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I feel that a vibrant tech industry is often a reflection of a vibrant tech community.

Granted, a community is only a small part of an overall industry, but an industry without community is lacking heart and soul.

And I can say, with authority, that Dublin has a vibrant tech community. My company, Engine Yard, runs or hosts two meetups a week in our Dublin office, covering subjects such as Ruby, PHP, Node JS, Scala, as well as database, Open Data and designer / UX oriented meetups.

If you want to come to any meetups on these subject, or become more involved in the Dublin tech community, drop me a line - eamon@engineyard.com.

In addition, for the past three years, I've been running Pub Standards Dublin, the largest monthly gathering in Ireland of developers, designers and anyone interested in tech - we get about 150-180 each month. See http://pubstandards.ie/ or https://twitter.com/pubstandardsdub for details, you're welcome to join us any time.

I'm sorry you feel that things are "stagnant and dependent on cheap non-EU labour". I don't feel the same, and I invite you to come out, meet your peers and properly engage with your local tech community.

You wont regret it :)
Agreed. There's often a pedantic need to point out some structural "flaw" in a statement and dismiss it, vs. making an effort to gain insight from its message.

"All Cretans are liars" - Epimenides

The logical robot concludes that because Epimenides was Cretan, the statement is a logical contradiction (hah, got you!) and nothing can be learned. A wiser man realizes he should be wary when in Crete.
Newly Declassified Documents Show How the Surveillance State was Born
JavaScript Doing The JavaScript Rap featuring MC meSpeak
Reminds me of the various ways we found to defeat school firewalls when I was in high school. At the time we simply took it for granted that those in power (i.e. the school itself) were going to try to censor us, and it was our "little secret" that we could defeat that censorship.

As an adult I look back at those days and make comparisons with the situation in China...
Pretty nice article:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/These-young-SF-profess...
The genetics are complex and not yet understood.

(I am a diabetic who does genetics)
I think that this is just an error. (Maybe) There is no phone on this earth with 6GB RAM
Chromecast is new? I don't think so. Firefox came before Chrome and according to your logic Google was just "me too" logic. We have startup doing "me too". What's innovation? Innovation happens to be things people want to use and people find it useful and secured. If Mozilla's version is secured, useful, bug-free and great, why not?
Is serving high dpi images better for paint performance?
I was wondering the same thing - a simple feedback loop can't be that hard to achieve can it?

Put in some limits in case of sensor or pump error and maybe allow the user to boost sugar for activities, but otherwise this seems to me like a very very simple thing to do.

What am I missing?
Tyler - Thanks. I have heard of them and am keeping my eye on it. I am currently looking for a more open solution like www.singly.com.
I guess this dude has never been to any of the Delta terminals in Atlanta, hard to do given it's a Delta hub.

Most gates have a couple of pods to charge USB or plug in a laptop.

LAX is fail for me because I've often had to change terminals there and reclear security. Not only is changing terminals a pain but it is magnified when you have to take a bus. LAX feels like LA in general, a haphazard sprawling mess that was just thrown together.

Here in Silicon Valley, I'd rank San Jose pretty highly. It doesn't have many lounges but makes up with adequate food options and USB/power plugs at something like 85%-90% of the seats in the terminals.
We trade for the tech support. Which means I'm making about 1/100th minimum wage.
Donald Trump is such an epic tool. Yeah, Quatar and Dubai have great airports. That's what you can afford when you're unelected shiekdoms living high on the hog by raping the resources that rightly belong to a people.
If anyone has trouble reading this, there's also plain text versions of individual slides:

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp0000...

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/mgp0000...

etc.

Here's the whole thing in one page, minus images:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6757266/raw/3469464cb802e7...
Seoul Incheon is nice. They even have a casino.
Billionaire Li Ka-Shing donates $130 million to Israel's Technion
It's too late for me to edit my comment. If you read through some of the subsequent discussion you can see where a couple of helpful people cleared up some misconceptions I had when posting initially.

I still think there's something shady going on in that district but I don't want to put forward any specific assertions about criminal activity.

Don't upvote my comment if it sounds like righteous fervor and you agree with it because of that.
nitpick: probably you mean "be sure to have a citizenship in a EU country or Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway", which has nothing to do with the place somebody is born.
> It lacks a solid, broadly applicable proposal for remunerating the effort of software engineers.

