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>CocaCola is obviously a US company but the production plant in the UK has some very interesting manufacturing/engineering problems

Citation needed. They are Coca Cola manufacturing plants all around the world. From Bolivia to India and from Germany to Albania, and they don't have any interesting manufacturing/engineering problems.

Nothing that wasn't already solved in the US HQs anyway.
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I was very surprised and fairly dissapointed to see the comment about Guido: "Guido Van Rossum, for example, comes across as kind of a jerk."

This was an unnecessary comment and having read the original interview I don't really agree with it either.
Try your notepad ;-)
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YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim
Also of Hotwire Shell/Term and KliNG from a few years back.

This one look nicer. At least it doesn't make the error of the previously mentioned attempts like trying to create a custom shell instead of using regular ones. Nor it does screw up existing workflow. As for trying to understand the terminal content, it is a "challenge" and I don't think it is a good idea as it will remain command specific and it has been proven to be a problem in the past, and it still is.
Thats very revisionist.

Lets take an average middle class person pre boom:

You are urged to take out a mortgage against your property because "House prices have only gone up!".

Your banks are giving you great rates, "you'd be an idiot to not take them. We're giving it out to people with No Income, No Job or Assets! We made the cover of Time with the way prices are going up!"

Everything is rosy, and you would be remiss and getting behind if you didn't take care of your future.

This is what people faced.

Do note - the Middle class isn't the one responsible for manipulating the banking system or creating exotics to over leverage a housing bubble.

Nor are they the ones who are meant to be the educated sophisticated investors.

Further the root of the issue, the housing bubble, required banks to actively sell their products, all the while telling average people that its all turning out great!

In essence: the Banks were derelict in their duty to be wary of leverage, and abused the information asymmetry they enjoyed to convince customers to "Just get a mortgage! You can get that new kitchen you always wanted".

I'd say the middle class got played.
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These premium apps and games are free for a limited time only. For example, Traktor DJ for iPad normally sells for $19.99 and now it's $0. Get it now!
GPLv3. Blech.
Oh no.

Don't bring back that "Guido Van Rossum, for example, comes across as kind of a jerk" again!

Sad Comment :/
So is this Apple making them free and so paying the developers the missed revenue or is it the developers making them free of their own accord/at Apple's urging?
Relevant post:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/cyberspace-is-not-...
Cool. Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925467
Seshn gives anyone the power to disrupt magazines forever
Terminal emulators should be expected to deal with a lot of untrusted data, such as when you ssh to another machine. With all the context parsing in this, there is a large attack surface. I hope thought has been put into how to handle this.
Rush - Ruby replacement for bash+ssh
It's still an "outage" if even just one user is affected. In fact, it's still an "outage" if the service is unavailable (which includes being temporarily unusable) for some period of time, and no users are actively affected by it.
To make it clear you repay at 9% of your income above £21,000, and get a year's grace just after graduating.

There are no consequences to failing to pay it back if your income is below £21k.
You can't escape the conveyor belt, whether you end up with children or you end up alone or something completely different.

You are always part of a much bigger group than you might think. If nothing else physics will take it's toll and you as you get older.
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Pry - An IRB alternative and runtime developer console
If it was possible to turn off the electricity at arbitrary places, then we'd have DDoS-like attacks happening on companies all the time, with foreign attackers demanding cash to keep the lights on.

We don't, so either: it's not that easy, or no one has worked out how to do it yet.

What it doesn't indicate is that spying on everyone helps at all. What GCHQ should be doing is working with infrastructure providers to make sure all their security software is up to date, deploying things like SELinux (one good thing the NSA has done), doing free pen-testing, advising companies on how to architect critical networks and so on.
Oh dear, what will we ever do without powered lighting for 5 minutes? I'm so happy GCHQ saved the day!
I suspect the developers are taking the hit in the name of free publicity. I know that when Marco Arment allowed Apple and Starbucks to give away Instapaper, he didn't receive any compensation.

When I saw this link, I expected that Apple was making their apps (e.g. Pages, Keynote, Numbers) free ahead of the anniversary of their App Store. Apparently, that's not the case.
That last part is not entirely accurate. I did some IT volunteer work for a charity very recently, and they definitely had a free Google Apps for Business setup. This is in addition to a reasonably generous grant in the form of AdWords credit.
I've seen it said many times in HN comments surrounding depression that these drugs are not the answer to depression. I tend to agree.

It'd be good if you'd explain an alternative.
You ought to read tabloids and watch reality TV, there is no need for shills. There are enough bigots out there do feed the fire.
Is anyone else puking mad at those people carrying their luggage in the photo? I feel like getting off a burning plane should take priority over duty free purchases.
There are, but each plant (just like in every industry) will have it's own issues, targets and geography specific problems to deal with. Manufacturing isn't a setup once and repeat around the world process - as much as the people working on it would like it to be.

