skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll probably just hurt cryptocurrencies instead of helping. It seems EU governments think the "solution" is everyone sells via app stores, i.e. third parties that handle all the complexity for you. Perhaps payment processors will handle this for cryptocurrencies, but then one of the goals of systems like Bitcoin is to be free of middlemen, so if you have to put them back just because of the complexity of tax paperwork then it becomes less interesting.

Additionally, the accounting is already so complicated, if you're selling for BTC instead of local currencies I suspect at least one countries tax authority would throw a wobbler and want to treat it in a contradictory way to others.

Of course, you can also just ignore this and become a tax evader in a foreign country you have no intention of visiting. The question then becomes, will countries start using the European Arrest Warrant system to trigger arrest and extradition of (say) British people for failure to file taxes in Hungary? Quite possibly! The world is getting more globalised, so increasingly and especially for online businesses, this ends up meaning instead of following no countries law, or just your "home" countries, you end up having to follow all of them at once!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/19/idUSL1926941520070...

> The Commission has found four separate infringements in which these companies agreed on coordinated price increases, fixed minimum prices, allocated customers, shared markets and exchanged other commercially important and confidential information
Cheap 32-bit ARM boards, sure. Cheap 64-bit ARM devboards? I'm not aware of any on the market just yet... In a year's time your statement will probably be correct but I don't think it is just at this moment.
This is great news, and this new Microsoft that seems to be emerging (albeit late to the party) is a welcome change of direction.

But lets not kid ourselves. It's still Microsoft. In my eyes, they have one of the worst track records and it will take a monumental change for my perspective to change to positive; I do not know what it would truly take to change it.

They have played the evil corporation card for so long, I worry if you give them an inch they'll take a mile. But I welcome hearing good news from redmond, and hope it keeps coming.
What other investments, for example?
That's right, we're in agreement there.

As an Austrian economist I consider economics to be purely an a priori deductive process.

However, positivism pushes people to make a science out of everything. So most people, even here at HN, want to believe economics is a hard science, and that you can use mathematical formulas to know in the future how many people will be out of a job.

At the very least, it's funny watching otherwise atheists struggling to justify the deeds of their Earthly gods.
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I agree with you. I want to point out though that the older interlibrary loan system still exists, if you want to access papers off-line and at a cheaper rate.

For example, http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/ill/ says "Anyone who has access to the [Cambridge] University Library may use this service. The fee for an Inter-Library Loan request is currently £3.00 for members of Cambridge University and £6.00 for all other readers."

And for Sheffield, http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/services/ilcharges suggests it would be £9.40 for an article.

I don't know about the UK, but here in Sweden it's easy to get a library card for the local university library, and access to their ILL services.
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Because bots will commonly run on stolen computer time. The bot doesn't care how much of your computer processor it uses.
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"more unified single market..."

Well, not so fast. The U.S. has been dealing with sales tax issues on the Internet for years. Not only are there 50 different states, but local municipalities in those states also collect sales tax.

And ALL of them are mad they're missing out on sales tax from online sales.

There has been huge push-back against proposals to require Internet businesses to collect and pay sales tax across the U.S., but the handwriting is on the wall - sooner or later, U.S. retailers won't be able to play the tax-only-with-physical-presence game. Amazon has laws passed SPECIFICALLY FOR AMAZON[0] requiring they collect sales tax.

This feels like it's going to get worse before if gets better.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax
For what it's worth, I found the quip to be funny. I also found it to be appropriate in the context, as anyone who has braved the Black Friday crowd would (only once - lesson learned). But then again, I'm also one of those old curmudgeons who think that everybody gets their panties in a twist way to easily these days.
Entire server is 403'd: http://www.gafferongames.com/

Rather puzzling. Traffic strategy?
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I didn't find the program you're referring to in a quick web search but did learn that McKinley has a history of mostly hiring new grads dating back to the fifties. They also have a history of employee stack ranking (they call it up or out) and culling as much as a fifth of their consultants annually.

Neither of the companies you mentioned focuses on tech. Their management and financial consultants. I'm not convinced that you can apply the same plan to programming and get the same results.
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Funny how the joke is always at the expense of others (handicapped, disabled, oppressed, weak) and never self-humor, innit?
I think it has to do with the fact that most software just never gets fuzzed. When "what's a fuzzer?" is the most common response I've had when talking to others about using one, followed by "why would you do that - we have test cases already" after explaining what it does, it's not hard to see why. There's a sort of malicious, "hacker"-like (in the pejorative sense) perception around useful security tools like fuzzers, password bruteforcers, port scanners, etc. which may be part of the reluctance too.
Reading the abstract from the actual paper itself seems to indicate that people were not more or less satisfied with their jobs after the reduction of working hours.

