skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I meant, Netflix needs to just rip the bandaid off -- the Qwikster headache being an example of them trying to sugarcoat a price increase as a new service and having the whole thing backfire.

I disagree that most customers will understand, but I think most will grumble for a bit then continue to pay.

Read the comments on this page, people are awfully entitled when it comes to Netflix (be mindful of the affiliate link in the post if you're against that kind of stuff): http://thebestofnetflix.com/bad-news-king-of-the-hill-to-be-...
I get what you're trying to say now. My point is, if the OP has only seen it happen once, then they've only seen it once. You're denying that they've only observed it one time. That's what I have a problem with, not your sentiment.

You're trying to say, "just because you haven't seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen," right?
I think you're right. I found the article I was thinking of:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.htm...

Here's the section:

"WHAT IS PERHAPS most remarkable about the Patterson empire is the sheer volume of books it produces. The nine hardcovers a year are really only the beginning. Nearly all of those books are published a second and third time, first as traditional paperbacks, then as pocket-size, mass-market paperbacks. “Scarcely a week goes by when we aren’t publishing something by James Patterson,” Young told me, only half-joking."
“title and/or description attempts to impersonate or leverage another popular app without permission”

A. Show me the game - It doesn't exist anymore.

B. Flappy bird wasn't original to begin with, so will Dong Nguyen receive the same notice when he reinstates his version? The helicopter game is almost 15 years old.

C. I love how google selectively polices stuff. I'm not sure how this qualifies as one of those times. I heard rumors of flappy clones being removed due to malware. That's fine, but flappy knight?
Hi, I just wanted to know if all companies not in the US have to go through the same process? For example, if I owned a company in Canada and wanted to incorporate in the US would I face the same difficulties as the company in the blog post?
Yes, the correct debate is about how the 4th amendment is written and interpreted. That said, there is a tactical reason why opponents of surveillance take the somewhat disingenuous approach of banging on the 4th amendment while raising issues that are not relevant to analysis under the 4th amendment. That tactical reason is that if you can make a government policy out to be a Constitutional violation, you need only convince the courts the policy is wrong, instead of convincing the public and the Congress. It's a lot easier.

> I guess a right to conduct day to day affairs without 3rd and 4th party institutional intervention is harder to reason about.

What I find puzzling about this sentence is that we conduct our day to day affairs in a way where 3rd parties are almost always involved, whether you're talking about AT&T, Google, etc. Most people who oppose surveillance want to set up a system where it's okay for AT&T, Google, etc, to be able to track you using metadata, but not okay for the government to do the same.

That proposal might very well be a good idea, but there's simply no way to express that distinction in Constitutional terms. "Private" in the Constitution doesn't mean information is just between you, who you're talking to, and your hundred closest friends working at Google or Facebook.

If people want the interpretation of the 4th amendment to change, it will be a lot easier if these services were actually private: i.e. encrypted content and obfuscated signaling so that third party service providers like AT&T and Google can't use the information for commercial purposes. Then you can make the "expectation of privacy" argument with a straight face.
Is UCC Article 9 the Achilles Heel of Bitcoin?
Here, $10 well spent. Watch and be enlightened.

http://pragprog.com/screencasts/v-jwsceasy/source-control-ma...
Hire as a [long-term] contractor and that's it.
No, you can't stop them from uploading photos and mentioning your name, even if they didn't specifically put a rectangle on your face.
Or even create some branches called "experiment1", "experiment2", &c, until you figure out what it should be called.
I'd be very cautious about running a software startup in Denmark. If you succeed great, but Denmark doesn't have the sort of easy bankruptcy laws the US has and you have to pay your employees 6 months wages if you go under. So if your startup fails you might be in debt for the rest of your life.
I'm not that interested in fault. I'm interested in its reliability as a source of information. I'm interested in the trust that their information is given when they're wrong so often - for whatever political or non-political reason.

CBO numbers are used as a shield by politicians to push their agendas. I wish that they didn't have that shield because voters were more aware of its inaccuracy.
Hm, unfortunately the misanthrope in me agrees with ilovecookies. My donation, too, will be going to feeding and providing basic medicine to underprivileged people, not financing some guy's huge car and 4 children in a 1st world home.
more reddit stuff horay.

BTW this video is super old. Was going around alot on facebook at the time.
MQSeries is IBM's not Oracle. Near pervasive in finance, but not exactly high performance. IBM's low latency offering is called MQ LLM.

