skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you did then please name them so I know not to use them. Hiring employees in other states should be bread and butter for any tax accountant working with businesses.
This is also what I'm thinking. Yes, this is probably a terrible experience he is going through, but if people 'really' wanted to help maybe giving to a cancer research institution or donating to people that have 'real' needs, like putting food on the table or access to fresh water. Wouldnt that honestly be more fair and better than to a guy who needs to pay of his mortgage today?

I mean the average time to pay of a loan is something like 15 years, and given his situation he could probably try to apply for a better deal from the company where he took his loan (decrease monthly amortization costs but increase loan period for example?).

Personally, I will not get hooked by this story and give him money. But point me to the nearest cancer research institution that has made tangible results and I would be happy do donate.

But also, out of personal reasons due to the crappy humans nature we all have, I guess I'm kind of jealous that this guy will be making tons of money on something so bad. I'm a young guy, my girlfriend (my first real love) died last year, and honestly, noone gave a fuck about that.
It should be made a law that Congress (or for that matter, any law-passing authority, this problem exists not just in the US), should before passing any law evaluate its impact and interference with already existing law.

Such thorough checks would also quite likely regularly turn up the "bit rot" equivalent of laws...
I'm not doubting that it's entirely possible to identify a lot about people from their phone metadata. I don't think it takes a huge amount of creative thinking to establish that someone who calls a hydroponics dealer and a headshop is fairly likely to have some connection to drugs, and that tracking their phone calls would allow you to spot that.

But I'm not sure that this article really adds a lot to the discussion with statements like "Owing to the sensitivity of these matters, Mayer explains that the researchers elected not to contact the three participants for confirmation that their inferences were correct"

If they could have correctly identified a drug dealer from a pattern of seemingly innocuous phone calls (and actually validated that they are correct) then this could have been at least vaguely interesting. As it is, the story is "if you've phoned somewhere that deals with MS relapses, we can make a guess that you could have MS". Well thanks, Sherlock.
In "thinking fast and slow", I'm sure the author gave an example of something people will all admit to being below average at.

Googling it, the example given is "starting conversations with strangers" and his theory is that people ignore the question they are asked ("how they compare with average") because it's hard/impossible to actually answer, and instead, without realising it, substitute an easy question ("are you good at x") and answer that instead.
Is it opensource? I'd love to see the code.
Typefaces are a new passion of mine.

Wanting to start a blog, one of the things I focused were the presentation. I wanted something medium and svbtle like (big and serifed body typeface, clean and responsive design). I found here in HN the site [1] . It is a great read, very newbie friendly and sparked my love for typefaces. While the author, like the OP's writer, mostly scorns free fonts, it gives a lot of insights on the "other stuff" like line height and width, when to use bolds and italics and smallcaps.

Later I found out about google fonts and lost hours in there. I'm a big fan of serif typefaces. My favourites are Vollkorn, Merriweather, and Gentium Book Basic.
I'm in love with Vollkorn, but I find that it's hard to pair it with others when used in the body.

For a monospace typeface, either for display or programming I use DejaVu Sans Mono everywhere.

I have a certain fascination for slab-serifs, but I dislike most os the typefaces I find, or can't pair it correctly with other.

I'm still procrestinating, and my blog keeps being delayed, but here's a sample of it, if you want to take a look: [2]

It was made with pelican and I adapted the theme "storm". You can check it here [3]

If you want some suggestions of font combinations, my "experiments" can be found in this source file: [4]

I'm still learning a lot (what the hell is a "humanist typeface"?), but I find it a lot of fun opening a website and going to the source to see the typefaces used.

[1] http://practicaltypography.com/
[2] http://web.ist.utl.pt/~ist155461/blog/posts/2013/Jan/25/moai...
[3] https://github.com/Vaskivo/v-storm
[4] https://github.com/Vaskivo/v-storm
From the worker perspective, he'd have to file his taxes in Portugal. He'd be a resident, because he is in the country for more than 9 months every year. Strangely, however, nothing prevents him being a worker for an entity outside the country (free movement of people, goods and services in the EU market mandate on barriers here).

You'd be in a strange split-brain situation, requiring legal advice. I imagine you could file income taxes in Denmark, and these would be deducted from the worker's Portuguese due taxes under the double taxation prevention agreements.
they're not? I travelled with 2 laptops in my checked luggage in January.
What's wrong with isnt?
If this will be deployed in UBER's model, i.e. freelanced drivers of vans, this could scale very rapidly very fast.
Well there's different types of crosswords. I guess they mean the ones that focus on the language itself (eg. idiomatic stuff) and not requiring some obscure knowledge
Or you could just add another requirement that if the building is vacant you do something about it lol.
After he's gone, will his wife regret not having a slightly smaller mortgage or will she regret not having memories of Disneyworld.

