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Aws ome at sipping Coffee while giving Puppet shows : Amazon AWS, java/coffeescript, managing with Puppet

Cats on Native American reservations : Apache Tomcat

Locomotive 10 -> Engine X -> nginx

Snakes, python, gems, ruby .. yadda..yadda

Ok, I'm bored now. Will not work there. No one who thinks they're this clever would be a tolerable boss!
Proposed breaking change to how NuGet intepret version constraint
Statutory maternity leave in Spain is currently 16 weeks’ paid leave from work, of which six weeks must be taken after the birth. To qualify for this, the woman must have been registered with the social security office and made contributions for at least 180 days during the five years before the birth of the child. The mother also has the right to take one year unpaid leave after the maternity leave.

Fathers are entitled to 15 days’ paternity leave (depending on their job). In 2015 this will increase to 30 days. If there are complications for either the baby or the mother, the father is entitled to a longer period of leave.
I'll be honest Bitcoin is a lot more accepted than I ever expected it would be and looks to have a lot of growth in terms of the things you will be able to purchase with it. That said the bar to be a successful working currency is really high and the investment angle works against it's use as a currency.

Bitcoin detractors read this article and think people like the author are suckers for buying Bitcoins to begin with. Then there's a lot of Bitcoin enthusiasts that probably think people using Bitcoins to buy stuff are suckers for not holding on to them. You can't draw any strong conclusions from that but it's a bad sign when people on both sides of an issue think you're a sucker.
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Funny because Thiel would remark along the lines of despite those very valid technical advancements (that he himself is invested in), most people in the United States (or developed world) are not even in the context of understanding what value most of the things you listed will be to them.

What is the economic value of a thought controlled hand prosthetics to an illusioned college student who just finished watching Minority Report and iRobot who is "able-bodied"(for lack of a better term) and who will probably never use it (maybe they will use it in some form of masturbatory tool) though claim to sympathize with those who do yet knowing nothing of them personally and their experiences?

What is the economic value of private space shipment for someone who will probably never receive any financial gain of space travel proportional to the few who do, when working at [insert-mega-corp] CEO makes 1k times the avg employee (that their laying of in increasing numbers) they hope to work at after graduating with 100k in debt for 30k/y designing logos for a brand with sales down y/y for 5 years?

What is the economic value of solar technology to most americans whose idea of electricity is flipping a switch that have no idea about the publicly subsidized/poorly maintained aged infrastructure, and think solar panels are fancy tech that is not needed?

And the list goes on.

Paradigm shifts or not in tech have been effectively moot when the perception (and the benefit in peoples immediately lives) seem to be out of sight (economists might see this as spending more money but getting less and less returns as time progresses). When they are in sight, you bet it will come in the form of drone packed action thriller with big data crunching molecularly engineered AI genetically testing people using 23andMe api to exterminate those with disease risks higher than the overall population coming down from ISS with Space X's grasshopper drone edition, with the video game to follow then preceding the cartoon equivalent for childhood consumption.

I bet the teen in Fez, Morroco who didn't have electricity for most of their life and has to hang around tourist bars to watch his favorite team play to go back home to his "house" made of corrugated aluminum roofing(in some places) with walls at least a thousand years old [http://i.imgur.com/1zzmoLa.jpg] outfitted with satellite tv installed by the state and only on few hours of the day (the mother would be watching her favorite american show of course) due to power contraints, will probably appreciate that cheep chinese solar panel installed by EWB more than either of us (which Thiel alludes to in this talk) after never having stable electricity [my personal experience after living there for some time].

I sure know the youth in Spain and Greece sure do appreciate this tech and are using it for their economic benefit as you can tell from their quality of life.
Well then if you want you can say that Keccak/SHA-3 matches snake oil in the same way. They were giving away chocolates for crypto results!
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Great work! I can't imagine the hours you spent building it ! :)
Yeah, but do people actually use stuff from Java-land in their web-apps? Seems like it would be a bummer to deal with.
As for points 1 and 2, there’s a difference in the level of support offered in the US and in European countries. I’ve started businesses and received healthcare on both sides of the pond, there’s quite a stark contrast.

> The quantity of foreign students coming to the US [...] makes the point about the quality of that education available here than I could.

