skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was really funny because he almost went to work to Xerox New Zealand when he was an executive.
He has been trying to contact people from his network, but they have all changed from company, role and even industry (most of his contacts are from a couple decades ago)
Remote work online is absolutely going to be his best bet, and it will pay better.

Check out:

https://weworkremotely.com/

http://hnhiring.com/ (search for "remote")

http://remotenation.co/blog/top-5-sites-for-finding-a-remote...
Unfortunately, if lots of people are willing to work almost for free, then that's the market price. Sucks, though.
I found this study to be interesting, regarding retirement age.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp5160.pdf

> For males, we find that a reduction in the effective retirement age causes a significant increase
in the risk of premature death

> We do not find that earlier effective retirement
increases the risk of premature death for females, however
No, he is very clearly referring to Greenwald's PRISM fantasy. From the article: "Caught red-handed last year making petabytes of personal data available to the U.S. intelligence community through the PRISM program...."
Assuming 40 pairs, 2 ticks per second and 1kb to store a tick (including timestamps, indexes etc), I reckon that's about 70TB for 40 years worth of data, not counting weekends.

I've assumed only outright ticks, hence the 40 pairs - in reality most banks store the crosses as well, which can be up to 1,600 pairs (40 x 40), which will get you into the PB range for the 40 years.
True story. The other night I ordered a small pizza. When I showed up to pick it up, they had screwed up and it wasn't made. The guy at the pizza place was nice, so he made me 2 small pizzas because I had to wait.

I didn't actually want 2 pizzas. On my walk home, I passed a homeless guy that has been in the neighborhood for nearly two years. And he's a really homeless guy. The kind of guy that doesn't have a sign, doesn't ask for anything, and is out there when its 20 degrees in february under a bunch of blankets. He also happens to be nice, I haven't had a conversation with him but he'll say good morning sometimes.

So when I passed by, I gave him the free pizza. He thanked me for it. I felt good about it.

Is it solving the problem that he is homeless? Absolutely not. Neither of thought 1 pizza would do that. But you know what, it was a friday night, someone did something nice for me, I decided to pass it along.

Should that be illegal? How can that be illegal? Imagine if a cop saw me do that and he gave me a ticket. He doesn't know that I can tell the difference between this guy that is on the corner every night for 2 years, and the other guy that is totally faking it and shows up on Saturdays only (when the weather is nice) and loudly asks for change, and I doubt is actually suffering from any of the things listed on the sign.

And how are the police going to tell the difference between me giving a pizza to a homeless guy I don't know, and me giving the pizza to a friend of mine that I texted "hey I got a free pizza, meet at the corner and I'll give it to you". The answer to that is plain old discrimination based on appearance, but no one will say that.

You are 100% right that random acts of kindness will not solve homelessness, but I simply can not see how making this illegal is workable or helpful. It just seems like a great way or nice people to have run-ins with police, and a law that basically can only work with discriminatory enforcement.
1.

That's kind of the catch, isn't it? All the government agencies that do their job with efficacy wouldn't be the ones you'd be made aware of. Only when something goes wrong do you become aware that your local water board performs useful work.

To the point though, regulation ensures our planes crash at a rate of less than one per 21,000 years of flight time. Food safety regulations have dropped e.coli poisoning by half in 15 years. I believe there's a state by state comparison on road deaths following seatbelt regulations, showing a clear causative effect.

Maybe we'd be a bit more aware of the fact that the government actually works pretty well most of the time if we sent our little prayers of gratitude to the Federal Aviation Administration on touch down instead.

Despite this, my larger point is that it works even better in most other Western countries. You can see this quite clearly in at least one case by comparing public expenditures on healthcare per person. Single payer health insurance is more effective per dollar, regardless of possible criticism on other grounds.

2.

Largely, because the free market is a poor regulator, and the government does it pretty well most of the time. To break it down:

a) there are things we'd rather corporations didn't do, for the good of society as a whole - such as misleading consumers about ingredients, or hey, hiring local cartels to break down some unions in Columbia.

b) consumer action by itself is ineffective. Boycotts, in the vast majority of cases, are too transient to be effective. This is compounded by the sheer number of companies one must try to keep track of to be an ethical consumer, the cartel example above is Coca-Cola, for example. Furthermore, say a mining or oil company is doing massive ecological damage. It's just too difficult to be able to track the produce of that mine to any decisions you make personally to effect what minute sway that decision would have.

c) the solution is to codify our standards for this behavior by social agreement, and penalize corporations that are found wanting. This is a regulatory body that provides a net benefit to society.

