skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although, "being your own boss" seems a very pleasing thing but quite possibly, you could have a steady line of work after investing some time in building relationships, one of the aspect which seems a little daunting is - boredom due to grunt work.

Most of the non-technical people would want to build a simple site with simple functionality and after sometime it is bound to get repetitive. Pay could be one of the motivating factor but would it be motivating enough to continue it for many years? Certainly, such complains can also be made about startup jobs but there are certain problems related to scaling and optimization that always give excitement and satisfaction.

There are a few very successful consultants whose skill-sets are just too awesome for a full time job and they have a steady line exciting work but probably, that would require knowledge of the deepest sort in certain fields like scaling, or statistics.
Please add a note to that £650 - financial experience required.
I can pull £800 with Scala and Java.

Though I am not about to sell my soul for the £200 difference to spend that on psychotherapy afterwards.
Another vote for Fastspring from a happy customer. Their support is top notch.
The plan is to integrate the features from Colaboratory back into IPython, but it will probably take a couple more releases.
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"We decided to write a detailed report about the encryption and how we use it and will publish the report soon via Twitter."

That doesn't sound like releasing the source code...
Not sure which part of the UK you are talking about, certainly not London and the City in particular.
I wish journalism would just stop trying to present themselves as non biased mediums which only act as conduits but are afraid to "lead the witness". Strop trying to be impartial, ask pointed questions when people answer. Use follow up questions.

They try to pretend to be fair by allowing people to make any claim without having to face criticism. And to be sure they do this with progressive ideas as well as conservative ideas and outrageous ideas. Please call people out when they are being idiots. Don't just standby and say we'll let the audience decide. Sometimes you have to take the bull by the horns.

Here unscrupulous anti-competitive behavior needs to be checked and these people pilloried for using terrorism as a knee jerk weapon against competition.
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>The Demonstration against TTIP with roughly 50.000 attendees in Berlin a few weeks ago received no news

Wait, what? I'm on the mailing list of stop-ttip.org and had no idea. How can I be sure to get notified of any scheduled demo in my area?
I've been using Thunderbird for almost 10 years now and I literally never had a crash or unexpected behaviour. Once the e-mail accounts are created, everything just works. Software that is this pleasant to use is very rare. It is the only reasonable free e-mail client that I know of. Why I use thunderbird and not a web based client? I have multiple e-mail addresses and it's nice to have everything in one place, also it's accessible if you're offline.

My only nitpick about Thunderbird: If you want to search for a message, you have to go through the menus "Edit->Find". I don't like that for two reasons, a search is not an operation that edits anything so that's really a wrong classification. And searching is not equal to finding. Maybe my search has no results. "Find" is the wrong word here (the equality of searching and finding is a very widespread misconception in software).
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If simply expressing a point of view is propaganda, we're all propaganda sources.

The mainstream media expresses plenty of opinions the government doesn't share. Consider Fox News during the Obama administration.
When I saw this was a PHP project: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31250/gifs/no-thanks.gif
PayMill, Braintree and Stripe for Europe; eWay or Pin for Australia and, 2Checkout or Worldpay for everywhere else.
I assume you can open issues on or send PR to https://github.com/clarkgrubb/hyperpolyglot
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Which company did your friend go to? The adware companies often times don't explain that they're adware to new recruits. And the pay, benefits, and perks are usually really good.

Regarding investors, I wonder if they just don't understand.
Really? What does the language it's written in have to do with anything at all here?
If that's the case, then there is still hope for Ruby enthusiasts. PHP has come out the other end, mostly by splitting into separate communities that only have the language in common.

The issue with Ruby is that it is so tightly associated with simple architecture of Rails. Nothing wrong with Rails in itself, but for many complex projects that require architectural solutions Rails doesn't support, Rails + inexperienced devs usually results in spaghetti code.

Ruby is fine, but RoR is toxic.
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The conservative choice of PHP 5.2 as the minimum requirement for WordPress doesn't stop performance sensitive sites using later versions of PHP, or HHVM, or Phalanger, or whatever floats their boat.

Indeed, only 30% of WordPress installs use PHP 5.2.

Runtime features are not a problem for WordPress users.

If you think the minimum requirement is limiting potential for optimisation, what are some relevant language and library features in subsequent versions that the WordPress team can’t use?
Burnt in the sense that businesses hired people who claimed to have solid development experience, who claimed they could build robust maintainable systems, who claimed they could solve real business problems, who then turned out to be a lot less spectacular or solid than first thought, who believed the solution to every problem or design phase was to simply add more gems into the mix, who changed the whole state of the codebase because one luminary in the ruby world posted a blog article about how the hot thing on that day was to use pattern x instead of pattern y for designing your models vs controllers.

