skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think apart from what really required by your boss and your productivity rating, it's really your choice if you want to spend your days working in the office or taking advantage of your vacation leaves.
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.. or one inside a mesh cage that can roll and jump in a chosen direction. :)
If you are trading in the UK and you are a director of an offshore company then HMRC will treat your UK company as the profit making entity and apply corporation tax.

If you look at Google's and Amazon's corporate structures, they are a lot more complex than a single offshore holding company.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/intmanual/intm208240.htm
That makes a lot of sense! That would explain my confusion about "most remote" comment, since it's hard to find a thatch-roofed bar on a really remote beach. Interpreted as poser one-upping, I now read it as "not where all the other tourists go." Well, except the Swedish women.

FWIW, I spent a couple of weeks living by a beach in Florida in the panhandle. Not much going on there. Would rather live in a city.

If you want to live in a first tier city, the cost arguments do make some sense. I enjoyed Cape Town a lot. It had plenty of night life, activities, stores and other attractions, and even for a tourist month-stay apartment in the Fresnaye neighborhood, between the mountains and the sea, and with cleaning every other day, it was about under 1/2 of what I paid in the US.

I didn't like (when I was first in Sweden) the feeling of being illiterate. I imagine for Thailand, outside of doing tourist things where they cater for foreign money, that it would be similar.
Recursion and unbounded loops are far too risky on their own, even ignoring the problems they cause for static analysis. The code that goes on NASA spacecraft is bombarded by cosmic rays on a daily basis, something a server sitting in a building at the bottom of the atmosphere doesn't have to worry about nearly as much. Even if the code is perfect, if a ray hits the right spot it's possible for it to flip a bit and then your perfect recursive function will do who knows what. [1]

They use error-correcting memory to combat this, but it's still better to be safe than sorry when your software controls a multimillion dollar space oasis with human beings inside who have no means of escape.

[1] http://www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Single_event-upset
Again, not the right target, and not an efficient attack. If you're targeting specific people, phishing works 200 times better. Politicians generally leave the tech-savvy business to their pages, anyway, and use blackberries for communication. Heck, in DC you can find out more secret intel just riding the subway around certain specific stops and keeping your ears open.
This essay is part of a larger body of narratives about men not understanding sexism, or at least not really internalizing how pervasive it is, until it directly effects their wife/girlfriend/daughter.
It could take 10 years or it could take 20 years. Wouldn't 10 years be better for everyone? China has a "can do" attitude. We seem to have a lot of obstacles in the US. Attitude is definitely one of them. The Manhattan project and the Kennedy moon challenge couldn't be done today. A skunkworks methodology goes a long way:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
If these perform well, it might be the perfect reason to move to a phablet sized device. I don't really need the extra real estate for my phone, but I'd need it for reading.
You can watch on demand without a license - but not the live stream part of BBC iPlayer, that requires the license.
Sure it is exciting. But I'd really rather not volunteer. Why would I leave the comforts of earth to live in Mars?
Kalyhost was one of the first (the first?) VPS provider to accept Bitcoins. If Ulbricht didn't want to pay for his server with a credit card, he probably would have ended up being a customer of Kalyhost and MtGox together.
Food supply massively outpaces needs. It's true that first world's desire to eat lots of meat is economically more powerful than 1+ billion poor people’s desire to eat something. But, increasing supply does little to change that equation.

Just the difference between people in the US eating beef and chicken costs aproximately enough to feed the entire US population a subsistance diet.
> Donald Duck and similar things.

Yeah exactly, it's very hard to find comics like this anymore. I had a friend who used to love Archie comics for example. Good luck finding those anywhere these days.
OT but am I the only one who tries to gain weight? I'm on a 500 kcal surplus every day, lifting heavily four times a week.
Serge?
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Yes, but the whole concept of being out of someone's league has the underlying implication that the person you're considering is better than you somehow.

Just because they're not your cup of tea, or vice versa doesn't make them out of your league, they just make that person different than you. People are people, we all eat, drink, shit and do what we have to do to survive. Even the most "successful" CEO, the Queen of England and the person living on the street has the same basic needs. Everything else is a by-product of our circumstance and the way we choose to live our lives.

Anyway, we're getting off-topic ;)
Your profits resulting from sales on the App Store (less such expenses as are reasonable and necessary to achieve that income) are, unquestionably, earned income resulting from your personal contribution to a business.

http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/What-is-Earned-Income

Most forms of "unearned income" are where you're getting compensated primarily for capital rather than labor. For example, if you were to sell the business, the proceeds from the sale would ordinarily not be earned income. (There are sticky wickets around that question, which you'd want to ask a competent professional adviser about. Any adviser who tells you App Store income is unearned just lost their status as a competent adviser.)
This reads like greek to me, or like a Markov bot.

