skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well NASA is run by the government, and the government passed this law. I'm in your boat, but I think you're right. However if they violated it it would be interesting to see who'd be thrown under the bus.

That said this is just another law designed to further tension IMO. If you created a rule that designated the information conferences were bilateral, and that the nations all share in their fields, then that would be fair, however creating a rule that bans a foreigner, will only increase tensions, possibly creating a ban against Americans in similar conferences held in China.

Maybe China bans US nationals from a conference on Architecture? Then US opinion gets increasingly anti-China, forgetting the pretext that caused said most recent bad decision. I guess what I'm trying to say is that bad policy builds up technical-debt, especially in foreign affairs.
Here you go! https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/issues/5
Agree on Australia. Fantastic!!!! country, but cost of living is just ridiculous.
why this hate for rails and ruby on ycombinator?
and why this love for javascript on serverside. I never find javascript to be a great language. Callback, callback, everywhere:)
Well, I use VIM to write Java/Scala/Groovy/Python code but unfortunately large, complex projects do exists and the java ecosystem is particularly good at making things more complex that they need to be.

A reliable, flexible and built on sane principles build system is required when dealing with large enterprisey projects.
> nobody valued those companies at (the appropriately adjusted equivalent of) 1.2 billion

One counterpoint. My friend worked at a university. This was back in the era of punch-cards. Oracle came in with their relational database sales pitch (they were basically a very small sales team). His manager (who managed the punch-carders) saw the huge potential that everyone else did not (e.g. 'never going to happen'). Bought Oracle stock right when it went public (mid-80s). Kept on buying it. Retired in her mid 40s. Now lives on her own farm, tending her own sheep (not sure if it was sheep or some other livestock), in the country.
Is that 4000CHF after tax or before?
The most amusing part of the ban in this instance is that the meeting doesn't concern anything with a possible connection to rivalries between nations. One of the scientists wrote:

"In good conscience, I cannot attend a meeting that discriminates in this way. The meeting is about planets located trillions of miles away, with no national security implications,"
Crouton is a good thing then? I know a friend of mine said it works well, and you effectively get a full DE running alongside ChromeOS on (effectively) another virtual desktop.

I've been dual-booting my ARM chromebook with Chrubuntu on an SD card, though debian is my preferred distro. I find that 90% of the time ChromeOS (with 'Developer Mode' shell unlocked) is good enough for what I use a computer for. The other 10%, well rebooting is pretty quick.
Upvoted you back.

Discussing such things on HN must feel surreal if you're not the median HN reader (educated, white, entitled westerner with 1st world problems).

Talking about what the "poor" would do if this and that, based on your own "hunches", worldview and ambitions.

Mass social experiments designed by intellectuals from an ivory tower... uhh. Good luck to Switzerland though, they may be able to afford providing one much needed data point!
Have you seen where the european ibex goat can go on four legs?
Should we also have the freedom to hire a contract killer then? If not, where do we draw the line?

I agree that we should have the freedom to access anything we need to, but I guess it comes down to where we draw the line and what the appropriate response by law enforcement is. Much like we are seeing with growing marijuana for therapeutic intent (selling and personal) vs running a grow up for profit.

My main argument was that they are comparing DPR, who turns a profit, to Snowden who essentially lost everything to expose a corrupted system.

In a sense the active simulation we see with bitcoin is an example of a profitable but accurate exercise of a system.

Outside of specific details (legal etc), it is an interesting concept to witness the drug trade without the use of 'the street'. Hopefully this will present some ideas that will shape this currently illegal economy toward something that can be regulated and made 'safe'.
On the other hand, perhaps not so extreme, Americans are generally unaware that they way they purchase cellphones, subsidized by the carrier and attached to a contract, is not the way people in the rest in the world do it.
Most of the updates aren't bad, indeed. But there are issues.

For example at first we had to install gitolite as well and update it. Then we switched to gitlab-shell, so we had to make the switch and now update this as well. There was resque and then there was sidekiq. There was unicorn and then it was replaced by puma and now it is replaced once again by unicorn. At some point those of us who used sqlite could not migrate to mysql when sqlite was dropped. Also more than once, when I was quick to update I ran into problems and had to spend hours in search of a solution. Nowadays I update near the end of the release cycle to avoid such issues.
I am on gentoo, so I have to create and adjust my own init scripts. I use apache, so I have to figure that out as well.

