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Thanks, Justin! Yes, e.g. German wages haven fallen due to the EU expansion. If at all, the German labour market is stronger than before. (But there are other confounding factors, like broader labour market reforms that provided some much needed flexibility. Also Germany did not really have a minimum wage, and now they introduced something like it. (I'm not too current on that. Wikipedia probably knows more.))

I'm also working with lots of Polish people. (And I won't even escape them in Singapore.)
Ideally politics of healthcare are avoided, and then people can provide information about how this stuff is handled in other countries, or discuss better systems.

You have a flow of 'patients' through a system. You also have a flow of information about those 'patients'. Some people need access to (some of) that information (doctors, the patients, their carers) but the information needs to be kept private from others.

Already there's an interesting problem that plays to the strength of many people on HN.

Given that health care spending is so large - about £120bn in the UK[1], about $800bn US[2] - it would seem that big money is available for a good solution to these problems.

There are people doing interesting things in health care IT. But I don't know what a minimum viable product looks like when you're aiming at over 60 million records (UK population) or 300 million records (US population).

[1] (http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/uk_health_care_budget_2009...)

[2] (http://www.usfederalbudget.us/health_care_budget_2012_1.html)
I'm probably one of the few people here who's actually tried an atypical anti-psychotic (mistakenly, might I add, I'm not schizophrenic). It was an absolutely horrible experience which I would not wish on anyone. Everything is blunted, you're tired and there are no good emotions or bad ones. It's bland, flat and not a life worth living. The irony is that we do have the tools to treat these types of illnesses. We've had them for a long time. Unfortunately, politics dictate that these tools are not an option.
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It depends on your goals.

If the goal was to create a new language well Dart has done that.

If the goal was to give web dev some of tools of app dev (static typing, classical restricted OOP, better speed) I don't think Dart was the right answer specifically because I don't think it's got much chance of getting adopted by other browsers.

The practical solution IMO would be the CLR. Why? Because if Google had chosen the CLR they'd instantly have brought Microsoft and IE along with them at which point Mozilla would probably be pulled in if kicking and screaming.

That seems to me the most pragmatic solution but sadly Google is unwilling to do that for whatever reason.
For UK Visitors:

The Pirate Cloud

So, first we ditched the trackers.

Then we got rid of the torrents.

Now? Now we've gotten rid of the servers. Slowly and steadily we are getting rid of our earthly form and ascending into the next stage, the cloud.

The cloud, or Brahman as the hindus call it, is the All, surrounding everything. It is everywhere; immaterial, yet very real.

If there is data, there is The Pirate Bay.

Our data flows around in thousands of clouds, in deeply encrypted forms, ready to be used when necessary. Earth bound nodes that transform the data are as deeply encrypted and reboot into a deadlock if not used for 8 hours.

All attempts to attack The Pirate Bay from now on is an attack on everything and nothing. The site that you're at will still be here, for as long as we want it to. Only in a higher form of being. A reality to us. A ghost to those who wish to harm us.

Adapt or be forever forgotten beneath the veils of maya.
I would love technical details. Anyone know if they have published them anywhere?
In practice this probably means several replicas of the site dormant in different cloud providers. The providers won't have a clue until they go live.

In effect, they are replacing their current legal protections with a game of cat and mouse as they switch between clouds.
Surely that indicates not that they think "adult funsies" are important (though maybe they do) but just that they expect some people to be worried about the prospects of having their adult-funsies activity logged on someone else's server, and want to reassure them that it won't be. Seems reasonable to me.
The artificial inflation comes from it being illegal to import say medicine across borders.
We are all interpreters
Silly article, silly rhetoric.
Wow, I'll try one of these tactics in the future~~
sure "thepiratebay" as we can define it is linked to wherever the DNS entry points to?

That is the single point of failure, even in a move to the cloud.
Shocking over Wi-Fi? Just wait until 4chan hears about it...
We lived in much more interesting times. N1 rocket 40 years ago had better isp. And "Energia" single unit (up to 8 could be equipped in a single complex) had isp of 476s 20 (yes, twenty) years ago. This enabled the USSR to send 20t to Mars or 8t to Jupiter in 1991.

But the USSR falled, and this tech will never be recovered.
As helmet mounting isn't their only use-case, this allows for chest etc. mounting, where 'tube' cameras fall short.
Hmm, didn't know that, thanks. I suppose if you really wanted to you could add a test to see if postMessage was async or not...
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The announcement is rather nebulous, as is their way. TorrentFreak has a more detailed explanation: http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-moves-to-the-cloud-become...

