skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course people will choose "free" over "costs something", if all else is equal. You are not adding much to the debate by pointing that out.

Far more interesting to note that paid services (yes, people used to pay for e-mail) have largely been elbowed out by services that look as though they are free, but actually extract their payments by guile and deceit. Now that the general public is starting to appreciate the value of their personal data, perhaps we'll see a rebalancing of the market.
I wonder why Linux hasn't adopted something like OS X's "Sudden Termination" mechanism: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...
An intermediate option might be moving to Lebanon temporarily. It is still relatively (to syria) safe. As a Syrian, you dont need visa or residency permit. You can continue your work from here and figure out your next move; namely apply for immigration visas here-and-there.
Yeah, it really sounds like Racket is the most flexible programming language out there due to its metalinguistic abstraction capability. The question is: what is the secret to attracting developers to join the community? Clojure seems to really benefit from the rather iconic personality of Rich Hickey; this is in common with other communities and their leaders.

The other thing I wonder is if there is such a thing as too flexible? Rich deliberately resisted adding user-definable reader macros because he wanted Clojure to have a consistent, identifiable syntax. Whether that benefits the language's adoption or not, I have no idea.

I have to say I am hopeful that more people are exposed to Lisp languages on all fronts and that it cross-polinates all of the communities. We all have much to learn from one another and a great deal of potential for innovation. Despite how old Lisp is it still seems like we've barely scratched the surface of its potential.
Not really, if you are a woman that would triple your chances of finding Jobs and great life.

The amount of respect and importance women get in Dubai is incomparable to any other country.
We implemented http://www.paymo.biz in our company and we're happy with it. They have mobile apps and desktop apps for Win and Mac.

The design is a little out dated, but they're launching a new version so that's sorted.
Be that as it may, we can and should seek to create a world where one can have that expectation of privacy.

Pointing to the status quo and saying that's all there is doesn't help us much.

(And yes, I'm being lazy here in not justifying my assertion that we should all be able to have that expectation of privacy; I haven't had my morning coffee yet, so just take it as a lemma.)
Exactly. Quora doesn't even need a valid email for registering.
Better yet to get everybody to use encryption, always.
Definitely the opposite. How do we have an informed debate about whether our tax dollars are funding waste and abuse?
They used do exactly that: I started reporting them as webspam after a few iterations of seeing text snippets which were blocked by the nags when I opened the page. At one point the blocker was pure-JavaScript so you could simply disable it but that doesn't provide the negative feedback which abusive practices deserve.

That was when I cancelled my account: they're doing this because someone decided it would be profitable. I don't want to subsidize an unethical business with my content or help them by viewing ads or sharing their pages. This has yet to be a problem in any way: the amount of “must-read” Quora content has remained zero.
Has anyone forwarded this to Ryanair yet?
as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300856 you can add ?share=1:
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-disadvantages-of-disabling...
The more people who report webspam, the more likely that is to happen…
I would agree except that it seems to go deeper than that. Pilots are ranked by how little spare fuel they take. If they dare to take too much spare fuel they have to write a memo to management explaining why.
There should be an adblocker list for popups, survey requests, etc
Meh, just sign the NDA.
I thought https://poetica.com/ was doing just this
Couldn't you dress yourself as a highly religious woman (using a burka)? You wear an attire covering your entire body, right? Not sure what rights religious people enjoy, but maybe you could pass as a woman.
> why do you think people write great answers there?

Well, I certainly don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they require registration. People write great content on 4chan.

> Jesus H. the lengths people go through not to register a throwaway astounds me.

Have you ever actually been to Quora? The registration modal doesn't even give you the offer to register with a pseudonym that you so casually throw out. You get smacked in the face when you go to the site with a demand to link to your (real-name required) Google or Facebook accounts before you can so much as read 'their' precious content. To sign up with just an email address (that you then have to verify, which automatically opts you in to literally over 30 different 'newsletters' and notifications and other bits of spam that you have to manually opt out of individually). It certainly isn't just "type something into this form to shut up" as you suggest.
Ten Tips When Writing a Hybrid Language Metro style Application
I strongly support level09's comment. It's wiser than going to Europe for instance. Safer and with better perspective.
Why would you want to go to Europe anyway? Compared to Dubai (especially since you speak the language) it provides harder living conditions and the whole process of getting and staying there is a pain. Also, sad but true: some European societies are plagued with either latent, or even blatant racism.
Actually, they were low on fuel, because the company was forcing captains to carry only the company-approved minimum under threat of discipline.
One might have 2/3 of memory used, with well known database size growth. Then a runaway process could use 1/3 of memory, cause trouble, but it's still the DB that gets killed.