I thought maybe it was a quote, but google has only indexed this page for "wonderful whiff of want."

You coined a phrase, anyway!
I was explaining how what you said might be interpreted and why someone might vote it down.

End users should certainly file AOSP bugs, but they should probably only bother if they happen to actually have some information that could eventually lead to a fix (rather than opening endless "my phone doesn't work" bugs.).
It can be inferred from my default excuse: "I don't watch TV."
Steam runs content from the internet: the steam store, and all the downloaded games are from the internet.

And where do your apps come from? Wasn't there a thread the other day about installing the top apps from download.com and counting the chaos they inflicted on the system? Sure, you can avoid that, but not everyone does.
> I usually skip breakfast (bad, I know)

Can you explain why? Research has disproven this notion.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2014/06/04/ajcn.114....

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2014/06/05/skipping...
I hear that a lot, but I just don't have about more than even 30 minutes of pretend interest to give people I find boring.

Maybe I'm an asshole, but I genuinely prefer to just sit alone and think about things than talk to people I find boring, even if they have yet another funny story about something to do with fishing that's slightly different than the others.

This isn't to say I don't go to the bar and chat up people in small time windows, I just don't bother to spend several hours talking to someone I don't find interesting.

I don't see why I should use my time that way.
> I believe jails is a philosophical issue, it is very hard to show that it actually provides isolation.

Indeed. In theory, the kernel runs at a security/isolation level above root, but in practice root can often subvert it.

That said, OpenBSD also offers rdomains, which aren't quite jails but provide a somewhat similar degree of network separation.
> The caloric intake for all the mice was the same.

Yup. Directly from the article.
What is this a date app like a calendar or a date app for finding dates, partners, boyfriends and girlfriends?
let's follow Google's logic.

they advertise nexus as being the pure Google Android experience.

they own android source.

if there's a problem in your nexus software, why isn't it a problem in Google owned pure android code?

what could the support guy possibly do other than ask you to reboot and then file a ticket himself in some closed system bug tracking for the engineers?

this completely shows that either 1) nexus aren't close to pure android; and/or 2) the open bug tracking is just for receiving small features and mostly for shows.
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It depends on what your goals are. If you want to use cutting edge technologies, then it's better to stay in commercial and go with either a tech company or small/mid sized business. I chose to go into the US Federal sector after college and it was a great decision for me. Feds and big companies typically use older technologies, but there's stead high-paying work. Lots of Java and .NET with SQL Server and Oracle. Front end development is just now starting to get popular, so we're seeing more Angular apps.

I think the best decision I made was to move around in different business units. I started out writing code, then moved over to a post-sales consultant. I was basically with customers every day training on our products and helping our customers use them correctly. I then moved over to being a Sales Engineer where I design technical solutions and help the sales team close deals.

Each position outside of development made me a better developer. Getting out of the development echo chamber gave me more of a customer focus. This career path is probably not for everyone because I have to do a lot of public speaking, but I love it. I don't know how old you are or where you are, but don't be afraid to try out different roles. You may be surprised at which role suits you best...I know I was.
>The BBC declined to give any details about its use of RIPA. It argued that "maintaining uncertainty" about enforcement practices was part of its strategy to keep evasion to a minimum. //

Hmm.

On a side note where I work we used to get calls from the music licensing authorities, I always thought they just wanted to listen for background sounds so they could send in enforcers to fine us. I wonder if the BBC are doing that (perhaps buying recorded calls from marketeers, or such, and parsing for TV sounds??) - that would fall in to intercepting communications I feel.
> how an opinion [...] is callous and myopic?

There have been hundreds of thousands of words written on how simple utilities can form the basis of supportable, complex systems and still retain the ability to be comprehensible. He has dismissed all that as beneath consideration, and he has the One True Vision™ on how Unix should be architected.

Don't get me wrong, hubris and self-righteousness have given us great things: GNU, OpenBSD, qmail, etc. But I don't think anyone would accuse rms or theo or djb of not being callous and myopic.
It's not really that weird, though; both behaviors are a result of a lack of maturity dealing with the subject, as taboos often are.

In a comparable situation, the Catholic countries which were/are more devoted (and often fanatic, such as in the Inquisition) are also the ones that have the most blasphemous slang and insults. Spain in particular has a whole host of them involving religious figures (God, the Virgin Mary, etc) and scatological acts.
I've been using Neo4j for around 3 months, but I'm unconvinced by the "graph" model as having any significant advantage over the relational model. A graph can be trivially modelled relationally as a "vertex" table and an "edge" table. A particular problem I have with the graph model is that edges cannot be referenced by other entries in the database; thus the schema designer must prefer using vertices to model all concepts, in case future data has to make reference to it.