It's pretty much what you'd expect, though: The web site is now running on VMs on two unnamed cloud providers, accessed through a load balancer. All traffic is still routed through servers they control. The cloud providers apparently don't know that they're hosting the pirate bay, or pirate cloud as it were. If a cloud provider goes away, they can move to the VMs to another one. If their own transit routers go down, no data is lost and it's easy to get back and running.
Did you check out the video? Crank up the the quality to 1080p and check out the demos from bikes and planes - looks stunning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3PDXmYoF5U&feature=playe...
It is interesting that they mention Perforce releasing a git-compatible frontend/adaptor. I've heard that at least two top-10 code shops (hint: both are in Seattle) built something like this in-house over a year ago since they were unable to switch away from P4 but wanted to placate newer devs that liked git.
Well that was easy. It even worked on the internationalized version in my native language, which is not common with corporate websites. But that's just the first step, anyway.
Also, the UK Pirate Party has a "cloud" mirror of TPB:

https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/

And there is a Tor hidden service for it as well, which can not be taken down unless Tor it's self is taken down:

http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/

And for those who want to use Tor hidden services, but don't have Tor installed:

https://jntlesnev5o7zysa.tor2web.org/
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LuaJIT 2.0.0-beta11 released
"The first LuaJIT 2.0.0 release candidate will follow in ~2 weeks"

Very happy to finally see an official release!
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Why do you think 2GB free is no-where near enough? I know a lot of users that use Dropbox's free plan and are happily syncing and sharing.

I use 7% of my 12 GB.
> where anything less and I am significantly tired

From what I have read, the ideal amount of sleep needed is quite personal and some people are fine with 6 to 7 hours while others just need 9 - but pretty much all studies consistently showed that less than 6 is definitely not enough and when sleeping less than 6 hours for a longer time you might even have hallucinations and at the very least your overall performance will suffer.

So I think you are doing it right. You might want to experiment with those 90 minute sleep phase calculations like sleepyti.me or others.

> A big factor also seems to be breathing function throughout sleep

Absolutely! Sleep apnea is VERY serious and one of those things that prevent you from getting a good night of sleep for a lot of (very) large people.
Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof
The Perl source code use to be on Perforce before moving to Git a few years back. They probably could have done with this adaptor because it took some effort to get 21 years of Perl commit history over to Git! - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_development_now_on_git

extra ref: Perl5 git repo: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git |
Github mirror: https://github.com/mirrors/perl
> Yesterday we had to implement adding two numbers over SOAP.

To be honest this actually sounds like a very useful exercise. I mean SOAP sucks, but SOAP, XML, and web-APIs are highly relevant to many jobs. Just being able to do simple things in SOAP (like add numbers) seems like it would be useful to a lot of students.

PS - I agree that UML is useless.
I think what is meant is apply the discrimination on the selection for the trial run.

Don't know if its legal but it would certainly be an asshole move.
I think the point is that they can recover extremely quickly after any take downs. Much more quickly than it takes to organise the take down in the first place. Making it pretty much pointless to do.
>> Either the money comes back to the US eventually, or if it doesn't

> That may be the most superfluous statement I've ever read.

To elaborate: Either the money comes back into the US, then it doesn't matter for aggregate demand that it was sent out as remittance first. Or, if the money doesn't come back, then the Fed can just react by printing more money. (And the American public profits by getting some labour just for some pieces of paper---or more accurately, for some entries in a database.)
There are many failure modes for a site like TPB. This move removes many, not all, of them. One important failure mode that has been removed is the one where the servers are seized and information on them is used to go after users.
This is the Fermi Paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox ). The more we learn about space, the more clear it becomes that extraterrestial life is more likely. But where the hell are they?!
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I guess in terms of licensing, there's a large initial outlay, and once you reach a certain number of users, the cost-per-user to you drops which means the mailbox cost drops as well.
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Underweight can be as much of a problem as overweight.
Screen -r Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/2' - please check.
...and then you have to,
exit
chmod 666 /dev/pts/2
su -l someuser
screen -r
...to resolve the issue,

there must be some other more clever way, right?
thats bdsm
> I have seen many people use quicksort in situations where the worst case either occurs quite often or can be easily caused by an attacker to occur

Isn't the pivot point in standard quicksort randomized? If so, how can there exist cases where an input will often hit the worst case? Are there attacks that work without having to predict the PRNG?

Of course if you know something about your data, there are often faster ways of sorting it, but that doesn't seem to be the complaint rendered.
Of course UK prisons aren't holiday camps. But there's no chance of McKinnon ending up in one of those prisons. I meant that the impression given of US prisons is like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2kTQKZaSU&noredirect=1

...and McKinnon did get the impression he might end up somewhere like that. If you stand a good chance of being beaten, raped, tortured and eventually killed, then how exactly is it less bad than being sent to a third world country? Better food? ;)

As for "cult hero", I've no idea where you got that from. People generally think he's a slightly pathetic character who did something a bit stupid by poking about in unsecured computer systems. A crime that possibly merits a £2000 fine and some community service (and firing the people responsible for securing those systems).