My citation is a friends Dad who was a lead engineer on CocaCola's line. Your citation the Bolivia etc not having interesting problems would be?
The annotation aspect of Rap Genius always gets me dreaming of a site with "completely commented code" through crowd-sourcing. Every single line/block of code of various open source projects explained thoroughly.

When I started picking up programming, I learned by copy-pasting code bits from everywhere, and reverse-engineering it to fit my learning projects. If, along with that, I could have gotten thorough explanations for each block of code I copied, I feel I'd be much more proficient in understanding the "why", not just the "how" of programming.
This article recommends getting choked to a near-death experience, but be careful, don't just do it with your friends, consult a near-death choking expert or it might be dangerous. I think it's time for a "what the fuck".
Are you serious? Running my small business, I used email to communicate with my coworkers, potential hires, customers, prospects, partners, potential partners, reporters, accountants, lawyers, banks, web hosts, PayPal, UPS, various government departments etc etc. Being completely cut off from that for effectively an entire business day would be destroy my ability to get anything outside "solo hacker in basement" coding done, and there really isn't a sensible mitigation plan or alternative to e-mail for this (unless you'd like to convince my bank to start posting, say, notifications of incoming wire transfers to a web form of my own design?).
Vidinterest is a Pinterest Site for Videos Only
I think Oracle APEX would be a modern web equivalent.
SkyDB: event-based analytics database
I was always jealous of the component catalogs of prebuilt VBX / OCX components. It was amazing how much functionality (aka solving the business problem) you could do by just getting a load of components and writing some glue code / UI.

CPAN comes closest for me or the old NeXTSTEP object catalog, but VB was amazing for it.
Thanks and yes, that's what I thought - was looking forward to grabbing a free copy of numbers for iPhone - ohwell
I think this looks great, but it does strike me a bit of re-inventing the wheel, i.e. if we take this to its logical conclusion, we'll have just reinvented the GUI ;)
I use Lastpass, which has a client for most platforms.

They could be compromised, but they claim all data is encrypted locally before being sent to their servers. I have not verified that claim.
JSON-stat: JSON schema for statistical dissemination
I'm sorry, but this rings of such blatant ignorance that I couldn't help but respond.

Have you ever even been to a poor neighborhood, in your life? I've lived there. Everyone I knew growing up lived there. Poverty doesn't work that way. Blowing your money on booze and drugs and gold chains and other luxuries? Christ, you barely have enough money for food, let alone all of that. I don't mean "barely enough money to buy food after all of the other things", I mean that tonight you're having a can of chicken noodle soup, just like the last three nights in a row, so that on Friday you can go to McDonalds for two or three items off the dollar menu as a treat. The people you're talking about are dozens of steps above the people I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the people for whom if they made even $10k a year they'd be some of the happiest people on earth. There are millions of them, in America. And Christ, no shame in asking for government handouts? WHAT government handouts? Are you at all, even one iota, familiar with the welfare system of the United States? It's incredibly hard to get much of anything beyond for a few months unless you have some kind of job. A few years if you're a pregnant woman. And when you're jobless for this many years, well, too bad.

I'm sorry, but you couldn't possibly know less about what you're talking about. Your statement smacks of overt racism, and if you seriously claim "Well hey white people get gold chains too", I just hope you realize that you're not fooling a soul.
FinalTerm, at last – a modern terminal emulator.
This looks interesting.. I have used nedb on a small project, That is another file based database, uses the same API as mongoDB. nedb is just an npm, so its only nodejs supported right now, and the feature list of EJDB looks more impressive anyway.
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I really like this, although a lot of features (not GUI) are already supported by ZSH. But why is this missing configuration documentation? Or at least I couldn't find it. Keep up the awesome work!
What gear would you take on a 5-year, 9,000-mile walk?
Makes you wonder whether they can tell who the real enemy is. Dr. No or Dr. Evil ?
It's no suprise since people are educated in government schools in their most crucial period of life. They are educated by state-licensed radio, television and newspapers. By state-approved books on the bookshelves of a state-approved shops.

Who will exactly stand out and educate children of the nature of state if this way or another they lose some license or are being paid from tax money in the first place? Several generations already are out of touch with reality that the state is just a bunch of people with a monopoly of violence (justified in the eyes of similarly uneducated parents by piles of paperwork called "law" and "democracy").

State is a constant war against people covered with lies. The only productive way to get out of this situation is to 1) acknowledge that violence is never justified, risky and counter-productive 2) state violence is not justified, employs double standards all the time, and exists on religious beliefs in higher concepts like "country" or "society" that seemingly take precedence over individuals. And of course, you have to trust and follow authority, just like in good old dark ages.

