skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there actually "hundreds of billions of dollars" out there? Or is this another red herring like earmarks that amounts to a few billion here and there?
Thanks for doing this!

I'm an American planning to live in Japan for 1-2 years starting later this year (I'll be studying the language and working for my existing small US business). I won't be working for (or, likely, doing any business with) Japanese companies.

I assumed I'd be best off hiring an accountant who could take care of whatever inane forms come with paying taxes in this situation (I do also pay quarterly estimated taxes, if that matters)... aside from the cost of retaining this person, are there any gotchas or pitfalls I should be aware of and/or worried about?
Hipmunk Makes Cross-Platform Travel Search Easier
Sure. You can fail either way, and neither is fun.

For a team-oriented approach to work, you really need a team. A team is a group of people that has different skills but the same goal. They're a group of people that win or lose together. They have to have the same purpose, or it won't hold together. If every team member had different priorities, then something was badly screwed up about how the team was managed.

In the case of the smart but lazy guy, that's where external-to-the-team management structures come into play. E.g., if you're using a management structure like spotify, the lazy guy's manager should have noticed issues during their weekly one-on-ones. If not, other team members would be talking to managers about the deadweight.
1 (your experience) is not a very good sample for a statistical study :)
Surely at some point it makes sense to cut your losses and redirect funding to research on other diseases. It's just an ROI calculation.
'Creating value' is a capitalist concept, as is 'being productive.
IMO Boeing and Rolls-Royce (the engine manufacturer) know more about that plane than Malaysia Airlines is letting off right now.

Ref: (43:18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2L...

Digging an oldie, Boeing still runs SCADA on both 747 and older 777. Going as far as reading engine stats in realtime via telnet.(http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/16696-FACT-CHECK-SCADA...)
I'd like every law and regulation to have an expiration date.
For a lot of businesses isn't it a realistic option to just ignore the state governments? If the IRS says "jump" you say "how high?" But if the state of Pennsylvania starts complaining and you don't have a presence in that state, what the heck can they really do about it?
This appears goofy.

"The 2012 CPI draws on 13 different surveys and assessments from 12 different institutions. The institutions are the African Development Bank, the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Freedom House, Global Insight, International Institute for Management Development, Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, Political Risk Services, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the World Justice Project." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index)

Alex Cobham's Foreign Policy article explains it reflects "the opinions of an internationally focused elite, typically from a corporate background and perhaps a similar education". Preferable are alternatives where "a group of a country's citizens are considered instead of restricting the view to elite perceptions only". (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/22/corrupting_...)
This is based on a software by ajelo.com which is based on some interesting research:

Why urban mass demand responsive transport?:

http://www.floating-content.net/~esa/pub/files/jokinen-fists...

Demand responsive transport: Models and algorithms:

lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2013/isbn9789526051635/isbn9789526051635.pdf
Re north Korea, it has an endemic amount of tolerated black market. There have been numerous articles on it.
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I love the software analogy, because it puts people who think we need revolution in the same camp as people who think Microsoft should rewrite Windows.
. . . from HuffPost

Well there's your first problem.
So, you sell apps for children or something?
Amount of power that would be required for that is ginormous. Somewhere around the scale of supernova.
Capitalism is beautiful. It's the reason someone built the home that his family lives in. It's the reason why the resources and technologies to build that home were used for that purpose instead of another. It's the reason why people loaned him money to buy that home. It's the reason people built his van instead of something else. It's the reason a stranger is willing to dispose of his body. It's the reason cremation is so affordable if they choose that option.

Capitalism is the reason there will be a hotel with a room available when he goes to visit family. It's the reason there will be gas at the gas stations along the way. It's the reason Disneyworld will still be operating when he gets there.

Most important of all, Capitalism is the reason why so many of his peers are wealthy enough to afford the basic survival needs of themselves and their own families that they are able to donate some of their surplus to help this family in need.

