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The price for Hong Kong looks weird, NomadCost per month in HK is roughly 350 EUR lower than the monthly rental costs. This is probably due to the very low listed price of the hostel and budget hotel rooms.
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Hi, I am the person behind this (disclaimer: not programmer myself - I developed the concept and put together the team). Beta launched on Monday.

The main objective is to introduce products tech startups make (you guys) to the wider non-tech entrepreneurial audience.

The design, interface, structure, text etc. was developed having non-tech people in mind.

Small businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers can search apps, read reviews, provide ratings. App creators can show their products, receive direct feedback, respond to reviews, and eventually generate leads.

I’d be happy to hear your feedback:)
I went through an interview process at booking two years ago. After the phone interview, they asked me to come to Amsterdam for a face to face interview. To arrange travel details, they asked me to send passport details (scan of passport info page).

Seven days after I sent them the passport scan I got an email explaining "While we impressed with your background and experience, we have concluded that other candidates' qualifications more closely match the requirements for this position.".

I guess my age wasn't a good fit.
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Hi. I want the abilities of interactive whiteboard, recording video and audio, an all-in-one software. Currently, there are separate soft-wares to achieve the goal, e.g SmoothDraw and Camstudio together.
There's also a major difference in rollout: Twitter scaled slowly, with quite a number of fail-whale episodes. Healthcare.gov rolled out to millions of users from day one, with everything necessary required to be there at the beginning.
There's some irony in that the link goes to an almost-blank page because the custom fonts (Fira Sans here) have point-blank refused to load.

It's not a popular viewpoint anymore but if you really want to optimise your site, using stock fonts when you can is a good first step.

(And yes, I've tried reloading. Firefox-stable on Ubuntu. Works in Chrome.)
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Seconded!

I used Sympy recently to solve the rocket equation. It involved some integrals that my rusty math skills couldn't solve so I used Sympy to solve them.

Then I ran a side by side comparison between the integrals I solved with Sympy against a numerical solution using Scipy and Numpy to verify that my results are correct.

The only negative thing about Sympy is that it's rather slow.

Here's the code if you're interested:
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Can someone give me a good example of where immutable data structures are better than mutable ones. I know that you are more likely to mess up and have side effects with mutable data structures, but so far all I have heard is theory.
This has got nothing to do with net-neutrality. Say my workplace internet has blocked porn, does that mean my workplace internet is non net-neutral and harmful ? On the contrary it is more productive.

When you are are getting something for free, someone else is spending money for you and clearly getting something for free is better that getting nothing.

In case of Comcast etc. this is not the case because these service providers use public land and create monopolies with the help of government.
May unemployed people are so because the jobs available are not pallatable. Almost everyone I know that doesn't have a job could easily find work washing dishes or similar. How is this different from a job guarantee, at least for a large chunk of the population?
frik didn't pay the ISP ransom probably.
"Under BIG, production drops, consumption rises, and so do prices. Suddenly, the value of the BIG grant has been eroded. Great success: the poor are still poor."

I was under impression, that BIG works on assumption, that production doesn't drop, because the people that would consider not working are often the people that wouldn't produce as much.

On the other hand, the rise in compsumption would be fueled by newly found buying power of the low income population, and that means bussinesses would care about them more.

For employers BIG would basically mean a flat discount on all of the employees.

And for government and people with low income it would mean a large reduction in byrocracy.
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Unfortunately lots of these assumptions on BIG are somewhat culture dependent.
There's also the massive success of pharma and the doctor's guilds in raising prices over the past century.
I'm a bit confused about JG idea. Maybe it's different times now, but it reminds me of the old system in Poland where everyone doing something in their assigned work got paid. As a result, there were many people simply showing up for work and expecting to be paid. People on higher positions in common jobs often took the "I rule over customers" mentality. (think shop managers) Even worse for services, any public/government work, etc. The quality of work simply did not matter.

There's even a saying people will still recognise, which means something close to: whether you stand or lay down, you're entitled to the wage.

Sure, the political system was completely different, what you could spend your money on was limited, but... This image is in the back of my mind when people talk about JG - and I'm not sure why it wouldn't happen again.
I love how this is posted on facebook.com and not internet.org.
You can no guarantee anything that requires resources without compromising interests/freedom/rights of some other class.
Probably not. Just more ports, better overcurrent protection and hotplug capabilities.

(But along with a better energy efficiency this means you can probably skip the USB hub for many applications and that's a huge improvement imo.)
"10. The poor and the unemployed want to work (here, here). And as my work on Argentina showed (9m14s), receiving income is the fifth reason why the poor wanted to work! Why do BIG advocates presume to know what’s better for the poor than the poor themselves? BIG does little for those who want to work."