The high-perf messaging bus in the TIBCO lineup is FTL[1], not StreamBase which is a CEP engine.

[1] http://www.tibco.com/products/automation/enterprise-messagin...
Sorry, but your assertion that an American can simply come to Europe and work is false. In Germany, like in the UK, you most definitely CANNOT just come over and declare your intention to work. "If you are coming to work in general employment (that is, a job that does not require you to be highly skilled or highly educated), you will need to apply for a residence permit for the purpose of general employment, and you will only be eligible if the position cannot be filled by a worker from the EU/EEA or Switzerland." (from http://www.expatica.com/de/essentials_moving_to/essentials/g...). It's the same in the UK.

Germany _does_ have the "Blue Card", which is similar (at least at the very highest level) to the now discontinued Highly Skilled Migrant Worker / Tier 1 visa in the UK. The Blue Card allows you to work in Germany as long as you have a college degree and make above a certain salary (usually above €45000).

Both of those scenarios are much more involved than the way you described, it however.
Recognizing Good Quality Cannabis Seeds
It’s not a good step to purchase a growing cannabis seeds from the black market dealers ... usually those people don’t have any idea where the seeds are coming from.
Google search results seem to look different now
How do you like dem apples?
http://imgur.com/fq1lQXZ

I beat it on my first try, using my strategy (and far too much practice) from 2048. However, when I play 2048, I have the board completely full at some point in maybe ~50% of games won, so I'd guess this version is winnable roughly half as often, since an extra spot is taken up for the whole second half of the game by the 2048 tile.
On a more poetic note: http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Just shop around. I pay $350 for $1M term life policy. And I've got it when I was near 40.
Australian here, but I can confirm that the times I went to Germany and tried to speak German, almost everyone pleaded with me to switch to English. I don't think my German advanced much as result. I was even briefly mocked by hotel staff (who were otherwise great): "Ahh yes, you are the one person in this hotel who only speaks English."

Taxi drivers were an exception, they did not seem to have strong English skills. As a result, the most enjoyable German conversation I ever had was with an elderly taxi driver as we stumbled through our knowledge of each other's language.
That's the one. I remember reading those as a kid in the 90's and fooling around with win32dasm and SoftIce... Fun times.
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72 seconds is the duration of time that any particular patch of sky is in range for Big Ear to listen to. To offer another imperfect analogy, imagine yourself on a train in a pitch black tunnel. There's a break in the tunnel that lasts for 72 seconds at your current speed. The light signals you noticed for those 72 seconds didn't necessarily last for only 72 seconds, they were simply not visible after you went back into the tunnel.
I recently went in the opposite direction (Android -> iOS). Forget all of the flame wars. If you know one, dabbling in the other is a great learning experience. The two platforms are running roughly the same hardware and facing roughly the same challenges, and the software architects at Google & Apple have chosen different ways to solve the problems.

Sometimes the patterns feel similar. You can rig up an iOS tableview/data source delegate/fetched results controller to look almost exactly like an Android listview/adapter/loader. But in other areas they function completely differently. It is well worth the time spent learning the other IDE and language. My Android app is better because of what I have learned in iOS and vice versa.
The funny thing is, a lot of these costs are so high because of previous attempts to save money.

For example, contractors are used heavily at just about every level of government. We're hellishly expensive. You know why this happens? In no small part it's because the government general schedule pay scale is a vow of poverty for any skilled and educated professional.

So those people go to contractors to get paid reasonably and the contractor happily applies a markup and sells their services back to the government.

Behold, "cost cutting measures" in action.
I have sympathy for this guy as a human being with cancer, especially with a family and all. But I have no sympathy for this guy as a person and for the financial choices he has made.

Having 4 kids, big house and car, expensive grave, need to travel, meet celebrities screams greed, irresponsibility and entitlement.

You could have not had 4 kids and had 2. You could have rented a place and bought a used car. The problem isn't wanting something better, the problem is that you decided to buy those things without earning it and with money you did not have. All these are choices you made as a person. And to take your family down with you is selfish and irresponsible.

Definitely won't be donating.
In my experience and with a somewhat smaller sample size, a lot of people blame Netflix anytime a show gets removed or the service changes at all.

Example: here's an announcement we published that King of the Hill was being removed (be mindful of affiliate links if you're sensitive to that stuff): http://thebestofnetflix.com/bad-news-king-of-the-hill-to-be-...

Check out the comments, people get rather upset about it and seem to direct their anger at Netflix
I presume they still have a largish runtime attached with complicates FFI especially if callbacks are involved. I've found Java FFI to generally be a pain.

