skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Puerto Rico has a unique relationship with the U.S. when it comes to taxes. A Puerto Rico corporation can do business with a U.S. corp and not pay any U.S. taxes. The employees of the PR corp that are residents in PR only pay PR taxes not IRS taxes.

I posted my email address to another comment here. If you are interested send me an email and I will put you in contact with a tax accountant here and a few others that work on this.
> As the name implies, before Wheat Ridge was a suburb of Denver

> Despite the nostalgia, everyone pretty much hated the farm because it dragged down land values and contributed little tax income to the city compared to the ~40 or so houses that are now replacing it.

Only 40 houses? Do you realize how much "everyone pretty much hate"s suburbanite breeders like you?
There is not such as excessive amount of a top predator, top predators avoid this being territorial and having less cubs.
But you can only use efs with ec2, which doesn't support osx.
I understand why you would only want to owe 1 person $1000, but I think you see more ideas funded as the number of funding providers increases. My dislike of large banks is totally a bias here, but I'd like to think more funding options = superior to a single decision maker.
Having worked for a major bank for several years, the way huge deals like this get placed isn't too far removed from crowdfunding, it's just that the dollar amounts are higher and the participants are big institutions instead of individuals.

I was on the deal team for a $1.4bn capital raise and probably 20 or so $100mm-$500mm raises, and the way it happens (for bond and equity issues anyway) is there's a brief marketing period and then a bunch of sales guys get on the phone, call all their institutional accounts, get commitments from them, and the deal is done. It's amazing how quickly it happens. And the fees we earn on these deals are ludicrous. I think there's no way the banks don't get disintermediated.
Interesting - thanks.

[Edit] - The ketogenic diet is interesting. And I can see how some would want to substitute sugar for an artificial sweetener to help achieve a low carb diet. But given Aspartame is a known trigger for many types of seizures, it should be introduced carefully.
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, great read!
Not to mention that fresh venison can be excellent when prepared correctly. The argument for more people "harvesting" their meat for the season can be expanded upon.
I would rate big companies i.e. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and startups all at tier two places of work, when you take social and pressures of work into consideration. Good companies to work for are any that 1) do something you are interested in. 2) Don't require you to work longer than 40 hours a week.

The problem I see is big companies, and startups is the amount time they require their employees to work, which is normally over 40 hours and can be upwards of 60 hours average per week.

Paying 100k at 40 hours a week is $48 an hour.

Paying 100k at 60 hours a week is $32 an hour.

I work with undergrads always tell my best students to avoid Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google companies. Longer hours means more stress. Big companies get employees to work longer by offering food and games at work. I tell them find a company that does cool stuff and only asks for 40 hours a week. I tell them I know working for interesting research companies getting paid $80k and working ~30 hours a week. Which is getting paid more per hour than the person working at a company earning 100k and doing 60 hours per week.

I checked up and Google isn't too bad from what I can see online. Some say 40[1] Others say 50-60 [2] Places like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft are worse places to work.

[1] http://mashable.com/2012/05/10/reddit-users-google/

[2] http://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-a-day-do-Google-employee...
Can't edit, so here's an explanation.

I didn't mean to say that I fixed the grammar. I meant it as in there could actually be a microchip in your brain right now. The tech exists.
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- Mort, Terry Pratchett

The first Pratchett book I've read, and I can't believe I've waited so long to read his work. Humorous in a Douglas Adams sort of way.

- Arabian Nights, Haddawy translation

This is a great read. The translation is modern and clear, and the stories are exciting. I can understand why these stories have been around for centuries.
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(Edit: Doh! Scooped by falsedan. His is shorter and probably more readable. :) In my defense, I tried it to make sure this works.)

What I found via SO [0] was in the context of routing things to dev/null instead of stdout, but you appear to be able to route to whatever you need to:

;; Setup: A bash scropt printed 'wat' every second,
;; redirected to /dev/null

;; Attach to the process in question using gdb:
gknoy$ sudo gdb 15488

;; Use '1' as the open flag, for write-only
(gdb) p dup2(open("/tmp/wat.log",1),1)
$1 = 1
(gdb) detach
Detaching from program: /bin/bash, process 15488
(gdb) quit

gknoy$ cat /tmp/wat.log
wat
wat
wat

0: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/593724/redirect-stderr-st...
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It would be challenging to tell the difference between a legitimate but resource-hungry site and a malicious one. In the former case, the user may in fact want the site to page everything else out to get the job done.

In any case, DoS attacks exist yet don't seem to be a big problem in practice, probably because there's not much in it for the attacker.
You mean to tell me smart watches are a gimmick? No way!
Needs to work every few years for each domain. Unless all your certificates expire at the same time (or you only have a few), this will be triggered a few times per year.

