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What to Do When You're Stuck in Ruby
It's still 100% free market.
> went through the trouble to look in Russian forums for custom ROMs for it

Why not just build the Android OS yourself and upload it?
Still, where is the line between "missing deserved tax breaks due to sloppy accounting", and (apparently immoral) "tax dodging"? If the tax laws allow you to not pay taxes by some means (which may or may not be crazily complicated), why shouldn't you use them?

Obviously, if these allowances are to the disadvantage of the state (and the society at large), politics should remove them. But blaming the companies for using them in the meantime seems to be barking up the wrong tree to me.
Ask HN: Preparing food is a chore. Any suggestions?
I tried Soylent last year for about 3 weeks for every meal. I know thats crazy but I was very curious to experiment and see if it was possible. I had no problem with the taste, but by the end I was losing weight and had caught a cold so I ended the experiment.

I went a few months doing cereal for breakfast and ordering lunch/dinner from seamless.com but recently I have been trying to eat healthier and cheaper. Currently I am ordering pre-made meals from freshdirect.com which has a great selection, the food tastes great and preparing is as simple as 4 mins in the microwave. Unfortunately I am still suffering from insufficient calories (I'm a 29yo 5'11 160lbs ectomorph). I think if the portions were 10-15% larger I would be content but right now at $10 a meal I'm not satisfied.

So my question is does anyone have any suggestions for cheap, great tasting, easily prepared food? I guess a competitor to freshdirect with larger portions is what I am asking for.. but curious to hear what HN does.
You got it. Cor borrows from Go, C# and Python(its philosophy). The idea behind is to take the simplest parts of the those language syntaxes, combine it, and make a new one focused on productivity and readability.
Better make those hotter so we can easily find them with thermal imaging, then.
http://www.socrative.com/

A colleague uses this site with a class set of iPods on the open College wifi (clean feed/walled garden).

A cheapo device of this nature would allow access to pdfs of lessons and socrative quizzes whenever for the minority of teenager students who do not get Internet access at home or have a device of their own. The 'slush fund' could stretch to one of these if they can use wifi.
Buying it at $10 just to harvest the touch screen, battery, and charger is profit.
[Interview] Yuval Noah Harari “Are Humans Becoming More God Like?”
That's probably right, Fernet with Coke is a kind of national drink, especially in the province of Córdoba, where everything suggests it was invented.

If you order a Fernet in Argentina, it is assumed that it includes Coke. Nobody that I know of drinks it alone, and it sounds weird to us to do that.

In the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" there's a scene in which Alfred goes to Florence and drinks Fernet Branca alone. The comment from many Argentinians was "What? No Coke? That's gross!".
If I could give you more than one upvote I would. The raw data is always important, and the whole "we'll release the data in december" stuff is sketchy (maybe it's an intentional press embargo to drum up publicity?). It seems like the members of the organization are reputable academics, but I'll wait for the professionals to come in and perform actual analysis.

If you putz around with their servers, you can get access to their 'source' material: http://www.financialsecrecyindex.com/database/USA.xml
insert any given country + xml, you should be fine. I have an archive I just wget'ed that I'll SCP to one of my servers in a bit.
Smalltalk.
Encryption Haters Are Already Blaming Snowden (??) for the Paris Attacks
This is their response: https://www.ampproject.org/
You just answered your own question. For more, do a web search for ALEC.
Not sure if troll.

I can use closed source MS Word to write ransom notes. I can use closed source iPhones to make drug deals. Are people ideologically ready for that?
These are all basic CLI and text processing tools, so it's not something all that grandiose to do in Node.
Using a not very popular programming language can actually make it harder for you to hire people.

That's a non-sequitur! The "unpopular languages make it harder to hire programmers" myth has been debunked many times right here on HN. Just hire smart people, not blub programmers.
malware users often purchase exploits and scripts - it's not like they will rewrite their scripts to take advantage of http libraries or even care about efficiency.

