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i haven't yet made up my mind either. personally, i find the upcoming "1:12" vote [highest salary in a company may at most be 12x the lowest salary] much more dangerous to the swiss economy. the discussions on both votes are very interesting and healthy tho.
I definitely don't need more notifications! :)

I don't, but I like projects that expand the functionality of an application. For example things like https://www.hnsearch.com .
Actually, according to the May 2013 Thoughtworks Tech Radar at

http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

In the Tools category, Gradle is "Adobt", while Maven is on "Hold". You can read the full report but I'll exert the relevant section:

"Language-based build tools like Gradle and Rake continue to offer finer-grained abstractions and more flexibility long term than XML and plug-in based tools like Ant and Maven. This allows them to grow gracefully as projects become more complex."

They had a more elaborate explanation in previous editions.
I've tried to attack that problem with http://www.trejdify.com/ which is similar to HN
It sounds like the ban applies because the conference is held in Nasa facilities. Anyone know why they can't move it to a nearby hotel, conference facility or university?
it depends what the moon is like for the love/hate of language x to show in a post on HN....
Taxing a redistributive payment from the government makes no sense. Why not just pre-calculate how much of it goes to tax and then save everyone the paperwork?
Medical expenses are presumably lower in Switzerland, college tuition at e.g. MIT for a person making $300k/yr vs. an ETH-Z student, and IIRC taxes on capital gains are lower in Switzerland than in NYC or California (due to state/local taxes). Consumer goods are definitely cheaper in the US.
Why isn't China on the list? It should top all 3 criteria - if you're white.
Macedonia was certainly cheap and friendly when I visited there a long time ago, just before independence. But the Venezuelans were friendly too and although there were warnings about Caracas at night it wasn't that bad. And I was kidnapped in Morocco, so YMMV with this list.
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you may get fine for taking a shower late in the evening
erhm... no. while there might be house rules set by the lessor which prevents certain things that might disturb other inhabitants, it's not a law.
I'd be surprised if chaotic, unorganized spending cuts would actually save money in the long run.
I've not even got time to coordinate outsourcing my impending fortune. You can forward those profits to my checking account.
Callbacks cause no resource retention

They do cause resource exhaustion in the developer who has to deal with the cascading callback spaghettis.
Kidnapped? That sounds like a story worth telling!
Good for these researchers. This ban is, as far as I've been able to tell, racism arising from political expediency. If it were about national security, we wouldn't be collaborating with Russia on the ISS (or allowing ourselves to be completely dependent upon Soyuz for access to the station for the indeterminate future). It's not about human rights, either - NASA collaborates with Saudi Arabia, enough said.
People giving out code for free is poisonous? Here is someone people saying: "Hey, wrote some nice software. Here. You want it? Take it. We like it. It's Free.".

Now if you want to take that software and give it to someone else, they ask you to not go around the hide where you got it, what changes you made to it, and not sue people for patents over that software.

Its a polite, if backed up statement, that people can't go around using other people software and then be exploitative about it. Play nice, or do not play at all. Is it really your view that doing so is poisonous?
Eh, it is about the supposed threat of industrial espionage, of course. China is an economic threat to the USA, not a direct military one.
Compiler optimization flags are very code and type specific.

(Note that I am comparing apples to oranges here, I used the C++ code used in Rust experiments found here: https://github.com/huonw/card-trace/blob/master/original.cpp )

I changed the C++ version typedef float f to typedef double f, so using floats instead of doubles, compiling with the following flags:

-m64 -march=corei7-avx -mtune=corei7-avx -Ofast -funroll-all-loops

and the run time dropped down from 17.5 seconds to 11.2 seconds. If I remove -funroll-all-loops, the run time jumps to 14.2 seconds. The original 17.5 seconds were ran with vanilla code using float and -O3. Interestingly enough, if you use the aforementioned flags with floats instead of doubles, the program executes in 15.01 seconds instead. Using floats is bad for performance! Further, if you remove -funroll-all-loops when using floats, the performance increases, but with doubles it decreases.

So, when optimizing, play with compiler flags. Play with types. Play with whatever you have at your disposal and make no assumptions. This stuff is far more complex than believing that certain flags are better than others, it all depends on everything.
Lovely place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here -- especially if you're not white and anglophone. We (speaking as an Aussie here!) used to be a lot friendlier, but the last dozen years have seen a serious degradation. It's not the friendly place it used to be.
Basic income is given to everyone, not just the poor and/or unemployed.

It's actually a very good idea, supported by people all across the political spectrum. You should read up on it before dismissing it.
My wife immediately asked if there are some similar statistics that also take into the account the quality of food?