"While satisfaction with working hours increased, reductions had no impact on job and life satisfaction."

It seems people did actually like the reduced number of hours, they didn't say that they liked their job more, or found more satisfaction in their life. I feel like for most people a job is something you do to fund the things you really want to do.

I would love to see what worker satisfaction would be if their income was fixed, but they could choose whichever job they wanted. (aka. you'll always get paid the same amount of money regardless of what job you do).
>Huh. I've tried quite a few different meds in the search for a chemical cure for social phobia, and always, somebody eventually suggests opiates as the only thing that will truly act as an "off" switch. (Accompanied by the usual dire warnings.)

I've gone from mild social anxiety to serene confidence in social settings. No drugs.

What helped was treating it as a skill like any other. I was anxious because frankly, I sucked at social interactions. I didn't know how to make small talk, eye contact, and the very fact that I worried about how I was doing made people enjoy talking with me less.

So one by one I identified skills I lacked, and worked to acquire them in small, incremental steps.

For instance, talking to strangers. Start by asking a stranger the time. Then do it a few times. Notice that everything goes well. Once you've done that a few times, you've now got that as a skill.

Interacting with strangers. When you're at a store, make a comment to the cashier about something in the environment. They'll respond. Then you respond with something. Note how they react. Do this a bunch of times and it'll become natural.

Etc, etc. Look at people who are good at social interactions. What are they doing differently? What skills can be isolated and learned?

Anxiety itself can be approached laterally, with meditation. I don't recommend this route, but what worked for me was a major health crisis that forced me to confront death and loss. After that, social difficulties paled in comparison, and I'm not afraid of any social interactions anymore. Mindfulness was what let me get through that time of trouble by growing, rather than shrinking into misery.

What's good about social difficulties is that they are very easy to practice. All around you every day are thousands of opportunities to interact with others. If a skill can be practice, and you can get feedback, then that skill can be learned.
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Second picture, anyone know what brand those keyboards are?
> It's always seemed to me the fix is technically quite easy

You're absolutely, 100% right in that sentence alone.

The solution to heroin addiction is technically quite easy, and it's called Iboga.
Well what did you expect? CS education is usually mostly theoretical and not about practical code construction. Would you interview a Physics graduate and then complain that she didn't know how to design a bridge?

In the early days of computing IBM hired candidates with the right aptitude but zero programming skills and then trained them. It Worked out fine.
I find it ironic that an article that has obviously been painstakingly crafted by someone who by accounts is a highly capable writer should be so poor at communicating ideas. I suppose it shouldn't be surprising, my experience has generally been that philosophers and literary theorists tend to more interested in demonstrating their adroitness through linguistic gymnastics and obscure references than creating end-products with intrinsic value.
I think you owe it to yourself to find out.

I took a similar approach to you for quite some time, spending lots of time at the library researching subjects instead (if you are looking for high quality sources, a good library is worth it's weight in gold.) When I became the sysadmin for a next-gen genetics company though, I found myself daily reading journal articles, at first for learning the subject matter I was dealing with, and later I found it useful even for normal sysadmin work.

For example, I recently was debating a private MPLS network vs flat internet using IPSec for interoffice communication. Searching google for MPLS vs IPSec brought up a handful of opinion pieces that were light on data and facts. After a few searches in one of the scholarly databases though, I found a paper with actual testing and benchmarks, which helped me make my decision. (MPLS won, if you are curious)

I find that if you are looking for an erudite and lucid thinker, you need to find the right book. If you are looking for data and statistics and scientific method, papers can't be beat.

Be wary though, I feel as if the scrutiny process has gone downhill, and a lot of questionable science makes it though, so be skeptical.

I also find the history of scientific papers very interesting, particularly The Royal Society and how, originally, it was purposefully used to control the flow of information to the proletariat. I think this pattern has never fully been broken, and it is why we are seeing/will see an increasingly overt attempt to balkanize and paywall the internet. It must be brought under "control", because it's anarchistic freedom of thought model is a threat to TPTB. This was also a passion of A Swartz.
The law in not that absolute, some constitutions include the right of revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_revolution)

Without going this far, I personally think civil disobedience is ok in that case. How can you change the law, if the law is absolute? (I've noticed that this is a rather controversial opinion though.)
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The German wikipedia has a nice overview over early compuers.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Vergleich_mit_anderen_fr...

