skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually these apprentices exist. ("Fachinformatiker", "Duale Hochschule")
The colors just remind me of new iPhones...
This is the release. These aren't candidate release images. They're just likely waiting until 13:10 GMT to officially announce it. I believe 13.04 was released at 13:04 too.
As you say, it's likely that most governments monitor domestic internet communication to some degree. It's very unlikely that any government but that of the US is trying to monitor international internet communication in its totality.

So the two groups you are looking for are: those that monitor the internet domestically, and those that monitor the internet internationally. The US (with assistance from a few allies) is the only country to fall into the second group.
living in france, 28 years old, I so want to go to the US
wait for winter and watch the s-bahn. Actually, it's not the BVG (City owned) that has major problems but the S-Bahn which belongs to the Deutsche Bahn. There was a major collapse in summer 2009(?) when the authorities realized the the S-Bahn had been saving money and cutting corners on maintenance for trains and basically compelled them to take 2/3 of their trains out of service for emergency maintenance. They still have not recovered fully, some lines are still serviced with under length trains or on a schedule that's half as often than actually planned. Whole lines getting shut down due to lack of personal or trains. Berlins public transport used to be outstanding, now it's sub-par.
Confessions of a Superhero (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016164/

"Superhero Impersonators Throw Punches On Streets Of Hollywood"
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/05/30/superhero-imperson...

"Temporary Injunction Means Characters Are Safe On the Boulevard."
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/11/temporary_injunction_p...

As far as I can remember from the movie they seemed to be making a fairly reasonable living, maybe 30k a year. I'm pretty sure that you can be arrested for it, and that you have to pay taxes on that cash.
I would like to analyze the comment threads of all the submissions ending with question marks and see in how many Betteridge is referred to. I would guess it's close to 100%.

This was a particular bad reference since the title was very rhetorical and not meant to be taken literally.
No, NO , no, NO, NO stay away. look up international "United Nations" Law before you come up to these parts. Look up all the laws and compare them to us and decide if you want all of this we have to deal with.
Enjoy the dead pipeline we have and the laws being affected with your gulf.
in a "Tlingit's opinion that is".

If you know what that is.
Same day as Windows 8.1 hits the market. [1]

Wonder which one will get most press coverage :)

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/17/windows-8-1-now-available...
Does anyone know where I can find details, or a good article, about all of these slaves in India and Pakistan?

edit:
the report itself lists the details.

Bonded labour is the greatest problem in Pakistan. The Asian
Development Bank estimates that 1.8 million people are bonded labourers, though many NGOs place the estimate much higher.

India exhibits the full spectrum of different forms of modern slavery, from severe forms
of inter-generational bonded labour across various industries to the worst forms of child labour, commercial
sexual exploitation, and forced and servile marriage.
Work on it, it seems like a great idea you have there. Best of luck!
And when including timings you could easily calculate and optimize build orders.
Good point. I do however feel that the government departments that have failed miserably on projects will start looking at more successful projects for inspiration. We'll be a few more £billion down by then but things will improve.

HMRC's systems are pretty good these days as well (I just did my tax return online). Relatively smooth process for a large Java behemoth.
Visual Studio 2013 released to web
Ubuntu is not going the direction I want for "my Linux.
1. Mir is a huge mistake (My opinion)
2. Unity (Well I am tiled window manager (i3) guy now so all DEs) I really don't like the flow of OS X and it is starting to really look more like OS X. DEFAULT an easily be changed.
3. Lack of community between the Linux ecosystem. Millions is spent on Ubuntu but seems like little makes it upstream.
4. Software Center. They need to just take OpenSUSE's one-click model and get rid of their current model of App Store and the horrible app model. (My model)
5. Their Developer SDK to "Write once, run everywhere." If I had a nickel for every time that was promised (Java looking at you) Once again OpenSUSE Build Service is the most underused Linux tool in the last decade https://build.opensuse.org/ Build it there and also build packages for other Distros also.

Now after my list I have Ubuntu running my home server right now and well it is solid. I use OpenSUSE at work and Arch Linux on my tiny laptop and like those experiences more.

People need to look at OpenSUSE again!
Can anyone explain why it involved a J1 visa? I thought a B-1 sufficed for attendance (and even non-compensated presentations)
Does this have anything to do with the recent shutdown?
Is it shipped with Mir?

Their what's new page is kinda succinct: https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/whats-new.html
I'd say it's a mistake that's common enough to be forgivable when made by the general public, but I doubt you'll find any grammatically reputable source that says it's not a mistake. The article gets it right elsewhere.

(We're talking about "it could be bad timing for Amazon and it's new Kindle Fire HDX tablet", right?)
At the very least, it does obsolete jobs. The more accurate question to be asking would be whether tech or the economy create enough other jobs to come fill in those gaps.
Being executed through an interpreter, compiled to native code or something in-between (intermediary code) are several possible implementations of a given language.

