skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same strategy applied to Moldova. But we had even less luck than Latvia&Baltics as we are the "the fastest skrinking country" [1], lot of young people and those who can emigrate are going abroad, as the post-soviet era didn't left much of viable bussines and we had to start from scratch with not so much money and neither much know-how. (for soviets Moldova was labeled as an agriculture country).

And if the soviet era was not enough, Russians didn't stop there, the military aggression continued, they occupied a portion of Moldova creating an enclave called Transnistria. [2]

Our asspiration to get into Europe Union are meet with economical embargo from the same annoying neighbour. (and not only us, everyone one the Russian boarded is harassed) [3] It's hard but we are evolving, but not as fast as as we would like..

It's hard to hide, but the Russia is really a very unfortunate neighbour to have.
Really happy to see Baltics doing better after so much misfortune that we share..

[1] http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/10/27/earth-will-soon-...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/30/business/international/ukr...
Yes this data analyisis is worth sharing so shared it on HN. By d way how did you found it out ?

P.S I follow you on facebook. Your each and every data analysis are awesome. I even tried to add you on facebook so that i could learn something from you, but seems like you do not add strangers.
You should add:

* The first rule of Fantasy Football is: You do not bitch about Fantasy Football

Literally, no one cares about your team. Maybe the person you're playing against might have an iota but chances are, he's in other leagues and has his own FF problems.
Hi, How are you making money form this? ~ curious
You moved across the country for better transit and you chose Queens?
I thought that article said they used a zero day jvm bug, but your point stands: why would you execute something unknown, especially from a greeting card site? (Then again, it's a honey pot... I'm not sure I would be thinking straight in that situation either.)
I'm not quite sure what your point is?
The fine is tiny, though.
> On a related note, a major thing Ubuntu and its derivatives have going for them is the great font rendering out of the box.

This. The default freetype rendering is horrible to my eyes, even worse than Microsoft's SmearType(TM).

> I wonder why other distributions haven't yet adopted it, or the Infinality patches, by default.

Patents, I guess. Quoting Wikipedia:

> Microsoft has several patents in the United States on subpixel rendering technology for text rendering on RGB Stripe layouts. This had caused FreeType, the library used by most current software on the X Window System, to disable this functionality by default. Apple was able to use it in Mac OS X due to a patent cross-licensing agreement.

I do not know if Canonical has reached a similar agreement with Microsoft like Apple. Perhaps someone from the Ubuntu camp can enlighten us.
Probably waiting for his non-compete to expire.
There was a comment in the story that I think is misleading - Attractive women can open locked doors in the male-dominated IT industry. Attractive women can do that in any industry, it doesn't need to be male dominated. Men are stupid that way (if we weren't stupid that way birth rates would probably be 1/100th of what they are now), you only need a handful of men to have a good probability of finding at least one who is thinking with more than one brain.
I'd like to see CentOS, but with the desktop environment stuff kept more up to date.. Would give you solid underpinnings that lasts for years, then a modern UI on top (Gnome 3, KDE what have you, Chrome, Firefox).. I know its mostly doable, and did use a CentOS 6 desktop until a while ago, but ran into some issues with modern desktop apps.
Done and done. https://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/277
Maybe I'm wrong, but unless you are ready to bring a chip to market, it seems to me this ship has sailed.

That said, I'm a chip designer with ASIC experience. I think it would be pretty fun to work with a couple software oriented folks to design and build something here.

ASIC design software tools would probably require funding, but FPGA prototyping can be done at very low cost.
i hope the shock of all taxi/trucking/pizza delivery/etc jobs being eliminated leads to a substantial rethinking of employment in general

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Campaign for Germany to Offer Snowden Asylum Over NSA Leaks
Science doesn't have such axiomatic rules; did Galileo lay out these these axioms and proclaim the scientific revolution? As I understand it, science is a human enterprise with the goal of understanding principles... with limitations and strengths.