And moreover, your scenario is essentially "worst case: fall back to previous behavior." That's not too bad...
It cuts off one avenue by which a foreign country might gain useful information from within American companies. China in particular is notorious for their industrial espionage.
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Meditation, fasting, cleaning / organizing, exercise. Never intended to do it old school, but that is how it turned out, interestingly enough.
The pricing is $10 per load to do wash/dry/fold and extra $10 if you want pickup/delivery. For example, 2 loads with pickup would be $20 (for laundry) + $10 (for delivery), total of $30.
Hey, I think I met you there, was with my buddy Kevin (looks like an Asian version of Hurley from Lost). Kohub and Lanta was a blast. Hope to see you there next year too.
* "Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life", Joe De Sena;

Great thoughts on life, by creator of the Spartan Race.

* "Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World", Mark Williams, Danny Penman;

Meditation excercies plan for mindfulness, which gives different view on everyday life. Also considered as a good therapy for apathy, depression etc.

* "Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography", Bear Grylls;

Great stories from former SAS member and adventurer.
That incentive to horde is baked into the system.

Once there's a significantly better cryptocoin protocol and a clean slate begins as the incentive in the BTC network is lost to the newer coin, BTC will flatline.
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Apparently you still have to create an account on their website...

And at 15usd/year that is infinitively more expensive than lets encrypt.

So while I might use it today, I don't see how they plan to have much of a future.
And yet "there was something romantic about having the one of the last farms in Wheat Ridge right next to my neighborhood"??

Hypocrite.
I don't know about you but this makes me incredibly nervous; I have mentioned before there probably is some inefficiency in taxi medallions, but uber is also doing things like ignoring government regulations wholesale (see Germany), potentially breaking labor laws, and may exist to the detriment of the public as a whole. If you recall 2007/2008 the banks got in big trouble because they were doing legally questionable things (sub-prime lending, etc). If the means by which tech start ups get ahead of Wall Street is by subverting the spirit of the law even more so than Wall Street does currently, the precedent and consequences that would come of this would be rather awful and most unnerving.
In some dialects, "then" and "than" are pronounced identically, so it is reasonable that they might be confused.
Certainly, there are solutions for each, but glasses seem to be the only universal solution so far.
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Thanks!

(weird, still doesn't show in the menu)
I can't stop thinking that this seemingly nice story is in fact the story of a failure. How many employees did learn Thai? How many did decide there was no better place for them and stayed there? How many did find their so in this island? Why didn't the whole team stay there indefinitely?

I say that as a French who decided ten years ago that China was my place, learnt the language, married a Chinese woman and have kids and job in Beijing with no special return plan.
Thanks for the advice ! To be done ASAP.
Metamorphoses by Ovid: a bunch of Roman/Greek myths, many are common references in all kinds of stories

Probability by Pitman: its embarrassing I never took this course in college. This is the book used for intro stats/probability at Berkeley

Code Complete: honestly I don't understand the hype around this book. There's good info, but its so sparse, I feel like I only get something good every 20-30 pages and the thing is like 800 pages total.
GP's point was that glasses do everything. Nobody is going to port flux to your lightbulb, or TV. ;)

Why install N pieces of software when 1 piece of hardware will do?
Where do you work, if I may ask? This kind of arrangement would actually make living near and working in SF tolerable. No traffic getting into/out of the city at those times.
Profit is oxygen
> It's a figure of speech, not a cultural reference.

Yes, but it looks like the author thought they were being clever by using that specific phrase, given the article was about China.
This is really a powerful product, and it shows the wisdom and work in Amazon's product/market research.

Outside of the world of startups and young companies who "grew up" in the world of cloud-based solutions, there is a large ecosystem of more traditional enterprises who still have a lot on-premise computing.

These companies have a lot of lock in: Racks of physical on-site servers, Sharepoint-based access control, custom hardware and clusters for everything from large file storage to compliance metadata, and custom software built around this infrastructure.

Of those, one of the biggest lock-in dependencies I've seen is NFS. Not just because NFS one of the oldest protocols, but because of the nature of the NFS abstraction. Fundamentally, software that assumes a filesystem is shared, globally mounted, and read/write is very hard to adapt to a cloud solution. Many times, it requires re-writing the software, or coming up with a NFS shim (such as a FUSE solution) that is so underperforming it blocks usage.

If AWS implements this correctly, this could provide the cost/performance balance to potentially move such a solution completely to AWS. This would eliminate not just large amounts of physical overhead for these companies, but the productivity costs that come with the downtime that inevitably occurs when you don't have good redundancy.

