skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have anything really on my computer that needs backing up. I use SkyDrive to store documents like Homework etc. but apart from that nothing.

Everything nowadays is easy enough to re-download from the internet at a later date.
This sounds like it could well have been a CDN issue, I'm pretty sure that everything is now cached by CloudFlare if you want to try again.
You may (not guaranteed) get a visa and green card. You do not receive citizenship (at least in the US, I am ignorant about other countries' investment visas.)
Meteor is good, but not at everything, so it's very important to understand the trade-offs.

Pros:

0. Obviously, its major strength is its "real-time"[0] nature: I have built multiple chat systems (and presumably so has anyone else who's used Meteor, because it's an example of something that's fun and easy with Meteor but relatively hard with a traditional stack) as well as a map application that tracked the motion of a company's employees in relation to their destination (as part of a dispatching system).

1. It's also the least complicated way of sharing code between the browser and the server that I've seen to date.

Cons:

0. It's non-npm package manager feels like NIH to me (although I'm sure the team had valid reasons, I've never looked into it). Apparently it's still possible to require npm modules[1], although I've never tried it.

1. You're more or less stuck with MongoDB for the time being, which I guess a lot of people like but it's not really my thing.

2. There's not really any SEO capability, but that's sort of a given. Just don't use Javascript frameworks for that sort of project (or do, and do all sorts of weird shit to help Google).

3. It's kind of too auto-magic for me sometimes. The documentation is generally very good, but I occasionally run into weird variable scoping issues and the like, without any way of really figuring out what's happening. Of course, the source code is available[2] if I had time to read it. (Well-written, but big, and I find reading Node code to be mentally more taxing because of all the callbacks.)

4. The biggest con, for me, is that Meteor is basically limited to web applications. I really enjoy the typical single-page web app approach of building an API first, which you can access from other apps later (ie. mobile/tablet). I have no idea how I'd do that with Meteor. I'm experimenting with bundling a Meteor project and inserting the client-side code into a Phonegap app, for a mobile chat thing I'm working on, but that's obviously not ideal.

Generally, I love working with Meteor. I know I've written more cons than pros, but the pros I've listed are huge, and they've allowed me to work on cool stuff. You just need to know what you're getting into.

Footnotes/Links:

0. The scare quotes are for the people familiar with embedded real-time systems who seem to always find these comments and complain about how that word has an entirely different meaning when it comes to web applications.

1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10165978/how-do-we-or-can...

2. https://github.com/meteor/meteor
Is there any way to know with any degree of confidence whether something is a flash in the pan or a viable company? It isn't just about growth is it?
Why does everyone keep minimizing this to stole a wallet? He did more than steal a wallet, and he did it repeatedly.

Finally, I've also said that life might be excessive, but significant jail time is reasonable.
That’s what I was trying to do but apparently I fail at HN. Is it too late to add 0 as an option?
Having not read the book, I imagine the argument is that grains are carbs and carbs cause obesity and dementia. Most Americans over consume refined grains [1] despite the government drastically reducing grains share of the food pyramid.

[1] http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-r...
"the riots, car burning, head chopping" you're kidding right?
Why the hell don't they just dump everything?

they're politicizing the very leaking they're doing.
Well, it's somewhat conditional. You can apply for citizenship after 5 years with a green card.
Zoho Mail looks like a possible replacement for me.
1. I keep working data on my laptop, and archived data/media on a desktop machine in my home.

2. Both are backed up to Time Machine to a network drive, and also with Arq to Glacier.

3. I keep important documents in Dropbox.

This gives me "Oh shit, I deleted a file" protection from Time Machine and Dropbox, two local copies of all media and data in case of hardware failure or machine loss, and a last-ditch offsite Glacier backup.

Works well, and Arq isn't that pricey if using only Glacier.
This is the oldest actively communicating satellite.
I am using RCPP for interfacing, didn't see anything automatic for conversion though, it's just an interface.
We've had someone put a graphically intensive Flash application on Atom processors. Their reasoning was lower heat output and very small footprint. There are newer i5's that are maybe twice as big that absolutely blow these things away.

Customers want cheap and I don't blame them but it took a second iteration of the shitty Atom line, one with a proper GFX card from Nvidia to have this display in any usable capacity. Atom/Netbook is absolutely not the way to go for Flash content. I would wager the Pi would be roughly identical unless you could leverage a beefy GFX card.

If you weren't using Flash, you could practically use anything. HTML5/CSS3 animations have come quite a distance but its definitely not 1:1 still.
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I've got a massive 7 inch scar across my face from when a drunk driver plowed into our car when I was 8 years old. I had over 100 stitches in my head and my face was a criss cross of zipper scars for years. The only thing that saved my life was that I was reading a book when we were struck - the book literally saved my life by blocking the glass from slashing my throat.

