skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Having recently sat in an Executive style naming competition meeting, I can confirm the state of multinational corporate decisions involving brands and names is so intensely bureaucratic and complex that the rational behind the decision is far removed from common sense. I imagine the process involved dozens of executives and at least two outsourced firms, marketing managers, and brand evangelists. Charts were produced and powerpoints created, showing naming relevance and cultural sensitivities. SEO experts formulated brand uniqueness prospects for virality and search, self declared linguists gauged locality based pronunciation effectiveness. Translators estimated ease of use and consistencies globally. In the end its obvious to them that they made the correct decision.
On the other hand, there tends to be an inverse correlation between a European ethnic group's IQ scores in Europe and their IQ scores in the United States. Germans and Dutch score higher than the Europe-wide average, German-Americans and Dutch-Americans score lower than US-wide average.
This table sounds incredibly fishy. Bankrupt Ireland one below Germany?
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Wise decision. Ruby has it's own package system. I believe every developer using rvm/rbenv for managing ruby versions. Rails should be installed using rubygems. I always cry seeing pretty outdated rails packages in distributives. I don't care.
Stop being paranoid. Shape the online conversation about yourself, don't run away from it.
One might almost assume we Nordics had looked at the world around us and chosen a direction based on what we saw..
I think it's been shown that jury trials typically have much larger penalties than plea bargains.

It's like in a developing country, where you can bribe the policeman to "make it go away". The only difference seems to be, in the US the police don't benefit from the lack of process, and tax payers have to fund more prisons.
I've been teaching my girls how to code for a while now (was even published in Hacker Monthly magazine for it). My experience has taught me that the only reason they will learn to code is:

If they have something they want to build themselves.

I battled with this idea for a while. Why can't they just build a website and be done with it? Turns out, building websites is boring if you don't want a website.

I tried all sorts of languages and tools. What has worked for me has been using the Arduino platform to build animatronic projects for Halloween (a pumpkin that yelled and flash LEDs), and Minecraft. With Minecraft you can create your own textures and game objects by using Java. Its really fun, and they can see the connection between code and results very quickly. Try it out.
There is a case to be made that the trade deficits that the world runs against Germany is unsustainable.
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You know, I was with this right up till golang which uses tabs. So there is one excuse.

So I suggest doing spaces except when writing GO, then use tabs.
If I am reading this right, this title is wrong. They are talking about dependencies.
I see it somewhat differently.

In the OpenBSD world, security isn't something that comes later via an endless stream of patches, like it does within the Ruby community.

Security is done proactively in the OpenBSD realm. Care is taken to develop software that's secure from the very beginning, with security-related patches being a rare occurrence later on in the extreme case that something was accidentally overlooked.

The Ruby and Ruby on Rails way is incompatible with the OpenBSD philosophy. Were Ruby, Rails and related software developed properly, there wouldn't be the need for constant hand-holding from the OpenBSD package maintainers. I don't think that the OpenBSD developers should be held responsible in any way for the negligence of the Ruby community.

Getting rid of these questionable ports is a good example of the proactive approach to security taken by OpenBSD. Constantly patching low-quality software is not the correct way of dealing with the situation. Essentially getting rid of this code is the correct approach, and that's why it is good to see the OpenBSD developers following that path.
Hear, hear. The way people second-guess everyday parenting decisions is annoying, but the way people here are reacting to this one is mind boggling. This is a clear and obvious win all around: Dad's happy, the kids are happy, and all because Linux saved the day. Let's ship it and go home, folks.
We can always get better. If you're current system is not perfect, then it (by definition) has flaws. Everything has flaws. So let's try to identify the flaws. And let's try to get rid of the flaws.

Don't just disregard any potential flaw because of the political tribe of the person or movement pointing it out.
As of 2005 the U.S. had a foreign-born population of 12.8%; Sweden 12.3% (Norway and Finland were 7.4% and 3.0%, respectively) [1]. They aren't as strikingly homogenous as one would think.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo...
Many "old ladies" are experts in letting kids be kids. They're the ones with the most experience, after all.
Tabs are the one true way. Their semantics mean 'indentation' and everyone can configure the editor according to his/her preferences.
Clealrly the core network in the closet and the wifi network outside were not equivalent, or he wouldn't have been in there in the first place. He had permission to access the latter, not the former, and the fact that he was hiding his face when he went in there is evidence that he knew he didn't have permission to plug into that layer.

He was escalating his level of privilege by connecting at a deeper level than he had been granted access to.
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Last I checked Sweden had a roughly the same percentage of immigrants as USA so I am not sure that is a good reason.