Earlier in the article, he claims that BIG will cause fewer people to work; if BIG reduces demand for jobs then surely those who want jobs will have an easier time finding them?
You don't even have to spend that much. The f/4 version of Canon's 70-200 can be had for around $600 new and it's a fantastic lens.
I recently hired a 30 year old Rails developer who had completed a 3 month Rails crash course in London. He was an archeologist beforehand with no prior programming experience.

I'm so impressed with how it has turned out, I'm looking to make my next hire from the next batch of recruits.

If you can't afford a crash course like the one I mentioned, try Code Academy and Treehouse.

It is definitely not too late for you!
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I think people could get fired from their job with cause and have a waiting period before being allowed to give it another try.
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I'm not quite sure what you mean your first question, but I think heat pumps using air, ground or water as heat reservoirs would qualify. They are in common household use at least where I am located, and have a input-power-to-heat efficiency of up to 400% (the Carnot cycle imposes a limit of roughly 7-10x depending on which exact scenario you calculate)

Here's an example of one manufacturer and products: http://www.nibe.eu/Domestic-heatingcooling/Airwater-heat-pum...
I've done some voluntary work; sometimes one gets assigned to do work that could be automated at fairly trivial expense.

For example, I've been asked to:

* Fold letters, put them into envelopes, and manually address the envelopes.

* Deliver centrally-printed documents to people a long way from the printer.

* Manually sort paper files into alphabetical order.

* Sharpen colouring pencils by hand.

If "Job Guarantee" employees are effectively free labour, my fear is they'd end up being assigned to do jobs that would only cost a few hundred dollars to automate out of existence. It's my personal experience that doing such jobs manually is pretty unsatisfying (and economically inefficient to boot).
> the people that would consider not working are often the people that wouldn't produce as much.

What do you mean? The jobs that suck the most and are paid the least are often the ones that absolutely have to be done (by a human), at least in the today's societies: garbage collector, construction worker, cleaners, store/fast-food workers, ...
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No, says the entrepreneur, having the government fix the roads stifles innovation and impedes the god-given right of some megacorp profiting.They should hire a company that in turn will hire the same people who would do the job, except with lower job security and cheaper wages.

And people wonder why the public always gets the short end of the stick.
Sorry for the delay. Been trying to meet a deadline. I went back and looked at the two companies I mentioned earlier for pricing. With those in mind, I'd suggest you charge $2-3 / mo. However, I also see that both of those sites are on a freemium model. So, there's a little more to think about. Would you charge for all levels of access, etc?

Before I discuss how I feel about price, I want to say that there is a market for it. People want to manage their to-do lists and tasks. "to do list" is searched for about 90k times a month on Google, and so is "task manager." Also, I've taken a little time to look at some of the competitors and here's what I've found: http://rivalseek.com/trends/index.php?market=4 Not sure what happened in June 2013 but the overall 3-year trend seem to be a 25% growth. And the chart doesn't really show this, but that's a lot of traffic. Todoist.com alone receives an estimated 12.3 million visits a month. From looking at different companies I also really liked taasky.com because they appealed to the fact that I wanted the system to be simple. But, still, I would not use them because I want a system that works on both my phone and my pc.

Personally, I'm still on the fence about which one I would choose. It's between yours and wunderlist. I like the simplicity of yours and the fact that I see it works wonderfully on both my pc and phone. My concerns right now are: a) will I need the additional features of wunderlist, b) am I going to pay for something I could get for free, c) am I going to be the only person paying for it? I'm saying these things not to discourage you, but to try to provide feedback and help you with sales process/objections.
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I dont get the included Google Search. If you have limited sites where you can use the data, what's the use of searching the internet?
I feel like this article (and many like it) ignore the distinction between "wanting a job with a salary" and "wanting to have something to do".

The reality is that you don't need to attach a 'salary' to a 'job' to get people to do something useful. Given the time and resources, they will do so of their own accord.

Relatedly, a post I wrote on the topic of unemployment a while ago: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2013/03/18/unemployment-is-i...
I don't speak German so I cannot look it up, but my guess is these standards are for new buildings or buildings that are being renovated (and probably the numbers are different for private and commercial buildings as well, which is a shame), and owners of an existing building cannot be forced to adhere to the standard.
Thickness of walls is of course related to insulation, but it isn't everything; for example 20cm of typical insulation still has a much lower U-value then a concrete wall of 100cm thick.
> You cannot pay to get obtrusive or tracking ads on the whitelist.

