skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Average life expectancy in France is 81 years, in the US it's 78 years.

On the other hand in 2008 Forbes compiled a list of the 15 healthiest countries based on a range of factors. France were number 15, the US were number 11.

Broadly I think they're probably about the same - essentially healthy Western nations who could do better.

For me the most interesting statistic about nationalised healthcare vs. the US model of private healthcare (other models are available) is the cost:

The US pays more per person on healthcare admin than the UK pays into the NHS in total.
Where do you compile your modules and how is deploying a loadable module any different than deploying a new nginx binary?
YouTube Videos on Google TV Now Controlled via Smartphone App
So wait, all 9MM cartridges are "Luger" cartridges? "Luger" and "9MM" are synonyms?

(Gun illiterate).
it is also a twitter client
The dramatic music and delivery of these guys' lines would make you think they just cured cancer or revolutionized the world.

I don't think you get to be this over the top for an $85 tablet accessory.
It looks different from Motortrend's pictures. Maybe the color scheme can be changed?

In any case, this is lightyears ahead of what competitors have to offer.
Wouldn't a more effective strategy be to deluge the site (or make many similar sites) with nudes and contact details so as to destroy any credibility?

Without credibility humiliation would be very difficult.

Also, where are the anonymous vigilantes who target child porn?
So, Achilles never caught up with that tortoise, after all.
Right, but that's a contractual expectation between you and say Google. It's not a general expectation that something will remain private. E.g. I expect my shrink not to tell people stuff, but I don't have a 4th amendment claim of he tells the police that I said I'd kill someone.
When I used to do IT work a few years ago I would use a large key drive as my general rescue drive. I would keep a 4-8GB OS partition and the remainder of the drive would store various disk images I needed. This meant I always had Mac OS X 10.4-10.6 handy in case a computer needed a reinstall.
Dear Amazon, Please Start Working Better With Authors
Why should they pay ANY tax?

No corporation pays taxes, they simply collect taxes for whichever government entity has its hands out. The reason why this works so well is that in general people are ignorant. It also helps that many are selfish, thinking that since they don't buy from X they aren't subject to the tax somehow.

So yeah, its annoying some companies are not paying into the local coffers but that is only the real issue being buried by those who like the populace clueless in tax matters.

In the states, I am not sure how the UK works, we have withholding tax where taxes are deducted from our pay before we see it. It helps hide the burden of government. So does taxing corporations.

Think about it, if every purchase you made had a line entry for "THIS IS THE EMBEDDED TAX" what do you think people would do?
Not according to this: http://html5test.com/results/desktop.html. BUT, IE will start to auto update their browsers here sometime soon, and in my books that's what makes a browser modern right now.
But it's not, at all.

The question I'm raising is: if I am obliged by law to pay X, is it moral that I pay only and exactly X?
Ah right, I should probably rephrase. When i said not a valid KickStarter i mean morally not technically.
Or at last, it was supposed to be...
Yes - all those things.

But the real reason it is there is that it speeds up getting an initial GPS fix. It provides a quick way to guess altitude, which lets it calculate where satellites should be better.
Yes, there's a full WebKit-based browser. It does not get disabled so your passenger can interact with it while you're driving.

But these are general safety issues that Tesla has let the driver decide for themselves, rather than forcing a decision with an automatic disabling at certain speeds. You can also drive the car off a cliff, if you so choose. It's really up to you to have some common sense about things like this. But the default interface and night mode are designed to not be a distraction, so only you and your passengers can create a distraction (which can happen in any car).
Resume's are too overrated
Title is self explanatory
Every outcome in Law & Order analysed
That, or ensuring that they're imprisoned for wire fraud, extortion, and/or conspiracy.

I think it was especially smart of these business geniuses to antagonize the former prosecutor who has decided to make a hobby out of destroying their lives.
Space junk: Worse than you think (pictures)
https://plus.google.com/112413860260589530492/posts/jVJhPyou...

