skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true, and at least it was still in effect last time I was in Beijing. Google Maps even disable their map+satellite view overlay above a certain zoom level to mask this (only in China - cross the border to free Hong Kong and it works), but you can still see it if you turn on Traffic view.

Domestic GPS devices have a reverse transform to mask the effect, but the result is you can never be sure exactly where you are. Seems like Baidu maps have fixed their map+satellite overlay now, but when I visited, they had the same problem.

http://home.wangjianshuo.com/archives/20081109_all_maps_in_c...
Tired. Cold. Sick. Not yet unpacked. Apartment barren of foods. I fire up Instacart – for the first time ever – and order groceries to make a stew. An hour later, with free delivery, the foods arrived.

Living in the future.
> Former USSR countries are mostly unified by the same language, religion (or lack of) and culture

You are a bit wrong there. Consider the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Culturally, genetically and linguistically they have almost nothing in common with their USSR neighbours. And pretty much the only thing share by the three states are the geographic location, some common lineage, and the fact that they were part of the USSR for about 45 years.

For example, Estonia considers itself to be a Nordic country; its inhabitants are genetically Nordic (and often as blonde as Scandinavians) compared to the Balts of the other two states, and its language is closely related to Finnish. (During Soviet occupation, the Estonian language was dominated by Russian, which was made compulsory in schools; after the USSR collapsed, Estonian has blossomed, especially among youths; I believe the same thing happened in the other Baltic states.) Latvian and Lithuanian share a common linguistic heritage, but they are different, and Latvians and Lithuanians cannot understand each other (unlike, say, Italians and Spanish people, or Scandinavians). Genetically Latvians and Lithuanians are closer to Estonians and Finns than to Russians.

The Baltics is just one example. For examples of other countries that seem weirdly out of place in the traditional US image of the Soviet Union, look at the Central Asian ex-Soviets states, such as Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

> They used to be the same country

The Soviet Union was a union of countries -- many of them forcibly invaded and taken over by the Soviets in the wake of WW2 -- and everything (culture, language, religion, etc.) reflects this fact. The Soviets ruled everything, including the economy, from Moscow, but each of the member states very much preserved their own sense of identity; it was a union, but not a "unified" one. While the Soviet Union may have superficially resembled the US, it was always a very different beast.
Citibank is down.
some of the problems are not bug that will definitely be ironed out as the time passes. some of the problems are on a fundamental architecture level. The whole scaling model needs to be axed and rebuilt from scratch. right now its totally brain dead.
Have you considered consulting? More high level, less in the weeds. Accenture, etc, look for people with technical backgrounds, you might look into it.
Show HN: Pebble - Facebook friend graph visualizer
Complexity In The Digital Supply Chain
> Is it somehow shocking that a probable cause standard doesn't apply to national security intercepts of cross-border communication?

USPS regulations prohibit reading of letter-mail crossing the border unless a warrant has been obtained.

So the answer is yes, it's shocking. Your email has fewer privacy protections than the same email printed out and mailed.

> The key point of FISA is not to legalize spying on communications among foreign nationals or between foreign nationals and Americans.

You may have entirely missed the debate a few years ago about amnesty for telecoms who participated in spying on Americans, directly against the law, but, well, that's on you.

In fact FISA at its last renewal was expressly and completely about legalizing spying on domestic communications between Americans. Which it did.
Timeplotters: two tools I wrote for visualizing logs and temporal data
Take some of your developer pay, pack y'er bags, and start looking for your place in society.

In my experience working 9 a 5 job makes you numb, in one way or the other. Comfort-zone's a bitch.

Start living frugal, read less HN (start writing), try making things with physical components, and work out. Endorphins do unexpected things to your mind.

If your not happy now, make small adjustments till you find yourself happy with the new situation. And then; disrupt.

There is no answer to happiness. Find the philosophy that works for you; live it.
Turkey/Istanbul maybe?
Umm, there is very little American cultural diversity. Slight differences in lifestyle don't make for cultural diversity. At least not in comparison to the various countries of Europe.
Masterpiece: Dragon Quest V
What's the other four?
Excuse the self-promotion, but a huge amount of effort went into both the tools and the documentation, and I actually believe they are very useful as they evolved in response to requirements of a cluster computing project where finding intricate performance problems was an everyday activity, and I made the tools have all the characteristics I found lacking in the alternatives I considered (R, Excel, gnuplot etc).

