skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ember.js – An Application Framework For The Future
Yes; if you open up one of the roles downloaded (like the solr role), you can see some of the niceties offered. The blog post basically covers one small aspect of Ansible—the ability to manage packages and simple configuration easily, but deployments, broad CM pushes (e.g. pushing the config out to 10s or 100s of servers concurrently), and broader orchestration ala Fabric isn't mentioned at all.
My point is that your best chance of getting neither narcolepsy or death by flu was by not taking this shot.
The difference being, to achieve full Communism you have to kill everyone or enslave them completely such that they have no rights. Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Pol Pot, Fidel, Kim il-Sung - they all gave it their best try.

And your comparison isn't accurate at all. There are obvious and often massive differences between America's economic models of 1825, 1910, 1960, and 2014. 2014 isn't in any respect similar to the 1825 or 1910 versions. To argue that America in 2014 is highly Capitalistic, is to argue that Capitalism is compatible with a government system taking 40% of the economy through taxation, massive wealth redistribution, government interference in essentially every sector, nationalization (quasi or total) of core economic segments, welfare programs sprawling to hundreds of billions in cost, tens of thousands of regulations covering every field, and on and on - basically it's like saying that Capitalism can be anything. It can't, it's a specific type of model.
Someone mentions further down in the comments that they did - just after an "unexplainable" two hours. Presumably it was far too late for any remedial action by that time.
I wonder how many individuals right now are working on exploiting this potential hole to steal BTC.
Then you end up with duplicate local copies of your entire container. Seems very wasteful to me... Especially as TrueCrypt forces you to pre-allocate all the space that you think you'll need.
Let's just say that pushing Directory Tiles so fast* that the end-users do not even have a chance to react is not a good way for Mozilla to prove it's worthiness.
Also, it doesn't matter if groups within Mozilla keep making chemically pure awesomeness (like your Shrink team or the JS guys), if the leadership has to do only one thing to overshadow the good things with bad news.

* arrangement bugs are already worked on the way I saw it
root access is currently only available for 'apt-get' command.
apt-get update/add-key/install will work just fine.
We're working on enabling full sudo support which will be available in coming weeks.
Off topic - but do you happen to have a blog post about how you made the music box?
Care to discuss this in more detail? I'm intrigued.
Yep, I feel the same way. If you can't be bothered to handle being respectful of my time, your company is not one I want to work for. I have my pick of jobs, and do not appreciate wasting my time.
Nordic countries only implanted welfare after they developed economy. Welfare State means the goverment can take your money and spent it in what they they think is best for you.
Not surprisingly, they are called facebook after all...
There's a cost analysis of that by Stross in the comments. Basically "way too damned expensive - ~$M - for once-a-decade events".
Thanks for posting that. I'm a high risk candidate for skin cancer, it's a constant concern. Knowledge is definitely key.
Not sure about Portugal but suspect it's not much different than other European countries. When I did a freelance job for Nokia in Berlin I effectively worked for a Swiss company, which sent me off to Berlin. I registered myself in Switzerland, got a social security number there, and paid my income tax in Germany. As far as I understand it, Nokia paid the Swiss company, who paid their tax in Switzerland. Much as you'd expect - you (be it an organization or an individual) pay tax in the country in which you're situated.
Rolls Royce. Make a law affecting every nation on the planet? Best of luck wth that.
> "If it ain't broke you still have to upgrade, because delay in doing so will bring compatibly nightmares upon you" - Ivanca

It's a fucking bridge. The only thing the system operating it is connected to is the. Fucking. Bridge. Software works? Check. Software doesn't have to be compatible with anything? Check.

These are systems where feature creep is actually actively avoided. The amount of testing and deployment effort that goes into them is so large that changes are made to them only if there really is a pressing, existing need.
You're right, I did make that false assumption. Thanks for pointing it out.
مرجع دانلود برق, هک و امنیت
'But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.'
I am a little surprised to see an article like this on HN. I wouldn't have thought the kind of person who reads HN uses anything as fusty as a Java EE application server.