Most businesses are technology agnostic - they don't care what we use, if, if we deliver robust technically sound solutions. But when they trust developers, who fail to deliver, they mark the technology choice as well, to avoid getting similar problems in the future.
SageMathCloud is a completely new thing, which is much more comprehensive than either the IPython notebook or the previous Sage notebook. It provides the ability to run arbitrary services and connect to them, and provides a very easy way to launch an IPython notebook server. Log in, create a project, click "New", and then click "IPython notebook". It starts up an IPython notebook server (patched to allow collaborative editing) and tunnels the connection out so that you are interacting with the IPython notebook server it started up. Beyond that, it has a completely new Sage notebook, terminal, latex editor (all allowing real-time collaboration), automatic snapshots every few minutes, and many more things.
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No, there are not. There are a lot of ads with those rates, but most roles are ~ £450. Please note that a single contract goes out to many agencies that post the same contract, so you might think that there is a lot of £600+ roles. While in reality there is a lot of people posting the same role X^N times.

Some of those posts are not even real roles - new guys in agencies need to collect a lot of CVs, so they post bogus £600 contract and collect your CVs as "stuffing" for their "portfolio"

£700 are rates for an experienced core Java developer with investment banking or FX experience.
> Why I use thunderbird and not a web based client? I have multiple e-mail addresses and it's nice to have everything in one place, also it's accessible if you're offline.

This is quite easy to do in Gmail (and presumably other webmail clients) with forwarding.
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I doubt why this was flagged. I checked out the demo and it's not bad. Can you add some more description in the title? You have 80 characters..
I agree. The media IS big business, owned by even bigger business, and that's their point of view.
This is definitely true, I also experienced that problem.

As a work-around, the quick filter search seemed to work better for me.
Is it perhaps Learn X in Y Minutes[0]?

[0]: http://learnxinyminutes.com/
>Didn't VISA Master Card and Paypal get fined for blocking wikileaks recently?

Yeah, in Iceland. http://www.wired.com/2012/07/wikileaks-visa-blockade/
Thanks. Added the description
CBC mode by itself is insecure.
It's clear that either English is not your first language, or you are not familiar with the culture of youths and young professionals in the US. This may present a problem since that appears to be your target demographic.

1. You don't need to put "TM" everywhere, especially not on the main logo of your website and in forum posts. Notice how nobody else does this. It looks out-of-touch and off-putting to most people.

2. "Motorcrossing" is not a thing, nobody says that. For one, it's "moto" without the 'r'. Second, it is not commonly said in gerund form. This is just one issue with choosing to focus on the "-ing" suffix. Baseballing? Soccering? Photographing? They just don't make sense that way.

3. Another issue is the way that form modifies the base words. The way you highlight it on your site changes "diving" to "div-ing," which is strange. This is because the word "dive" is not fully preserved. Same goes for "dat-ing."

4. "Inging" is not something I would likely say out loud. Similarly, "What is your *ing?" is awkward. Personally I think it would be very difficult to build an
identity and community around "ing," not to be attempted unless you have a strong grasp on cultural linguistic trends.

5. The parallax scroll of the top image does not work well on iOS. On chrome it does not move until the scrolling stops, and on safari it is very janky.
This is my experience as well. I have seen horrible code bases on rails projects and horrible projects in java and .net etc.

Funny thing is a lot of the projects that were a mess because the devs could not manage the pressure the businesses put on them which made for some real bad decisions. The devs themselves were actually pretty good and knew the code base had gotten out of hand.

So now whenever someone says "oh this company wont use X because they got burned by those programmers" my internal alarms instantly start going off that the problem is more than likely the managers of the business.
unfortunately (for Australia at least) the camel is in no danger of disappearing, it is a very serious pest of the inland desert areas. The number of camels which range through inland arid areas is now around the 1 million mark. They are very destructive too, being able to reach much higher and eat tougher plants than any other native animals.
IE invented that. and ie + visual studio to debug JavaScript is years ahead of both chromium and Firefox. does that mean you should now love ie?
Datacell filed a lawsuit in December for the blockade, but I doubt it has been decided yet.
So... If I give you some binaries.. would you even care?
LinkedIn is a tool to connect to random people without a reason. I get the same thing and yet I got all of my contracts through people I know, not some random time-wasters from eSynergySolutions, PeopleSource and other crap.
Why complicate with multiple files, functions, defines and includes; here it is in one file with a single define:

http://pastebin.com/uWSs7ca7

We can improve the macro further by removing the unnecessary if statement and the index number:

http://pastebin.com/vPTTYPpe
Very annoying that the latest versions on the release channel 31.5.0 still shows nothing on standard calendar invites. Yes, I might install a big ass plugin, but what about just showing me the stuff that is actually in the email (that can easily be verified with "view source")? It's been like this for ages as well. Not very promising unfortunately.
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what's the difference of Firefox doing something vs Firefox enabling people to do something?

the later is actually even better.

also, Firefox has venkman before all that.