EDIT: before downvoting, consider replying what is factually wrong in my comment.
It doesn't necessarily lead to shitty code. There, it is a question of how good he is a _race car driving_.

(For those that don't want to click the link: (turing-unaware) race car drivers are programmers that know a single high-level technology very well, but are unaware of the things that the technology is based on. Somehow like Formula 1-drivers.)

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/age-racecar-driver
The claim is that the particular kind of reactor (gas cooled) is unlikely to be built again. It's (apparently) more efficient than competing designs, but also larger and more complex, and it didn't really become popular. It certainly looks like more nuclear power plants in general will be built.
> find the commonality between libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, and anarcho-socialism.

There is no commonality. At it's core, anarchism wishes to abolish capitalism, and libertarians/ancaps wish to keep it. It's a fundamental disagreement that starts the conversation off. There's no reconciliation here.
It does happen in European countries. A few years ago, there was a big pedophilia case involving a male day care worker who had made over 80 victims over the year. Ever since then, male day care workers get confronted with suspicion and distrust from parents - especially homosexual male day care workers - and have major trouble getting a job. A lot quit the job. Men working with children are being increasingly distrusted every time a new case like that pops up. It's blatant sexism, but understandable to a degree.
I was going to reply to the original post but this perhaps more apropos. My father started his career with Babcock & Wilcox after leaving a nuclear sub as an electrician's mate with a nuclear engineering MS; his division -- the org that designs and maintains reactors & power plants -- was later acquired by Framatome, which later formed part of Areva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva). It's a French company, but entirely global and the nuclear power division (Areva NP) performs nearly all of it's reactor design work in the US, as well as most of the planning/oversight for power plant support & maintenance/inspection services.

(Speaking of plant inspections, the job of inspector is one of those high-stress but über-high pay seasonal jobs you never hear about. $200k+ for 6mo/yr of work, but it's ~2000hrs of work compressed into that period.)

Anyhoo, growing up I was privileged to tour a number of different power plants in the US, and -- besides the scale of things Charlie notes in the blog post -- the thing that struck me most was that even though the designs were often very similar (all PWRs of some sort), the implementations were very different. Even though reactor design may be identical between plants, all the peripheral support infrastructure and all the wiring & plumbing is unique to each plant, and keeping track of everything is hugely complex.

As an aside, and the bring relevance to HN, because of the complexity of nuclear power plants -- particularly the plumbing and backup systems -- there is a huge market for simulation services (which is something Areva pretty much owns globally at this point), which consists of both electrical/mechanical engineering and software work. They literally build a control room for a specific power plant, identical to the actual control room but with software simulating all the inputs/outputs and allowing them to run all sorts of scenarios (and to train new operators). My dad had a few job openings for software engineers who had some nuke background, and positions requiring only a few years experience were paying $100-120k base, and this is in small city Virginia (Lynchburg) where you can buy a decent house for $150k.
Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure
This Call Is Being Recorded
Steve Yegge: Age of the Racecar Driver (2005)
If my GUI was as powerfully/rapidly accessible through the keyboard as this then I would be happy. This just comes from the other side of the bridge.
I'm not a small-State supporter, but damn these stories could push me over the edge. First we paid for a massive sports event (the cost of which obviously ballooned shortly after winning the bid) which mainly benefited private corporations, then we spent god-knows-how-much to employ people to "defend" the event from a "cyber menace" that didn't even exist; and of course, we also had to put rocket launchers on houses in central London to defend from a "air menace" that also did not exist! And the day after, we woke up without NHS and schools "because we can't afford anything anymore", but god forbid we cut the military-spying complex -- in fact, the beast needs more money because it can "only" save three days of EVERYTHING. Moar data, MOAR!

Disgusting.
AFAIK this is just speculation. Some apps are currently being given away for free when they are usually sold at a price. Their has been no announcement from Apple of the companies so it's been speculated they are free in celebration of the App Store's 5th anniversary. If Apple was involved in this they would most likely feature it on the store. As of now that hasn't happened so I doubt Apple is involved.

Edit: If Apple was involved they would probably make some of their own apps free.
I have a friend who has said almost exactly that. When pressed he can't really offer more other than that a trial is how the word will "get out". It's my opinion that if he's arrested he will never be heard from again.
Sure, relative wealth and selfishness do probably correlate. However, you would hope that intelligence would trump that...
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Lots of things in life seem ordinary to the point of tediousness. Marriage, the birth of a child, recognition on the job etc. These things happen to most everyone at one point or another.

I'm here to tell you that these things can be quite extraordinary when they happen to you.

