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>To be honest I created this board out of similar frustrations (applying for a "remote" job ad only to find out that it meant within the USA only).

I had/have exactly this frustration. And I've had exactly same idea - create a job board explicitly for world wide remote jobs. Even created free account on redhat openshift with Golang toolset (I was also thinking to learn Go this way)... But then I got a new job :)

Anyway, wish you all the best!
I've messed around with coding on mobile and basically came to the conclusion that it's only practical for emergency situations or making very minor tweaks. But in an emergency situation it can be extremely valuable to be able to make a quick fix while you're traveling without a computer. Even if it is a little tedious to work on the device.

So for that reason I'm happy to see mobile development tools being made, even if I don't plan to use them day-to-day quite yet.
Exactly. As if becoming a developer were a matter of learning "to code."
I like the app a lot. I couldn't figure out how to "like" a place, though.
It's also a huge mistake to think that this is the ONLY thing those genes do.

It's likely that many of them will increase depression, anxiety, ADD, schizophrenia, drug addiction, etc.

Evolution produces genomes within the constraint of the environment. I'm no luddite, but I'd be pretty concerned with genetic engineering without regard for the environment of the individual.
You're implying that government is the only mechanism which can act to correct gross inequality, and also leaving out the fact that government has the power to exacerbate it.
It looks interesting but I notice that the in-app purchases range from £1.57 - £23.51 per item. Which bit is £23? Seems steep given that you can write code in Notepad / TextEdit and then load it in your OS-bundled browser on a non-mobile device (laptop/desktop).

I would agree that the tablet / phone is not an ideal platform for writing software or editing code; they are best suited for content consumption.

I also notice that the app is 19MB which seems massive to me for just a text editor and reuse of the built in HTML renderer?

Hopefully this does not seem too negative - just some issues I have with it before even installing it. The other AIDE interface (for Java) seemed alright when I briefly tried it on my Xoom, but it was most effective with a bluetooth keyboard; even then I quickly found the tablet UI limiting.
Breeding really isn't the panacea you make it out to be.

I skipped grades, have an advanced science degree, earn a lot in a job that requires above average intelligence, etc. My parents were both high-school dropouts, and my mother in particular was identified as being "slow" when she was younger (not below average in IQ, but on the very low end of it). On the other hand, I personally know very intelligent couples (one consisting of a pair who each individually are far more intelligent than I am) whose kids have also been "slow".
Indeed, the situation reeks of a rubber-stamp mentality among the court staff involved with this case. Having worked in law enforcement in the past, I've seen first hand how some judges can just blindly approve whatever warrant or order comes across their desk without so much as a cursory glance at the details, consequences be damned.
> There was an article about a study which suggested that people with IQ above 140 tended to be lonely.

Indeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8320331
http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2162586...

"As Tom McGuire, who is leading the Lockheed team, notes, however, the circular magnetic fields which coil around a tokamak’s doughnut become unstable if the plasma’s pressure is too high."
"Matchbook programmers"

Imagine a talent shortage; you are lacking skilled programmers. No, really! :-)

So what you do is print out (say, on matchbook covers) a very small ad "Learn programming! Start a career!" with a phone number to call and you basically spam the whole country / world with these things. And a few people call in, and you screen them, and a few of those you bring in and talk to, and a few of those you might wind up hiring.
And you plonk them into a classroom and teach them some programming, and a few people turn out to be just incredibly good natural programmers that you might not have gotten otherwise. (The ones you hired that didn't work out so well? You use them on government contracts).

IBM's model in the 1970s (and probably a few other shops as well).

It takes quite an investment, and you need to be able to deal with people at scale, which is something that start-ups and even most big companies (like Microsoft) are terrible at, for various reasons.
Only require authentication when the user wants to make a comment. You could also use Facebook/Twitter login systems built into the device so the user presses login, selects their account from an action sheet, and they're in. No username/password friction.
This is actually not entirely true. The USGS is on a similar schedule to the National Agricultural Imagery Program and releases new maps across almost the whole country on a 3 or 4 year rotation. These are digital maps with imagery in the background and computer generated contour lines. The only limitation is going to be the date on the elevation data.
They no longer look the same as old topo maps, but the serve the same function. If you look on store.usgs.gov you can find all of the current and old ones available for download for free.
This has been available for several years now, and is not new. In fact most regions of the country are on their second revision of these newer maps. The USGS actually has no choice but to give away the maps as they are publicly funded and required to give the public access. It is the same reason that we are able to download high res imagery over the entire country (the NAIP) for free.
To my mind the fundamental problem is that we insist on placing everyone on the same number line. In real life some folks may be more envious of Bill Gates while others are more envious of Joe Armstrong. In reality total ordering, or even partial ordering does not correspond to our intuitions. Real networks present a different partial ordering to each node in the network, why not build a crypto currency that exhibits this property?
A machine designed to randomly assemble texts, from Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
Also, in this case, it isn't double-taxed. The heirs never paid tax on it. It's very likely that estates of that size have tax-deferred parts or insurance.

