skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not much research done by the journalist:

"Observationally: Cooks seem to put 10 or so basic meals into rotation"

More like exactly 19.

http://nsrdec.natick.army.mil/media/fact/food/UGR.htm

Also the characterization of the cook misses the point that the difference isn't the dude's motivational direction, but his effort. All .mil chefs I met tried their absolute best, its just "the best" is not so great in the sandbox without heroic effort, heroic effort as seen in that one E-5's efforts. As an Army REMF I always ate pretty well indeed.

Its interesting that the nicknames never change, in that you can change the name to UGR-B, or whatever, all you want, but the troops will eternally call then T-Rats as in tray rations (as far as I know they're still calling then T-Rats, maybe its recently changed)

Interestingly the average civilian doesn't eat all that many meals either. I've probably eaten a lot of grilled chicken caesars salad over the years. Homemade chicken fajitas with homemade guacamole last night, like practically once a month.
> Apple has always claimed to make devices for "creative" people, yet pretty much every artist on the planet wants Apple to release an iPad with a built in digitizer.

Apple only really claimed this back when they (barely) subsisted primarily off of the creative market. Once Jobs came back the focus turned to the wider consumer audience which I think was a big reason why they started cranking out so many hits. They became successful, I would argue, because they largely ignored the demands of the power users.
It's not the low-pay per se that concerns those who criticise the outsourcing of everything to the developing world. It is the lack of comparable safety standards, environmental standards and workers' rights. We in the developed world fought hard for around 200 years to achieve these standards and rights and it smarts to see large corporations side-step them by outsourcing to countries that don't require or enforce them.

It is in everyone's long-term interest to continue lobbying the companies who make our stuff to start requiring equal standards and rights wherever their stuff is manufactured. It will benefit the people of those countries who do the manufacture while re-balancing some of the giant manufacturing cost differential that these companies achieve by such a side-step.

Cheap stuff comes at a high cost.
You're in Bangladesh and in a well of part of the city, you say. A family of 6 with 2 maids and 2 drivers too. Your entire post reminds me of something else I read :

http://newint.org/features/2013/01/01/india-elite-sense-of-e...

While the countries are all different (I'm from Sri Lanka originally), the attitudes are astoundingly similar.

It's the Western equivalent of let them eat cake since they're used to eating grass. Underpaid labor is better than no pay is an excuse of the privileged; and only the privileged.
> whoishiring gives me _only_ high-quality people so I don't have to do any CV weeding

I don't understand this. HN is an open website where anybody can sign up, and the Who's Hiring posts can be reached from a google search. What makes you so sure that applicants are all high-quality people?
> So I assume you don't do C or C++. :)

If C had a simple universal switch for bounds checking, I'd turn it on everywhere and immediately revoke commit privileges for anyone on my team who turned it back off. But it doesn't, and necessarily can't, making your statement nothing more than an annoying exercise in wrongful pedantry. It is contextually obvious I was talking about Go code and/or languages/compilers with such a switch.
I'm not sure that the "new technologies" you listed are very good examples.

Rack, for instance, isn't really that much different from CGI, FastCGI, SCGI, NSAPI, ISAPI, Apache modules, and so forth. It's just one more way of invoking custom code to handle an HTTP request. This is something we've been doing for many years now, and it really isn't "new".

The same goes for Sinatra. I remember seeing Perl and Tcl code in the 1990s that essentially did the same thing. It's pretty much the most basic and obvious way of handling such a situation.

Cucumber reminds me of some internal software I dealt with at one firm back in the 1980s. Business analysts would write English-like acceptance tests, then feed them to a program that would generate PL/I code that'd automatically test different aspects of an accounting system.

Clojure is perhaps the worst of the examples. It's merely a dialect of a programming language that's over 50 years old. Many of us first worked with Lisp decades ago. Even targeting the JVM doesn't make it special, given that the Java platform has been publicly available for almost 20 years, and was targeted by non-Java languages well before Clojure attempted it.

While the implementations may be new, the ideas surely aren't. Having worked with equivalent technologies in the past, sometimes decades ago, many of us here just don't find them interesting or special in any way.
I wish HN would let you block users, so I wouldn't have to read the same micheleochurch tripe in every article.
There are a number of defended buildings & complexes near Taksim. Consulates galore; a military hospital on Inonu Caddessi that has a bunch of sandbagged positions on it, along w/ more conventional guardposts; etc. And there's a military museum on the edge of the park, right next to where dozens of cats happily live.

Any of those places reporting troubles? Or is it all in the streets and park itself?
Picked up a long term contract a couple of years ago, started out with 20-30 hours/week and has tapered off a bit as they transitioned from bootstrapped to venture funded and hiring full time devs. I mostly do one off must haves for them these days as I've moved on to other things.

