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> I guess you never use SourceForge? Or are they also filled with warez and penis pumps?

I thought it was widely understood these days that sourceforge is shit. What is this, 2002? Finding yourself on a sourceforge page is one of the highest quality indicators of "maybe I should make sure I'm trying to do this the right way" that there is, almost entirely since most active projects have run away from it. The piss-poor way it handles downloads is just scratching the surface of sourceforges issues. They do not provide quality hosting.

Picking a proper distro at random: http://www.sabayon.org/download

That is how you mirror a project. Not with shit that requires me to use a javascript enabled browser. I can wget or torrent any linux distro I can think of. Why is quality hosting unavailable to Android development? I'm guessing, but probably because they play fast and loose with legal shit. Or maybe it is because no companies or universities are interested in being associated with it... probably because they play fast and loose with legal shit...

I know all about their bugtracking systems. Their bug tracking is not my concern; the community is my concern.
It's very sad to see innocent people punished because their government has a backbone.
Metaphor is fine. Extreme hyperbole is not. We recognize this with Godwin's law.
The burglars went to the internet.
Low exposure to police and easier ways to attract victims.
(scams, rip off schemes, ponzi)
My tl;dr:
-Mine went under in mining town
-High unemployment
-Amazon came in and offered jobs
-Jobs paid minimum wage and 8 hour day
-This in practice puts workers in top 8% globally (http://www.givingwhatwecan.org)
-Jobs required moderate labor (~3-6x office work)
-UK's version of OSHA required safety boots which suck
-Amazon uses objective performance measures

Realistically, most of these low skill jobs will not exist in 20 years. So the message of the piece was unjustifiably: "Amazon is evil." In reality, the message should have been: "What will the world look like when even these good jobs are gone?"
British Monarchy in the age of the Internet panopticon
19% part-time students.

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search...
But lead by itself can't be the major factor behind the crime drop. Countries such as Brazil have banned leaded gas even before the United States, and crime rates are still rising dramatically.

It seems clear that other factors play a more important role. Things like police effectiveness, or economics.

Edit: reference for lead ban dates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

Crime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Brazil
I could develop anywhere. On a windows machine, on a friend's laptop, even on my iPad I guess (hopefully)
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A bit more than a year. There are some extended longeurs, especially Sodom and Gomorrah, during which I was getting a bit fed up with it so once or twice I gave myself a few weeks off. It is a magnificent novel though, worth sticking with it.
How does this compare to http://repl.it/ ?

Anyone figured out how to get a comparable benchmark out of it without loading a full browser?

The reason I ask is that http://repl.it/languages/Python loads quickly and can actually run in my iPhone 4S Mobile Safari. At 139 MB uncompressed currently, I'm not sure this new project will ever result in something that would let me write python code natively in a <script>. I know that he's currently running with node.js, so no browser required, but if this project is only ever going to be yet another desktop/server interpreter, I would be gobsmacked if it could remotely approach PyPy or CPython performance - even once they get JIT going.
Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500?
Hardware Requirements: Intel 4th Gen core i7, 128/256 SSD, at least 8 gb of ram with an option to upgrade to 16, Max Resolution 1920 x 1080, Screen size 13 - 14 inch, weight under 4 lbs, Touchscreen preferably no, OS Linux(Ubuntu).

The latest Ask HN post on developer laptops is dated now[0]. As of now the haswell processor coupled with Intel HD 5000+ looks like the way to go.

Options I have looked at(If you have information about pricing/release date on any of these, leave a comment)

1. Macbook air: Average display, no option to upgrade ram

2. Sony Viao Pro: Reviews say it compromises on performance to be the lightest.

3. System76 Galaga Ultra Pro: Any first hand reviews on this one?[1]

4. Lenovo T440s: Release date unknown, 6 hours of battery life only[2]?

5. Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus: Would be overpriced, QHD+ would be overkill for my needs!

6. Dell XPS 12: Not a fan of convertible tablet + laptop types.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860540

[1] https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1

[2] http://shop.lenovo.com/fi/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t440s/
>I have a hard time seeing who would be harmed if software patents were categorically invalid.

Companies that have spent billions on defensive patent portfolios, like Google.

Though, ultimately they might still come out ahead, depending on their ongoing patent litigation costs.
I strongly disagree. Learning a functional language that is very different from your language at work still has a lot of value. It can help you with patterns and even when your own language evolves. For example, Java 8 will have lambdas. If you're already familiar with it from other "esoteric" languages, it'll be very easy to take advantage of it.