Finally, there are many incorrect statements in the description of the estate tax above that would probably lead you to believe that you have to pay 40% of 5.3m, which is not true

1. You get deductions (like outstanding mortgages and medical bills)

2. You pay the tax on the net OVER 5.3m.

So, in the case described above, the estate tax would be $0.
By invoking obscure laws very cleverly I guess.
I've shamelessly copied Microsoft's noticeoflawsuit.com and have used it as a template to recover two domains from people holding them ransom from the rightful owners. It's a fantastic process, and I have to thank Mr. Haimovichi for the cool legal tricks he taught me in his paperwork.

Just make sure you have someone competent in the other jurisdiction that can file/serve the paperwork (Australia/Canada in my case), and it's remarkably straightforward. The defendant can only argue once the domain has been transferred over, so you'll get your domain back asap. In our case, the defendant didn't want to hire a lawyer (we're all self-representing advocates on the plaintiff's side), and we're expecting him to default in 15 days. The last four months of head games and BOFH behavior were quashed in less than 72 hours after the filing was completed in both jurisdictions.

Before Microsoft vs. No-ip.com, I was not a fan of ICANN. This process has certainly changed my tune, however.
> Do you not see the contradiction that you would allow freedom of all associations except the one society's currently agreed on?

I think you're assuming something about my position that isn't accurate. But this is starting to drift way more off-topic than ever, and I find myself thinking that I shouldn't even have replied in this thread, since I'm generally in favor of less political discussion on HN. But sometimes I allow myself to get drawn into it.

Anyway, I'm happy to discuss this at length, as long as it's a civil discussion. I'd just rather do it in a different forum. If you're really interested in the rest of my response to this, shoot me an email or something and we can continue the discussion there. If not, I think I'll just stop here.
Botnets are responsible for lots of (most?) spam and DDOSs. Those hurt everyone on the internet, not just Windows users.
Worth the read :)
Are Marketers and Advertisers Spying on Your Selfies?
We launched our service on HN in spring '13, but have refined and rebuilt most of the site since then -- paying particular attention to the issues surfaced in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6161116

What can be improved upon?
The Lone Genius and the Startup Founder: Wozniak vs. Thiel
>NHL center ice if you're into hockey

I only have experience with NHL Center Ice, but I've heard similar things about mlb.tv; those services suck terribly, like so much that you're left wondering if it's a deliberate choice.

In the case of NHL and MLB, here's what happens: you buy a season pass to the service for 160 dollars, and it lets you stream (with okay quality) out of market games. So when I was living in Rochester NY with my fiancee and we had a subscription to watch the Red Wings, we could watch all of their games except the games which got broadcast in Rochester (so all the games that were against the Buffalo Sabres) and all the games that were broadcast on national TV.

So it sounds a little crappy that you're missing an entire matchup, but it's actually worse than that; the entire post season is in your media market, no matter where you are. So if the Red Wings make it to the playoffs, as they have for the past twenty-odd years in a row, guess what! You spent a hundred and sixty dollars, and it didn't get you a pass to watch the playoffs, the most exciting games of the season.

And next season, you have to spend another 160, and go without watching the playoffs (or do as we did and spend a lot of time in a local sports bar).

Finding sketchy live-streams of games online is always a possibility (that's how I watched a number of playoff games that my fiancee wasn't interested in), but you're correct that the quality is incredibly variable and some of those streams are pretty sketchy.

We still haven't caved and bought cable, but NHL center ice is barely more of an option now that we're living in Santa Clara; if I want to start getting invested in the local San Jose Sharks, I'm shit out of luck because all those games would be in my market, and that still doesn't address the playoff issue.

Sports are pretty much the only reason I consider buying a cable subscription because the alternatives are honestly just really crappy, and I can't wait for the day that the leagues finally manage to negotiate a contract with broadcasters that allows for a reasonable way to stream games online.
You should rebrand it into GithubCoder then, because that's what it is. I for one only use Bitbucket.
The answer to "What has changed? Which assumptions do people make that are no longer true? Why does everything feel like it's speeding up?" is supposedly "Technology is transforming virtually every business sector."

It list three examples which are mostly true. But the same answer could easily have been said any time in at least the last 120 years -- and it was. I think the complaint about the shallow content in this presentation is completely justified, because there's nothing really new about the idea of change.

Steam power. Electricity. Telegraph. Telephone. Mechanical calculators. Slide rules. Cheap aluminum. Flight. Punch card sorting machines. Linotype machines. Each of those are examples where technology transformed business sectors.