"The primary purpose of the barometer is (at least, I've been told) to make GPS lockons faster. Locking on to a GPS involves numerically solving a 4-dimensional set of linear equations -- 3 dimensions in space, and time. ...

The barometer gives you a reasonable first-cut estimate for altitude."
This benchmark is a bit misleading, as it is not comparing like with like.

On the only benchmark where WebGL doesn't help, IE 10 does respectably. I have found in my limited testing of 2d canvas that IE 10 performs quite well.

While it would be nice to see WebGL in IE10, 2d canvas-based apps perform very well.
I'm curious about what 'Sinofsky-ization of teams' means. could you elaborate?
Are We Getting Smarter? by James R Flynn – review
> They wouldn't do it if those were actually illegal systems of tax minimisation.

A remarkably naive view of corporations.
Parsing large XML files efficiently with Python
That's a cheap jab. In this case Jeff Atwood in these years would have 'advertised' programming chairs, video cards, SDD disks and many more tech products.

I see only the genuine excitement of a tech geek over a new technology.

I will be definitely looking for a USB 3.0 stick, regardless of the brand, I didn't even notice what brand it was until you pointed to it.
I've always wondered what the minimum unit for mechanical life would be. I.e., what's analogious to a biological cell?

It seems to me to have an automated spaceship that can land on planets and produce more automated spaceships, it would require most of the tools available on earth in one way or another; vehicles, mining equipment, refineries, factories, and more. And for each piece say vehicles you need all of the infrastructure to create those.
Unfortunately there is a large group of people that do abuse the system.

A family member of mine is the head for a large region of Scotland for the Department of Work and Pensions.

They say that it is terrible what goes on. The average pensioner scrapes by and often do not take all that they are entitled to despite paying into the system for decades as you said.

On the other side is a huge amount of people claiming incredible amounts and have never worked in their life.

The people that do work hard and hit a rough patch are consistently those that claim the least, often waiting a lot longer than they need to before claiming anything.

Uk has the 4th largest defence budget in the world of £46.3 billion. We spend £62.3 billion on welfare. [http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2013UKbn_12b...]
I suspect that piracy works along the line of "product quality" / "ease of pirating a product". $50 apps and most eBooks have it a lot harder than $1 songs, even if their quality relative to their genre is the same.
Rather similar to those sites that take mugshots and the photographee's information and posts them online, and sometimes in print editions. In particular the site http://mugshots.com/ has a link to "Unpublish Mugshot" which in turns leads you to a "service" that will get your mugshot removed for a fee. Seems to me like legal extortion as well. Would be certainly interesting to see these kind of sites taken to court.
Checking these things wont get you disapproved from the App Store?
The Performance Impact of Using dict() Instead of {} in CPython 2.7
Right about what? I said "I don't know if that makes it illegal."

And I don't. It might be illegal and it might not be. This is one more incidence where the ubiquity of technology in our world is creating a situation that is morally clear but potentially legally vague.
MPG by itself is not enough to define if a car is "efficient" or not. We'd need more data to determine that.

Isn't the leaf a much smaller car?

Not to mention the fact that any electric car will be more energy efficient than one using an internal combustion engine.
You are right, that was a poor usage of the phrase "modern browser", but I'm sure you know what I meant (Chrome, Safari, and Firefox).
I see this misunderstanding over VAT in this and other posts on this subject.

To be clear, VAT registered entities do not pay VAT in the fashion you imply. VAT is due on a VAT invoice. Companies usually do not do business with sources that are not VAT registered. It is a round robin scheme for VAT registered entities.

Simple example.

Month one, Google sells a tablet. Customer pays VAT. Google gives VAT income to HMRC ( once per quarter ).

Month two, Google sells a tablet. Google buys goods plus VAT. Google subtracts VAT out from VAT in. HRMC pays Google if amount is negative. Google pays HMRC if amount is positive. This month Company X paid more VAT on stationary than they collected from sales. In this case they get a refund from HMRC.