Population size on the other hand it is clear difference but I don't know if that is significant.
Unlike in Capitalism, Globalization demands you to be an "Highly Skilled Wage Slave" to get a job.
I just wanted to add that the difference of 1000 hours come from time spent looking for and dealing with contracts and other overhead like that (as well as downtime), which you don't have as a salaried employee.
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You don't need root to do serious damage. Even if you secure the gem installation process, the code inside the game can just do damage later. I think a signing system to prevent third party tampering of gems is the best that any developer packaging system can do.
Ask HN: Data-friendly, low-cost mobile networks in the UK?
Hello, I'm considering moving to the UK and would like some words of advice on thrifty mobile networks. For example, here in Spain I pay Simyo just 7€ + VAT for 555MB of data and pretty cheap call rates: 0.15€ connection fee, and 0.05€ per minute. (The minimum payment is 7€, so you have to talk/browse quite a bit before you exceed that.) Moreover, since my phone is unlocked I don't have any binding contracts.

I was hoping the market would be at least this competitive in the UK, but I'm having a hard time finding anything this thrifty.

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit: I'm now looking at Lebara's offerings, which are OK... but I'm disappointed that tethering is prohibited. Simyo encourages tethering and VoIP.
I think your view has been skewed by a relatively small number of anti-university articles, the reason you don't get pro-university articles is that it's the status quo so people don't feel the need to argue for it.

The majority of successful professional software developers (if you look at say Google or at YC founders) hold degrees.
I don't see how the trespassing charge is relevant here. We're discussing the proposed bill, and what its impact would be on computer crime law.
The Nordic countries aren't ethnically homogenous, not even when disregarding recent developments in migration. For example, there's a very large Swedish ethnic minority in Finland and vica versa. Swedish and Finnish people are ethnically very different, Swedish people being of Germanic origin while Finns having Uralic origins. There is an excellent relationship between them these days but this wasn't always the case.
I'm more interested in how the rewording from "unauthorized access" to "the circumvention of technological access barriers" holds any substantial practical difference. It gives the defense a leg to stand on by specifying "technological" access barriers and their "circumvention," and the amendments also exclude ToS violations as barriers. But what's to stop a prosecutor from arguing that unrelated technological barriers were in place elsewhere, and the fact that a defendant didn't encounter these (technological) barriers still constitutes circumvention? I guess there'd be a big fight over "circumvention," but IANAL so perhaps it's all moot.

I also don't understand how "changing one's MAC or IP address [in order to circumvent] 'technological access measures'" doesn't constitute a violation in principle, even if their proposed bill decides to whitelist those two behaviours notwithstanding other portions of the bill.
What they seem to be glossing over is that homogeneity plays a large factor in this.

Note that there is a spectacularly heterogenous country at the top of the same list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#Demographics
There is no company right now. Just a group of developers writing code with no purpose. You have already failed at building a business.

Shoot me an email if you are interested on getting out of the hole you dug yourself into.
There is also Gemfile that can FileUtils#rm_rf
Flight tickets: buy two weeks before even during holiday seasons?
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What's up with those submission title editing lately? There was nothing wrong with the original one, and the new one is so "inspring" that I wouldn't even click there unless for checking is this yet another title edit.
Not to mention 9. using their game as a platform for urban planning and development in poorer countries: http://www.mojang.com/2012/09/mojang-and-un-presents-block-b...

It doesn't get a lot of mention which only really adds to the idea that they're doing this out of honest kindness rather than marketing.
When you say "formal" you are being a bit vague. Perhaps you can be more specific about which techniques you found to have a measurable difference? Is "light agile" the new thing?
Governments based on giving favors to members of one's tribe tend to be less stable.
I run a mailing list specifically for software related jobs (including DevOps). Check it out here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150829). Its free, and an effort to reduce spam from recruiters.
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Interesting post for senior citizens. Thanks.
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Oh, they very much may be--but that's a problem for the purchaser. Presumably they've already been sold and spoken for, money having already changed hands. A slight delay of a few days in shipping--who's to say?
Ken Thompson and the Go team explain why they prefer tabs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sln-gJaURzk&t=28m55s
it doesn't really matter what the first application is. what matters is, they are trying to apply graphene to an application with HUGE SCALE. this will (hopefully) make all other applications also more viable (i.e. cheap!).

When you have one factory churning out millions of parts, they will want to keep their machines going 24/7.

I look forward to future kickstarter projects utilizing graphene casing, made by a nokia factory in between larger runs....
If there is "absolutely" a bubble, please explain the motivation for individuals to participate in the "bubble"?