Even if everyone in the line rides the same coaster, the plunge is still a thrill.
Think radiation leaks. In event of a major incident, you do not want rabbits on site burrowing around and then spreading cesium-137 and other pernicious decay products.
In some hyp. CMS, I considered just using a token, since the users just edit the same entity only occasionaly.

The first one would hold the token (be able to edit the entity), and the other ones would just see and if they wanted, request a token to edit.

Much simpler than OT/merging/etc, I thought... I wonder if it would work well.
List with even more apps: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1humo9/ios_apps_and_g....
Create your own Crowdfunding site
Terminology is certainly nice, but only does inline linking and display of inline media content; no smart interpretation of the terminal content as Final Term does.
I'm not sure how applicable the key stage point is here. Children generally have little to no exposure to the fact they are part of a key stage or how that affects them until they get to the GCSE/A Level stage where clearly it's impossible to not feel the exams looming. Key stages are more a strategy thing for DfE/Local Authorities.
Interesting link: David Hansson, creator of Rails, is also a professional race car driver.

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/#driver
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Show HN: Premortems, help projects be more successful
I think the title is a bit leading calling him a "fan" of VB. I have the exact same views as Linus in that it was a great language to learn programming than teaching OOP to beginners with silly real world examples (Cars, anyone?)

I think what Linus wanted to highlight was that VB was a great environment to quickly get results in the real world, something which I think he highly regards. It might not be the most elegant language to program in but it had an incredible IDE, tons of prebuilt components and looked exactly as it was developed after it was deployed.
GlassBattle, a Battleship-style game for Google Glass
[2] If you think the US is the only one doing this, or if the world should just hold hands and sing Kumbaya: get a clue.

If you think that's an argument, you should follow your own advice.
Why the sigh? It's a sign that PHP is maturing and that PHP is becoming much more component based, which is good. Composer is at the core of all this and it's a big win for the PHP landscape, no doubt.
Really? As a person in my 20s, I have a reasonable number of friends who have plans of getting a house, spouse and children; many have had them since their teens.

Of course, nowadays those plans are less taken for granted, considering many can't even get jobs.
I more or less suspect there are backdoors all over our machines these days. The printer or scanner you buy, the OS... "Secret Admin Backdoor Accounts Found in Samsung Printers"
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Secret-Admin-Backdoor-Account...
As negative as the press may seem from this little corner of the internet, I don't think the issue of NSA surveillance has made much of a ripple in the U.S. yet. The turnout for protests on the fourth was abysmal. People are still using Facebook and Gmail as if nothing has happened. Snowden only remains in the news because he is still free. If he had turned himself in on day 1 he'd have disappeared into some black judicial hole and the story he broke would now be long forgotten instead of merely ignored. If I were Snowden, I'd be seriously wondering if U.S. citizens are worth the trouble.
Show HN: Hack On, a supporting process manager for projects
You can also just use a textarea:

data:text/html,<textarea>

A more polished version (100% width/height, nice margin/padding, auto focus):

data:text/html,<html><head><title>Notepad</title><style>html,body{margin:0;padding:0;}textarea{padding:10px;font-family:Courier;font-size:16px;height:100%;width:100%;border:none;outline:none;}</style></head><body><textarea%20style="height:100%;width:100%;font-size:16px;padding:10px;"></textarea><script>document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].focus()</script></body></html>

This fixes the issue that cutting (Cmd/Ctr + x) doesn't work in Firefox with contenteditable.
Interesting! For pragmatic reasons, or stress testing SQLite?
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Have we just transitioned from the "It's free, you can't expect not to get screwed" trope to "It's inexpensive, you can't expect not to get screwed"?
Afghanistan in the 1950s and 60s
I would be very curious to see how they might remotely deploy malware to US residential internet subscribers. It's probably unlikely that they would use client-side zerodays for such a task, since it would only take one of the targets to realize something happened and then analyze a packet capture to bust the whole thing.

If I were to guess, they probably only stick to ISP-level monitoring in most cases, and in other cases maybe they'll physically install malware on a system when they have to.
I think the problem with the Big Problems (tm) is that solving them is not a One Solution Big Reward job. It is millions of different tedious little problems. Solving a few of them will not give you anything.

Example: Decreasing energy consumption of mobile devices. Is that a Big Problem? I think so. How do you do that? Lots of little tweaks and fixes on various layers (software, hardware, interdependencies, etc). Lots of 0.1% improvements. After a few years you get the new iPhone and it is 10% better with energy. Of course, you only see 5% improvement, because additional features ate up the rest. Note that those little efficiency improvements enabled those additional features. However, nobody really appreciates the junior engineer who was responsible for 11 of those 0.1% improvements. Not even she herself finds that amazing.

Am I too dark?

(disclaimer: I know nothing about actual iPhones)