So far I got positive feedback mostly from my friends, but I would like to see the tools being helpful to a lot of people.
why are you interested the sensitive region of other country?
why area 51 is blocked from GPS? why can't countries outside U.S check how many Massacre weapons in this country?
why this domestic country arise the most the wars in last 60 years?
I used to work with a consultant paediatric neurologist who had the call go out on a trans-pacific flight for a heart problem. She was hesitating before responding because the last time she had anything to do with hearts or adults was in medical school 20 years earlier, and was frantically running through what she could remember of cardiac medicine. Just as she made up her mind to respond she was beaten to the response... by a cardiologist.
Is possible to know if  market share mean more virus?
I'm having a argument with others developers about why exist more "virus" (here collect all forms of external attacks) in android vs iOS. Like with Windows vs *nix the main idea is that the bigger market share is the determinant factor in the increase of attack attempts.

I think that the main factor is how easy is carry a successfully attack, ie: Windows have more virus because was a weaker target than others.

So:

1- More numbers (population) = more attacks or
2- More weak (security) = more attacks

I acknowledge is necessary a sufficient # of targets with enough value to sustain this behaviors, but think that is possible to have a more secure system, no matter how popular and that the increase on numbers will not yield a increase on insecurity.

However, that is my intuition. Exist a solid proof?
That's an Akamai edge timeout.
Please keep using pdf.
This is a very lazyweb kind of question. There are any number of old school photo apps you could use (e.g. Flickr with private groups) and any number of new photo apps on the scene with this value proposition (e.g. Tracks).

A detailed look comparing them for this purpose would be an interesting discussion.
I started freelancing a little over 2 years ago and have more than doubled how much I was making at my previous agency job. A few tips would be:

- Save up 3 - 6 months "salary" before you jump-ship. While you are doing that, build your portfolio and start lining up work. If after 3 - 6 months you can't find work, you can always go back to working for someone else again.

- Hire an accountant. For the amount of stress they reduce, they are worth every penny.

- Establish good relationships with a few agencies close by, where you could possibly do contract work. You may not be able to charge them as much, but having them as a fall back when you are slow is nice.

- On a related note: Don't consider contract work through other agencies bad. From my experience, one agency gets work from another agency, who gets work from another agency, etc.. There is good money to be made being the production guy.
> Most English people would struggle to tell you the difference between Great Britain and the UK.

FTFY
An extreme outlier is hardly an 'epic fail'.
ObTrivia: In the UK it is convention that surgeons drop the Dr title and revert to Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms.

(History: http://www.newmediamedicine.com/forum/modernising-medical-ca... )
If processes and organization is something you would consider interesting, try the management path. You can either stay more on the technical side (sw/solutions architect) or go towards business (concentrate on req. management/business problems).
SQL Developer - $60 p/h
We're looking for a SQL Developer with a little bit of UX experience. 90% SQL 10% UX.

If you have experience working with Tableau or QlikView that's just icing on the cake.

This is for a project in downtown Seattle - offices are right by the Stadiums.

Description: Work with a successful and established mid sized company to create a set of gorgeous dashboards for a new iteration of their existing analytic software. Previous consultants have been extended into long projects with international travel. The client has customers in over 20 countries. It's a great team of employees with a proven track record of solving problems, expanding business, and generally outperforming the marketplace in a niche segment.

Telecom experience would be sprinkles on the icing. Ability to prove SQL knowledge would be required. The client will give you a quick test to judge proficiency, so experience needs to be legitimate.

Thanks as always.
jesse@solosolu.com
I found something better than my company list, this is IATA medical manual. It is much more extensive, and it covers almost everything related with health and flight. But you can find the recommended kit in the SECTION 6 passenger care, APPENDIX B. I suppose it will be of more interest for you.

I must also say that when there is a person onboard with high fiver or symptoms of a contagious disease, in the USA you have to notify to the authorities (the Federal and State Quarantine and Isolation Authority I think) immediately. I didn´t know it before I read the manual as I am not currently doing intercontinental flights.

https://www.iata.org/whatwedo/safety/health/Documents/medica...
On the other hand, it's good to have anyone step in to lend a hand, instead of standing back like sullen sheep.
After working remotely for more than 5 years, I can say with confidence that one of the best things you can do is not wear pants with an elastic waistband more than once a week (i.e. stop working in your pajamas).
This shit is dope!
The thing is China has a pretty funny idea of what constitutes "sensitive". Such as free speech and human rights.
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To process or not to process [images]?
I found the Flow book a much better "happiness model" than what you describe. It is less strict and concise, but gives the reader a lot of room for his own thoughts. Such simplifications make thing worse, (n-rules guides toward improvement,etc.) he really should discover his own way.
"Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man", think that's Socrates.

Good luck, I remember doing a 3 months internship at Agilent Tech yeeaaaarrss ago where at the end I was like - "No way am i ever working in this Dilbert socially backwards environment" Not to say it was a bad place, just not for me.

Since then, I've had 6 or 7 real jobs, in 4 or 5 different industries, travelled round the world, asked loads of questions, tried loads of things and still not satisfied.

