skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in the scale the US has (we're talking about 11-12 millions of people here, according to Wikipedia and various news sites) versus something about 30k people expelled from France yearly.

Of course, the actual numbers of people trying to enter the US per year are not the same number as people already in the US, but it's pretty obvious that the numbers will be far higher than those of France and Greece, probably Spain, thus proving my point.
It should be using the java.io.File.separator[0] constant for platform independence.

[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html#s...
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It's pretty safe to assume that YC has received DMCA takedowns for stuff on HN given YC has defined a process for dealing with them (https://news.ycombinator.com/dmca.html). It's interesting because really what copyright infringing material can news.yc host other than something posted in a comment? news.yc is after all merely a list of links to external hosts controlled by unrelated 3rd parties.

Generally, if you have a question about what happened to something on HN you should email info@ycombinator.com and someone will reply to you. The terms are quite clear on that. IIRC people have been hell banned for complaining about HN/PG on HN instead of emailing them.
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A Chrome app is a great idea. What kind of timeline? Weeks, months, seasons - away?
F# has units of measure[1], which lets you use units on numeric types. It also does unit conversion, so if you have a function (x * x), the type sig would be "x:int<m> -> int<m ^ 2>". Pretty neat.

Without the neat inherent aspects, any language with lightweight support for phantom types can achieve some level of this functionality.

For instance, you could define a sum type with only one case taking the type to wrap. Thus you can easily have TransactionId, AccountId, etc. as distinct types, without spending more than a line to declare them.

1: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx
Both situations are intuitive. High debt causes high servicing of debt causes inefficient use of private market resources paid in taxes.

Additionally, slow growth causes lower govt revenue causes less incurring of debt to make up the shortfall in tax base.

Debt and growth are both inputs and outputs that are codependent. The degree to which they impact the overall financial picture depends HEAVILY upon the opportunity cost of the servicing of the incurred debt.

For bonus, consider what will happen to heavily indebted countries when interest rates begin to rise. Servicing of debt will become more difficult leading to a decrease in our ability to grow the economy, leading to more difficulty in servicing the debt, and on and on.
distributorships arent a state based thing. It's all legally encoded into ATF regs; there are different classes of licensing; Manufacturer, Farm/Small Manufacturer (less than 10,000 gallons per year), Distributor/Wholsale Sales; and Retail Sales. None of these licenses are allowed to overlap.

The problem with startup breweries/wineries is that they have to make thier sales exclusively to distributors, then market to retailers (get demand for the distros to carry). However, as a retailer, you're only allowed to purchase from the distributors. If the distro doesnt carry a product you want to sell, you legally cannot sell it.
The problem with capitalism is that pure capitalism does not account for social issues, be them human-related or animal-related. Neither does communism.

But people still believe that raw capitalism (or, in cases like North Korea, communism) can succeed.
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It's serious, though playful. Some of the cases are very interesting, particularly the one about Barclays getting burned by the lack of access control on data in spreadsheets.
I'm not sure I'd call "uploading code" to a website "open sourcing."

Where is your LICENSE file? Where are licensing terms discussed?

Open source isn't just code; the license you release under is equally, and perhaps even more, important than the code.
I once received a complete 50 page web site design in Excel with embedded screen images, lists of features, and navigation guides.
I don't believe America is an underdeveloped nation, exactly.

If you compare stats for all the factors that really make a difference for quality of life for the average person on the street (healthcare, education, death rates, crime rates, pollution, safety, etc. just to name a few), you'll see America is very often comparable to developing nations, and not often comparable to developed nations. In many cases, it's staggering far behind the best in the world.

Food for thought.
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I've been working on an article that discusses test-driven development in Node.JS, using Mocha. As part of the article, I decided to put together this skeleton project, which demonstrates how I usually tend to structure my JavaScript libraries. Curious to hear how others approach it differently.
It's not so much the complexity as it is the lack of knowledge of basic EE theory that tends to trip up "outsiders."

Case in point; I've been helping a coworker with software only background (I started out as an EE) with a very simple circuit that he could not get to work. As I explained how to debug it, I began to realize that there was a a lot of required background knowledge I simply took for granted and that most hobbyists didn't have. And that made explaining what to do very difficult.