In the 80s, the same language, BASIC, could be either interpreted at runtime or compiled to intermediary code. And there was even a C language interpreter.
From the visa guidelines of the embassy where I applied for my visa [1]:

The visa applications of applicants involved in technical or scientific fields may require additional administrative processing. Therefore, applicants who believe they may be affected by this requirement should apply as early as possible.

[1] http://karachi.usconsulate.gov/technology_visas.html
It's not that they didn't give him a J1 visa, it's just that they took way too long to process it.
It sucks, but I wouldn't attribute to malice what I could attribute to inefficiency :)
It's unlikely, since the link mentions he applied for his visa in early June.
Ironically one of the easiest visas to get is if you are an artist.
The apprenticeships schemes are great, but very very rigid. This is fine when you are learning to become a Tischler (joiner or cabinet maker) because the techniques of joining haven't changed much in the last 100 years, so if your apprenticeship under a Meister Tischler take 5 years then the technology is still the same.

Try that with IT. Did MongoDb exist 5 years ago? Did Node.js? The list is endless.

Information Technology moves too fast for the German style and concept of apprenticeships (in my opinion). There are apprenticeships for Informatik, but I see them much like undergraduate Computer Science courses.

My experience of CS undergraduate studies are that you will learn the basic concepts, and a bunch of bullshit thrown in that you'll never use again in the workplace, but that is about it.
"Obviously, this isn't exactly the reinvention of the Web, but Famo.us has pushed JavaScript in a novel direction -- and has poked a large hole in the argument that native apps alone deliver the goods. It will be fascinating to see the new types of applications that emerge."
Demo runs pretty slowly on my iPhone 4s, but really they need the same demo in raw CSS3 to compare speeds.
Sorry, but that's silly. We don't expect doctors to do amateur surgery at home. We don't expect pilots to fly their kids to school in a microlite, and we don't expect lawyers to sue people for fun.

"Codes for fun" is HR-compliant jargon for "20-something, no kids, willing to work unpaid overtime" and it'll be caught out as soon as some "sues for fun" lawyer can be bothered to mount a case.
All over the world people really do do remote learning, even at primary school level.

Another fun thing you see in Sweden is prefabricated houses. In England, prefabs have a horrid reputation from the war years, but modern Swedish houses and flats are assembled from large prefabricated sections that arrive on a lorry and are assembled in just a day or two.
Canada won't do this. I had my passport stuck with the UK's Home Office for six months and the Canadian High Commission said they couldn't issue me a second travel document.
From the article: "Last month Famo.us announced that its core would be available for free under an as-yet-unspecified open source license when the company releases its software sometime next year."

So they're planning on releasing open source and charging for components on top.
> I am no specialist on that subject, but I suspect it also comes from the unique history of Berlin, not (just) financial incompetence.

Financial incompetence and bad planning are a strong factor. West Berlin used to be subsidized before the wall fell and since nobody ever questioned the amount of money flowing here they could basically do what they wanted. After the reunion Berlins administration expected the population to grow to 5 million by the year 2000 but that growth never materialized. Still, they kept spending money like they used to.

> Problem for a long time has been that Berlin is very big, yet has no big industries.

It actually used to be the core of the german tech industry. There's whole quarters named after companies: Siemensstadt, Borsigwerke, ... and whole blocks in the city that used to be factories - Oberbaum city that used to be the Osram Lamp factories, Varta, ... A lot are now converted to office space.

> Actually I often wonder what all the people here do for a living. I guess the main employer is the government now.

Government is a strong factor. A lot of media companies moved to Berlin and a lot of service and support, especially for companies which trade a lot with eastern europe. The BASF has their whole eastern european business support in Berlin - that big tower at Warschauer Strasse. Berlin is fairly strong with biotech startups as well. No industry to speak of, though.
> Germany, despite being technologically strong, is not very inovative. At least not in the sense of new, scaling products.

That's the result of a tech-centric worldview (read startups, sw). Quite the opposite is true, for instance in the area of 'Green Tech'.

> While that indeed is one of the cornerstones of the german economy, these companies are most of the time too small for an interessting tech IPO.

I don't your argument here. You mean success == IPO here? There are plenty of highly profitable Mittelstand companies with a profit and revenue much higher than e.g. LinkedIn. What does that mean here, that LinkedIn is unsuccessful or that the other Mittelstand'ish company is?
IPO is not a value of its own as some reports might indicate. Looking at Mittelstand, as the author wants us to, is about the values surrounding a company, for instance to re-invest money in a sustainable way, that it is not about growth for growth's sake (which seems to be an inevitable by-product of going public!) but making better products.

> Finally, what in my opinion makes it very unlikely that a company has a sucessfull tech IPO in germany anytime soon is people. There's education, focusing on producing people for the existing technologies and, even worse, companies.