Yes, I'm all about financial responsibility, but experiences can't be bought later, a little debt can be paid later.
You can make $50k too. Just sign up for his free course.
There are quite a few of those here in Hong Kong - the corporate and personal tax rates are quite friendly, and capital gains/dividends are not taxed at all. There are quite a few ways to keep most of your money here, and the regulations are simple.

That said, while the technical community is growing, it is still very small. Hiring can be quite difficult and you have to prove to the government that you worked hard to find a local before they will let you hire an expat. But it can be done.
It depends what you mean when you say 'support queries' - I'm guessing it's more than just someone not understanding how a new feature works. Here are some possibilities for what you're experiencing:

* 'support queries' are actually bug reports: you're getting something wrong with your automated testing that's letting bugs get out into released code. Ideally you should have acceptance tests that make sure the code is doing what it should before you release it. Check what your team's criteria for 'Done' is - are they cutting corners to get things out the door?

* 'support queries' are actually missing functionality in new features: you're not getting all the requirements for the feature in the sprint where you implement it. You need to make sure the conversation with the product owner covers everything that the feature (user story) should do.

* 'support queries' are actually new feature requests: they should go in to the backlog and be prioritised along with everything else. You shouldn't let people push work into a sprint that hasn't been prioritised by the product owner.
We use it at work for buying paper, toner, office supplies, basically anything else that we would be buying from Office Max. It has saved a lot of trips and wasted time.

It took a while for staff to get used to it, now I think there would be a revolt if our prime membership got cancelled. We certainly spend 2x what we used to, it is probably more like 10x
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>Especially if you consider that cancer is showing no sign of being a curable problem, while HIV is.

"We haven't found a solution to this problem" is possibly the worst reason I've ever heard to cut back on research.
The lifetime risk of developing cancer:

Males: 43.92%
Females: 38.00%

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/lifetime-probabili...
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3191

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_Disks
Unless I've had a stroke this morning, according to this chart, the value of the USD has strengthened compared to the CAD over the last few years.
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I'm going to take advantage of the cancel link. Ever since they put in the add-on items I've started shopping at the local grocery store.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_Office ?
I think it is Clay Shirky who said something to the effect that bureaucracies have every incentive to not solve problems. Otherwise the reason for the bureaucrats' existence would cease. We won't see solutions from the US government. Ever.

Yes the tax stuff is painful but as in your case there are reasons to keep the citizenship.
Tiny nations such as Monaco, Liechtenstein, The Vatican, San Marino, Andorra, etc.
To be fair your response to OP was worthless to begin with. Nobody cares if you don't like the creator's taste in music. I can assure that the audio from a drone mounted gopro is worse than any music added in post production.
Nexus phones are for the development of AOSP, not apps.
Yeah, he's amazing. Makes you wonder how many other heroic athletes are just bumbling about in normal life without people noticing them.
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Nope. I got a free trial in late 2005, but realized I didn't buy enough from Amazon to justify the $79 at the time.

Then about six years ago I took a job that was really travel-heavy (gone M-Th every week). My weekends became precious and I didn't want to waste them shopping, so I started using Prime for everything, including the things I'd have otherwise bought at Target or a drugstore, like shampoo. I'd place my order Wednesday morning and it was at my house Friday when I was home.

I've since quit that job and don't travel so much anymore. But between me and my wife, we still get shipments from Amazon probably 2x/ week.
Then why is Luxembourg such a magnet? It's not just Amazon, companies that exclusively cater for the UK market moved their base there.
> It seems like the purpose of sending a signal is ultimately to get aliens to visit us.

That's almost certainly beyond the capabilities of either civilization, but sure in the long term there's the benefit of already having some like-minded friends when we do get that capability.

> But the diseases they bring with them do have a high probability of wiping us out (or us wiping them out)

Again, considering the type of civilization we're trying to contact that's so far in the future it's not of immediate concern. What dangers both world pose to each other biologically would have to be studied carefully as data becomes available. There are certain things we can almost certainly exclude as disease carriers, such as viruses or other vectors that are tightly coupled to the host's biochemistry. Parasites and vermin might become a problem on both ends if living conditions are compatible enough (which is another big question mark).

> But why go looking for more problems when we haven't even solved our own?

We're not looking for problems, we're trying to contact people to at least gain some scientific knowledge but if possible also to get some serious motivation going towards technological advancement. Cooperation between two comparable but entirely separate civilizations has the potential to be very fruitful for both.

> One reason to be searching for a new civilization is to steal their technology.