How about this: abolish capitalism. I mean, sure, I agree with you: under capitalism, where people are denied access to the necessities of life (food and shelter) unless they sell their labour to capitalists in exchange for money, it's difficult for people to find the time to fully commit to developing free software. The solution to this is to abolish the system that denies people access to the necessities of life. And this is not crazy: people already live in houses (and for the ones that don't, there are tonnes of empty houses that nobody is using). Food literally grows on trees (unlike money). There's no good reason why everybody couldn't automatically have a place to live and enough food to eat without having to pay rent to some capitalist. I wish more free software advocates understood the more radical implications of the free software argument (and as you say, the same goes for anti-copyright advocates) rather than pretending that it's ultimately compatible with capitalism. It isn't, and we shouldn't want it to be either.
After a 2011 visit to Technion, Li Ka-Shing's venture fund invested in Waze which sold for $1.1 billion to Google this past June. Fittingly, some of that donation comes from profits from the Waze investment. The funds are used to help establish Technion presence at Shantou University in China.
it is the default... (for most practical definitions).
I am constantly thinking about moving from the US to somewhere nice, please advise me some countries, here are my "wish list" of the country where I would love to live:

- Civilized people

- No extradition

- Government is small and it respects people's freedom and privacy (which are protected by constitution), real freedom of speech, not the one when you can be arrested for a tweet, even if it leaked state secret or offended someone or infringed a copyright. No copyright laws at all would be awesome.

- No secret services

- Reasonable laws, no death penalty or life sentence, very small quantity of law enforcement

- Small ratio of NumberOfPeople/NumberOfPeopleInJails

- >1 million population in at least one city

- At least some IT industry

- Good and affordable health infrastructure

- No CCTVs in public places and no traffic cameras
Folding proteins tends to benefit big Pharma, I don't feel so bad about that.

Who did SETI benefit? The Aliens?

Bit Coin which I don't really put much stock in, but thought it was fun to play with is in my mind a bad investment long term. I cash out the coins pretty regularly. But I like the idea of a unified currency. I don't like the idea of a currency you can make more of. In my perfect world there is a single currency backed by Gold that the entire world uses and you can trade your 1oz mark for 1oz of gold when ever you want.

BitCoin is closer to that than most anything else. So I like to support BitCoin for the benefit of humanity. Not because I believe it is the solution, but because I think those who think it is the solution will talk about it enough to convince those who can build the solution to do so.
My reading of it is that they appear to be saying that freelan does transparent NAT traversal, whereas OpenVPN would require explicit port-forwarding.
Nah, that one is fine.
I am totally agreeing with Eamon. Besides the mentioned meetups there is a paper reading meetup, a google developer meetup, devops, python, coding grace, coder dojo, TOG (a really great hackerspace) and plenty more.

I arrived a year ago in Dublin and was surprised about the variety and diversity of the tech scene in Dublin. I really think that Dublin has a strong and thriving tech scene.
I've seen the link. My comment wasn't about it. It was about what I commented about (comment-above).

And sure it's not cool. I've seen non-genuine thumb-drives have false capacity written on them, but coming from Samsung .. It's weird.
Are you sure it's possible to understand them fully without actually doing some hacking? How would you be sure when you understand enough to start acting?
I guess the "picks and shovels" rule holds for this gold rush too.
In addition to all the accurate assessments that this is very far from an artificial pancreas, I would like to point out that the glucose monitor being marketed by Minimed is a far cry behind even the best-in-class available from Dexcom (http://www.dexcom.com/dexcom-g4-platinum), and not near accurate enough to allow for closing the loop. Notably, a number of the farthest advanced artificial pancreas research projects are moving away from Minimed products-- for example: http://bionicpancreas.org
Stagnant is definitely not the right word for the IT industry in Ireland. It's anything but. There have been some huge native successes in the industry in such a short time frame. Look at the likes of soundwave or the guys in trustev whom are winning startup awards left right and centre.

The amount of meet ups help make the IT industry in Ireland thrive. There barely goes a week without there being an event on sometime even three to four each week.
I sometimes wonder if the Chinese government is implementing the firewall at least partly to try and increase the general level of technical expertise.
I don't think it is as clear cut as flat out bribery but these judges know what side their bread is buttered.

They live there. They are friends with hotel and restaurant owners. Their family members are local patent attorneys. They have relatives that own 'commercial office buildings' that are nothing more than empty offices for a convenient mailing address for shell companies.

If they started looking less friendly to plaintiffs they know all of that out-of-town cash would dry up to a great extent. They would become a pariah, which, in a small town is not something you can easily hide from.

*Edit: The same can be said for the juries as well.
Yes, I just saw "Exploit Blackhat SEO (type 1720)" by AVG and the browser refused to show anything.
The 10x developer is not a myth
Ask HN: are mobile apps the Next Big Thing for business SaaS?
When Facebook publicized their IPO one of the main risk factors [1] they had to declare was the difficulty of monetizing mobile.

A year later Facebook Mobile makes up 41% of their revenue [2]. Is Facebook an outlier or have other companies seen similar improvements? What about B2B SaaS companies - should they invest heavily into mobile?