I was talking about European students in particular. And yes, a lot of European students study abroad, but largely because of the experience, not because they believe the education will be better. Also, many of those students don’t end up in American state universities. For instance, I went to Northwestern University – not exactly one of economical choices you were referring to.

> Not that higher education in other countries is poor, but that it is significantly better than that in the US is questionable at best.

Many of the European state sponsored schools are listed on the common rankings of universities. Most of the US universities ranked high are not state colleges. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Ranking_of_World_Unive...
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Well, you're assuming that

1 - All projects can be run in a VM
2 - Setting the development environment is all a new developer needs

Let me try to instil some expanded vision into things:

- I can't have a VM for our specific embedded hardware with its specific devices

- I haven't seen a VM for AIX on Power (maybe except running on Power HW)

But most importantly, Vagrant can't put on the developer's head everything specific (s)he needs to know to do the job. Like how to use the proprietary utils that we need to integrate in a project. Or what the project is all about.
As old as this algorithm may be, it's still relevant/useful in many practical applications. It's crazy to think that these small examples on here scale to gigantic data sets, especially as each PageRank gets updated.
Ask HN: What is your favorit Django Development Setup?
Do you use Ubuntu, MacOS X, Sublime, Textmate, or what? What setup do you prefer?
You apparently didn't read his post? Sadly, there are places where the only free speech is anonymous speech.
Sadly its rather that the decent recruiters/HRs I've met are few and far between.

You can't really rub shoulders with fellow contractors without hearing everyone else's horror stories too.

Sometimes some headhunter is referred around because they are that rare thing, a good person. But those exceptions are remarkably rare.

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And run afoul of literally thousands of patents and copyright issues ;)
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First off, it's a byproduct of corruption, pay through credit card's easily tracked, ordinary people don't do that. Second, not like first world countries, many business here don't accept credit card, some who accepts would charge additional fee.
Are you using the wrap-reload Ring middleware? That seemed to make most restarts not necessary for me.
This just makes my brain hurt. "Cyber pillage" of the nation's "most closely guarded secrets" - so secret they were exposed on the Internet without, apparently, keeping up the security updates?

I think maybe the fault lies not with the Chinese superhackers, but with your definition of "closely guarded."
Twitter is shifting from a microblog towards a multimedia entertanment machine.
New research raises child IQ ~ 20%
seems legit. could be big.
Replacement triggers (and other pieces) for old waterguns. Nothing available commercially today comes close to the old supersoakers (the legendary CPS2000 of course, but even the 1000/1200/1500/2500/2700 are pretty rare these days); building your own means a lot of engineering effort and concerns about its safety. So it's well worth being able to fix the old ones, and one of the more common problems is for the trigger (which is plastic, like almost all of the parts) to simply snap at the point where the I-shaped rod joins to the plastic square that you actually move.

This is a pretty niche hobby - I suspect it's a tiny proportion of the 3D printing market - but it's an example of a case where it would be very useful.
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I'm going to put a request in because this stuff does my head in slightly, can we have measurements in grams? Not sure how that would work for a 'cup of kale'. I can see myself buying a bunch of American measurements just to use this site. Very very cool.
For the record, the Chinese don't actually own that large a portion of the US national debt, which is almost entirely held by American organizations. Propping up our currency, now, that's a looming problem - but one that will hurt China a lot more than it'll hurt us when it hits the fan.
I remember when movie trailers had AOL keywords in them. Now it's "Like Action Drivel on Facebook!"
The BBS in Sri Lanka are also agitating against the Christian community. They are essentially making a lot of noise along the lines of how the great Sinhala-Budhist ethnicity is being eroded by minority influences. This is in a country where Sinhalese make up about 70% of the population.

Hair brained conspiracy theories of hidden population control methods are always popping up on the FB pages of these hate groups. An example is the contraceptive laced toffees that are handed out at the counter of a popular clothing store chain owned by a Muslim family.

It's all just mindblowingly ridiculous. People just looking for reasons to be assholes to others.
Having a single return point is a pretty good idea in C. In other programming languages, probably not.
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There are no checks in China. There are barely checks in any country outside of the United States.
Sweden probably isn't poor either. Why not have 3 years pasternity leave for both parents at 100% wage compensation? Obviously how rich a country is plays a part in this?
Maybe if they want to work remotely, they're just going to have to suck it up and admit that you can't do that with sensitive information. There have in fact been times when military secrets were considered more valuable than people's lifestyle or convenience.

