skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had MS decided to do a tablet entirely in-house, I mean.

(I'm talking pre-Surface, which is why this is a somewhat tortured argument. But it also proves my point :-) )

Microsoft needs to wake up to the fact that Windows as it exists today is a really crappy OS for embedded systems. Worse, the management culture of "We need to put Windows in everything else, too" is going to continue to kill perfectly good future projects.
I'm a Romanian student in Bucharest and tudorconstantin's claims seem on target. The average wage for an intern is 400 euros (based on what I hear from other students) and the starting salary after graduation is about 700 euros.
Here are some internships with posted salary:

http://4psa.stagiipebune.ro/stagii.html&id=1189&cate...

http://adobe.stagiipebune.ro/stagii.html&id=1241&cat...
The initial action was a picnic of 50 people to protest removal of trees from Gezi Parkı which was subjected to intense police reaction.

If you recall the London riots (during which I was in Wales), rude attitude of police and political scandals were among the suggested reasons, which are also among the facts that inducted things happened here in Turkey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taksim_Gezi_Park
This article has it backwards. These workers don't work is unsafe conditions, _because_ we don't pay them enough. Rather, the economic reality in China means that in order to compete with production elsewhere (e.g. in the US) even a high risk for workers still seems acceptable to them if that means they can get the job. If we would pay more, the jobs would be done elsewhere or by robots and those workers won't be happy about that, either. Still, this is capitalism at its worst, I guess.
That is why I checked them before posting, viewed web sites and confirmed that the majority of results are actually shopping malls.

That's a really bad set of results for NYC though.
Phishing attack POC: CSS/JS fake browser window
It's not misunderstanding. You link to an awful video, draw general conclusions on the account of one event, and your unsaid conclusion is that Chinese people disdain human lives. 100 years ago you'd have added infanticide.

So, no, Chinese people are not heartless zombies workers, they cherish human life and had a full structured ethical system when Europe was Barbary, and they are taking themselves out of survival mode at a pace that is unseen in the history, which require some prioritization.
Beautiful Code: Another Level of Indirection
It's all about mass. A neutron star's mass ratio would be like jamming 50 million elephants into something the size of a thimble. The article you mentioned says almost 15% of large asteroids are a binary system. That's pretty awesome to me. I had no idea about that, but I guess it's fairly obvious.
Github major service outage
https://status.github.com/
Well, I've been to both cities for two weeks and I didn't find any mall in NYC (I'm sure there must be some, I just didn't find them) while in Istanbul they are really everywhere, you cannot ignore them if not only because they are usually guarded by security people with riffles. Here's a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shopping_malls_in_Istan...

They are usually huge. I was very surprise because in my home country, Portugal, we used to believe we had a lot of malls (we do) but Istanbul is just unbelievable.

Back to Istanbul, in Levent (near the financial district) you can have three right next to each other. On one of my stays there my hotel was actually around the corner from one of this malls.
The problem is Fair Trade is that it distorts the price signal in the market (obviously, that's the point). But the reason coffee is so cheap is that there is an oversupply - artificially raising the prices extends the problem, it doesn't solve it (by making some farmers realise they can compete better by switching crops).

If you want to help, buy expensive, high end coffee - most of it will be Fair Trade anyway, so I can't say "instead of Fair Trade". But getting the default, supermarket brand coffee that's 10% more expensive than the non-Fair Trade option damages more than it helps.

Also, I remember reading somewhere that Fair Trade places some irrelevant constraints on suppliers, such as the size of the supplier. I can't find a reference, so it might be wrong, but if it's not, then that suggests that pandering to western, urban romantic fantasies about rural life plays an inappropriate role in the scheme as well.
Nvidia GPUs Assist in Battling HIV
http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/github.com.html

https://status.github.com/messages
How is it broken?

I have used yahoo mail for something like 15 years. Mail comes in, mail goes out. It is stored, and very easily manageable. On top of that, I have never ever been let down by it.

So, what are talking about? How is it broken.

And you switched to gmail? I have one of those too. Cant stand it. Yeah, it works perfectly well, but I personally cant get on with its design and interface at all.
Deism has a negligible force as a religion. It is only used as a buzzword label to use when attacking enemies like USSR. It has no practical force on its own. If the phrase were "in USA we trust" it would have the same affect. In fact, the word "Unamerican" was used interchangeably with "godless" when it was at its height, and atheism wasn't even close to requisite for being labelled such.
I had to google: OHSA
->
Occupational Health and Safety Act

didnt know what it was since I am not american
According to Thomas Mann "Everything is politics." , and this article is about technology not less than it's about politics.