All these I guess can take anywhere from 10-24 hours per year, which can't be justified for one person. For a team it is ok.

As for gitbucket, I gave it a try and it only supports git access through http and even there it can't give read only acces to private repos. Any account that has read access, has also write access to a private repo, which makes it useless for deployment.
Virtual topology. Someone is still running cables at the end of the day. And fat switch fabrics have some scary cabling indeed.
Only in the sense that lots of them get "flight pay" presently.
"Bud took a seat and skimmed a mediatron from the coffee table; it looked exactly like a dirty, wrinkled, blank sheet of paper. "'Annals of Self-Protection,'" he said, loud enough for everyone else in the place to hear him. The logo of his favorite meedfeed coalesced on the page. Mediaglyphics, mostly the cool animated ones, arranged themselves in a grid. Bud scanned through them until he found the one that denoted a comparison of a bunch of different stuff, and snapped at it with his fingernail. New mediaglyphics appeared, surrounding larger pictures in which Annals staff tested several models of skull guns against live and dead targets."

Animated icons it is. There is also a mention of these symbols in Anathem. I haven't got an impression that author sees them as a higher form of communication, rather they are a more "secular" form.

Btw, I have under 200 program icons in the launcher of my phone, they are arranged (or better word disarranged) in a grid by alphabet or installation time, some are in folders. I know the position of frequently used ones but for rare used ones nothing is better then good old search by letters.
I don't understand the "national security" reasoning behind it. China is one of the most peaceful countries on Earth. I cannot think of it committing a single aggressive military act in the last 20 years.

European countries and the US are amongst the most aggressive countries in the world when it comes to military action.

Pretend that you are not Western and think about it for a second. How crazy is this?
> You'd think that something like that would've been done at some point during all that time by some interns or something by now

Just in case you didn't know, the guy who helps manage the site is RTM. Yes, RTM.
Firefox add-on HTTP Nowhere
Can anyone provide further context about this law? Why on Earth would Chinese nationals be banned from NASA? And from the ISS for that matter? From the outside it seems like a very aggressive move - are relations between the US and China really so bad?
Susan Bennett revealed as the voice of Siri
The background check to get the clearance takes 9 months and is performed by private contractors.
On The Other Hand: They Are Just This Stupid.
ITT: people that see UAE, Morocco, Ethiopia in the top 15 and will completely dismiss this study because death penalty, lashes, muslims and africa. Because you know, these only things define these countries !
I'm guessing by the time their device get released next iteration of hardware will bring similar performance in the lower price bracket although I've stopped following GPU/CPU price/performance changes a few years back. They are probably just trying to see how the current hardware performs and how it will fit people use cases (that's why they have pretty much every price range in there)
Disagree on Austria, more friendly than Germany - maybe, but cheaper - no way.
>I find with most jobs is that it's much easier to get more pay than less hours

Actually, this is less of a problem in Switzerland than in other countries. Specially at the low end of the income scale, it's easy to get jobs in the 30-50% range (100% being 40h/week). Just the fact that people here think in terms of an x% job should tip you off that it's pretty common.
The problem is not that people would rather live on government payouts, none of the unemployed people I know here want to be unemployed. The problem is that there are not jobs for their skillsets. The solution to this is retraining rather than cutting benefits. There are also people with mental health issues, substance abuse issues etc, but that is another issue. In terms of immigration, I think the bigger problem is the Danish labour movement's structural inability to organise migrant workers. This prevents these workers from raising their wages through collective bargaining, thus preserving their comparative advantage over Danish workers. Compare this to the situation in Norway where the construction workers have successfully organised migrant workers, leading to no comparable fall in income for Norwegian workers.
Which begs the question: in a highly automated country, should receiving an income for free, or almost free, be considered the norm?

I'd imagine that in the absence of communal action, the tendency would be for wealth to accumulate to the minority that own the automatons. Either the ownership of the automatons would have to be distributed or people would need to receive a "free" income. The latter seems like a gilded cage?
Never let facts get in the way of hyperbole.
I don't know if that was your intention, but your comment smacks of a defense of consumerism. I may be against the idea of basic income exactly because it would allow people to feed a system that does not but expect them to be consumers of whatever crap society produces.

Also, see http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_stam...
> Scale: Running an all layer2 network requires devices that have large enough CAM tables to support all connected devices

... in the broadcast domain. Maybe you save on CAM, but now youre buying more TCAM/SRAM for your route table. You're going to get what, a couple thousand prefixes on your trident boxes? And burn a bunch on all the /32s and ECMP'd routes you have?

