skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked as a lawyer in another European country for several years and at least once a week I would be contacted by Cypriotic lawyers, accountants and financial advisors who wanted to sell what I would describe as tax evasion schemes to my clients. The thing is that the banking laws of Cyprus permitted funds to be placed with few questions asked and the tax laws of Cyprus were designed to attract foreign companies. Cyprus had a 10 percent corporate tax and an almost 0 percent royalty tax. So the idea was for foreign companies to place their IPR in a Cyprus shell company and license it to their real companies back in Germany, the UK Scandinavia etc.
http://www.cyprusprofile.com/documents/uploads/publications/...

This way Cyprus piggybacked on other European countries for year. Now Cyprus is being rescued by the very countries that let the little island get away with these shenanigans for years. It was the Cyprus government itself that wanted normal depositors to pay the 10 percent tax on deposits because the Cyprus government was afraid of destoying the lucrative tax evasion business. The EU only wanted to levy it on the larger depositors.

In the EU there has never been a general convention or social contract that larger deposits are safe. Only deposits up to 100,000 EUR. It is true that during the recent financial crisis larger depositors, bondholders, other creditors and even equity stakes have been saved again and again, but this is the exception, not the normal rule.
On the contrary: do let's.
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2012/09/08/namba-parks-gets-rave-...
The number of people believing something is not a good indicator for it being true oe not. Example: billions of people have contradictory religious beliefs.
Companies try hard to build a culture but here's what they do completely wrong
See also SMTP which has flooded the Internet with huge amounts of garbage traffic but which is simple and works well enough that any alternatives fail.

I agree with your main point, but I wanted to add that there are plenty of alternatives to sending e-mails using SMTP these days. They mostly go by names like "Facebook" or "Google+" and run over protocols like HTTPS talking to a centralised service provider, and they solve the fundamental problem -- letting people send text and picture messages to friends/colleagues for viewing at their own convenience -- in a different and mostly incompatible way.
The number of projects I've encountered on HN which don't even have this...

Maybe it's because I'm not a developer or working at a startup, but I get majorly annoyed whenever I click on some "Show HN" link only to be presented with a landing page on some unheard of web site that contains a few nice images and a text box wanting me to give up my e-mail address before I can even see what the application looks like or, in many cases, before I even know what the hell it is or is supposed to do!

(On a side note, that may be the longest sentence I've ever written.)

> SIGN UP NOW!

For what!?
NewToJS
Tsuru - open source platform as a service (written in Go)
Differentiating Good Domain Names from the Crappy Ones
It's not true at all. All deposits under €100k are insured and protected.
"There is no reason whatsoever why the same person should both create new knowledge and also teach calculus/cs 101/etc"

How about that the person using the tool every day in the course of their work is probably going to be the person best placed to teach others how to use it? Obviously teaching is a skill and craft that has to be taught, but given two people of equal teaching ability, the person using the tool every day should be the better choice, surely?
especially the possibility that things like trees might have feelings

While I don't want to categorically disparage having different experiences, even those that are drug induced... the notion that inanimate objects and even trees have feelings is fundamentally unsound.

If that is a result of your drug-use experience, then I might argue that you have reduced your brain's ability to align itself with experimental reality.

Just like a dieter on fen-phen can lose weight but damage his heart; please don't disregard the possibility that you can have an interesting experience but damage your mind.
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EwanToo, that is very interesting.

Also, since the entire discussion started by me questioning the reliability of sql server, can you say how many days your database server stays up between reboots?
Oh, Gods, why did you have to say that ;-)

I have fkn loved Unimogs for years. To make matters worse, I live near a dealer. Lucky for me I can't afford a new one and even the used ones command a pretty penny.
The next version of Windows has leaked.
How to pass parameters correctly?
Start with Django, it has already made decisions for you.

Flask is much less opinionated, you will need to research more if you choose it.
I can't really tell if Marc Andreessen were being sarcastic in response to the thread going off towards complexity-land or serious when he wrote this:

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0209.ht...

