skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scenario:

A domain is free to register. You register it as per your registrars normal procedure. In some faraway country (say the USA) a bankruptcy court decided that this domain that you just registered was part of the original holdings of the company in bankruptcy.

Even though the company (or the receivers) let the registration lapse (presumably because they were not doing too well financially).

And so the court will order that domain that you just paid for to be assigned to some third party.

That's pretty perverted.

If there was an unbroken chain of ownership from the moment the original company registered it to the point where the domain was levied during the bankruptcy proceedings I can see the logic of it, but once the company and/or the receivers let the domain lapse they technically forfeited it and a judge should not cooperate with them to reverse agreements between two other consenting parties (you and the registrar) in order to re-assign that domain to the pile of assets in the bankruptcy, especially not 'ex parte' (so without hearing either you or the registrar as to how you came into possession of that domain).

Otherwise from now on there is no such thing as a 'lapsed domain' any more. And in fact, domains would not longer be 'property'. (I don't think they're property to begin with and this case is a nice example of why I think they aren't even though everybody treats them as such.)
I can only judge by what I see, I can't judge real life applications by theorising about what's possible and I remember playing around with rootkits since adore-ng (by TT), which was fairly sophisticated back in the day.
Was it covered in belgian media?
I can only speak for myself, this would be a feature i would like to have.
Thank you for the insight. I'm still new to remote working and don't know about transaction and payments. Though most of my works is remote and my paycheck is given in person.
Except a train is using rails. Because hyperloop containers are in a sort of vacuum, they have extremely low friction.

Ships still consume oil, and whenever one of those super cargo crash in the ocean, it's an environmental nightmare. And even when they don't, they're still polluting a lot ( i know, not that much compared to other means and the amount of goods they carry).

There's probably still a way to carry goods from china to europe in a more environment friendly way...
I'm impressed :-p bravo!
Thank you for the link. I'll read into this.
In the US people will typically not respond to a job posting unless it is 40/hr. 30/hr is too low for most knowledgable developers, who could go another place and get 50 or 75/hr.

cheers.
Thanks for the sites. I'll try those two.
The same reason half a dozen people die every day at work, protocols are not constraints.
> If it weren't for tourists, many tourist attractions would be neglected because firstly there would be no point in maintaining them, and secondly, there would be no money to maintain them.

Or, in other words, they are economically significant.
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Thanks for the advice. I should focus on that "survival rate" so I know what my pay would be.
other option is to have a Printer(Human)-Friendly web page button, don't know if reviewers have this option, if isn't available i think a Human-Friendly layout could reduce fatigue from reading so many applications.
I'd been salivating at DJI Phantom II for a while and now this option looks even better because of ability program it + flight paths. One complaint I've is too much emphasis on GoPro. People already have iPhone 6 and other smartphones with much better camera and capabilities than GoPro. Why shouldn't be I able to attach it to gimble instead of burning another $300+? This could be a great selling point against DJI's Vision+ system because it would be net cheaper and better for most people.
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Well I never had problems and the problems I had with mac where with basic stuff like the Perl MySQL DBI.

In the end after seeing the complex work arounds and all the warnings about buggering up your mac OS install I gave up and run a VM.

After all the nice people that employ me want me to do some nifty Machine learning tools to save a week a month running single adwords account.
Google answer boxes, because Wikipedia should be trusted, right?
I guess I'm not suggesting you necessarily have to charge the survival rate, but it's worth knowing the absolute least you could charge and still survive. It's just a "zero" to calibrate your expectations against, so when someone says "that sounds high" you know that it's not actually that silly, compared to your baseline.
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That is already big pay here. I was negotated by an employeer in US then asked me of my previous salary and want to base my salary on what I have been earning.
> I don't see how we can let these people govern themselves any more.

Many thought the same of Germany in 1945. Be glad that they didn't get their way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan
$100 an hour is a rough journeyman rate in a lot of US metro areas. This implies that you're able to take a description of what software should do, implement it in code, have that code actually work at accomplishing the objective, and deliver it in a fashion instantly consumable to your clients. Also, it is a plus if you don't require handholding to do this.

Self-assess honestly on whether you're there yet. If you are, your new rate is $100 an hour, and you should spend the next several weeks pitching clients on why they should have you build a system for them. Where to get seed clients? I'd start by working your pre-existing clients, either for direct work (if allowed under your contract with the ex-employer and local norms) or for introductions to similarly-situated firms, if they were good clients. If not, skip it, find good clients.