That said, I agree that consumerism and living beyond one's means and not saving for a rainy day and distorted markets are problems.
Genymotion is as close to the speed of the iOS Simulator as you can get today.

However, Genymotion is x86-based, so ARM libraries you use in your app that are designed to run on an ARM device will not work in Genymotion on your computer. However, if your use of those is limited to just a few Activities in your Android app, you should be able to do a lot of things with Genymotion, and just tiptoe around trying out that Activity on your computer and instead use it on-device.
To be fair to Skolos...

it does depend on what state he was in.

But I agree... entrepreneurs should not be living in certain states. They are just bad places to be launching a startup.
Looks very useful, thanks for posting. I'll try using it instead of tail over the next few weeks.
That problem comes from interpreting a requirement to reduce costs as "do the same things with less" but never as "do less".
Fin: A tiny little ring that turns your palm into an interface
I have no problem with States Rights. I have a problem with people trying to dress up naked self-interest and practical politics by saying "States Rights".

Mostly, transparent attempts to restrict services and rights from subsets of the citizenry. In either real attempts at discrimination, or cynical efforts that are doomed to fail at anything but driving up voter turn-out.
It's not canon, but I remember reading one the expanded universe books that describes a Sith that had somehow created a lightsaber with an extended blade for some perceived advantages. I believe it added 12 to 24 inches to the overall length.
If you could by any chance set up a BTC address more may donate because of the lower fees. I will donate via the provided page, but just something to keep in mind :-)
WhatsApp database dumper for Metasploit
Computer science enrollments rocketed last year, up 22%
I disagree with your assertion that this is a "very abnormal situation". However, I think that I agree with your main assertion.

The improvement isn't really specific to bringing in Agile, but rather to giving the team a clear focus, and way to measure their improvement in deliverables. There are many ways to do that, it's just that Scrum happens to be a relatively straightforward and lightweight way to introduce that in a way that is compatible with many of these teams.

Unlike a lot of those bad approaches, though, I don't think Scrum is necessarily a hindrance to a properly functioning team. There are a lot of good ideas in Scrum that are designed to get obstacles out of the way, IMO.
Yes - to qualify for the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion you have to be out of the U.S. for 330 days each year, in which case you can write off roughly $100k
I wonder if this type of visualisation could be used to understand non-trivial functional programs that aren't Excel. Reminds me of Subtext: http://www.subtext-lang.org/
Show HN: My Desk Chair
clearly 15, gtfo faggot
Three weeks in at Airpnp
Let's watch the millenialtards confront the idiocies of their 'activist government' beliefs as they collide with reality.
It strikes me as a shame that people can be addicted to gambling and we see it as a moral problem. For example, gambling data around elections seems highly likely to be more useful than opinion polls are. After all, this is simply another application of the ideas behind how we expect markets to function.

Gambling is one of the few ways you can incentivise someone to be honest with you about their opinion, and for that reason I think it's actually a mass of untapped potential.
I couldn't even understand the Alabama-english..

They still speak English, though, just like the vast majority of Americans. Europe has a huge number of different languages, and especially in Southern Europe it's not uncommon for even young people to not speak any English at all - meaning there's not even a common language that all Europeans speak.

I'm certainly not saying that all of US is the same. I'm saying that the differences are smaller than the differences you see in Europe. And I'm saying that as someone who've lived in the US and Europe and visited a great number of European countries.
It gave me two sevens. They combined to make a nine.
The video is two minutes and a half long and they explain the gist of it in the first minute and 10 seconds.