I'm sure others can provide better examples than I can.
I cannot imagine there could exist legal ramifications for such an act. Perhaps if our senators hear from good citizens abroad who just wish not to be spied upon it will also weigh upon their conscience.
And, expanding on this, people carry less cash both on their person and in their homes.
Personally, I have benefited more from the human interaction and relationships formed while attending university, in person, than from many of the classes themselves. The people I got to know helps me more than the formulas I learned.
I believe the people is what you're paying for when you attend an ivy league school. The math is the same.
Thanks a lot for your insights, splitting the database up and having a replicate/production database setup is an interesting Idea, I'm going to look into a bit more
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We had a large codebase already, written with just script tags in mind, and we were being murdered by blocking loads of the javascript. I looked into refactoring to use something like require or labjs that loads without blocking, but would have taken a substantial amount of development time (this was a problem with the existing codebase of 8k lines or so, not the tools.)

While we were looking at that, I found that we could make our performance target by concatenating all the source together, running them through closure, and just serving up one monster js file a little under 1MB in size.

This was an enterprise system, so we could assume certain levels of client performance that cat picture industry applications probably can't, as well as having a lower bar for performance in the first place - a five second load time on a low performing system was firmly ok, so YMMV.
Distributing google apps was not shady from some carefully chosen "angle" or country, it was just plain shady.
Ideally, whole OS display layer should be independent on physical resolution of the display. That is not an easy thing to patch into OSes that were using pretty similar PPI for last 20 years, especially in legacy applications.

That said, Android can do it, Apple did it (though the way they implemented non-integer scaling is costing them a lot of performance [1]) and interestingly enough, web pages can do that too. Linux display system is going through a bit of rebirth after decades of X and should be able of resolution independence as well.

So it looks the times ahead will be better.

[1]: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6409/13inch-retina-macbook-pro...
Actually, the "zoom and enhance" thing isn't necessarily quite as wrong as he suggests.[1]

True, this doesn't exactly generate new information, but it generates new pseudo-information that can look awfully convincing, and in many cases is actually correct. See HN discussion here:[2]

Finally, the author omits the number one silly thing that people (well, people in Hollywood at least) believe about computers: that they go "beep beep beep" with every bloody keystroke. I swear I want to hurl things at the screen every time I see that....

1: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~vision/SingleImageSR.html

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4241266
The answer is no, assuming Schanuel's conjecture.

Any set of algebraically independent numbers over a field are going to be transcendental over that field. In this case, being transcendental means they're not rational. And the number in question is in that set, so it's not rational.
Government != society. By not allowing any excuse for violence (including self-defence) and seeking voluntary arrangement with people around you to protect yourselves you are not isolating yourself. On contrary, you solve the social problem socially, not brutally like today with government.
I live in "Lost Angeles" and former police chief Bill Bratton took credit for any statistic he could. It's my belief that the reason for crime reduction here in L.A. is that the standard of living has gone up via social services and drugs as a income vehicle are more ubiquitous. (See the first 60-seconds of the intro to the film "Layer Cake" where the bank robbers realize they "are in the wrong game..." http://youtu.be/QHKI8zMHCjE )

Then there is credit card fraud too which is non-violent. In other words info and contraband crimes.
Sneak is speaking specifically about the impact on the US IT industry. As an American IT worker, I agree. "Not subject to US jurisdiction" is becoming a feature.
Other than the 95% chance this article was posted in response to that one?
Or even need to know when the term "download" is appropriate?

If you use a word, shouldn't you know if it's appropriate?
The given answer is "no"[1], all powers are irrational. I'm not sure how this simple "no" would be helpful to you without understanding any part of the proof.

[1] assuming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schanuel%27s_conjecture
I'd suggest that in the case of Iran it is a responsibility issue rather than a politics one. While they have just elected a more west-friendly president there are large parts of the country that are dangerous for outsiders. I'd guess the companies in question might prefer to lose a few sales rather than have the "you booked it, didn't you check where you were going first?" / "you should have warned as at booking time, it is all your fault!" argument.

I'm not sure where Cuba fits in with my little theory though.
First, the Constitution itself doesn't say that only U.S. citizens in U.S. territory enjoy its protections. And the Declaration of Independence (which is not legally binding the way the Constitution is, but should give an idea of the mindset of the time) states all men are created equal.

Second, if we believe ideologically that privacy is a human right that should be protected, it is hypocritical to then say "Oh, but only for Americans. Everyone else can go fuck themselves." and it weakens the arguments for privacy in America as well as U.S. attempts to encourage other countries to protect privacy and other civil rights.
I had a boss who was full time manager over six persons. That was his job. Managing 6 people. We had a weekly chat with him for about 10 minutes each. That leaves him with 4 days and 7 hours of which nobody knew what he was doing...
Let me google that for you. We are just as guilty.
StackExchange to ask for prior art of patents
I have never heard of a female being addressed as "guy". Phrases such as "hey guy", "what's up guy" and so on have always been directed to a male.
What chalst probably meant is that the fact that the code was orginally GPL doesn't make any illegal obtention of the code legal. If you keep code you wrote on your computer with a GPL attached, and someone breaks in and find it, he won't have the right to use it afterwards thanks to GPL.

