skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every single one of those trades has a component of skill, and while a reasonably intelligent and cooperative person can be made barely competent at most of those things within a day (and I doubt that's true for some, like call center agent), an experienced and learned worker in those fields will demonstrate superiority in most cases. However, that doesn't mean we need licensing.
Yes sure it is a must for programming. You first need to go mac store and ask a mac genius how to buy a mac :). And then you come back home relief and start coding. Please don't forget you buy mac for coding.
Powerful processor is all about moving data in a short time possible: Big Data. It's not just about Java and .Net.

You could look at 3D XPoint and NVRam instead where data lives, those have cut down to 1 digit latency as claimed by Intel or Micron. Still Java 9 should be what you're looking at, lastly, Erlang for lowest latencies.

If Sun have produced proprietary microprocessor for Java it did before, it would have been a different world for us now as far as I heard it has the native performance. It's cost and time effective to buy newer hardware than improves coding to squeeze as much performance as possible.

In fact, general purpose processors we know is not efficient, it uses lot of watts when moving data within the microprocessors. I let the expertise do the talks.
Sometime back when I moved from svn to git. My default choice was Github. But their pricing was a hindrance. I guess, its more suited for US (or countries with value-equivalence with USD). 7 USD per user, did not make any sense to me, from India. So I went with AWS CodeCommit. And my experience has been good. Finally how bad can any service which uses Git (done by Linus Torvalds) can be?

I also did not understand the big hoopla. If you can open source your project, then its good for you (free!). But they depend on enterprise and potentially other businesses with private code. But then it really does not make as much sense - as in whats the real gain - most of the use cases are from command line doing git [clone/pull/push].
How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired
Just a few hundred years ago large parts of the US and Canada were covered with forests of giant white pine and other trees that are now a rarity

I don't know about the US, but Canada has more "old-growth" forest now than at any time in the past century.
All SaaS got their faces ripped off on Friday. Basically I think it has to do with Google's stock behavior, which has been pretty disastrous. After posting amazing earnings and 20% growth, it is down $130+ in 4 days. Given that performance, people are selling first and asking questions later, which is why LNKD and Tableau got destroyed on Friday, and why other SaaS like Salesforce did as well. For the stocks that haven't announced yet, the sellers are thinking "Well if Google is down $130, and Salesforce won't have Google's numbers, then it's only going to get destroyed so I should sell now."

Looks like the only few strong companies in the Valley right now are the stalwarts like Facebook, and everything else is at risk of getting whacked sooner or later.

To all those that think "The bubble will burst", they haven't been paying attention to the stock market. Tech is down bigtime in the last year, the bubble has already burst. What we're waiting to see if which companies will survive the fallout, ie. lowered VC funding, harder funding rounds, less revenues, etc. The tide has been going out since 2015, and 2016 is the year in which we find out which unicorns were swimming naked and which weren't.
And you forget the whole Ottoman rule thing. We brunt the conquerors wrath up to Vienna and barely stopped them. Had our development extinguished for 3-5 centuries. When people in Eastern Europe see the hordes of young, fighting age passing trough they have different associations - like Devşirme
If they changed the tax code to let businesses get a deduction based on property they buy or build, ownership would be so much more diverse.

I suggest you get another accountant. What happens is that the costs are spread over several years but you do deduce the costs.
Sorry that you had such an unpleasant meal. That sounds like a typical big city touristy place. I don't think you should expect that experience elsewhere, especially outside of major cities.

I've spent more time in smaller towns in Italy, but even in Rome I was able to find good non-touristy places. I've been to places like you describe and they suck.
Did you mean 'relatively prosperous'? I thought Pakistan was somewhat like India; better than where these refugees are from but not quite prosperous.
An intern made this gloriously awful site
I've been coaching one of our interns at Tilt how to make rails apps in my spare time. He needed a quick app for something and made this over the course of a few days. It's beautiful and horrible at the same time ha

https://tiltroulette-production.herokuapp.com/
They have very well defined businesses, actually.

1) Ads
2) Enhanced subscriptions for recruiters
3) Premium subscriptions for end users
Economy isn't a zero-sum game because you create wealth.
Facebook at Work is very different from LinkedIn. I doubt they will compete with each other at all - at least not any time soon.

LinkedIn is focused on helping companies find and recruit employees, and also helping job-seekers find new jobs. Facebook at Work seems to be focused more on communication and collaboration within a given company or project.

