skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The world's largest bureaucracy"

The EU (population 500 million) employees about 33 thousand people - there are more civil servants here in Scotland (population 6 million) - about 50,000.

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

Mind you, we have have too many civil servants here in Scotland. However, compared to Greece (population 10 million) which has about 600,000 the EU (and even Scotland's) civil service payroll looks pretty harmless.

NB I think a more accurate number for total EU employees - is about 50 thousand - the 33 thousand figure above is for the executive branch:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190488830457647...

Still - hardly the "worlds largest bureaucracy"
Registration worked fine while I was there, but the nickname was 'U Never Finish' regardless. I guess our student body wasn't inventive enough to ever come up with anything better. ;)
> I have nginx + gunicorn controlled by supervisord running and I must admit coming from LAMP it went not as smooth as I hoped.

If you are so inclined, you can do it using Apache + mod_wsgi. That is very similar to how you do Apache + mod_php
It's like being angry at a nest of hornets.
Yes, the risk-taking strategy of working towards a potentially high-impact publication is not worth the reward (as measured in citation rate comparing low-impact and high-impact articles )- see Foster et al Tradition and Innovation in Scientists Research Strategies http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.6906.pdf
it's modeled after Netscape 2.0's view of the web, and not after how HTTP actually works.

It tries to force different protocols like HTTP and FTP into a single API, making for lots of combinations of switches that sometimes do and sometimes do not work together.

I could go on, but it's all stuff like this. It's not a bad API, just very archaic.
If you want to be a "trabajador autónomo" (autonomous worker), you have to pay a mandatory monthly fee of about 250€ (it varies a bit on your activity, if you want extra coverage, etc). There are some discounts, if you are under 30 (35 if you're a woman) and it's your first time being an "autónomo", you pay only 20% of the tax on the first 6 months and 50% on the next 18.

The 20% thing was approved about a month ago, and it's been a bureaucratic mess. I applied to it on the first day of being on the law, and as of today I'm still waiting for approval. Apparently their systems are not prepared for this discount and they have to be applied manually. Of course you don't have to wait, you can pay full rate and then claim the difference, but that could take months.

If you create a SL, you must designate a legal administrator, and the cheapest way is being an "autónomo".

Edit: about creating a Ltd in the UK, if your revenues are more than 50% from Spain, you will be fined by the Spanish IRS for capital flight. It's not easy.
I have dash lookup in alfred (without autocomplete though), by typing dl. I don't remember where I got it from:

on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)
tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)
return appNameIsRunning
end ApplicationIsRunning

on alfred_script(q)

if ApplicationIsRunning("Dash") is false then
do shell script "open -a Dash"
end if

tell application "Dash"
activate
end tell

tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using {option down, command down}
keystroke "a" using command down
keystroke delete key
keystroke q
end tell

end alfred_script
It seemed like there was more emphasis on his comment on a Rob Portman gay marriage story.
Don't assume everything is pure science and not just mere coincidence. Facebook sometimes gives me military related ads that specifically call out military people -- let's assume the marketer knows enough to put some sort of targeting on their ads, then why would I be getting those ads? There are too many variables at play to know. Also, I've seen some bugs where people get ads specific to one location even though their IP address and their stated location on their profile is something completely different. We could chalk this up to coincidence or maybe there was enough data on his profile to assume Matt is gay. At the same time, I don't think it's creepy because the advertisers don't see the names/identities of the people they target on Facebook, so the ads are still private until the user actually signs up for a product or service.
I understood that the slurry is just graphite oxide and water.
Funny, though, that the second suggestion when googling this was "graphite oxide price".
I really don't want to come across as nit picky but is this one time when changing a linkbait headline to something more descriptive would help - on the iPhone this page did not render thE actual text for a full half hour (subjective) and I spent all that time with my brain whirring but not in gear - it was a little frustrating

A headline like "DVD Graphene sheets store charge super fast in lab" would have helped me shift the various articles into my own working memory whilst the page loaded.

Downvote with comments please

(And I seem to get the general idea that Graphene will be big, but this is unlikely to be the killer app)
When was the last time you walked around with a magnetic tape or floppy disc?

Now - what happens if you put your wallet full of credit cards on it?
Dash already have some integration with alfred (without the suggestions).

http://cl.ly/image/461y1R1X3L1C
There is a big miscalculation: Graphene seems to be extremely light weight. 1 liter of graphene will definitely not weight 1kg. Wikipedia [1] only gives measures for m²: Graphene is very light, weighing only about 0.77 milligrams per square meter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene
Set/get cookies + localstorage with jQuery
Obviously their point was that Bateman was too close to Batman. Not being a trademarks expert, I can't comment on whether it was a trademark infringement or not, but that is besides the point. Do you want to spend time and money litigating with DC Comics?
"she reported something" ??!?!?!??!?!??!?!?