As a tourist, one of the most important things for me is how tasty, accessible and diverse the local food is.

Probably quite tricky to rank though.
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Why does South Africa get a special mention?
Add a teaspoon of wine to a barrel of sewage: you get a barrel of sewage.

Add a teaspoon of sewage to a barrel of wine: you get a barrel of sewage.

Which is to say that some factors kind of overshadow all the others, quite disproportionately. For me, this usually shows up with Australia's wildlife: people are afraid to visit because of silly little things like the wide variety of poisonous snakes, spiders, dropbears, etc. They don't bother me... but I don't walk through long grass without boots on.
> FoxAcid tags are designed to look innocuous, so that anyone who sees them would not be suspicious. An example of one such tag [LINK REMOVED] is given in another top-secret training presentation provided by Snowden.

Anyone knows what these tags look like?
Easy, smog and visa hassles..
This is one of the question that will be central to the upcoming debate. Usually, when we vote on economic issues (like we voted on raise in VAT, more holidays, etc...), we usually have all kind of organisation explaining what their position is and why. So you obviously get the political parties opinions, but also the economic associations (the Swiss Business Federation for big companies, the Union of small-medium business), the employee unions and so on. On this topic, we'll most likely get a lot of opinion from the economics academic world as well.

Also, when you get your voting material, there is a leaflet that explains the position of the government and the parliament (in this case, they will most likely recommend a "no").

Now, the comittee that supports the basic income says that the real cost is 30 billions CHF. The rest of the 200 billions CHF comes from the part that is deduced from the salaries by the companies and from the suppression of a bunch of social programs (we already have a system where the state pays the basic necessities to the people without any other revenue, with some conditions). [1]

They also admit that the "dynamic effect" of the basic income are hard to estimate. This is likely to be the controversial part of the debate. It is such a big shift in paradigm that I think nobody, even the most brilliant economists, can predict what will happen. And it is most likely the reason why it will be refused. It's a big jump in the unknown.

Last but not least, the actual text of the initiative (translated in this comment [2]) doesn't fix the level of the basic income. 2500 CHF is just a proposition and if it is accepted, it's up to the parliament to come up with a law that regulates how this all works. So maybe it could be introduced incrementally.

[1] http://bien.ch/fr/page/initiative-federale#revenudebase
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499949
Power source? What are they using now? Typical petrol/LPG? Until they feel comfortable putting nuclear hearts in these, I suspect they'll be limited.
People who think that governments are "fiscally irresponsible" should look more into what kind of stuff happens when a country does not have a strong government or when even a relatively small portion of the population doesn't subscribe to the system. Screw majorities... if 10% are disgruntled enough, nothing works even remotely as well as in the US.

Basically the republicans are such a minority. They are fighting for something they claim to be their ideals, and are willing to drag the whole nation down with them (so far). The big problem is that the majority calls their BS, and not without any merit...
The 915 chipset specifically is ancient and terrible. In fact, you could make the argument that that chipset was partially responsible for Vista's launch failure (background here: http://seattletimes.com/html/microsoft/2008403670_microsoft1...)
I wonder if Litecoin mining is more profitable with GPUs?
And if you run it on your main machine it could exploit it and mount hard drive. You need another diskless computer just for this...
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+1, please share. Does not seem like something you just casually throw in at the end of a comment.
It's possible they have a licensing deal with MS that forces them to do this, the same way Amazon dictate that they must have the best price on a book.

Then again, I find the simplicity argument somewhat convincing as well. NVidia's unified driver model must be hellishly complicated anyway, anything they can do to keep control of the complexity is probably something they'd greet with open arms.
That's really not a solution to the original problem, just a short-term solution for this one conference. From the mail by Mark Messersmith it looks like the ban applies to all conferences held at a NASA building, so if the NASA ever wants to have chinese participants at one of them they'd have to hold it outside of their own buildings.
This is a prototype and I think it is reasonable to have max spec. Because this is not a a closed console the consumer version will have many options on hardware and price( maybe a really cheap 200$ version if you only need it for simple games or video ). Or you can buy your own computer and run SteamOS on it.
Friendliness seems to fluctuate wildly for adjanced and very similar counrtries (baltic and balcans). Big countries seem to take a hit compared to small-ish tourist ones.

But the overall top is not so bad.
* By US standards, this actually seems to be a good salary: significantly better than working full time at minimum wage.*

Switzerland is incredibly expensive. I don't really think it's accurate to do an actual comparison with exchange rates.
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Correct. They only do this for government employees not contractors. Contractors don't get paid.