Falsifiability in particular has serious criticisms, in terms of people taking it as a defining part of science. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability#Criticisms) I suspect (and it's just pure suspicion for now which I'm mentioning for no particular reason) it tends to be emphasized in cultures interested in debunking people's claims in a competitive debating way, rather than constructive conversation where both parties aim at coming to new understandings. I don't mean in science, but cultures influenced by science's success.
>It seems that Ubutu even on servers starts some high-res console or does other stuff that causes a black screen during boot. It requires fiddling with alt-fx keys to get a console.

That sounds like it might be a side effect of kernel mode setting and/or splash screens. You can try to disable both by changing

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash <possibly some other things>"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset <possibly some other things>"

in /etc/default/grub and see if it still happens.

Edit: I'm assuming you're using Ubuntu Server or Minimal CD.
I keep thinking you are right, but it just seems like all the regulators and people's perceptions are going to kill any innovation. Never mind the government screwing the market with loans to people who couldn't really afford houses to get houses[1].

We got it in our heads that you must buy a home and our definition of home is fixed. In my wilder moments, I wonder what would happen if a standard "module" size and connection (structural support, door location, water, electric, etc) for apartments happened and you could plug the modules into buildings. I'm sure there are 1,000s of other ideas.

1) small fact, those programs won't loan money to Native Americans on reservations since they cannot take the land anymore. Not sure that's actually a bad thing, but it is odd.
This is absolutely disingenuous. Google routinely refers to 'Android activations', and the success of Android in public communications. This use is clearly not confined to carefully referring to the AOSP.

If as you say, Google intended to have 'Android' mean the AOSP at one point, and it has stopped trying for that definition now because it failed to make the distinction to the public, then that only strengthens the point that Google (and you) know that what people think of as 'Android' is not open, and so are knowingly exploiting the ambiguity between 'Android' and the AOSP when you perpetuate that idea.
Ditched my 15" for a 13" rMBP with similar results as OP.
I think pretty much all professionals do, aside from tools like emmet, insertion of nodes at run time via JavaScript, and of course Markdown.
Hi, Can you tell us what it is?
Stories like this should remind BitCoin advocates to look into the history of the gold rushes and who got rich. Hint: not the gold miners.
Thanks for the useful reply. I’m giving MailMate some serious consideration depending on whether the smart mailboxes feature can distinguish between threads I’m involved in and threads I am not.

> Also look for bloggers who have quality comment communities

Yeah that’s quite a good point. Twitter too I guess. The trouble with blogs and twitter is that you can’t ask a question unless you have a blog or a twitter account that is popular.
I have the Ubuntu LTS installed on most of my servers and I've never had to worry about graphics or using Alt+Fx (those are the extra tty's on the desktop Ubuntu for me).

According to the Ubuntu documentation [1]:
"Unlike the desktop version, Ubuntu Server does not include a graphical installation program. Instead the Server Edition uses a console menu-based process."

There is no "graphics" issue for me. Are you sure you were installing Ubuntu Server and not Ubuntu Desktop?

[1]: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/install-ubuntu-server
I recently changed a machine to Arch after a failed Ubuntu 13.10 upgrade. Its very strange. I was able to build a cross compiler following clear instructions:

http://archlinuxarm.org/developers/distcc-cross-compiling

But I cannot turn off the screensaver...
If I cannot unlock my device, modify its software, and then relock it and continue to use the modified software, that is serious issue: you should not run your Devi e normally with an unlocked bootloader as there is then no protection against someone picking up your device, booting it into fastboot, and flashing new software (which normally is protected against as the unlock process erases all your data). This does not actually seem to verify things at this level, though (and thereby does not seem similar to the ChromeOS mechanism).
typical pedantic jock
I agree with you about windows, but I've been doing C# development on mac and linux for the past year. I don't even call myself a .NET developer anymore, I just say Mono or C#.
Exactly. These types of social attributes are necessary for a software project to succeed. The problem, of course, is that you can't devise a system which will reliably organize an arbitrary group of people* into the kind of effective team you describe.