> Actually, maybe we should think about a general-purpose procedural
graphics language within which we can embed arbitrary hyperlinks
attached to icons, images, or text, or anything. Has anyone else seen
Intermedia's capabilities wrt this? It's one of their most impressive
capabilities, actually.

>

>Something like a cross between PostScript and CGM might work...
actually, maybe we should just use one or the other, and add the
extensions we need for the links. Also we'd want to make sure that
it's completely editable.
> The new deal, AFAIK, confiscates all money over 100K euros in the second largest bank, the other one was a 10% tax on all.

It's not a confiscation of all the money. Accounts are frozen, but the final levy (solely on accounts >€100k rather than across the board) are expected to be around 30%:

> Asked about the level of losses on uninsured depositors in Bank of Cyprus, he told state radio: "The assessment is that it will be under or around 30 percent."
Doesn't a breakpoint do exactly the same thing?
Moving Back to Portland
This was one of the reasons why Backbone was my first choice compared to the other "MVC" frameworks. The documentation was simple and I think some the handling of Views helped you mentally organize your DOM manipulation code versus having a file riddled with various event bindings with possible selector conflicts hidden. Right now I am working with AngularJS but the documentation can be cryptic at times. I didn't have resources like John Lindquist's site (http://egghead.io), I may have suck with BackboneJS. It is still a great framework but AngularJS, after gaining experience, has some amazing features.
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IE11 to appear as Firefox to avoid legacy IE CSS
You'd be surprised to know how many kids are run over by school buses every year.
The other commenter is right - When you know what data you want to store, I'm pretty sure you can work out the storage options. For example, most apps that require a typical user registration and login can be done with a basic MySQL box or a PgSQL box.

You can use (and should use) a NoSQL database when you have data that benefits from being non-relational and storing it in a relational db will actually cause you trouble.

For example, let's assume this function:

f(x){
return someHeavyComputationThatRequiresALotOfTime(x);
}

Let's say your specific use case requires that for well-defined inputs of the function f(x), you want the outputs immediately and processing this function for each request will cost you a LOT of resources (think CPU, RAM, etc.). So, in such cases, if and only if it makes business sense, you can store the inputs ranging from 0 to x and corresponding computed outputs in a NoSQL database and access it when needed, instead of actually computing it everytime.

so, your data would look something like:

{"input": 0, "output": 143532.3434}
{"input": 1, "output": 22342424.0934}
{"input": 2, "output": 33242423.2423}
{"input": 3, "output": 346324634.4546}
{"input": 4, "output": 321144563.2457}
{"input": 5, "output": 536573462.5646}

and so on..

Actually my example is bad because you can store the same thing on SQL db's too, but unless there is a very specific advantage[1] that these NoSQL db's have (multitudes faster read speed, lower memory consumption, etc.) you want to stay away from them.

If you are evaluating a good NoSQL db for your project, then I suggest you check out Voldemort DB[2] by LinkedIn, which is actually pretty good and has some positive feedback from people running it at scale[3] without much of the marketing layer that Mongo has.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/nurkiewicz/projekt-voldemort-when-...

[2] http://www.project-voldemort.com/voldemort/

[3] http://engineering.linkedin.com/voldemort/voldemort-collecti...
> the EU urged Cyprus to collectively punish all deposit holders regardless of balance.

Not only is that incorrect, it's the exact opposite of reality: Cyprus wanted a 10% levy across the board on all accounts, bigger EU countries refused to breach insurance on accounts under €100k, preferring that only uninsured accounts (>100k) be levied against/.
It's high on the list, certainly... I might be inclined to hate more on the SOAP designers these days, but FTP does very well on the "idiotic complexity in few pages" metric.
>>One thing that /really/ pisses me off though if trying to give advice you're not qualified to.