For University-level education, this definitely and absolutely does not apply.
How about this one:

Any time a commenter cries ad hominem, there will be a sub-thread arguing about the definition of ad hominem.
...and for those who like concise quotes:

`If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.' -- Norm Schryer

`Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code.' -- Dave Storer
Having now manged to read the article the author does seem to have a chip on his shoulder and is writing this from a distinct political stance making glib remarks like “our spying American friends” doesn’t really help in this context does it.

In addition “rich white men” comrade who do you think owns all those Mittelstand companies - Germanys far less diverse than the US or the UK in that regard.

Mittelstand is all very well but there are a number of problems with then in that they are very tightly controlled secretive family businesses - there appears to be no worker participation in the ownership of these companies what so ever.

Mittelstand companies have also recently benefited immensely from the Euro selling all those Porsche Cayennes to Greece

I think possibly German concentration on traditional engineering means there is less hinterland to build tech start-ups from – and I suspect that IT training has been starved as mech and electrical engineering probably played the political game better.
electricty? 'solved' in 1646.
automobiles? 'solved' in 1769.
space travel? 'solved' in 1961.
Thanks-all makes sense now.
The project is also based on CoffeeScript. Wish it was JS instead :|
Rename to Klaus-Heidi and get a new life.
If you're already on a J1 you can only apply to have it renewed, and if you don't you get a two-year visa ban.
I'm going to miss google a bit but I'll live :P
I'm inclined to agree with you here. While I love HTML, CSS and Javascript it's not the right tool for where the web appears to be heading, which is essentially a transport layer for data that services apps.

Mobile devices have turned the process of installing an app into something 'close enough' to the experience of browsing the web that I think a lot of consumers wouldn't notice if the twitter web site disappeared (except that would be big news, and they wouldn't be able to avoid all the complaining).

Conclusion... I don't know, but I think our current concept of a browser and the web might be reaching the end of it's usefulness. More data needed.
Best way to 'pivot' out of wasting $400,000 of somebody else's money I've ever seen.
The Roots of the Government Shutdown
Didnt seem to work in IE10 (Only other browser installed on this machine) either.
> Indeed, public-key cryptography might not even
be with us today if Adi had not been involved with Ron Rivest and Leonard Adleman so long ago.

There you go, those pesky scientists making the surveillance industry's job that little bit harder.
Yep, it's just in my head because now it's being given away for free (see TogetherJS announcement earlier).
> The biggest problem is that there's no gradual migration process.

Sure there is. The process is similar to all the WinXP to Linux migrations going on. The intermediary step to OS migration is cross-platform applications. The intermediary step to remoting is to phase out everything that is based on paper or face to face communication.

Based on my experiences with heavily collaborative remote work, the gains are tremendous. Local efforts do not scale when when you get an influx of people. Remote processes do. And even for locals, the remote tech works better and faster than the old methods. (Of course a group of locals still get a bonus to communication and are often more productive than a bunch of individual remotes.)
That's quite a feat of mind-reading you performed there. The fascination with technology rather than just to solve the problem at hand via the shortest critical path is a thing that has been puzzling me for a long time. At some level technology is so fascinating in its own right that the temptation to lose sight of the goal is ever present and many people succumb to that temptation.

Imo it's just another variation on the Yak Shaving theme with a dose of procrastination thrown in for good measure.
TL;DR: The people may be stupid, or may do a messy work, therefore it must be the methods they use or the requirements that are faulty in the first place.
Can you critique the Dell Zino HD - I was under the impression it competed well against mac mini - particularly on price.
You can try redshift by the way.
> Showing that high wages alone [1] only hurt Ford is simple math.

If Ford is the only company paying high wages - yes. However, somebody needs to buy the products and services that companies offer and the more people can afford a service, the broader the potential customer base. A high inequality concentrates a huge share of the income and capital at the upper end of the scale. However, there's only so many cars a person can buy and drive, only a limited amount of phones you'll buy, only a strictly limited amount of haircuts you'll need, not matter how high your income is. The trickle down effect that's always promoted is a myth.
So I give up my human rights when I work as a civil/crown servant?
The price of everything is reasonable if instead of comparing it against alternatives, you compare it against not buying anything.

For example, $1000 shoes that last 1 year are reasonable when compared to going without shoes - only $3 a day, and you'll save money that you would have to pay to repair damage to your bare feet.

Could you find a better pair of shoes for less than $1000? Where's the gold leaf, and why do they lace up the front rather than snap up the sides? I think not.
Blogger beware – the battle over Bill Bryson’s words
How the Google+ Team Tests Mobile Apps
* If it really is that lucrative (I do believe the figures he mentions) then why isn't everyone doing it?

Time Square is probably the only place in an entire country where a person can do this.