Jason Lemkin thinks mobile is the next big thing for business SaaS [3]. What do you think?

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512034517/d287954ds1.htm#toc287954_2
[2]
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/daily-report-facebooks-mobile-ad-revenue-cheers-investors
[3]
http://www.quora.com/Software-as-a-Service-SaaS/What-is-the-next-big-thing-in-terms-of-SaaS-dedicated-for-businesses/answer/Jason-M.-Lemkin
In all honesty of would be better if the two of you went somewhere else with your inflammatory rethoric. If you have a case, or a hypothesis for one, state it clearly, and without name-calling. There are enough places on the Internet for mud-slinging, let's keep at least one or two for civilized discourse.
Previous HN thread (28 days ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6311370
The problem is not with the iPad specifically. The problem is that the students are in an educational environment where censorship is the norm. I understand that schools have to have firewalls or they risk losing their funding, but the immediate question is what those schools do with students who learn how to defeat those firewalls? Do those kids get punished for their unauthorized knowledge (so far the punishment is just, "no more iPads at home," but it could have been a lot worse)?
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Speaking as a designer the tech community as a whole has gone from strength to strength. We've often tried to organise events only for them to conflict with another tech event on the same date.

Get out there, meet people and I'm sure you'll have a different perspective
> So yes, on average Texans are among the most devout Christians and among the worst educated in the United States. There are more than enough public statistics to back this up.

There is a huge (and growing) underclass in Texas that drags these kind of stats down.
'safe' doses of sugar still toxic
Horrendous linkbait title. Flagged.
Flying is easy. It's incredibly easy. It gives you a whole day - or a good part of one - to sit on your ass and use a cellphone, laptop or magazine for entertainment. Even if you're traveling for business, you're probably not doing as much as you would in the office.

If you're traveling, you have nothing to complain about. Even if you experience relative annoyances such as layovers, you still have a whole day to do nothing, or to do very little.

Complaints about the airport are extremely hackneyed, and those who tell "airport horror stories" often sound entitled. The author concedes this point in the beginning, which is refreshing, but he defaults to it in his conclusion by saying that "airports are painful."
My wife is a Type I diabetic and 15 + year Minimed pump wearer. She (and many other diabetics) don't like the fact that with the CGM you have to have two infusion sites (one for the monitor and one for the pump). Until they can figure out how to do this with one infusion site I suspect it will not be highly desirable by diabetics.
Ah OK, reading again I see that I Unicode does provide a way to disambiguate with combining characters.
> So you don't think bash is now "less central"?

The replacement of /bin/sh is not replacing bash. Bash has not been replaced.

> Clang now provides an alternative C compiler.

Yes, but are any Linux distributions actually switching to Clang?
Well, if you want to cancel your orbital velocity, such that you are drawn into the sun, it does take a lot of energy. But you could also transfer transverse momentum in a fly-by with a planet and head straight into the sun, which is a cheaper way of doing it.

Still, it's something that might well seem counterintuitive to people not familiar with orbital mechanics.
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I guess this dude has never been to any of the Delta terminals in Atlanta, hard to do given it's a Delta hub.

Not really, I've been to/through ATL five times this year, but my flights are on US Air and their gates are a disaster area (partially due to construction, particularly due to neglect). I had three hour wait for my last trip so I wandered over to the Delta gates in search of Shoyu (my biz partner who flies ATL recommended to me) and it is truly a whole new world. But don't automatically think that because you're going through ATL you must fly Delta, that's not true at all.
If you show the webpage source you'll see hidden divs that contains Viagra links and other things ...

There are two possibilities:

1. OP website was hacked and he has no idea.

2. This page was purposely build with these SEO "enhancements" and the OP knows.

I would love to hear an explanation from the OP about this :).
http://foundation.zurb.com/templates.php
It should be Gb, because in the image it's Gb, not GB. Look closely.
Pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger
a lot changes under a non-capitalist, socialist banner... a lot

societies don't do well with big change.. there should be something more gradual to aim for
I see, so they are all pure I.P. idealogues who just happen to think in this way and are in no way influenced by the massive sums of money involved in that area of law, all in one particular district in Texas that has loads of sham company fronts incorporated there, but from the judges side there is nothing dodgy going on and definitely no politics.

I mean, you could be right, but it doesn't seem terribly likely when you look at it.
>I've seen the link. My comment wasn't about it. It was about what I commented about (comment-above).