I went through the shutdown back in the 90s as a contractor working at the Whitehouse and we all got sent home without pay. If you had saved up vacation you could use that, otherwise you didn't get paid and there was no back pay for the furlough period. We basically got laid off for that time period, whereas the government employees got a paid vacation.
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Here here. I've travelled through Switzerland, and can confirm that it's really expensive compared to many other countries. I made the mistake once of planning to stay overnight in Switzerland. That was expensive. About €40 to stay in a rural hostel.
Ancient? My machine (thinkpad x220) was brand new in 2011.
Sounds awesome. How come you're in Japan?
Universal healthcare, social security and pensions in Germany (late 19th century): millions saved.

And it's that big a political experiment that the most powerful country in the world still doesn't dare to replicate it in its entirety.
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Seriously!
I'm assuming a very selective use of data here, and very subjective definitions of "safe" and "cheap".

For instance, the availability of quality healthcare is not included in "safe", and how said healthcare is paid for not included in "cheap". When I grow old and my health starts to fail, I'd rather be in some of those unfriendly, expensive and unsafe countries...

Another example: some of these top 15 countries are definitely neither safe nor friendly if you're openly gay.

This is a list op countries that are nice to visit for a few weeks if you're well-off, healthy and not planning to do anything even mildly risky.

If you want to actually live your life somewhere, you're better off in some of the bottom 15 than any of the top 15.
>Nasa officials rejected applications from Chinese nationals who hoped to attend the meeting at the agency's Ames research centre in California next month citing a law, passed in March, which prohibits anyone from China setting foot in a Nasa building.

Seems like this is a fight to be held with Congress, not NASA administration.

Although, like mentioned elsewhere, they could hold it in another building
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Indeed - I think making all the hard work look effortless is the reward you get for doing the hard work. The mistake is to want people to see how difficult it all was - then things go to shit.
Very true. Whites in particular have historically been the most violent in human history when looking at War counts and Death tolls. However, things can change very quickly.

This issue however, is NOT about China's military threat (they're peaceful and mind their own business which I respect a lot). China has a tendency to rip off / steal other people's IP, call it "Chinese Innovation" and turn around to sell it as their own on the international market. They've done this with High Speed Rail technology, beginning to do it with Maglev technology, and most recently..... Drones. They've reverse engineered drones to bypass decades of research (which they openly admit to) and are selling them. Which is probably why the US wants to keep them out of anything related to Aerospace.

Even Elon Musk knows this which is why he's avoiding patents. The Chinese will just work around them, repatent and call it "Chinese Innovation".

http://www.benzinga.com/news/13/03/3451756/is-elon-musks-spa...

"if we published patents, it would be farcical, because the Chinese would just use them as a recipe book." - Elon Musk

Their copy-cat culture is starting to cost them.
If you're using a modern iPhone and have ever sent a text to more than one recipient, I think you've probably sent an MMS at some point.
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I agree for the most part (my experience being in Tokyo). I remember having trouble finding my hotel, and two kids not only showed me where it was, they walked with me a few blocks to it, rode down the elevator with me, and personally introduced me to the staff. I was blown away at how polite the gesture was, and vowed to be more helpful to the legions of lost parents trying to find their way around Princeton.

On the other hand, there were scammers trying to take advantage of tourists who couldn't understand the subway system (less popular stations tend to be labeled exclusively in kanji). And the locals can have a very skewed idea of American culture; for example, our hotel breakfast was french fries and hot dogs.

(And yes, the toilets were great. Gotta get that stuff here in the US)
Some would say that basic income helps defeat consumerism, because people who really want to spend their time creating stuff can now do so without having to worry about putting food on the table.
Absolve you of what? Supporting your countries armed forces? What a terrible sin.
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It will, the contractors won't get paid for the shutdown period. Only government employees will get back pay.
The amount of people who want to spend over $1000 on a gaming PC might be a lot more than you think.

A niche, but a decently-sized one.
Yes, I will open source it soon. Here's a teaser: https://github.com/MojoJolo/textteaser
Assuming the CDM used by the (possibly open-source) browser is open-source, you can just save all the decoded frames.

Someone will do that, big media will be mad, we'll have more laws, browsers will be forced into having a binary blob in by default, avid Netflix watchers will be so happy.
Outside of Tokyo it is a lot less friendly, with less English and more Japanese style toilets. Even in Tokyo, you'll find "no foreigner" signs and higher prices for foreigners.
Yep. :) Well, like any other summarization algorithms, I consider the title, sentence position, sentence length, and keyword frequency. The difference is that I improved the keyword frequency in which I used a special algorithm for it. I have plans to open source it, you'll see the whole algorithm soon.
The short story is I work at Gengo (http://gengo.com/), based in Shibuya.