So, yea, murder. That's how serious DUI (or texting behind the fucking wheel) is.
There are couple of issues here.

> There's not really any SEO capability

There is a spiderable package that does allow SEO. It uses Google's AJAX guidelines (added using meteor add spiderable) : https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/

> The biggest con, for me, is that Meteor is basically limited to web applications

You can build phonegap apps in Meteor. There are tools that bundle it very quickly such as https://github.com/SpaceCapsule/Meteor-cordova. While technically a web app it goes a step further than other platforms can do since you can have an offline web app with offline data (in a cordova app).

I've also used the DDP backend for C# applications. In fact you can remove the entire web-app functionality of Meteor and use it just as a back-end to store data like a reactive database.

> I occasionally run into weird variable scoping issues

Typically you have to make sure your global variables aren't shared by different closures. There are articles that explicitly deal with this with the Meteor.bindEnvironment method.
I have dabbled in it. I found it hard to learn and mysterious, but when things work it is amazing.

Meteor is a combination of handlebars, jquery, mongo, sockets, and a handful of other technologies. It can be hard to debug or develop unless you are familiar with those technologies. I think meteor would benefit from more transparency, make it clear which frameworks provide which features.

You will find more applicable documentation by searching "Handlebars Templates" instead of "Meteor Templates".
Latvian banks have a residence program for 300K EUR:

https://www.rietumu.lv/en/residence-permit

As long as the money is kept in a term deposit, "upon expiry of the term of residence permit investors and their family members are eligible to apply for the renewal."

After some years one can apply for naturalization and gain full Latvian citizenship.
its not nonsensical. there is truth in pointing out that a VC valuation does not equate to a true valuation - either in the upside or downside.
"Attempted manslaughter" is an actual legal concept [0]. Gotta love the US legal system :)

I think DUI three times is particularly heinous. Maybe life in prison is excessive, but the third time you do it you are well aware that it is potentially lethal, and the punishment should be on the level of attempted manslaughter. If that gets you nailed with some three-strikes thing, I think your argument should be against the three-strikes aspect.

But my original point was to disagree that DUI is the same class of crime as drug use in general, since it's incredibly dangerous for the other members of the public.

[0] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1113
The US investment visa provides a GC and puts you on track to receive US citizenship.
http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/green...

You'd (eventually) have to live in the US, and wait several years for the passport, so it's not quite a cash-on-the-counter transaction like Malta. But it is similar in concept
If anything, having 650k available to invest like this suggests ability to exploit, not contribute.
Maybe in the future they can skip the xrays and just hose us all down during pre-flight. "Good news honey, I'm home and I'm showered!"
Because you're some horrible criminal from about anywhere out of Europe, wanting to escape the law strikes me as the most probable reason.
What a surprisingly pleasant side-scrolling experience.
It's not a visa it's permanent residence: http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/green...
I hope you mean 'things like guns' but I fear you mean 'things like dicks'. Meanwhile most of the workforce brings his dick to work while the guns stay home as they are 'not safe for work', as it should be. This is clearly an area were reality comes out ahead...
I'm trying to use twitter more, but I find keeping up to date with it very difficult! This isn't helped by following several distinct groups of people, and only having mobile client access most of the time. What do people recommend using to keep on top of twitter?
The EU was founded on the principle that free movement of people, goods, and services is a net win for society. Malta's just taking this idea one tiny step further.

We'll really fix this though when the circumstances of your birth don't dictate where you are expected to live, work, or play.

If you want to work in London for a couple years, then Sri Lanka, then Albuquerque, then Beijing, you should be able to do it, so long as you can afford the cost of living and appropriate taxes for the area.

Sure, some do this now, but you should be able to do this as a mechanic from Ghana, not just as an international business manager from Vermont with a trust fund.
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Or a rich person wanting to escape a horrible country(Government).
That's what I was thinking. Considering Russian, Chinese and Indian people, who consistently faced with getting multiple visas, demand will be massive. EU passport also allows you to go to UK and US(much easier comparing RU/CH/IN passports).

The idea that other EU countries will try to compete on price, to be honest intrigues me, as the outcomes might be unexpected. Probably EU will want regulate such thing.
+1, my thoughts exactly - read it just out of curiosity, i bet the linkbaiter got his traffic though...
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)
we have jails in Europe
My biggest issue with all of the frameworks is their lack of maturity. If you're working on a large platform with a team of people, you're going to want database migrations, localisation/i18n, asset management, proper testing framework, continuous integration and general proof of scale.