I.e. with the housing bubble and the stock market bubble, the motivation was to buy those assets solely in anticipation of being able to sell them at higher prices later on, thus being able to profit (and handsomely so).
Do it. You can only gain.
> Meanwhile, the average tuition for just one year at a four-year private university in 2011 was almost $33,000,

Why the focus on private universities? From the same data source, the cost at a public institution is less than half that. (Public institution grad here)

Get a degree somewhere, and concurrently some relevant experience (paid or volunteer), and you will be better suited for the future than someone who has to invest 100% of their university career (or after) struggling to pay for it.
Citation is needed in novel and unexpected statements and conclusions. ("Extraordinary claims", etc).

Well known facts should need no citation upon an audience of educated adults.

Still, here's a secondary corroboration for you:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020474090457719...
Panos' piece can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2774254
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Anyone who's done networking knows that ethernet and wifi are not equivalent. I'll grant you he was escalating his bandwidth; what is this "privilege" you describe which was neither physical nor technical?
After the Social Web, there could come the Private Web (blogpost in German)
Sticker prices have been soaring. Actual cost of attendance hasn't been increasing nearly as much-- many students don't pay anywhere near the sticker price due to tuition wavers, grants, etc. This article summarizes it as 3rd degree price discrimination:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-27/misconceptions-101-...
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It all depends how you define money. The reward halving seems to be correlated with a price spike in the Bitcoin exchange rate, so although fewer Bitcoins are being mined per block, their total value is actually about the same today as it was before the reward halving.

I do agree that there are more miners now, which lowers profits for individual miners.
I'd suggest craigslist.org. One major pet peeve is BS in job postings. Don't ask for 5+ years with a technology that has been around for 3 ;)
I never trusted the tooth fairy again after that fateful day she "forgot" to pay me.
Loser personality? There is no such thing.
Email sajobs@lists.lopsa.org

LOPSA is a professional association by and for system administrators.
Another approach is to completely move away from using Ruby, Ruby on Rails and related software.

I think that the recent security issues are evidence of many systemic problems within the Ruby community, and with their approach and attitude toward software development.

Security should be inherent and considered from the very start, rather than brought on over time by an endless stream of patches and updates.

Furthermore, the focus should not be on cranking out libraries and code as quickly as possible, especially when said code is rife with security holes.

There are many other programming languages, libraries and communities that take a far more sensible approach to software development. We see far fewer of these kinds of issues arise when things are not done the "Ruby" way.
Would love to see any hard data on what the actual new administrators are, and how much the additional costs are. Raw numbers, not the % increase compared to some year in the past.
Django also has security flaws that will be discovered with time. All frameworks do. Instead of getting scared by it, you should be pro-active in learning Rails security in order to build more secure Rails apps (and improve the framework itself). I still trust Rails.
"... tend to be the best governed as well. Think Minnesota..."

You mean like

http://www.betterbankruptcy.com/bankruptcy-blog/2011/07/the-...

From the article at that URL:

"Minnesota government was forced to shut down Friday, July 1, for the second time in 6 years after Minnesota lawmakers could not reach an agreement for the state’s budget."

Mmmmmmm...sounds like paradise.
I do not have scientific data about this, but shouldn't smaller territories and city-states (Singapore, Hongkong etc) be easier to govern compared to actual big countries?
Now that I think about it, perhaps the "the big empty desktop" should go away. We have a proper documents folder, so it shouldn't be a dumping ground for all kinds of junk, which is usually what happens.

I consider myself a power user, and I've trained myself to stop dumping shit onto the desktop. And now it's empty. After reading your post, I think it's a great idea for the desktop to be replaced by launchpad. Currently, I keep my applications folder in my dock (in non-stack form).

If they made Launchpad the desktop, and reduced the mouse travel between app icons (I don't know why there's so much space between them... Macs don't have touch screens), I'd be very pleased.
No, I think you're misunderstanding a key part of this: MIT has a layer of defense between their public-access networks (like campus wifi) and their core network. Among other things, that's the layer their antiscraping defenses live in.

The closet router was deeper than that -- inside that layer of defense. Aaron didn't just plug in for bandwidth or permanence -- he did it because it was a trusted subnet that would evade the protections and restrictions MIT places on their public access points.
If you're going to follow that rationale to it's logical conclusion -- that software not adhering to the OpenBSD philosophy of security first, bar none, be excluded from ports -- then there are a lot of ports that should be removed.

