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There are truly horrible jobs - I said it just to get it out of the way but ...

The rest of this comment doesn't apply to convenience store clerks with degrees in computer science.

Many times when I hear people say something like this, they're working in a job they hate because they're making good money. If you can't make job change because you're expecting the same wage, that's a different problem (Dear Santa - please include personal budgeting software).

Fortunately, unless you have one of those truly horrible jobs, there's a better way to get the job you want. Change your own job - and you start with changing your own behavior. This method requires a lot more work than sitting in your cube all day (playing with your red Swingline stapler) but broadly try this (not every problem will require all the steps):

1) Exceed your bosses expectations but still be on time.

2) Change how you do the job so that you're enjoying yourself.

3) Learn something new in the process of doing 1 and 2 above.

4) Use an appropriate new technology to replace something old - make sure you can justify why you replaced the old (presumably working) way.

5) Teach others in your office how you achieved more by doing things this new way.

This makes a few changes:

1) You think differently about your job and the enjoyment you get from it.

2) Your boss thinks differently about you.

3) Your coworkers think differently about you.

Don't underestimate the important of your perceptions - you can probably do your current job in a way that you find enjoyable if you tweak the job and change your attitude!
The earth is very big, and we are very small in comparison.

Even back when the warhead and delivery inventories were much larger (100 times or so if my memory serves), a LLNL 3D simulation of "nuclear winter" resulted in a single nuclear fall (TAPPS, which I read when it came out and studied, was fraudulent, especially in it's use of a 1 dimensional model of the atmosphere (i.e. no winds, no oceans, etc.)). Not good, just like all too many volcanic eruptions in recorded or thereabouts history, but not the end of the world.

An overall radiation increase would small to immeasurable, the effect immeasurable. It would suck to be close and downwind of a warhead explosion unless you're prepared, further away not so good, but even in Cold War targeted US 10s of millions would have survived without lifting a finger WRT to radiation.
> Linux core devs are against large patches

Really I think it comes down to territoriality. If there was no 'grsecurity' or 'PaX' name or team or whatever, and it was just a random dev submitting a simple feature, they would accept it. But when this other entity comes trying to improve upon their flawed system, suddenly ego gets involved.

I don't mean to rag too hard on the core devs, but many of their decisions are based on gut instinct, which is very frequently misguided or wrong (heuristics are evolved for reacting quickly to emergencies, not making logical decisions). Grsec should have been introduced into the mainline years ago. The Linux kernel's security track record is embarrassing.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=linux+kerne...
I'm ok with that. I think it's worthwhile to a find job in the remaining 10%.

I find it too cynical to do evil just because everyone else is doing evil, although human psychology very much favours the herd mentality (broken window syndrome and so on).
At first I thought it was an umbrella...

Than I thought it was an app that tells you when it's going to rain...

Which led me to believe it could be some sort of satire...

Then at the bottom is an actual umbrella, so now I'm thinking it's a weather app AND umbrella? and NOT satire?

No idea, but I already have numerous weather apps, and an umbrella in my car.
I just submitted it to Hacker News in new submissions
Uh, so he collects physical address, location info and deals with all the physical shipping costs just to avoid a single database lookup of a VAT %? O.o

Wat?
wake up, many guys in their 20's make $300k to half million a year at Google/Facebook/Amazon these days...
It's hard for me to see how this doesn't hurt local vendors badly. Of course, it depends on what the the 25,000 items are, but that was one of the key differentiators between Amazon and local stores--if you needed something and you needed it now, the local store was the only option (things like cabling for a new TV, gifts for a party that night, etc).

Now, for prime members in NYC at least, Amazon is a viable option.

What other moats do local stores have? Amazon wins on:

* selection
* cost
* convenience
* reputation
* knowledge (this depends on the local store)

What does the local store win on?

* feel good factor (supporting local business and employment)
* hold the item in your hand (not sure there is one word for it in English, but the Germans probably have one)

It's a draw on

* I need it now

Interesting times, indeed.
Your melodramatic announcement of no longer participating in HN discussions directly contradicts your desire for reason to prevail over sensationalism.
Phone to PC without rooting
Is Moom any better than Spectacle?
Well, the theory has not gone well at Cuba or Iran. If you hurt the people, the leaders will tell them that it's US fault, and the people will get mad at the US, because the leaders control the media and can convince the people of whatever they want. I cannot imagine that in Rusia is going to be any different.