Am i mistaken? How many of us are using Java EE? Is it just those of us who are toiling away in the code mines of megacorps? Or are some of us using Java EE in cool and exciting startups?
There are no implications here, it's stated pretty explicitly:

"Reference counts MAY be best done by putting a mutex around an integer variable, for instance. BUT as a high-level approach, using channels to control access makes it easier to write clear, correct programs."

There is a difference between what someone with a background from other mainstream programming languages might think would be the best approach to locking (mutexes) and the idiomatic Go approach (unbuffered channels).
I feel like I have a malware that randomly inserts "Agile" into every 10th item of my Hacker News stream. Help.
What you've described is kind of complex. I'm asking about where someone lives and works as a permanent employee (and not a contractor!) in Portugal or Germany or whatever, for a company that is in Denmark.
Crystal Blocks of Yankee Coldness
Female Founders Conference videos are now online
It's been assumed that one flight attendant on the Helios crew eventually managed to open the cockpit door and he did sit down at the controls (this is according to observations made by the fighter jet escort). It's likely that he was the only one still alive on the plane by that time - certainly he was the only one being conscious - and that was because he must have used a portable oxygen canister instead of the integrated ones in the cabin. However, he was unable to gain control of the aircraft at this point, probably because he was too severely handicapped by oxygen deprivation. His being alive was already vastly improbable and sadly it wasn't enough to save everyone.

In a similar scenario, everybody onboard the Malaysia Air flight might have been dead or in a coma for the entire duration of the emergency, so it probably wouldn't have made any difference if the cockpit door could be opened from the cabin or not (which might turn out to be a misguided concern anyway since there's a cabin crew access code).
Yeah, however China (and other countries) never saw an unidentified aircraft in their (primary) radars? Seeing that would raise several flags
Http://goo.gl/OV24MV
Why should you use CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript?
Is there anything people can do to help further beyond donations? Anything your family needs?
Technological progress is outpacing population growth (especially in first world countries where the population is actually stable.) We will likely get to a technological singularity before we run into serious resource problems. I hope we can keep as many living people alive until then as possible.
Visualization of AdTech ecosystem
One great way I have found is to filter all emails with 'unsubscribe' into a separate folder for reading later using this:

`Matches: ("opt-out" OR unsubscribe OR "viewing the newsletter" OR "privacy policy" OR enews OR "edit your preferences" OR "email notifications" OR "update profile" OR smartunsubscribe OR secureunsubscribe OR yahoogroups OR "manage your account" OR "group-digests")`

It really helps cut down unproductive emails
* Bitcoin donations
I'm looking at the history... Do not any US corporations doing anything near as bad as enslaving tens of thousands of Americans - then sending them off to die in muddy European trenches.
Ask HN: Good Dev Setup for Mobile Apps?
What's a good development setup for developing mobile apps that require a server backend? I have a Windows laptop and that's about it. Prefer to have a Linux env via cloud/VM. Thoughts?
Thanks! This looks great. Just what I was looking for.
> I've started learning Blender recently. I had some previous experience with 3ds max and was afraid of the learning curve, but I must say I really like Blender so far.

Blender has had a not-quite-earned bad reputation in the past for not being very user friendly. After the big UI redesign (which changed how it works, not only how it looks) that was started in Blender 2.5 and has now matured, I find Blender to be quite easy to work.