Instead, it's "extradite a hacker" to meet with Justice (American Style!). Can you not see why people would object to that?

[edit for spelling, and forgot a bit]
Aha, that'll do it! I never knew that there was a "last updated" list.

What worries me is that recruiters must think that this is a legitimate way to source talent...
Many companies I spoke to are stuck with Perforce because its the only version control system that has been proven to scale with thousands of users. Thats not to say Git can't scale but convincing enterprises that Git can scale and showing how they can do it is the next challenge for Git evangelists.
have you checked out coursera?

I started when I was 8, first professional programming job in 10th grade...

The jump from intermediate to "complete" is indeed very large, so expect a journey.

You need to find something you enjoy working on that you evolve over the next couple of years to learn about software engineering and what automation is important etc. This could be a game or an extension to an open source game, it doesn't really matter. It will almost certainly be a failure in some sense, so it's good to get that first failure out of the way so you can scrap it, revisit, etc.

I think coursera would be a great place for you to start, though it may require you to learn a new language (this is one step on the journey towards advanced in X language, I expect it would be octave/matlab) I'd recommend doing the introductory machine learning course and whatever other stuff interests you.

From the quality of your writing, you're quite bright for 14 - so stick to it and don't neglect your physical health and artistic/emotional/cultural education because you need to be free of distractions to reach highest level.
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correct link: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/migrating-fro...
I wonder how vulnerable this approach is to timing attacks similar to the ones you can use to smoke out onion routed machines.

If you know the physical and network location of their routing boxes and you keep polling some (e.g. static) resource on their servers you can eliminate all cloud providers that are further away than the response time as being the hidden backend.

Let's say you narrow it down to 10 candidates and 5 of them experience some sort of network issue that gets reflected in the response times of TPB, you've now narrowed it to 5.

I wonder what they're doing to mitigate these sort of timing attacks meant to discover their hidden backend.
In the real world, I mainly see people using R or SAS : especially in the web or ecommerce domain. I hardly ever see people using Matlab. Moreover, a lot of research papers publish R code.

If Octave's only claim to fame is being the poorer cousin of Matlab, I wonder why universities still use Octave to teach anything. I would much rather that they use R : which pretty much ensures that the students have an open source path to use it in the future.
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First suggestion. You are asking for help - so please provide a clickable link to your web site. like this: http://www.sillytrader.com/

Then make it clear just what sort of feedback you want. Site design, business model, service concept etc etc?

The "silly" is just that and comes over as somewhat juvenile. If I am a hard working designer I would look for professionalism and some assurances that this was not just a place where my work would be ripped off. What is the value proposition for me?

Sign-up form wants me to agree to "terms of use" but I can't see what they are - so no deal.

If I am a buyer - how do I know that I am going to get a valid license to use the images - do the sellers own the copyright?
obscure announcement is obscure.

basically seems like they've got a virtual setup now that lets them essentially deploy "the pirate bay" on anything that runs virtual machines.

Now if they had distributed user run VMs running this private server VPN they might have something to talk about, but is basically just a hosting change. Makes it easier for them to move around as hosting get wise and shuts them off (as it will inevitably do).

The real question is, are they doing something sneaky like having VMs running on known clouds using encrypted vpn traffic to hide the fact that those machines are pirate bay VMs, and relays to feed info in and out. ;) Just speculating...
The Antares rocket uses, or is about to use, NK-33 engines recovered from the N1 program. The reason these engines are so efficient is that they are closed loop. But that doesn't mean they are overall cost efficient. Of course when you're going beyond orbit the calculations change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staged_combustion_cycle_(rocket...
http://www.orbital.com/Antares/
Yeah, I had no idea what was going on until I read your handily provided article, haha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

By the looks of it, the future generations on earth will look at our chase for unobtainium in the same we look at alchemists today.
You definitely need to write this up fully!
Ask HN: How can I find a job?
Hi HN readers. I'd like to ask for your advice.

I'm currently about to finish a 1-year master's program in computer science this semester. I would like to start looking for a job for after I graduate, but I'm not sure where to begin and I keep putting this off due to school-related deadlines. I consider myself a decent to good programmer generalist. I've messed around with a lot of different languages/frameworks/ideas but not gone particularly in-depth with any of them. As a result, I have relatively little to show for the time I've put in. I don't have any significant personal projects, and given my current academic workload (I chose to take a number of project-based courses this semester, and the work adds up, but their assignments feel contrived), I'm not sure how to find time for stuff on the side.

