skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok so Research Gate employ their moderators on short term contracts (<6 months) at minimum wage (€8.50/h) so they don't have to give them much in the way of workers rights and the managers of said mods are technically interns.
Very true!

Cost gap across needs vs wants in India seems very much inverted as of today.

I've seen so many people living out of real bad conditions , working hard for earning just enough.
But surprisingly they all seem to have good & new smartphones, commute long distances for work and unable to afford a decent sized house![0]

Am not saying its bad for them to own new phones, its atleast a good emotional distraction for them,but reality is only getting tougher for them, day-by-day.

Predatory lending,in india had gotten off fast the last decade .Lots of people have more lots of unpaid credit-card bills.Banks started reporting lots of non-profitable assets.Some of the top private-lenders in india are loosing money by the day.[1]

Value is being eroded of Real estate with both corruption and extortion involved even in remote rural areas!
Though there is not much of stats in public domain for above, but [2] is indicative.

[0]:http://www.statista.com/statistics/257048/smartphone-user-pe...
[1]:http://dbie.rbi.org.in/OpenDocument/publicOpenDocument.jsp?i...
[2]:http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/file-detailed-re...
https://remoteok.io/

http://jobs.remotive.io/

Please add others.
Besides that, I feel like I'm writing plain HTTP, which is something I really don't want to do or have to think about.
On the other hand Facebook is doing so much with PHP that it may save it. If they get Hack to be more known and supported it might count as a good language which more organizations could use. Not sure if they ever add concurrency and shared memory though (can't remember their plans right now).
One can start by not using insecure languages and practices. Using C/C++ for this application domain is a non-starter, now matter how many times one can trump the word free. Does the existence of a free but flawed product make the "secure chat" universe demonstrably better?

The level of blasé disregard for basic secure coding makes me think it is on purpose. More attention to security has been put into Postfix and OpenSSH than any of these encrypted but in no way provably secure chat systems.
How Secure Is Your Online Information?
Someday! Funny that you should say this but David Cameron wants us to never be left alone by the state and anti terror laws are regularly used against people who are not terrorists. The police are being militarised and the human rights act is being removed from law here in the UK. Someday looks like tomorrow to me.
Due to risk compensation, taxis with passengers in belts and drivers not in belts may be the safest for passengers.
I can appreciate your skepticism but it happened. I could have done a better job adding more detail to explain my story better so it made more sense to others. But I also didn't want to turn it into a small book.

I really don't care about attention, just figured others might want to read about a really rough spot in my life and might be able to relate somehow. HN points really don't matter to me, I just wanted to get this off of my chest after 6+ years.

Thanks for reading.
I think remote working works best when doing maintenance work on software. I can understand why companies don't like remote workers when building new products from scratch.

I would like to emigrate in the next few years and work remotely for European companies and this is my intended strategy. Perhaps this is something you should try and maybe tell HN how that would work out for you.
The whole point of using OS X is not needing this kind of stuff.
Mondo – “full stack” and mobile-first bank
More info here http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/24/mondo/
Rust traits for developer friendly libraries
Zomato's over enthusiastic SEO lists restaurants serving Gang Rapes in Delhi
You indirectly voted in the EP election.

Well, I hope you did. Otherwise you don't have any right to complain.
https://weworkremotely.com/

https://nomadjobs.io/
Greenify – Make blocking C library work with gevent
I don't think so in the general context, unles the relationship is close and you can say anything to each other without hurt feelings.

Saying a person sucks is pretty pointless without a detailed performance review, identifying a few key points to improve in the next span (of months/years) and keeping tabs on progress. Usually saying someone sucks in general is pointless demotivation and hurts feelings without purpose.

Identifying specific sucky aspects in ones work and suggesting helpfull improvements is beneficial, if requested.
Sweet Autocomplete Tricks in AngularJS Material Design
I'm also interested in the effect companies pushing for and enacting better privacy and encryption had. For instance, Google made sweeping and immediate changes, and Apple tightened encryption in iMessage and iOS, to the vocal chagrin of govnt agencies. Did visible actions like these help speed the public decline in interest because the public at large felt that major influencers had become their champions (naive though it may be)?
You're clearly exaggerating. You'd only be stoned to death if you bragged about it.
Introduction to Spark Data Source API, part 1
Thanks, this looks great! It doesn't appear to have SCP or FTP as connection types though.
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=RULES-EP&...
2015 State of Internet Security (Report)
Why '=' instead of nothing for tag names?
> His marriage to her was never based on a contract

How many times do I need to point out references to the "agreement" in the text that is constantly talked about ?