Any one that would follow the advice of someone that self-admittedly is only a number of weeks in on the subject blindly gets what they deserve. That being said, there is no reason for someone to tell other new people what worked well for them. I believe people are more comfortable talking to and listening to other recent converts - they can identify with them more than the greybeards of whatever language they are interested in. I don't see a problem with someone being enthusiastic about learning something new and fun.
Wow. I really feel for you. It's really amazing that you're doing that!
Site's offline.
What's the bureacracy like with that? Are you just keeping a low profile and doing it on the "beg forgiveness" principle or are you doing all the proper paperwork? Or is it actually less of a hassle in that respect than I imagine? I'd assumed that converting a business space into a residence within the UK would be like one of the more byzantine scenes from Brazil.

I'd be very interested to hear more about it generally.
Yeah, that was my initial idea but the current naked state of the Pi has me hunting for nice cases.
Well, I can tell you that in Switzerland $12/hour is half as much as a burger flipper earns here, so...
Fascinating, thanks for posting the links.
SNI has the problem that it's not supported on all browsers or operating systems, so even if it worked without configuration it doesn't solve the problem for most use cases. Assuming multiple subdomains on the same domain the only viable alternative to multiple IPs is to use a wildcard certificate.
See also this iPhone/iPad app built by a friend: http://www.uquery.com/apps/Ji3W1/got-visa
Why shouldn't HTML be used for defining input forms? You are just stating that it shouldn't. CSS should be used for styling the input form and widgets because it is a styling language, but HTML is perfectly fine for defining the semantics of input forms.
"We're do not the kind of page where you could ask for problems on your code."

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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One year of text messages, analyzed and charted
Given this, I wonder what the rationale is for denying felon's passports? I mean, if it doesn't prevent you from leaving the country or entering the country, both of which are violations of international law.
It would certainly be months or years, depending on patches really rather than an outage.
This, from my perspective, is an absolute waste of time, talent and effort that no kid should be subjected to

You've hit upon something which is a Deep Truth (TM) of parenting. There is nothing wrong with a child committing to that time and effort in chess, or gymnastics, or baseball, or anything, under one condition.

That condition is that they love it. Not for the parents, not for the coaches, or for the accolades. They have to deeply love whatever it is for its own sake.
If you don't feel like buying the app up front (not knowing if you will find it useful) you can just use anki's web interface [1]. I find it much faster to enter the cards on my desktop/laptop using the keyboard and then sync them to my mobile devices anyway.

1 - http://ankiweb.net/
A billion dollars for a fighter plane. Good lord, this actually brings into context how fucking rich Bill Gates is.
This and the fact that he can give every single person on Earth a billion dollars each and still be among the richest people on the planet.
I'd love to know how many nodes you'd need on a virtual server that doesn't have horrid I/O performance like EC2.
Shoppning malls != skyscrappers, cool link none the less, though.
SUB - Sports utility bike: https://twitter.com/andrkoel/status/208851605599174656/photo...

I've actually driven this bike with complete windsurf and kitesurf set in the trunk.
Ubuntu changes to release management
It's a cool dream. Just be sure you know what you're getting into. This guy ended up having a harder time of it than he expected: http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/shop-management-owner-i...
Excellent course – highly recommend it. (for newcomers to Scala, but not only.)
fwiw, 12$/hr is very low for a good Indian developer who lives in any Indian city of even moderate size. (I am sure there are some people who live in rural areas and/or are sufficiently desperate to work for 12$.)

Interesting that Eastern Europe seems to have cheaper developers than in India.
If you are only doing data entry yes.

Thankfully many are doing native on the mobiles, and the stories of companies being burned by HTML5 not being ready help as well.
The new DUI: State may make it illegal to drive while using Google Glass
There are a lot more ships that have nuclear reactors than just carriers and subs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Naval_rea...
This kind of outsourcing is commodity web development of the simplest type. Don't compete in that arena.
I think your analysis is spot on.

