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No, don't even think of learning CodeIgniter. Besides being pretty much dead (version 3 has been coming out for, what, about 2 years now?), it has terrible architecture. The superglobal singleton is just awful and will kill you slowly.
There's a huge difference, which makes flow of money controllable: The US Government (with the fed) can change the value and availability of money, and they do it constantly. The US can decide, tomorrow, to inflate or deflate the USD, and by fiat, it will happen.

Willing drugs in or our of existence cannot be similarly done.

Attempting to control the flow of "value store" might be unwinnable - but if you look you'll see gold is actually very tightly controlled, so maybe it is winnable. Just try to get a gold bar delivered - you're in for a big surprise about how free the market is (or isn't)
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Yep. If you dig into that story (big news at community banks in Japan), the "bombshell" is that Russians like paying Japanese used car dealers for cars, and that Japanese used car dealers are happy to oblige them, especially with regards to cars that are uneconomic to continue driving in Japan [+]. The US leaned on HSBC which followed up with a local Japanese bank. The local Japanese bank was disinclined to pry into its customers businesses all that much on behalf of a foreign regulator, relaying to HSBC a sentiment which probably wasn't literally "They're customers of long standing and are, legitimately, car dealers. Please give our regards to the Americans and tell them that the Occupation is over." but likely came close. The US told HSBC this was unacceptable and HSBC followed up with its customers (the Japanese regional banks), who said "Which part did you not understand the first time?"

[+] There exists a tax on automobiles which increases with age and which, fairly quickly, causes the tax to cost more than the residual value of the automobile. It is justified as a public safety measure, since you get an inspection when paying the tax, but is actually a straight-out subsidy to domestic car manufacturers, since it essentially mandates "Despite the fact that your products work for decades, customers are required to buy a new model every 6 years."

[Edit: I should add that while Hokuriku doesn't give one the impression of being impressively well-organized from the notes in the Senate investigation that my tiny bank in central Japan believes in KYC so much that their manager-at-the-time both successfully intuited "Patrick is seeing someone." and "Patrick has broken up with his girlfriend." from changes in my cash withdraw patterns and wrote these observations down in their log just in case the next manager needed them. I have many fun anecdotes from working with them, like the time my gym botched a withdraw request and received a blisteringly polite note in Japanese saying that no one with the specified name had an account at the bank and if, hypothetically speaking, the gym had business with one of the bank's customers then it should, hypothetically speaking, extend him the common courtesy of spelling his name right.]
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PROJECT: Help build an iOS classifieds app.

MOTIVATION: Making it easier to sell your stuff. (and to a lesser extent, discover new stuff to buy)

SKILLS: Digital marketing e.g. email marketing, social media, pr etc plus analytical skills e.g. google analytics. The project is called 'Octopus' and our website is theoctopusapp.com. My e-mail address and more about me is in my profile. Get in touch with any questions, or ask them here and I'll try to get back to you.
Fibonacci heaps are very interesting beasts, but implementation is slightly complicated. For C++ developers there's one in Boost that is not so easy to use quickly.

I've recently put an alternative one in C++11 here: https://github.com/beniz/fiboheap
ETSI is part of the EU mechansims, as the telecom standards body, and the EU decided to mandate a shared standard.
>Ignoring fees for a moment, if there are Bitcoin ATMs on both ends of the remittance transaction, it's pretty easy for the participants.

Why wouldn't international BTC transfers be regulated the same as international currency transfers?
I have an easier solution for you: Just log out of services after you used them.
Ugh, what's the point? Hiring by robots?
Even though CodeIgniter is indeed an easy framework to start with, I would not recommend it as it's quite an old concept and it's not being developed anymore. Laravel is more recent and not too difficult if you follow the nice docs. There's also plenty of nice articles online (especially in Tutsplus - code.tutsplus.com/search?utf8=✓&view=&search%5Bkeywords%5D=laravel&button=).
What you mean by resource heavy? Symphony at least is one of the heaviest frameworks, and not just for PHP.
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Looks cool, although it looks a bit U.S.-centric and techie-centric.

Other people have mentioned the firstName/lastName problem and the region/state ambiguity. I'll mention a few more items that might be helpful if you really want this to become a worldwide standard:

1. In some countries, it is not only legal but also customary for employers to ask for, and job seekers to include, various demographic information about themselves that would be considered discriminatory in the U.S. For example, sex/gender, date of birth, marriage status, and family details. It would be good to define such fields in the schema but leave them optional. Or define a catch-all field where anyone can add any key-value pair.

