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Sad as it may be, why is this getting upvoted? This is very VERY far away from the posting guidelines. Anyways, carry on...
There is a problem with the instructions though; when you get to the:

'Installing Perl Net-SDP'

Section, and type in the third line of code, after git clone, you get this error message: http://pastebin.com/MSrqYYKq

Saying to Contact the author, because there are files missing.

I have contacted the author, and Jordan too.

Does anyone know how to get around this?
Edmunds did a quantitative test of snow tire performance for one common FWD car.

http://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/features/tire-test-all-se...
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12487986/how-can-i-make-r... . The tl;dr of it is that MRI is atrocious at memory management. For political reasons we are stuck using Ruby in a situation like that; if we could easily, accurately compile that to Java and run it with with java -jar my_script.jar it'd be awesome.
Incase of Tata, don't look at the amount paid per person.. Instead have a look at the number of people employed directly and indirectly by TATA group of companies...

TCS alone, have 250,000+ employees..
While I too, have significantly less time to play than I used to (running a business now and having small kids), I still consider myself a hardcore gamer. When kids go to sleep I still like to turn on PS3 and play a couple of hours. Not every day, but when I do, I want quality, both in term of graphics and gameplay. My current addiction is Borderlands 2 (coming after Mass Effect 3 and Dark Souls). I don't see how any of these titles would run on OUYA.
Your assumption that these photos can not be sold is simply false. Maybe you specifically won't pay but i would. I pay for premium services when i need graphics. Think of an instagram api you can get access to and showcase pictures with tags x,y that are popular within your service.
The trouble is that they're hoovering up every piece of data they can get their hands on. They never "intentionally target" anyone in particular. So all of the qualifiers are meaningless, because they do all the data collection ahead of time and the qualifiers listed only apply to what data they can collect, not what they can use it for (or who they can use it against) once they have it.
It is a feat of compiler design if it works even adequately. I was expecting to see some example output, though.
First, no, PHP has arguably the worst OSS library support of all the "major" languages, when you consider the quality of the libraries. Second, this does not really negate anything I said. You can say a lot of good things about PHP -- it's convenient, it's available, it's easy -- you cannot say with any seriousness that it's well-designed. My point is that I can't take seriously a conversation about software design that is couched in PHP. The design of that language and ecosystem is shit -- I mean, do you even have a way to create virtual environments that doesn't require spinning up a new VM?

There is no way that PEAR/PECL can be reasonably considered more comprehensive than CPAN or PyPI, I don't even know what your frame of reference would have to be in order for you to think that.
"If you enjoy making your users put up with horrible DRM, I've seen multiple HN articles about how Linux support for Steam is in the works"

It's an open beta right now with about 40 games listed under Linux.
Bloomberg blames Apple thefts for rise in New York's crime rate
You are aware of JRuby, no?
If you really believed that, you wouldn't have posted it in the largest hypertext system on earth, that is being mirrored and cached by a dozen other entities. Some of which are virtually immortal. (See: Google.)

Without anonymity anyway.
It gets suggested all the time, but How to Win Friends and Influence People is my answer. No other single book will help you out more in life.
Site is definitely up. Also checked Google cache and looks to be in there now.
I totally agree. I would add that appData stats are very inaccurate especially when you look at a short time window and daily stats.

1 - Usage is defined by how often an app accesses user data using a token. This does not necessarily mean the user used the site, at least not in the last 60 days (user tokens need to be renewed every 60 days).

2 - Facebook often lags a few days when reporting daily user activity and is somehow inconsistent of when the data is reported. (their open graph reporting seems to be more up to date/realtime )
When that happens appData seems to sometime report the same data point for a few days. You can actually see on the graph that the traffic is totally flat for a few days which is unlikely.
Powerful people are generally insulated from corruption unlike you and me. They simple help each other out.
Thing is, the real issues with addiction are due to social factors - being homeless, depressed and miserable.
Lots of good points. Its also, perhaps counterintuitively, the case that wet and above freezing is almost more dangerous for hypothermia many times. Snow is a source of potential shelter and insulation, provided a minimum level of preparation. But, being un-prepared ans without shelter in cold rain is a very dangerous place to be. Your core only needs to get to 70 degrees to kill you, etc. So its all about the differential and exposure.
Sweet! Another neat project from Mr. Charles Nutter. I look forward to experimenting with this. One of my latest projects involves a cross-platform GUI built with the help of JRuby.
Illinois is 13B+ in debt with 80B+ in long term obligations that take the form of pensions and entitlements. The social contract is there -- and constitutionally protected.

The scales are out of balance, the corn crop has failed, Caterpillar wants to move, gas is the highest in the nation, gang violence is increasing, the schools are struggling, and everyone feels the weight.