* As an example of an "arbitrary group of people," consider the set of contracted engineers, contracted managers, government employees, and insurance company personnel that had to work together on healthcare.gov. These are people who were not previously on a team together, and who cannot be expected to be of a uniformly high quality.
Microsoft is looking. Wouldn't that make all the rumor blogs explode.
Note that Canadians should check out OneMatch http://www.onematch.ca/
> (if we weren't stupid that way birth rates would probably be 1/100th of what they are now)

uh, no. very attractive women don't have kids with the legions of dorks that give them unearned help throughout their life. in any industry.

women aren't stupid. they're actually very smart.
It's not 50 years away, it's closer to 5 years away. In 15 years they will dominate the roads.

Google's cars have already demonstrated that they are safer than human drivers with 99% statistical certainty, they have over 750,000 miles of accident free testing on public roads under their belt.

Because Self Driving Cars stand to reduce traffic accidents by 90% or more, it is likely that they will be afforded certain legal protections against the sorts of class action lawsuits you're suggesting, much as they do for vaccine makers, under the auspices that in spite of the risks involved for manufacturers the net benefit to society is too great.
Ask HN: Travel Search APIs with deep-linking or booking
Hello HN,

Similar question has been asked 2 782 days ago by SABmore at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2992968, but I would like to ask again to get more coverage.

I am working on a multi-modal travel search engine website that aggregates every possible travel modality for travel planning in US. The travel modalities include: public transit, taxi, flight, bus, airport shuttle, car rental, boats, or other unique services suck as uber or lyft. May you recommend travel APIs that can obtain information such as price, available seats, schedule, and checkout links?

Thank you!
I love this distro, but I do not have the competencies to help ;-(
> Also, would anyone talk about FreeBSD vs Linux? What are some reasons to choose each?

As a huge FreeBSD supporter, I feel there are many great reasons to choose FreeBSD, between the theoretical: well designed kernel, unified system; direct lineage to Unix; to the more legal: permissive licensing model; and the more technical; UFS support, BSD Jails, security work leaching over from OpenBSD. And personally, Ports being my favorite (source) packaging system.

But Linux has the killer feature: GPU support. Now, this is generally down to better community on the desktop, and the entire ecosystem is better, between drivers. Windowing systems, Video Games.

So even I, a massive FreeBSD supporter, have stopped running FreeBSD on my desktop out of pure practicality. It just isn't practical to do such.
Note that the same question was asked yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6659974
This one made me laugh.

Not that I eat a lot of bananas, but I realize this years ago when dipping in fondue. This way the stalk acts as a holder and it doesn't bruise the banana when peeling. I guess monkeys know best.
your response just proved dalton's point about MBAs thinking they're higher beings
AWS has a full blown calculator for every service they provide, not just EC2. They give you pricing by monthly, upfront cost [for reserved instances] etc.

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
Umm what? It's prison. It is 100% intended to be totalitarian.
You're ruining the dream bud.
There is this notion in original article 'strategy > implementation' vs 'implementation > strategy'. I think both are equally important, but they need to work in a lockstep sequence. Honestly I think MBAs can bring value early to a startup, I just wonder what the data shows. How many successful startups had MBAs from the get go? This is the only measure we can rely on IMO.
I'm interested in the 2 different prices.

> The software showed that Sysco, which supplies food to the state prison system, was charging the state different prices for the same food item sent to two different facilities,

From the linked Oklahomian article:

> “In some cases an exact same item might arrive at Lexington (Assessment and Reception Center) and Harp at the same warehouse, and one has a different price than the other,” Murphey said.

Was that a deliberate underhand move by Sysco, or is it normal expected part of contracting the job out? Or is it even more mundane, and just a price break for ordering more?