Big companies don't want to house large IT infrastructure anymore. It seems too costly in the long run and benefits are difficult to explain to the board.

Consequently, you already see companies moving what was before considered core infrastructure to the cloud and the trend is probably going to increase.

Deploying a VM on EC2 or Azure is easy, quick and cheap enough considering you don't have to house as many talents as before in the IT department. As companies move to cloud based services, they don't deal with databases anymore, the people providing the solution (we don't even talk about software anymore, that's the current level of abstraction) does. Problem is amongst the cloud based service providers, few are Oracle shop.

That's the reason Oracle is now trying to position itself in the cloud through acquisitions (like Nebula today). Unfortunately, they are a bit late to the game.
I really hate the direction Nokia are heading in.
And if your friend had to choose one and only one descriptor between "Canadian" or "American", what would they say?
I don't work in finance, and I can't tell you if anyone is looking for FP developers in your particular speciality. However I do know that finance in general has growing demand for FP. Some pointers:

Lennart Augustsson has been spreading the gospel of Haskell at Standard Chartered, and Credit Suisse prior to that. I'm not sure which area he works in, but you might find Haskell jobs there.

Most of the major banks are recruiting for Scala developers. For example, Morgan Stanley were/are looking for Scala developers for their core technology team.

Scala is also growing in popularity in media companies: the Guardian, Mind Candy, etc.

[I'm part of a London based Scala specialist called Underscore (http://underscoreconsulting.com/).]
He has one of the highest karma averages. I doubt it took many votes, if any.
A standard should reference working code. Preferably more than one implementation by different parties. Ideally at least one implementation is open source.

This doesn't mean that standards based on working code is automatically superior, but it's less likely you'll get absolute turkeys.
Also that little stop sign shaped pause button in Chrome will 'Pause on all exceptions' (blue) or 'Pause on all uncaught exceptions' (purple, I usually leave it on this).
Nitpick: App and Models are singleton instances. Shouldn't they be lowercased ?
It's not just this. Many users are terrible and will leave you negative feedback based on what they are feeling that day, even if you did everything right.

I bend over backwards for my customers and still get negatives. College students seem to be the worst. If they don't get things exactly their way, you get a negative.
Was there ever any proof that drinking fluoride prevents cavities? (As opposed to applying it directly to the teeth.)
As can haproxy or any other L7 load balancer.
That is what I meant. Can you explain why in falls apart?
You should know it, but don't get all ideological and neglect your advanced object or imperative programming training. You might even want to look at gasp other paradigms like rule based coding to broaden your toolbox a bit.

tl;dr scala is the best object-oriented imperative programming language I've ever used.
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Out of curiosity... Are there any Armenians on Hack News?

-Diran
That's a very mad idea..!! I don't know how to drive a vehicle but by reading this now i really want to lean driving! :)
It's rather telling that when someone brands a given behavior as offensive, you imagine the discussion must stop there. That nobody else has the right to argue in the defense that, het, the 'perpetrator' has actually done nothing wrong in this specific case, and since one cannot rightfully insist that speakers no longer mention their significant others ever, the author really should get over this particular offense in order to function in the community at large.

If you think I have no right to say that, you would probably find yourself more comfortable on a private soapbox that in a discussion forum.
Radical Simplicity in software and the Division of Labour
Same here, though I'm not a network engineer.

Can we please, please say "backbone.js" when we're not talking about that "other" backbone (which has a much older claim on this name)?
Is this a parody?

What actual platform is it?
RationalPlan 4.3 – Project Management Software On Premise Or In The Cloud
RationalPlan Project Management Software version 4.3 is ready for the public. Current version offers easier printing capabilities, more reports, better integrations with Microsoft Project and last but not least automatic email notifications within the Server system.

RationalPlan is a project management solution that puts the accent on productivity, ease of use and fast learning. It was created to serve many types of users starting from novice project managers, users that need an environment to handle multiple projects and up to companies that need a distributed solution with concurrent access. For the latter case RationalPlan Server can be used as an on-premise solution or in the cloud aka SAAS offering.