The long story is I took a Japanese class a bit randomly in college (my favorite CS professor suggested that we broaden our interests by taking some liberal arts courses). I studied here in 2010, then came for a vacation in 2012, and by then I realized I'd like to live here so I applied to Gengo.
The availability problems are probably because they made a nice phone, sold it for cheap off contract and never made enough.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4

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Yes, it is really messed up, but it's the only way of stopping employers saying "You don't have to work, but if you really love your work you can continue".

I think when it's the government, there should be major consequences if they can't pay their bills. It's absolutely insane that this is happening at all, and ludicrous when you consider why this is happening.
One thing which I detest about maven, it uses http by default. Getting it to use https requires a lot of work[1] so many don't use it.

By default, not only are you downloading a truck load of jars from the internet and running them locally, you are fetching them over an insecure channel!

[1]: http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-repository-ssl.htm...
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Take a look at this 5 years old demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZT2JzJImm0

It's a realtime application coded by programmer (with the help of artists and musician).

If you are developer who never saw a demo I wonder what do you think/feel after seeing that?
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Yes, but I'm not sure that justifies the end conclusion:

1. Do we actually know Iran spends $500MM on vulnerability research? What about Belarus?

2. Suppose they do. So they have zero-day exploits, sure. IIUC, you need MITM capabilities to execute an attack on tor like the NSA did. This sounds costly, and I'm not sure it can be outsourced like buying zero-days. It also requires, ummm, "being on good terms" with telcos, backbone providers etc., which I'm not sure Iran is.

So I'm not saying it's inconceivable that Iran can attack tor users, but the opposite also sounds plausible.
I don't mean to defend Tokyo to the death because every place has its good and bad points, but I have to say I've never once seen a "no foreigner" sign or higher prices for foreigners here. In fact, I've only seen lower prices for foreigners but those would be for things like English language exchange events.
Never been to Yemen but I would never have guessed they be in the top 20 for friendliest countries.
I kind of expected my country in the list. And I found it at 12th place.
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Money is not a great incentive lever, somewhat contrary to popular opinion. It has two unexpected characteristics:

1) It becomes expected by the employee. A raise has an effect the moment it is awarded. A couple of months later, the productivity effect wanes and the new salary is part of the steady state.

2) For most people, beyond an hygienic level, it's not really what they want. Of course nobody will tell you they wouldn't like a raise, but in practice they prefer a better work environment: flexible schedules, remote working, simple hierarchies, a trove of other factors that make working fun or at least enjoyable.
> Then carried on using Makefiles

How do you deal with versioned dependencies with Makefiles?
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> And logically people opt to just not work

Your logic isn't backed up by places that have experimented with this.

Yes, there will always be some people who are content to live at the poverty line if they don't have to do any work for it. They are not the people to base your system around.

There are many more people who are happy to do something to improve their quality of life even a little. A problem in many countries with an advanced welfare state is that doing even a little work reduces your benefits significantly enough (and introduces so much bureaucracy into your life) that it's not work it. With a basic income, that disappears.
Thats sounds like a pretty broad generalisation. Can you elaborate on what you mean.
> The law is part of a broad and aggressive move initiated by congressman Frank Wolf, chair of the House appropriations committee, which has jurisdiction over Nasa. It aims to restrict the foreign nationals' access to Nasa facilities, ostensibly to counter espionage.

Wow, I am totally shocked that a Republican congressman would sponsor jingoistic, borderline-racist laws such as this.
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I mostly agree with you, except with that "it's not worth working on these things, they add no value, ...". American government understands, that the nation, that creates automated military first, will gain the kind of advantage Germans had over Poland when they drove tanks against horses. Besides I think their work is very much valuable in proof-of-concept way, and shines light on problems that arises going this specific way. Without people working on these seemingly useless things we might never know what's realistically possible to do and what's not.
Awesome that you're planning to open source it. Looking forward.
Is it just me, or is number 9 missing from the map?
I've had a very similar experience to what you mentioned with the hotel. Another student and I were totally lost in a train station, and we said "excuse me" to a guy before realizing he was on his cell phone. We felt bad for almost interrupting his phone call, so we were about to ask another person, but the guy immediately ended his call, went down the elevator with us to the platform, walked us onto the train, and pointed out the station we wanted to go to on the map.

Could you elaborate on the scammers? I can imagine maybe someone asking you where you're going, then saying "oh, it costs 300 yen to go there, let me buy your tickets for you," when it actually only costs 150 and he keeps the change. Was it something like that?
Also the report seems to assume you won't learn a word of any language other than English ('friendliest' is friendliest to monolingual English speakers). And safest is interpreted to include only crime and war, but car crashes are far more likely to injure or kill you on vacation in all but the most war torn crime infested countries.