In no case does Google pay VAT. Nor does any other VAT registered entity.

The entities that pay VAT are those who are not VAT registered. Those that are VAT registered are collectors for HMRC.

Google, Starbucks, Amazon have never paid VAT. They have at most passed on VAT payments made by their customers.
comments so awesome
Some iPad Mini Testing (With PDFs Too)
Maybe for hackers, but not for people in positions like IB and Accounting.
Just testing a longer distance through the air, and testing how they pass the athmosphere.
I think it's actually illegal in the EU to sell products bellow cost. We call it dumping but it seems Amazon and Google are able to do it just fine in the US. So that might be one reason.
Wouldnt it be faster to use it to create a google wallet account then just pay in one click? Whatever gets you an edge over the competition :-)
It is immoral if you evade the intent of the law by exploiting dubious loopholes such that you reduce the amount of tax you should pay beyond any reasonable lower limit to almost zero.

Starbucks needing to pay Starbucks so that they can use the Starbucks brand (and thus - co-incidentally we're told) syphoning off profit from Starbucks UK to Starbucks cupboard in tax haven is an example of something that might be legally correct but is morally wrong.

I think it's pretty clear that we disagree, so feel free to have the last word.
They also sell a 99 cent American Heritage Desk dictionary app. They are a Japanese company that's been making apps and accessories since the Newton.

Their website is interesting - http://enfour.com/
Because CPI measures a rate, explanations like this only work in the short run. As computers/etc become cheaper, they become a smaller and smaller fraction of CPI. In the long run, CPI will be completely dominated by whatever factor grows the fastest.

The article provides some evidence that this is not a short run phenomenon, nor a phenomenon limited to the US. A similar gap is present among Swedes in 1977, and persisted in the US from 1987-2000.
I agree, I must change the title soon.
I have wondered about buying unlocked phones in the United States. Does my monthly bill change when bringing an unlocked phone to Verizon or AT&T?
lol, thank you for assisting the special needs HN readers like myself :)
They or rather Twitter should revoke their oauth keys. Then push an update to the store with new keys.
How Lanyrd moved from AWS to SoftLayer and MySQL to PostgreSQL with no downtime
Wish it had gone to c-base
As mentioned below in another comment reply I made, that was a poor usage of "modern browsers". I meant like Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Also, I agree that it's disappointing, but I also don't think it's necessarily a "deal breaker" for the features that IE10 is missing. However, that will depend on the style of HTML5 game that you are building.
A remarkably naive view of humans, actually :D

My point being that from the perspective of pure greed, breaking tax laws is dumb. The IRS, HMRC, the ATO and their ilk all have amazing powers to obtain compliance from taxpayers.

But only up to the boundaries of the law. Which is why the smart thing to do is to ... work up to the boundaries of the law.
Disappointing, perhaps, but somehow it still manages to be better than Opera and Safari (Windows Safari, at least) for HTML5 games based on my testing [1]. Going from last place to third place in such a short time period is an achievement in my book, even if I'd still never use IE as my primary browser.

Admittedly IE10 is still missing some features I would mark as important for game development, but when I contacted some IE devs over at Microsoft (just send an email!) they got back to me with simple workarounds that made it possible to get my games running with a few lines of additional code. (Not IE-specific code either, just clever feature-detection fallback for any browser.)

Here's how I suggest looking at it instead: Holy shit, the browser that comes stock on Windows 8 can actually run a large majority of HTML5 games and applications! You don't have to nag people to install Chrome or Firefox just to use your app! Sure, you want them to upgrade anyway - and they probably will - but that's something!

Now if IE11 comes out and doesn't advance the state of things here I'll certainly be disappointed, but at present I'd say I'm actually quite pleased: in the jump from 9 to 10 MS has brought IE forward enough that you can run HTML5 games in it without having to write a ton of browser-specific hacks or feature implementations.