The GPL defines the rights offered to "clients" by the "vendor", and how these rights are granted. Illegal obtention of the code is not one of the granting processes defined by the GPL.

Therefore, putting the GPL on that code is meaningless, whether it were GPLed initially or not.
https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=SFO;t=IKA;d=2013-08...
I agree let them be countries are sovereign and if nukes are the problem why not international proliferation ?

Although a simple comparison the jist of it is no different than being in a standoff: 2 people pointing guns at each other and one side demands, "give me your gun".
How can you repeal secret laws? There were report so secret laws and secret interpretations being used for 'justification' of unconstitutional activities.
This seems to be spot on. As unorganized individuals (or even somewhat organized individuals) it will be much harder for us to protest the actions of the government then if we had some billion dollar companies' corporate lobbyists out there every day talking to the actual senators on our behalf.

"We're losing money here, we really need you to vote like this and then we can give you a ton of money for your next campaign. If not, well, we'll fund that other guy and he'll get a bunch of rave press and you'll get a bunch of attack ads during the next election, what do you say Senator?"
> I'm far from an expert on these matters.

heh, none of us are.

> But I imagine there'd be other options (working with local authorities, with coercion at the government level if necessary) that would be better than either of the above two.

I don't really have any more to say about that than what bloaf said above.
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This travel diary and the Iranian people I've met through Work and University really made me question the mainstream medias depiction of Iran.

http://c90adventures.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view...
Drop Apache use Ngix and make sure your cacheing what you can.
There is a simple reason: computers and the internet. It makes people more docile and satisfies their urges. Porn for sexual urges, social media for "socializing", google and wikipedia for knowledge etc. That last part also makes everyone more educated. Which also correlates to less (blue collar) crime.
I wrote my first Hello World when I was 23 years old. I didn't write anything that could be described as "useful" (i.e. not a trivial practice exercise or a homework assignment) until I was 25. now I've got a degree in computer science and I'm a professional developer.

not everyone takes the same path through life.
I always wondered if that was the case, so it's nice to see someone actually checking it out. I do wonder why some of the numbers weren't more specific. A 5% discount on the solar panels over their lifetime is kind of vague. What was the price? What is the panel lifetime?
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>>Realistically, most of these low skill jobs will not exist in 20 years.

True. Amazon is already rolling out robots at select fulfillment centers.

But it still stinks that in 2013 so many people don't feel like they are in control of their livelihoods. Not everyone can pass the algorithm tests at Amazon to get one of the good jobs.
Crime has gone white collar. The march of progress goes on.
When was it effectively phased out in Brazil, though? Leaded gasoline was mostly gone in the US by the 1970s and there was a 20 year lag before the crime rate started dropping. The wikipedia article says lead was banned in the US in 1995, but it was definitely not widely available.

However, if lead was widely used in Brazil right up until the ban date there (1989) then it would stand to reason that the crime rate wouldn't start dropping for another six or seven years.
My first thought is pure economics. 1990 or so forward saw a massive increase in the standard of living globally on average. US GDP almost doubled over that decade, and I suspect the same is true for most of the industrialized world. So why isn't crime rising now, with big financial and unemployment problems? The countries with those problems are still consuming their past wealth to pay for current entitlements, which is keeping the social contract alive temporarily. And if that theory is correct, the next 10 to 15 years will see a meaningful increase in crime.

Another thought - just a half-silly toss out, but perhaps the Web played a role. It changed a lot of social behaviors, and that would have began in the early to mid 1990s in the industrialized world. It altered how and where people spend their time; how they do their shopping; how they communicate; how often they leave their homes; knowledge available when it comes to almost everything, such as instantly being able to look-up good / bad neighborhoods based on crime.

I first got online around 1994/95, at 14 years of age, and it's almost hard to remember time before the Web. I have to consciously remind myself that it wasn't always there.
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Good point, our biggest table consists mostly of numeric data, with the exception of a MAC type of address and date/time columns. I'm going to do more research on your last point as well. Thank you!
I hear Somalia is nice this time of year.
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Great stuff, when I have a little person ill look for something like this. One suggestion: better errors.

If I was a kid and I saw this:

#hi
Expected [ \t\r] or [a-zA-Z0-9_]
but "\n" found.

I'd think that I broke something.
Hey thanks for the reply and have made additions. In the long run, I'm hoping not just to post so much of our stuff, which I do because I read them all day, but actually contribute since I get a lot out of reading other people's postings.
I've moved country twice, once from US to Australia and the other from Australia to Canada.