I suspect it's just part of a package that someone bought and is using.
Interesting - I wonder if NP-hardness can be used as a sufficient indicator of how "enjoyably challenging" a game is. There's a reason these games are such classics, and I dont think its entirely because of their timing, polish, and marketing. Miyamoto's games always had that special "something" (opinion, I know), maybe this has something to do with it?
That's not entirely true, part of annotation's use case is metasyntactic: codegen, code analysis and just plain structured/extractable comments.
The way all organisms depend on the ecosystem for their basic function paints human-made self-replication in a different light. I used to think that we'll reach the proper level of nanotech if we learn to make machines that build themselves pretty much from the scratch. Throw a rock in, out swarm of robots go. I used to think that's how nature works. That it eats atoms or simple molecules and then spews out organisms.

But it turns out, nature is cheating. There are things that human cells can't make. We depend on other, smaller organisms to make them. For instance, we can't make vitamins ourselves, we need to source them from outside. It turns out that even for replication, cells need to have proper prefabs available in the environment. For instance, we're swimming in nitrogen, and plants can't use it anyway because it's not in a proper form.

Which means that if we want to copy this ability, we need to just focus on "vitamins". That is, all the hard-to-make stuff that requires large-scale, high-tech industry to be produced. If we can tile the area where a robot operates with universal microcontrollers and accept that as a part of its environment, then the problem of self-replication becomes much easier. There's a big volcano^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfactory operating somewhere, pumping out those small prefabs, and robots are "eating" them and incorporating into themselves and their children.

Yes, it's cheating. But nature cheats too.
I wondered how this could possibly work, then found this sentence. Basically their generalisations have to go far beyond what these games are (the NES mario games had everything be forgotten when you scrolled along).

> For example, recall that in Super Mario Bros. everything substantially off screen resets to its initial state. Thus, if we generalize the stage size in Super Mario Bros. but keep the screen size constant, then reachability of the goal can be decided in polynomial time:
elasticsearch
redis

who's next?
That is really cool. Thank you for sharing this.
Uruguay has a higher murder rate than Argentina [0]. This is also true if you compare the city of Buenos Aires with Montevideo[1], though exact numbers are harder to find and I don't have a reference handy. If Buenos Aires has more crime(I have never been able to find numbers on amounts of roberies), it is not as dangerous.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
[1]: http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/156754/un-argentina...
If you're a Data-Minded individual, it might be useful to first learn who exactly the terrorists (and their comrades) are.

The vast majority of terrorist attacks in E.U. countries have for years been perpetrated by separatist organizations> http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/01/08/3609796/islamist-t...
native New Englander living in the mid-atlantic now. I remember the sound of snow guns all throughout the night from the resort on the other side of our mountain. Now i'm homesick
China's yuan takes leap toward joining IMF currency basket
Khronos Releases OpenCL 2.1 and SPIR-V 1.0 Specifications
Aren't taxes a zero sum game? If one "dodges" any amount the state must make up that revenue somewhere so the actors with finances and ability to best take advantage of the system then end up not paying their fair share?
How I Quit My Job and Built My First App
New app: runkeeper for lifters
> but for IT you get what you pay for

> It will help avoid those failure-prone $100M+ acquisitions that are doomed from the start

Clearly, you don't always get what you pay for. The price is not always the value.
I think that that for every "loophole", separating the legitimate and illegitimate users (however you wish to define those) objectively is next to impossible.
UK: we have OFSTED.Generally a source of anxiety to classroom teachers and middle managers alike but really handy if a teacher is getting heat from parents &c.
http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/install_windows.html

It seems like theano does work on Windows, but the install looks to be quite the pita.
Use the Chrome's "Profiles" tab in DevTools.
"So since it's "Out of Stock" right now,"

It looks like it may not have been released yet. If you try the "buy in store" option it won't let you have it until Friday.

This also seems to be perhaps a rev on their $20 phone: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Net10-LG-Lucky-Prepaid-Smartphone/...