> If you are a large company (how exactly that's defined isn't clear), you need to pay to get your unobtrusive ads whitelisted.

Yeah that's a pretty clear conflict of interest, isn't it?

And it's violated right there with Google because the type of tracking ads that Google Ads are shouldn't have been allowed. For a non-paying party. As long as they stay true to their self-imposed rules for "acceptable ads".
The first couple of rounds of insurance might be issued by a venture capital style fund rather than traditional insurance, as a necessary investment in the ecosystem to get the market underway.

There will of course be actuarial exercises involved, but rather than trying to predict everything and more and imposing unnecessarily limiting restrictions (which is not to say there shouldn't be any) on the development process, they'll accept the increased risk to get the feedback from actual daily use bootstrapped.

Once there's a better understanding of the issues that will occur in the real world, traditional insurers will join the fray.
Let me check that out, it sounds like a good idea, but it'll be quite a lot of work to make that...
Around Liverpool and Birkenhead were the only places I looked, they're not perfect grids of course, I don't know hardly anything about European street layouts though, that might be considered very gridlike compared to other places in the area.
I start out inherently skeptical that the government could run a work program better than private industry.

That article dispels that concern and many others that I had about such a program. Thanks for sharing it!
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There was a recent discussion about cylinders on HN which might be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8097125
Please no. This is awful verbose syntax. Use Java if that's what you want.

This is not PHP, this will never be PHP. Some people need to remember the purpose for which PHP was started and what it still is great at: making websites.

You guys are stuck in high brow academic debate on the semantic of a language that was born before many of us started coding, and that helped the web become what it is today. And that has come a long way.

I'm not saying to stop improving the language, but as someone who has used PHP for 15 years, all the issues I see come up constantly in threads like this are non issues, never encountered them in any web situation, you have to seek these "bugs"/annoyance, or be seriously inexperienced with PHP, or as I've been saying for years any time I do conferences: you are using PHP wrong.

So please, keep your verbose syntax in other languages that "need" it, while there are improvement to be made on PHP, this is not an area that needs one.

Also, looking at your bug submission/request, I share krakjoe sentiment: what the F are you trying to achieve? Seriously, I am curious. To me it screams wrongly used PHP.
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Whether you approach society from a primarily cooperative (collectivist) approach or from a primarily competitive (capitalist) direction, both angles eventually have the same problem: over-centralization, which stifles the freedom and diversity necessary for a system to evolve. Or, they may have a different problem with too much fragmentation and lack of coherence.

What we need is a system that is both holistic and coherent but also componentized and diverse.

There is quite a lot of techno-communist thinking going around that fails to recognize this problem of over-centralization which has numerous times in the past shown how dangerous and repressive it can be. A hierarchical system, like a tree, has vulnerabilities and entrenchment in each root or branch.

The last time I said something like this, a Marxist just told me I was asking for two contradictory things that was impossible, and implied that the answer was Marxism.

How can we have a system that is well-organized, with different parts that are aware of eachother and the big picture without a lot of redundancy and waste or counter-productivity, but at the same time is set up in a way that makes it free to experiment and form new directions and even refactor old ones?

I think that is actually a very hard problem, but one that can be solved. If anyone knows of a good approach let me know.
With basic income even the people filling those jobs now won't do them, forcing businesses to automate that workload and, as the article says, de-commoditizing the human labor force, and emphasizing a focus on technological solutions to previously "too cheap to automate" tasks.
I'd go with the resistance back-up heat argument here as well.
It's hard to have a clear perspective on this.

Obviously it's again net neutrality, and there are probably a lot of better ways to give access to Internet to people who don't have it. On the other end, I'd like to think it can be really useful to some people.

I regret however that the conditions and the process to be integrated to the app are not clearly stated.

For instance, it should be required that a service is accessible without restriction of any kind, and be interoperable... and Facebook Messenger doesn't meet these requirements.
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JS is the lingua franca of the browser, but PHP is the lingua franca of the server side.
We are big fans of GraphLab. We used the version that was available when we collected the performance data on GraphLab - last summer. The asynchronous engine was seg-faulting which is why we used the synchronous engine. Lots of details about this in the SIGMOD paper:

http://mapgraph.io/papers/MapGraph-SIGMOD-2014.pdf

And of course MapGraph is open-source, so anyone can make their own comparisons. :-)
The ES5 spec specifies its whole standard library, however ;)
Is there some generic framework for these ideas?

For example, if I simplify my country "social net", it basically is, that either you have job and pay taxes, or you don't have a job, and you can apply for government help.