Meteor.js seems great but is still a bit of a gimmick in my eyes. But If I'm pressed to pick one, I have to say I'm much more interested to see what happens with Go and web frameworks like martini.
$500K will grant you a US permanent residence: http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/green...
It's called a juxtaposition because the items presented are different and meant to be contrasted.
I wrote about Meteor here: http://blog.jasoncrawford.org/meteor-demystified

Bottom line: Very interesting platform; nicely done in many ways; some concerns about architectural choices; not quite ready for prime time (production use) but probably will be soon.
Thanks Paul for this. I posted this in the comment thread an hour ago making the same exact point but was lost in the comment weeds. I guess PG'a secret Algo of surfacing sensible comments to the top is working.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745220
This comment below nails the answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6745568
You just suggested that Enron was insider trading so I don't think you have a great handle on what insider trading is. It is not traumatic for someone to enter into a stock trade that they are planning to make. The fact that the person on the other end might know more than you is a fact of life for every stock trade ever made. There are prominent economists that think we should let people insider trade. It is a victimless crime.
>We'll really fix this though when the circumstances of your birth don't dictate where you are expected to live, work, or play.

It would be nice to live in your Utopia.
There are several reasons. Here are a few:

One, because wealthy people sometimes want 'dual citizenship' (which has to be kept a secret in the U.S.) because they feel like if things fall apart in one country, they can quickly escape to another.

Two, some business transactions require citizenship.

Three, some rights are only available with citizenship.

There are other reasons as well.
I use desktop Twitter and follow a handful each of professional designers, UX/UI devs, artists, DJs/producers, Android blogs, tech blogs, kaomoji artists, and @HNTweets.

Most don't flood, spam or waste my time. Too much signal to noise, no matter how popular you are, I have to unfollow.

I keep the feed open and look over every few minutes. I catch up on mornings if I'm bored.
Citizens of "poor" countries have great difficulty traveling internationally, even if they are personally wealthy. (Other countries may not grant them visas to enter, and may mistreat them at border crossings.) Maybe their home country isn't a very attractive or safe place to live any more. Etc. etc.
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Residence programs are more common, but to take advantage of them you have to actually take up residence in the country, physically living there as your main residence. Then you must live in the country as a law-abiding, productive citizen for typically 3 to 8 years (depending on the country) before you can naturalize and get a passport. You may also be required to take a language and civics exam to do so. This at least ensures some connection between the passport holder and the country.

Direct cash-for-passport schemes for someone who's never lived in the country are much rarer. Afaik, in the EU currently, only Austria sort-of has one, and it's not explicit. Like many countries, Austria can grant special-case citizenship to people who've rendered extraordinary services to Austria, but unlike most other countries, this includes not only scientific achievement and the like, but also a handful of very rich people each year, who negotiate through intermediaries a grant of citizenship in return for either a large donation, or a large investment. Mainly people from Dubai and similar places, who don't want to move to the EU (and therefore can't use the residency schemes), but do want an EU passport for travel or future-proofing purposes. The price isn't disclosed, but rumors have it that it's a lot higher than €650k, more in the €2m+ range for donations or €10m+ for investments.
Fair enough, but it's still not a full blown citizenship.
A fee of a cent or so per transaction can be reasonable and profitable, if you go on a really large scale, then maybe a fraction of a cent.

I was sceptical about the no-fee concepts or micropayments that would require fees below $0.0001/txn or so.

Security costs are nontrivial depending on which markets you serve (and any 'winning' solution must serve all or most of them) - any system will have some rate of fraudulent payments, and at least in EU, any service provider will be liable for some of that - they'll have to refund their customers who were defrauded by someone else, get stolen credentials, etc.
I am not so sure it is such a good analogy. The "business model" of these hawkers in third world countries like Cambodia or Laos is to explicitly present themselves as impoverished, and then pressure or guilt-trip you into buying something from them as a gesture of charity. The OP seemed to encourage such behaviour, even admitted it was "crap" they were selling (it is).

I'd suggest that any startup worth its salt is actually offering something of real value, not explicitly a charity case, so the analogy completely breaks down. I fully support encouraging the startup ecosystem.

And I'm not even sure about using a term like "top down". Hotels really do employ locals, as do restaurants, and by patronising them you send a strong signal of support to the local tourism industry. With that assurance they can make plans, invest, advertise, expand. It's not about making the rich richer, not at all. Giving a small regional tourism industry the confidence to plan for the future is a wonderful thing.
Reading 'Discover Meteor' and consulting the docs will give you all you need to create a great realtime application in short time. It's a real pleasure to work with Meteor and the realtime web feels just a few steps away.

I built http://opentalk.me with it
To avoid extradition treaties, taxation on worldwide income (US) and a security to weather it out in case the war breaks out.
EU is not an asylum for criminals (actually is a terrible place for a criminal trying to secure his freedom, because it takes only one country to raise an 'european arrest warrant' afaik), for that reason mobsters are more likely settle in countries without extradition treaties to their country of activity, or some banana republic where it's easy to vanish.
The trouble is that the parts toward the bottom of the photo should really be beneath you! So you need an infinitely tall photo, or a screen that wraps around below your feet :)
Dear HN: Smart App Banners are Annoying
So this trend started out as a high-end bookmarklet tool for marketers. But like all marketing, has developed in to full blown AIDS.