Also, I think a lot of organizations would never approve using these in production, too likely that behavior will differ vs Oracle's or the OpenJDK VM's, the company won't be around in a few years, etc., and the gcj is very out of date from what I gather.
How does the Trent 800 deliver engine data?
In numerous report, for example [1], it is reported that the engines of the missing MH370 was sending engine data to the ground:

"...data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co 777's Rolls Royce engines as part of a standard monitoring program"

What I've failed to find is some description of how this system works. Is this an RR-only thing, or is it a standard way of transmitting engine data from planes?

[1]http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-jet/report-missing-mh370-flew-four-hours-after-known-position-n51536
What if the altitude meter breaks? Does the transponder go off?
You cannot work on a Language visa in Germany[0], and artists in Berlin are special as the country wants to promote it as an art capital of Europe[1]. In almost every case, a non-EU/Schengen citizen needs to show ability to support him/herself when moving to Germany; that person must already have a job offer, which must pay at least 37(STEM) or 47,500 (others) EUR[0].

Non-EU folks in Germany as well, for example, don't get the equivalent of a "green card" out the gate either. Looks like it's 5 years in Germany, which happens to be the same for the United States.

As a manager/executive with your company, I'm surprised there weren't EB-1 Visas available, which is exactly the tool meant to support the case you were looking at. Or EB-5 visas, because interestingly, there actually is a Visa (and Green Card track) for entrepreneurs in the US [2][3].

US immigration policies are indeed crazy sometimes. Your friend probably moved to the US around/not long after 2001, I'll bet? Everything ground to a half around then as DHS was getting set up.

But if you're listing all of these failings and I'm finding the opposite to be true with 20 minutes of Googling at a time, I'm suspect of the quality of support you got from your lawyers. Again, I feel a great deal of empathy for what sounds like you guys getting screwed by poor representation. I've had many friends enter the US to work and start businesses with little undue stress.

[0]: http://www.make-it-in-germany.com/en/working/guide-to-workin...
[1]: http://www.bbk-berlin.de/con/bbk/front_content.php?idart=195...
[2]: http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/green...
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa
https://slice.resumetracker.com/public/job_detail/985
Yeah I know you have to prchase it specifically, it's just that my family and family friends all have life insurance to specifically cover their mortgage. I was trying to work out whether that's just a quirk of my family/friend circle :)
I'm fairly sure you mean well, but this is actually a pretty tone-deaf comment.
The only one there that doesn't line up with my perceptions is Chile. I went there this time last year and their police and officials were nothing but transparent and professional. The fact that it isn't the same color as Canada must primarily be due to a general bias against South America as a whole.
Y Combinator's Paul Graham sits down with Jason at Launch Festival 2014
May be I should download the brochure to learn more about the methodology but some of the countries at the bottom seem weird.

North Korea is last ? Is there even room for corruption in the North Korean public sector ? I imagine it being arbitrary and all sort of things but I wouldn't dare attempting to bribe a North Korean official.

Does Somalia even have a public sector ?
Especially compared with the prior situation which was that as a freelancer, if you were lucky you could get individual coverage for around $500+... assuming no pre-existing conditions.
Bug Reporting Like a Boss.
It looked like someone got access through a plugin to the htaccess file and some db entries.

This article helped (http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/07/understanding-and-cleaning-th...) though I only found one db entry. However fixed the htaccess file.
While it's less famous, I've always wanted to through hike the Pacific Crest Trail (http://www.pcta.org/) which is the west coast equivalent.
Exactly my point, if Amazon are making little now through tax loopholes what happens when they are fixed.
I looked hard, and could not prove they can identify a single image with that accuracy. I couldn't tell WHAT the trial protocol was. Where is that in the document?
For catching up, your risk depends on your income and the kind of stuff going on in your life (owning businesses, etc.). Here are the category of choices:

1. Just prepare the tax returns and file them. Good for regular people; the likelihood of you owing any U.S. taxes is low. You have risks of penalties (undisclosed bank accounts = FinCen 114 form filled in online -- that's the biggest one). If you are a very small potato floating in the stew pot of life, that's probably fine. You either start now and ignore the past, or you go back in time and file. Usually three years is sufficient, sometimes six.