Best way to handle such clients is to be available, adaptable and competent.
I just went to Youtube, and on the first page there was this video of a protester overrun by a police tank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbYQ_dzFniY

EDIT: it looks to me that at the beginning of the video you can spot the feet of another person behind him.
It was actually quite common to work with programmers and managers in their 50s and 60s, back in the 1970s...
It depends on where in the Bay Area you want to live, what you consider a "good" house, and the size and makeup of your family, if you have one.

A few bits of anecdotal evidence for San Francisco, 2013 prices that I've seen firsthand. In many desirable neighborhoods renting an entire house will start well above $5K/month. In those same neighborhoods a nice two bedroom apartment will be over $4K. Full-time child care for a toddler might at absolute minimum cost $1K/month (a licensed, shared private home) but much more likely will cost $2K or more (a day care center, if you can get into one, or a shared nanny).

There are of course plenty of ways to live well within $100K / year here, but probably not with a family in a rented house in many San Francisco neighborhoods.
I don't think it is aimed at at the protestors, but it is a chemical usable to attack trees and they are in a park.

It might very well be sort of 'we are going to kill this park one way or the other' type of situation. Once all the trees are dead, they could properly develop the park with relatively few protests.

It is insane, of course, but it seems that some governments are prepared to do absolutely anything to their citizens so long as they think they can get away with it and while they usually can get away with it they also have no understanding that getting away with these kinds of things are like a cliff-drop: you can go closer and closer to the edge and then you go one step too far and the entire thing unravels.

Usually at this point the governments try to oppress them a little more, rather than back away, and that is when the real explosion happens.
> It looks like a reoccurring pattern

You want the political articles, you've got to accept the degraded quality of the site and discussion that goes along with them.
Turkey actually is a successful example of a democratic state where Islam is the religion of the vast majority, albeit it is not a Muslim state, as the constitution is religion-agnostic; nowhere in it exists a phrase which even implies that the state has an official religion. Current government follows a conservative policy and has been elected with roughly 49% of votes. This eventually gave them power and resources to work in an autocratical manner. They have also been able to enforce censorship and direct the media companies in the way they want. Turkish parliament has a total count of 550 members and 327 of these are members of AKP, which let's them legislate proposals even in situations where there is no support from the opposition (although they can't in some cases where the required fraction of parliamentarian votes are more that 50%, which is usually demanded by the constitution for some fundamental stuff, like editing the constitution text itself). Added the fact that the president is also descendant from this party, they apparently have a humongous authority, originating from a, so to speak bug in election system: A party with less than 10% vote rate can not have it's members in the parliament, which eventually let them occupy more that 50% of the 550 quota of the number of parliamentarians.

The next elections will be held on 2015, at which I expect that the votes are going to be distributed even among the three major parties, where two of these are CHP and MHP, which are defined to be social-democrat-left and nationalist-concervative-right (with no apparent tendency towards theocratic ideals) respectively. AKP will probably be in the parliament, albeit lack the dominion present today.
Technically, physical presence is what matters. That's why you don't only send bombing planes but also land forces to take over the control.

It's not a meme. As long as the people are protesting there, the idiots in the government can't claim they have no problem.
As I said, parts of it were copied, but many parts of it were not. You cannot say in any reasonable sense that Gosling "Wrote GNU emacs" (but of course that is not necessary to win a copyright challenge; part is enough).

[I also spent tons of time looking at the source code for both versions at the time, and both the similarities and differences were pretty clear.]
You mean they're tearing down trees for new homes and jobs?

The horror!
Varies by organization and the nature of your product. An increasing amount of the work is done virtually. Some SE roles demand regional travel, others national, some international. Mine is pretty light - I'd peg it around 20% at most.
So the exact same thing as gmail? Considering that Yahoo handed off dissents to the Chinese government years ago it's small beans.
Well, this explains why my karma has kept negative despite trying to be constructive and on-topic when I have taken the time to comment. I figured that the algorithm must be like Slashdot's... guess not. I don't have a problem with banning, per se, but sheesh, not even indicating to me is rude. I understand it's an information leak to the trolls, but it's not like I'm going to read the esoterica of how karma works on every site.
I think you're missing the point... At the time the stylus was the device you used for everything, typing, navigation, and so on.

That was awkward and frankly just "bad." Humans don't want to poke at a device with a pen all day, it is unnatural, and also slow (particularly for typing!).

Many of the touchscreens were also terrible (thus why the stylus was seen as a good alternative).

A stylus for drawing is wonderful. But the iPhone/iPad was never a device designed for drawing or creative endeavors specifically.
Jacques have you ever thought of exploiting this situation. I mean It is well known and it has been shown that these kinds of inefficiencies can be exploited.