Well, it's not like we'll pop in and steal their iPhones ;) If they choose to transmit scientific and engineering data, that's not stealing either (copying is not stealing). I would imagine such an exchange to be very cautious in the beginning. It might not even be feasible to transmit time-critical knowledge, however. Still, it's always of interest to compare notes, and I imagine scientists on both sides would welcome an extended conversation if posssible.

> so there's a big incentive for us to steal their tech as long as the concept of nations still exist

If they transmit the blueprint for some really advanced stuff, sure, there'd be the usual power shenanigans here on Earth. But at the moment, that's not a concern as the first messages back and forth would most likely be very limited in scope. Even establishing a common communications format might take several hundred years.

> if the aliens somehow didn't already have nuclear technology, then transmitting our Wikipedia to them might prove disastrous for them

It's unlikely they'd be able to communicate but at the same time not have mastered basic physics. There will be things that each side is more advanced at - for example it's conceivable that Earth has better information technology but lags behind its potential in energy production.

The biggest boost an open phone line can provide would probably be psychological, long before a meaningful science collaboration could be orchestrated. Just knowing there are other people out there is of tremendous value.
Call me stupid, but the only reason why I incorporated an LLC in the States is because I wanted get access to the Stripe API for production (yeah, it's a huge compliment to the Stripe guys ;)

The payment gateways in my country are shit..Also, the US account is only used for the payment gateway, all the IP of my software is owned by the company in my home country. You know, just so someone doesn't sue me for rounded corners and having anchor links on my webpage, stuff like that.

So far so good, I just report EFI (Effectively connected income) to the IRS, which means only the businesses that I do with USA, all signups from other countries aren't taxed by the IRS believe.
Pretty much no. There is essentially no possibility that this plane flew over, say, Vietnam or China undetected just because it turned its transponder off. There are only a couple of possibilities, in rough descending order of plausibility:

1. The plane exploded or immediately crashed roughly where the last known contact was made. No debris has been found because... well, that's a weird one.

2. The refuted claim that Malaysian military radar tracked it to the Strait of Malacca is actually correct, and it crashed over there somewhere.

3. The plane continued flying but stayed over the open ocean, far enough from land that there was no primary radar coverage, and eventually crashed into the ocean somewhere far away. There isn't a whole lot of room for that in this area, of course.

4. The plane eventually flew over land but the local air defense people were asleep at the switch. It subsequently landed or crashed in that country or in the ocean beyond.

5. The plane eventually flew over land and was tracked by primary radar but this is being covered up, either to hide incompetence, or as part of some crazy plan where the plane was hijacked and stolen by that country.

IMO anything beyond #3 on this list is seriously far-fetched and not a realistic possibility, but I wouldn't rule them out completely at the moment.
Maybe. Though the page, taken in the context of the overall site, doesn't scream satire. I'd be disinclined to put a joke page on my consultancy's website, but if I did, I'd be sure to make the joke 110% clear. So my suspicion is that the word reuse is just the writer's habit, not evidence of a joke. (Many writers have such habits, especially amongst those of us who aren't writers by trade.)
Two years ago? I've just checked and I've been on Prime in the UK since Jan 2008.
>if you look hard enough you can find published papers demonstrating any point

Don't be willing to make an argument against all science while trying to win one discussion. Just give your anecdote and let people take it as they will.
I share the same concerns as you. This looks like a great product, but it needs a big amount of trust and commitment to get any value from it. Usually these kind of services launches with a boom, start giving huge discounts shortly after and then shuts down silently.
And if you want colored logcat in a terminal window:

alias lc="adb logcat | sed -e $'s/^I.*/\e[0;94m&\e[0m/g; s/^D.*/\e[0;92m&\e[0m/g; s/^W.*/\e[0;93m&\e[0m/g; s/^E.*/\e[0;91m&\e[0m/g'"
Take a lot of Omega3+D vitamins and live on instead.
Looking at the crap we Europeans see happening in the US, I seriously doubt the efficiency of this agency.

A good example is that story about the old lady on HN who had rented an illegal building. One agency demanded that she be evicted, yet another law forbid the eviction, or such.
I agree about the talent for creating the illusion of fluency.

I think that's the real difference maker for Tim's guest blogger, he has a strong sense of what a language is in the abstract, a sense for how people use language in general, and practice at getting through the awkward time when you are frustrating to speak with.

Those universal gifts are the most valuable ones of language learning, and they can come while learning your second language, but they come faster when you have dabbled in 4 or so.
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Exactly. The difference between NYC and a rural Mississippian town may seem big, but it's nothing compared to the difference between, say, Copenhagen and a rural Spanish town.
Wow... I really like the US, but these draconian laws make it difficult to justify moving there. Of course, if you grow up like this and don't know better...
Sorry, but not now. I still have hope of making some money from this, since I'm not really aware of any HTML5 image editor which outclasses my app.