I'm not defending the Ruby/Rails/Rubygems community here. The problems we're facing are a result of decisions to ignore important security concerns when designing software. I'm just don't like to see people piling on. I think this is a revelation for the Ruby community. Rubygems is not just some package, it is the primary package source. This incident was as far reaching as it gets in the Ruby world. No one is claiming any different.

It's also worth pointing out that the Ruby community aren't alone. This doesn't make the decisions right, it just makes it easier to understand the context in which they were made. I don't know how much progress the Python community has made, but they're facing similar challenges:

http://www.davidfischer.name/2012/05/signing-and-verifying-p...
Thanks.

But one of the things that they say is "people like different styles" presumably meaning that some like four space indents, some like two, and linus likes 8. However that still doesn't address the old bugaboo about indentation vs alignment, which could be thought of as one of the two great unsolved problems in computer science.
Singapore is the same size as Norway, Finland, and Denmark. They're all small.

I have no clue.
I find it a bit hard to swallow that "corruption perceptions" is an objective metric. And let's not forget that Norway's wealth - and thus the ease with which the government can improve other factors - is due to its natural resources, i.e. oil. If Switzerland is exemplary, go look up when it allowed women to vote.

There's not much to be said against Sweden and Denmark though: one could sum up their success by saying that they simply never went down the road of screwing the population in order to be able to reduce corporation tax, which is all too common nowdays (see Ireland, USA, even Germany).
> Sure -- in Python, a mixture of tabs and spaces. This is certain to result in indentation that looks right to the human, but produces perverse results when interpreted by the language.

The question begins with "If it didn't matter syntactically with the programming language".
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Rails is almost entirely a wrapper for these components like ActiveModel and Sprockets and such. You can use them apart from Rails but that's why they are all on the ports tree. It's probably the only thing that uses them.
How do you consider Lebanon to be homogeneous? The religious divide there is so deep and long-standing that it is enshrined in law, with power in the government divided along confessional lines.
Walk outside. My god, yesterday some guy didn't like me walking in the crosswalk, when he wanted to make a right turn so he swerved into the oncoming traffic lane to make his right (and cut me off). This versus wait 5 seconds.

Annoying, over-self-indulged and entitled. Also damn dangerous.
You mean "Yankee Sweden", right? Switzerland is not a Nordic country.
It seems strange to even sell these units at all right now. If they really can pay for their (retail!) value within a week, the real money is in running them, continuously, until the difficulty gets so high that they can only pay for themselves within, say, 6mo or more.

It may be that the competition has driven manufacturers to attempt to sell so they can offload their stock. But Avalon claims that they are made-to-order.

If it were me, I would've built 1000 of these, made them pay for themselves and then some, then started dumping as soon as it looked like a competitor was about to launch. And again, this sale is too early for that to make sense.
I was under the impression that the de-facto penalty for cheating was expulsion. Without coming back. Without ANY "recommendation letters." You cheated, fuck you, get out.

Then again, I went to a school which is struggling to raise itself up in the ranks ( or into the ranks at all ), so maybe Harvard doesn't have to take cheating seriously for people to take their graduates seriously.
Of course, there is no exact method of measuring happiness. But you can estimate whether some policy increases happiness, whether some person or society is happier than another etc. There are lots of ways of estimating happiness.
I highly recommend skipping sinatra for padrino for anything beyond a simple site/api. It's sort of the happy middle ground between rails and sinatra.

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This is because Harvard prides itself on its graduation rate; any decline in that rate would cause it to fall in the popular rankings of colleges.
I second the idea that it's good for kids to be able to learn things on their own and not have all the answers immediately given to them. However if I had a kid I'd try my hardest not to intentionally lie--if they pick up the Santa lie or other lies from other kids, I'll neither confirm nor deny them and let them figure it out. (I might give hints toward avenues of testing a belief, though... but especially the importance of making beliefs pay rent in anticipated experiences...)
Running a perennial trade surplus is unsustainable if the country belongs to an area with fixed exchange rates, unless all the other countries also run a big trade surplus.
Even if 5% of the rubygems ecosystem contained malware, the biggest danger to most projects is the inclusion of gems that are sloppily maintained. Just because something is released as a gem does not mean it has good code quality or that good development practices were used to create it.

The default behavior of bundler is to grab the latest compatible gem version, and in many cases this breaks things bc of little or no QA on the part of some gem maintainers.

The top 10% of gems are well maintained but the rest should generally be avoided.
You have to realize that small countries in the west, like Sweden, Denmark and Norway, are de facto ruled by the US. All important decisions have to go by the embassy, and when told to jump, they will ask how high.