't have to feel insecure in the first place.
If we define "learning foreign language" as an ability to read classic texts without dictionary or skipping words and being able to watch classic movies or TV without subtitles.. Well, it took me almost 10 years, but now I could read, say, Feynman's lectures without stumbling.

In a world of punks being able to say "hi, how are you, how much for this" in several languages is called "polyglot".)
Who said we didn't get professional lawyers and CPA's?
Adopt a ketogenic diet and you'll have a chance of survival man!
check out the research on this diet (by starving the cancer cells, without eating sugar)
X has been a band, intermittently, since the late 1970s. The lead male member calls himself John Doe.

In his younger days, he might have offered to chew your brain out in response to your accusation of self-promotion.

That doesn't make you wrong of course. The LA punk scene was a stew of contradictions. Still is.
Definitely for normalization, e.g. take a UTDF message, convert it to some representation (either a C-blob, CSV, or JSON, depending on final use), then push it to a Redis list named utdf.MSFT.

But beyond normalization, there is building books (be they level-1, 2, or 3), maintaining state, and extracting information from that. Random example (i.e. not a real query I've done): emit all the trade executions on any venue that happen within the first two depth levels of NASDAQ.

LuaJIT could do the hard crunching, like regression analysis, quite well, and there are some interesting projects like GSL-shell... but Matlab and numpy/matplotlib are quite expressive and more complete environments.
Could it be an issue on your end? All good here.
90 miles per day?
> Capitalism is what gives rise to corporatism.

Corporatism is a legal construction of the state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#Formation
I think you are absolutely right about "being forced to speak it" part but moving to a different country may not always be a practical solution. Some people, myself included, learn foreign language for fun and moving to a different country would just make it an expensive hobby.

One thing I have discovered is there are fun ways to learn a new language even if you are on your own. I am learning french and I love watching movies so every now I then I watch a french movie first with subtitles and then without. Most of the times I miss the words but I am getting familiar with sounds and every time I pick up french for dummies I get more confident.

But you are right. One must spend time with the language one is learning.
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Maybe. Although there are some (very good) VCs and investors in Europe, especially in London. But it's often overlooked that actually, maybe you don't need a VC/Angel to run/setup your company. It mostly increases your risk, and I concur with Swombat's views on this: http://swombat.com/2013/12/27/investment-increases-risk

So given that you can (and people do) get serious cash outside the US, and everything you've said, Nitai, I'd be pushed to even think about the US as a venue for my next project, even if that was where the market was.
I agree the US has this bureaucracy / uniquness fetish among states.

But also, consider that Australia with 22M people compares with New York State, and is e.g. only 60% of the population of California. And inside a state, taxation is much more uniform.

(New York State is a good example if YOUR point, as New York City, Yonkers and a couple other cities have additional weird taxes you have to be aware of)
I just went to a Starbucks and don't see those links. Can you please point that out further?
Ansible Galaxy is just Ansible roles extracted into their own Git repos. Which, I think, is a better solution to sharing and reusing tasks than playbooks. It's really a simple but powerful idea, I hope it catches on, because it can really make Ansible usage more "social".
I think that's the most ridiculous thing about it:

Whether you are an American who moved to a treaty country, or a treaty country resident who moved to the US, it is not likely that you'll have to pay a lot of US taxes if at all. (The treaties I am familiar with are quite reasonable). However, unless you are a tax professional yourself, you are going to be "taxed" by a professional to prepare all those papers that you must file.

I know someone who moved to the US, and whose tax filing on one year topped 150 pages of "informational data" despite not having to pay one cent.

I have never met a person who is in any way familiar with the US tax code who thinks it is makes any sense or is reasonable. Only people who never had to really deal with it think so.
Zapier is IFTTT-on-ultra-steroids-that-cost-$$$. More channels, more actions, more flexibility, for sure, but if you want more than 5 actions firing 100 times a month, it's $15 a month and upwards.

I have 43 IFTTT actions which fire many times a month (easily north of 500). Zapier would be $49/month for me.

(I would like to give IFTTT money - even if all that unlocked was in/out webhook support.)
Just to be clear, this system is essentially identical to "debt is inherited, but never in an amount greater than the value of the inherited assets".
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This comment page makes me rage.

About a third blame the guy, as if buying a house at the age of 32 is crazy.

About a third just use his tragedy as a soapbox to knee-jerk blame the American health care system, as if people dying of cancer in other countries don't face a loss of income.

The remaining third give me some hope for humanity.
"I used to think the iOS simulator was painful, now I realise it's pretty awesome. Skip the Android simulator all together and deploy to a real device, or be prepared to spend a lot of time waiting."

With its "native" emulator, yes, but there are better alternatives like Genymotion. Giving up on them is not good development advice.
I highly suggest reading `The Places in Between` (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95643.The_Places_in_Betw...) about something similar.
3 out of 600+ is not every.
Beyond the Lemonade Stand: How to Teach High School Students Lean Startups
While the Lean LaunchPad class has been adopted by Universities and the National Science Foundation, the question we get is, “Can students in K-12 handle an experiential entrepreneurship class?” Hawken School has now given us an answer.
Privacy issue is not about what you want, it's about what can be done (and often is without you knowing).

Automated facial recognition is a serious privacy concern, it's not just about the slimy despicable thing facebook is.
For example, in the uk where there are more cctv video feed than people to watch them, an automated facial recognition can track you around constantly. Their current automatic number plate recognition is already a serious privacy concern.

Remember 7th cube's voyeur's dream[1] released in 2005? the same but with more camera now being able to identify you based on your facial features.
[1]: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=16410
Touché. Just used that phrase out of habit. I was (hopefully obviously) referring to the century prior.
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The Rolls Royce monitoring system is described here:
http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/mon...
So where's the optimal location to setup a no-physical-location-required business?

I've heard Hong Kong, Singapore, Delaware...any thoughts?
Kind of bizarre seeing someone else's value system which is completely alien to my own. If I was leaving my wife and kids with mortgage and car loan debt, I wouldn't spend $10-20k on a graveyard plot, that's for sure. I don't think I would in any case, I'd just get cremated or whatever the cheapest option is.
and my point is that it doens't matter if all you want is something pretty...
Ireland doesnt have sales price, do you mean VAT? Edit. Sorry you have it on brackets on the next line.
I think this is a pretty interesting article about doing a revised product, 2nd product launch. From what I gather, it is quite similar to a 2nd or subsequent edition of a non-fiction book. I can't remember where I read it, but someone said that you can often make more money off of a 2nd edition, and often it takes a lot less work than the 1st edition as you are just revising the content.