2. Search for "Streamlined Procedure" via your favorite search engine and you'll find the IRS official "Come to Jesus" program for US taxpayers abroad who are "low risk." Like most bureaucratic endeavors to write rules controlling all humans, the procedure is contradictory. If your income tax is under $1,500 you are probably safe. If your income tax is even slightly above $1,500 in any one year, the program's FAQs say it's OK but the questionnaire you have to fill out says you are not eligible for a "no penalties, just file" solution to the problem. Find the questionnaire, look at question 2, then look at the paragraph below question 3.

3. If your situation is more complicated (higher income, or you own stock in Canadian corporations -- like your business!) etc., you need a more nuanced analysis. Here your primary risks are undisclosed financial accounts (heavy penalties for not filing FinCen Form 114, IRS Form 8938), Form 5471 (you own stock in a foreign corporation), Form 8621 (you--God Forbid!--bought regular Canadian mutual funds as an investment), or you have a Canadian tax-free account that is not an RRSP or RRIF. You need someone to tell you the best way to jump back into the pond.

4. You have gobs of money and high income. In that case you look attractive as a mugging candidate for the IRS. There's money to be made here for the government, and they like to threaten you with life-altering penalties (300% of your bank accounts is something I have seen as an opening bargaining position) and prison. You really shouldn't Come to Jesus on your own here. You need the Pope and St. Peter to guide you. :-)

The problems that The One and Only Netai (I love that, by the way) complained of in the business context apply equally in the individual context. So take care in how you choose a solution. Shoot me an email and perhaps I can connect you with someone in Canada who can help you. I will be in Toronto next Tuesday, FWIW.
Yep, lets just jump on the god-phone and call god to get him to help him out in this instance. Just like he helps starving or diseased people throughout the world every day. Or my uncle, who died of cancer recently.

The list seems material because he is worried about his family. They need to eat and they need a roof over their head. We are all a bit material. I notice you are using hacker news which suggests you must have some kind of an income and access to technology. He is dying. He is worried. Would you not feel the same?

How about, instead of quoting bible bullshit to help you not so silently judge a man with cancer, you shut the heck up and donate a tiny bit to the man so he can live the rest of his days with that much less worry?

Jonathan : Find solace where you can. My heart goes out to you.
I'm getting "The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later." right now.
Actually, a little known provision of FATCA was introduced precisely to prevent financial institutions to discriminate against American taxpayers. If you read French:

http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/0a130fdc-238a-11e3-8a42-a451...
> Therefore, most Android developers test small changes initially on a device.

That's also because deploying an APK on a test device (or several devices) is way easier than deploying an IPA on an iOS device.

As someone relatively new to iOS this past month or so, I was shocked by the number of hoops I have to jump through just to take a piece of code I've written and put it on a device that I own and is sitting right next to me[0].

Coming from Android development, I never thought twice about this - it's easy to push the APK to my phone as part of the build process, and I don't even have to plug my device in to do so.

[0] Including shelling out $99 for a certificate that gives me the permission to do so.
My feature request would be that it work with the Kindle Cloud Reader.
Show HN: URL Shortner API web/service in nodejs/redis
http://linkm.in

https://github.com/niklabh/linkmin

A simple URL shortner API and web service written in node.js express.js jade and redis. Simple Analytics and facility to save links in cloud is provided.
You might have to wait a while. Denmark has a very strong "nobody ever got fired contracting IBM" business culture. There are one or two consultancies in Copenhagen that I'm aware of that my friends work at and could recommend. Most startups there seem to be design outfits. I'm told incorporating there is hard but didn't seem so to me from the requirements I read - you just need a lot of money available at the outset just to employ anyone (that's a positive, imo).

Anyway, there's starting to be some changes there - IBM missed a big contract or two with large clients to smaller outfits. Between that shift and the quality grads coming out of DTU, there may be some tech opportunities there if anyone starts investing money that way.

I would _love_ to go work over there but I doubt I could meet the requirements and I'm not lucky enough to have an EU citizenship.
Lessons from Factlink’s Pivot
It's not that they're incompetent - it's that they don't think about their work abstractly. They're intently focused on cranking out code, and anyone who pops his head up and says "Wait a second, is this the right thing to do?" gets taken aside by management and told: "I need you to focus on meeting your deadlines, not that other stuff".

Agile has to start with management adoption. And not Fake-Agile™ either. I've seen a PowerPoint slide a few times now that lists "Iteration 0 - Envisioning" as a bullet point. It's like RUP got painted with Agile terminology. And everyone in the room nods their heads knowingly because it's what they've been doing all along, only now they're Agile.
Why is it a tone-deaf comment?
Is that 3000 miles with or without backtracking to pick up the camera he often walked by?