$11k is a crazy (as someone else said, irresponsibly) low number, even for an individual.

The number for 7 people is absolutely ridiculous, fyi. $29k for 7 people? Absurd.
I was thinking an interesting startup would be one that matches people taking online courses into study/support groups. Then each person has to put down say a $100 deposit, and the group only gets their deposit back if everyone in the group completes the course.*

As a bonus the money taken from groups that don't complete the course could be distributed to the groups that did so you could actually make money from taking courses.

Anyone interested in working on this??

* There would be exceptions for illness, etc.
I see this degree as a huge boon for folks in the technology sector who are already working, but want to pick up a masters degree (for professional development or promotion). This isn't a replacement for the face to face college experience, but individuals who are working full-time don't necessarily want/need that socialization.

This is cheap enough that I could easy see tech companies offering to subsidize this degree as a perk for their employees, assuming the employee gets accepted to the program.
No. I don't think it's worth trying. If this is your goal, I think there are far more effective ways to go about it.

1. First, you'll need a political organization that is single-mindedly focused on this one issue. You'll need donors, professional lobbyists, a PR team, and a massive grassroots organization. Think Anti-Saloon League meets Rules for Radicals.

2. Then you focus on one or two elections of prominent politicians. Find someone vulnerable in the Senate. Then find an opponent that will vote against these policies, and win. That will put your group on the map in Washington.

3. Have your newly elected champion propose legislation that addresses policy avenues for which there is already support in Washington. I would focus on two areas: fixing the FISA court, and forming an investigatory committee.

Making the FISA court more than a rubber stamp will accomplish many of your goals in the short term. In brief, a few reforms that could go a long way would be the addition of attorneys appointed to oppose the government in motions, fair appointment process, and regularly publishing the findings of law of the court with the fact patterns redacted.

Forming an investigatory commission will accomplish your goals in the long term. A top to bottom review of the classified practices of the government, in both public and closed hearings, will bring the information up from the depths of the executive branch. Knowledge will breed more outrage, which will fuel both your political organization and grassroots efforts.

If you're successful, the result will look much like the Church Committee. Your ultimate goal should be to statutorily ban the programs, but you won't get there in one step, and certainly won't get close by cutting the funding to a few programs.

I'm not saying you shouldn't try, if this is your sincerely held belief. I'm simply saying that playing whack-a-mole with particular programs is a spectacularly ineffective way to pursue your goals.
I'm pushing for this real hard, I've used Nginx for a couple previous projects and run it locally on my machine. I've also heard of people using Nginx as a reverse proxy for Apache, which I'm not really sure what benefits that gives
Every hour is precious (a letter from Anton Chekhov to his brother)
If they are not from the area or a similar area and are climbing the federal court ladder, the majority seem to give not a care what the locals think. The locals are not the ones they need to impress.
I just think of a 10-11 year old putting their personal--or their family's--computer straight onto the public web with some random hacked-together code, and it makes me feel very nervous. What are the chances they are going to understand all the security implications? Pretty low, I think.

On the other hand, no one ever learned much by always taking the perfectly safe path. And who am I to judge whether people are "ready" for the Web? It's the old freedom vs. security argument.

Amazon does provide a free tier of EC2, which is great for tinkering around. But it takes a certain amount of knowledge to get one working as a web server. A tutorial, or a project that makes it easier, might be a good place to start.
> there are large parts of the country that are dangerous for outsiders

[citation needed]
If you haven't read it, Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature is a tour-de-force on the factors that have reduced violence of all kinds.
that's a bit like saying we may as well have a war, we've spent so much on all this military hardware ... ;-)
Clearly there is a world of difference between being a telecommuting programmer earning a large salary and remaining in your hometown because you want to be a stay-at-home parent and follow God.
I hope not, that UI is infuriating to use. I know it isn't exciting or glamorous, but the type-ahead dropdown thing everyone uses right now is used for a reason- it works.

Even worse, this concept focuses entirely on airline websites for booking travel. I think airlines need to work a lot harder on what happens after that- the ability to easily look up baggage limits, airport info, checking in online... all of these things are a lot more important than booking, which most people don't even do on an airline's own site anyway.
D'oh, hadn't read the article yet. Sorry about that.
Interviews with high school computer science teachers
"I hope you'll be downvoted to hell."

"I know I'm a cynic and it's a bad habit I'm trying to change, maybe you should try too."

You're just an ass hiding his assyness behind false righteousness.
Simple and likely wrong. Violent crime started falling in the early 1990s, before the internet had much of any penetration outside academia.
Cost-benefit not favorable. Turns out those of us willing to pay to play in lunar G can't afford to pay enough to make it work.