I do agree that the government has protectionist and overreaching regulations in certain areas, but I believe it's remiss to label the entire government as such. "Big" and "small" government are rhetorical buzzwords that prevent people from evaluating regulations and regulatory bodies on the case by case basis they require.
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Do individual instructions need to be passed one at a time, you may as well accept multi line programmes..
Gamergate claims to be about journalistic integrity. I hear the names of women, but never the male journalists.

> Maybe, but let's not forget what incident started Gamergate: Zoe Quinn; an entitled, unethical, and hypocritical developer (female or otherwise).

You're spreading the same lies.
Understanding the HTTP ETag Using Graph API
Don’t read GigaOM until it drops the NSA as an advertising partner
Plus tickets, sales tools, blotters, order management, routing, reports (reg and otherwise) etc...
If there is a significant supply of people willing to work almost for free then market price is almost free.

This would also mean that the problem is not specific to his age but to the whole market for devs in your area.
An entire block is passed to the JNI bridge at one time; specifically, when invoke() is called. It essentially is a function (and must follow the calling conventions of the platform).
You are arguing semantics and I'm talking about what the NSA is actually capable of. Please read this paragraph:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore#Capabilities
Well you have to emulate almost the whole hardware in software when doing virtual machines. This costs lots of performance (less so if you do paravirtualisation).

A virtual machine software essentially is an operating system that offers emulated native hardware as an interface. You don't have to show both applications the same file, you can mount different filesystems for them for /etc/ for instance. Or maybe the applications shouldn't read /etc/hosts directly
The bone marrow studies look at implanted, not orally consumed material.

Just in case anybody assumes "If I eat more bone marrow I'll get new brain cells built from the cells I eat".
Yeah, he usually goes to startup and software events in Madrid, but he should probably do it even more. Thanks!
Tell him to learn another language. He is a developer after all. :)
"The last forty years have seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy."

This one is especially ironic, given that WikiLeaks has been reduced by now to a proxy political action arm for the Kremlin. The world is still waiting for the WikiLeaks "secrets on Moscow" that Assange threatened to release in 2010.

RT at least got smart and finally stopped "The Julian Assange show" (http://rt.com/tags/the-julian-assange-show/) so that the connection isn't quite so obvious, but it is there, even today.
Betty White's responses are fantastic. Her humor really shines through!
Thank you for pointing this out - I hadn't thought of it that way.
I'm not spreading any lies. It's incontrovertible that Zoe Quinn had a relationship with a Kotaku editor (a male that has also been shunned publicly). In any other industry, this would be grounds for conflict of interest.

Let's not kid ourselves, there is definitely a problem with the lack of women in tech, but Zoe Quinn is not the role model you want.
Couldn't this be reduced by, like, a lot by simply using this CSS3 gem?

height: attr(sata-cp-size px);
"What happens if someone blows it all on drugs, and then is out? We're sort of back where we started."

If someone is persistently unable to meet their needs with access to a basic income, they need a different kind of help. Hopefully we could provide that help. We're not back where we started - we've learned things, and we've helped the others, and can now focus on solving this different problem.
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That's really awesome, just showed it to him. He will try his best there, thanks a lot!
Here's another one:

"In 2012, Google arrived on the list of top-spending Washington, D.C., lobbyists—a list typically stalked exclusively by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, military contractors, and the petro-carbon leviathans. Google entered the rankings above military aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, with a total of $18.2 million spent in 2012 to Lockheed’s $15.3 million. Boeing, the military contractor that absorbed McDonnell Douglas in 1997, also came below Google, at $15.6 million spent, as did Northrop Grumman at $17.5 million."

If you follow the supplied link to the lobbyist spending database, you find that the fiendish "National Association of Realtors" spent way more than Google and LockMart put together. The nefarious "American Hospital Association" also outspent Google.

Are we to assume that they are even more cryptomilitaryindistrial than Google?

No. I'd assume they have legislation in front of Congress. Far simpler.

There is a critique of centralization of information within internet corporations and government agencies, but this isn't it.
A lot of innuendo and guilt by association, political conspiracy ala Kevin Bacon. I suppose isolation tends to produce conspiracy theories. I'll get down voted for this of course.

When Assange is raising concerns about a potential Google monopoly over the whole of the internet, he is of course, raising a legitimate concern. But the attempts by Assange, and people like Yasha Levine, to tie Google into the military industrial complex are weak sauce. The point about DARPA funding is particularly bullshit. Is any student who ever worked using research funds or equipment from DARPA at a university, and later goes on to found another company, beholden to the agenda of that organization? I worked on projects in college where I scarcely knew where the funds were coming from or who I should be paying my allegiance to.
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Hey, I'm part of the conspiracy: I've been to Bielefeld many times! :D

(There's a biannual pen&paper roleplaying convention there.)
This is a working translation of Zuck's Q&A at Tsinghua. Hope it helps those of you who are curious about what was said!

https://medium.com/unbabel-news/b4cb8f223df2
Calories in, calories out
It's not worse to put inline style on a tag, than bruteforcing all the possibilities in a css.