We need to grow, we need to export, and we need to sustain it for a prolonged period of time.
Right there with you. Used the time to try recharge on lost hours of sleep and working on a new idea.
> I guess one can learn how to create Aluminum

Alchemy! Aluminium (aka aluminum) is a basic chemical element.
It has legitimate benefits. Aside from the ability to downvote comments after 500 karma, your karma score affects the positioning of your comments in threads. The highest comment or reply isn't always the most upvoted, there's a ratio of upvotes to cumulative karma that dictates where your comment sits in a thread and in turn, its visibility to other users.
TCS can hardly be called a software company. They dont build anything. They simply cater to the needs of other large companies. IT is a service industry and no geek worth his salt will ever work with them irrespective of the pay.
I think you are getting downvoted because of your username
My comment was about the source of your "impression". I'm sure you'd agree that you weren't just say strolling along the banks of the Danube contemplating m-theory, when out of the blue - BAM! A thought came upon you - quite randomly - giving you the impression that you now contend you own.

So rather than post an emotional response, why not engage that no doubt massive neocortex of yours and investigate. I give it to you to decide. And of course I'm being snarky here, it's a shortcoming of mine ;)

On a different note, this firm has good research on the matter http://www.fairwindspartners.com/Why-It-Matters/FAQs/ (NB: I'm not affiliated in any way)
Except that there's never any reception in subway stops, no?
Well, yes and no.

If you're using language support (e.g., in VB until 2004 "dim cost as Money" was a declaration that was good for every purpose), then you're out of luck, and you do need a rewrite.

But even if you don't - this is far from trivial: Is your own implemented money type a fixed point type? If so, what is your fixed point? (e.g. Yen only needs 3 after the dot, but trillions in the front is not enough; GBP/USD needs 5 after the dot, but trillions usually IS enough).

Is it fixed per currency? Is it floating decimal point? The abstraction here is far from trivial if care about performance.

Of course, if you've used a language or a library with a usable decimal type (I'm sure there's other, but I've only been happy with Python), the abstraction has been taken care of.

But generally, abstracting money (value+currency) is not as simple as one would assume, and it is very rare that a production system gets it both right and future proof.
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I don't think any of the common business programming languages let you add new types to the numeric tower. C++ does, through operator overloading. Haskell has very nice support for this; to get started all you need is "newtype Money = Money Rational deriving (Show, Eq, Ord, Ratio, Integral, Num)". If you later want to make the type more restrictive than Rational, you can do that without changing any calling code (which will work on normal Num instances, most likely).
CMMI is all about processes not about the quality of software delivered. TCS is a third rate software company. It is a very good IT services company.
Since Tom's already fisked the linked article, I'm going to stick to the broad strokes.

Greenwald's ongoing claim is that the 2008 FISA bill legalizes "warrant-less wiretapping"; however, warrants have never been required for targeting intelligence collection on non US persons. In fact, the main impact of the 2008 FISA bill was to explicitly specify collection and oversight standards for targeting non US persons communicating over US systems. Previously, this had been an open legal question, as I explained in a bit more detail here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4979641

So, my big problem with Greenwald is that in all his discussion of FISA he's never provided a simple, honest explanation of how and why it changed in 2008. He uses scare words and sweeping hyperbole, but doesn't address the actual facts of the matter. I'm all for an informed debate on how (or even if) FISA should be implemented. However, you can't have that debate if you refuse to be even cognizant of the current facts.
Facebook’s dark matter: “secret” groups
Not pledging anything 'till there's a Linux version - I mean, FFS, loads of people are making Linux versions of stuff now, it can't be that hard unless they use DirectX or something silly.
Setting a transparent salary scale
No, Tesla claimed Tesla ate rocks in his autobiography. And many more interesting claims, like that Tesla always knew his own weight to the pound, and quit smoking in a day by deciding to. (The smoking claim is actually the most believable, but it's mixed in with silly claims about eating rocks and "abs like a crocodile". I'm serious.)
This is a somewhat common phenomenon in the martial arts that practice Tai Chi/qigong/reki

I used to teach a martial art that practiced this. In our meditation, you visualize glowing energy flowing through your body into your hands. After several months, it happens fairly naturally. Among more experienced practitioners, the skin temperature difference is very noticeable.

When we practiced this, we conflated it with hitting harder, which anecdotally seems to be true, but I'm not sure why.

My teacher claimed that doing the meditation and slowly working your way up to hitting harder materials would increase bone density in your hands, though I have no proof of this.

I'd love to see more western science studying these phenomenon.
This movie sucked. Don't care.
Demurrage, not freicoin mind you, worked over a very short term in Worgl, and there are questions about whether the success there was sustainable[1]. Demurrage on it's own doesn't operate very differently than the mildly inflationary currencies used in the real world (dollars, euros, etc.). Freicoin on the other hand is promising all sorts of other things.

