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As a Russian i know this is all true and much more than that.

They never 'picked' gypsy settlement, it was one of the many places they visited. It was you DominikR who 'picked' the gypsy part out of the long article.

Yes of course Roma are special. And they are nearly like that everywhere (possibly in places where they are living more permanently, like Romania, they are better off than in others, but more or less the same). This is part of Russian and European life. Native Americans are living about like that in the USA and nobody is trying to conceal that fact, or present things in a way that all of the USA is like that, neither does this article try to present all Russian to be gypsies and marry at 13.

But looking at the article overally yes, this is how Russia actually lives. And, further away from large railways (railways, not highways, are the bloodlines of the economy in Russia, like in XIX century America) - and the places visited are closest to most important railway - things are much, much worse. In many places you will need AWD vehicle to move around, and even that possible only in dry summer, and find little more than rotten huts and peasants who look like zombies, and illiterate children who drink at the age of 10. These places were too scary to travel too (you can be killed just for wearing suit and tie and not looking like zombie), but THAT is also how about 20-30% of Russian live.
Summary:

- Op noticed another street actor dressed up as Mickey Mouse in Time Square and marvelled at how he made $1 tip per photo with people.

- Op counted how many people the actor took photos with in a 10 minute period

- Op acquired a Spiderman costume ($180)

- First attempt standing at Time Square he made $40 during the day over a period of 2 hours

- Second attempt he made $220 in slightly under 2 hours in the evening.

- Op is mostly paid in coins and changed for amazon vouchers using the coincase machines

- Average tip is $3, biggest was $100.
This may have something to do with "We use the CSS3 primitive -webkit-transform: matrix3d, which lets us compute the composite matrix and skip the browser's renderer. No plug-in, no download, no hack."

Yeah... "the vendor specific CSS3 primitive" and "no plugin, no download, massive hack". Would be a closer representation.
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There are a lot of people doing it.
Look up the YouTube videos of the 'Racist Elmo' (Some paranoid man with mental issues), he also works costumes in Times Square among many others.
spelling mistake: "and it weights only 9 lbs (4 kg)"
Ask HN: In an emergency what tools and technology would you take?
I recently came across the Serval project where you can use Android phones to create ad-hoc telephone networks.
That got me thinking if there was a natural disaster what tools, technology and software would you ensure you had with you.

Here were a few ideas I would probably have in my emergency bag:

Energy:
Solar cooker: http://www.gosunstove.com/
USB charger powered by fire: http://www.flamestower.com/
Battery: http://zendure.myshopify.com/

Communication:
Android phone: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active or something tough
Serval project: http://www.servalproject.org/
Network scanner: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.overlook.android.fing&hl=en

Technology:
RaspberryPi wether station: http://airpi.es/
assortment of chargers and cables
Walkie talkies
Radio scanner
USB drives
3G MiFi Dongle e.g. http://store.three.co.uk/view/plan/MBBD12062013T160817?manufacturer=Huawei&deviceType=MBB_DONGLE&id=1189

Books:
Ray Mears books: http://www.raymears.com/Ray_Mears/Ray_Mears_Books.cfm
Wild edible foods: http://sergeiboutenko.com/my-book-is-out/

Sleep and shelter:
Nube hammock: http://sierramadreresearch.com/shop/nube/

Tools:
Bush craft knife
Flint and steel
Para cord
Tarpaulin: http://bushcraftandsurvivalskills.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-is-best-tarp-setup-steps-to-take.html
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SV started where it did because land was very cheap and large government contracts for "blowing stuff up" (tm)
Googles Cache of globalslaveryindex.org is a GoDaddy place holder -_-

Also during the trans-atlantic slave trade, around 13 million slaves were estimated. These estimates would amount to around the same without India (and we have much larger population today).
Seems browsers are obsolete and are now just getting in the way. People are trying to use every loophole and new technology possible to bypass features implemented in browsers.

I think it's time browsers took a step back and gave more control to developers.

It's time for a major rethink of what a browser should be/do.
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Agreed, that "argument" is getting tiresome.

> Does anyone really believe there aren't similar entities in other countries doing the same?
Excellent comment. I agree with pretty much everything and wasn't trying to say grains lowered life expectancy, rather just fighting against the notion that life expectancy has constantly increased since we were hunter gatherers.

Again, I wasn't trying to argue for this, but I wouldn't discount diet as a factor completely. I've heard it suggested that some of the first agricultural societies were extremely malnourished because they depended too heavily on grains. Obviously, they didn't have fortified foods or supermarkets like we do today. I don't see why an extreme malnutrition (in vitamins/minerals, not calories) couldn't be a factor.
The article could be less fluffy. I believe the most concrete piece is:

Another portion of their [Directors of all major Internet organizations present at the Uruguay meeting] released statement asked to accelerate “the globalization of ICANN and IANA functions, towards an environment in which all stakeholders, including all governments, participate on an equal footing.”