It's a tough one, everybody's different and very few people figure 'it' out, hence why you most advice is stupidly simple, short and unhelpful like 'be yourself', 'do what you love', etc... the list goes on.

'Wear sunscreen' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

there is a good line in there

"Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't."

My 2 cents:

- try everything while still young and while your responsibilities are small, and monthly nut is small. It's much more difficult to have a mid life crisis when you need $4000 a month for mortgages, cars and kids.

- don't chase the $$$ - you'll never be as good as the guy who's doing it cause he loves it

- most people aren't satisfied with what they do, which is why books by Tim Ferris and Chris Guillebeau sell so well, they sell the 'dream'

- as far as happiness... others have already said this, purpose tends to help, as well as self expression, the ability to create something is pretty fulfilling too

- ignorance is bliss

when you said "enjoy playing with the latest Apple product, watching TV":

I'd suggest trying out UX Design / Front End Development

UX Design is becoming more and more important, and so is front end development as browsers are getting faster and faster.

Apple has amazing user design, maybe that's what you love about their products, how they feel.

- get good at javascript / html / css

- build a few things in backbone.js

- dig into user design

- redesign some current applications into what you'd like them to look and feel like

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/concept-design-facelift-notable...

- build a UX / front end portfolio

- watch these talks

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/22/talks-to-help-you...

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/

http://www.alistapart.com/

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

GOOD LUCK :D
I have heard someone tell a story about that happening once. They said that the cabin crew announced that they would be playing a game; they would call out an item, and give a free drink to the first person who could find that in their carry on. The first couple of items were fairly standard things; "a fountain pen", "a camera", etc. Then they got to "a commercial pilots license". Someone actually did raise their hand, and the cabin crew escorted them up to the cockpit.

There was never any problem with the flight, and he never found out what happened. Probably something like the co-pilot had a problem that prevented them from continuing to act as the co-pilot, and they wanted to maintain sufficient redundancy just in case.
OP was pretty clear, as mikeash points out by quoting. I agree that it is usually not about the money, and I understand taking a cut or smaller increase b/c of a good opportunity, but to say it is "never about the money" is off the mark. As my situation illustrates, sometimes it is only about the money. That was literally the only reason I left my first position. On every other count the first position was equal or better than the one I moved into. After the switch work was worse but life was better. Because of the money.
BTW - this would be 8 hours at the client site to start out. Possibility of going remote later on.
To save you the trip to the site, unfortunately it's only for US devs.
I wrote this tool a while back to migrate my Google Reader to Twitter followings … since most of my RSS was pre-Twitter: http://tmnt.benguild.com

Then, I put only the 4 or 5 websites I check religiously into Google Reader, so that I can always get every update from those versus skimming the latest posts in my Twitter stream.

I find this a better/ideal solution, since that way it's 140 character summaries instead of entire articles that are unclear.
The very first iPhone commercials featured usage walkthroughs[1]... seems they've done OK to me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZMr-ZfoE4
Just taking a random guess, but it could be that it's easier to use the intercom and ask everyone instead of digging out the passenger list and scanning to find someone whose prefix was 'Dr' (if such info is even included on a passenger list). This is just speculation, though.
But I am wondering what kind of innovation would get rid of 80% of lawyers!

Now, THAT would be very welcome !!
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/208/
My first thought when reading this was that it was really confusing cause and effect and (deliberately?) failing to cover the alternatives to solar. So I was pleased to see the currently top rated comment here started out with:"The reason is because grid power is more expensive in Germany: $0.30/kWh compared to $0.10/kWh on average in the US. Therefore potential customers are easier to convince to use solar in Germany." Many of the issues highlighted in the US simply relate to where the US is in the curve of adoption. If Solar was more competitive with the regular grid then a) There would be more demand = lowered customer acquisition costs = lowered installation costs (vols and skills) = reduced red tape based on political clout from industry and consumers. So everything outlined in this article seems more about symptoms than causes. What we do about that can either be government regulation driven or market driven but either way it feels like a pretty big missing piece from the original article.
I'm not sure that's exclusive to telecommuting. Having worked about half of my career remotely, and the other half in an office, I wouldn't say that the prevalence holiday/middle of the night calls is much different. Certainly, this is more true of Operations work than say, Accounting.
If you focus on 'diversity', you miss the bigger picture, because of course every place is unique. The US has for example far more pronounced extremes of urban vs rural (which many too forget). The real issue is distance, and how Europeans and Americans in general have vastly different concepts of what's far.

If you're in the US or Canada, driving for 10 hours means you're going to visit your aunt. Doing the same anywhere in Europe means you're likely 2 countries over, and it becomes a 'huge trip' in people's heads. Heck, I know several people who have driven more than halfway across Canada, in Europe no-one who drove e.g. from Paris to Istanbul.