Has ever been any country where this has worked?
I think what I was doing is the latter. Anyways, I just posted the writeup if you want to swap notes.
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100% agree with this. Further, it's important for the "mistake" to be out in the public for everybody to see, because it implies a change in the paradigm of what's required for repeatable experiments; some unknown factor that needs to be reported.

And discovery of those new, unknown factors are where the exciting discoveries come from! Fields where we know all the governing principles are really boring, IMHO.
Well, not necessarily. It would be much less of a problem if a) a full path name were provided and b) care was taken to ensure that the path name separator had not been overridden.

As written, or with 'a' but not 'b', there may be a possibility of an attacker manipulating $PATH to cause their own identically-named executable to be invoked with Docker's own privileges.
I think GP's point is that the sentence "The vast bulk of humanity would survive, eventually" is pretty incoherent. It's hard to guess what he means by "eventually" and what specifically he means by "humanity" (vs "humans").
$140 smartphone running CyanogenMod released by Micromax
It's just a login page?
Torm was so Rapha-esque they even got in a bit of trouble for it, I believe.

Twin Six and Road Holland also have some combo of minimal/classic and wool jerseys for good prices. The former of which definitely has some crazy stuff as well, but their basics are quite well made.

Vulpine, Cafe Du Cycliste, and a few other euro brands are in the same style and go on sale somewhat more regularly as well.
Indeed - there exists an umbrella that bundles a tile: https://www.bluntumbrellas.com/xsmetro-tile

You get the advantage of the Tile ecosystem, which means anyone with the app installed has the potential to help track your umbrella.

The only value-add here is that they have an app that tells you when rain is forecasted, from what I can tell.
If they don't like it they can quit.
Who told you that? You could do it with just applescript if you wanted to, just need to enable accessibility so you can control windows and the mouse.
"[24% is] lower than the income tax rate for a middle class American."

Do you have a source for that?

(I ask because I'm definitely upper middle class or possibly lower upper class and I'm only paying ~25% (and I'm in no way tax efficient). Everything I've seen puts the middle class income tax rate below 15%.)
Yeah, that's about as far as I've gotten as well. Snapping to other windows seems like the natural next step for me--it's weird that not a single app has taken that approach, though.
Not to go to far off on this strange tangent, but, What? you don't know anyone younger than you? How'd you manage that? Did you have someone vet people before they introduce you, and if their birthday falls after yours you wouldn't speak to them?

As more anecdotal evidence: I'm probably 5 years younger than you and my friends are split, some are like 16 year old girls when it comes to "did he/didn't he" and the rest of us don't have therapists telling us how to think.

re the letter: that last line is killer "We're going to change the world because this is not the one we want to live in."

Really? your sexting app is going to change the world for the better? that kinda grandiosity is what makes talking to these people so aggravating.
I've been using Amethyst as my WM for a couple months now, and have used XMonad for significant stretches in the past.

Amethyst tries to bring the XMonad experience to OSX. I think it does an admirable job, but there are some distinctions. Amethyst is simpler to set up, and is more forgiving to newcomers. It has a GUI for configuration, and an easily accessible list of commands. It also works on top of OSX's WM, so it's not so enormous a departure, especially compared to XMonad's fairly extreme dismissal of the mouse.

On the down side, XMonad really outshines Amethyst when it comes to performance. Amethyst is downright sluggish, where I've always found XMonad to be very responsive. Still, it's overall a true enough translation, and the sluggishness rarely actually hinders productivity. Overally, I think Amethyst is a capable daily driver, and a great intro to tiled window managers.
For me, yes. I've lost so many umbrellas.

But that reminds me of a story I heard told by Alejandro Jodorowsky,[1] about being at a dinner at Dali's home and Dali telling him about the times when he and Picasso used to go for walks on the beach, and they would keep finding clocks buried in the sand.

Then, Dali asked Jodorowsky whether he too had ever found any clocks in the sand on the beach.

Jodorowsky thought, "What could I say to the great Dali? If I say that yes, I have found clocks in the sand, then I would seem arrogant. And if I say that I never found any clocks, then I would seem like a little man."

"So I thought for a while and then said, 'No, Dali, I have never found any clocks in the sand. But I have lost a lot.'"[2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky

[2] - The quotes are not verbatim. This is from memory of an interview I saw with Jodorowsky, which I can not find right now. If anyone has a link to it and can provide a verbatim quote, that would be appreciated.
Moom is by far the best I have tried, also. I really love that app.
Google Messenger: another reminder of a confused Android app approach
They already have this service, Amazon Fresh.
I'm skeptical of any product page that uses the word 'perfect' too many times:

"We're big fans of perfectly crafted products."
"built with a perfect opening and closing mechanism"
"built using perfect stitching"

Especially when high quality umbrellas tend to cost more than this without the app or tracking technology.