That is short for a product presentation.
The best 6 health benefits of sweet potatoes
....The best 6 health benefits of sweet potatoes.
50 USD per day for two people together. We stayed in towns, as the Malay countryside is not flush with hotels (longest stretch of highway without one: about 50 km). If two people scrimped they could do it for 30 USD (especially toward the north), but it isn't rural China.
It's listed on his professional website:

me@jonathandale.com
https://jonathandale.com/

PS: Very cool of you.
That's really heartening to hear. I checked out 5 or 6 years ago for exactly those reasons. I'm still skeptical that good-Agile can win out over inertia and the very comfortable living bad-Agile consultants and bad-Agile executives are making. But I truly hope that you're right!
United Airlines To Provide Free In-Flight Entertainment...For Apple Users
And slowly, suspicious behavior is suppressed.

This will have two effects.

People who are truly suspicious for nefarious reasons will gradually stop being so.

On the other hand, many will be incorrectly flagged as suspicious and harassed without reason.

The trick is to strike a fair balance between the two. But who decides what's fair?
And that problem comes from a requirement to reduce costs that does not specify what services will be cut at the same time.
> Who could do that?

Since transponders are trivial to spoof and interception is a matter of coordination and a radar, you're looking for anyone who has a plane that can fly ~500kts at ~35000 feet for a while. So...pretty much anyone who can afford an old Gulfstream 3 or Boeing 707. John Travolta, for example. Nation state not required.
Am I an idiot, or is this site crap? Create an account - ok, but no place to put in a password. Try to log in - need a password. Click 'forgot password' - got an email link 'to a page where you can set your password'. Clicked the link - back to main page with no option to set your password.

So ok, I'd like to participate but the whitehouse.gov site is broken?
Here is a link to the official page of the service:
https://kutsuplus.fi/tour

It's always nice to get new services, but I'm afraid this one will become a niche product due to the public transport system in Helsinki already is working so well.

A service that is used a lot is the Tour Planner which was one of the first ones released for public transport in the world (I think this is already the third version of it):
http://www.reittiopas.fi/en/
I used it extensively, I wrote a suite of web based tools for an MMO with GF 3.12, at the time I started writing I had good familiarity with Java, but none-with J2EE technologies, REST, JSON etc. Whilst I implemented what I set out to do, when the time came to implement a significant ammount of new features, one thing that amazed me was the labyrinth of code that I'd had to create (beans, resources, factories, abstract base classes) - and how quickly it was becoming a major chore to change the trivialest of things. Also I made the unfortunate mistake of using JavaDB/Derby as the datastore, thinking I had no need for a full RDBMS, I'll never make that mistake again, it's the most pathetic excuse for a db ever (I've used Oracle, MSSQL, Sybase, MySQL and Sqlite in the past, so I have some perspective on the matter)

So I began looking for alternatives, as a result v2 is written in Python (Flask/REST producing JSON, a simple wrapper around TornDB querying a MySQL db) which is consumed and presented by the Javascript/HTML front end using AngularJS. I re-implemented everything V1 had from scratch in under three days and was ready to begin adding the new features. By comparison the initial implementation in Java had taken me several weeks. Obviously some of that is to be expected, its easier to re-write than write. But I come away now feeling that Java & Glassfish made me jump through hoops to accomplish something that should have been simple, and I was certainly guilty of chosing the wrong tool for the job, but Java was what I knew best at the time.
Congressional budgets are really complex and can't be evaluated like code. That $3 billion subsidy for farmers in Nebraska? The people of Nebraska really, really want that. So much so that if their senators can't push it through, they'll likely vote them out of office. So those senators trade every favor they have to get it through, which usually means voting for keeping a military base open in Colorado, funding road work and pipelines in Texas, building a new airport in Oklahoma, etc.

That's how we get such a bloated federal budget. It's why Congress wants to build a whole bunch of tanks for the Army that they have said they don't need. It's really more of a tragedy of the commons situation than inefficiency.

IMO the question shouldn't be "how can we lower our tax burden", it should be "how do we get more value out of our tax dollars." That may mean increasing the tax burden. There's a sweet spot between socialism and capitalism, and IMO we're swinging a bit far towards capitalism right now. I'm not saying we should go full-on welfare state, but our infrastructure is crumbling and people are losing faith in the American dream, yet companies are more profitable than ever.

