skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your working in tech, you have a good chance of being in New York or California, which has similar tax levels as BC,Canada. There is a lower corporate income tax too, and since you don't pay for health care, your not paying the health insurance 'tax'. In the end for most immigrants both places are about equal tax wise. I live in SF personally, and I lose an equal amount to taxes, and my employer is paying for my health care, so in total 'cost' I'm actually paying even more than I would in Canada.

In day to day life with normal Canadians, Native Americans do not experience much racism at all, especially if they live in the city. They get many benefits that other minority groups don't even approach in getting in the USA. The USA's historically discriminated against ethnic groups include natives, but since they are so outnumbered by black and hispanic groups, their plight is ignored. In Canada, the only group that is left to be historically discriminated against is native americans, which is why it's in the national consciousness compared to the USA.

American horror stories of being dropped by their medical insurance or just being too poor to get health insurance whenever they get cancer is as common as car accident deaths. The top cause of bankruptcy is medical bills in the USA. It's hard to say which one is worse.
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Also, this article goes over "parallel construction" quite a lot. Although we've heard about it a lot in the past year, this leak shows how and what kind of data NSA is sharing with DEA, FBI, etc.

It's even more important for us to know what kinds of data about us domestic law enforcement has access to, than it is to know what foreign intelligence has access to.
Last time I listed something on eBay they nickled and dimed me hard, but it was clear that I was being nickled and dimed. Perhaps the only hidden fee was that you've got to pay through PayPal and take that 2-3% hit.
Hasn't that been the punch line of the last 10 years of tech?

"Oh hey data hipsters, no I'm sorry our SQL data base is 200TB, no we don't have performance problems."

"Oh no we don't need your functional restless framework, we've been using a java framework for like 10 years, it peaks out at 1000 req/s."

"Why would we buy 4 webservers? It has 4 nics, and 8 CPU sockets. Sure it costs 500k each, but then we can keep using our java framework."
Does anyone else remember sygate?

That used to do almost exactly the same as glasswire is advertising, 10 years ago. It died in 2005 when symantec acquired the company and killed the product.
These recruiters find you, you dont find them. I doubt that any of your classmates would be so dumb as to tell everyone they got hired by a 3 letter agency. They probably are looking for more seasoned devs than the typical college grad.

Also you have to be an American citizen with parents who live in America. At least I know this is the case for civilians who want high security clearances.
They've managed to deploy Firefox OS - which is based on AOSP - on just 128 MB of RAM? I'm impressed!
In Java-land, OSGi was invented to solve this very problem. Every module has its own classloader so module A can load C 1.0 and module B can load C 1.1. Modules are registered and other modules can look them up in the registry and call them so A can look up and then call B without conflicts.
The question was about why there weren't streaks from the long exposure photo. My point is that the hubble also moves very fast and takes long exposures of tiny points of light without streaks. Streaking has very little to do with the atmosphere and more to do with moving the target around the sensor during exposure.

The hubble is above the atmosphere to reduce other kinds of optical interference, but streaking isn't one of them.
Seems logical to me--it's high enough that there's no worries of it being close and irritating a provider, but is round and easy to do relative pricing with. $1 would have been easier, but that's probably getting too close for comfort.
Heh. When I commented, I had intended to say the same thing about *-gate :)
Replace "anarchy" with "self-organization" or "decentralized governance" to make it sound a lot less scary. I've just started a pop econ book on this topic (after watching the author's video) that seems interesting so far.

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-Unbound-Self-Governance-Cambri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7K-0ohtb4Y
So are they saving because they're afraid of overheating the economy or that they will run out of oil?
I think the car-to-car variation in annual mileage traveled is too wide to fairly assess an annual fee. A secured odometer box checked during periodic vehicle inspections would be enough to reasonably raise the bar on mileage, but unfortunately more invasive solutions always seem to get suggested - e.g. GPS monitoring of mileage, or pervasive license plate tracking etc...
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All self-proclaimed anarchists I am aware of oppose the state, but do not oppose associations, rules, or laws.
I really don't think that will help. It is not that Twitter is insisting that people stop using (unlimited, unmetered) scraping and move to (unlimited, unmetered) APIs. Rather, it is that Twitter has stopped offering unlimited, unmetered APIs and is now charging for use.
I never claimed otherwise. I think in fact that there are two forms of context—didactic and mandatory.

Didactic context is personal, the context required for or used by a particular person in order to conceptualize and build confidence with a set of concepts (and their associated syntax, though it's close to meaningless so long as it doesn't get in your way too much).