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Outsourcing tasks like password cracking to all possible parallel universes
I thought this project had died! This just made my day.
>> Tomorrow you will get your very first look at the battle room with the reveal of the teaser poster on Yahoo! Movies.

I don't know if they are saying a "trailer" will be coming out tomorrow.
Someone really needs to tell fiction-writers that "Contemplate the inevitable/eternal" tropes have gotten very, very old. I can't speak for all readers, but I for one have stopped seeing these conversations as any kind of serious thematic debate and started just waiting for the hero to punch Mr. Zen Cleverdick in the face.

Perhaps a Herbert reference is appropriate. "The most fundamental principles of the universe are accident and error."
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cool but how do i pt it in my android native app?
We Don't Have Time to Fix Things
It looks like an alternative to Heroku and VMware's CloudFoundry (http://www.cloudfoundry.org, which is also opensource)

I just checked the docs - http://docs.tsuru.io and the git repo - https://github.com/globocom/tsuru

Would have been nice to see screenshots of the command line tool. Would have made things simpler for commoners.
NYT had a great article about Zara.

The bottom line was basically that you can have the best design in the world, but if the competition has a better distribution chain, their imitation will be out in stores, before yours are.

I thought it was pretty interesting to read about the importance of the logistics of a fashion label.
No, it's claiming that it has utility for the public. There's a hint in the name.
Teaching is an industry that openly seeks male perspective, but I'm not sure that is right either. Why can't men just reach the level of being the obvious choice for the job, without even needing to consider gender?
"written in Go" in the title was the trick to gain your attention?
Yeah, small world, eh? There's at least two others around, but they seem to be heads down building stuff right now.
I don't get it. I'd understand more if there was a service being sold or if they said you could use it to set up your own. Can anyone from the project explain the what, why, and where of it all?
Not when you live 10 miles from the closest one, no.
> I'm not knowledgable on her time at HP and your concerns sound legitimate.

Really, and you read hackernews? Florina was close to a sociopath.

It's about time we started paying our taxes, we were supposed to anyways, nothing new here.

> Fiorina's and Whitman's double defeat in 2010 was a big setback for those of us trying to convince the GOP that courting the tech vote is worth their trouble.

It wasn't a setback, they were running a sociopath and a soso ex eBay exec in a year when obama was running for reelection. The GOP just put out some sacrificial bodies out there and forgot about it.
Alan Kay was talking about the program model. There's no isolated module below the document namespace, leading to monolithic web apps and a lack of user-configurability. The browser needs to run more than one program at a time to be a serious OS.

I imagine he compared the browser pretty directly to Smalltalk.
Are driverless cars illegal?
Wow. That's like something out of the commentary for a YouTube video.

One wonders how someone presumably in charge of PR could have gone about it that way.
Anti-fouling paints are pretty nasty environmental pollutants. I have no idea if these were used for military vessels.

Marine paints often contained heavy metals as a pigment and a biocide.

This website has a pretty horrific list of stuff that you wouldn't want to be eating that has been added to paints in the past.

(http://events.nace.org/library/corrosion/seawater/anti-fouli...)

> Also I think there may be some security concerns here

It's amazing how much stuff is 'protected' by scary looking fence and a warning sign and little else. A man hopped over a wall, climbed up a drain pipe and into a window, then walked along a corridor into a bedroom. (and this was in Buckingham Palace. He had a nice chat with the Queen.)
I am torn. I know Orson Scott is a self declared homophobe. But I like Enders Game.
I looked, scanned the article looking for this arrow, came back to the comments, read this, went back again, finally saw it.

The Giraffe one from the OP was super cool though :)
I have nothing but worry about this movie. Nothing. But. Worry.
shanelija said s/he uses bcrypt. Apparently s/he just makes the passwords stronger than the user makes them before hashing.