This isn't disastrous of course (replication + snapshots + redis aof), but still annoying.
Also, Samoa Air charges by the pound. Maybe there could be some kind of auction system for "heavier" processes to "pay" more to keep running.

http://business.time.com/2013/04/08/air-travel-by-the-pound-...
I own an Onyx Boox M92. It is a great device. I read tons of PDFs on it.

One issue is their choice of connector: they ship with USB mini connections, which are prone to stop working. Another is their web browser: it is unusable.

I'm really excited to see what the Sony product will look like! At 13 inches it's even better to read large PDFs than my Boox.
Whoa..

> At least two memorandums were sent to Ryanair pilots detailing the company's concern about what was described as "excess fuel explanations" -- a description of the reasons flight commanders have to give if they take on extra fuel over the recommended minimum fuel load.

Is "because it's only the minimum!" not a valid answer?
They abuse rel=canonical to increase their search engine rank but slam a registration wall in your face when you try to go read the content on their site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301280
Just disable Javascript by default, it will protect your sanity.
If you want to seperate your passengers in first and economy class, this is the relevant guide:

http://lwn.net/Articles/317814/

Usually, I recommend that database and queue servers run the database/queue with a priority that makes it unlikely for them to be killed.

I had a case where a colleague running a script on a server with high pressure killed the queue, which is unadvisable, even if is crash-safe. Before that, the queue was running for 1.5 years straight.
What's with this title? Does the OP have something against the company or is another attempt at the millionth prism discussion on HN?
Show HN: Piano University
http://www.pianouniversity.com/

This is my project idea for the Coursera Startup Engineering class. It's basically going to be "Khan Academy" for piano lessons... nugget-sized videos to teach people everything about playing piano.

The site doesn't actually have any real content yet. So it's super duper barely MVP. :-)

Still, I welcome your feedback and questions!
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Finland is also an option and the market for good developers is hot right now. Drop me a line via Twitter - my username is in my profile - and I can do some intros if you decide to come here.

Edit: more info: http://www.migri.fi/asylum_in_finland
It's sad that color e-Ink still seems to be nowhere within sight. It seemed for a while that Pixel Qi's hybrid screens were on the horizon, but I haven't heard much about that lately.

I personally love the e-Ink screen on my Kindle Keyboard 3G. I wish I could upgrade to the next generation, but Amazon has gone with the wisdom of the day and eliminated buttons from the newer generations of Kindles. I also wish I had a screen with high enough res to read PDFs comfortably. As it is, without the ability to reflow PDF text, paging through the document is an awkward experience.
I think everybody values privacy, from the youngest to the oldest users.

The issue is that of education--many people haven't made the connection that to get a lot of the neat features they like (geolocation, frictionless sharing, etc.) they need to allow some fairly invasive personal data mining. They don't understand that sharing certain things and using certain apps also causes the data of other people to be exposed.

I think (hope) that if people new more about this, then we'd see the social mores change a bit. Unfortunately, that sort of education and public service announcement takes money, and none of the players in the Valley or elsewhere want to do it, because it would negatively impact their viral coefficients and user engagement.
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but also they may decide to change the class of the airline (economy and business -> economy, business and first) depending on how people book or what aircraft are available on the day.

United is infamous for this, prompting a sound piece of advice: if for some reason you're in first class on a flight scheduled for an A320, don't take a seat in row 3, since odds are high it'll be swapped to an A319 (which only has two rows in F) day of the flight. In theory there's a pecking order for who gets downgraded in that case (first, anyone who moved up to F on a status upgrade, then the paid F fares starting with whoever was latest to check in), but in practice the gate agent just bumps row 3 and calls it a day.
>The company has managed to add some color to its technology. With those digital price tags, for instance, there will be a red e-ink option to help draw attention to sale items.

I did not know that color had been a possibility with eInk displays. That, combined with the increased resolution and removal of artifacts when updating, makes me a little more excited for the technology. I'm hoping they improve the technology even more, I would dearly like to see this proliferate. Ideally, I would like to see it reach most of the capabilities of modern LED displays, but I will not hold my breath.
Berlin is way friendlier than Stockholm IME. London and Stockholm are also some of the most expensivie cities in Europe whereas Berlin is cheap.
Rich Hickey's bookshelf: 40 books that influenced Clojure
I too am mulling over purchasing a new Kindle during an upcoming trip to the US, and am not wild about touch screens. Also, I'm quite sure that shortly after I buy the silly thing, they'll announce the new ones.
Ah but Google does return me CakePHP if I search cake (and CoffeeScript for some reason, coffee and cake go together I guess I dunno). I don't agree with your example about french braids, at some point you are getting a little too generic.
Sincere congrats. Losing your Windows install disc is one of the best things that can happen to a person.
Unauthorized Access should mean there is something that enforces authorization in front of it, and you circumvented that or forcefully passed through.