Every website I open in mobile safari almost, I have to scroll down 2 inches (hit close but why bother it just pops up no matter what.) "DOWNLOAD THE APP" Oh cool, but what if I don't want your app?

WHAT IF I DON'T WANT YOUR APP?

Quit. Spamming. Me.
If you're going to read the "facts" stated in the linked article, be sure to read the comments which refutes the whole article.
It freaked me out when an ATM BSODed on me. Its happen when I've used a Tesco self-service checkout as well.
There is a spiderable package that does allow SEO.

Google's AJAX guidelines don't really mean much (at least as of the beginning of this year, I haven't done SEO work in a bit). I mean, for SEO purposes using the guidelines is better than not using them, but competitive SEO sites don't depend on the Javascript execution of Google's crawlers.

You can build phonegap apps in Meteor. There are tools that bundle it very quickly such as https://github.com/SpaceCapsule/Meteor-cordova.

Cool! I hadn't seen that before.

I use the DDP backend for C# applications. In fact you can remove the entire web-app functionality of Meteor and use it just as a back-end.

Awesome. Is that documented anywhere?
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if "Meteor is one of the most comprehensive and smooth frameworks for making web applications available today." then how could you be stuck with just mongodb? or without seo?

not a dig at you, but at the guy who posted it below. it's actually nice to see someone posting that something actually has downsides.
I love the fact that the author thinks Windows is unsuitable because the people who are using it for displays don't know how to turn off a screensaver, but somehow those same people will magically understand how to run Linux without a hitch.
I meant extra pockets, also in the front, over the lower thighs, for a total of 6 pockets, 4 of which in the front.

Unlike the upper pockets, those extra two are in an area which you don't squeeze when sitting.
He's trying to say he doesn't like brown people.
I second that. outlook.com is great and clean.
This is not answering the question, but someone please build this for me (and hopefully a million others): Simple live off-site backup for worst-case scenario.

I buy a pair of devices (e.g. Tonidos) with attached commodity HDDs that I split with a friend. He plugs his into his network, I plug mine in.

I dump files to my local device, but they actually get buffered and then stored overnight at his place, and vice-versa. It's a remote backup storage device, not a NAS. Not for fast file serving.

If my house burns down, he hands me the HDDs and I decrypt them with my password.

If his IP changes, his device re-registers with mine somehow. Cleverness needed here, not a $10 month subscription. E.g. his IP is emailed to me, or my device, or something like that. Someone knows how to make two devices find each other over the net, I am sure.

Edit: Of course, it would be nice if it still worked if he was tech-illiterate, e.g. you could give the other one to your elderly parent or neighbor or whatever.
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/askcfpb/953/what-difference-b...
I was happy to see that tabbing worked intuitively and the clues auto-updated based on the cursor. Very slick!
Teleglitch

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/teleglitch/
If you're just using the back-end would Parse be a cleaner option?
The truth is when you start looking into it, if you have money, you can live wherever you want.
After 5 years in the US with a green card you can become a full citizen.
Strawman argument! WikiLeaks is providing transparency and some insight into the decisions and discussions made by powerful people that affect all of our lives.
No, that's not inevitable. That's why judges should have discretion. They can look at the outliers and figure out the circumstances during sentencing.
I do admit I have a couple of problems with the spiderable package. Google indexes a 'loading page' but I think I've implemented it incorrectly since others don't have the issue.

Google's crawlers don't execute the javascript. A phantomJS script captures the raw text of the page by calling itself then when google crawls the page it gives this pre-rendered html back.

The webapp stuff is mentioned on their blog:

http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/08/14/meteor-065-namespacing...
>I find it a little bit offensive that EU residency is just one more thing the wealthy can now buy.

Well, you could also be living in Pakistan or Somalia and apply for asylum which most likely will be granted to you with no money involved.
Russian mobsters have already bought their way in, and for a lot more money than 650K.

If you have enough money you can buy your way into any country.
If you liked this, you should also check out this beautiful timelapse video of Milan (same concept): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyHsouXc_HU
I can tell from experience that having a really solid error free digital signage solution takes up a lot of time, because you really want to care about every tiny detail that could go wrong. One example is sudden lack of network connectivity while displaying a website:

- One solution is to just display an error page (bad!)

- Another solution is to display a cached version of the page. Sounds great until you have to display stocks.

- The proper solution is to display a cached version, except for time critical data where you either go to the next piece of content, and if that's impossible, display the customer logo or some default fallback content.

This and thousands of other small configurations are what make up a good digital signage solution. The default web browser, being made for user interaction, doesn't cover it, obviously.
I use CrashPlan