1-1. Don't forget the full street address, including the postal code!

1-2. Citizenship. This is very important for companies that might need to sponsor your visa and/or geeen card.

1-3. In some countries, it is customary to include a photograph of yourself in your resume. Perhaps this could take the form of a "photo" field that takes a URL.

1-4. There needs to be a field where you can write down an alternate expression of your name. Many Korean names can be written in either Hangul or Hanja. Most Japanese names are written in Kanji, but often accompanied by Hiragana to help the reader pronounce them properly. A lot of employers in these countries require both forms.

2. Since this is going to be electronically processed, perhaps it would be a good idea to include the ticker code for publicly traded companies in one's employment history? GOOG is much easier to search for than variations of "Google", "Google Inc.", etc.

3. The publications schema will need to be significantly expanded if you want scientists and other academics to even consider using this. Take a look at how academic publications are cited. At the very least, there needs to be a field to specify the type of publication, e.g. book, ebook, edited book, journal article, newspaper article, conference presentation, workshop presentation, blog post, website, etc. There should also be a "doi" field for scientific and other academic publications.

3-1. The education schema needs a "summary" field, just like the employment schema.

4. Some employers prefer to get the content of the reference from the referee him/herself, rather than having the applicant include it in the resume. (Otherwise, the applicant could modify the content.) So you need fields to put the email address (to contact the referee) and a URL (to grab the content of the reference) in the references field. Oh, and don't forget the referee's employer and title/position. Those things matter.

4-1. Bonus points if the content of the reference can be authenticated with the referee's PGP key.

4-2. Extra bonus points if the entire resume can be authenticated with the applicant's PGP key, to prevent hiring agencies from messing with the content.
That doesn't actually fix the problem. If you visit Facebook in your first tab, then navigate to another page from within the same tab, the new page can still use this exploit.

So you've just broken the internet in a pretty major way, but not actually fixed the problem (esp. considering a lot of people don't use tabs or use them very minimally)
no, because i'm a perl developer, and perl is php's big brother
His advice about research and published work applies to software as well. Just because someone published that shiny new framework before you and got lots of upvotes does not mean you should despair. You should look at and learn from it and ask yourself how you could have approached the problem differently. You will learn a lot and chances are pretty high there is still something unique in your work that can be factored out and either published on its own or integrated into the more popular framework.
It does look simpler but could it be because there are less functionalities and it is less extensible? won't be enough to be called an alternative. I voted up though because I still think it's cool. Hope to see it grow further.
To be fair, they're proposing a structure that lends itself to machine readability.
The law does say that manipulating transfer pricing is illegal. However it is hard to prosecute where the thing being transferred is non tradeable (eg IP is sold to local subsidiaries in many od these cases not just coffee).
My main concern and same question for my own resume: what skill strings should be used ? Server Administrator or System Engineer ? Programmer or C++ ? etc... That's what will be one of the more challenging things to solve. Otherwise you might have a resume-format, but no way to reliably use that data as a computer, or that out of scope ?
There's a lot of money in Magento because it's so utterly horrible to work with.
Tokyo is not comparable to anything else, really. It works because everybody values that things work out for society. In that environment dissent such as NIMBY is indeed troublesome but never blocking.

If one local wards would take decisions to enrich itself to the cost of others the system would break down. It wouldn't last a day in California.

That said, there are some problems there too, such as the aforementioned quintillion public transport lines. (Source: a few friends who moved there)
Ask HN: Chances for Restarting a Career in CS @ 30+ ?
i studied literature and philosophy @ a german university. after my master, i joined an it-startup - and as so many of them, we failed (but i don't regret learning so much within that time). even though, i got some interviews within the last ~7 months, i still can't find an avg. job to be able to finance a small room + living expenses.

now, i'm 31. i did some cs certificates offered by edx/coursera within the last 12 months (MitX: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science; BerkelyX: Engineering Software as a Service; HarvardX: CS50...).

and i'm totally addicted to coding - even when i notice my lack of math skills. i spent the nights trying to understand cs concepts and couldn't sleep or stop before i found a solution (sometimes i did not sleep the whole day).