Sounds more like "wrestling the centralized control from" rather than "breaking up".
how is public transport broken in berlin? it's one of the best i've ever seen (availability wise)
The big difference between the US and other countries is the way it projects itself. There is a history of subjecting foreigners to the vagaries of American justice (extraordinary rendition, Kim Dotcom). America presumes to extend its sovereignty across the entire globe in the interest of self defense. This makes people worried. If China was extraditing Americans to Beijing and making them stand trial with evidence based on intercepts the US Government would go ballistic.
I actually never thought Twitter was a stupid idea, but point taken. I shall quit my job and get my shit together posthaste.
The documentation is scattered, but the best information can be found at:

https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-docs-en/wiki

https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core#readme

https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core/wiki

The docs state that they refer to the 0.9 version, while development is going on in the 0.11 branch, so the docs might be more of less out of date.

It seems that they have already implemented a large part of the Heroku infrastructure, including service discovery, auto balancing, cross-language events (using ZeroMQ) and that they are using it in production. All in all, an impressive feat!

It would be interesting to hear if anyone has experience running/using this outside of Yandex. The source code seems well written, though comments are quite sparse.

As Lazare remarked, it seems to directly compete with flynn.io. It is good to see that different high-level platforms are created based on docker. But it would be nice if these platforms would consist of modules (for example service discovery or messaging) that can be used without using the whole kitchen-sink. I am not sure if this is possible with cocaine.

BTW, the repo cocaine-core is quite a bit older (since 2011) than docker (since early 2013?). The docker-core readme states that docker support is "on it's way" so it is not clear how mature this is.

P.S. As adults and hackers, can we look beyond the name at the technology presented here?
They are also fab leaders, at 22nm while everyone else is at 32nm. So, e.g. they could manufacture ARMs, and command a premium (say, for apple, leapfrogging them 2 years ahead of the competition).

The striking thing is that, per Hz, x86 is still far more powerful than ARM (like, integer factors, I've heard x5). If they can get the power consumption low enough and/or more performance is needed in phones/tablets, they could possibly win (though it seems unlikely).

Their best bet is to lead the next disruptive category - watches or glasses or whatever it is - but unfortunately their bias towards performance over power consumption doesn't bode well for them.
It also makes it hard to Google. I'm guessing that a search for "Cocaine Reviews" may yield some results that would upset most corporate filters.
Nobody is pleading tech companies to do anything.

People are just discussing whether substantial investment to attract tech companies is wise if the hope is that tech companies will contribute towards fixing social problems or even contribute substantially to the local economy.
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When a query is executed with JDBC, the execute() method does not return until the the DB responds. The method must have been invoked in some OS thread by quasar scheduler. Wouldn't that thread block as long as execute() doesn't complete?

To put it differently, can I make 10000 concurrent HTTP requests (to different domains), using a non-NIO HTTP client library, without ending up with one OS thread per request?

If I can, how does the scheduler manage it?
No, it will be a free online service.
Since when did 'the web' involve giving away all the source code and not charging people for things? Did Google open source their search engine and let anybody advertise on their site for free while I wasn't looking?

I really don't understand this meme about the web being 'open'. Much of the native desktop software I use is open source. Practically none of the web services I use are open source. There is not much chance of a 'GNU project' for the web (i.e. reimplementing an open google and twitter and facebook and so on). Open source web services of significance are few and far between and when it comes to controlling our data usually the best we get is a proprietary API that may or may not get shut down or changed tomorrow.

The web gave us RSS which was good[1] but since then it has been pretty much a non stop stream of proprietary APIs and platform lock-in. Even things built on RSS tend to be proprietary APIs rather than open standards: take Google Reader for example. Before it shut down it should have been trivial to pull your subscriptions out of it and point your clients at a new replacement rss-syncing server (like you can do with an email client). But it wasn't because there was no damn standard for that, just proprietary APIs as various people wanted to lock you into their cloud service. The standards that have emerged have been, of course, ones that generally involve lock-in to proprietary platforms, like OAuth.

[1] interestingly many of the new generation of web developers seem to dislike RSS.
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More like by about $240. Most hardware has at least a 4x markup from BOM to MSRP. They're not selling it for BOM cost plus a flat 'profit'.

Of course sparkfun also isn't selling at cost. That module probably costs them $30 in volume. So maybe it would only be $120 in added cost.
>(The test to this theory is that if we elect a regime that tones all of this back, and the economy comes roaring back 1980s-style, then this theory was essentially correct. If we do that, and it does not come roaring back, then my theory here is incorrect. I believe in treating politics scientifically, at least, my personal politics. My highest allegiance is ultimately to what works.)