And my day job is a large C++ system. Trust me, this kind of stuff is easier and more relaxing ;-)
He is saying he is limiting his career, not becoming unemployable. Projects like CoD, BF or Halo offer, by far, more money, stability, professional development possibility, sane working environment etc.
There are plenty of studios that never have made and never will make an FPS. There are plenty of people who never shipped an FPS in their entire career. However, in the current market, if you are not working on an FPS like mentioned above, chances are high that you are crunching for low pay, over a design made by people who don't even want to play the game themselves, surrounded by peers who hate their job and either having the project canceled and laid-off or shipping a mediocre game and getting laid-off in lieu of completion bonus.
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I guess you didn't get my point, so I'll put it another way: to my knowledge, except for the Arizona Congresswoman shooting, all the recent mass shooting events going back to Stockton happened in so called "gun free zones".

We in the RKBA community don't think that's coincidental.
don't want to put a date on it, but stay tuned :)
You can't really sell alcohol across state lines.

I helped build one of the first online wine sales sites and they imploded due to spending tons of money trying to establish a complicated system of warehouses in every state in order to comply with the regulations.
Again, your basis for making this "magical" statement is questionable. I'm in a research institution with considerable resources and it ain't magic. It is, however, a lot of bureaucracy and poor resource management (and 60% overhead! talk about an innovation killer!).
Google maps plugin messes my score as it's treated as in line javascript. Otherwise it's nice reference for quick fixes to increase website security. People should also note that this is not full penetration test, so getting 100% does not mean you are safe. To be frank you are never safe :)
Please update the instructions if they are wrong then: http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/4.4/en/html/installation.html

In particular, any piece of software that needs an MTA in order to run is not going to be pleasant when you are running a one-person project. What, are you going to want to receive email updates from yourself whenever you update a bug that you created on the computer you are using right now?

I wasn't even talking about installation, however. Go to the Landfill if you don't believe me (http://landfill.bugzilla.org/). You want to create a new bug? You first have to create a product, then you have to create components. You have to fill out the entire form when filing a bug, even if you only have one product, one component, and only target one operating system.

Then look at a bug report. Log in to Landfill and look at a bug. Here's one: https://landfill.bugzilla.org/bugzilla-4.4-branch/show_bug.c...

Then think about the cost of running Bugzilla. You are now running a web server. What if you don't have a server? What if you just have a laptop for the road and a desktop at home? How are you going to do database backups?

Tell me: does this beat an Excel spreadsheet for a one-person project?

Edit: I'm not saying Bugzilla is bad software. I'm saying it's like a stick shift. If you put an automatic transmission in a car, you alienate users who prefer manual. If you put a manual transmission in a car, you alienate users who don't know how to use it.
This should be easy in many languages - inherit from a numeric type or wrap one and overload the operators. This is actually not uncommon - in areas with high risk potential this is standard practice up to using different data types for x, y and z coordinates to avoid that your flight control accidentally adds wrong things together.
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Yup, but the Excel error is the soundbite. Anyone can understand it and it makes the authors look ridiculous, which is so much more potent than just being wrong, especially if what you're wrong about is something abstruse that in the end will only get reported as "economists disagree".

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/the-good-glitch/

I've often wondered about this aspect of political discourse. It's not rational, it's symbolic. Yet most of the time when a symbolic soundbite takes off, even though it's wrong or misleading per se, there's still some poetic justice to it. That is, it's rare that such a soundbite is completely unfair; usually it turns out to be a metonym for an arguably legitimate criticism. This is a case of that.
Where is the data indicating that it's decreasing?
This ignores the common use case. yummyfajitas' examples were exceedingly stereotypical of both excel and mysql usage.
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"While companies like Yahoo work to destroy as much human history as possible, Archive Team is the only group actively trying to save it."