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I'm sure that's also true but plenty are real. I know devs in London who are on those rates. And yeah, the Java roles are usually banks.
A big problem I've encountered was MySQL-specific functions used in client code.

Fortunately there was a project that reimplemented many of these functions in Postgres:

https://github.com/pornel/mysqlcompat
.Net is awesome. There's no need to apologize for working on a really powerful stack and making good money doing it. I've worked on Rails and Node projects, and they don't compare favorably to the power and robustness and usability of .Net. And I'd choose .Net over Java every time, even for a little less pay. .Net is hitting a really sweet spot these days.
Yeah, because Kim Dotcom has always been such a reliable and standup guy.
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That sounds like a lot! What sort of firms are offering these positions?
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I read it to say "we received this report from a senator with a list of company names, and found MEGA, a company that we do substantial business with is on that report."

PayPal is perhaps not obligated to "not do business with" the entities listed on that report, perhaps some day, but they chose to not do business with this one and make a big public stink about it (together with MEGA), and whatever the report of that senator actually says (whoever's payroll he's on?), they chose to make their and MEGA' sides of the fight about this one thing, rather than about piracy or cp or whatever one thing ($$) motivated that actual senator's report.

I wouldn't say anything as silly as "I trust paypal", but if we can start having this conversation sooner it will be a step in the right direction, IMHO. Encryption is here to stay!

Not sure if this is what you mean by convenient piling on.
For anyone that found this interesting, the website is a magazine focused on the Arab world. They have over 50 years of articles similar to this on their site. Interestingly, it is completely payed for by Aramco, the oil company.
NO NO NO. Thunderbird is an email client, it should look and work like an email client. Yes the functionality could be improved (as mentioned below search has some issues) but this isn't a UI issue.

Why programs insist on an UI update every so often - well commerical programs to convince you to buy a new license.

Tool makers don't go, every few years "hey we have this spanner, it looks like a spanner, works well as a spanner, lets redesign it so it no longer looks like a spanner, doesn't work as good as the old spanner but maybe we can convince people to buy it again"
PBKDF2 is still the gold standard for converting a password to an encryption key, right? bcrypt has some desirable properties, but it has a fixed output length of 192 bits.
+1 to davmail proxy; it is incredibly important to my productivity. I actually donated some money to the developer, but I should do it again.

The davmail code even handles Outlook having two-factor auth enabled, e.g. it'll recognize the extra form field, ask you to enter your token once, and then keep the session open, just like keeping the webapp loaded in your browser tab.
Best email client out there, hands down. I use GMail on the web for quick checks, but it's impossible to do serious email management in GMail. If you're serious about managing your email, you need a real email client and Thunderbird is the best I've seen. VERY happy to hear it continues to grow, and thank you very very much to those who continue to hack on / maintain it.
and if we know PayPal, they are still letting the charges go thru, use the money for a couple days and then send the user a in-site only warning about not forwarding it.
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Have you talked with Aether (http://www.getaether.net) / Burak Nehbit, about decentralization, proof-of-work, and end-to-end encryption?

Matrix's social tools might parallel well together.
C macros are powerful.
and applauded everywhere else...
I've already done that once, and I'm still doing it as hard as I can.
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An offhand tech+philosophical reason would be the environmental impact of bitcoin mining.
Curious it doesn't mention C11's __Generic macro. A very nice way to achieve a lot of useful "overloading" behavior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11_%28C_standard_revision%29
+1

Will add no adverts, no 1000s of ajax calls trying to show things unrelated to email, does one thing and does it well, works well on slow connections, does load one day and require me to understand the new UI moving mails to tabs or whatever that stupid thing gmail did a while back, No harvesting of my mails

Question is, why do people use webmail instead of thunderbird
There was but the last commit is from 2011?
No, they don't ban Gmail in particular, they banned all non-NIC email providers in general. This is not a focused ban, it's a general ban. Obviously they want to have editorial control over government employee generated information.
They are angry at anyone that does the same as them, nuclear bombs, invasions, crypto backdoors, you name it.
Another solution, which seems to be missing is to use function pointers; process_image could receive a pointer to given function instead of n. My experiences with gcc show, that functions passed by pointer are often inlined, which is not really a surprise, since they are constant arguments of the function.