Mandatory context is more like a compact notion of why and how some mechanism is applied. For instance, you might bootstrap homology using point-set topology (educational context) and then enhance it using algebraic topology. Eventually, perhaps, the mandatory context is that homology is a measure of non-exactness of chain complexes and this concept can be lifted from its base context and presented wherever exactness is an interesting measure.

Point being—language hardly exists in a vacuum. Good language invokes powerful concepts in an efficient manner and allows you to construct arguments using them. Good arguments can link seemingly disparate concepts with ease.
I remember this phase of my work.

I solved it by producing content no one could possibly question the value of, then becoming an expert on that content.

It's easy to work 40 hours per week if the company would see you as valuable if you worked 0.

And since you outpace your coworkers, I can't see why you can't do this.
I trust my friend as a friend, but I've never done business with him. MP is, before this began, my friend's client. My friend trusts MP. Therefore, I'm extending a lot of trust for MP through my friend's professional relationship with him. I do not know MP well enough to have developed significant feeling of trust or mistrust on my own.

The pre-existing 6-7 partners is what has made me suspicious to begin with, which prompted my post here. But they aren't doing nothing per se.

- My friend and his company (3 partners), the 30% holders, are bringing content/marketing/strategy not just to the company, but also as a primary deliverable of the company to its potential clients.
- The other 4 partners are apparently bringing their own combined years of experience building & scaling (non-technical) businesses. They are going to be focused on building & managing a human salesforce that will expand the reach of the business to get its services in as many business hands as possible. They comprise the other 70% equity holding at an unknown distribution.

That being said, you are using the wrong metrics

What are the right metrics? That's why I've posted the question. I'm not sure what the right metrics are. This is new territory for me. That said, I do disagree that the $100K discount is not real cash. MP has made it clear he does not want to pay my full rate, and wants me to exchange half that rate for a small equity stake. It strikes me as no different from being paid my full rate and turning around and handing half of it back to the company to purchase a stake. But I could be wrong in that assessment (which, again, is why I've posted the question to see things properly).

What happens in a year when your software is not finished, do you continue to develop and improve it for free, or do you send a new quote?

In a year, if there is more work to be done, I believe I'd be expected to do the work without a quote. They express wanting to have me feel committed/invested/responsible to the company & the tech.
Go allows pointers to be sent over channels, so it's up to you to make sure you send copies of data to prevent problems. So no, I'd say Go isn't doing that; or rather, it does require message passing but there's a huge loophole which means you basically can share mutable state unsafely.

Rust, on the other hand, is much closer to what you're describing.
> All speculatively, knowing that their type of oil production is not profitable at all if oil once again goes below $70 a barrel, which could happen overnight (see Sept-Nov 2008)?

Is there an obvious reason they couldn't sell their oil forward (or just sell futures)? You can sell oil forward three years for around $89 a barrel at the moment, as opposed to around $93 a barrel for delivery next month.

That's for WTI, and Brent is currently even more (in fact the Brent curve is in contango at the moment). I don't know what grade Australian oil would be, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's closer to Brent than to WTI.
Regarding CL with some quick googling (searched "common lisp html parser" and "common lisp http client") I found:

Html Parser:
http://www.cliki.net/cl-html-parse

Http client:
http://weitz.de/drakma/

I'm not sure why you are/were stumped? I could search for qt bindings for you, but I'm sure they exist and are pretty mature.
My main point is "motivation to learn" is key. Give me someone with motivation to learn, even if their free time is limited, and I can get them to a decent level in the fields I have knowledge of. As for what "decent level" means, to me in this case it means good enough to be employed based on those skills based on current requirements, and with all the mental tools to further their own education in the future.

Perhaps it's because I recognise my own aptitude is very little to do with being "intelligent" (whatever that means), and much more to do with having an interest in what I do.
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Norway has five million people, but I would assume outsized results given the claims about the quality of the country courtesy of the immaculate welfare state and the money available for education. Being entirely serious.

My primary comparison is that, since the oil boom, their results have fallen off in nobel prizes, not significantly increased. And those two prizes they won in the last 40 years were for economics (they were winning them for chemistry and physics in the '60s / '70s).

Ireland has won five since 1974, they only have 4.5 million people, and no grand oil boom, and have only recently become well-off.

Denmark has 5.5 million people and have won four nobel prizes in those 40 years, for chemistry, physics, and physiology.

My point is: where are the results outside of energy production? We should be seeing amazing innovations, great technology, and big technology exports, incredible global contributions to science and break-throughs in medicine. I should be using phones designed by Norway, and software designed in Norway.