> it is sufficient to know that she had already been engaged to another person prior to her marriage to the Prophet

Do you like to tell yourself that that justifies the rape of a 6 year old ? Do you have a daughter ? Do you think an agreement with the girl's father makes paedophilic rape moral ? Because your religion clearly is of that opinion. Note that your prophet has a lot of opinions on what he, personally, should be given, and something to fuck is often among the things he "gets" from his invisible friend, this is not a lone occurence. So answer this simple question : was Muhammad an immoral paedophilic rapist ? Or not ...

And to be honest, since Abu Bakr is a "rightly guided caliph" and made this agreement with the prophet, that means that BOTH the prophet AND the first ever muslim where paedophilic rapists. One organising the rape, one committing it. Muhammad, of course, claims this agreement was blessed by allah : so you can't even make the pathetic argument that it was just him, "not allah". Note that not even Aisha believed the revelations [1]. To be honest, actually reading the hadith you find a lot of that : verses that make it crystal clear none of the muslims with the prophet believed in his revelations. You should try it, reading those texts around book 60.

> I fail to see where it says that the death penalty is involved here. Please point out explicitly where it says that the penalty for living in a non-Muslim country is death.

The penalty for consistently refusing to comply with sharia, when you know the law and how it applies to you, is death. As you very well know. Believe it or not, you do not just get to violate sharia whenever you want according to islam. The punishment for violating something haram knowingly, repeatedly or continuously ... is death, because this constitutes apostasy. I can't say I recall the full set of requirements, but do you seriously argue otherwise ?

Knowingly not following sharia is considered apostasy, advocating not following sharia is proselytizing. Do you disagree with that ? Do I really have to dig up fatwas saying so ?

> We point out these bad things, and we do not follow their footsteps.

Reading this in a post that starts off by justifying the rape of a 6 year old girl, that is very reassuring.

[1] http://www.sultan.org/books/bukhari/060.htm#006.060.248
And that's what makes it a meal (replacement). You can't survive on whey protein shakes alone. If the malnutrition doesn't kill you, the smell of your farts surely will.
Sadly I2P is missing such a maintained messenger. I am only aware of this working, but abandoned one: http://echelon.i2p.xyz/qti2pmessenger/
I am entrepreneur (also studied engineering) in Europe. I have only worked remotely most of my life.

Main problem is bureaucracy. The US is a big place and it is United from West to East Coast.

In Europe, once you start making lots of money, every country you touch wants your money. So if you hire a French guy the French gobertment will love to tax YOUR ENTIRE business based on their socialistic views of the world, even when you are located in other country. Rinse and repeat with any country you touch.

Instead of focusing on the tech side of things you have to make an incredible effort with bureaucracy alone.

The advantages of remote working are very clear, but so are the disadvantages: People can goof all day or do the laundry, take care of the kids at the employer expense. The employer could also abuse taking extra hours of the employee for free.

For neither the employer or the employee to abuse each other or just being productive when nobody is watching you(directly, of course I know what my people are doing even when I am not in front of them)a series of techniques has been developed . It takes practice, effort and time for people to get used to it.

But yes, once you try it you will never want to go back. You can never eliminate the need to meet your coworkers from time to time(once a week or month) though.

Most business in Europe are old and big, they do what has been proved to work(in a pre Internet world) for decades. They move slowly, but they move.

Big companies operate over the principle of "nobody ever got fired for doing what used to work". When they see success examples of other big companies doing remote working, they will follow. But today only a few jobs, like programming or personal assistants could be completely done remotely.

My advice is to create your own company and to take advantage of this problem, you know in the business world we call them "opportunities". As remote communications improve this is going to explode.
> Because they shifted their focus to CloudFoundry only

Although VMWare/Pivotal said they were pulling their funding for Groovy and Grails in order to shift their focus to CloudFoundry only, that doesn't explain why they held onto Spring. Groovy/Grails and Spring were managed and promoted together, and the more likely reason is the Spring team didn't want Groovy/Grails attached and petitioned the VMWare managers to dump them. Perhaps the Groovy and/or Grails people were trying to take over in some way. Grails 3.0 released in March now bundles Gradle as well as Groovy and Spring from before, perhaps another predatory move. It could explain why Gradleware recently employed two of the retrenched Groovy/Grails developers from VMWare, to help in protecting their product against takeover by bundling.
The Next Twenty Years (2012)
8 comments so far... I bet all of them were written by Spaniards..

God job anyway :-p
CamelCase for functions in Python? Why.
You wont keep staff for long at these rates, if you even manage to hire anyone.
I think any answer to this question will be speculative and opinionated. People have their experience and they have their preferences. The interpretation of one is based on the other. It's like the open plan vs offices debate that springs up on HN every so often. Mostly what we have is personal preferences justified with "facts." In reality I don't think we have that kind of understanding of what makes people work well. Reality is complicated with short term and long term effects, feedback effects and adaption.