Except that the economy only "roared back" in the 1980s for a narrow subset of the population. If we're on a labor-replacement curve where rehiring and growth are going to just keep getting less and less egalitarian, then an increasingly large majority of the population has the exact same problem as if jobs were just disappearing outright. The "selectivity" only gives you personally a fear more years to bury your head in the sand before you're the one standing in the dole queue.

(Of course, on Hacker News we're even more goddamn privileged, since so many of us are programmers doing AI-complete jobs.)
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Summary:

- New index shows that nearly 30M people around the world are living as slaves

- India has the highest number (14M)

- Mauritania has highest % (4%)

- index was compiled by (Aussie) rights org WFF (Walk Free Foundation)

- WFF's estimate of 29.8 million slaves worldwide is higher than other attempts

- Another org, "International Labour Organisation" previously estimated 21M

- India, China, Pakistan and Nigeria have highest numbers and account for 3/4 of slavery

- Wikipedia Article on Present Day Slavery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Present_day
How is a construction worker or teacher supposed to remote work? The problem is not that people like us can't afford to move, but that the average employee in normal other work roles cant. Sweden is much better at this, but I think even there I didn't meet anyone who telecommuted who wasn't in the tech industry.
Thank you. I respect you for caring, likewise. I suspect you'd be pleasantly surprised, and might I even say inspired, by possibilities that can and will exist. Though it's a small number of people to a whole, I see many more people stepping outside boundaries of depressive political ideologies that this current system promotes. You may come to find that you have more in common with 'liberators,' especially where it matters in human rights and ethics, than with those who currently claim to represent some supposed interests.

I'm not a libertarian, by the way. You could've called me a true/classical liberal and have been just as accurate. I don't mind the term voluntaryist occasionally. It declares a healthy focus, which I like: consensual interaction. I'm sure that term will be deluded too.

Placing a political label on oneself or another is a sure way to be misunderstood and derided once that label is used by even one other person who doesn't share one's views. Terms like liberal, conservative, libertarian, democrat, and republican are inept. Today, few proclaimed "liberals" seek to truly "liberate" people from oppressive systems. Today, few proclaimed "conservatives" seek to conserve "liberty." Now these labels sometimes help to exemplify those who are possibly inclined to cling to parties or ideology rather than ascend to their own humanity, mindfulness, skepticism, self-assessment, openness to diverse thoughts, and change/growth.

Call me a person.

It will do for now. I hope you'll stay in touch. :)
"The fundamental problem with tech is that it kills jobs." While a very relevant sentiment, do you have any quantifiable data to support this ?
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So we should just let people suffer, rot and die for a few decades while the wonderful and loving Invisible Hand of the Free Market adjusts us to its brave new world!

</dripping sarcasm>
Regenerative braking often doesn't pay off. Note that you don't need a whole lot of energy to put your bike into motion, while you need quite some energy to keep it moving due to friction. Putting in numbers, if you go 5m/s=18km/h=12mph, your kinetic energy is 100kg*(5 m/s)²/2 = 1.25kJ, which at 125W can power you for ten seconds.

You can cast longer than ten seconds in front of a red light in most situations. And keep in mind that for regenerative braking to work, you must walk twice through the whole efficiency chain, which is generator -> electronics -> battery -> battery -> electronics -> motor), giving you an efficiency of about 0.85^6=37%. So 3.7 seconds.
And then you have a look at the new Universal Credit scheme. Glad IT schemes to do with the NHS are improving though.
The performers are quite protective of their territory. I saw a short film about a guy who dresses as superman in times square, taking tips for photos. He got quite upset about the idea of other people just turning up and trying their luck, said he and the other superheroes would basically drive them out.

He took the job very seriously, priding himself on remaining in character and having a full knowledge of the superman mythos, and being able to engage with kids/fans and make them happy beyond just the photo. He got quite offended at the idea of other people turning up in a rented superman suit and not bothering with any of that.

Interesting film, interesting guy. Wish I could remember the title.

EDIT: I found it. Looks like he's not in times square, rather somewhere in california: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jxfbsd-8CIw
> The fundamental problem with tech is that it kills jobs. It is about seeking greater efficiency in all things.

Yes, but those efficiencies open new possibilities. Transistors killed abaci and slide rules, and made skills in their use suddenly redundant.

Fast forward, and I'm reading about people employed to make realtime peer to peer video between any two people in the world.