It's actually quite a small place.
nah, just spam, flagged
Moore's law will be over by 2025 (We have 12 years or so). Semi-conductor will allow a separation of just 3 - 5 atoms to the conducting part. The belief is that quantum physics will allow the electrons to go through "walls" at that point and the switch will always be closed.

I think we will go back to the days of 640k where there is a ceiling and we will just have to refine for "large" projects. Software and not hardware will be Moore's law BUT only for a extreme circumstances. The Golden Age is coming to an end in our life time.
One of the interesting aspects of the Stoics though is that they were generally thought to derive from Spartan rather than Athenian tradition, which makes Plato as an apologist for Sparta (in Republic particularly) all the more interesting.
There's an excellent book that goes into depth around this subject: Implementing Value Pricing by Ronald J Baker. Highly recommend it to any business owner who deals with clients.
Israeli border control also no longer stamps passports. They give you a little slip of paper with your picture on it. This piece of paper is your "temporary visa."

Or at least that's how it was a few months ago.
But the criticism isn't that others have no security issues. It is that others fix them with a greater sense of urgency than Oracle.
No... Not around here at least... (Eastern US)

Construction workers don't make a lot of money, but they aren't the poor migrant workers living in dirty dorms. They are the working class.

My uncle was doing construction, then just decided to start his own construction business rather than work for someone else, and makes very very good money doing that.

Every year the US Dept of Labor produces the Occupational Outlook Handbook which contains information about occupations in the US. Salaries, number employees, job outlook, etc. These are median salaries.

Construction Laborers and Helpers $28,410 per year http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/construct...

Now, if you get more specialized, you earn more:

Roofers: $34,220 per year http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/roofers.h...

Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers, and Taper: $38,290 per year http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/drywall-a...

Construction Equipment Operators: $39,460 per year http://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/construct...
To be honest "what's new" page looks, well, not very convincing: https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/whats-new.html
I'm still using VS 2010 at work. Can't seem to make a compelling case to upgrade for the cost, and it's just getting more frustrating.

VS 2013 is looking like a really great product, especially in comparison to VS 2010.
PHP 5.5.5 Released
It was actually submitted at least twice yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562394

On HN, gaining interest depends on many factors. Great to see the story finally in the pole position! :)
Scala has an `async`/`await` feature (like C#) now, which hides the Future ceremony and gives sequential syntax. https://github.com/scala/async

I guess this does still require the `await` word, but I think it's good to have a magic word for "suspend execution now" so you can see where it's happening.

An OS thread still has to block on blocking IO calls somewhere, of course. There's no "syntactic" fix for that on the JVM - you have to actually port the blocking IO to nonblocking IO - AFAIK nobody can magically fix JDBC to be nonblocking from outside JDBC.
> 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?

No. We provide you with a standard HTTP client API (JAX-RS client) that gives you a blocking API. Under the hood it uses asynchronous IO. We then transform callbacks to fiber-blocking operations. So you use a standard blocking API, that is implemented asynchronously.

JDBC is a little more complicated as there is no async JDBC standard. What we do, then, is run the thread-blocking call in a separate IO workers pool. Those worker threads will block, but your API call will just block the fiber, letting other fibers use the same OS thread for something else until the JDBC call completes, at which point the IO worker will wake up your fiber.
Desktop-based: http://airmailapp.com/.
Web-based: https://www.fastmail.fm/
Across the HC a couple days or maybe even a week ago. I saw a map posted here that predicted the odds over a colorful map across north america of exactly what you are looking for. just so you know.
I quite like the 'apology' he received from the conference organizers:

> In July 2013 I told the NSA-affiliated conference organizers that I was having some problems in getting my visa, and gently asked whether they could do something about it. Always eager to help, the NSA people leaped into action, and immediately sent me a short email written with a lot of tact:

> “The trouble you are having is regrettable… Sorry you won’t be able to come to our conference. We have submitted our program and did not include you on it.”
NSA director expected to depart in early 2014
No, he received his visa on the day before the shutdown began.
How to support yourself financially while bootstrapping your online business
I mean HN
What part of them broke? Where they the metal framed or plastic framed versions?
This is ridiculous.

It's spelt Spider-Man.
I still think that to call them the 'least travelled people' is a misnomer. 'Shallow' may be a better term. I'm reminded of a friend who met a Scottish woman on the train to Edinburgh. She was elderly, had lived only 50km outside the city, and yet had never been there. There are also people in modern, developed countries who never even leave the city they were born in.

I've had a couple of other friends who simply don't know how to travel - they are okay with the thought of it, but should something minor go wrong, they are clueless with what to do. It reminded me that there's a lot of unappreciated skills that go along with being a traveller.
https://github.com/scala/async is the syntactic sugar to write sequential nonblocking code in Scala (no callbacks).
Though functional-style code works well also if you know it.