WebGL support would be nice, but you still can't rely on WebGL in HTML5 games anyway since it doesn't work on a large percentage of desktop machines and is basically unusable on mobile. I think this is another area where the pressure should be on MS to get a rock solid implementation of WebGL into IE11, not to complain about IE10 not having an API that is arguably still not ready for prime time (Though increasingly close).

Complaints about not having the Web Audio API are similarly missing the point since you can't use it anyway unless you're writing a Chrome Experiment - your real complaints should be reserved for the fact that IE still has an undocumented limit on the number of live <audio> instances you can put in a single page, or for IE's latency when playing new sound effects.

Finally, allow me to repeat others' comments that it's incredibly stupid to benchmark a canvas-based game against a webgl one and present the numbers side-by-side with a straight face. Canvas performance is miserable in every single browser and IE has nothing to do with this. IE actually has one of the better Canvas implementations out there. The fault lies with Canvas being a poorly-specified, poorly implemented API, not with IE.

[1] I regularly test all my HTML5 game ports across the major browsers and regularly hit crash bugs in Safari and Opera. Also, Windows Safari still can't play back audio which is... inexplicably stupid.
Their has been studies that the recruiter barely looks at the resume for 6 seconds. That they make their decision during the interview
The score for IE10 is 320. It's close to Safari 5.1, the previous version of Safari, which scores 319.

Of course, it's not as high as the current leader (Maxthon 3.4.5 at 457), but IE10's got a decent score, and is definitely a big improvement compared to IE9.
Designers don't really need it, too. Especially in freelancing, resumes are not necessary.
Wouldn't it be a simple matter of finding somebody who could be underage and the call the FBI?
One major benefit over hardware? - it's easily changed. Almost certainly will you eventually be able to apply whatever skin suits your fancy. It also opens up very interesting opportunities for the homebrew scene.
"Wouldn't a more effective strategy"

Not for a lawyer (the one doing the pro bono representation) who may very well be doing this for the publicity value of taking on the cause. (Not to mention the time and effort it would take to pull off that strategy. And you'd have to find the info to post and make up fake info which would most likely violate something in the process).
No, but the Luger, or 9x19mm Parabellum as it's also called, is by far the most common type of 9mm ammunition used.
> The moment a non-secret ballet becomes a large-scale option, then the most vulnerable will be targetted.

Since voting by mail is available in all 50 states to anyone, this threat you describe should have materialized, no? But it hasn't. At all. There are zero cases of it.
Somehow I think obviously questionable ideas like these have a positive impact.

They are most likely teaching users a lot more about privacy than all the warnings of us "paranoids" can achieve.
I liked the fact they took it into account too. I did find this review of the IPad Mini particularly amusing:

"Lining those pluses and minuses up against those for the Nexus 7 – which garnered four stars – there's no doubt that this is indeed a five-star device. The 70% difference in comparative price is more than made up by the difference in build quality and software selection"
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/31/ipad-mini-r...)

Not arguing one way or the other but this and a few other recent reviews have made me wonder why tech reviewers seem to pay so little attention to price.
How legally vague do you really think this is? Running a fake independent takedown service to remove humiliating photos from a porn site is fraud and probably extortion under the plain wording of the statutes.
Genuine question: If the subjects of these photos have no legal recourse, what is the point of Model Release forms?
Probably still more than his old one.
"The point is that you have to define "where" the profit was made. In an international environment that's pretty close to insensible"

Not in the case of a bricks n' mortar business like Starbucks it ain't!

"And I still think that morally there isn't a categorical difference between minimising tax by spending money and minimising tax by ... spending money."