The telegraph made it possible for information to reach around the world on the same day it happened. Ham radio enthusiasts talked to each other around the world, including bouncing TV signals off the moon. Scratch off the names and it's the same ideas that this presentation promotes as something somehow new. It's assumes the fallacy that what you grew up with was slow and unchanging.

It's difficult to read much of the research literature from the 1960s without hearing people talk about the "information explosion" and there being too much change and things out of balance.

Mail order is an 1800s example of "barriers to entry melting away" and is how Sears gained its fame. So was the rise of the daily newspaper, subsidized by advertising that made is possible for people to know what was available.

"Power has shifted from companies to consumers" ... Hello, the 1930s called. Consumer Reports wants to know if you would like a subscription so they can pay for rigorous testing. Or do you seriously think that mass edited unrestricted feedback can't be gamed?

"Individuals and small teams have a massive impact." etc. That sounds a lot like the HP Way, which has as point #1 "We have trust and respect for individuals"

Except, oddly enough, the Google way doesn't mention ethics. Compare to the HP Way where "We conduct our business with uncompromising integrity." and that as a good corporate citizen HP will "meet the obligations of good citizenship by making contributions to the community and to the institutions in our society which generate the environment in which we operate.

Does Google consider ethics less important than business nirvana?

What is new in this presentation that HP didn't cover in the 1960s?
Scientists Find 18 New Viruses on NYC Rats
Seth Kadish did something very similar, though he used Rose Diagrams rather than colors.

http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/post/80468941142/unlike-l...
See my above comment for a library that requires no geospatial database, just DEM files in gridfloat format. By recording information about each gridfloat file (bounding box, cellsize in lat/lng) you can do some simple math and only one disk operation (in the optimal case) to get an elevation value. Even with my crappy code in the library I mentioned in the other comment, the service is very fast on even spinning disks.
Not sure that is entirely correct... What about funding research, for example? Isn't that philanthropy that might benefit everyone, including poor people?
Battery life and camera could stand to be improved. I can't think of anything else the device needs, I'd pay $650 for a nexus 5 with a camera in the class of other phones at that price and a battery that can last all day without fail.
What Eventbrite Did Early to Create ‘Sustainable’ Success
If your favorite editor does not yet have an EditorConfig plugin, feel free to tweet @EditorConfig or open an issue.

The Eclipse plugin has a small bounty on it right now. Maybe someone will create one if some more money is pitched in: https://freedomsponsors.org/issue/271/support-eclipse
The vast majority of productive people act in the economy for modest rewards and the hope of a middle class life.

Devil's advocate: the vast majority of productive people do the important everyday work, but don't perform major improvements in the state of the art. What about the inventors of life-changing technology? Would the vast majority of them invest years of their life in it if it only paid the same as getting a normal job?
They would not do it on purpose. The fear was about accidentally somehow letting it slip. No idea how.
Show HN: Ebola Near Me. Spreading awareness through experience
So even if you disable the location feature it still tracks your location? I'd be interested what they mean by 'broad location tracking' but I can't imagine that it's consistent with their anonymity claims. e.g. see http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01...
Meh, you also need the motivation component. IQ is a measure of capability, not a personality trait. It's perfectly easy to imagine tons of people with high IQs who either unmotivated (e.g. satisfy their itches by say gambling or playing video games) or destructive (criminals).

There are probably hundreds of thousands of people with greater IQ than Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Elon Musk. It doesn't mean they have the inclination to change the world.
I appreciate Gates' analysis of Piketty, but Gates is still blind to an important point- he came from a middle-class background and therefore had enough capital to gain a footing in the world and to be able to write his initial code without worrying about the basic needs of survival.

40% of youth in the USA today do not even have that, and as such, have virtually no chance at all of being able to even play in the capitalist economy. They will be successful if they avoid homelessness and hunger, which will be a daily struggle.

Gates, Buffett, and others who claim to be philanthropists work from a point of ignorance, believing that all youth at least have their basic needs covered by this society. They are blind. Piketty at least acknowledges the underclasses.

These so-called philanthropists depend on the existence of a permanent underclass to support their "charity".

I was raised on the edges of this underclass and even today, after 20 years in the business doing quite well, I worry every day that I will soon be homeless or hungry. I have no inheritance to count on,other than debt from my family. The idea of taking a couple of months without income to make a startup is laughable- how would I eat and make my house payment? Most of the peers from my youth are on public assistance, in jail, ill, or worse. They are easy prey for the tech titans, who fill their eyes with glittery visions that make them forget their hunger and cold. This is in the Bay Area, mind you, less than 20 miles from the Valley.