I'm quite curious why more routing looked better than label based switching in a meshed network.
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Seriously! Ibexes are insanely good climbers.

Random example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmEPbA2R-s8
AT&T No Longer Unlocking the iPhone ... again? What happened?
There is a difference between trying to break cryptography, and prioritizing breaking cryptography over protecting civilians.

This is true for almost everything in the world. I want for example that the police try to stop criminals, but I do not want them to go around with minigun's and spraying the street with bullets. I want the police to prioritize the safety of civilians.

Same goes for NSA. They are perfectly free to try break hostile entities encryption, but they should not sabotage US civilians security while doing so. When they sabotage standards, or keep vulnerabilities secret so they and criminals can break into peoples computers, then NSA is not prioritizing protecting civilians.
It's in the dictionary.
This seems very culturally specific and subjective.

Is the suggestion that Latvians hate all foreigners more than any other nationality in the world? Or that Venezuelans are on average less friendly than people from Argentina?

Conversely, will Macedonians (the most highly ranked destination) be very friendly and welcoming to visiting Albanians? I have reservations!
Your tone is antagonistic. You could point out what you perceive to be factual errors without throwing around terms like senseless FUD and bullshit, and complaining about downvotes.
Living in Thailand is the best... Taiwan is also a nice place... Would never go back to the States to live, though...
Sure, Cambodia is one, North Korea, China in the 50s, Zimbabwe... Millions dead.
I did not see this anywhere in the article and most models of basic income i know do not do this. They instead only fill you up until you got amount X of money.
> a pom.xml can only list a single source folder. If you have more than one (for whichever reason)

I agree that this example demonstrates that the Maven model is broken, but why would you structure your project like this rather than using another module or a submodule?

Maybe it's just lack of experience, but I highly prefer the rigidity of Maven projects compared to some of the messes that more expressive build systems allow.
Failure versus face: how can Asia produce startups despite its culture?
> the US are amongst the most aggressive countries in the world

You have the answer right there.
Not to mention that it also hits business, and some businesses may just choose move to markets without redistribution whereas it may not be as easy for the workers to move. That in turn hits not only the tax base once, but twice (less paid workers, less taxes from businesses).
the map claims exactly that: that Germany is, indeed, cheaper.
"Had a conventional gasoline car encountered the same object on the highway, the result could have been far worse."

Diesel-powered car would be much safer, since oil requires something like a wick in it to burn. It's hard to argue with Tesla's statement, since argument is true; but it doesn't include this issue in electric vs ICE vehicle competition.
Japan didn't make it to the top 15, but it was listed in there as number 1 safest. I've been living in Japan for a few months now and I have to say, after living in SF for enough time to start a Tumblr of human feces I had found out in the open, I'm really happy with the safety and cleanliness of Tokyo.

I also hear stories all the time of people getting their belongings back after having forgotten them or misplacing them. For example, a coworker told me that he had accidentally left his Macbook Air on the train. He realized this after getting off of the train and the doors had already closed, so he stood on the platform in the exact same spot and waited for the same train to loop back around. The laptop was right where he had left it.

Aside from that, the service here is so good to the point that I want to tip everyone like 30% but there isn't even a tipping culture here. And the price that you see on the menu is the price you pay. And they often either have pictures of the food on the menu, or wax sculptures of the food out front.

Oh and convenience stores are actually convenient, and clean. I remember walking into 7/11 here and expecting it to be filthy, but it was so clean that it actually hurt my eyes.

Anyway, Japan is a really pleasant place to live and I hope Americans pick up on some of the conveniences that people here have (PS: heated toilet seats all over the place!)
I think that it is a Necessary idea, but the implementarion has to be dreaven by results or lack of them. It can not be a static system or it will certainly degrade and be abused, it has to be refocused on a regular basis to help the people that is in need in that moment, and not the ones that are are merely taking profit of it. A high educated and civic society like the Swiss, is more likely to make the best of it.
It doesn't seem to be available in English, but the organisation that wrote the initiative say so on their website[1]. They say "It is added to other revenues". So yeah, the intention is really to have an unconditional basic income for everybody and not some sort of negative income tax scheme as has been proposed elsewhere.