Can you really buy these with no service plans?
This seems strange to me. Mario doesn't "feel" NP-hard. I guess I'll have to read the paper tonight.
Corporations all over the world have local politicians in their pockets. Who "signs" the laws is a technicality.

In the US you even see the President after his term be openly welcomed to the Board of some large corporation or another that his regime benefited...
To add a little more to this comment...

If you are familiar with how the Blockchain works, there are two short white papers on the topic at BitFury's site: http://bitfury.com/white-papers-research

I have consistently written off Bitcoin since I originally read about it on HN in 2011sh. Now that I have taken the time to understand a lot more about the blockchain, I am absolutely convinced that it has a high likelihood of being a really powerful force in technology, finance, data, etc.

Disclaimer: I own roughly $2 USD in Bitcoins.
How to Visualize New York City Using Taxi Location Data and ggplot2
One Million Hours
Finally, an interesting technological innovation to social messaging. This visual encryption is pretty amazing to see.
Most would say that there need to be a balance between what you are getting out of society and what you are putting back in.

For instance deducting your purchase of a computer because you need it for your company is seen as beneficial for both society and for you.

Deducting large investments is also seen as in balance with what you get out of the society you conduct your business in.

Channeling money out of the country purely to avoid paying them in taxes is not.

The difference between what I would consider "morally just" tax planning and suspicious tax avoidance is trying to take money out of the ecosystem that you benefitting from to make those money.

It's not black and white but it's not entirely fuzzy either.
Some goals:

() Don't write code that takes the site down.

() It's ok to take a bit longer to finish something, just try to make sure it's tested well. If you release something and there's a problem, make sure you write a test for it.

() If you screw up, admit it, and let your boss know what you've done so that mistake won't happen again.

() Chill out and get hacking!
Anonymous has declared “war” on ISIS
Netizen Corp. Supporting $12.2M Federal Program to Enhance Energy Grid Security
Moving the obvious Privacy & Security implications aside, the idea of accessing all of my child's conversations with their doll is disturbing. For parents using this "feature", it normalizes the environment of surveillance which has broad reaching implications for society as a whole: "I listen to my child's conversations therefore the gov't should be able to listen to terrorists".

The research cited re: "role playing helps kids cope with traumatic events is independent of a responding doll/toy", is powerful and parents are best served by creating an environment where a doll/toy is a safe place for confidences vs another vector for helicoptering your children.
> As somebody else mentioned - this is a great honeypot opportunity! By serving malicious builds based on referer and user-agent, they might be able to gather really interesting data.

They said the malware used no referer header and changing user-agent. If the user-agent were useful to segment these downloads from others, they most likely would have refused downloads based on that, because by renaming the file like they did, they're breaking build scripts for lots of downstream projects.

There's also the ethical issue of breaking into others machines, even if it's "for a good cause".
I doubt it, simply because the feel of the game is such a significant factor which an algorithm presumably has no regard for.
> The cURL project only provides source packages. All other packages are kindly provided by external persons and organizations.

Some of the binaries are served over HTTPS, such as these https://bintray.com/vszakats/generic/curl/#files
I think Swarm transparently handles networking and volume management for containers, which can be challenging if your services require multiple containers that run on different hosts and need to talk to each other.
Sowing fear only if you are a share holder. He never said the company was losing relevance or its iphones weren't selling as hot candy necessarily. He just says the company was failing to impress Wall Street.
Steve Jobs also didn't seem to care much for Wall Street but with Jobs it seems more of a result his "visionary" ways that clashed with Wall Street sometimes short sightedness.
I can't say I am impressed with Tim Cook as a ceo.
http://www.json.org/license.html

The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

(of course, that didn’t stop IBM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693388 )
But what has been your target audience? Grandma or fellow John J. Hacker?
The walls of the king's chamber are pink granite. They also happen to be some of the more precise work in the pyramids.
Working for free is a luxury for the people not struggling to ends meet.