Gates' idea of a consumption tax would heavily penalize these people, who have been enslaved into a consumer lifestyle by the wealthy who exercise control over their lives.

The whole "inequality" debate laments the demise of the middle class. But it never acknowledges the permanent underclass that is a necessary component of a society that can take the time for the inequality debate.

I got out, though you never lose the psychic clutches of abject poverty. Most folks never get out.
If Microsoft can do it, so can you. You have as much authority as Microsoft does. The only difference is that Microsoft flexed those muscles, while the remaining 7billion of us did not.
> If you have a job that's exclusively closed-source and with no down time there's a good chance that's a bad job.

I guess that's where I disagree. I don't know how you can tie "ability to work on open source at work" to how good a job is. What does one have to do with the other?

Also, "down time" is just another way of saying "free time". If I have free time, I won't be in the office. Which brings me back to, I don't want to work at a company that only wants people who work on open source in their free time.

I really think the amount of open-source you work on has nothing to do with how good of a programmer you are or your work ethic. Which is why, for me, asking for a github profile is a red-flag when applying to jobs.
The analytics side drives a lot of value imo, will try it when we push a product to the app store.
It always sounds easy until you try it.
I'm fine with not using the "double tax" phrase, as long as all taxes are included in tax arguments. I have heard here on HN that Denmark and Sweden don't have taxes that are that high..while not including all of the small taxes that you pay on a daily basis..deflating the actual tax rate to make it seem better.

Also, Companies actually contribute more in taxes than people like to admit. They pay workers' wages..and those wages include tax money that goes to the government.
Astronaut Frank Culbertson's images of 9/11
All good points. I wasn't trying to suggest a solution, but merely trying to point out that job creation should not be the sole bar by which we measure the investment of capital, but that it should do something useful too — whether that investment comes from private actors, or government.
It's a cultural thing. You shame them by saying hey low content poster, you should consult the sidebar more often. Sidebar. Sidebar. Sidebar. BOOK DEPOSITORY.

And then hopefully people will get it through their skulls. The sidebar is where useful content is.

Of course this will not affect drive by users and people who have no desire to improve themselves.
Sure.

Flashed it with SE50UY04, the 50 inch models, firmware. Just extracted the zip, put the install.img on a FAT32 formatted USB drive, and went into the secret menu (with the menu open press 0000) and updated the firmware.

After that I started with these calibration numbers:
Contrast: 42
Brightness: 66
Color: 34
Sharpness: 0
Color Temp: normal
Turned off Noise Correction.

--These settings can be changed in the secret menu - other settings options.
Red Gain: 141
Blue Gain: 126
Green Gain: 132
Red Offset: 532
Blue Offset: 510
Green Offset: 504
DCC: Off
Backlight: 75

And modified it to my liking. Actually had my Macbook Retina open next to it and sort of color matched. My numbers could vary greatly from these. My backlight is at like 50.

Overall, I'm really happy with it. Yes there is a mouse lag, but the 50" firmware makes it LESS noticeable. Also tbh, you sort of get used to it. In my case I try to minimize mouse usage anyway.
Maybe in the desire to care for others more than themselves.
The first iOS app I ever made was also named Places. Except it was a Yelp client, before I knew there would be an official Yelp app.
Really? That's like saying a guy on the corner selling tourist maps is more or less in the same business as Delta Air Lines, because Delta has a brochure stand in the airport lobby. No-IP offers domain/DDNS service, Microsoft Azure is a full stack cloud service similar to Amazon's AWS, and is a small part of a much larger company. There is no competition there.
Kentucky BioProcessing putting its entire crop of tobacco toward curing Ebola
Interesting that this follows on the heels of the Popcorn Time DMCA takedown: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-11-MPAA.m...

EDIT:
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8450145
"But I'm on mobile" should count as an offense; it's not an excuse.

Make that part of the subreddit's culture.
Let's say I'm reading a book on functional javascript and want to test some examples.
"I just hope that the students of careerfoundry know that it's one thing to learn coding in school, but it's up to the student to really go the extra-extra mile and learn things on their own.... and a bit of luck as well."

Going the extra-extra mile is something we absolutely promote ;)

Many thanks for your feedback smtddr.
I have to agree with the "broken" comments. I can't speak to the API, but the Health app sure is a head-scratcher. Those sub-minute steps intervals mentioned by someone else are just baffling from a normal user's perspective. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to answer "How many steps did I walk on Monday?" without breaking out a calculator and adding them up yourself.
CS grads write shitty code too--and often, it's harder to figure out what they're trying to accomplish, because they use some weird non-standard red/black balanced bloom filter with LZ sliding window compression instead of just, say, a fucking hashmap.

At least with coders you often find code that is obviously wrong, instead of code that is non-obviously wrong.