It's nice to think that there's a prison where inmates are not just allowed to rot. Here's another story where inmates get to do challenging, rewarding work looking after inmates with dementia. Warning: It contains graphic accounts of horrible violence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/health/dealing-with-dement...
This is true. But I've never felt that the need for something like sekizai in practice based on how I structure templates.
Oh, so this really is a Verizon specific thing, huh?
I... isn't this a rather testable hypothesis?

It just would be a very time consuming experiment to run, and the cost of being wrong would be high, but I don't see how it isn't possible to get empirical results about if being a poet would, in fact, make you happy.
Great (or perhaps just lazy :p ) minds think alike. After about 25 levels I started inspecting the javascript for ways to break the game, rather than playing the game properly. It turns out that the game keeps track of all the entities on the screen (both player and NPC/enemies) as an array, and that on each call of draw it checks if any are still alive, and if the player has collided with an enemy. It doesn't actually check if the player still exists, or if there's any way that the enemies could have been killed. As such, replacing the draw function with:

ig.game.draw = function (){this.backdrop.draw(0,0);var d=this.lastKillTimer.delta();ig.system.context.globalAlpha=d<0?d*-2+0.3:0.3;for(var i=0;i<this.backgroundMaps.length;i++){this.backgroundMaps[i].draw();}
ig.system.context.globalAlpha=1;for(var i=0;i<this.entities.length;i++){this.entities[i].draw();}
for(var i=0;i<this.entities.length;i++){this.entities[i].drawLabel&&this.entities[i].drawLabel();}
if(this.mode==ZType.MODE.GAME){this.drawUI();}
else if(this.mode==ZType.MODE.TITLE){this.drawTitle();}
else if(this.mode==ZType.MODE.GAME_OVER){this.drawGameOver();}
if(this.menu){this.menu.draw();}
if(ig.game.entities.length > 0) { while (ig.game.entities.length > 0) ig.game.entities.pop();} }

causes you to auto-win every round. Just goes to show that, as per usual, programming hacks for the game is more fun than the game itself. Programming vs anything else? Well, programming is gonna win every time.

EDIT: In case it isn't obvious, it's the last line of the function which I've modified:

if(ig.game.entities.length > 0) { while (ig.game.entities.length > 0) ig.game.entities.pop();}

So, for each call to draw, the game will run as per usual and then end the call to draw by popping all entities from the entities array, which ends the wave.
>I heard that steady supply of cash does help them a lot.

Definitely. Although pairing that with help from someone who isn't from a poverty stricken mindset is key. Having a friend who comes from a more "stable" background that puts effort towards relating to you goes a really long way.
My point is that if you're going to use anecdotal evidence, it should at least support the point you're trying to make. In this case he's attempting to use himself as a counterexample to the article's conclusion, but if anything it achieves the opposite effect.
Continuous Delivery – Production Visibility
For the past year the city of Seattle has been hyping "gigabit seattle" as the solution. The idea is that a private group would get access to city fiber at/near cost and manage the actual service. The private group in this case is Gigabit Squared.

As far as I can tell Gigabit Squared is a sham. They have no previous completed projects. The dates and milestones reported to the press and recorded in the city meetings, like the CTTAB, are woefully different. Event the dates in the press are terribly vauge, and keep slipping anyways. First it was "in 2013", then "late 2013", and now it's "in 2014."

My neighbor has been trying to get implementation details for the past year. The Seattle mayors office said "contact our partner". Emails and phone calls to Gigabit Squared went unanswered. She then went to the mayors office, complaining that the "partner" was unresponsive. The reply? "We cant help you. You have to talk to gigabit squared for any details."

Last I looked they were missing little things like an ASN, network engineers, an operations group, facilities, outside plant techs and trucks. Their jobs page was a generic "ask about exciting opportunities". I find it a bit incredible that they could feasibly be launching a network of this scope inside of a year.

I hope it actually works, I'd love to stop giving money to Comcast. But what I see so far is another Seattle Monorail Project.
Switching efforts are painless, so I would ditch DST in a moment.

Timezones, on the other hand, make more sense (it allows all businesses start at the same nominal time in all time zones).