So where is it? There is absolutely no question Norway has created a high quality of life courtesy of the money from the oil boom, but what else have they done with it other than provide lots of money to live well (ie what do you have to show for it if the oil is gone in ten years)?
I wouldn't say gmail, maps, chrome, docs, calendar indicate 'their utter inability to effectively spinoff new products.' Also, buying a product doesn't mean you're done with it. I personally think what the folks at Android, Youtube and Nest etc have been doing is incredible.
I am still trying to wrap my head around microservers and maybe someone can help me. Say we are building a blog platform.

1. Would it be separated into the following services: user, post, and comments?

2. If I was designing this in flask or django, would each service be running on localhost with different ports, e.g. user is localhost:8080, post is localhost:8081, etc?

For my personal flask project, I am currently following this style http://mattupstate.com/python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-... with service layers.
I like this answer, because you have put some thought into this. I would add to your idea these things: a) all components are "man-portable", so that they can be put together by people without the use of cranes or heavy lifting equipment (this is a big deal in construction), b) have external mounting points so that they can be attached firmly to a building skeleton, allowing for building out a skyscraper using only manpower once the skeleton and elevators have been put up.

I will say that here in the South, we have a similar product which is located in "trailer parks". It is worth looking at the failures of the existing trailer parks when looking at ways to make cheaper housing.
The last paragraph of the article:

"Because of its sample size (1,801 people) and choice of topic, Pew’s study might not be a fully accurate example of social media’s silencing effects, but it’s definitely fodder for discussion – if you dare! – as well as further research."

Sigh.
wait, now we are changing titles AWAY from what the source uses because people want it to be different?
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> My problem is that while they fit the literal definition of compromise, they don't really achieve much.

Compared to what? The OP's contention was that "Friendly relations is a prerequisite for compromise". I proved that false. You're now changing the subject.

> So compromise without friendly relations does exist, it just really really sucks.

So the wives of the doomed Jewish men getting back their husbands really, really sucked? You need to learn a bit of history -- it's replete with valuable compromises between antagonistic parties.
For the curious, this is a video rendered with my iPhone 4S, and the road was very very bumpy. This is the quality you get with an old phone and with zero setup / art direction.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2w18xh31aixmhv/Video%2026-08-14%2...
Wouldn't http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/26/social-media-and-the-s... be a better link as this article seems to just repeat what the study says.
Assuming you'd need to at least take the time to write your own content, using something like Wordpress and buying / finding a theme could be a decent technological solution:

http://philip.greenspun.com/business/weblog-as-website

If you can't take the time to actually assemble such a site yourself, then finding someone who does Wordpress installations (possibly someone locally, even) could be a good start. If you can do at least a tiny bit of assembling the site yourself, searching for Wordpress hosting services (like maybe wpengine.com) that handle a lot of things for you could help.
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I think the primary idea is that the economic issues that plague markets also plague governments. Public choice is the discipline of applying economic principles to governments. You can't treat government as a black box to solve economic issues without recognizing that economic issues affect government as well. For example, to theorize a law, regulation, or form of government to solve some economic problem like the public good problem, one must consider that "good government" is also a public good. It's true that a society might fail to produce a public good like flood control systems. But it's necessary to argue why, if the society cannot produce the flood control systems, why it should be expected to produce a government that will produce the flood control systems.
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1.) I also have not received an email

2.) I would sign up with twitter but I do not want to give you the ability to tweet on my behalf. Can you use a lesser privilege?

3.) Keeping (1) in mind: What prevents users from posting permalinks to their tweets?

4.) In my opinion the problem is not the social media sites, it's social media users. The same kind of people who want to spend time collecting and posting things to a site are the ones who will inevitably want to talk about themselves or share their opinions on said postings. I am doing it right now in fact! How would your site work with this exact hacker news post? (also keeping in mind that I couldn't register)

edit: What if I don't have any friends?
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I happened to like this write-up a fair bit :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20080430162146/http://www.matasa...

(The original post on the matasano.com server seems to have been eaten; any chance that could be resurrected, tptacek?)
Agreed, my point was that it's a dead project as new updates don't even have cosmetic changes. I bought a license, I really like it, but just like Intype and E on Windows and Kod and TextMate on Mac, the fate of Sublime Text is pretty clear.
Patience is a great virtue!
As a general rule, consultants should always develop code on their own servers and transfer the code to the client only when full payment is received. In this case, I realize that the ship has sailed, but I'm sure there is a lesson to be learned.
I'm all for caution when it comes to installing software, but it seems in your comment that you're suggesting that this software is actually malicious.