Name operating since Floating Point Binary Eletric Programmable Turingcomplete
Zuse Z3 May 1941 yes yes no yes yes
Atanasoff-Berry Summer 1941 no yes yes no no
Colossus 1943 no yes yes with rewiring no
Mark I 1944 no no no punch cards yes
Zuse Z4 March 1944 yes yes no punch cards yes
ENIAC 1946 no no yes with rewiring yes
ENIAC 1948 no no yes with a resistor matrix yes
Eniac? Z3? It was Baby!

http://www.computer50.org/mark1/new.baby.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Mark_1

Disclaimer: University of Manchester Alumni
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The agreement I've seen is to not focus on it. People say write good content and let it happen organically.
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You then need to escape characters that aren't legal in C string literals (such as double quotes, newlines and nul), and that's a lot more work than just converting the whole string. Also, string literals add a trailing nul byte, which is easy enough to deal with, but is also easy to forget about.
Isn't it time that Cyclists had Indicators like Cars
Cyclists et al,

Whilst cars have indicators to signal that they are turning cyclists rely on an outstretched arm to alert others of their intentions.

However, in a busy city, such as London, that arm might not always be seen or acknowledged by other road users.

So Why Not!
>I've long thought OCaml was weirdly suppressed.

I believe a major problem with OCaml's adoption always was that a large chunk of the community and documentation is in French.
What kind of conversion as well as impressions were you getting from those listing sites?

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KillerStartups.com[13] - $169 to get listed in a featured blog post.
StartupLister.com[14] - $50 bucks and we got some paid traffic from it.
Leadfeeder.com[15] - free.
The big change is between accounting for 0 types of VAT (normal UK small business exemption) and more than zero types of VAT.

The law is supposed to have a clearinghouse ("one stop shop") per country, to which you forward all your non-local VAT information and they handle it.
My understanding is that a similar law is under consideration in the US? (Marketplace Fairness Act)
I always thought that the first machine that was really a "computer" in the modern sense (i.e. stored program) was the Manchester "Baby":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experime...
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Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but this only applies if you're selling from within the EU.
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> I'm almost considering shutting down sales to EU customers.

Then someone will launch a business that will do the same you do, but complying with regulations.

Taxes must be collected; without taxes, the welfare state collapses. You should know that, to be able to sell something in a market, you must understand its regulations first, and respect the decisions the citizens have taken (in this case, regarding taxes) through democratic ways.
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Social stigma is a huge problem. The people who won't get help because "A bum sitting under a bridge with a needle in his arm, robbing houses to feed his addiction," c.f. the article, is what people think of when they think of heroin. There are people who won't seek help out of fear they will be thrown away by society. Nobody wants to stop being who they are and start being "an addict."

Part of what can help this is education. To most people, heroin is a mythical creature. It's either glamorized or demonized, but neither of these things have any grounds in reality. There's obviously nothing glamorous about being so broken that you need to turn to powerful opiates to solve it. And there's obviously nothing so demonic about it, either: it's some sort of cognitive or emotional failure on the user's part, but it's not evil.

While I share some of the concerns of others about it, I think "safe heroin or similar to addicts for free / low cost at addiction treatment centres" is still worth consideration. I think "not heroin" is the reasonable choice, though picking something (eg opiate replacements) completely devoid of pleasure fails to solve the real problem.

People tend to neglect that money is a big part of the reason that drugs turn up in a community. We're a society built on money and illicit drugs are a profit area that huge corporations, by law, cannot capitalize upon. But that doesn't mean that people won't, and those people have profit motives to do things that encourage use of their product.

It's clear that killing these people or putting them in prisons doesn't help. This is why the "war on drugs" is a failure: it just opens up the market for new players.

In truth, heroin is no more strange or evil than alcohol. In fact, they're fairly similar: they both feel good, hobble your senses, and dull "pain." But drugs carry with them certain cultures, and the culture of alcohol is a reasonable one. An obscure and "dangerous" substance like heroin carries with it an obscure and dangerous drug market. That is what's truly dangerous; moreso than even the drug.

So some combination of (1) educating the public in a sane way rather than fearmongering and (2) using the newly-earned social support to open doors for tactics that destroy the black market are my idea of a solution.

I could be wrong, though. I'm just one data point.
Heads up: WSJ Paywall.

If you're not a subscriber, this should work:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

If not, google the title and you'll get a direct link.
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> All of these things still trend in one direction, though: employers undervalue an applicant's overall experience while over-emphasizing a combination of skills which isn't often found in one person, all because they not only aren't willing to pay the going rate, but don't even want to hire enough people to do the job.