What kind of article is this? It is cool they are trying to save some of our virtual history, but these kind of statements aren't helpful. Clearly Yahoo's main intension isn't destruction.
"Su samuru"(literal translation: water sable) is the Turkish for otter. Turkish is an agglutinative language, that last u is actually a possessive affix and doesn't make sense when the word is by itself.
Doesn't seem to tailor results to your location so might not be as useful for people outside of the US? Or did I just try a stupid search? I performed a vanity search and it was listing different names before there was anything about me. Same search in Australia on Google has me in four of the top six spots.
Awareness seems to be spreading about the negative health implications of our factory-food system as a whole. It's possible that demand will shift. Capitalism will adapt.
that spider example is pretty freaking neat
Wait, wasn't a rational agent simply an agent that optimized a certain result given a set of knowledge about it and it's environment? I mean in engineering and physics, you do try to build the perfect something, but you also realize you will never ever build the perfect something. You'll never build the perfect computer, the perfect op amp, nor the perfect rational agent, just as you'll never find the biggest number, because there's no upper bounds on these kind of things.
> I mean Excel is at its heart a query language. So your logic equally applies to Excel

The least readable query language ever. Instead of names, everything must be addressed as column,row. Imagine a C program that instead of declaring variables with sane names as needed, simply created a large array of each type and used constant numeric indecies. That's what Excel requires.
You could make the bet that credibility today is worth increased attention tomorrow. I guess lots of people might not think that is a good bet.
They aren't stereotypical of the kind of Excel that gets written by people who use it as a major part of their job. They're stereotypical of people writing poor Excel queries against unnamed cells via location reference.
I agree. It seem to me that the article is taking the Mickey out of these high profile people / companies who are quick to place blame on Excel. I would see most of these a simply human errors which could have been avoided had the people involved been more thorough. If they are able to model complexes financial and economic problems in a spreadsheet surely they are also capable of building safeguards and double checks into their sheets or have someone proof read the results. Evidently, they didn't ... Though luck.
Is that first one valid Excel? I've never seen it before.
I'm still trying to find performance numbers that prove it impractical. Otherwise, it just sounds like a problem that could be mitigated by clustering.
Every time you are reading such an account - check out whose account it is. There is a website called mobygames.com listing most of the credits and searchable by the developer's name.

Basically the working environment depends on the particular place of work much more than on the particular industry.

If you read only people working for Yahoo, you could conclude that web-advertising is a horrible industry. People working for Myspace would give you an impression that working for Facebook is just as bad etc etc.
I do not believe that the demand will shift, simply as the amount of people depending on cheap food is too high. As better living conditions for the animals result in lower profits, these products simply will not be bought as no one can afford them.
What you did here was try to find the master list of Girl Scout badges and grep it for "science", which isn't even close to an accurate depiction of what the programs are. Incidentally: the implied dismissiveness of style is itself a gender bias artifact; we wouldn't bat an eye at the science of rockets or cars. You think there isn't science to dig out of cosmetics?

At any rate, a cursory search will dig up badges for entomology, botany, a bunch of different computer badges, science in general, human biology, engineering, and more. There isn't one handy list of all the badges all in one place that I can find; you have to actually dig into the programs.

(I'm the parent of an 11 year old girl, but she's not a Scout).
Agriculture in the US is absolutely nothing like "raw capitalism". It is extremely regulated. Farmers are subsidized. It's nothing like "raw capitalism" in several very important ways.
I'm sorry but the proposed options are not acceptable.

No VPN? SSH as a plugin ???

Using a Chrome plugin for SSH is taking unnecessary risks. I see no reason why there couldn't be a terminal application on the Chromebook.

If it's due to UI, maybe there could be a way out of the GUI - IIRC the Chromebook runs on X-Windows.

If you can't hack it in a way where ctrl-alt-f1 will get you to a genuine linux getty, running standard GNU/Linux command line software after a recompile, I don't want a Chromebook for development.

Unless you have money constraints, it makes more sense to purchase a real laptop - a macbook if you need the battery time.
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Did Minix ever run on 8-bit? I remember running it on an 8088-based PC, which was sort of an 8/16 bit hybrid.
You can't fully replace meat nutritionally? Any source for this assertion?
You get more than just protein from beef. Grass-fed beef, and ruminants in general, contain a wealth of human nutrition.

It's not the product, is the producer. The perverse incentives in our meat and farming industries drive production of a vasty inferior product at an unsustainable price.
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Max, I looked into this as a meadmaker several years back. I've been brewing mead for about 20 years now, and wine and beer for about 8 years. Everyone who's sampled my brews really wants to be able to just buy it anytime they want. After much prodding I looked into it.

Your mileage may vary as I've kind of given up on these ventures because they are very cost prohibitive to get going. So take the advice for what it's worth.

