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There's a bit more context a few paragraphs on:

> Mozart showed interest in music before taking lessons, not the other way around.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9179292

They can hardly get worse. I used to be a huge fan of NS, but Seveneves was the last book of his I bought without reading review first. He seems to have decided that character development is for other people, not to mention the gaping plot holes. Sloppy and superficial.

For me, an invaluable companion for learning openings has been http://www.eudesign.com/chessops/. The design of the site is unchanged since ca. 1995, but it works well.

I grew up in Berlin in the 70s and early 80s, and I remember some bombed-out ruins that were slowly crumbling. A bit of a post-apocalyptic sight. The ones I remember were close to the wall between east and west Berlin - real estate that used to be city center but now was very much at the margins. Maybe that was a factor in not redeveloping some properties for a long time.

Continuous Integration (testing)

LegitScript - Dublin, Ireland

We fight illegal online pharmacies with ruby!

We make the online health product sector safer and more transparent for individuals and businesses. We analyze and report on rogue online pharmacies and dangerous health products. Our services include monitoring, investigative reports, online pharmacy certification, and health product classification. Our mission includes protecting consumers from fake cancer cures, cosmetics that contain mercury, "all natural" supplements that contain dangerous pharmaceuticals, and illegal online pharmacies that fake their certifications and sell prescription medications to anyone who asks. Our clients include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Visa, Twitter and the FDA.

We have an open position for a full stack web developer Dublin.

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I've had similar, unfathomable problems with Gmail delivery for a long time, until I added a PTR record for reverse IP lookup for the IPv6 version of my IP address. That did the trick, I haven't had delivery trouble since, even without DKIM (but with SPF).

> Criminals can commit crimes online instead.

Violent crime, not really, and that's what the article is mostly about. But you're right that the shift to online crime seems often to be missed or ignored. For example: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/05/crime-statistics-a...

LegitScript - Portland, OR and Dublin, Ireland

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We make the online health product sector safer and more transparent for individuals and businesses. We analyze and report on rogue online pharmacies and dangerous health products. Our services include monitoring, investigative reports, online pharmacy certification, and health product classification. Our mission includes protecting consumers from fake cancer cures, cosmetics that contain mercury, "all natural" supplements that contain dangerous pharmaceuticals, and illegal online pharmacies that fake their certifications and sell prescription medications to anyone who asks. Our clients include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Visa, Twitter and the FDA.

We have open positions for software developers in both Portland and Dublin, and are also looking for a full time DBA.

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Would you mind sharing your notes on that, if you have any?

LegitScript - Portland, OR and Dublin, Ireland

We fight fake pharmacies with ruby!

We make the online health product sector safer and more transparent for individuals and businesses. We analyze and report on rogue online pharmacies and dangerous health products. Our services include monitoring, investigative reports, online pharmacy certification, and health product classification. Our mission includes protecting consumers from fake cancer cures, cosmetics that contain mercury, "all natural" supplements that contain dangerous pharmaceuticals, and illegal online pharmacies that fake their certifications and sell prescription medications to anyone who asks. Our clients include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Visa, Twitter and the FDA.

We have open positions for software developers in both Portland and Dublin, and are also looking for a full time DBA.

http://www.legitscript.com/about/careers/

LegitScript - Portland, OR and Dublin, Ireland

We make the online health product sector safer and more transparent for individuals and businesses. We analyze and report on rogue online pharmacies and dangerous health products. Our services include monitoring, investigative reports, online pharmacy certification, and health product classification. Our mission includes protecting consumers from fake cancer cures, cosmetics that contain mercury, "all natural" supplements that contain dangerous pharmaceuticals, and illegal online pharmacies that fake their certifications and sell prescription medications to anyone who asks. Our clients include Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Visa, Twitter and the FDA.

We have open positions for software developers in both Portland and Dublin, and are also looking for a full time DBA.

http://www.legitscript.com/about/careers/

Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/528/

> Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

http://discerninghistory.com/2013/05/shackletons-ad-men-want...

Brilliant book. Every detail about the expedition that was known at the time is very accurately depicted. The parts that were not known are woven into a fantastical, supernatural horror story. I felt cold just reading about the cold.

This. For comparison, when I had to renew my H1B for another 3 years, I had to leave the country and fly to Berlin for my "visa interview". But first I had to send them my passport, which of course I needed to get into Germany first. So after a lot of expense, several days of wasted time, and anxiety if the courier would deliver my passport on time, the "interview" took all of one minute (handing me my passport back with the Visa stamp). Well, two hours, actually, with going through security and waiting in line. Kafka comes to mind.

> Biggest democracy

Sorry to nitpick and slightly OT, but more people voted in the elections in India these past weeks than the US has citizens. A staggering half billion plus.

http://qz.com/210222/6-takeaways-from-record-turnout-in-the-...

I use sizeup[1] to maximize the terminal (or any other app) with a keystroke, instead of native full screen. It works across all applications that allow window resizing, and has handy shortcuts for "half" full screen, which is great to position, say, a browser and editor next to each other across the whole screen.

Which reminds me, I really will go and pay my 13 bucks for it now, it's more than worth it. But the free version is fully functional with just an occasional nag screen.

[1] https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

I'd be interested to see what the HN community has to say about the python 2 vs 3 debate, if there is one. I'm diving into a project where I will definitely use python and am torn between using the "modern" python 3 and the lack (or early alpha stage) or python 3 ports of several important libraries I will have to use.

I find it interesting that in all these articles and studies about open plan offices, the distraction from noise levels is always so prominent, but the other side of that issue rarely gets mentioned. In my experience of open offices, everyone is so aware of potentially disrupting their colleagues by striking up a conversation that nobody does it. So instead of fostering an atmosphere of collaboration, the open office can actually actively prevent it. Is that as common as I think it is?

Unless, or should I say until, Congress caves to the lobbyists and extends the patent life again, no?

Beautiful. My favourite so far:

"Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi into a wireless airplay speaker"

"Just-in-time googling". That made my day, thank you!

> I'd have to be paid about 30% just to offset the cost of paying double taxes (both to the US, and to Germany)

This is plain wrong. The US and most (all?) EU states have agreements for the avoidance of double taxation in place. I live and work in Ireland as a German and US citizen. I pay my taxes here, and have to file in the US, but can deduct all my Irish taxes as "foreign taxation credits" or some such, effectively paying nothing to Uncle Sam.

Here's the US-Irish agreement: http://www.revenue.ie/en/practitioner/law/double/usaprot.htm.... I'm sure you can find one for Germany.

Might have been this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6186569

Radley Balko discusses this at some length in "Rise of the Warrior Cop", cited in the article. Fascinating, scary read.

It's not quite a guide, but you can customize what to include, and make tweaks to fonts, spacing and the like, directly on the bootstrap site:

http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/2.3.2/customize.html

It's fairly self-explanatory, and the resulting file will contain only the code you actually use, making for smaller file sizes.

Same in the tagline, or better yet, just remove it there. Interesting idea and nice site.

"Decommissioning is a general term for a formal process to remove something from active status."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decommissioning

Ad hominem as in "small-minded busybodies"? The irony...