However for me personally (as owner of a business that runs accross multiple time zones and as a person living on Internet), the most convenient would be to give up time zones too and use UTC only.
I use Arch in my personal machine but Linux Mint for work (http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php). It is also based on Debian and Ubuntu, but they're not set on simplifying the desktop the way Ubuntu is. In fact, they have an experimantal desktop (cinnamon, http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/) which aims to be a modern desktop for people who want more than gnome offers, and looks great.
In the outlined scenario there is some basement-dwelling-geek tricked into giving away the keys to the castle by some allegedly mega-fit-babe who is outside the company. This is not the only scenario where this can go horribly wrong.

A few years ago I worked at some company where the computers were well and truly locked down. No facebook, no YouTuBe, no nothing. If it could not be accessed on Internet Explorer 6 for the strict purposes of getting the job done then you was not having it.

However, a charming young lady in some admin department was able to work her charms on the IT department. Somehow it became imperative that, unique in the company, she was able to access all the tedious sites of the internets. It only took a week or two before her computer was well and truly soiled with viruses, e-coli, everything. She did her own 'social engineering' to wreck her computer, however, someone on the outside, had they known that her computer was the weak one, could have social engineered her to install whatever.

Times have moved on since IE6. Nowadays everyone has a smartphone in their pocket and they can do whatever they need to do on that. We also now know that computers are vulnerable. People understand this, they did not back then (IE6 days).

So maybe it is time for offices where confidential stuff gets done to tighten up the firewalls, block the websites and make the office internet access a bit more locked down, with no need to pander to people who 'need' Facebook access at work. Reasons can be provided as to why this has to be and people can be encouraged to use their gadgets for anything social-network-y.
Ah... that is a really good point. It is so easy to get blinded by being in the US.

Thank you for the clarification.

However, at those salaries, I could hire you and 2 of your friends, pay for the tools, and still come out at $100K.

I've got a tremendous amount of respect for technical talent in the rest of the world (i.e. -- most of the smart people in the world don't live in SF) but the problem I have is that I have no clue about how to find, hire, and manage really good people outside of the US. Hell, it is hard enough with a common language and culture.
Facial changes caused by Smoking
The 25 hour day
Ubuntu provides LTS versions. Does any other distro do this? I'm mainly using it for my server OS and I'm always interested in alternatives.
> We can tell, well in advance, what's going to work and what isn't both in terms of the technical approach and the management process. Agree?

Yes, those of with experience can usually spot this stuff early on. But that doesn't mean we're in any position to do anything about it. Most often, software projects come pre-populated with people and institutional cultures. We don't get to pick the people and design the cultures from the ground up. At least not when we're contracting.

> If that is the case how do we convert that intuition into something that can work in the real world?

If you're building a startup that sells a product, then you hire good people and foster a healthy company culture. You're not beholden to any one outside entity, so you're not forced to import any such entity's preexisting pathologies.

If you're contracting? I think you just have to accept that projects will involve destructive people and cultures at times. Sometimes they'll cause projects to fail. In that case, the best you can hope to do is to protect yourself and your reputation.
What I believe is that (as you have claimed) Android started as open, and is not any longer, but that many advocates of Android (Google included) continue to assert that it is.

You seem to be trying to wriggle out of this by saying that what people mean by Android today has moved past the 'open beginning' that is all that was ever meant to be open, and that's not Google's fault.

I agree that this isn't Google's fault. But let's speak plainly. Android began as open and that was all that Google intended. Things have changed since then and only a part of Android is open anymore.

Why try to claim otherwise?
If you could pick a superpower what would it be?
BS article. Early startup needs dedicated people that can bring both product and strategy to life, doesn't matter if they are MBAs, MBPs, McRibs, whatever.
It's tomorrow's Der Spiegel cover story:

http://pic.twitter.com/gscZWhCryq
The French Hangover with Serge, a llama
Linux Mint LMDE with MATE.