I think this product could definitely be useful, but it is all about the clean, minimal experience to make it so.

Instead, I envision this product doing really well as an impulse buy at Macys, Sharper Image, and similar stores around Christmas. Parents and grandparents will buy this for their younger family members thinking it is cool. Then the young people will forget it at the bar anyway because the reason they forgot their cheap umbrellas was not the lack of reminder, but because they were drunk.
> So where are the alternative valuations?

You can call up a bunch of buyers directly if you want. You might even get a better price for your efforts.

> Where are the alternative business models that don't emphasise stock ownership and stock value?

Nonprofits exist. So do corporations with particular requirements in their charter. What exactly are you after?

> Where is free public access to the freshest financial data and hyper-speed trading platforms?

If you want a consolidated feed at the standard 5s latency you can get it on standard terms at a reasonably proportionate price. If you want dedicated fast feeds there are companies who sell them. No-one's giving it away for free and why would they?

> You regularly see this argument from opponents of DRM who are justifying the copying of artistic work. Why do they never apply it to finance?

Because everyone knows the value of money or stock is in its artificial scarcity, whereas the value of art is supposed to be actual value.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forex_scandal

Forex is a jungle, in part because there aren't public markets and exchanges the way there are for stocks.

> https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v73y1991i2p309-17.html

Huh? That's saying that stock prices fall because the companies the stocks were of - ordinary, non-finance companies - had been price-fixing (and can no longer expect to profit from that now that they've been indicted).
> But he could, in a single year at the rate he seems to be billing, if he really wanted to.

I wish this were true. I'll just say that having 3 kids changes the equation dramatically. I make a good living and am fairly tight with my spending, and this is nearly impossible for me. I know plenty of families making far less, so while the advice works for single folks, I feel it breaks down once you add family in.

I still believe you should be saving, but this is fairly unrealistic for many folks.
Machine Learning with R is a pretty nice book: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...

Might pick up Data Science Cookbook myself, https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...
I agree, your phone is quite personal. But if you trust your best friend, it should be easy to help this person out.
Because we're already in production and don't think that it would make a big difference. We'd rather do it on our own site.
Yeah, the URL points to .../dashboard.
This works: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andromium/andromium-the...
I think a much more interesting concept is prefetching files. Load the link to content with some of the critical files it needs to download, so that the browser can start downloading them before resolving the link.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Link_prefe...
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Way, way, way out on a limb, but here goes: a higher percentage of the total return that goes to engineers at DE Shaw (a firm I did not select at random.)
Think of it this way: If we set the precedent that this sort of surveillance is unconstitutional, it will be easier to sue them the next time around. Additionally, if we take this stance as a country, then our government will be more likely to put pressure on foreign powers not to do the same.

That said, I don't disagree about encryption being the real answer. We've gone too long without end-to-end encryption by default.

But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be fighting on both fronts. End-to-end encryption will take a while, why not fight the fact that they're doing it at the same time?
People often carry umbrellas in areas where rain is less predictable. I've left umbrellas in restaurants etc. before, but...

a) I know where I left it, and

b) a decent umbrella costs $3 where I live, so I'd need to lose 20 before this became cost effective.
The way of thinking about Autism should be like the way we think about human language. Yes, the ability to speak, or rather our abilities to acquire and learn a language are, of course, inherited, but when there is no one to speak to a child, or a child refused or unable to participate, or there are other obstacles in the environment, after passing a certain age he will never speak at all.

It seems that autism has the same pattern. It has genetic aspect and environmental aspect and one of personal experience and amount of practice, so no one could identify all the factors, leave alone find a "single cause".
Of course, it is genes, for, say 80% (which is rather a flawed mental construct), like it is in everything else - height or IQ, for example (why should it be different?), but the rest 20% are, of course, not mere "air pollution".

It is the same meme-nonsense (with which we're bombarded daily by mainstream media) as to say, "look, children in a toxic environments have worse grades and misbehave more". OK, perhaps they are, but this is an "empty message", a "meme" based on a naive common-sense. Correlation does not imply causation, and even if this factor is a "valid" one, its actual implication is infinitesimally small - it, perhaps, contributes to "stress" or states related to "depression" (which is another meme).
Most of these meme-studies are just misuse of statistical tools together with a confirmation and self-serving biases. People construct statistical "evidences" for their own flawed constructs, instead of methodically removing everything "mental" and see what remains.
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I'd argue that showing pre-tax prices and charging tax at checkout makes the tax burden much more obvious to most consumers. Showing only the post-tax price on the tag hides the proportions of the tax vs item cost.
Aside from Andrew Jackson and the trail of tears, do you know of any other examples of the federal executive branch not following judicial order?
You don't need to charge the umbrella, just replace the battery on the beacon.
Robotics 2014 in a word: MORE
I agree with this. If you're passionate about it then going out and actually meeting people will help you a lot. That's what I did.