Those qualifications aside, I think (A) coding is uniquely well suited to remote work and (B) transitioning to remote work as a major way of working is a long cultural transition that companies will need to grow around. They'll only do that if it's advantageous enough and the process could take a generation.

Coding is well suited to remote work because it can be parceled effectively with clear responsibilities and deliverables. It's like journalism in that sense. If you need to produce 2 articles a week and the articles are the output of your work, then it's easy for everyone to understand that you did in fact contribute two articles and form an opinion of their quality.

The parts that are hard about remote working is structuring a culture that is able to cooperate without physical presence. Physical presence is a key feature of how we interact. Online discussions are different to face-t-face discussions. People travel international at great expense and inconvenience in order to do business face to face. It's subtle buts adds up to a lot.

Maybe we are getting better at remote communication and collaboration. Maybe the ways we work can adapt to the environment of remote working. But, it's a cultural shift.

Remote work is strange in the same way that remote parenting, remote dating or remote friendship is. At the end of the day, the relationship that will come out of a remote marriage will not be the same as a regular marriage. That may be OK for remote working. I am sure that some companies are making it their advantage, but it's not a simple matter.

TLDR: If a company that exists in a building today decided to transition over two years to a company where people work from home, the company would probably fail. The transition is hard.
This seems like its trying to force advice for one domain to another when its not appropriate.

I disagree strongly with one or two of the rules. But an even bigger problem is that some (or even most) of the advice either has little value or doesn't really apply to programming. In english, shorter is better, but I'd much rather a longer class name that I can understand than one that's abbreviated to the point where I am forced to look up what its doing. A good rule of thumb that I try to follow is that for the most part, your code should be self explanatory (comments should cover the rest). We have these rules in programming for how to write variable names, and they're better than the ones in that slide. Another rule, that trumps any other is consistency. If you're working on a project that uses the passive voice (which I think works better for some cases) then use that. The nature of programming is different than natural language writing, and so it makes more sense that these rules that are trying to be transferred over are ill equipped to do so.

I mentioned that some of the things just don't make sense As an example, this was one of the slides, "when writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature." What does this mean? Its ironic that the slide preaches being short and to the point, and yet is bloated with abstract fluff.
Either self-employed (myself included) or create subsidiary.

Hiring people directly over borders is legal nightmare. Though technically sometimes possible, tax complications are hard to follow.
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The problem: New feature from Mozilla (not enabled by default) disables Google Adsense Ads.

Mate, I'm really sorry to participate this discussion. I never had such bad experience. So many downvotes, make me feel really bad.

I see here most people are "users". I was expecting here to find people that actually work in tech, make their money from internet.

I can't understand how you do you see the world, without payment for your work.

It's very easy to talk about privacy rights, bandwidth issues, but the problem here is pure business.

The people who make content, don't receive payment, while people who consume content - consume it.

You must block whole page, if you do not agree with the terms.

But you want to read the content, without payment.

There are no free lunch, guys.

If this model is accepted by all browsers, please, explain to me who will pay salaries?

C'mon ppl, so many downvotes, please, explain to me, who will pay, IF all browsers remove ads?

I'm using Mozilla, since version phoenix 0.3... I'm fan of open-source.. I'm a freelancer.. My only revenue stream is my websites.

Forgive me I want to support my family.

p.s. I'm really disappointed from the community here. I'd expected more from you guys. Really sad.
Ok, if you want something off the shelf, then there are things like this:

https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/products/pci-express-...

But I don't know what functionality they actually provide available over the pci-express port, if one is unlucky, it's only the serial port to the GPS receiver ;-).
This varies.

Big companies that are incorporated in many countries will just employ you in the most relevant country (including your own).

Smaller companies can't do this (overhead, financial burden, regulation, blah blah blah), so they just hire you as an independent contractor. You get paid by whatever arrangement, and file your taxes accordingly. They pay an invoice file their taxes accordingly.
The author states:

"Most of the things programmers say about comments in code
are excuses for not writing any comments at all"

This is true. Here is my excuse:

1. Follow all rules for writing good comments
2. Comment is now short, crisp and concise
3. Apply "Extract Function" refactoring, use comment as function name
4. Your comment is a compiled entity now
5. Write testcases for the function that explicitly explain corner cases and weird behavior
5. You have no comments in the code any more

This rule can be applied almost all the time, although it can be quite hard to use when global variables or wide scopes are used (e.g. 1000 line for-loops in C). Comments are either obvious or they're lying. Why would you write something that the compiler will ignore eventually?
Quantum Physics is reversible; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser . (Warning: amateur, may be misunderstanding.) You do have to be able to capture the complete environment of the quantum process, which is why decoherence is usually considered one-way.
> But even if they didn't, surely news organizations would co-operate for a noble cause, yes?