Do you have any evidence of malicious intent/execution from this software, or this just your presumption based on their marketing?
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And while their storefront is adequate, their delivery and update systems are abysmal. Steam hasn't won mindshare because it JUST made it easy to buy games online, but it also made it easy to sign into an account, click a button and play them anywhere, and keeps your software up-to-date in the background.

EA has the only competitor that comes close, but their tarnished reputation in the gaming community has sullied the only worthwhile adversary Steam has.
It means they try to trick you into joining Prime, every time you make a purchase.

Case in point:

Yesterday my wife made a small purchase on Amazon. In the evening, I was checking our shared credit card statement and noticed that there were two charges from Amazon. One was for the amount of her purchase. The other was for $1.00 and said "Amazon Prime".

I went to my wife and asked her, "Did you mean to sign up for Amazon Prime?"

Her reply: "What is Amazon Prime?"

We then had to go into her Amazon account and manually cancel a service we didn't want that would have silently billed us $99 in 30 days.

Now, you could say, that perhaps my wife did not clearly read every word of every screen that was presented to her during the checkout process. But shouldn't it have been obvious? My wife literally had no idea she signed up for something that costs $99, by accident, all while making an $11 purchase.

I don't think it's possible to argue that this is an accident. Amazon clearly knows what they are doing, and it is by design.
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Thanks for your reply.

I would dive in deeper as to why MP wants to give away equity so easily especially if he has made millions.

How would you go about this?

If he really believes the business can sell for 9 figures in a few years the extra 100k that he would pay you would be a steal.

I actually said this during our meeting yesterday (which lasted 5 hours with no conclusion). His response was that he simply did not want to pay my full rate and wasn't considering that as an option. It was a very weird moment.

How well does your friend know him? Have the 7 partners worked together before? Team dynamics are hugely important.

MP is my friend's client, so friend knows MP well as a businessman whom friend's company services. Friend & 2 partners are all partners in friend's company, so they work together and have good dynamics. MP and other 3 partners have all worked on businesses together for last couple of decades.
iTerm2 and vim work well together when you feel like using the mouse. Not sure what the situation is like in Linux though.
We talking java beans. I think I used that first (and last) 15 years ago and it was ugly to work with.
For most startups, it's premature to worry about maximizing single core performance, too. Write it in whatever language is best for writing it in. Worry about performance when you have to. If you never have to, that's a bit of a bummer, but it means you didn't do a bunch of wasted work.
I don't want say to I am ahead of the curve or anything but yes I already have started not saying nothing on my social network that's related to politics/religion/social-issues/etc. I don't say yes or no on any of those on social network. I have decided silence is the best option.

I do have a real world example too. I used to work with a manager over me who was really cool and worked with me well. Felt he was looking out for me and my career advancement. We shared common interests on more than a few things too.

And then one day I said something that rubbed him the wrong way (still don't know what exactly) and just like that, he pretty much stopped talking to me. And that led to the point where I was left out of projects, out of discussions, and eventually to the point where the upper management felt I was not needed. I had to leave the company. I still feel he was a great guy and smart dude.

Btw, I read somewhere that on US Navy ships' officers' dining rooms, 2 topics are not discussed at all: politics and religion. I understand why.
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Honestly at first this did seem odd, but if someone can remove some level of marketeering at any point down the social aggregation line, it feels like a win.

Otherwise it's just an echo chamber of P.R.
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LOL.

> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that the choice to use the Snowden situation as the basis for this particular study could be flawed – after all, social platforms, including Facebook, were implicated as being among the places the government tapped to listen in on citizens’ conversations. Perhaps citizens didn’t want to publicize an opinion on this particular matter, but would be more willing to do so on others.

LOL again. Have the Pew researchers never heard of the "priming" effect? As soon as you bring up Snowden as the topic, respondents may immediately think of the social network surveillance and of course, think that they may not want to talk about just anything -- Snowden related or not -- online.
but with this you don't have to fit your phone into a rig, you can just keep it in your pocket
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It's a loyalty app for online stores. Think airline miles for ecommerce stores.
Really good looking software. Very rare. But...

Isn't the best "trojan" horse that one, that comes as a security programm?

I'm always afraid, that software programs that aren't open-source steal sensitive data from my computer and upload it to the web. I experienced, how easy that is and no user ever knows, especially on MS Windows.
tl;dr A startup that has produced nothing in years (or ever) doesnt have enough women on staff.

Sounds like women are too smart to get a job there as they see the downfall of the company coming.
Definitely fair points.

It's interesting to read about the debate on who deserves credit for inventing GSM, with Switzerland, Finland, and France all claiming various credit.

And of course Norway re:

http://www.ntnu.no/gemini/2005-01e/gsm.htm