Relocation is not necessary and, short term, will neither sell engagements nor immediately improve your situation.
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Unfortunately, with all do respect, you do not know the current plight of Indian and South Asian population.

Many of them work in the Persian Gulf in labor camps. ANd I do not mean a couple thousand. In Qatar, there is 10 million plus population, the population is overwhelmingly male, and the Qataris are less one million of that population. Male South Asian laborers are the largest demographic group in the whole country. This is an increasingly common pattern in the region.

There is little or no medical care, and despite first class medical care for expats, it would be way too late for the unprepared MoH units, which receive basically minimal training from the CDC to react in time. This area, specifically Qatar, has become a major transportation for hub internationa flights, hence the real underlying panic for MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).

If South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc.) were hit in any real way, the world would be fucked ... probably in the course of weeks.
How would you trace back a drone that shoots a bullet then wipes its data and dies?
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You would need to measure that against what stock options are worth at a big stable company FTSE 100 DOW or S&P 500

For example in the UK BT's latest 5 year share save returned over £70k tax free - and that is open to every one.
It's fairly outrageous because in most of the civilized world, a forced change in working conditions like this is equivalent to being fired and thus requires a certain amount of compensation.

From everything that's being shown here, the people being fired will likely be getting nothing. Considering that these people most likely have denied themselves much more lucrative positions for a chance at being in a cool company where there's growth opportunity, it is practically a betrayal of the principles being choosing this sort of place to work.

If this were to happen to me you'd be damn sure I'd be lawyering up.
Though not exactly the same thing, Tcl can use its VFS extension to provide a "file system" for an application backed by a database or ZIP archive.

The VFS allows bundling up an app as a self-contained executable (a "starpak") or runnable with the Tcl/Tk interpreter (aka "tclkit"). FS access is transparent to the app--read/write operations are the same for all FS types.

Some work has been done to use sqlite as a VFS data storage medium. I haven't yet tried it myself, but in principle, it's not too hard to accomplish. I'm putting that project on my list...
When Amtrak owns the tracks, it's a far better experience. I had similar (horrible) experiences riding the coast starlight between San Luis Obispo and Sacramento, but when I stuck to the commuter lines between Sacramento and the bay area, or LA and San Diego, it was always pleasant.
Well, yeah, deployed a minified angular app yesterday, and ng-annotate handled almost everything except a controller that's initialized a custom way. So it broke. :(
It is pretty simple:

1. Determine how much time are you willing to allocate for work.

2. Set whatever the price that will fill up that time with client work.

3. Once you have more clients than allocated time, increase your price.

(bonus) 4. Client pool and time permitting, target projects that will further evolution/creation of skills you want to improve/develop, not the ones that you've already good enough at.

To be able to do that, you should have some form of rudimentary tracking of your time/price/value performance. No need for overkill here, a simple regulary updated spreadsheet or even just a text file will do. The accent is on "regulary updated".
ok.. may be not that better than Vision+. Gimble here is only 2D. Considering Phantom II Vision+ includes camera + 3D Gible at almost same price and it has 25min flight time, Phantom is probably still the better option.
If that works, is there any reason why gdb shouldn't automatically use the /proc/PID/exe?
I just wanted to note that 60k/yr is not that much money. I think it more like 'slightly upper' middle class.

For example, the average income per person in Germany is at 41k Euro.
For the US it is $51,939 per household, already adjusted for inflation.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...

Oops: That's not even middle class anymore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class ?
Some people tell you this is before the fall of Rome because they have seen it before, after year 2000. (And those of us with grey in the hair can tell you of even older ones.)

There were lots of talk about a new type of economy then, too...

The computer job market has bubbles too, but not necessarily in phase with the general economy. And if there is a good job market with software while the general economy is in the toilet, lots of people will study computer science and you'll have a bloodbath like 12-14 years ago when the bubble burst.

TL;DR: Winter is coming. :-) :-(
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The whole quote I am contesting is "economically significant but existentially loathsome", and my point is that not only are tourists not existentially loathsome, but they give purpose to the maintenance of attractions.
It's not entirely clear if you want a regular job or to freelance/consult. Lots of good advice on here re: freelance. If you want a salaried job checkout weworkremotely.com for finding 'western' priced remote working jobs.