Why don't you move to Asia and start founding companies? With your superior knowledge and with the hands of the hard working locals you could start building a brave new world. You could pay better wages and get increased worker loyalty in return.

I can easily imagine how a group of entrepreneurs (say 50-100) could change a whole culture, simply by outcompeting the old way.
Yes. I saw a comment that interested me and was in the area I was looking for. I sent them an email asking if they had any internship positions.

I'm looking forward to working with them next week.
Yeah, let's bring flowers to a tank fight.
JVM Performance Magic Tricks
Pepper spray is orange, so more than likely it was that and people just don't know what to call it.
Six months ago I moved from Mexico to Mass. I was able to do 1,2,3,4,5. Now, I am making twice as much now but can only do 1,4 and I am trying to figure out 5. Of course there are other reasons why I moved, not everything is money.
"Tablets had been around for years and could do all of those things."

You're mistaken. Those were just laptops that had a $200 feature where you could hide the keyboard underneath and poke at the screen with a stylus. They offered nothing over a laptop to 99% of users.
PGP would not be a good choice for this. The mail archives are still discoverable, and I imagine the decryption keys would be as well.

Something closer to OTR would be a better choice. Deniability and forward secrecy are the important properties here.
I think the documentary The Making Of TRON is more interesting today than the actual movie. Definitely worth seeking out if you're a fan of the original.
Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rwLxPi1Lg&list=PLE0E8B6... for some context on how the economic arrangement is organised.
Yes, I got my first job in London almost three years ago through a "Who's Hiring" post.
not typical in my industry (advertising). when compared to salaries in the finance industry, this figure is probably very, very low :)
There's no evidence for that. Aren't we told repeatedly that companies will simply pass cost increases on to their customers? Can't have it both ways. Is it really the case that a ship full of millionaires can't charge enough to pay people $7.25/hour?
Regardless of where it's from, this is the most horrifying video I have EVER seen. I'm just speechless.
Well, if the girl really is like you, then that's a fairly good strategy and not necessarily like a con-man. If I can distinguish quality and she's another me, then in effect I already like the thing on good grounds.

The disconnect comes in the implicit question I suppose: Are they really like me? I doubt most developers are likely to see the world as being full of kindred spirits with sharp minds that distinguish quality.

It's like Amazon reviews for earphones, (or whatever.) If there are a load of really terrible reviews then that's good evidence that something really is terrible. But since most people know little about a product or class of products their ability to compare things to the top-end is pretty much non-existent.

If they really are like you, then the deal makes sense. If you know a bit more about the subject than average then the deal is atrocious.

An even better deal would be if they were like an idealised you, I suppose. Make the choices that you'd make if you knew better. But you can't communicate with most people on those grounds for obvious reasons.
Unit Tests Shouldn't Begin with Should
The Planning Fallacy. It is really hard to convince yourself to be pessimistic. Most people who think they are planning pessimistically are not and are underestimating the amount of time it takes for them to do something.
I got another one: http://prtflio.eu, 1-click developer portfolio website with deep GitHub integration. Mail me: tj@mkswap.net
but the fact is that the low prices are in fact powered by more than just a simple difference in value between currencies and standard of living.

Outsourcing to China is based on a well known economic theory of international trade, called the H-O model[1], which basically says " that countries will export products that use their abundant and cheap factor(s) of production and import products that use the countries' scarce factor(s)."

The pollution and the work place risks (including death) are a really large factor in those price differences

Is this really news? I think the real issue here is the misinformation that is painted across media outlets, hence the OP's "propaganda" comment.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckscher%E2%80%93Ohlin_model
Your doubt is noted. It might be that your definition of either neighborhood or shopping mall differs somewhat from the local one, but since you don't actually explain why you doubt it I can't know.

"Shopping centers can be considered as a very young concept in Turkey, since the history goes back only to the late 80s. However, once the malls appeared on the shopping scene, the Turks embraced them. Almost every neighborhood has at least one."
http://www.wittistanbul.com/magazine/top-9-shopping-centers-...

That said, it's not a literal statement. It's about rapid gentrification. It's happening all over Europe if not the world. It can get especially nasty when mixed with corruption, since there is great incentive to support large businesses over local ones.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/world/middleeast/05iht-m05...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad.1011/abstract
How Better Place Came to a Bitter End
In-House Manifesto
I saw on your blog that you've jumped to full time on DNSimple (congrats). Are you using Go app you wrote as part of the DNSimple system?
They are simply the total spending for each program divided by the total number of residents in the respective country. The US number only includes Medicare and Medicaid, so the discrepancy is probably because of additional public spending that isn't part of those programs. Either way it looks really bad for the US, since its public spending only covers a small fraction of people.
Can we scale tight communities? Isn't that what reddit is doing with the subreddit system? Check and mate sir. Don't tell me what I can and can not scale! </sarcasm>
Finding The Breath in The Machine
SpaceList — Vancouver, BC — Full-time — http://spacelist.ca/engineering

SpaceList is the leading marketplace for commercial real estate in Canada. Finding office, retail and warehouse space is a painful process for businesses, and we have a unique opportunity to make their search faster, more accurate and more enjoyable.