But I have to agree, that sadly there is a correlation between the low level of discussion and how political a topic is.
Github - yet another major service outage.
http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.459147254177879.10...
There's a difference between US and UK law that's interesting. In the UK, article 8 of the human rights act states that "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence." A strict interpretation of this is that a company that monitors emails and intercepts an email between a husband and wife on a work email account violates article 8 [1].

In the US, I believe the government employees have more privacy rights with regard to email and communication than private employees, since private employers are not subject to the same constitutional restrictions - instead they're bound by contract law.

I do agree with you, however. Instead of the front page of the New York Times, however, my personal test is whether I'd be ok with it being projected in a congressional hearing, which actually happened to someone I know. It amounts to the same thing, however.

[1] It's mentioned in an appendix to "Unauthorised Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams," which is an interesting read. There's a particularly good story about an RSA SecurID key fob and a webcam...
Flash CS4 refuses to let go
I don't think they saw him though. And the shield hopefully saved him.
Github is down
Confirmed at status.github.com They are experiencing problems
> but to say that means today's entrepreneurs in the valley are apt to serve military war interests is pure guilt by association, and a weak link at best.

They are as "apt" as anyone else, which is to say very; The government wields big carrots and sticks.
yes, found a job where i am well compensated and and stuff i am doing is actually very enjoyable for me.
So basically everyone that doesn't see the "obvious" utility of every pet project is an idiot?

And you are saying HNers are the ones with negative attitudes?
Good point. The other choice is planned economy, state regulation all over the place, including in haircut style. They just have a border to cross to see the result in DPRK, or open a book on recent history, or ask the elder. The result is well known: it's starvation.
Darth Vader entering the war zone: https://twitter.com/yigitkilinc7/status/341139175782891520/p...
You know how long the typical suburb takes to build? About three weeks. Three weeks of seasonal employment. You know how long that natural habitat is gone for? Forever.

Educate yourself on urban sprawl and "smart growth": http://www.smartgrowth.org
US cities plant giant signs onsite PROPOSED LAND USE ACTION and post the public hearing date.
Fluent 2013: Nicholas Zakas, "A "Thank You" Can Change Your Life"
>I work at a company that sells a tool for model based testing and invariably, at every customer company, there are developers that think our tool isn't worth the money, because when we explain to them how it works and they think 'I could build that'.

Neat, what is the company? I was glancing at some papers on model based testing recently and had no idea there were commercial tools for it.
I wouldn't compare these events. London riots started after a person died while being followed by the police. At night, a group of people went close to the police station and, without any intervention by the police, started burning some of the nearby buildings. Then it just went from there without any police intervention at all. If there's one thing to say about the London riots is how polite police was with the whole events.
GitLab is a Google Summer of Code project
I think it is a good thing that wealth is rebalanced between countries, and that these wealth transfer are not UN donations, but the result of commerce and labor.
I agree RT is not the most credible source, that's why I went to the AI blog. Still, it's one of the few international tv channels broadcasting from Taksim Square, if not the only.
Study: Cheap vinegar test cut cervical cancer deaths in India
I think this also extends into developers that want to be founders. I think they have a hard time selling things because they always built instead of bought and feel lots of things should be free. They also think particular details matter when they really don't, and these things hold them back from selling.

As a developer founder, getting over this has been one of the most challenging but important steps in making my business grow and thrive. I'm still not 100% there yet.
Does anyone have any knowledge of how dangerous Chinese manufacturing jobs are compared to, say, US Manufacturing, or other sectors of the US economy?

I.E. Is american agriculture (farming) more dangerous than chinese manufacturing?

Here is what I was able to find on the US:

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0658.p...

US agriculture is pretty dangerous - 25 deaths per 100,000 employees/year. Anybody able to find stats on Chinese Manufacturing?

[Edit: from http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/China-Factory-Injuries.htm -- "The International Labor Organization has estimated annual deaths from workplace accidents at 11.1 per 100,000 Chinese workers. That compares with the U.S. on-the-job fatality rate of 2.19 per 100,000." - That means, given a choice, you would be safer in a Chinese Manufacturing job than an American Agriculture job.