OMG - can you imagine if we all went around "reporting" things online what a terrible world we would look like. What was there to report???????? I would have simply turned around and given them the glare that said..."I know you have a small pen1s so stop overcompensating with your lame jokes". I am 99.9% certain that a look in their direction would have been the end of it all. These guys were totally blindsided and targeted. Just because they got "stupid" for a minute does not make them bad people that should be REPORTED!!!!!!!!
On Canary it continually spams this on the console:

Profile 'Profile 13' started. chrome.inspector-detector.js:16
Profile 'Profile 13' finished. chrome.inspector-detector.js:17
Console was cleared
Why Your Skyrocketing Rent Is Bad for the Economy
Nice to see a tech security topic in a large publication. So many companies think thier golden while the truth is most companies have blatant security holes. The more we talk about hacking and security threats, the less mysterious it becomes. There is no magic or sorcery, just simple deductions and planning for a wide range of attacks both internally and externally.
> Relying on consistency checks will not save you if someone does the git equivalent of rm -rf on the master repository.

The master repository is coded so that those types of actions are not permitted. Developers cannot force push or delete branches that aren't reintegrated into some other head, without assistance from the sysadmins.

After every routine push to a KDE git repository the new commit will be a descendant of the repo's original head.

With that in mind it's more understandable as to why they felt it was possible to take advantage of Git's design in the backup planning.

No "huge oversight" here, at least on this particular issue.
I don't know all their transactional email strategies, but I've noticed one is those "Do you know [name] or [name]" emails that try to coax you back onto Facebook by asking you if you know certain people and want to friend them.
All I can say is: keep at it. If you plan on using Django in the long term, you'll eventually get to the point where you know the steps and they don't seem that bad anymore.
I think that if you are in a public space you have no expectation of privacy therefore your picture can be taken...what is allowed or not allowed after that... I don't know. I do think that she had a responsibility to blur out Alex's name on his badge though.
What you are describing is called Journalism

What we have in almost all newspapers and tv outlets is not Journalism and when it occassionally is it is not comprehensive, sustained or penetrative

I suspect that in the uk as we may or may not get so e press regulation, we shall find blogging as the protected speech and slowly find local issues becoming driven from local blogs.

It's going to be fun to watch
Yeah, if you're incapable of accepting that complicated scenario is complicated.

The next two paragraphs identified two things that they weren't doing that they should have been. Otherwise they'd just have lots of snapshots of bad data.
Yes - but native language in census terms do not mean mother tongue. There are few villages in India which adopted Sanskrit as first tongue - That is an experiment not akin to being part of a continuity. At the most, you can say these native speakers revived a dead language.
While halvm boots in the 10ms range (like starting a GHC process). These can be very fine grained and fast.
I'm not sure, probably 75-80k, for the most part pay is very inelastic.

Whether fairly or not, I anticipate that any university attempting to pay below 50% the going rate would quickly get a very bad reputation. I would probably take a 50% pay cut to work at my dream institution, but I'm definitely in the minority (and also I don't have kids).
while hundreds of people brainstorm ideas how google glass can enrich the driving experience

http://glass-apps.org/car-glass-app

there are always those who wants to conserve the status quo and try to find any arguement
Sorry, a distraction: is anyone else reminded of the copper bowl in Anathem?
CFAA Explained
Mystery of the Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps (video)
Presenting Codeely
After lots of people writing me to know about Codeely (http://www.codeely.com), I want to tell you what it is, and what I want to achieve with it.

It will be a place where all developers will help each other with development problems. Just like StackOverflow, but with some differences:

- Post snippets (or group of files) and ask for performances issues or code organization.
- Ask for architectural patterns for some problem you’re trying to solve
- Ask for design patterns for your code. Could it be improved?
- Ask which library you should use for some problem.
- Vote for which framework or library you do prefer

Right now, all these features are among multiple online services, but Codeely tries to fix that and mix them in a unique website where community will decide what is right and what is wrong.

The special thing about Codeely launch was, what I called Ultra-Lean startup. I launched only the landing page explaining what It is, and surprinsingly, lots of people subscribed!

Here you can see the original article http://www.jmanzano.es/blog/?p=845
Isn't every math education website aimed at K-12?
It's a problem because good comments posted later are much less likely to end up near the top where they will be read.
#1 I agree that prize-based research only works in certain areas. That is why I would make it only one of the three ways to fund research. I think that any competition should be judged by outsiders, if the competition cannot be accurately judged by outsiders then it is not a good competition. For instance, a self driving car race can be judged by outsiders.