And while the European market is supposedly unified, in practice there are significant variations in pricing and availability as soon as you cross a border, simply because that's something few people do. And of course the language difference means most local media is opaque to outsiders.

So I would say that the US is definitely diverse, but it's a gradual diversity, that transitions smoothly from ultra-urban to no-one-for-miles rural. It works on very large distances, and is mediated by a shared media, politics and language. European countries meanwhile are much more homogenous on the inside, but there are a lot of forces keeping each one unique.
Almost certainly. Companies can afford to do exactly this on sites like reddit and amazon. The US military has admitted to having a program to do exactly this.

Part of the reason is because posting comments on certain web pages is not a highly sophisticated task, so wages can be low for the commenters.
As someone who recently moved into consulting more seriously, I second this. I'm absolutely in love with consulting right now. It can be as challenging as you want it to be, and at the same time you get to live outside most of the rules and bureaucracy of the companies that you work for. As an example, I work for companies that don't allow employees to work remote, but I've never even been to the office. Also, when I worked for companies in the past on a full-time basis, it was very difficult to have any recourse when coworkers didn't meet our internal agreements. As a consultant there is usually a legally binding contract sitting in between me and the company I'm working for. This allows me to hold internal employees accountable for their deliverables just as much as I am accountable for mine.
Bad link in the link to Fever.
Wait Atlanta? I was with you until you hit an incredibly hot city with a therefore powerful sun.
So you don't think it is possible to have an opinion on a project you maintain and be objectively wrong in that opinion[1]?

For instance, the GNOME3 guys and the design direction they are taking. No matter what, they can't be "wrong" (whatever that means in this case) in that opinion?

I get that objective right/wrong can get complex and murky rather rapidly, though I feel with experience people can actually make judgement calls on these. And in this case, checking in binary assets is wrong, from experience. It causes many more problems that it solves. So, DHH is "wrong" in this instance even if he himself feels that it is the way to go.

[1] - "wrong" might have been an improper word to use, though for the sake of consistency, I'm going to continue ;)
Starting -- actually, building and running -- a company isn't for everyone. It's hard; at times, soul-crushing, ego-killing, depressingly, hopelessly hard. Sometimes it's also wonderful and glorious and fantastic. But, starting and running a company is probably best left to those who are absolutely determined to do so, IMO.

Do you have any idea of what general fields you're interested in? There are still a ton of fields that can benefit from people with strong technical skills that can also get along with other people.
Interesting idea. I feel like I would get overloaded following every author on twitter as then you get more than just their latest blog post...
I'm European and think this article is bunk. Hardly anyone (in western Europe at least) considers Russia to be a part of Europe.
I don't believe anybody is under the impression that Snapchat is for anything other than sexting.
I don't doubt that people walk around with conflicting, internalized geographies in their heads, I'm just pointing out that it's disingenuous to frame your own biases as something "most Americans" think when you don't have the data to back up such a statement. It's a very specific extrapolation to make.
Whenever I run into a blog with the un-subtle design, I hit the Readability bookmarklet: I can't stand the garish logos.
Customs can search all incoming and outgoing USPS mail. The statute says so explicitly, and mentions the USPS directly. I think you might be thinking of state borders.
Yes. And it also helps if it's near the top of the post, as opposed to being buried in a signature or something.

Bottom of the page would be OK, too, if people always put it there. But they don't.

Consistent date placement promotes efficient search engine result scanning (Google's date constraints are highly imperfect).
I don't know the source of their data, but this map from BP Solar puts Germany on par with most of Alaska (and worse than anywhere else in the US)

http://www.amerescosolar.com/sites/default/files/insolation_...
Sorry about that - thanks for letting me know! I fixed it in the post. Here it is as well: http://feedafever.com/
According to Wikipedia, civilian availability was prompted by the shooting down of a 747 that drifted into Soviet airspace due to an improperly calibrated inertial navigation system.
+1 on this one. The best product managers I've ever met were former engineers who were good developers, but wanted something broader. That background (and a true love of technology) will make you a stellar product manager. But, be sure you really love the technology industry and are ready to give up day-to-day coding.

Product management, when done right, complements development and is a great career path for well-rounded individuals.
Experts say it’s harder than ever to compare the true cost of airline tickets
Nothing. See: greenthrottle.com
I think DHH's article succinctly addresses exactly your question from his perspective.
Tim Cook's pay package drops from $376 mil to $4 mil
I'm really interested in how you can protect your game assets, in a HTML5 game, to be stollen by a competitor ?

A second question will be how can you make money from a game that can be easily copied ?