Also - the death rate in the United States manufacturing in 1970 is pretty close to the death rate in China, 2011 ]

[Edit 2: Note - another way of looking at this - if FoxCon Manufacturing was as safe/dangerous as US manufacturing, there should be about 20 Foxcon work related deaths per year. Does anybody have insight into how many FoxCon deaths a year there are?]
There's no support for metaclasses. type is missing entirely. nonlocal doesn't work. docstrings and some other double underscore names are just missing (__class__, __name__, etc.). Unicode literals don't work. dis obviously won't work since there isn't a bytecode compilation step. Scoping, like in the following code, behaves improperly:

x = 1
def test():
print(x)
x = 2
It's hard to call this a democratic government given that they control the press and the corruption. Do you really think the people wanted the park to be turned into a shopping mall, or is perhaps a better explanation that a handful of rich people with political connections wanted that?
Maybe worth sharing an observation from my building endeavors in Cambodia: often the workers don't realize the risks they are taking, so before lobbying for decent standards, they often need to actually comprehend what they are. This can be more difficult to get through to them than you might think. For example getting welders to always wear eye protection, getting people spray paint for a living to do so in a properly ventilated space. You can try to explain to them the risks - and buy them all the stuff - but many of them will just ignore you and do it the "sensible way without all that silly overhead".
As a childish basic test, I timed loading gmail and yahoo mail. Chrome browser, FWIW. Browser open, and I just clicked the related bookmarks. How scientific of me!!!! Anyway....

5 secs for gmail. (used for junk, lots of mail)
2 secs for yahoo mail. (main email)
1 sec, almost instant for outlook. (empty)

So, I think we can forget the outlook speed. But I was surprised at the difference between gmail and yahoo. The cynical brain cells are also shocked that gmail isn't some how accelerated in chrome.
Thanks for the support Fedora and Google!
When I graduated in '09 I accepted the first offer I got as I had no idea how the job market worked. I found it through a recruiter rather than trying any graduate programs. I started on £23k which went up to £25k after probation. After a year and a half I got promoted from a junior and was on £35k.

Last year I quit to work for a friend's startup and was offered nearly double that, before I left they offered me £55k to stay. Afterwards I found one of the guys doing pretty much the same as me was getting £60k, so I made the right choice :-)
A panic unrolls the stack until it's recovered from. If it's not recovered the entire server will go down.

If the panic isn't recovered it will print a stack trace, if it is recovered you can get a stack trace with runtime.Caller().

Go's panics are exceptions.
I was also confused by the alleged use of agent orange. It seemed to make so sense to me.

A chemical weapons expert interviewed by a Swedish newspaper said that it is unlikely that Turkey actually used agent orange. They do refer to it Orange Gas but I don't know if that is actually different from Agent Orange?

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/polisen-anvander-kemiska-st... Unfortunately only available in Swedish, but Google translate should make it at least somewhat readable.
Well, reading some Dickens will show they said the same in London in the early 1800s. And now we talk about those times as hideous, unjust, abusive...

Is it a choice between death by fire and death by starvation?

I do not call that a choice.
Doctors can't even accept a pen from the pharma industry anymore. This paper is about 20 years past when it would have helped make a difference.
The article is right about a lack of vision regarding what kind of software you can run on mobile devices. Android is a subtle and expressive OS. It has yet to see the best software written for it.

Enterprise software for mobile devices is not going to be distributed through a retail app store. So the app store model really has little influence on the development of enterprise software for tablets.

Enterprise IT, and software vendors, will soon start targeting big-budget development projects at tablets. But that's only part of a big change that's coming. The whole idea of being tethered to a cubicle so you have a work surface on which to put a computer is going to go away. Tablet software is going to be a key element in making that workplace change work. But it will start slowing and experimentally.
Again, the problem is that ordinary people do not understand what they are "giving up" and therefore can't make an informed choice. But we can get a sense of how they feel but the fact that they universally surprised when the data stored on them is made concrete in some way. My sense is that if that people were given a presentation about all the information stored about them specifically and what can be inferred they would come out "pro privacy".
Many western consumers seem to struggle with the incrementalism of improving quality of life in (what used to be) the third world. The choice is very real, we just didn't see the horrors of subsistence farming that's been the only possible way of life in these countries, literally forever. It'd be great if the choice included a completely safe and healthy job for everyone, but if we knew how to create those at scale at the drop of a hand, we'd make some of them at home, in our unemployment-stricken economies.

Demanding that Apple/Nokia/whoever pay a little better and improves health and safety measures makes you feel nice, but it's only going to affect a dizzyingly small fraction of the workforce. China is improving at an insane rate on practically all indicators. Of particular interest, wages in the costal cities are exploding, causing factories to move inland, ie. bring progress to the previously underdeveloped rural regions.
These jobs wouldn't be there if not for the low wages. They belong to a foreign industry and a foreign market, it's nothing that they can simply protect internally.
Unless I am mistaken it would allow a person to create a web-based editor that can compile and run the python code on the same web page. This seems to be very much the direction that online programming tutorials are taking.

For schools, Universities, etc, it means not having to worry about platform or installed software.