Of course, it's entirely possible that Facebook at Work would grow into something closer to LinkedIn. Despite LinkedIn having a huge head start in this area, Facebook probably could catch up. Lots of people already have Facebook accounts, and people generally like having fewer accounts for things rather than more. Plus, Facebook could easily replicate a lot of the recruiting features that companies currently pay LinkedIn thousands of dollars per year for.
My 2 fav parts

1) He actually checks for an error if you have an empty file input

2) He thinks he's using react for this.
And at least where I went, you would never get your security deposit back, regardless of the state of the building, despite the fact that most they would do when you leave would be putty and paint.
Just FYI to anyone thinking of doing this: "prolonged time" can mean years. For me, the effect is still there even if very faint. I see the green and red, just initially whenever I view the checkerboard, and it goes away after a few seconds. I did the exercise I think probably sometime in 2010.

Although I am happy to report that the impact on other areas of my life has been zero, as far as I know.
That would be nice, but perhaps a bit rough on the free CDNs who are nice enough to host the packages?
Sigh. Was it really necessary to preface it with: "This is not a flippant comment"?

How else to explain such sudden deaths, even considering there was enough warning of impending catastrophe, and time to escape? Why else stick it out until that final blast of pyroclastic fury?
Right, and tons of that scientific analysis goes on. It just doesn't hold much sway over some rather substantial portions of the electorate.
PSA he is not a dev intern ;)
Well, asylum-seekers are a massive political football at the moment, but they're a drop in the bucket compared to other migration - Australia has 500k in and 300k out for an annual net migration of 200k in. Excluding kiwis, permanent migrants in are about 86k. Asylum-seekers are very much in the media, but they are also very not typical of the usual migrant situation here.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/3412....

With 28% of our population being born overseas, we're doing integration okay (21% if you discount UK and kiwiland - and our #1 country of import in recent years is China). For comparison, the UK is 12% and the US is 14%. If you look at the current migrant rate (migrants/1000 pop/year), there are only two sizeable western countries higher than Australia, being Norway and Spain. If you exclude conflict areas, there are no other large countries higher than Australia[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

Basically, the WAP is dead as a dodo as of 40 years ago. The idea that Australia is an insular country afraid of immigration is clearly a myth once you look at the stats. Of course, that doesn't sell newspapers.

In short, no, we haven't gone backwards. We're actually a success story, it's just that we have a very visible wart on our nose at the moment (thank you, politics).

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[1] this data is from 2014, which is before Germany took in 1% of it's population in the form of Syrian refugees
I think abusing animals is wrong. But human interests are always more important than any animal interests. The government must exist solely to protect human interests.
Funny bone indeed. It also seems that, as a consumer, these same professions are the hardest to get good information about. If someone serves a burger with a bland sauce they'll get 20 Yelp reviews over the weekend. On the other hand, there's no way for you to tell if your lawyer is going to charge $500/hr to to google stuff that you googled a long time ago.
I agree with you. If the majority choose to adhere to a particular cultural norm or taboo, that is their choice.

But there are also people (and it is not a small minority) trying to impose their culture and taboos on other people. Just look at all the pressure and calls for action against Chinese and Koreans over their consumption of dog-meat. Here is an example of a petition that gathered over 4 million votes (https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-yulin-dog-meat-eating-fest...)

This article seems to cover the ethical and moral points, nicely : http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/22/eat-cat...
People move somewhere for a reason: most migrants (they are white so they are usually referred to as expats) in my neigborhood in south Spain are Brits who came for the weather and low prices: a lot of them simply want to live in a cheaper and sunnier UK. They do not want to integrate as that is not why they came. Same for the Germans; we have an entire town where everything is in German. Some come for the different lifestyle and Spanish culture; those integrate fast but it is a minority.
Looks like I misremembered and it wasn't a kernel extension. It was a product called SafeConnect by Impulse. Based on the instructions I can find, it doesn't seem to require root so it must not be a kernel extension. But on contemporary Unix-y systems like OS X and GNU / Linux, pretty much all your privacy is gone if there is a rogue process running as you. You don't need root.

In any case, my attitude was that it was their network and they could put any restrictions on it, although they may be in very bad taste.
This problem is much more serious when you are talking about opaque DSLs. Even having to retreat to dramatically different corners of a huge language is not too hot. By comparison, a garden of libraries that are all readable by anyone in command of a smaller core language is a smaller problem.
Why Are We Always So Uninterested to See Our Own Country?
This describes me as well. I'm 34 and haven't been in a serious relationship yet. (There are a few other reasons for that fact, but I do think the parent thing has something to do with it.)
How CPU load averages work, and using them to triage webserver performance
Oh, I didn't see they used Reddit to vote on submissions - that's pretty nice. I guess the community is to blame then, though you can't really blame the community.
> That said, I'm really surprised that JTAG couldn't read out the ROM, in theory that is how you would program it.