Even though it doesn't earn me anything right now, I am just a little hesitant to share all the details about how it works. A lot of the specific canvas techniques I had figure out myself, and I'd rather not share all my tricks for free right away.

I did want to share some of the techniques I used in the form of blog articles however. I wrote one already on how to connect a series of points to draw a smooth curve: http://yangcanvas.com/smoothcurves
Some of what Benny does is based on Boris Shektman's teaching at the US Foreign Services Language Institute. It's extremely pragmatic (borderline cheating) At time, really steamrolls the conversation with a set of trick and tactics. It's not really knowing the language in any sense, but it does massively facilitate learning in immersive environments. It's language learning for people without time to take classes and it works. It takes a certain personality to steamroll someone and control the conversation, so hence its use in US diplomatic language training :)

Benny & Tim make some claims and use words like "learn" and "know" differently than you or me. I agree with you and don't agree with much of their preamble copy, but what they're doing is long held in aggressive training scenarios (foreign service postings, for instance) and a solid hack.. well, for type-A extroverts willing to dominate a foreigner socially.
Amazon barely makes any money, and they actually have been losing money the last several quarters.
> it's not agile's fault. It's your fault. It's your team's fault

That's what everyone has said about every dogma they've ever believed in, ever.
The problem is that delivery is such a long-tail of problems that Amazon will never get on top of it. IMO they're going the right way with their Locker delivery option - sidestepping the whole thing.
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Do I understand correctly that your part-time side business makes you more money than your fulltime job? That sounds like an excellent opportunity to quit that job and expand that side business.

How? I don't know. Continue doing what you did with that side business, but now fulltime. Whatever it is, it seems to be working.

I took a totally different route: I already had a small financial buffer when my employer went into technical bankruptcy. A few people had to be fired, and I volunteered. Got some extra pay, got into unemployment, and started on a track where I could start my own business while keeping unemployment benefits for 6 months (this is Netherland, so probably doesn't apply to you).

I first wasted some time doing my own thing, exploring some new tools and techniques and stuff, meanwhile looking for small freelance jobs. Got a few, made a bit of money, but eventually it ran out and I decided to go for bigger freelance jobs. Less variation, but steady pay.
I hear you. The payment gateways in DK simply suck. However, Braintree and Stripe are now all over Europe too.
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Equipped with the stereotypical stickup man gear of a black balaclava and a gun, the young man approached the counter and demanded cash from the store assistant, but little did he expect the clerk to not even flinch before giving him a nonchalant “No” reply.
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I have posted about 28 links on my Seattle page, but I have about 120 more in an OpenOffice spreadsheet. However I haven't been getting much sleep at all the least three weeks to I better get some Zs before my eyeballs both start bleeding.

I have a total of 27 separate OOo Calc documents, one for each of the countries I've researched so far. My United States spreadsheet is the most extensive, with a couple dozen states and a couple dozen cities. My Canada spreadsheet has most but not all of the provinces, and most but again not all of the larger cities in the provinces I do have.

I decided the other day to give our friends in Ukraine a leg up, as I know very well that they're heavily into software development, but could only find just one employer, in Kiev. However I have some connections so I will track them all down Real Soon Now.

Please understand that much of my Global Computer Employer Index site consists of mere placeholder pages, so I could work out the overall web design, the directory and document heirarchies, the navigation and the user interface.

I think I've finally got a handle on that, and just now uploaded a new revision, which has quite a lot of work on the navigation, eight or so new countries, many new cities and a few new US states.

I added placeholders for a dozen or so cities in Los Angeles County, as I asked my friend Sari Gennis, a really high-end animator - she was the Art Director for FernGully - to pass my LA County page's link around among her colleagues. I wanted them to see that there really would be something there.

I've had my Santa Cruz County, California page online since 1997, when my former employer Live Picture announced it was moving from scenic, pristine Scotts Valley to San Jose. For most of us LP employees that would mean a treacherous, potentially deadly commute over the Santa Cruz Mountains via Highway 17, so I developed my first software employer research techniques, threw the page up on my site, then quietly passed the link around among my coworkers.

:::: http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/united-states/californ...

This had the eventual result that some complete stranger emailed to inquire as to my favorite restaurant, then a few days later I received a $100.00 gift certificate, as I had enabled him to find a new coding job!
Even in the "old computer" case, there are a bunch of floppy interfaces for SD/CompactFlash/etc http://www.torlus.com/floppy/ http://www.sensi.org/~tnt23/megadrive/
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