These companies (and the industries they comprise) are trying to find out how best to leverage Amazon. Recently, even more conservative industries, such as Law, are becoming more aware of AWS and other cloud-based solutions. Lets hope that solutions like this, that bridge the old with the new, can empower that transition so we can all feel better about how our software is managed.
Any reason you couldn't just have me enter the credit card info in the app?
"The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr. I'm halfway through it. The main thesis of the book is that the Internet has quickly modified our brain (neuro-plasticity) so that we absorb information quickly but we don't get deep into any topic any longer.

The book start strong with this thesis and then goes into a very interesting detour on the history of writing, from the egyptian to Gutemberg all the way to Vint Cerf.

Very well researched book and well written.
This is a worthwhile thought exercise. I'm not sure why people are down-voting you.

I thought about it some and I think the difference is that for humans, we have other less horrible choices than animals.

Our choices aren't (a) get eaten by wolves or (b) starve to death (c) get shot by a hunter

At end of life we humans can get palliative care for example. I sympathize with your rebellion if you will, against the cruel choices nature has presented the other denizens of our planet. However, one must consider the reality not what we simply wish the reality was unfortunately.
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I take 5mg every weeknight as a insomnia treatment. I start getting sleepy about 45-60 minutes after taking it. If I fall asleep then, I'll sleep the entire night.
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Exactly. There is literally no market I could enter that IBM doesn't have some presence in.
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Wow, had no idea about the history of the scottish dilemma but it makes sense. Thanks!
No, I'm pointing out that people's worst fear is happening in front of their nose already.
Careful. I just checked and the cheap certificates are for 3 years.
This could be a byproduct of what they developed for Aurora (their upcoming redesigned mysql) shared storage. Probably the other way around.
Yep, that was me! Looks like Kevin is still there, saw some photos of him on the Kohub Facebook page last week.
It makes me uncomfortable too. But sometimes I think it's important to read things that make me uncomfortable. It forces me to think through my knee-jerk reactions.
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Big data as "Fear Factor - eating special" ... Well its a catchy description.

Honestly I hope we end up in a world where "big data" doesn't have a "victor", that sounds like the end state of the matrix, only its either google or facebook that won...
The author is a master. I first encountered his byline when trying to debug a Makefile (that I had written!), and came across his article in DDJ (http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/debugging-makefiles/197003338). It was invaluable, because I had been stuck between using make -d and @echo "building foo now", and I hadn't wanted to admit I was actually debugging and so I needed some specialized tools. I'm sure the book is excellent.
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First, there is no way I'm going to put my several hundred dollar smart phone/tablet on the sink, especially with my not exactly neat or careful 7 year old.

Second, this won't fit on his Sonicare. It already has a timer and plays musical notes though, so I don't see that we would want this anyway.
That article has a lot of fear mongering about artificial sweeteners and then at the bottom an ad for "certifiedorganicevaporatedcanejuice.com". Maybe it's not the most objective source of information?
How is Hushmail still on this list?

Link: http://www.wired.com/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

edit: add link
The document touches on something that I think is profound and prescient, about the future of government in the face of tech: Giant, monolithic government may not be sustainable as technology enables more and more direct personal involvement of all kinds of activities. If I can use an app to connect me directly with someone in a car to get a ride home, why can't I use an app to connect me directly to the approval process for a bill? Or directly to an appropriations decision? I don't think government will become irrelevant, I just don't think it will survive in the form we've always recognized. As the government begins to thin out under the influence of decentralization and democratization, the need for "20,000 to 40,000" federal cybersecurity employees begins to dwindle.
Just finished Ryk Brown's "A Show of Force" [1]. It's the 13th book in his Kindle scifi series, which I'm basically addicted to.

Also working through "Bold" by Peter Diamandis [2]. Discussing how to leverage exponential technology over the next few decades.

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[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ep-13-Show-Force-Frontiers-ebook/dp/B0...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Bold-Create-Wealth-Impact-World-ebook/...
Meh. If the US federal government really needs cybersecurity professionals, they probably ought to stop doing things that generally scares hackers away from working with them:

- Spying on everyone
- Invoking the CFAA on ToS violations (Lori Drew, Andrew Auernheimer)
- Copyright zeal
- Persecution of computer hackers (Aaron Swartz, Lauri
Love, Glenn Mangham, Jonathan James, Stephen Watt, et al.)