The "graph model" was, in the 60s and 70s, called the "network model" [1]. This is the environment in which Codd introduced the relational model [2], where he wrote:

> In previous work there has been a strong tendency to treat the data in a data bank as consisting of two parts, one part consisting of entity descriptions (for example, descriptions of suppliers) and the other part consisting of relations between the various entities or types of entities (for example, the supply relation). This distinction is difficult to maintain when one may have foreign keys in any relation whatsoever. In the user’s relational model there appears to be no advantage to making such a distinction (there may be some advantage, however, when one applies relational concepts to machine representations of the user’s set of relationships).

It's quite funny that after the elegance of Codd's work, we're thinking about going back to the network model and all its problems. If we're going to consider that, we need very good reasons, but I haven't seen any.

I do see some features of Cypher as nice compared to SQL. Specifically those features that implement graph algorithms (e.g. shortest path). I do think there is space in the relational world for languages other than SQL. For example, it is disappointing that no relational databases implement Datalog as a query language. However, it is important not to conflate "SQL" and "the relational model".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_model
[2]: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
He mentioned kernel, c libraries, and "all the tools". Well, kernel is in one repository. The (gnu) c library is in one repository. The tools, well the category of stuff like "ls" and "cat" is afaik in one repository. In similar manner, he seems to think that systemd should manage the set of most crucial processes of the base system.

I am not saying that he is correct, I am just interpreting!
More details on this part of the story:

https://medium.com/@krogsgard/the-story-teehan-lax-isnt-tell...

So about 40 people from their company aren't included in the deal.
Good point. There also is the case that a lower salary might make the person more likely to try side products to supplement income. Perhaps my original thought here was a reach.
Hotplug isn't the job of systemd to begin with, though. It's the job of the device manager, which on Linux is usually udev (but alternatives like eudev, mdev, smdev and vdev exist) - udev being a part of the systemd repository and to an extent coupled with it (which will become complete when kdbus is merged into mainline Linux), however it's still a rather distinct piece of software that maintains the hardware database and listens to kernel uevents.

So if your init system is handling hotplug events, then that's some bad design. systemd doesn't stoop that low, though it still has plenty of mistakes - like putting the INI parser in PID1. As an example, even Apple put launchd's XML parser as a separate process!
Can't agree with that purely for the fact that Google is in the game of providing sly information. You think that HTTPS ranking factor blog didn't have ulterior motives? You think that the disavow tool info isn't just crowdsourcing spam info?

Simple rule for SEO or any online marketing is 'always test for yourself.' be it Google's info you're working off or Search Engine Journals. Blogs can provide a good starting point for non-professional SEOs who don't have the time or resources to do external domain tests. I've been in the game over 7 years now, Moz has always been a good resource.
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"So there was, in fact, a PR campaign."

Er, how do you think the Systemd developers convinced these technical teams to use Systemd? With bribes? Sexual favours? Or perhaps, you know, using the software itself?

It's funny. The lead developers of Arch Linux, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mageia, Debian etc. etc. etc. have all chosen to use Systemd. Yet for some reason, many commentators assume these people -- distro technical leads -- simply don't have a clue, and have switched their projects to Systemd because Lennart is somehow forcing it on them.

All these distro developers, people a LOT smarter than me, and putting in more work than me, have chosen Systemd. That says a lot to me, and I'm not going to judge them. I'm still on the fence about a lot of Systemd, but to say that major distros have switched because of "PR campaigns" is ridiculous.
>> Then we convinced the Fedora Technical Committee to adopt it, and then Red Hat internal management accepted it for RHEL, and we managed to convince every committee that mattered, bit by bit.

> So there was, in fact, a PR campaign.

So, how would you spread a piece of software without convincing people of it?

I'm not sure what's bad about it?
One potential option is using one of the JRuby 1.7.x releases, which still supports the Ruby 1.8 language level. You'll be able to use all the JVM tools, such as VisualVM, which offer similar functionality.
I want to point that in fact Go is extremely performant on EC2 for every tests and average on Peak. So with that and all its features, it seems that Go is an awesome solution for startups.

And then Java when you start to be quite big.
That's the best apart about having a community like this. When a focus/problem gets presented it wields such a massive amount of force/man-hours to attack the problem
It's just calories in vs. calories burned, nothing more nothing less.

Why does everyone make it more complicated than this?