It's also important to recognize that government accounting is substantially different from normal corporate accounting. Governments can literally print money if they need to do so to cover debts (and thus shift the burden of debt repayment onto all holders of their currency). The flip side of that is that governments have such a massive scale, they tend to absorb a lot of economy-scale losses (such as building vacancies) that businesses wouldn't have to, so their balance sheets look awful.
That's the problem with central planning. When you look from the top down, every gain seems tiny.

But small businesses would know if a chair was underutilized, and it would be sold in 10 minutes; let alone a whole building. Taken over the whole economy, these efficiencies are a big deal, and arguably account for the success of market economy over centrally-planned economies.
"Anything it touches is heated to 4000 to 5000 oC within milliseconds, depending on the properties of the material. And we all know what that can do!"

Just the face temperature of the sun, probably would melt your face off as soon as you turned on the thing.
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Can we change the title to match the page's title: "10 reasons why the '10 reasons to ban handheld devices' article is wrong, stupid" ?

That way people can see that it's sloppy click-bait listicle + "funny" picture garbage and ignore it as I wish that I had?
So, you would rather cut a feature from your application than multiple lines of code that simply allocates memory, waits a long time, and then frees it for no reason?

In other words, at least the boat is actually potentially useful. The empty building is completely wasteful.
Here's a detailed map-timeline of the crash, per police reports:
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/photos/2014/03/13/5f/...

Found it on twitter from @kathyblackwell with the Austin-American Statesman
The Invisible Plumbing Of Our Economy
Stunning Animation Shows Packed Airspace Above Europe
Yet another example showing that no profitable company could ever be run like the Federal government and continue to exist. Aren't you glad you paid your taxes on time this year?
Maybe because it's common knowledge that America is poorly run.
There's also something similar in Python

https://github.com/thobbs/multitail-curses
I just got $500K life insurance for $30 a month. That's less than we usually spend on pizza.
It's a good tool indeed, but I hate how, when pressing enter to add a delimiter to a big file, the screen starts to flicker.
This is not true; the difficulty in using raw radar returns to manage and defend the domestic airspace was the primary reason the FAA grounded all civilian aircraft on 9/11--to clean up the scopes.

Andrews scrambled two (unarmed) F-16s to intercept flight 93; they just followed the Potomac north because no one knew where that plane was. Even after the PA crash was confirmed, those fighters spent hours contacting radar returns to check them out and get them to land.
This is by design in Android. It's very computationally heavy to ask for the heights of each ListView item. Unfortunately I wasn't able to dig up my reference to this. :(

Two more things:

1. The wormy scrollbar is actually standard on Android: the messaging app does it, IIRC even the twitter app on Android does it. So even though your iOS experience tells you it's weird, any users of yours on Android likely won't notice.

2. If your items are all the same height then your scrollbar won't be wormy. So if this is really that important to you, then make your ListView return items that all have the same height.
Wow, if only that analogy were appropriate. If you're unhappy with your government, just install Linux over it or get a Mac.

On top of that, Microsoft rewrites Windows all the time. Their customers follow them from one release to the next because they do so.
What setup work? Install Xcode from the App Store, and log in with your developer account? There is less involved than just downloading and unzipping the Android SDK
I think you'll find that CDs and DVDs will fit in a 5.25" drive.
Wilson Sonsini partner hosts a startup law AMA
I always thought one had to be a trained Force sensitive to construct one, which is among the final tests of becoming a Jedi. Apparently if you didn't build the device properly, it would blow up in your hand upon first activation.

Which is also why they are not mass produced.

Luke Skywalker's first lightsaber was his father's, it was blue. Luke built his second one, which was green. Vader later noted this as a sign his skills were "complete".

EDIT: I'm now reading that at some point lightsabers were indeed mass produced. I think that ruins the fun of the mythology around the weapon.