Here is an example [0], although the wrapper functions seem to be redundant in this case.

[0] http://pastebin.com/BAgm61S8
How much / what sort of financial experience is required?
That's when I've migrated ;)

The code is even older, but fortunately the most common MySQL functions haven't changed in maybe a decade.
No. It's not. Lipogenesis won't happen if your body is in a catabolic state which you get by a caloric deficit.

You don't need to use a fancy model. Fructose is more likely to be used as liver fat. But, that doesn't mean it's impossible to lose weight.
Rates in london for developers are usually under 500 day for non-finance, and anywhere between 500-700 for finance, and maybe 700-800 if you have some quant dev work in finance.
You can get higher rates outside dev, for example Project Mgr is around 700 day, and Programme Mgr around 900 day.

Occasionally, there are much higher rates (1k-2k) for very short urgent roles, but not that common.
The author also wrote the book "The Camel and the Wheel", also in the 1970s. There's a 2010 interview of him at http://bwog.com/2010/10/09/professor-interviews-just-camels-... .

My first thought on reading the link concerned the iron chariots mentioned in the Bible ("And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."; Judges 1:19.) I figured I was missing something when I saw he was a history professor. The interview clarifies it further in that he knew the same reference, which got him to wonder why the word "wheel" wasn't in medieval Arabic.
> Lots of coffee turns me into a highly alert rambler.

not good for health if done daily.
Tim Cook says terrorism should not scare people into giving up their privacy
Doing business in India is, apparently, really hard.

http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/india

They come 142nd out of 189 countries!

The Indian railway ticketing system is bafflingly terrible.

I'd love to hear from people who live there about what it's like, and if there's any chance it can turn around. It's kind of surprising to me that India is not much more powerful than it is.
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"Nevertheless, this is still a few order of magnitude better than C++ templating."

Uh... no. On a personal level, I have always found that almost any type of preprocessor magic, especially re-#including with a different set of parameters in effect is a recipe for disaster.

Any use of the pre-processor seems to have a serious impact on the build-system (tracking parallel variants), the IDE (color, intellisense or auto-completion), the debugger, and apparently any tool that operates at the meta-level.

On the other hand, IDEs and debuggers often also have problems with C++ templates as well.
Am I crazy to think that the result has generally been better with templates?

I think we would better off without any of this. We should: - discard the preprocessor,
- expanding and tightening control on templating), and
- migrating towards more conventional module import methods, such as http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Modules.html (instead of #include, unless you can fix IWYU).
> but PayPal has advised that MEGA's "unique encryption model" presents an insurmountable difficulty.

> Well, the part about encryption is in quotes and attributed to PayPal.

Putting 3 words in quotes, attributing them to someone, not providing the full communication (i.e., without context), and generating a sweeping conclusion from all that, is a clear sign that someone is producing a false narrative.

People that have the truth on their side don't need to do that.

> ISPs make lots of money off piracy too. They shouldn't be cut off from Visa or MasterCard either.

I seriously doubt that people sign up with their ISP so they can pirate vs. getting a general internet connection to browse Facebook. But that's a moot point since ISPs, fiber carriers, etc, just provide connections and transit, they don't generally host anything.

Complaining about ISPs making a profit from piracy is like complaining about highways and roads making a profit from people that commit crimes and use cars. It does not make sense.

I have no idea how bad the piracy is via Mega, but considering their previous business was driven by piracy, outright promoted and rewarded piracy, and generated 400MM from piracy, I think it's wise to take everything said and done with some salt.
Here it actually matters a bit. The pgloader project was rewritten in Common Lisp from the original Python version to speed up processing the data. You want to be able to migrate terabyte databases without too much downtime.
> our next major release, which will be Thunderbird 38 in May 2015

Thunderbird releases go like 24->31->38...
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Jerry Pournelle frequently comments that the invention of the horse collar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_collar) was one of the most consequential ones in history. Here we have a similar move from oxen to something more efficient.
"I'm sure that's also true but plenty are real."
Plenty are, but not as many. There are a few teams in London and they usually stick together and for long term. And a lot of them don't get filled fast, because they are looking for very strong specific experience.

My most well paid contract was awarded to me after the job was open for 3 months - Thales e-Security HSM API specialist.
It appears that number was an overestimate, says http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/18/australia... . It's around 300K now, after culling. It looks like it was 600K before culling, says http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-21/feral-camel-culling-re... .
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