Yes, truly self improving AI would change everything, and probably spell the end of the traditional economy, but I think we're a long while off yet.
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"They say cycling is a sport where you can peak around 50" - I doubt there is any sport with a significant physical component (i.e. not golf) where you can peak at 50.

http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/fitness-coach/Am-I-too-...
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Really? I stand corrected. Thanks for pointing that out. At work I often say that is the only thing I will praise Apple for.

Now it is back to zero, and I can be the Apple contrarian I yearn to be. :-)
The pretty angle is interesting. I personally like the look of just having a text editor with virtually no chrome. I'm curious what it would take to get emacs "prett," and if it would be worth attempting. More, which would be more work, taking emacs and making it pretty, or extending a brand new editor to be as capable as emacs?
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I'll reply to you regarding public transport, but this goes for all of the other replies, as well. The repeated failures every winter and overall frailty of the network seem to be a consequence of years of mismanagement and increasingly aggressive under-funding/cost-saving/corner-cutting by the Deutsche Bahn. While this certainly does not result in immidiate widespread collapse, it is just one sign of the degradation of the underlying infrastructure. So while "broken" might be somewhat harsh, I do think that this is directly the direction we are heading.

The water supplies do work fine, the problem however is, that, much like Dresden's sale of its city-owned flats to the Gagfah (an investor), selling core infrastructure to investors risks long-term sustainability in favour of short-term profit. You might be right though that this is somewhat down to ideology.
LUA_NUMBER can safely be changed to an integer type, Lua is designed for extreme portablity from the ground up.

If by stock Lua, you mean lua.c, it is partly intended as a minimal demonstration of how you can embed Lua the library. The authors encourage users to modify the VM to better fit their use case, and changing the number type really is trivial.

> Again, maybe I'm just nitpicking but my main point was that lua, scripting language or not, just didn't seem better suited than C at writing device drivers.

As I said, I'm mostly unqualified to answer that. It's harder to shoot yourself in the foot when using Lua, which may make things easier at the prototyping stage.

Maybe having LPeg[0] could be of some use too.

[0] http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html
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Good linux support seems common with Dell these days?

Looks nice, I'll compare that to the Mac competition next year when I change my Latitude e5520.

The Latitude has non-glare FHD screen for less money. (Bought an SSD separately.)

Only built in graphics is a feature; I can't play games :-)
Releases link is live:

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I know some that do. The certification is not bound to the company, but rather to a person - our designer here is certified and she could have an apprentice. The coordination is manageable, you just shouldn't expect your apprentice to be a full time employee.
Here is a re-post of the blog post: http://thirdwaveberlin.tumblr.com/post/64289810298/week-note...

Sorry, I wasn't prepared for ending up on hacker news. Thanks for the feedback so far, will try to answer to some of the comments soon.
> Fast forward, and I'm reading about people employed to make realtime peer to peer video between any two people in the world.

That was a solved problem in 1998.
Those boxes are small, but not exactly good looking. There's a plethora of companies releasing these compact form factor PCs. They also all look practically identical.

Newegg has a category specifically for these form factor machines:
http://www.newegg.com/Mini-Booksize-Barebone-PCs/SubCategory...

All of these "mac mini" style machines target the low end market. They all have low end processors & video cards. I have yet to see a premium machine like the mac mini that is available in a small form factor.
Looks as if you're correct. http://nypost.com/2009/07/10/biff-wham-pow/

"Their comic-book adventure went awry when cops approached the dynamic duo on 43rd Street to see whether they had the required license to perform in costume in public"
Before 2009, it was much better, especially S-Bahn, which used to have much shorter intervals. But no, S-Bahn decided to be cheap on maintenance, which ended catastrophically in 2009, and they still have to recover from that. They're still trying to get back to the old schedule, but lack the train cars resp. the people to maintain them (which they had fired).
This was also submitted yesterday but didn't get much interest for some reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6560355

Similar recent story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6499744 'US scientists boycott Nasa conference over China ban'
They are using CSS3 3d-transforms to create visual interfaces with good performance on modern browsers (including mobile). See:

http://famo.us/

(BTW: It took me a while to figure out that if you close the dialog window, you can click the buttons at the bottom for more demo's.)

Unfortunately they are only using the webkit-prefixed properties, so their demo doesn't work in Firefox or IE. I'm guessing they wrote their demo a couple of years ago and never updated it.

There are some problems with CSS3 3d-transforms:
1) Text looks blurry, just look at the dialog window in the demo.
2) Some mobile devices (e.g. old iPads) have limited GPU memory. If you use too much (by setting 3d-transforms on large surfaces), the browser (or your app) will crash.

By the way, the answer to the question in the title is: No. And if they don't open source their code, they won't get a lot of traction.
But the article says it's based on "a W3C standard that must be supported by all browsers". How can this be?
Since they still have developers and keep on participating on Google Summer of Code, I would say yes.
Ahem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742893