First, you want to be a retailer; you must be licensed. This is VERY expensive and you have to purchase 100% of your product from a licensed Distributor. If your local distributor doesnt carry the beer you want to sell, you're SOL. You can request it, but Distributors need a LOT of demand to get new products on their list. Distributors arent monopolies by nature, usually most markets will have multiple distributors so you might be able to shop around, but smaller markets will be limited.

As a manufacturer, if you were to brew your product to sell it's easier but much much more expensive. When I priced everything out to just have required equipment it was over $200,000 and that was shopping around for used equipment (over $500 for all new equipment). But even then, you need to get special licensing to sell your product across state lines. Up until I think 2004 or 2005, all mail order sales required in-person orders (visiting a winery for example) This has thankfully changed but other issues still remain.

Many states will not allow alcohol to be shipped in under any circumstances. Some states have requirements on alcohol percentages.

Beer tends to ship one of 2 ways; either you're visiting the breweries website and ordering direct from the brewery Or beer of the month clubs. Again, even the BoM clubs tend to be one of 2 categories; either a single bottle of beer as a "sample" which is covered by different regulations and is easier to do. Or as a "middle man" type operation where the "club" is connected to multiple breweries that are already licensed to sell. At which point they just operate as order takers and have no licensing requirements to perform this service.

However, there's a few caveats. If a brewery went through the expense and hassle to get the shipping licenses; they dont need you. Those that havent been licensed for shipping either cant because of costs involved, or have been denied for whatever reasons (horror stories abound when it comes to BATF licensing and license maintenance).

With the budget you're talking, I'd have to say you'd need to double it just to get a lawyer involved so you dont suffer ATF raids or even jailtime for breaking rules.

Bottom line: you were successful because you completely bypassed city, county, state, and federal regulations. You were the only provider so you had zero competition. You are incredibly lucky that you got tapped on the shoulder by a brewer that said knock it off rather than face an ATF raid and prison sentence.

For $5k I doubt you'll get very far in the licensing business (most of them locally sell for $50,000 or more for retail licenses)
Cash crops, sugar, meat and milk production are extremely regulated and subsidized.

However, the production of many agricultural products like fruits, vegetables and nuts is pretty close to "raw capitalism."
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You went through the trouble to put a "DMCA" link at the bottom of nearly every page

Sites do that so they are in compliance with "safe harbor" laws. It not required to have it on every page of course, but it's probably just a standard footer template so not really a lot of "trouble" to do.
Notwithstanding the idea that working on something inappropriate for a 6 year old is somehow a moral issue, the FPS genre is much bigger than just "realistic" titles like CS/CoD, and it is regrettable that they are being mixed up in the public's imagination. While the CoD:MW series has artistic merit despite being in the "realistic" category, there are legendary titles with deep artistic value like Half-Life, Unreal, and Crysis where (to me anyway) violence is not really the point of the game.
From Isaacson's excellent biography of Jobs, the one thing I gathered is that he had taste (turtlenecks and baggy jeans notwithstanding... ok, haven't seen the yacht either). He bullied a whole company into satisfying his exquisite taste, and the results are still outstanding. I'll take them even at a small price premium.

That does not justify any boss being a jerk, but if you have the taste and the power to bully a lot of people to satisfy that taste, you'll likely produce something tasty.
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Excel cells have been nameable since forever... It also has supported types since forever. I'm literally talking Excel 2000 or older functionality[1][2].

With respect do you even know how to use Excel? Because everything you just said is incorrect.

[1] http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000704.htm

[2] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274504
Wasn't arguing about the definition of "is" a topic when the Linguists got bored and tried to invade the Philosophy Departments?
Even if that's not true, the coverage on the events was intense.
Glad you like the app.

Short term plan is to add invoicing features. Long term plan is to add a cloud team backend that has a subscription.
The hard part would be designing a machine-readable and illiterate-writable language for formal specification of Excel spreadsheet requirements to validate against. And getting said illiterates to use it.

There is no other way to detect errors involving somebody using SUM instead of AVG or aggregating data from wrong fields (examples from the article).
When I read "It is important that crew accommodations be well ventilated; otherwise, astronauts can wake up ..." my mind completed with "asphyxiating in a vacuum".
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