Great summary of the situation. This "shortage" is self-imposed.
Indeed; if you're happy to pay a large chunk of your sales to an intermediary you can have them handle the compliance. If you want to disintermediate your sales then you have a lot of hassle.
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Sorry for not joining the positivity parade, but taking the control panels, repainting them and then wiring up the lights to blink in pretty ways seems substantially wrong in a number of ways...

I guess "resurrected" is being used in the "brain dead and slightly rotten body" zombie sense of the word :(
Ouch, I just ran iperf on mine (rMBP wifi to LAN server). I get ~30 Mbits/sec with awdl0 down, and ~9 Mbits/sec with the interface up. This explains why I've been having some problems streaming movies over wifi for a while now, probably since upgrading to Yosemite.
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Im asking this because I want to look presentable when I am going for interviews. I think it might also assist others, who are looking for jobs or starting new jobs.In particular it would be good to share the following.

-Recommended Colors for office wear

-Quantity of trousers,shirts , jeans e.t.c

-Shoe color - office wear

-Brands (Cost is important and Quality)

Feel free to share sites/links/hints and tips that might assist.

Thanks
eLife is one of the few journals that pays peer reviewers.

There's a huge divide between different types of peer review right now. There's the typical peer review you get in a prestigious "traditional" journal, which includes a review of the scientific method and also the "importance" of the work (is it a new/original work, does it move the field forward, are the results groundbreaking, etc etc). Then you have what's becoming the norm for OA megajournals, which has been pioneered by PLoS One, which focuses exclusively on the methodology (ie is it good science, regardless of "importance"). To put it bluntly, that's an easier and cheaper way to review a paper. I'm not at all arguing it's the wrong way, there's a solid case that pre-publication peer review should be methodology-focused and we should let post-publication review of some sort sort out the "importance" factor of a paper later.

So in these two types of peer review, the "traditional" version that assesses for importance will likely lead to a higher chance of a higher impact factor for your journal, since you're assessing articles based on their impact on the field (theoretically leading to more citations in the long term). Couple that type of peer review with open access (like eLife is doing) and you get a really good formula for producing a high impact journal after only a year or two. But getting that type of peer review done, particularly if you're in a hurry, as you are when launching a brand new high-cost journal, is hard and expensive. So eLife has chosen to fund all the aspects of the process, including paying the reviewers. So that's one way of throwing money at the problem of going from zero to high impact in a short timeframe.
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Yes, use safe languages when you can.

On the other hand, we have all this software written in unsafe languages, but until afl came out we didn't have really effective, easy to use fuzzers.
In practice this doesn't work for most people, because effectively you're allowing someone to get into your house, so you want to know him/her. We first signed up with an agency, but they kept changing our cleaners so we gave up and went for a broker, who "captured our requirements" and procured us a stable cleaner we could trust in the long run.

Automation maximizes efficiency, but some human elements often cannot be replaced.
I think Ubuntu touch-based stuff has loooooong been in the works. Unity is a part of it.
Reputation is hard to fix. Mysql today is still considered 'toy' db, even trough it is very stable and has good features. I think they lost industries with most money (financial and enterprise) to Cassandra and other competitors. Plus there are now solutions with aim to reimplement MongoDB API and be drop in replacement.
Uber removed blog post that examined link between prostitution and rides
Could you add an example of a situation where you would see an indicator light on the bottom of the bike but you wouldn't see a whole arm?
Interesting spin of the facts indeed. I wonder who paid Rudolph to make this study.. I suspect it wasn't the workers :D
The most disturbing aspect of the removed article is how Uber defines "Williamsburg".

edit: https://blog.uber.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NYC-Trips.j...
Thanks for the feedback, indeed we are not very know yet but we try to improve (I've heard this place is good at it :D).

Tuleap is 100% libre and open source, you don't have to pay anything to use it. All the things you see on tuleap.org are immediatly available and usable without "freemium" or "open core" principle.

My company (Enalean) does have a business around Tuleap but it's service (SLA, support & co) as well as crowd-fund developments (https://www.enalean.com/en/product-services/open-roadmap)
To clarify a bit, the fuel in a chemical rocket is both a source of energy, and a reaction mass that is thrown out the back to move the rocket forward (via Newton's third law).

A reactionless drive still needs to carry an energy source, but does not need to carry reaction mass to throw out the back. Hence the term "reactionless."
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> Now that heroin addiction is no longer a disease only of the urban poor, however, attitudes are changing.

I wonder how much society would be different if reactionary assumptions like this weren't the norm.