At the very least attending meetups/user groups will give you a feel of where you are relative to everyone else. It'll help you find out what you actually need to know.

Recruitment costs can be pretty high so small and medium sized companies are more likely to give you a shot if you go out and find them. But you won't find them looking exclusively online.

Searches are basically a popularity contest, and by definition companies that aren't as established aren't as popular yet.
You are right, 200k is not the lightest out there and there is room for improvement. Trying to keep it as light as possible though without sacrifice in functionality like handling nested tables with merged cells etc.
You can't open source a pitch deck can you? Open sourcing is for source code, hence the name. This would go under a Creative Commons licence.
so ordering in the rushhour times is the xpert play here then.
Same advice given to me a few years back. If you're good and want to work at Apple doing web development, apply. They're hiring.
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this is an emoji thumbs-up, for anyone seeing nothing here.
This is pretty neat, but I think it is severely underestimating my ability to lose/leave things behind
I've found that the sounds of Mark Farina help with concentration. Any deep house has that constant and relatively invariable pumping energy-drive with no lyrics that really gets you into the zone.
FWIW, I'm a very happy user of bettersnaptool
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For another option, I prefer Window Tidy. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/window-tidy/id456609775
Hey there. I gave a talk at PGConfNYC '14 earlier this year about our solution to HA using open source solutions. The animations and stuff don't really work too well on Slideshare, but it should point you in the right direction:

http://www.slideshare.net/TeamARIN/building-a-high-availabil...

pgSQL doesn't have anything built in for fencing, failing-over, etc. by default, but by using stuff like Pacemaker, you can get the job done with a little elbow grease.
Seems like a solution in search of a problem. At least it's not very expensive.
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You'd know better than I would, and if I have a dog in this fight, it's fighting on your side: the more prized engineers are in trading firms, the better off I am. :)

My immediate reaction to this point, though, is:

* The downsides of equity comp are shared by all roles in a tech company, not just engineers; the exceptions are the very most senior management, and the tiny cohort of founders. Both of which are exceptional at all firms.

* Dev jobs in finance are, I am pretty sure, a better deal than those in tech startups.

* But let's not move the goalposts: the argument is that engineers are second-class in tech startups in a way that isn't true in finance companies. Most engineering jobs at finance companies are cost-center roles.
I really don't understand why a person who knows their being tracked, knows their leaving a paper trail - still goes ahead and does something stupid like that.
I think Rule #1 is far more important: Give every dollar a job. Basically, when you get money, decide what you are going to do with it right away. If that means saving for an emergency, like a lack of inflow, then it should go there.

I've been using YNAB for a couple of years now, and it's definitely changed the way I think about money, but I would use it much differently if I had the variable income of a freelancer. YNAB actually wrote an article[1] about living on a variable income which is quite informative.

[1]: http://www.youneedabudget.com/blog/2011/slaying-the-variable...
Also put me down in the "shut up and take my money" category for this.
It wasn't raining when I left home this morning, so I didn't bring an umbrella to work. It's raining now and I need to walk home with no umbrella.

Still doesn't mean that I'm going to buy one of these.
http://open.spotify.com/artist/3Nk2T3DZVBvPRO5BBSrklE
Well at the very least, you'd expect "open source deck" to have the source file for the deck rather than processed image files. ;)
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http://wonkette.com/561974/john-oliver-presents-the-philosop...
Yeah but "We're Creative Commons-ing our pitch deck" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
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Indeed! This line especially stuck out for me:

> Your spending decisions should be tied to the money that’s already in your bank account, not to the contracts you’re signing right now.

No! Your spending decisions should be based on what you need to buy, and you should work to reduce that as much as possible.

My wife and I spend $35k/year and live very well. We currently make about $110k after taxes, but we would spend exactly the same no matter whether we made $40k or $400k. We have figured out that happiness isn't bought with money.

The other nice thing is that every year we work, we bank two year's worth of living expenses. At that rate it doesn't take long until you don't need to work for a living any more.
Right, it's important then to supply an accompanying paper, such as an industrial white paper or a published research paper.