For #3 the accountability comes from the board of directors. Right now the highest ranking professors are basically accountable to no one. If a field starts to stagnate, get to esoteric, or close off to new ideas, there is no one with the power to get it unstuck. The top professors do not have an incentive to get it unstuck, because they are the most successful in the status quo, their status is directly linked to the current direction of the field. An independent board of directors has no such perverse incentive. Also, each institution would be actually independent, unlike with the grant system in which grants are centrally allocated by a network of the existing professors. So if one institution goes the wrong direction, another institution might try and make its name by trying out a novel area of research.
Hacker News Workflow for Alfred 2.0
Graphene is also very thin. If you created a box of graphene, it would naturally have about the same weight as diamond or coal (plus or minus 100%, maybe, but certainly not orders of magnitude less).
So much javascript in this stackoverflow thread.
Hello World Programs in 300 Programming Languages
As a vegetarian, iron is something I haven't had a problem with (I know this from the blood iron levels they measure when you give blood). I cook with cast iron, which apparently increases the amount of iron in cooked foods [1].

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2002....
What a waste. All you need is basic media queries, resolution would be redundant. The better approach is to make vector graphics which will look good in any resolution. I get the article, I just think its an unnecessary overhead.
So that money goes into health insurance and social security?

If you work as an "autónomo" and your business fails, do you qualify for social-security /unemployment benefits?
In this case it would not be the worst deal, espacially counting in the discounts. The scandal here is, that the system needs ages to approve the paperwork.

Also as I understand EU laws, incorporating somewhere else would not solve the problem, since you are subject to the local taxes at the place where you actually do the work.
Well, not necessarily. The issue is that filesystem corruption lead to undetected Git repository corruption, which is what made it possible to push corrupted repos to the mirrors.

It would have been just as easy to push those corrupted repos to all of the backup tapes in the rotating snapshot set. A snapshotting filesystem could be a good backup (and seems to be what one of the sysadmins is pushing for).

But even more important is to fail fast and identify git repo corruption as soon as it can be detected so that further damage can be avoided.
Experience. At least let people experiment a little bit more before building huge fabs using technique A only to realise that technique B works at half the cost and twice the time-efficiency.
Hi doktrin,

Regarding -new- Perl projects, take a peek at the Mojolicious web framework [0] (because nearly everything using it is a new Perl project). It's the most fun I've had in years.

If nothing else, the Mojocasts [1] will probably bring a smile to your face (personally, I laughed out loud at times because it's so strangely simple and brilliant).

0. http://mojolicio.us/
1. http://mojocasts.com/
Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many
In my inexpert knowledge I can see a few problems, while they have probably seen potential, they have yet to prove it can scale. Then there is getting manufacturers of devices to buy in to super capacitors and even worse getting battery life obsessed consumers to accept 1/4 the life as current Li Ion batteries is better because it has nearly instantaneous recharge times.
I suppose you could argue this is true but some sites cover topics well beyond what would be considered appropriate for K-12.
The difference between Flask's and Bottle's ram usage will be negligible. Out of box, flask is a wrapper over werkzeug and ships with Jinja2. The main memory usage will come from other libraries and extensions, and your own application code.
I'm not a scientist. I can't not say anything how this could be a revolution but if you want learn the basics about Graphene. Start with this video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX8ClPVkD1g and then to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXmVnHgwOZs or just search it on youtube. This helps me a lot to understand. Have fun.
Google glass is probably about as distracting as the various LED and console displays that already exist, including GPS ones
This isn't really related to the link but,I'd be really interested in hearing what an experienced android developer thinks about the BB10 development environments. I've downloaded the SDKs and tinkered a bit. They seem quite nice (even on linux), but I'm neither experienced or even a real developer.

It's too bad BB10 isn't yet on the playbook, it would make testing the BB10 waters pretty inexpensive.
we watch game of thrones and we want to give everyone a sword
You do know that the medical profession has figured out a small amount of alcohol (a drink or so) after the first trimester isn't a problem, right?
33? I guess you pay a little more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_of_Europe
The author says a lot about "topological equivalence" but it's clear that he's playing fast and loose with those terms. So don't read too closely into the math, and just enjoy the rest of the article.
Here[1], the density is said to be as low as 0.03 gm/cc which is the same as kg/liter. That gives a multiplicative factor of 33 over the above calculations, i.e. this could be 33% of the energy density of lithium ion batteries. Not bad.