Legal actions based on security through obscurity is a silly idea.
I have a really cool story that I like to tell whenever something like this comes up. When I was a kid we had a very old 386 PC with a gigantic black & white CRT monitor, it was also very heavy (at least for a little kid). The computer was in a room adjacent to the living room where we had the TV and one day we started noticing lines of snowy noise appearing on the image on the TV. It seemed to be random and it was annoying as heck. One day I'm sitting on the computer doing something in good old MS DOS and the door is open, so I can work on the PC and watch cartoons at the same time, so double win for me!! It is then that I notice something really curious, the lines of noise on the TV are identical in shape and pattern to the ones on my monitor!!! Whoa!! I try writing long lines alternating with short ones and they also appear on the TV, and even though you couldn't discern specific letters you could definitely tell the spacing between the words. Mind blown!!! I think the culprit was in the unshielded cable running from the antenna in our roof to the TV, which happened to pass by the room with the computer in it. Anyway, I solved the noise "mystery" that day, but was subsequently banned from using the computer whenever the family was gathered watching TV. Talk about being ungrateful :)
Usertest. Have them observe. Or: film and show them. Works every time.
Really Munich/Berlin sucks? Why? IMHO for IT is good. In Munich there are developers from all around the world. I'm not German and I feel good here.
Look at yourself.
I believe you missed my point. Most people outside the tech world have no idea who Edward Snowden is and what exactly happened with the NSA scandal.

Computers are just a black box to them with something magical happening underneath (I'm not kidding here). If they don't understand what they are using, how can they understand the tradeoff between something free vs something they pay for?
He has done coding and engineering since leaving Apple. You might want to do a little research like read his biography or scan his web site....
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>> If schools really wanted to teach it, it would be well within fair use laws for them to show the whole thing.
>
> No, not a chance. Even a few paragraphs would likely get them smashed, especially if they're the most interesting of the speech.
>

Actually we had to memorize a significant portion of the speech for my eighth grade AP English class, in addition to watching the speech, and talking about the context. This was part of a larger section on civil rights coordinated with our History lessons.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain that educational programs are allowed to do whatever they want wrt. copyright as long as they can show educational value and aren't directly profiting off of reproducing the copyrighted work.

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Value does not have to be monetary. In the example of an e-mail account, valuing privacy might be choosing a specific host because it has some better ToS or selecting a specific client because it supports PGP well.
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Another thing you can do, in this case, is to enable swap system-wide, then put just the database process into a cgroup with memory.swappiness = 0.

Thus, the database itself will never degrade due to spilling to disk, but all other processes might. But if it's a DB box, that won't precisely matter.
> I’m rather sorry they exist though, as they perpetuate the idea of statistics as mathematics.

Wait, what?
Exactly. Abstraction upon abstraction upon abstraction. I still write to just write plain SQL. (They call it "raw" and it comes with warnings!). That's enough abstraction for me :)
can you make a company full of HR succeed? Can you make the same with only programmers?
If that were true, there wouldn't be a market for textbooks.
CommandT is nice for really large repos. At my last job, I worked on a very large rails codebase and CtrlP frequently took 5+ seconds to index, while CommandT was under one second.

I also worked with the author of CommandT at that job, which was nice.
e-ink phones are an interesting idea.

If I look at apps most people use, most could just-as-good e-ink versions: phone, contacts, sms, skype, viber, mail, whatsapp, weather, radio, podcasts, buses/trains, ebooks, banking. Some could have functional but slightly lamer versions: Camera, browser, dating. A few can't be done: videos, video calls, games.

I think it's got a decent chance at success. But someone has to have the balls to really make it work. You can't just stick android on it. The Apps & OS need to be different or its going to feel like using an android phone that's been in the pool.
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Kindle DX isn't good for this?

http://amzn.com/B002GYWHSQ
I believe Simon is also talking about this at the London Haskell Exchange at skillsmatter in October. I will definitely be attending this one!!
An example of SCUMM script from http://www.pagetable.com/?p=614

actor sandy face-right
actor sandy do-animation reach
walk-actor razor to-object microwave-oven
start-script watch-edna
stop-script
stop-script watch-edna
say-line dave "Don't be a tuna head."
say-line selected-kid "I don't want to use that right now."

if (melt-down) {
say-line selected-kid "I don't think this game is very fun."
}
I would be all over an eInk smartphone. I would gladly accept all of the disadvantages of eInk for that battery life.
The 13.3" e-reader from Sony mentioned in the article is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSGZkEEVfQ&t=3m25s

I often find myself leaving my Kindle on the shelf because it isn't suitable for reading PDFs.
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What's up with the name "Maximum Awesome"? Sounds teenagish. Anyway, I am a VIM lover and good to see this work.
Terry Pratchett on Usenet circa 1992
The ScummVM wiki has more details on how the SCUMM bytecode works: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SCUMM/Technical_Reference

One interesting feature is cooperative threading for up to 25 threads.
The name wasn't really trademarked, but we wanted to name it after another bodily fluid.