sorry for the long prologue, but i thinks it's important for my main question:

do you think, it makes sense to study computer science at the age of 31? or is it too late?
do you have some experience with that?
or do you work at a human resources department and can tell me if there is a chance for those kind of people?
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Yes. This. Sid Vicious was nowhere near world-class at the bass. He may be world-class at playing up to the media and managing social situations. But after seeing that example, I feel it made me believe more in the 10,000 hours!
Decentralized P2P bitcoin transfers are not easily regulated; It would be like regulating other P2P technologies like BitTorrent or encryption software. Of course, if a centralized business is in the middle, you can regulate that, but it's not a necessary piece of the solution.
Recommend the Flight (http://flightphp.com/learn) framework for creating RESTful APIs in PHP. It is lightweight, flexible, and does routing nicely.
Why would I want to be a PHP developer? :O
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It'd be like trying to regulate 500 million independent banks. You could make a law about it, but it'd be impossible to enforce.
Business model:

1. Find something people need to buy regularly anyways

2. Buy a 20$ one page design from themeforrest and modify it

3. Let people subscribe to the service to send them the item on a regular basis

4. Hope that enough people are too lazy to just buy things like normal people would do

5. Repeat the whole business model with every item you normally buy when you do your groceries, like: blacksocks (overpriced socks), mymusli (overpriced cerials) etc.
Ask HN: Sole Proprietorship vs Limited Company
I'm working fulltime on my startup, which is a B2B SAAS web product. It will store some business data - nothing important like sales/competitor data, but stuff a company still wouldn't like to have leaked out.

I have the option of either setting up the business as a sole proprietor or limited company. I don't imagine my revenue will go near 10k in my first year, so I won't pay any tax either way, which makes sole proprietorship more attractive in terms of cost savings (no/less time with accountant). I am worried about any sort of legal responsibility I would have to bare though.

Question: which is better for a small one-man SAAS startup with low expectations on income?
"PHP-elitist" is an oxymoron, right? Like a dumpster-foodie or an instant-coffee aficionado?
That's a good book. So fundamental in its content it is suprising so few similar books exist. It is very expensive however.
But the laws as enacted said they would pay much more tax than that. In the UK people complaining are domestic coffee shops that dont have the advantage of expensive tax lawyers and use of tax havens. Marketing and logistics are not VATable. Starbucks pay minimum wage pretty much, which means there are few payroll taxes, indeed their employees may well also be getting state benefits because they have low income. So pointing at some amount of tax they do pay is not very helpful. Their claim that the UK is simply an unprofitable market is also odd, why have they expanded so much if it is unprofitable, why don't they fire management for failing to make any money?
You're right that shuffling doesn't avoid the worst case, but your explanation isn't quite correct. See my other comment for my explanation.

I'm not sure what you mean by deterministic shuffling. Shuffling is supposed to be random, and therefore non-deterministic. In practice, you'd probably use a pseudorandom function to implement shuffling, but the goal of pseudorandom functions is to be indistinguishable from random functions, so that detail shouldn't matter.
Err, that aoa books are incredibly controversial in approach however. The HLA stuff undermines the goals of most people trying to learn it.
I would say its because academic researchers don't spend nearly enough time actually using these languages industriously in the worst-case scenarios. If more effort was spent in understanding how, for example, SIL-4 (safety integrity level 4) development is done with non-type-safe languages (hint: code coverage tests, tests, tests..), then there would (imho) be less motivation to continually churn out 'new solutions to old problems' .. which have been solved, already.

Fact is, if you can't trust your language because of its type system, you develop tools to build that trust around your particular application of the language. If that is 'too much work for you' .. then by all means, avoid the work by reinventing the wheel. In Academia, you can get away with that because you don't have customers, and you don't have an industry demanding results. At most you have peers whom you have convince that steering their groupthink in your direction is worth the effort.
I for one needed to Google it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines): Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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If you navigate away from facebook, it will delete all facebook cookies in the tab. That's the idea.

Also, it doesn't break the internet - it doesn't tinker with IP or TCP or HTTP or anything. I'm also not suggesting that all browsers do this, it's obviously way too annoying for an ordinary user to put up with. I just want my browser to do it. I want to fix the internet for myself.
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Well, I understand it as well as any layman does, being local to it. You are correct that the the word "questioning" may be misleading to English speakers, who does not understand that it is part of the formal process. These things are hard to translate because you have to know so much more than just the language to understand it in context.

That's why I tried to say that using words such as "rape" can be misleading if it is indeed a correct translation. The same goes for "questioning" apparently. For some reason this was downvoted so I won't dwell more on the subject.
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Such centralized businesses will be swiftly shut down by legislation if bitcoin cannot be regulated.
If shutting down the centralized businesses isn't enough, bitcoin will be outlawed. Identifying users is easy enough due to the nature of the network.
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Correct. In general, real data will seldom, if ever, look like random data.
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The language godfather and access to alternative languages for a given ecosystem play an higher role than how good a language might be.