You're in quite an enviable position - your in a location where your cost of living is relatively quite cheap to the west, but the potential to earn western type wages - enjoy :)
Lie to them to bump it up or tell them that your previous employer asked not to disclose it. Works every time. They're using a standard technique to smack your pay down and it works for a lot of people but there's nothing wrong with playing them at their own game and using it against them. Not joking but when it comes to negotiating pay, you need to take control over it.

I managed to go from (I've converted these from GBP) $23k to $56k by doing that in one jump and three jumps later I'm earning $110k sitting on my butt at home. Just requires some balls and outward confidence which I will admit was slightly alcohol fuelled when I was on the phone choke hmm.

Plus I know what I'm doing but that's a case of two decades of hard work and is entirely separate to the job market and salary expectations unfortunately which is all about knocking people's salary down.
You know you cant just steal assets from a commercial game and post it on github right? afaik github may not only close that repo but also close your account. Not worth the risk if you built any kind of social identity around your github account.
We need to stop pushing our kids
Patio11 also wrote http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation

There's also HN discussion of it if you search
Wait... most of the energy of going into orbit is in accelerating to orbital speed (lateral), not getting away from earth (vertical).

That's true for Low Earth Orbit, but as the radius of a circular orbit increases the kinetic energy decreases and the potential energy increases.

On the surface of the Earth, we have:

-(398600 km^3/s^2 [1]) / (6378 km [2])) = -62.5 km^2/s^2 of potential energy

(0.465 km/s [3])^2/2 = 0.1 km^2/s^2 of kinetic energy

At LEO, we have:

-(398600 km^3/s^2 [1]) / (6678 km [4])) = -59.7 km^2/s^2 of potential energy

(7.8 km/s [5])^2/2 = 30.4 km^2/s^2 of kinetic energy

At GEO, we have:

-(398600 km^3/s^2 [1]) / (42164 km [6])) = -9.5 km^2/s^2 of potential energy

(3.07 km/s [7])^2/2 = 4.7 km^2/s^2 of kinetic energy

Notice how LEO has only 2.8 km^2/s^2 of additional potential energy compared to the surface, but 30.3 km^2/s^2 of additional kinetic energy. However, at GEO there is 53 km^2/s^2 additional potential energy compared to the surface and only 4.6 km^2/s^2 additional kinetic energy.

[1] Earth's gravitational parameter
[2] Earth's equatorial radius
[3] Earth's equatorial rotation speed
[4] A 300 km altitude orbit
[5] Velocity at LEO
[6] GEO radius
[7] Velocity at GEO
Imagine a shopping mall car park where it costs $0.20 a day to park. Except you can't park anywhere near the door, because people turn up at the start of the day, park their cars across three prime spaces, and offer to sell them - for $20.

You'd have to be a big fan of the coase theorem to enjoy paying $20 for a $0.20 parking space, when the only thing the seller has done to add value is get in your way.
Hi. I'm french but I live in the Philippines, and I worked with many rails programmers here. As employees, Rails programmers go from PHP 50 to 150k a month usually ( in USD, it's USD 1200 to USD 3800 - And yes the Philippines Peso symbol is PHP ;) ).
For remote programming, $15-$20 per hour is really a floor rate. Specialize yourself and become really good. Contribute to projects. Have personal project. Have a good portfolio, answer questions on StackOverflow, have a nice github. Deliver on time. Communicate clearly with your clients. More importantly, learn how to define clearly the scope of your missions, learn how to say no, how to explain why some features might take more time, etc... . Your skills are important, but to make your clients satisfied, what matters is communication and specialization. Your specialty is the value you can add to a business, and your difference vs the competition.
A really great rebuttal of his points. I like Haskell, I really do - but I can never get any useful work done out of it. (Note: I am a hobbyist and not a professional programmer)
Even if that were true wouldn't you still want the vaccine to protect you from the virus these guys are supposedly unleashing?
Down to have a chat if you're interested
There's a ton of meme/funny websites out there (like 9gag). Why bother making another?
Found a MAJOR security flaw in this website
The site is: http://modernartbuyer.com
the admin page is: http://modernartbuyer.com/admin

then after a little fiddling around I found that this page: http://modernartbuyer.com/admin/browse.php has no password protection. Is it just me?

Out the goodness of my heart i'm going to contact them and let them know. I cant find out what design studio made this site so hoping the owner knows.
I bet is more than 10%; Windows XP comes with a lot of bad baggage.. such as IE7.