I felt I was really unprepared to look for a job when I finished undergrad. I didn't know how to interview well, and before long, I found myself pressured into significantly less than my dream job by an exploding offer. Now, I couldn't possibly claim to be a rock-star, ninja, or what have you, but I do feel I have decent experience/intuition and a good ability to learn. What I don't have is an amazing GPA or a good memory for well-known algorithms, framework APIs, or brainteasers. Right now, I'm afraid I'm on the same track as I was before. I'm not sure where to look, but the few people and places I've talked to appear to have labeled me as incompetent or undesirable.

So, I'm going to go out on a limb and attempt something analogous to Pascal's wager. I happen to believe I'm a decent to good programmer. (If I'm not, then perhaps there's not much help for me. So, for the sake of productive discussion, let's at least pretend that I am.) What should I do to market myself and convince potential employers to agree with me in this belief?

Thanks!

P. S. Sorry, but I couldn't find the option to have this listed under the Ask section. Please move it for me if that would be appropriate.
The point is right now JS developers of big apps write this kind of comments because they are understood by tools like https://developers.google.com/closure/.
It's probably a combination of floating point errors adding up.
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Misremembered the number. It's actually 19-19.5, quite stable over the years.
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Also, almost any Mars mission would involve a lot of heavy lifting
into low earth orbit to construct a vehicle that would transport
people there and back.

I keep seeing this assertion but I'm genuinely curious to know why this is the case.

If you're going to assemble the vehicle in LEO anyway before you send it off to Mars why is it so much better to do so by lifting up X pieces for assembly with X huge rockets instead of lifting up X * N pieces on X * N smaller rockets?

Sure you get into engineering problems eventually if your rockets are too small, since any single component can't be larger than those rockets can carry. But if nobody even has a design for such an in-orbit-assembled vehicle, then just starting out by making a really big rocket seems to be a case of putting the cart before the horse.
Or you could just look at the network traffic that the load balancers are generating to see where the majority of it is going.

I wouldn't bother just taking the load balancers down. I'd go upstream of them to see where the traffic is going, and then take down those hosts at the same time as the load balancers.
I actually find it very scary that the nearest planet not in the solar system is 4.3 Light years away!

If FTL / Close to light speeds are impossible in this universe, we're just left with generation ships [1]. It seems that there is a very good chance that we'd be stuck on this rock called the earth forever. Really need to take better care of it.

[1] and generation ships are highly impractical (see http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/designin... )
I admit to having a bit of an attitude about LH2; for 25 years after they developed the SSME, NASA maintained an attitude that if "it ain't hydrogen, it's crap". No non-hydrogen developments were funded during that time, and not coincidentally, no new first-stage engines ever reached flight status. Until SpaceX came along and developed its own hydrocarbon engines, we were reduced to buying hydrocarbon engines from the Russians. During that time I developed a heck of a bias towards hydrocarbons -- but I have to grant that it's certainly possible that advances in LH2 have balanced out the negatives since then.

You're correct that as you go reusable, the economics shift away from capital costs to operating costs. However, it seems to me that when you consider first stages from a systemic perspective, it's not obvious that it's any cheaper. Yes, Hydrogen gives you much more impulse, and so for a given degree of propulsion, you can use less fuel by weight. However, LH2:

1. Costs 4x as much as kerosene by weight

2. Is only 11% as dense as kerosene, requiring much larger and heavier (and highly insulated) tankage to hold it, and larger and heavier turbopumps, combustion chambers, and everything else that puts weight on a rocket. So while your wet weight may still be less, your dry weight is generally quite a bit higher. T/W is always lower than for hydrocarbon systems.

3. This much greater bulk increases your drag losses if you're operating in an atmosphere; lower T/W increases your gravity losses.

4. Although hydrogen doesn't suffer from coking on the combustion surfaces the way that hydrocarbon engines do, it embrittelises (is that a word?) everything it touches, making between-flight inspections a much more crucial and delicate process. There are hydrocarbon engines which have been fired thousands of times between rebuilds, for hundreds of hours of firing time. Show me a hydrogen engine is even 10% as durable.

Of course when you're in orbit, neither drag nor gravity loses matter, and the nature of the Rocket Equation dictates that every ounce of gross weight really matters. So LH2 makes undoubted sense there. But the exact inverse is true when you're launching off the ground. Unless some fundamental breakthroughs have occurred which I'm not aware of (always possible), I will remain very surprised if SpaceX is pursuing cryogenic first stages.