Of course not consuming calories for half the day (does sleep count or not? I couldn't tell from the article), as compared to those who do, helps you not gain weight.
So does this mean no more call center and customer support from across the globe? I think both offers some benefits and disadvantages. The primary reason why companies use to outsource is cost which is relatively cheap if you get it from countries like India.
I was reading earlier about the wikipedia page for "The Society of Spectacle" and this might be relevant here:

> The Society of the Spectacle is a critique of contemporary consumer culture and commodity fetishism. Before the term "globalization" was popularized, Debord was arguing about issues such as class alienation, cultural homogenization, and the mass media.

Also:

> "The spectacle is not a collection of images," Debord writes, "rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
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> My roommate turned on CNN

Author clearly has a TV. The post is about the news.
A lot of European countries have license fees to cover public broadcasting.
What window times do you use? I want to try this but I can't seem to cut out night eating.
Also, patents OR a deposit of a relevant source code to the author registry (SIAE). this is really easy to achieve at almost no cost at all.
I am surprised to hear that you consider 16 m^2 small. In Norway, the vast majority of rooms that you can rent from the semi-public student welfare organizations are roughly 7-13 m^2. If you want a bigger living space, you'll either have to shell out for a full-fledged apartment (not affordable for a student unless you have a good part-time job or a "bad" part-time job and make sacrifices with regards to entertainment and alcohol). If you decide to rent a private room or apartment, you will probably get a few more square metres, but will run the risk of an asshole landlord who might steal your deposit, living with people who are not studying and have no plans to do so, and if you're slightly unfortunate there might be mold in your bedroom and/or bathroom as well. The best option is possibly buying an apartment, but that's not possible without heavy monetary support from family or lots of saved-up money from working for years before studying.

All in all, 16 m^2 is definitely on the high end when I look at the private rooms my student friends live in. I probably know more people who live in 5-6 m^2 than live in > 16 m^2 rooms.

With regards to the state of university campuses, it's not even worthwhile to compare private American universities with massive endowments to European public universities (i.e. most European universities) that get all their money from the government, and not one cent more than they need. Why would the government spend millions on campus landscaping when they can move the money to more worthy budgetary posts like health or kindergartens? Private universities in the US and elsewhere simply do not have these restrictions.
No one on the other side of your statement considers the failures, just the successes.
If someone is completely terrified of even attempting a free throw, then there's no sense in worrying whether they sink the shot. Until that terror is overcome, the fact that they try at all is a success.
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Can't argue with this really. We're viewed as the used car salesman of the Internet. In fact the majority of us who work for larger brands and don't engage in black hat stuff are really just multi-disciplined online marketers. SEO is dead, long live SEO.
You're digging at that "everyone is unique" vibe, or "everybody wins." I don't really think it's relevant.

I think when people say that, it's typically along the lines of "that person is very [attractive|smart|rich|combo] and could have any of millions of partners at will. I'm unremarkable in all [perceivable|probably-important-to-them] ways, so it's an extreme longshot to pursue them."

Doesn't mean they're not wrong. Everyone has a chance, sure--Beauty and the Beast, right? But they might want to optimize for "people in their league," especially if the fear of rejection is in them like the guy in OP.

...back on topic!
To quote Michael Jordan:

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

Willingness to fail is a precondition for learning and growth.
He's JUST NOW REALIZING this? Modern comics are the most sexually objectifying medium in the world, second only to straight pornography.

I always thought it was fucked up, even as a kid, how crazily unrealistic and sexualized comics were. Like, I knew it was wrong that women were being portrayed this way. But I still bought the comics of course.

If you think the way women are portrayed in video games and comics is normal, you are honestly messed up. The most scary thing about this article is that it took him this long to figure this out.
You must be under the age of 25 or so.

Please believe as you age, gaining weight will get easier and easier.
Having a daughter will teach you a lot of things, and give you more perspectives. Music lyrics, YouTube videos, ads on the billboard/bus, cartoons and even comics. They'll notice. And you'll notice them noticing.
> No, there aren't. It is not possible for a system which is opt-in to get off the ground.

Opt-in was your assumption. Even so, that statement is trivially proven false. Facebook is opt-in by nature of needing an account. There's plenty of adoption.

> No one is calling such things "useless". They have plenty of "uses". I'm calling them disastrous, and abusive, and privacy-invasive.

Well, a statement close to calling AR useless (for these situations) farther up-thread is what started this.

I think the world will just adapt as needed to the new reality. Too easy to identify someone when in public? The public will adapt norms that make that harder. Right now we have assumed implicit anonymity, which isn't really anonymity at all in many circumstances. I'm not sure moving to a situation where people think about anonymity and how much of it they want when going about their lives, and then taking steps to try to achieve that level is entirely all bad. To be sure, it's got it's downsides, but I don't think ignoring the upsides and assuming that society will stay static while all this changes is unrealistic.