EDIT2: Now I'm reading that the crystal must be infused with the Force by the builder before construction. Fun mythology back on?
I am in the same boat as you. I am the founder of a small startup. My business income is highly variable. Most months I am below the medicaid cutoff, others above.

Signing up through the exchanges under this scenario sounded like a nightmare where if my income goes up, I have to change from one plan (medicaid) to another (private plan) and possibly back again if my income drops.

Instead of that nightmare, I opted to skip the exchanges entirely and sign up direct with a private plan. This disqualifies me for any subsidy, but as a person in his early 30s, my plan is only about $300/mo which I consider very affordable for the level of coverage I am getting.

On a separate note, I am very thankful that ACA exists, because I have a pre-existing condition with very costly needs. Being able to have any insurance at all, without discrimination and at a reasonable price, is a godsend. I hope they can create some more sane options for entrepreneurs, but even if they don't, I am very grateful that the ACA exists.
Jake Wharton also has a neat fork of Jeff Sharkey's colored logout Python script which is pretty awesome:

https://github.com/JakeWharton/pidcat
Keeping unused real estate from falling into disrepair and becoming hazardous? Yea, that's real wasteful. I'm piping mad.
Backbone.RouteHelper
> Tying healthcare to employment is about the worst thing you can do for innovation

You reminded me of the Roman emperor who decreed that every man would inherit his father's job. This was mandatory.
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Yes. This. The dermatological point is very, very helpful, but the rest of it is a grand-slam home run.

The sadness of early death is something way too many people have to embrace ... but there is also an element of preparation. For all the articles about preparing for a proper launch, preparing for VC, preparing for #whatever on HN, this is an element glossed over in most every circle I have ever been in.

To everyone: Get Term Life Insurance.
To everyone: Get Disability Insurance.

Do your research, and be prepared - because life is coming regardless of your level of preparation.
This. I wish I could upvote 10x. As things stand, the mix of ACA enrollees is far too high in older and/or sicker people (who need insurance to pay healthcare costs) and they need more young and/or healthy people (who need neither). Many officials have described how, if the ratio doesn't change, the policy groups may end up with far higher premiums and/or go into a death spiral.
With promises "resolve" isn't the opposite of "reject"
That's a horrible price. I'm a 30 year old male and got $500K 20 year term for $30/month.
How would you use URLs in the cover letters to check they were read?
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Unicomp still makes them

http://www.pckeyboard.com/
I think I was not clear - there is no problem with signing up with Medicaid. The problem is - I don't see how ACA adds anything to entrepreneurs.

When I quit my job, we signed up for private insurance (family of 4 - $500 a month with decent coverage). That was pre ACA time. All I've got from ACA - my insurance got bumped to $680, which is OK and still much cheaper than any comparable plan on the marketplace.

So my complaint is not about lack of options for entrepreneurs, my complaint is that ACA actually made my life marginally worse, not better.

Also don't forget that jumping from plan to plan includes filling tons of forms, which takes quite a bit of time and frustration, which I would rather spend building my business.
NSA approved phone.
That just shows that primary radar is difficult to use, and that it's hard to track a plane on radar after it's crashed. I'm not disputing that. Perhaps "no real problem" was bad phrasing, what I meant was that they were able to track them and they were not "unable to locate" the planes.
Love the guy at the end who assumed "geeks" are too stupid and introverted to be the "business leaders" that can be "entrepreneurs".
Ok but is it similar to the Black Market that existed in the 80's in the USSR or closer to the late 90's in Cuba ?

If it's the first case, it's argue that the most corrupt rank isn't deserved. If it's the latter, we're getting close but we're still far from places like Guinea-Bissau.
I hope that at some point in my life, I'll be able to drop everything for a few months and go hike the Pacific Northwest Trail. It's more a route than an actual trail. It goes from Waterton, AB into Montana, and then parallels the international border (more or less) to the Washington coast.

http://www.pnt.org/maps/map-pnt.gif