I'm thinking that if these secrets are not more valuable than the lifestyle and convenience of military consultants, then they're not actually all that live-or-die, are they? Instead, they're used as fodder for alarmism.
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> Edit - Responses to some of the comments:

HN has a button for that, you know.
With regards to Belgium: it's 4 months parental leave now (it changed last year, apparently to comply to a European directive).

However, only the first three months you get paid (by social security, not your employer). It is the same amount as unemployment benefits I think, so not your full salary. In my case it was more like 1/3 to 1/2 of my regular salary. The 4th month you get nothing. So whether you can actually benefit from this, depends also on your savings and whether you want to spend them this way.

On the other hand, you can make use of your parental leave until your kids are 12 years old, so you can save it up for when your kid goes to school, or to take them on a trip around world when they are old enough to actually remember it :-)
I grow weary of reading these "hacking," "cyberspy," etc articles. They always read like a plot of a bad action movie (Hackers, Swordfish, etc) rather than what people who actually work in the sector (IT, Security, even programming) have to deal with day to day.

Just once, I'd love to read an article that talks in specifics, like how they got in (e.g. via exploit XYZ), how they spread (e.g. via hole in network policy XYZ), and what was done about it.

Also, if this super-top-secret information is so vital to the US's national security then why was it in the hands of a private company? I might be misunderstanding something here, but it seems less like information vital to national security and more like information vital to that company's future success (i.e. industrial espionage).

I cannot help but wonder if someone at this company (e.g. former CIA director) made a few phone calls and turned an industrial espionage incident into a national security incident in order to cover their arses.
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17% of UK Adults Believe Google Has Their Best Interests at Heart
I'm not sure what the challenges involved are since I'm just a .NET guy who uses a debian home server, but I would switch to FreeBSD instantly if I could get utf-8 support in my irssi.
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Ask HN: How do you sell sprints to clients?
I'm freelance and have a lot of clients who want a fixed quote before embarking on a project. It's not a happy position for anyone - what they want always changes/isn't specified tightly enough; I need more money and they feel hard done by.

From my perspective, a fixed length of time and a prioritised wishlist from the client is the best outcome; it allows me to iterate over features until the client gets what they want, and it ensures I get paid for my time.

But it isn't great for the client because they don't know how much will get done, and (in spite of testimonials, reviews etc) are left feeling I should've finished the wishlist (no matter what expectations I set at the start - "Nice wishlist but only the first 3 are likely to get done, assuming minor changes").

Others can't even start this approach because to get budget approval they have to have a fixed price up-front which is signed-off.

How do you handle this? Is there a "Third Way" that works for all parties?
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Astid's business model was "Free app, with paid for extra features". The free app was close to feature complete though: the extra features you could buy were fairly small & so buying the upgrades was really just making a donation to the devs. They may have expanded the paid services since I used the app though: I used it for a while and it was pretty good, but I found the UI a bit clunky and difficult to navigate once you wanted to do anything more complex than simple tick-box todo lists and I eventually gave up on it.
Looks like Siebel (now Oracle owned)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebel_Systems
Thanks! I didn't know it was an Adam Smith reference. It makes sense now.
Nice idea and implementation. One tiny criticism (and an easy fix): The big red button that you tap to send your card looks _way_ too much like a cancel button.
To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site.

One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards.

If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to the new gov.uk version, and I guess you'd have to work hard to find that error page if it wasn't already bookmarked.
My own content, mostly fixing blocks for other devices I'm building (e.g. http://wiki.hackerspace.lv/w/images/6/69/Expon_1.jpg ).

In my opinion, current generation 3d printers have to be looked at as tools, not a holy saviour of manufacturing industry. It has it's strong points (fast turnaround times, low price) and has it's weaknesses (subpar resolution, support material is required for many types of parts, being finicky).