[1]: http://www.strem.com/uploads/resources/documents/graphene_na...
It's actually an interesting toy problem. Brings me back to microeconomics. Most people tend to be risk-averse, so they will never accept a 50/50 gamble (ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenstern...). However, those in the startup space tend to be risk seeking, thus they are more inclined for the second option. Behaviorialists will point out this is a classic example of framing effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)). While the distinction between 10 or 20 dollars is trivial, the distinction between 5,000,000 and a gamble of 20,000,000 is more substantial.
Tesco was the first company to really do this right - there's a book called Scoring Points[1] that outlines this in details. By using the detailed profiles of customers, they learned that giving discounts on products customers cared about was much more valuable than just giving discounts based on vendor preference. A fan of Coca-Cola will come in to buy a Coke, but won't buy Pepsi, no matter if it's on sale or not.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Scoring-Points-Winning-Customer-Loyalt...
> This is part of a broader problem in society with baby boomers not retiring or stepping aside for the next generation as has always happened before and it has broken many systems.

-1. If a 60-year-old is doing good, productive work, enjoys it, and wishes to continue it, why should he or she retire?

Your argument, at least in the broader sense, seems to rely on the fallacy that there are a fixed number of jobs, and an older worker who chooses to continue working is "taking the place" of someone younger.

In more restricted contexts, such as academia, this is more or less true, and the tenure system does allow for older professors to stop pulling their weight if they choose. (Most of them don't do so.)

But are you prepared to demand of older, productive workers that they quit simply because you would like to take their place? I find such a sentiment to be profoundly selfish.
You should be running Ghostery and NoScript/ScriptSafe with JS turned off be default. It's your Internet condom from viruses and advertisers. Like a condom, not 100% effective but you shouldn't concern yourself with edge cases. People can still track you many other ways, but the point is right now they DON'T, so this will keep you pretty safe from this for now. I have any and all domains owned by Facebook and any other social networks I don't use blocked at the router.

Obviously, in reading the article, the primary problem here is that he's a Facebook user, so no amount of protection would help. You can't really use Facebook safely.
Can you imagine what's going to happen the first time we have presidential candidates that have clickstreams stored from back when they were twelve?

That's going to be some powerful lobbying mojo - certainly more powerful than anyone's privacy policy.
Read pretty much all the unbiased scientific literature that looks at the long term effects of a vegan diet, from nutritional studies to surveys of practicing populations. I won't bother to cite them. I'm assuming google isn't blocked in your country? (tip: papers published by vegan and vegetarian promoting organizations do not count).

Don't think I'm defending modern diets either. Most people eat a woefully unhealthy diet regardless of what they eat.

It's just that for most people who go to great lengths to adopt a highly specialized and unbalanced diet, it becomes religion, and they think it makes them immune to the fact of being an omnivore.

Being an omnivore doesn't mean you can choose to eat plants OR animals, it means you must eat a bit of both. But you can certainly go for long spells on just one or the other, but long term, you'll most certainly end up with a case of malnutrition on some area. Most of the studies I've read show that 80-90% of Vegans suffer some malnutrition of some form (despite having fantastic health in many other areas).

Put another way, if you have to take supplements to make up for dietary shortfalls (a number which approaches 100% in long term vegan population studies), you're doing it wrong.
In that case another developer would notice, would get in touch with his fellow developers, they would agree to force push a specific repository condition and all is well and back to normal. There is no need to restore anything from backups or mirrors in that scenario.

So that's an entirely different threat. On the one hand we have FS corruption, which is basically bound to happen and is likely to impact many repositories. On the other hand we have someone (maliciously) force pushing an update on a single repository that throws away all commits.

The first issue is one that needs a backup and restore procedure. The second is one that is at best an inconvenience and at worst a security problem.

Unless you want to include the the worst case scenario someone gaining access to the machine and force pushing such a destructive update on all repos. In that case restoring from developer copies may actually be safer anyway, because the machine and all its backups, be they mirrors or otherwise, may be considered compromised. That's a nightmare for which this discussion about backups is just quibbling.
Because this thing that they have never used and isn't yet on the market is the most pressing threat to public safety? Methinks they just want an excuse to subpoena some devices to play with.

Or are they going to ban dashboards next, since they distract drivers from the road?
How Franklin Roosevelt Secretly Ended the Gold Standard
Why not simply give the reader control?

Sort by up-votes, down-votes, newest, oldest, author, poster karma, various auto-sort algos and, of course, random. Pick a few options and giv e the reader control over the post discovery process.

I think that could be very interesting.