And anyway, the OS was an example, it just goes downhill from there.
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Side tangent (and maybe this should be its own thread), but I would be interested to know what is generally considered billable time - where do you generally draw the line?

Learning a common tool (say Rails) that you will have to use for the project? Learning a very specific tool (say a function-specific library for some particular part of the project) that you have not previously claimed prior knowledge of? Studying the clients own existing code?

What about negotiations? Research into the required work needed for particular functionality?
I heard it didn't gain support due to name squatters.
The migration path to a decentralized solution is the challenge.
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The irony there is that music is going downhill anyways, without needing to be automatized, because now you buy songs instead of albums/discs or just listen to them using youtube or some free streaming service.

Plus there may be a finite number of songs -distinguishable by the human hear- than can be created.

Plus, single examples are low-hanging fruit, you need to attack the main reasoning or just assert plausibility.
their food is just a more "Kraft food" version of hippie food you find in regular "organic" markets.

basically pump oils and sugar. instant tasty,
The article is full of inaccuracies.

E.g They put a graph of Spain and salaries growing more than 10% in the real state bubble period.

What they don't add is the cost of living going up as well, specially renting a house or buying it, that went up 400% in lots of places.

Now those salaries have gone down to their previous level(the graph does not include the last two years), but house prices had been sustained as much as they could with interventions like creating "bad banks" so free market could not do his job. Real state prices had gone down probably 30%, far from pre bubble plus real inflation levels.

It does not matter if your salary goes up if inflation goes up higher.

Productivity has increased dramatically over time, but taxes, debt and overspending by the government has grown more.

About the top earners, this is what happens when you give free money to people in Wall Street. Stock goes up, and the percentage of wealth they have is enormous. But this is "paper money", and will last until stock goes down, and it will go down when interest rates go up, and this will happen soon, in one or two years.
> Well, Only channels that Apple allows will are allowed to resell their products.

That's not true. There's a huge grey market for Apple products. Just look at Ebay. When you go international it's much bigger.

> Apple does not take too kindly to the 'gray market' products and unauthorised resellers.

They may not be happy about it but they don't sue anyone over it as long as the sellers aren't trying to pass counterfeit merchandise as Apple products, or fake Apple stores as official Apple stores.
What you say is true but many clients will prefer to pay $100 ph for a local guy they can meet face to face rather than outsourcing overseas. I don't mean to devalue the abilities of OP but one of his strengths is his economic favour, i.e. if OP's skill set is equal to a US metro area journeyman then price is definitely a selling point taking into account without it having a major impact on OP.
Yeah, the new way of doing that is actually just publishing in craiglist/facebook/sponsors/etc
And this is the problem I have with a lot of the bullshit back and forth idiotic arguments you can read every day on HN.

Hey, moron, let me spell it out for you. If my little five year old girl gets ebola she will be in horrible pain crying out for Mommy and Daddy and her siblings, anyone, really, to comfort her. And if Mommy and Daddy do comfort her mommy and Daddy FUCKING DIE. And Mommy and Daddy will probably kill themselves if they watch their little girl die without comforting her. Parent, sibling, families, neighborhoods would be ripped to shreads. I don't know about you, but I would gladly die hugging my little girl until she goes if she has to.

I am almost crying as I write this because I can imagine it and it hurts. A parent's worst nightmare. How dare you compare it to smoking and AIDS. How FUCKING CLUELESS can you possibly be? This IS different. Very different.

Sorry for the emotion and the language. I suggest readers place themselves in the above scenario before posting stupid fucking comments.

And please, donate some money to organizations that can help the people in Africa going through this horrible problem. You know, the Mom and Dad choosing to hug and kiss their little girl and die with her rather than watch her die while she cries out for their love.

Enough said.
Invested money is spent on something but only if someone wants to borrow the money. Now the financial system has got very good at recycling the savings of the rich into more borrowing of the poor (subprime loans), but it is hard to see this continuing at that rate. The rich largely want risk free savings (in aggregate), so the banks turned high risk loans into risk free savings, with the government backstopping them. This has not been working too well. The vast majority of wealth is looking for safe assets (except the Elon Musks) which effectively means people need to have jobs to pay the rentiers.
GitHub is not going to close your account. Like all other repo closures, it'd take a DMCA notice from Nintendo to close the repo, which is unavoidable by law (no matter where you host it, The Lawyers will come).