The comment was quoting the link...
My god, I'm not a fan of reading slides in general but this... this is a new dimension of horror. I can't shake the feeling that there's some sick humour in this.
I think JunkDNA's point was that the pancreas does a lot more than just regulate insulin.
Does SJC still have a moldy smell? I haven't flown in there since 2004, but it used to really stand out at me every time I came in.
Comic saaaaaaaaans!
Someone on the Go Nuts mailing list asked for an example of mocking with interfaces, so I quickly wrote up this:

http://play.golang.org/p/9JUvbeBTAY
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OK, then. I don't believe everyone is a thief, but there are clearly plenty of actual thieves, and still others who can rationalize thievish behavior if laundered through a process like mining-on-someone-else's-utility-bill.

So this lab-mining is seasonal, or someplace (one of the poles?) where the building would be uncomfortably-cold year-round without the mining? Is it hooked up to the buildings' thermostats?

Using computing waste heat for practical purposes is a good idea. Running CPUs as heating elements, I'd need more info about their efficiency for that purpose, especially if the system isn't in a control-loop with a thermostat (and ideally peak-vs-off-peak electricity pricing). My hunch is they might be cost-competitive with electric space heaters but way more costly than any non-electric boiler heating system.

Maybe the bill-payer's value for (heating + novelty + cut-rate tech support) is greater than (marginal-electric-bill). But even if that were true a while ago, the difficulty escalation makes that far less likely now, especially for CPU mining, or a process that's not ambient-temperature-influenced.
I wanna mention Nutch here: http://nutch.apache.org/
since it has been around for a while and a lot of thought was put into its design. For instance, people are discussing data stores, Nutch uses Hadoop.

The web is probably bigger than you think, Google says "when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!" (July, 2008)

You might consider just crawling certain parts of the web, or using a search engine (api, like Yahoo! BOSS) to gather relevant links and crawl from there, using a depth limit. Just an idea.
I'm sure large corporations like Google would suit some people, for everyone else there are plenty of startups hiring in Dublin.

Unless you're a sysadmin, I don't think there are a whole lot of jobs going in Ireland at Facebook, Twitter or Amazon.
+1 for Pub Standards. Also, on the Apple/iOS side, a group of local (Irish and non-Irish) developers, called XCake meets monthly in the science gallery in Dublin. http://xcakelabs.com
That's not necessarily what flagging's for, is it?
Does H2 do MVCC?
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Surely the words "probable" and "hypothesis" are what means it is almost definitely not libellous. A hypothesis is the start of reason, not the conclusion of it. To state a hypothesis is to admit to a suspicion that something is possible, not to state something to be true.
How are any of these patents valid, especially in application to mobile application technology? I'm not a lawyer; I'm seriously baffled as to how any of them, in application to mobile "pay to upgrade" (or any other "customer interaction") flows, aren't obvious. It's the first thing I thought of when I first thought to write a mobile application and how to make money off of it.
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Sure, but the ships are still described as having very uninteresting appearances. Now where do i remember your name from?
I've been organising various tech events (Python Ireland, Coding Grace, Global GameCraft to name a few) for quite awhile, but mainly Python events since 2005, and I have seen the growth of so many technical user groups in the past 5 years.

It use to be a case you can count the tech groups on one hand (for me anyway)! Also there are many entrepreneurs meetups happening around town as well. It's really exciting to be in Dublin at the moment, although I do wish the same amount of activity would happen in other cities/towns around the country.

As many mentioned before me, go and check out the meetups around town (via meetup.com, lanyrd.com and sign up to Dublin StartupDigest). This all leads to a vibrant tech community (good cafés also helps). I might warn you though, there is something happening most nights every week. Enjoy!
You are right. Luckily there is a fairly well known, small list of patent trolls (the people mind you, not the meaningless shell companies) that could be simply enumerated, with the charter of the cooperative allowing additions (but never removals). I mean, I'd pay $20/mo for Lodsys protection alone.
actually, it would be way more complex to establish a self-sufficient colony on the moon. The moon lacks a lot of basic resources that mars provides, albeit in different ratios than earth does.
View the demo here:
https://github.com/public-contributions
I've supervised a couple of undergraduate projects. Parallel sorting algorithms are a cool topic but quite specialized, so it would seem unlikely that you could train yourself up to an employable standard within an academic year in addition to your other responsibilities. A better use of your time would be something to get you hired. I recommend that you organize your thesis as a comparative study of two or three competing technologies you'd be interested to learn, by implementing a similar application with each of them (e.g. Ruby vs. PHP, Java vs. Objective C, MongoDB vs. Cassandra, etc. etc.). Have at least a few thousand lines of working code if you want to be taken seriously by an employer, and throw in some critical thinking to please the academics.
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You're partly right. I'm not particularly happy that a) I expressed myself this way and b) its the top voted comment on this article. There's a deeper message that I was trying to get across but this came out pretty badly.