I'm no embedded expert, but I would assume some devices let you write to them and upload new code using the JTAG interface, but still prevent you from reading if the author have signalled that he wants his code protected.

Quick DDGing seems to suggest this is indeed a vendor/chip-specific capability:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jtag+read+protection&t=ffsb
Exactly why I like it. I'm fed up of constant emails, I went a way traveling for 3 months. Had 12 newsletter emails and a few News or Updates (From the same service) - Times that by the num of other newsletters I sign up to meant a lot.
Here's a tech sector example. If your startup wants to become an auDA registrar (i.e. of domains under .au) you must first spend six months as a reseller of an existing registrar.

You read that right. Planning on building anything innovative around a .au domain registration? Please, first funnel all your anchor customer registrations to a competitor. Oh, and build your stack and business processes around their platform, workflows, APIs &c.
Developers who primarily write code for Linux servers will prefer to have a *nix workstation. That normally means using a Mac or running Linux on a computer built for Windows. Some also run Linux VMs on a Windows laptop, but that's a lot more work.
Why do you need this two-company set up in order to deduct mortgage interest from taxable income? Why wouldn't it work if the operating company bought real estate?
More than one library by Kenneth Reitz can be described in this way. It is a way of complaining about the color of the bikeshed.
How can you compare the top tier relocation to the third tier?
JTAG is pretty much only to test physical pins in production, everything else it does is just vendor extensions on top.

Most chips allow you to disable JTAG completely or prevent reading out the program, only erase it.
I'm pretty sure it was How to Make Computer Controlled Robots that I found in my school library as a kid and spent hours staring at, desperately wishing I had access to anything resembling a computer...
> ... although there are still proprietary forks, especially in embedded systems, because of limited resources (and apparently sometimes appetite) for GPL enforcement.

As you said the software freedom conservancy is having financial troubles (why the Linux foundation doesn't just cut them a cheque is beyond me). However, a lot of embedded systems use BSD and other such systems. And ultimately, that's not the point I was making. The point is that the GPL not allowing proprietary forks is a benefit (both from a freedom aspect, but also from a technical aspect) and has given us all much better technologies as a result. The "freedom" to make proprietary software (which is a misuse of the term) is a tiny "benefit" (I don't think it is a benefit) when compared to the end results of GPL software like Linux.
XBase
Oh, really?
It actually seems obsessed, not natural, to do all that blogging and documenting. It means his mind was constantly going about his plan even though he was meeting new people and such. I don't know, seems contrived if you don't realistically try to let go and live a normal life, and then see if 1000 days later that strong love did survive. If he kept nurturing the love by dedicating his days to documenting, what's the point he's proving?
No wonder there is a saying, Simplify to Succeed and Complicate to Profit.
I don't think it would be. Parallel downloads would simply mean that more of the client's bandwidth is consumed by connecting to multiple mirrors at once. Each individual mirror will, at most, still supply the same total bytes and bandwidth (though it's likely that being able to download form multiple mirrors at once would end up lowering an individual mirror's overall load by more effectively spreading downloaders between different mirrors)
It also guarantees freedom no matter who packages the software. This is what I care about when making large projects.
Arranged marriages are probably a vestige of ancient society were alliances were designed to solidify clan associations.

If more women enter the workforce hopefully a Women's Rights Movement will take off. Maybe it will induce a sexual revolution and do away with arranged marriages in Indian society.

I was about to link to the recent NYTimes article [1] posted to HN which said Indian women were leaving the workforce ( workforce participation slid from 37% to 27% ), but looking at the linked data now it looks it stayed at 27 % [2]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-la...

[2] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.CACT.FE.ZS
Thanks for the input!
>The government must exist solely to protect human interests.

I mostly agree with you about the meat consumption thing, but this?

Are you saying govt. shouldn't be in the business of wildlife conservation, prevention of animal cruelty or abuse, or preservation of natural habitats (beyond considering their impact on humanity) ?
The internet is full of misinformation about dentists. Some corporate sponsored dentists will mill up thousands of fake reviews. These used to be five-star, but now they're smart enough to use a more nuanced strategy and throw in some four star, because at some point people caught on that no dentist has 45 consecutive five-star reviews. Also, the negative reviews will often disappear if the dentist has a lawyer handy.
Test your BIOS and share your results on GitHub
iirc, apt has support for it (it will only download a single thing at a time from a given host, but does appear to download different things from different hosts at the same time).