"Oh, I already got paid elsewhere, but let me work for free and outbid others who are doing this as their primary job" is the unstated context and it feels a tad bit smug and elitist.

Personally, I think that the goal should be to get paid while you work on open source. But, I know that its not an option for everyone.

>I use open source technologies on a daily basis, and this seemed like a great opportunity to give back a little.

If you want to contribute to open source, then please feel free to join an open source project.
No, you open up the Chrome Dev Tools, click the Timeline tab and then start recording. Click a few days in the calendar, stop the recording and then you'll see that after each click it takes 100ms until paint events are shown.
I love that IBM story.
Of course!! I had a blast making it. Let me know if you have any questions!
Okodia
For me they have been a commodity for quite a while. My main concern is size, it's become rather difficult to find reasonably spec-ed "smaller" phones. Many are advertised as small phones but really aren't (HTC does this over and over). Samsung's Galaxy Mini is getting bigger and bigger with each release. I've never been an iPhone user but before they released their big phones I always saw their small iPhone, their flagship phone no less, as a shining light of reason in a field full of crazy-sized phablets.

I don't mind the phablets, what bothers me is that they're forgetting that some people want a phone that they can use with just one hand. Apparently there aren't that many consumers committed to buying only those kind of phones.
The quote was as follows:

> But some of these tax avoidance schemes are only legal because tax authorities do not have the number of staff needed to investigate and prosecute all of them.

I.e. claiming legality by saying that they are not prosecuted.

Legal = white.
Illegal = black.

If you stray from legal, you should suffer consequences. Not suffering consequences because of lack of staff does not automatically make your action illegal.
> When it comes to the question of how much of the money that I earn must be surrendered to prevent me from going to jail, the state is my adversary.

That's your choice. You could also see it as paying your dues, or even as doing your part in maintaining your society. The optimal attitude is probably somewhere between those views.

> Taxes are routinely used to punish and influence people. Alcohol taxes, tobacco taxes, fuel taxes, they all have the dual purpose of raising revenue and discouraging behavior that the state wishes to limit.

Well, that's the point of having a state. It's often a good thing, especially in the examples you mentioned. One of the most important function of a state is to serve as a coordination enforcer - in situations when people, out of their self-interest, would predictably chose something that aggregated over the entire population leads to bad outcomes for everyone, the state is there to alter the incentive landscape and make sure they chose the better thing.
Anecdotally, OCaml seems to often be faster than Haskell, though not necessarily materially so. More important though (in my opinion at least) is that it seems performance is more predictable in OCaml.

High performance code in Haskell tends to rely on a combination of stream fusion, rewrite rules firing and judicious use of unboxing and bang patterns. I've heard it said that the OCaml compilers simplicity makes it far easier to know what code it's going to produce.

Disclaimer: I'm a Haskell user, so it might just be that I'm more familiar with Haskell's warts.
Show HN: Faster web development in Scala – Slynx
IamProgrez and Singapore = BETT Asia 2015
ISIS Financed from 40 countries including G20 members
While I think there is truth to your point, it's also true that some loopholes are the result of unintended consequences rather than conscious creation. In these instances, there will still be companies lobbying to keep these loopholes open, but the government can still fail at closing loopholes even when they are explicitly trying to close them.
The link compares it to Lua. Further reading reveals several improvements over Lua (IMO):

- "var", "let", and "extern" means no more accidental globals

- Arrays are separate things than Hash-maps

- Simple C API [1] that's not stack-based

- More built-in operators (even the conditional operator ?!)

- More "traditional" object/class concepts

- Strict typing!

- Fuller standard library

Neat!

My next project may very well be a Sparkling-scripted window manager for OS X.

[1]: https://github.com/H2CO3/Sparkling/blob/master/doc/capi.md
Trying to come up with an appropriate response to your comment reminded me of this: http://goo.gl/KqXXDV
And/or play some video games.
Show HN: Serpents Game in Erlang
Phonegap/Cordova compatibility for Codename One
> Why would anybody be against competent coders wanting to donate time to public use?