As privately run corporations, news organizations go where the money is and I trust them even less than I trust the government. The number of ignoble causes they have cooperated on in the recent past leaves them with a very large credibility gap in my mind.

And while the government is not perfect, at least I live in a country where lobbying (aka bribery) is no where near as institutionalised and prevalent as you see in the U.S.

So while my government might not always have my best interests at heart, they are definitely more concerned and more trustworthy than a news organisation.
Exactly. I am not monetizing my blog, looking to become famous, etc. I'm just a techie guy who wanted to tell his story. People will be skeptical and I encourage everyone to form their own opinions. In the end I was there and lived it and am so glad it's over.

I appreciate all of your taking time to read and comment whether positive to negative.

Be well and carry on!
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/index_en.htm
Five reasons to celebrate end of paper UK driving licence
Forsyth–Edwards Notation(Chess)
Revisiting Cloud Cost Comparison in Light of Recent Google Cloud Price Reduction
Paper driving licence abolished: what you need to know
Another font with very similar character is Malmö Sans (only regular weight though, bold has high stroke contrast) [1]. Typographic details differ (Malmö looks more dynamic than San Francisco due to slanted terminal strokes), but basic forms make it look almost identical to San Francisco at smaller grades.

[1] http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/martin-lexelius-core/malmo-sans...
10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App
It helps to think of these "vessels" that conduit black money not as Houses in the strict sense. From a policy planning perspective it helps to remove the errant variable (in this case excess of homes).
Can someone explain how to verify the .asc signature file for this? I'm not familiar with pgp.
ShutIt – Complex and Dynamic Docker Builds Made Simple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santer_Commission
> You take some ignorant bigot who has distorted a religious text to create something that most adherants to that religion do not recognise.

Not at all. Here's what I claim :

1) these islamic "holy" texts do indeed say to fight and kill, and a whole lot of other immoral despicable behavior. Islam was created in a war, continued in a war, and the early muslims did not stop fighting and massacring for hundreds of years. This is very well reflected in the religion.

2) most muslims do not believe and do not follow this, BUT DO teach these texts to their children

3) when (and if) society abandons them as young adults, and they search comfort in religion, as one does (and I'm sure you have done on occasion, Lord knows I have), islamic clerics then use these texts to support the case that they need to fight and kill for paradise.

4) That this is a growing phenomenon. Well, not really. If you read history you'll see that this was an extremely common practice even in the Ottoman empire. There's simply been a 100 year near-hiatus in this form of recruiting, and it's actually still at a very, very low level compared to what it was in the 19th century.

5) I claim the problem is that those recruiting clerics are right. That islamic texts do indeed say to fight and kill, very clearly, very directly. Stopping this phenomenon can happen in one of two ways. First, society could choose to simply never abandon anyone, ever. Second we could prevent step 2) from happening. Fighting things at the recruiting stage is an exercise in futility.

Am I being an ignorant bigot ? Perhaps.
I agree countries should have some sort of bankruptcy protection. I thought the UN could could invoke the protections of bankruptcy in certain instances?

As to individuals in the U.S. we have two, or three types of bankruptcy protection, and that goes for individuals--not just companies.

I do think we need to keep a close eye on Bankruptcy laws in the United States. I have a feeling if a Rebublican is elected in 2016, federal statutes on bankruptcy laws will be changed, like under the George Bush's rein.

The problems we have with our current bankruptcy statues, right now, is this: The homeowners exemption is too low in most states.(Your primary residence should be exempt from creditors in bankruptcy court--period, especially for unsecured debt! Student loans should be partially dismissable. (I would rather have the government just deny certain collages access to the student loan program, but they aren't moving fast enough.) Those are my biggest gripes with U.S. Bankruptcy laws. If you don't have the money, have nerves of steel, and the ability to internalize Nolo Press's publications on bankruptcy; you can do your own bankruptcy.

Keep in mind you can only do most bankruptcies every 10 years, so use them wisely. I need to do a chapter 7, but am holding off until I start making real money, or a republican is elected in 2016.

(As to credit collectors, keep track of every unauthorized call(keep a diary, or tape the conversations); if you are lucky the weasels will break federal laws, and you might be able to sue? I'm my case, different collection agencies must have called my residence over at least over a 1000 times over the years. I really despise the collection game, along with process servers. These judgements are sold, on most cases for pennies on the dollar. I have thought about buying my own judgement debt. If anyone in the Debt Collection industry reads this--have you heard of anyone successfully buying their own debt? I have found no laws prohibiting it.)
What did you think regular grep did, then?