And I don't see what 'by spending money' has to do with anything.
Anticipation is the purest form of pleasure...
Does checking for those things slow down the load time of the app? Wouldn't that punish paid users?
Well, I imagine if they don't reach 40k they don't want to try and manufacture it. As Kickstarter refunds everyone's money in this case it's still a good fit IMO.
Oh yeah Apple and Windows have monopoly over open source. Way to go Apple and Windows. BTW Netflix does have obligations to their paying members.
If anyone is feeling particularly vigilante... the site is Wordpress served via Apache/2.2.22. Likely vulnerable to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris and other easy attacks.
Its 299 (granted € not $) in Germany too, thats more expensive than in the US but still cheap for a phone like that!

Cool phone, LTE is a non issue for me since its not widely available here anyway and with the tiny amount of data your get here (i have 300Megs included in my contract after which it gets slowed down to dialup speeds) its kinda useless.
I'd also like to point out mauricesvay's take on this: https://github.com/mauricesvay/CheaterPress. His implementation runs in the browser and is both simpler and faster than mine.
The OBi110 Voice Service Bridge and VoIP Telephone Adapter lets you have your Google Voice number wired into your home phone jacks.

http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapte...

I've used a couple of these for two years without issues.
Disabling unused daemons to speed up your boot sequence
Apple needs to burn these people to the ground as an example to others. Pull their apps, refund their customers, and ban them from all Apple platforms for life. If Apple doesn't severely punish this sort of thing, then just what good is their fancy walled garden?
There are both cheaper plans available and you won't be locked in for 2 years. Both, combined, are worth more than the ~$300-$400 phone subsidy over two years that the telco provides.
A person doing this in a foreign country out of the easy reach of authorities in the US (for example) could get away with this though for quite some time until they (or Chris Hanson the Dateline guy) caught up with them though. It's not a sustainable business of course but it would be able to make money for a short time period.
It's nice how when you are rich enough you have a choice of paying taxes?

You know what startup would grow the size of Google? One that would provide fully automated, dirt cheap tax avoidance for the masses. If anything, that would be one way of closing the various loopholes that everybody knows about.
Not exactly no downtime... but all site content stayed available throughout the move thanks to our handy read-only mode. We added this early in the life of the site and it's proved extremely useful for a couple of major moves. It's a pretty simple implementation (based on our site-wide feature flags) - once in read-only mode all login cookies are ignored (so everyone gets the signed-out experience) and the sign-in button is disabled. We also return an error for any POST requests just in case someone has already loaded a page with a form before we turned read-only mode on.

The moment we've gone in to read-only mode we can create a brand new instance of the site from a copy of the (now frozen) database, make any necessary changes to that, then switch traffic over to the new instance once we've tested that everything is working properly. If the new version of the site has a problem we can turn read-only mode off and continue to run on our original database.

If you're running a more content-oriented site it's well worth taking the time to set this kind of thing up - it's not too hard to do, and it gives you an enormous amount of flexibility for maintenance further down the line.
It may well have been a "fun thing" they added in there, but never intended to release to the public. The "bug" could well have been that it was enabled in the public release.

So, it's a feature, but the bug could have been that it was unintentionally 'enabled'.
I've gone to other jobs like admin jobs an they ask
For resume but they barely look at it. Sometimes they just sidetrack and ask me workout tips -__- straight face. But it has gotten me the job lol
So I've been looking at reviews of Nexus 4 all week. I have had IPhone for the past few years (3g then 4).

I want to switch, but I don't know if Nexus 4 is the one to switch to... I don't quite understand the differences between Android versions of S3 and Note 2, but apparently this has a vanilla android version.

What is the best choice? S3? Note 2? Nexus 4? What advantages do each one have over the other?
More about side projects and creativity
Sure, I am definitely just armchair quarterbacking to their actual results.

It just seems like another one will pop up and you will be playing wack-a-mole with a rather long and expensive sounding process no?
A couple issues among many:

* The operators of the site ostensibly don't publish the images (though they may be); the users of the site do.

* The site itself isn't ostensibly "commercial"; you also don't need a model release to post an image of your friends to Facebook.

* The remedies for unauthorized use of a model's likeness are all civil and involve suing and coming up with a number for damages, which is an extremely arduous process.