Then we have minimal wage requirement in our law.

I know that a faction in our government argues, that this system has two main problems:

1) for low income people it might not be worth to search job, because often they would be paid just a little extra for large amount of work, than they alredy receive from welfare

2) employers complain, that because of high income taxes and other expeditures on employees it is not worth for them to employ people that recieve low salary.

The party proposed to add a fixed sum of money negative income tax to the income tax rate as a quite elegant solution, resulting basicaly in BIG in the country.

I wonder how well would that work, because at least it solves these two problems they stated.
Hi thanks for another great post.

I've started with similar project running mesos-marathon on top of CoreOS. (https://github.com/veverjak/coreos-mesos-marathon)

I was wondering whether kubernetes has same resource management like mesos - meaning can I get info about minion usage.
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The really cool use case in my mind is combining OLTP+OLAP in real time. Hence the interest in GPU acceleration. We have an OLTP platform that integrates a CPU version of the GAS engine used in MapGraph:

http://bigdata.com/bigdata

http://bigdata.com/mapgraph

Eventually we'd like to see the two platforms converge.
Don't understand why you would need seperate functions for those three first. map-keys would basically just be map with (keys coll), map-values would be with (vals coll) and entries would just be a normal map, as hashmaps in Clojure are seqs and mapping over hashmap returns entries as [key val]. A simple destructuring in your map function and you're good to go.

Don't quite understand what group-by-1 and group-by-2 does though. Elaborate?
Internet.org was down for everyone two hours ago. I checked it also with isitdownrightnow.com and downforeveryoneorjustme.com. Probably the Reddit/Slashdot/HN effect or a DNS cache on their side.

It works fine now.
Because the only way this is free is in the immediate monetary sense, and they are using it as a wolf in sheep's clothing to push through their own shit.

They're effectively just pretending to be the 'good guys', in order to destroy net neutrality before it gets a chance.
Not sure what you are doing to your CFLs to make them not last longer than incandescent bulbs. I think i've had maybe one CFL break, and that was an early model. LEDs are of course much much more reliable and will most likely outlive you, though personally I don't like this obsession with trying to cram them into traditional light socket formats - I'd like to see something a bit more innovative. They work particularly well as spotlight replacements and ikea have a nice range of innovative designs that don't cram the LEDs too close (which causes heat buildup and reduces efficiency).
It's an efficiency matter. The cylinder gives good electrode surface relative to the amount of matter contained. For a cube that ratio would be much worse, for a sphere it would be optimal, but spheres are harder to manufacture and connect to, as well as harder to stack in arrays. So we take a medium between the sphere and the cube and end up with a sweet spot in the cylindrical shape.
I get this: http://pastebin.com/TwzufP0F when following the instructions.
You could do much the same thing looking at startups which are 2 years old. The post-acquisition survival rate of a product is not that much better than the pre-acquisition survival rate - getting bought by a larger company does not mean that they won't eventually decide the same thing you would have found on your own: the product does not bring in enough money to pay for itself.

Acquisitions are a risky investment. You buy a company and it might turn out to be worthless.
Sadly, this Project is not yet officially supported by them. But it is one of the GOALS to support FF, Guardian Project and Privacy International. Not necessarily the other way around. :)
The optimist in me applauds Facebook for the effort to provide basic data access to the developing world.

The pessimist in me wonders if this is simply a brilliant strategy by Facebook to acquire the 4.5 billion people who aren't currently connected without having to compete with others. What's different between this and getting rid of net neutrality aside from side stepping the government entirely and doing it under the premise of helping the world become a better place?

The realist in me guesses that they probably see both sides and consider it a win/win scenario. I mean, wouldn't you?
To be fair, PHP's stdlib is essentially a Web framework. It comes with $_SERVER, $_GET, $_POST, header(), etc. built in, which other languages (Python, Haskell, Perl, etc.) would define in a framework. Hence there's no need to redefine stuff over and over. Hell, PHP is even a templating language by default, thanks to its <?php ?> tags.

Of course, this doesn't answer the related questions: is PHP's built-in framework any good? Is it a good idea to include a Web framework in all scripts (even non-Web ones)? Is it a good idea to write all application logic inside giant <?php ?> tags in template files?
All of the jobs you mention can be done by robots. Some of them can be done by robots TODAY.
The case of 100 volvo cars on the streets 2017 is a bit different than just allowing controlled tests on public roads, that is 100 cars given to customers for every day use, not engineers.
Nobody is using "free speech" nonsensically or equivocally here. They are just using a definition that justinpaulson doesn't like for some reason.