As most open source projects stall due to "more important things to do", it would probably be wise to offer these people as much encouragement as we can to better the chances that someone will complete one (and want to support it in the future).
> we live in a pretty well off part of the city in dhaka, a family of 6 with 2 maids and 2 drivers (thats how the local culture works).

I have never seen a comment, anywhere, that so clearly, and concisely, explains how a local culture works.
im getting a 500 (from NYC) on the main page + i cant push to remote repos
Just a matter of implementing a Chrome extension to extend the developer tools with the compiler.
It's on any page, try visiting any repository, wiki etc - same story.
Felt the same way. Is this a perfect example of the sociopath Hugh Macleod apex personality or what?!
I couldn't agree more on the developer-to-developer language. We tend to forget that companies are made by people and for people.
I got an offer on Thursday and expect to give an answer on Monday, so yes. :)
Which "millionaire-class" cruise lines are paying such low rates? I thought we were discussing Carnival, Royal Caribbean and such.

Regardless, demand for cruises is not extremely elastic. Make them more expensive and there will be fewer of them as people make alternative vacation plans. Thus fewer opportunities for poor workers. Not to mention, those workers' competitive advantage is their willingness to work for the lower rates. Take that away, and the lines will start hiring closer to home.
I would love to see more startups from Norway - unfortunately a lot of Norwegians don't seem to have an entrepreneurial mindset, so in reality there's only a tiny minority of youth that grows up wanting to start their own business.
Oh, hi!

If you need a job in London, talk to Squirrel. He's a great boss.
How  to Make Your Startup a Choice Investment
The sensational title of this post is really shameful. This is a new low for HN as far as I've seen.
I'd find Agent Orange hard to believe, given that it did a bit more than deforestation in Vietnam. The Redditor describes it as "a derivative of the Vietnam era deforestation chemical Agent Orange. It is incredibly toxic and forbidden by the UN after the horrific effects it had on both the Vietnamese and Americans exposed to it.", but derived from could mean anything really.

I'd find it hard to believe that anything closely resembling it is used by any sane police force, that seems like it would be classified as chemical warfare?
From here (NE UK) everything is down.

Typically I was in the middle of setting up a development environment on a new machine which has a lot of composer dependencies....

Oh well will have to go drink coffee in the sporadic sunshine :).
Ah, thanks for this. I definitely like the Paralax portfolio sites too. I didn't mean that using a paralax or scrolling site was a bad idea at all. I just wanted to raise a warning that while creating a site like that, you probably still want to create a very obvious method on immediate page load to convert this user before they need to scroll.
For me it helps in the sense that I would prefer to work for a company that actually knows what Hacker News is. Not that easy to find here in Europe...
Worked for me. I found one of the best companies I've ever been at from HN, and I'm in Minnesota.
Punitive measures for folks who are already being punished because they ostensibly ALLOWED themselves to be punished??
I think one of the big issues is visibility. When I was in London getting £35k I thought that was good. I had no idea I could get more moving around. I got a lot of emails from recruiters, and pretty much the only ones that had salaries were for contracts not permanent. If I knew I could have got more elsewhere I bloody well would have taken it :)
Not sure what these prices are based on, but in Tokyo a monthly pass for all of a zone doesn't even exist - you'd get a pass for a specific route from station A to station B only, with no buses and so on.
It's not agent orange. It's tear gas mixed with orange paint to tag the protesters for later identification. Agent orange isn't even orange. --http://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/51960983385/important-...
The U.S. is the second largest manufacturer in the world. China only surpassed the U.S. in 2010. Furthermore, manufacturing is growing in the U.S.

Chinese labor is (or at least was) so cheap because the standard of living is considerably lower than in the West or the developed East Asian countries.
Same for me from San Diego, CA. I am unable to push and unable to access the main page. Getting "This page is taking way too long to load."
Relevant :

http://www.xkcd.com/1215/
Or for the HN friends without Javascript, http://isup.me/github.com.
My guess is that the most unqualified job seekers don't know about HN. You have to be interested in Tech/startups to stick around HN for the most part.

And perhaps are the users who read the Who's hiring threads more restrictive with to whom they send application. That is, they only send CVs to openings that they think they can carry out.

The last part is just total speculation though but that is my own experience with Who's hiring, I've read many posts but have not applied for those I would be unqualified for. Unfortunately for me, that is almost all of them as I am no developer but it is quite interesting to see what kind of skills HN value highly.
Parent didn't say they were the same, rather they implied that sum types are better.

Sum types can handle multiple return values seamlessly in a typesafe way as a special case, but are not limited to that because they may have different data shapes other than simple products, and callers can be checked to deal with each possible shape at each call site by the compiler.