I love everything about the culture as I understand it there.
I'd say don't come to England either - Asylum claimants aren't allowed to work while their claim is processed. The claims take of the order of years to process, because there's a big backlog (some claims 5 or 10 years old, if I remember.)

(I won't go into the politics of the UKBA, but suffice to say that the people who are "customer facing" are the ones who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near vulnerable people - and removing them is politically impossible.)

Sweden sounds like a much better bet.
Nope. If I leave my front door open and you walk in off the street, it's still trespassing. You don't have to make a reasonable effort to secure physical goods, why should you have to to secure virtual information?

People who complain that "that could make any URL illegal!" are being facetious: if you hit a site once and see personally identifiable information (PII), report it and leave! It's like if you were out hiking and you wandered onto someone's land: one incursion isn't going to get you thrown in jail, but repeated, systematic incursions will make it hard for you to argue that it was an accident.

If you really want more explicit laws on this sort of stuff, you're going to end up with a ton of very explicit cruft all over the web. You know those email footers saying "If you aren't the intended recipient, throw this away"? The best we can expect is to require sites to put those boilerplate warnings on pages you aren't supposed to access. These would be analogous to 'no trespassing' signs in real life.
Are you sure about your first statement? Everyone in my family knows about Snowden. And not because I told them. None of them are even remotely close to the tech world. I'm from Sweden.
Then just don't upgrade. It's not obligatory :)
It's too bad the NSA didn't want to spy on Google Reader...
Wow, if you can't see past a person's privilege, color, or economic status in order to appreciate their ideas or words, you are quite a merry little bigot.

Get off your high horse.
I'm organizing the JavaScript track for Codemash 2014, a large generalist track in Ohio. This post represents my thoughts on what holds back most technical talks and what sets apart great ones.
Rape victims can be jailed for over a year for "extramarital sex". That is not respect.
http://www.ibtimes.com/dubai-safe-female-travelers-norwegian...
CIA & NSA successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary
Not necessarily. The material teachers distribute to classes come out of their budget (ink and paper aren't free). And the time taken to compile an entire course from scratch would not be insignificant.

The copyrighted works we were shown and given access to in class were supplements to the textbooks we were using.
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Respect Is King In Startups
Generally speaking, my rule of thumb is that an NDA shouldn't be necessary if you're simply discussing the business. If an idea is so copyable that simply repeating aloud it is dangerous, then you're going to get copied by bigger players as soon as the viability of the idea has been demonstrated. So the company's pretty much hosed anyway. When it comes to basic business and marketing advice, it really limits the valuable input that can be gained if the business owners are super cagey about talking about their ideas.

On the other hand, if actual core IP (like code and business documents) is going to be seen in detail and contributed to by someone, then an NDA is a must. Not only an NDA, but also an IP assignment agreement. It must be unambiguously clear that the business, not any individuals, owns the IP of the company. I don't care if someone just wants to help out of the goodness of their heart; if they're looking at the code, they need to be willing to sign some paperwork.
Signing randomly sourced contracts seems like a bad idea. If he really wanted to work with people who like NDA's, maybe he should have his own lawyer draft a general purpose one for him to use in these situations.
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Hey, maybe you try this page: http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/

Here you can make a quick check if you are eligible of getting a EU Blue Card for Germany: http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/making-it/quick-check/

This information might be useful for you as well: "By the way: are you still job-hunting and would like to look for a post that corresponds to your qualifications in Germany? In that case, you are entitled to a six-month visa. The condition is that you have a university degree and are able to support yourself while you stay in Germany. Please note that the visa entitling you to hunt for jobs does not entitle you to work. Once you find a suitable post, you can immediately apply for the appropriate residence permit while, of course, remaining in Germany. You can apply for the visa to the German mission abroad in your area. They will tell you exactly which conditions you have to fulfill to be able to apply."
I would have to second this. When I have a meeting that ends 15 minutes before lunch it is hard to want to work on a task when I know I wont be able to get into the flow.
Hi, I'm the guy who started darkpatterns.org. It's nice to see it popping up on HN every now and then. We're actually looking for contributors to help edit and update the content. If anyone is interested, drop us a line (contact details on the site). It's intended to be a community project and we'd love to see a lot more faces and names on the about page.
How to write your own compiler
I have written enterprise software. Guilty as charged.
Ah yes, Sweden. A place where there is no technology. At all.
Track your personal reading list on Github.