We are a group of experienced entrepreneurs, real estate processionals, designers and engineers. We hire intelligent and humble people who are focused on doing great work that makes people happy. We work hard, and we have fun.

Each day we come up with new ways to make commercial real estate data more accessible, useful and actionable. At SpaceList the entire team is involved in strategy, contributing ideas and developing solutions.

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The Role
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We are hiring an intermediate rails developer to build and ship great software. You will be working closely with a team of six that includes: a senior rails developer, a growth hacker, a data scientist, a marketing team & the founder.

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We don't want a short order cook, we want a chef.

You need to be able to put yourself in our users shoes, understand their issues, and design a solution that will make them happy. You must draw great insights from feedback and get your ideas across clearly & concisely. You are not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to get done... whether it is a quick bug fix or a customer support call. Above all else you are an excellent communicator & collaborator.

- BS CS/CE or equivalent experience

- Excellent writing skills

- Ruby on Rails, Rspec

- Html / css

- Javascript (Bonus: experience with backbone/meteor/angular)

- Postgres (Bonus: experience with mongo/redis)

- Unix
Was introduced to and hired by a company through one of the who's hiring threads. Given my location in the US Midwest, the fact that the company even knew about HN and had employees active here was a good indicator that it was the kind of company I would like to work for - which turned out to be the case.
Asus Zenbook UX31A (on the go), Asus N56VJ (home/office)
Congratulations to PommeDeTerre for providing the perfect example of the sort of comments that are so condescending. I hope that he/she meant it in jest.
Ask HN: Thinkpad T430 or Dell Latitude E5430
I am ready to buy a new laptop, and I'd love some HN advice. I mainly want to do web development, in a linux-only environment. I would like decent battery life, and I don't want a touch screen. I work around interruptions from my two-year-old son a lot, so a decent suspend/ restart would be really nice.

I had been leaning heavily toward a Thinkpad T430, but I've had a hard time figuring out whether Thinkpads are still better than other brands. I definitely want something that will work well with ubuntu/ linux, and continue to do so.

I am on a budget, with ~$800 as a target price. I am looking at the Thinkpad T430 with 8G RAM, 320GB hard drive, for about $825. I just configured a Dell Latitude E5430 with 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, for under $800.

Any recommendations between these two? I'd also be open to other brands, especially if I could end up with an SSD-based machine at this price range. I just don't want to end up with a crap laptop that won't hold up well for development use. I'm in southeast Alaska as well, so I can't try any of these machines out in person. If anyone has a recommendation for the best way to order either machine, other than through the manufacturer website, I'd love to hear that as well.
But Pu240 undergoes a lot of spontaneous fission, and if you have too much of it your bomb will fizzle. Pu238 generates a lot of decay heat, which makes it great for NASA missions but not so great for bombs. For a while it was used in pacemakers.

Bombs are generally made from fairly pure Pu239, which can be made by bombarding U238 with neutrons. But if you leave the plutonium in the reactor, you get a mix of isotopes that's pretty much useless for bombs. Separating the isotopes is harder then enriching uranium.

For these reasons, nuclear waste from reactors, even with reprocessing, isn't actually much of a proliferation concern.
There has been a shift in privacy with cloud storage. When everyone was using POP3 to get email with a 2MB quota on the mail server email didn't stick around on the ISP's computers for long - it was generally stored on a device owned by the recipient, and searching that required all the usual fourth amendment protections.

The Stored Communications Act [1] makes a distinction between unread mail stored on a server for more than 180 days, and does not require a warrant to access such email. It appears that read email still does require a warrant, however, as it is considered a "Remote Computing Service." I didn't know that until just now, and am not sure how the legal requirements for accessing that differ from a hard drive sitting on my desk at home.

A secure email product would be interesting. I'd be interested to know where deniability (i.e. OTR) would fit into your plans.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act
And what other, non-libertarian choices do these workers have?
Nothing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22744728
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22744895
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22740506
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20028295
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22740038

Why would you say something so absolute with out even checking? Are you one of those weirdo instant BBC haters?
read again, it wasn't Jobs' birthday party.

"One of the people who was building Microsoft's tablet was friendly with Jobs' wife, Laurene Powell. He asked Jobs and Powell to come to his fiftieth birthday party."