Nonetheless, I'm really happy with mine- I built a RepRap around 2 years ago. It took full 1 year to get from starting to read about it, to first prints good enough to be useful. After building, it gathered dust for some time because I didn't know what to do with it- the process of building was more interesting than process of using it :>

That being said, I'm also experimenting with DIY SLA printers- by using UV laser and rotating mirror assembly (found in 2d laser printers). Don't know if it works yet- I'm finishing up electronics/firmware and trying to come up with mechanical design.
Sweden isn't really "richer" than USA or most of Northern Europe either. Clearly instantiating a system like that in Rwanda would be a problem, but in context of developed countries it's mostly a matter of policy, culture and priorities.
They're here to ease the passing of specific US legislation in aid of the military industrial complex. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5642408

I really wish people would stop posting them.
+1 for adding custom filtering options (Vegan, Paleo, etc.)
I think you are right, probably means they dont have anyone to look after it.
With the small detail that you earn <= 136.78 pounds per week during this leave: https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/pay.

For women, it is the same after 6 weeks I believe. Paternity/Maternity leaves in UK are truely horrible compared to most continental countries.
I agree this, was an interesting thing to find.
Is it just me who doesn't understand what the body of the article had to do with Google or Microsoft?
I'd argue with the PlayHaven guy's career being publicly shot to pieces, since hardly anyone even knows who he is and I doubt he's going to have a ton of trouble resuming his career in tech.

> Don't underestimate her intelligence. She is a smart cookie. She's also a sanctimonious asshole.

> Live by the sword, die by the sword.

I can't comment on that since I don't personally know her, buy if you do I can imagine reasons for your resentment.

Still, most people don't know her personally and judging the story at face value she could just as well have been dense yet sincere rather than devious and sanctimonious.
That's new, as of this year. It used to be 3 weeks, and the state would compensate ~60% of your salary. Some employers would cover the missing 40%, but I wonder if this tradition is going to extend to the full 9 weeks.
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People who try to exploit Google on the margin risk falling the wrong side of that margin. If that happens then Google are not interested in your feeble "but if you look at this way" justifications. This is not abysmal customer service, it is simply not giving abusive idiots the benefit of the doubt. If they don't like it then they can get free service elsewhere.
The link you provided has little to do with parental leave, instead it states that you have to attend school or similar activities full time. Also the 7 year limit isn't valid anymore, it's 80% of the time before the child is 4 years old and the rest before the child is 12 years.
"quite unprofessional by resorting to publicizing these events"

What kind of bizarre world are you imagining where governments are meant to or do act "professionally". The international diplomatic community is indeed a noxious swamp where immoral and illegal activities get ignored and hushed up all the time. However it's also an environment where governments release stories to their populations through newspapers. Like China provoking that fight with Japan over islands and pretty much every story in the Daily Mail in the UK (or is it the Sun?).

The activities described in this article are shameful and it is one of the tragedies of this age that large organisations whether governments or corporations literally have no shame or morals. And more importantly nor do we have a way of requiring them to act rationally, reasonably or morally.
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The only reliably effective way to improve quality and reduce time is to practice. This does not mean, however, that you should burn yourself out. Apply common sense: don't do something that is making you hate doing it. Only do it when you can afford the time, and not at the expense of your sanity.

Aside from that, the only thing left to do is to minimise your unproductive working habits. The whole 'Vim is faster' thing is just a distraction - people can be 'fast' in a million and one different setups - the point is that if you pick a particular setup, you should learn how to use it. Learn the shortcuts and the tools available. This is just common sense. You don't learn to drive through trial and error - you know what each action you make is going to do before you do it. Read the manual.

Personally, I find that the best all-round way to improve my code quality and efficiency is to read for pleasure. Whether it's books or blogs, it doesn't really matter much to me. I find that when I have been reading, I can think more clearly about problems. I can spot ways to abstract problems far more easily, and I can express my ideas more coherently. Additionally, talking through a problem helps me a lot. Even if I am just explaining the problem to somebody who is not contributing anything to the solution - the mere act of being forced to provide an explanation can often highlight the solution far more quickly than if I had just sat in silence trying to figure it out.

For me, the workflow is about minimising unproductive habits rather than improving efficiency. The real test is how quickly you can identify the solution to a problem - the task of actually writing the code is something that is left to individual tastes and preferences. In all things - think first, act later :)
The advantage of local news is that you're hitting long tail content and avoiding the brutal competition you'd otherwise face for things like world and celebrity news.
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