I don't see them tipping their hand anytime soon. I certainly won't work for them until they do, and the most skilled technologists I know are on the same page.
> With physical access

What malware requires physical access? This is a local privilege escalation to root. It's only local because you need an account on the machine to make it work, but it can be bootstrapped to a remote exploit.
I'm EST. When I work with CA companies I tend to end up just taking meetings at 8-9pm. When working with people halfway across the world there have been a few midnight and 1am calls.
Why so cynical? Is there no value in notifications on your wrist? Is there no value in keeping your phone in your pocket at the dinner table? Every major selling point of the Apple Watch is true of my Pebble and we're inseparable but maybe I'm a sucker for gimmicks. What's the gimmick exactly?
I also second that the term "competitive salary" is toxic. In my experience, it just means that the Employer is only look for a bargain and not talent, plus the employer is not sure of the expectations which with lead to bumpy ride. I do not even bother reading the ad further. I have had my share of jerk employers. I would rather be jobless than be employed by a jerk.

Also, I am a developer with 4 yrs experience in C#. But from my exposure and that of others who work on C#, its more of a backend crowd and Javascript is only used for testing out Node.js or playing with JSON. I am also involved in data analysis. The only time I used Jquery was when I tried to make my data look pretty using Bootstrap and jquery comes bundled with it.

It might be the way I work is different from yours but AngularJS & C# are two different worlds and anyone who understands C# will be able to pick up Javascript by referring MozillaDN.

Now, this is just my personal opinion and I do not want to be attacked for my views. But I feel that now a days, SO has lost its quality and answers are just copy pasted. Mainly the answers have no relation to the question. Especially when you try to compare 2 technologies, the answers are more like fanboys chants than voice of experience.
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No, it doesn't. From the announcement:

"Only Amazon EC2 instances within the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) you specify can directly access your Amazon EFS file systems."
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>I worked for JP Morgan Chase a couple of years ago

My guess is that when they caused the recession, he got laid off.
> Zero people

Reread the comments.
Yes, but that is different than the argument that was made.
certified organic evaporated cane juice.com

For those who struggle to parse without spaces :)
I literally bought a 3y Comodo PositiveSSL certificate yesterday at namecheap.com for $27. It's the exact same CA! I feel cheated :-/. It's not even about the money, but the feeling of dishonesty. From a vendor selling "trust".
"Twilight" for Android works well for me.
I'm not actually in CA I was just curious about CA laws because they seem to lean the most on the side of the employees compared to other states.
Very nice collection. I like the cacheutils LRI and LRU setups [1]. Interested in the StringBuffer [2]. The Table object looks useful [3]. Overall some great additions in utils that you can tell were added through usage and shipping needs especially in strutils, listutils, formatutils etc. Lots of common ones in our own python or other platform libs.

In any review there is always a few WTFs like this one [4]. I am surprised you didn't get arrested during that development

[1] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/cache...

[2] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/strut...

[3] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/table...

[4] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/easte...
Hire people for cheap to help people be hired for $$$, with no reward for the upsell. Brilliant! :)
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Very cool, and interesting to see the results. I immediately looked for a 'trends' feature to see how cities rank change over time, or maybe this could be plotted?
> Could you explain how you formed that conclusion?

It appears that Mobile Jazz is a company that caters to western audiences, most of the work they will be doing will be for western clients who wouldn't hire Thai workers. The workers just happen to be out of office when they do their jobs.
So often used to imply what? I've seen a lot of people ignoring correlation when they really shouldn't, I have never in my life seen them using the implication backwards. How often do you see that?
Exactly correct. It does result in safer travel, and worship of idols probably does not result in this! So there's a mix of tangible and intangible utility. :)

The entire public discourse of investigation, of which the actual result producing investigation is just a part, serves a narrative purpose akin to the ancients' gods. To some extent there's a spectacle of rigorous investigation and explanation in public discourse, and to that extent it's like worship for harvest. It makes us feel things are getting better when perhaps there are areas where we have little control. So there's a social utility and an engineering utility. That's the thesis anyway! Maybe it's all social or all engineering, tho I think each of those less likely than providing both.
At 250k files in one branch, you are starting to run into other scalability limits in git too, like the innefficient method it uses to update .git/index (rewriting the whole thing).
Birdman also heavily revolves around What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.
Scifi wise I would like to add Metagame by Sam Landstrom to the mix. It is a relatively recent and enjoyable dystopian story about a gamified future. I liked all of your recommendations that I know, so I will probably try some of the others.
Performance.

Most websites will work perfectly fine without JS, but there's always that one or two black sheep in there that run some JS loop that manages to redline a single core. When that happens it's always a bit of a hassle to find that one and disable it. It's comparatively less of a hassle to simply whitelist websites that i want to have JS.

Plus, it's always amusing to find the few websites whose only purpose is to display some 500 words of simple text, and they fail to do even that when the JS is pulled out from under them.