Hence importance of having Apple and Microsost bringing ML derived languages into the industry.
I would recommend a limited company. I started a SAAS service (http://usehuman.com) for fun but also to learn about the economics/technical side of the business. Whilst I developed the product as a hobby, once I began charging, I decided incorporating would be best.

If anything, incorporating it not just about better bookkeeping, it means you are committed. Companies (or individuals for that matter) buying your software need re-assurance that they can rely on you.

Incorporating also doesn't mean you are tied to one particular product, it gives you a platform to launch several products if that's what works for you.
Thats not going to happen. We are going to tax these companies. Sales in the EU can and are regulated and taxed, the problem is some issues like varying tax rates (Luxembourg) and various issues like the double Irish Dutch sandwich (that Apple invented) which was based on differences between tax definitions between countries. These can and will be fixed. Just because you, personally, hate government spending, does not mean we are going to remove corporation tax. Putting all taxes directly on a few prices, like increasing VAT (retail sales) or income tax (cost of hiring labour) is far more distortionary than spreading taxes between more prices (like returns on capital, as roughly corporation taxes are).
Big plus for pocket! It does help that I have longish commute time most of which I use by reading out of pocket on my tablet. At office most of the time is spent in coding, debugging etc., any remotely interesting topic gets "pocketed" immediately; I don't even spend time to decide whether it's worth reading or not.
You have to be careful not to extrapolate too much from your personal experiences. I screw that up pretty often.

Near as I can tell, there are about as many kids that are into cars as ever have been. They're maybe doing different things to them than in the past -- wheels, suspension, hydraulics, stereos -- but there are still a lot of young people that care a lot about their cars. Forums like stancenation (http://www.stancenation.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?30-Meets...) seem to be mostly younger people. Not my thing, but hey, a lot of folks into it.

And near as I can tell, it's never been true that everyone knew how to work on a car. Mechanics have been around forever, and for good reason. One of my grandpa's favorite stories is the time he took apart the engine on his car, down to the bolt, carefully boxing and bagging and labeling every single thing, only to find he had no idea how it all went back together again. The mechanic showed up, took one look at it, threw it all into a box and brought the car back a few days later.

The 50's style family road trip has maybe suffered somewhat from the high price of gas and from the competition of touring abroad, but people still do road trips. My pa and I drove from Florida to California years ago; I just finished a brief tour of small towns in Oregon and California a few months ago, and bumped into someone else doing the same; lots of people take road trips to Burning Man every year; I still see the occasional converted hippy bus on the road; and there's even a company that specializes in renting RVs to people for trips, https://www.cruiseamerica.com/ -- if you stop at a KOA or a Goodsam, you'll find plenty of those. If you don't travel much, it's easy to believe other people don't travel too, and if you travel, you'll meet other travelers.

Sure, some things are changing. Something always is. But just 'cause people can do the Facebook thing doesn't mean it's as fun as a LAN party or a game night or beer and barbecue with friends. I'm pretty sure the party scene isn't any less lively than before.

Jeep is still doing a brisk business domestically (http://www.autonews.com/article/20140701/RETAIL01/140709987/...), and the main thing those vehicles have going for them is their brand identity. (Don't hate me, I love Jeeps ... but they're not really practical for the average use case.)
I don't know how it is in the US but in the UK, it was a real struggle to afford a car, luckily this year, my insurance dropped to a reasonable £800, compared to the £3000 I was being quoted for last year.

You can get your driving licence when you're 17, but at that point, (usually) you aren't earning enough money to drive a car.

So you're sitting on your license for 4 years, and when the insurers finally believe you can drive without crashing, you better be sure you remember everything you were taught 4 year ago.

I don't think it's cars that are going out of fashion, insurers are pricing 'kids' out of the driving seat.
If you are in Switzerland download the FIFA SRF App (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fwc2014.sr...). It lets you watch all the games live the replays and around 10 different camera angles.

The app may be available to other countries under another name as well. I believe the app was created for FIFA and provided as a branded product to the different television networks that paid for access.
There you go! There's a person (and programming language) for every taste...
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This is why the Semantic Web has links (URIs), so that we point to unequivocal concepts. They would do much better to use JSON-LD instead of dumb strings for these CVs.
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No, as a full stack web developer, I use node.js so that I don't need to switch between js and php frequently.
Because it still pays and if you are good at it - pays well.
Simply add "why" or "how" on the beginning of sentence i.e. Why you want to be PHP developer? In marketing they are calling them "open questions", the question to which you have to answer with more than just yes or no