[1] Quoting at length from:

http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/more-on-worgl-v...

"So, would this be sustainable? If not, why not?

I believe the activity would not have been sustainable. I believe that once the taxes in arrears were completely paid and once the people paid in advance to the degree they felt sufficient (one year in advance? Five years in advance? I don’t know, but at some point they would stop), the scrip would lose a key part of its attractiveness.

One way a government can ensure the demand for its currency is to demand (or accept) that taxes are paid in the subject currency. The other way is through monopoly legal tender laws. Wörgl obviously could not legislate or enforce monopoly legal tender, so the demand for the scrip could certainly be attributed to the need to pay taxes.

The demand could certainly not be attributed to the demurrage – not when there was the national schilling available – paying interest, and at a one-for-one exchange (setting aside the conversion fee).

Once this tax need was satisfied, what would happen to the desirability of a depreciating-value scrip vs. currency that did not come with a 1% monthly penalty? The answer to me is clear, not that we have to agree. I suspect the depreciating scrip would begin trading at a discount, and sooner than later would be regularly returned to the bank for the national currency, even with the 2% loss. Two percent might be too big a loss when one owes taxes and can satisfy these taxes with the depreciating scrip at full face value. However, when there is no benefit to holding a depreciating currency to the national one, I suspect many would eat the one-time 2% charge to avoid paying the recurring 1% charge.

In my opinion, this is exactly the situation that was immediately in front of Wörgl when the national government put an end to the experiment. Depending on which estimate of taxes in arrears used (see the discrepancy as pointed out in my first article), within one month, but not more than six, all taxes in arrears would have been paid. At that point, I suspect demand for the scrip would have fallen – resulting in the exchange for national currency that I described above."
There was a different memory book suggested in the MeFi thread, but I really got a lot out of "The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play" http://www.amazon.com/The-Memory-Book-Classic-Improving/dp/0...
They do. I've personally never had a problem starting my engine, even in -40 (Celcius) nights in Canada. It sure takes a couple of seconds, but recent cars (>1990) all start just fine in extreme cold. Given your battery is charged, and your engine is in normal conditions.
umm...

1) if it's a customer problem, it's a restaurant problem.
2) simplicity helps restaurants as much as customers
3) shorter wait time / quicker payment helps restaurants as much as customers
4) happy customers order more, come back more often
5) pretty sure we have experience in the industry, from 20+ investments in the category. certainly several of our entrepreneurs know what the hell they're doing, especially ElaCarte (also YC co & Lightbank co)

in short, the issues noted are just as much "restaurant" problems as customer problems -- and if you think those aren't connected, you've got even bigger issues as an entrepreneur.

anyway, you're entitled to your opinion. but I'm pretty sure you're assuming a zero-sum game here when actually the solutions help both sides.
So on the decentralized systems, how does one station know when to delay a currently-stopped train because there's a delayed train farther up the route? Do signal towers up ahead simply transmit to adjacent stations "Delayed train up ahead?"
Not that plenty of "communist" or "socialist" regimes haven't been awfully authoritarian...
Things that the iPhone 5 can't do, that Android can [video]
Nolan: "I left it open ended because anyone can be Batman."

Warners Exec: "Leave it open ended, Nolan, so we can make sequels, or you're never getting another dime from us."
interesting. rather elitist perspective, and seriously out-of-touch with most mainstream consumers.

I'd hate to build a business based on pissing off customers, but I guess you're welcome to give that a spin.

best of luck with that.
Awesome. Typing in programs from the back of magazines led to my 60+WPM by high school. I didn't use the home row, so I failed the typing class. lol

When Compute/Compute's Gazette came out with MLX I turned my attention to how to control a computer at the very basic levels.

Glad to see the archive is alive and available for free. What should I do with all my old copies now? :)
Is anyone as annoyed as I am that there were almost no capital letters on that entire website?
Ask HN: How do you find out what you want to do?
It may seem like a easy to answer question, but I'm struggling with it and I'm betting I'm not the only one.

How do you find out what you want to do with your life? Where should you take your career? What are you absolutely best at? What makes you happy? What are you passionate about? How do you find all of that out?

And don't say "it's whatever you're passionate about." How do you discover what your passion is?

Personally, I'm currently working as a developer building mobile apps with titanium. I don't know if I would rather be developing for web or mobile - they're both interesting with their own pros and cons. I'm also not sure my personality suits development the best, although I love technology and the abilities it brings us. Sitting at a desk for 40 hours rarely talking to people isn't my favorite thing in the world. I like interacting with people, writing, traveling, some coding, and teaching.