I believe gentoo's emerge also has support (though I'm not as sure here as I typically have the downloads happen in the background while building).

The overall goal here is to more effectively utilize the available bandwidth on the client side even when there are limitations a given server.

It's great that we can customize how to download 1 package at a time. But there is room for improvement.
The would maybe do if they had non trivial skills; tech uni degrees etc. Most can do only manual labor and/or have little or no education: we do not have jobs for those skillsets enough for natives let alone immigrants. A friend of mine fled for economic reasons (and more freedom) years ago: he was a surgeon and coder and (secretly) entrepreneur in his country; absolutely no issues getting a job and integrating.
Am I the only one that read the title and thought this was Pacman the game? I am surprised they let you use the name for something else considering it's supposed to be highly copyright-protected.

Sidenote: I am having trouble finding the link to an explanation what this really is. any help?
https://dataset.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html#dataset.T...
The State of Venture Capital
If you actually use RAII, and write braces in a bit of an unorthodox style, the distinction disappears even further:

{ AutoFile file("c:/temp/foo.txt", "w");
fprintf(file, "Hello, world"); }

(with-open-file (f "c:/temp/foo.txt" "w")
(fprintf f "Hello, world"))
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I would explain it in terms of paper. I have yet to meet someone who illuminates paper by shining a bright white light from behind it. Instead it is lit by daylight or reading lights, which are often a shade that makes the paper seem pleasantly off-white.

It follows that making your computer or web design a slight off-white is easier on the eyes, particularly in the case of a text-heavy design.
Then maybe charge a fee on profit, not on asset under management.
> the bubble has already burst.

Bubble is bursting. Nobody knows that it has already burst or finish bursting. When I see exodus from Bay Area like the one in 2001-2002 then I will believe the bubble has burst.

Tech-stock wreck destroys $529B this year
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/02/05/tech-...
I believe that is one of the reasons ats compiles to C - you can write a library that makes use of the advanced compile-time type features, but which can then be distributed as C code
Hasn’t the original author of “What Have You Tried?” themselves discouraged blind application of that prompt? http://mattgemmell.com/hindsight
Absolutely agree with the sentiment but it should be illegal to call powerbot rs buddy etc the golden days :D the golden days were before the profiteering age...
Had to reboot my modern day souped up mac.
Funny how simple it is to freeze a system....
> Well, then you have code written for a company on company and code written under a contributor agreement.

Not all contributor agreements are equal, and I would recommend choosing which projects you will not contribute to based on their CLAs. If they ask you to give them copyright without good reason, they are preparing to fuck you over. Ironically, this is why I will not contribute to GNU because they require copyright assignment so they have a higher chance of winning conservancy cases (IANAL, but I have one in my family and this is bullshit in my country but may be true in the US, so I feel conflicted about it).

> A lot of code that ended up under free licenses has been proprietary first and while they cannot revoke the free licenses from already released code they can make their next release non-free as long as they haven't accepted outside contributions without a suitable contributor agreement.

The only example I can think of is OpenSolaris (which required contributors to sign a CLA that assigned copyright to Sun/Oracle). Most modern projects don't work like that, and if you have a copyleft license, a company could not legally create a proprietary fork and distribute it.

Besides, if that happens you end up with free software forks (illumos in the OpenSolaris case) and everyone moves to using that.
I wanted to say something about that but it's not that black and white.

For example there were/are a lot of Muslims in the Balkans after the Ottoman empire - but they are integrated within the society - some of them drink/eat pork, none of them expect gays/adulterers to be stoned etc. Just like modern Christians reject the extreme parts of their religion (eg. they mostly ignore the stuff in old testament).

I don't think "islamophobia", in the sense that you'll be ostracized for being a muslim, is more common than the rest of EU.
The Tesla laws don't sound innocent at all however - I guess most people would agree that it seems pretty ridiculous right from the start.
> Investment advice is one of comparatively few fields where the quality of it available at $50 million in net worth is indistinguishable from $50k [+], but the price is 1000x higher.

Completely false. With $50 million you have access to all sorts of investment vehicles that you don't have access to with $50K. Hedge funds for example. Also, with $50 million you have more worries - the bank won't insure $50 million cash, so you need to be invested in something, with the aim of wealth preservation while paying as few taxes as possible.
pacman is the package manager for archlinux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman
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