At least with inline style you can have the precision you want and are not forced to round your value.

Sooo, yeah it's an interesting exercise but I'm not convinced about the usefulness of that project.
Interface épurée, une information courte et rapide à lire, parfait pour être tenu rapidement au courant sur les informations les plus importantes de la journée.
Should he reach you out or something?
Someday, but right now the support for using 'attr()' function in properties other than 'content' is very poor.
Yes, once we get to the point where we can stop supporting IE <= 9. :)
If they used the proper noun "Internet" then TCP/IP is implied.
Look, as is the case with nearly all of pop culture tropes, we could argue the details ad nauseum, but i hardly think that the nerds of the eighties were positive role models. Even if they were, they were far from anywhere close to those of Houston mission control.

In War Games, our protagonist is the one tech savvy kid who "gets it" while all the other technology experts are villains who put the world in peril because they are bumbling fools.

In Revenge, the nerds were still rejects who, against all odds, won a talent show. One of them, in the process, literally stalks and eventually rapes his unrequited love interest, though, for the sake of a happy ending, she ended up "liking it." Talk about a huge marketing disaster for making CS attractive to women.

With Houston, the term "rocket science" became synonymous with extreme intelligence. The entire country was lining up to buy those "heroes" beers. Astronaut was something akin to Fireman for children hopes and dreams. There has never been a CS moonshot for all to see, as the last war hero we know of was Alan Turing, who's accomplishments remained classified long after his public humiliation and death.

This is all to say, for better or worse, that CS, STEM, and intellectualism in general, were not lionized. Indeed the opposite was the case.
The only things that has been surprising about Snowden's revelations have been, in some cases, the scale (MUSCULAR comes to mind) and the audacity (Dual EC DRBG, which is technically "strong crypto", unless your opponent is NSA).

Warrant/NLS compliance (PRISM) was never a conspiracy theory, nor was foreign intelligence interception on domestic networks (regulated since 1978 by the FISA, with explicit increases in scope by PATRIOT ACT, and very public debates about "warrantless wiretaps" in the middle of the last decade).

Moreover what's notable about Snowden's leaks is how many conspiracy theories they didn't substantiate. No black helicopters are mentioned. Even the super-sekrit slides stamped TOP SECRET and EYES ONLY (which were never supposed to be seen by the sheeple) make reference to having to comply with First Amendment rights, civil liberties oversight, court orders, etc.

But people crow about conspiracy theories here because they honestly believe that showing specifics of programs and authorities that were widely known in general is proof of conspiracy.
Or on-brand. One of the things that makes FTDIs decision so bad is that even a reputable manufacturer could be caught out by fraud somewhere in their supply chain.
Is "establishmentarian" supposed to be the new "statist shill"?
You signed in because this was posted on Hacker News. Apple didn't market this page to you. You're obviously not their target audience.
As a native english speaker the use of the "singular they/their" sounds correct and natural. This is also great bikeshed material.
I disagree - Rooms seems like it is trying to do too many things at once.

The discovery mechanism is QR codes, which wasn't "underground" enough to boost any marketing or advertising activities that were based on them. In fact, because each room's value relies on user-generated content, I have a feeling that this will be short lived, if only because it is so difficult to get more users into a room to generate content.

One of the reasons subreddits achieved such popularity was because of the extreme ease by which users can find, join, and start submitting.

Without clear connections between rooms, all it's going to take is joining a few empty rooms before users become disengaged and start ignoring invites like they do most other QR codes.
Technologic/scientific achievements don't hold any intrinsic meaning. It's like saying you make art for art's sake instead of for an audience. That's the same as saying there's no point to your work. I can achieve great things in chess, but I don't squander my life obsessed with chess, because no one in the real world cares. But someone can play football instead, and it's not a waste of time because with it comes status, money, and so on. You're saying humans are going to stop being competitive. And if we're relieved of the nagging sense that we have to achieve something, you could consider that a cure.
Ditto here. I was going to post the same thing. We Work Remotely is where its at. Also hit up ODesk and post on there for side work until full time work comes to play.
You're heavily invested in Google, aren't you. Or are they your employer?
Again, I suggest you read the SEP article. It will give you a very good primer on what monism is. The Wikipedia article is full of nonsense and incorrect information. The fact that you linked it just strengthens my argument: you really need to gain some domain knowledge of the topic.