[1] http://bien.ch/fr/page/initiative-federale#revenudebase
I don't see an X of any sort. Just the left hand sidebar, a white stripe at the top that says "Blog" and otherwise empty whitespace.

I guess I better get to work on my ideas for next-gen obnoxious ad and tracker blocking.
You don't need to enforce it formally. Company culture does that for you if you encourage the kinds of values espoused in these parts. I know it's not a code-y answer, but it's a reasonable and working human one!
I haven't tried dual booting but the nice thing about having debian in a chroot is that I can easily switch back and forward between ChromeOS and XFCE. Plus I'm guaranteed that all the hardware is fully supported. When I have encountered an issue with crouton, it's a sufficiently small project that you can hack up the scripts to work around stuff. David Schneider, who maintains the crouton project is also very responsive to any issues that are reported.
I would have chosen Mariella Frostrup.
The big problem I see with it is the age discrimination, of which modern society already has far too much. Strike that clause (and in the case of children too young to understand money, give it to their parents to spend on their behalf), and I would see a good case for it being a net positive, but not the proposal as it currently stands.
What about a $30,000 car? Or if you prefer, a $30'000 operation for your favorite child? I think you kind of agree with the post you are replying to...
Considering Romney's success in actually managing businesses as well as public-private partnerships with the Olympics judging his abilities in this context based on campaigning IT isn't really a relevant comparison. Let's look at the Bain Capital and Olympics track record as a better metric. Also given that the cost of just the California system was almost half of Romney's entire campaign budget, we're comparing apples to oranges. Part of Obama's campaign successes were due to volunteer engagement not necessarily because he was better at managing IT. Also campaign IT is light years different than healthcare IT. Given the administrative behemoth, it isn't IT leadership that's needed at the top but administrative competence. I'm not knocking Obama, I'm just challenging the assumption that "Romney would be worse because his campaign technology had some issues.."
No...

Microsoft did just enough to get you to continue to eat their dog food. It was the best dog food available, but... Still dog food.

I still wonder why they break the help and documentation system every 3 major releases or so.
Elf Pavlik - Strictly Moneyless
I used a Chromebook running Fedora 17 (dual boot on a separate SD card, not chrooted) for 2 weeks and wrote about it[1]. In summary, not too bad.

Even better: recently someone worked out how to fully root it so you can enable hardware virtualization and sign your own kernels[2].

[1] http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/some-thoughts-after-2-5...

[2] http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/568943/fd91a17213c1e788/
Callbacks cause no resource retention other than the closure whereas context switching incurs a much greater hit.
It seems strange that the UAE is so high on that list, the impression I got from my admittedly limited experience (an 18 hour stopover hanging out in the city) is that it's definitely not cheap.

However I can personally vouch for the cheapness, safeness and friendliness of Georgia (I'd stick Armenia on that list too, to be honest). Very lovely place, I'd be very tempted to set up there if I had the opportunity, same goes for Armenia and Montenegro.
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You should:

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> Over time, we've tried to support multiple Ruby language versions, many different projects, old and new code, code that abuses every corner of MRI's ad hoc semantics, and every random, undocumented MRI C function with the Rubinius C-API compatibility layer. Unfortunately, this is unsustainable and not in the best interests of Ruby or Rubinius.

I wonder what this means for RubySpec?
That's extremely hypocritical since a public healthcare system could have been much more simple and wouldn't even need these sites if it didn't had jump through hoops to route around right-wing American ideologies.

You're a citizen, hence you're insured and you pay your premium through your taxes. Period. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

Granted, most Western countries these days also have very convoluted systems due to ideologically driven shifts to privatization (few if any of which have made healthcare any cheaper or more efficient btw). But most of them are not as convoluted as Obamacare, and all of them have been the result of evolutionary change, not a big bang attempt to catch up with decades of Western civilization.
Interesting, I wonder how that would affect foreigners wanting to work in Swiss. If this bill were to pass it would be funded by either increasing taxes or lowering welfare On top of that prices would probably increase at least some. But foreigners would only get the negative effects of this change and not the basic income which would mean they'll probably require more pay to compensate for the loss.

I'm guessing that would affect companies who relies on foreign expertise.
"Friendly" is very very culture specific.

But of course I'd say that, as a dane
There have been experiments with NIT (Negative Income Tax) in the US. My impression was that they were a disaster, but in looking for them I found this article,[1] which explains some of the history of NIT in the US.

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_1_income-tax.html