Ayn frowns upon altruism, and lots of coders (heart) Ayn.
Put more succinctly that I did in my comment, where a lot of folks extrapolated my comments on the tone of the article to a full blown commentary on the free market.
WRT clock speed, the fan-out of your net is going to drive your Fmax which is highly dependent on the application of the FPGA.

Much like CPUs you can't just compare Mhz X to Mhz Y, even moreso considering how parallel FPGAs can get.

There's also been some neat low-power parts lately(from lattice and others).
Well, I'm not sure I would go as far as "excellent". There is no "OCAML IDE", there is vim/emacs + tools. You can hack an IDE-like workflow by way of inotify, but if you want the "works-out-the-box" experience, that's not going to happen. As you mention, debugging is lacking, and more generally Merlin can't do much in the way of refactoring.

If you're fine with, eg, hacking Python in VIM, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the OCAML situation. If you live in an integrated IDE, there will be some adaptation.
That library has some fun/interesting generics declarations like this one (https://github.com/jOOQ/jOOL/blob/master/src/main/java/org/j...)

> static <T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14, T15, T16> Seq<Tuple16<T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10, T11, T12, T13, T14, T15, T16>> crossJoin(...
Let's try on an example: All revenue is taxed at 20%. Now this will work for some businesses, as the cost to make the product is low enough, and the sale price high enough, that 20% can be paid and there is still profit left over. But then there are very low margin, high volume businesses. They may have only a marginal profit per unit sold due to the nature of what they are selling, leaving no room for 20% tax.

So we add in an exception that says "You can deduct from revenue the cost of goods sold" (i.e., tax on net instead of gross). Now all the business has to do is find ways of hiding profit in the cost of goods sold.

Then there are products which contain materials that changed hands many times before it got to the final product. So if a raw material (lets say, cotton) is the majority expense, it has to go to one company to refine it, a second company to turn it into thread, a third to add color, a fourth to make it into fabric, and finally a fifth company to make a shirt. So that cotton gets taxed 5 times before it gets sold to the end consumer.

So let's add another exception, that goods sold for use in making another product aren't taxed -- that way, large businesses that produce the entire vertical stack in-house don't have an unfair tax advantage against smaller companies. Gee, now we have another loophole that can be creatively exploited.
Prep early in the week. Cook component foods that take longer to cook in bulk (rice, potatoes, large quantities of meat). They don't take a lot of prep time, but they can severely skew cooking time of other meals because they take longer than other things to cook.

If you're eating rice, you should combine it with beans to get the complete protein. Buy canned beans only, the bags are a waste of time.

Mix and match components at meal time, adding fresh vegetables (onions, peppers, tomatoes, etc.) and seasonings as you go. You can create an incredible variety this way that takes no more than 10 to 15 minutes to prepare for every meal, 5 if you're really crushing it.

Also, a pork shoulder in a crock pot, covered in seasonings, salt, and beer and set to cook all day Sunday is less than 5 minutes of prep time for probably more meat than you can eat on your own for every meal before it spoils in two weeks.

Don't overlook spices, salt, and fat. I find the reason most people don't like their own homecooked food is because they don't season it enough. I can't think of a single dish that I make that does not get at least some salt in it, even the few times I make candies. Garlic is similarly overlooked. And don't fear fat. Fat is flavor. You need a little to keep things interesting. I personally prefer butter, sesame oil, and filtered bacon fat, as they have strong flavors so not as much is needed.
SVG Mask Artwork of the Intel 4004
Two major things:

X11, although at least Xorg doesn't run as root in modern distros any more. Wayland is the replacement but isn't there yet.

Linus hates security people and refuses patches that improve security within the Linux kernel. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-...
The word "MD5" does not appear anywhere on curl download page http://curl.haxx.se/download.html