I've thrown around ideas about consulting, product management, and startups but am at a standstill. I would love to talk to people in those positions to see what their life is like and if I would fit in in their job. Where can I do that?
I, too, fondly remember reading Compute! and Compute's Gazette from cover to cover each month when I was a kid, along with long sessions of typing in programs from the magazine into my C=64.

I remember talking to some adults about Assembly programming, and they were dumping on my beloved 6510, seemingly surprised anyone could get anything done with only three registers (A, X, & Y). They were 8086 guys, of course. All I ever knew at the time was three registers, it never occurred to me other chips had more. You make do with what you have :)
The Why We Fail
Computer Science includes research into networking. TCP incast is a way of describing network traffic statistical properties, particularly in data centers [1]

A typical CS student's view of the network is that "everything is so random that it averages out." The exact opposite is actually the case most often, to the chagrin of your local network admin.

Network traffic tends to act like everyone knew you were going to youtube right now, and everybody jumped on the network all at once. The statistical term is "self-similarity" and the Hurst Parameter (H) measures how badly a network's traffic is _not_ averaging out, but bursting as if everyone knew you were going to youtube.

It might help to mention another place we see self-similarity: fractals.

This article just breaks down the situation in a cluster. Again, self-similar traffic patterns mean everyone tries to talk at once, and their TCP stacks all back off randomly, so the total bandwidth of the network is poor.

Unfortunately, the blog post says, "What’s the remedy? We don’t have a good remedy for this yet."

Sure we do. Please google some of the relevant terms for great articles on network traffic analysis and optimization. For example "self similar network traffic" and "hurst parameter." Even the CMU site linked from the blog post has a great writeup under the section "SOLUTIONS" :) [2]

Additionally, as a comment on the blog points out, larger buffers on routers can be a really _bad_ thing! Buffer bloat tends to hide core issues with larger latencies, but not solve them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tail_traffic

[2] http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/Incast/
Why is this on hacker news? I don't see the connection, is this reddit now?
I would even say, living abroad for a while with your kids would be a bonus for them (granted they are not just 6 months old but a few years old).

They'll pick up a foreign language (even though Dutch is not the most important one) and see a different culture.
So for the trains on which they have real-time data, there are already LED-boards that show arrival time:

http://i.imgur.com/QzgGr.jpg

If you're on the platform, you'll be able to see the time even if your phone isn't working. So the mobile app will be useful if you're en route to the station and need to know how many minutes you have left.
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so you really believe that keeping people waiting is what they want?

seriously? seriously? bueller?

ok fine, guess I'm the only customer in the world who hates waiting in fine restaurants.

yeah, right.
It's just the inevitable pushback against the litany of Cloudflare-related posts lately.
I have read these articles before. But these definitions are from a different time and have an unnecessary stigma attached to them (How did non aligned countries end up meaning poor ?).

I don't think India is a developed (what does this even mean anymore) country, nor will it be one in the near future. But I think calling one of the largest economies (4th in PPP, 9th in nominal gdp) as third world a bit simplistic..
I've slept in a car (a VW bus with the seats down to make a flat space) without the heater running, in below-freezing conditions (maybe 10-15 degF) with another person.

It was actually pretty amazing how well it worked. We had sleeping bags, but woke up to find the interior of the car quite warm. It actually seemed downright cozy and luxurious compared to sleeping in mountain lodges where it's typically miserably cold in the sleeping areas outside your sleeping bag.

My takeaway: this experience seems to suggest that a few people in a small space that's wind-tight and maybe has a bit of insulation (clearly not great in a car with all that glass) can keep things reasonably warm with only body heat...
You do lots of different things, and once you discover that whatever it is you are doing right now is not bringing you satisfaction and the people who have been doing it for longer than you are not the sort of people that you'd want to become, you leave. There's no magic.
"do you happen to know a) what are the long term trends worldwide for this statistic and b) where in the world this number is the lowest (and maybe: why, but I don't think this has an easy answer)?"

I wish I did, but I do not. As far as I know, the UN collects statistics that are based on police records, which are notoriously unreliable when it comes to rape, and I am not even sure how one could gather reliable statistics in places where victims are literally blamed for being raped (incredibly, such places exist). If someone wants to point out other sources, please do.

What I can say, which is relevant to (b), is where the highest number of rapes is occurring: Central Africa. In Congo, rape is being used as a military tactic and that is just the beginning of the sexual violence there; despite an official end to the war, the fighting has not really ended, and it is now being carried about by militias that have loose affiliations with various governments and rebel groups in the region. Consider yourself fortunate that you do not live there, and think about that fact every time you buy a mobile phone (for more info, take a look at Steve Jobs' statements on tantalum).
I am willing to have a conversation as long as you understand who the burden of proof lies with.
Thanks, I figured there would be some situation like this that'd inspire one to write a cross compiler.
The elusive "find me" problem