Keep in mind that monism doesn't even require an "intellect" (or supreme being, as you refer to it). Instead, it is a theory about the relationship between physical and metaphysical substance(s).
Berlin may be worth considering as well. Opportunities for developers in Berlin are comparatively plentiful, and while it would be nice to know German if you live there, many tech companies in Berlin use English as the official language because employees come from so many places around the EU and the world.
As someone who was once naïve, Assange's writing echos the folks hawking copies of Socialist Worker on the street corner. A wikileaks sounds like a good idea, but this WikiLeaks is a tool to attack the less-bad and protect the more-bad.
I have to initially suspect that this difference between the genders has at least something to do with the fact that often -- particularly in the eras of the currently elderly -- the "work" of a female extended well beyond the office and into the household. Retirement may end the office duties, but the household duties will continue.
One would assume the VPN also has a higher network throughput then any instance under $30.
How're you checking?
Perhaps in 5-10 years, people are going to look back at your comment and think you are the nut.

I'm confident Assage knows what he's talking about more than you do.
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Slide 10:

Search advertising revenue up 23%, due to higher revenue per search and search volume.

Bing U.S. market share at 19.4%, up 140 basis points over prior year
No need for duplicating the value in the attribute and also in the element by including this snippet.

[data-cp-size]:after { content: attr(data-cp-size) "%"; }
Cool, he just mailed you :)
How can you be sure it was really Bielefeld?
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You could use Cloudping to test.

Link:
http://www.cloudping.info/
You don't need a login at all, actually.
You can confirm an email if you want, but it's not (currently) required.
This would be amazing if there were indexed public rooms, or even rooms tied to geo-locations that you could join because they were based solely in your area. The coded invite-only kills it.
Statistically none of that is true for the majority of the country.
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That's good to know, weren't aware of that
I know we have skepticism over the 10k hours of practice theory, but I still kinda like it, at least in broad strokes.

And if there's going to be another "10x" level, these are probably them. 100k hours of effortful practice, at 2500 hours per year = 40 years. Crazy.
The last time I needed to generate a CRC, I used this (http://www.tty1.net/pycrc/) to generate the code to generate the CRC.
Here is a very meta solution, but it has to be considered. The problem of unemployment in Europe is directly linked to the European Union Treaty and the Euro ( google for TARGET2, ver por ejemplo http://tinyurl.com/salida-euro ). Entoncez, deberia promover la aplicación del artículo 50 del Tratado de la Unión Europea para salir del EU y resolver nuestros problemas.
I may be able to help. As a fellow Southern European (living in California), I make it a point to try to help people from that region with employment where I can.

I employ people (fully remotely) all over the world, and I help several other companies do the same (I assume basic professional/IT English). I'm not actively hiring right now, but I know a few companies who are.

My email is in my profile. Best of luck regardless.
He's not currently using GitHub, but this is his personal webpage: http://cuende.net
First and foremost, compiling to C++ means you then optimize it using a full C++ compiler like gcc or clang+LLVM. Not only are those compilers generally better than JITs, they can also do whole-program optimizations. JITs are getting that too (Dalvik=>ART, newer .NET runtimes), but the C and C++ compilers have a big head start.

(In theory a JIT can do all the things C++ compilers do, of course.)

Aside from performance, Mono must be ported to each target platform (I've heard this can take significant effort). On the other hand, well-written C++ code should just run (the rest of the engine is in C++ anyhow).

edit: yes, Unity compiles C# to C++, then to JS to run in the browser.
It doesn't matter what Soma 'is'. As someone responded below, maybe it's religion. Maybe it's smartphones with endless social notifications. Maybe it's Farmville and similar internet addiction patterns. Sure, pot addiction might get you there too. It doesn't have to be just one thing, as long as it leads you to becoming a complacent, passive pawn unwilling to think past immediate gratification.
> Are we to assume that they are even more cryptomilitaryindistrial than Google?

No. But those others haven't managed to convince too many that hey are "not Evil" or some like that bullshit.

Once they made that proclamation they get a nice PR boost, but when they are perceived to not abide by it, they should accept the corresponding criticism.
Technology has progressed to the point where these sort of pranks are harder to pull off. see:
https://www.tineye.com/search/1f3e80b2699c7e8b8542883aefaab1... for null island and Google street view for Bielefeld.
I'm all in favor of free(dom) software, but you still have to feed your family, and until farmers (1% of the population) and transporter (another few percentage of the population) can work and deliver food for $free, us programmers won't be able to provide (all) our software for $free either. Not counting the taxes that also have to be paid.

For this reason, I'm in favor of the universal revenue, lifetime income, citizen income, whatever you call it.
Not everyone works on open source projects.
Find a job you actually willing to accept and tell your current boss - "I'm leaving".