I have used Blender since the 1.x days when it still was a closed source product developed by the NaN company that went bankrupt. Back then it certainly wasn't easy to use, you had to know which keys to press and they were quite poorly documented. Thankfully the tutorials were good and Blender became popular enough that the source code was eventually bought and open sourced.
I also disagree with the premise that these situations are very abnormal. Ours is a big field which expands outside of sunny California, where you can't walk a few feet without bumping into a rockstar coder. In the rest of the world where the mediocre is the status quo, Agile gets team members organized and motivated. Of course, if you could find rockstars, you'd hire them, solve many problems, and ship your product. Not everyone has the pleasure of that kind of engineer pool.
What we use:

* Skype / Facetime for videoconferencing

* Misc. chat apps

* Dropbox / Google Drive for file sharing

* Some git repos on a VPS box for source control

* Google calendar for calendars

* pinboard.in for link sharing (not perfect, but does the job)

* trello for project / business management

* Google Docs - for pairing on writing documents

* CrashPlan - for backups

* Office 365 - for dealing with MS docs from other people. LibreOffice just doesn't seem to cut it enough unfortunately when it comes to document exchange.
You must hire that employee according to the laws of the country in wich he/she lives. So if that person lives in Portugal, you should make a contract according to portuguese laws, and you must pay for social security in Portugal.
Smug doesn't mean wrong, it means being a bit loud proud about being right.
Thank you girvo. With regards to costs, thus far it is at $285,000 of which I am responsible for $3,000. That doesn't include the cost of the premiums which run us $400 / month and will soon increase as I'll be paying cobra rates instead of the employee rate. The chemo is $11,000 / month and I've been averaging a hospital stay every two weeks as my body breaks down and those average about $20,000 / week if I don't require any kind of specialized treatment. Radiation treatment was $102,000 by itself and insurance would only cover it if the doctor said I had a life expectancy of more than 6 months. There will come a time when I can't get the treatment I need because it's too expensive and not covered by insurance. I'm honestly afraid that time will be sooner rather than later as the average life expectancy for someone with my diagnosis is 9 months.
Presuming snark... it wasn't RR it was "sources".
The PC seems alright to me (after all, how much CPU do you need to open a bridge...), but the floppies seem a bit fragile and unreliable, they lose data pretty fast.
Mobile Gaming’s Dirty Secret
Does anyone know what they are going to replace it with?

Please tell me it's not a desktop computer again, with rotating disks, fans and all those lovely things that, you know, fail constantly.
From the original article:

> The old-school electric resistors and other parts are wearing out, so that replacements must be scavenged from city shops or eBay, he says. Finnick recalls a 12-hour stoppage, when the city used a backup diesel motor to lift the bridge for boats. Other times, the city dispatched a second bridge tender to help open the bridge manually.

It does break and replacement parts are hard to find.
>Perhaps it's never occurred to the author that people with the opportunity to change the world (a) might not care about changing the world or (b) might think a photo sharing app is the best possible way to do it.

Yet another third option: the people with opportunity to change the world do have the desire, but are working on something else at the moment.

It's a sad fact that the world has an extreme shortage of people with both competence and idealism, because our social system has a strange urge to exterminate idealism at all costs[1].

[1] -- http://www.thebaffler.com/past/practical_utopians_guide
6. You're expressing yesterday's fear. Population growth in the first world is stable, low, or even negative. We currently have no reason to believe that the third world's population growth won't do the same. Current projections for peak world population are "a little bit larger than now" instead of "trillions and trillions", and the problems of providing for them indefinitely "surmountable".
As someone who has been in business here since 2007, i would stop you right there!

We have our share of a bureaucracy (example: took 6 months to get reply from Revenue as to what VAT to pay or not on sales of hosting packages, 23% sales tax (VAT) on customers from EU-28 was the answer eventually)

and you quickly realise there are 3 types of companies here:

1. Large corporations setting up shops to launder money onto somewhere warmer in Caribbean, these often dont hire many people or pay much in any tax despite moving billions (example Apple in Cork)

2. Small indigenous companies who dont receive much support, run by small families who never really grow to become large companies EU or worldwide, ask anyone outside of Ireland to name an Irish company beside Ryanair! And no Guinness are UK company

3. Zombie companies still clinging on from the haydays of the last boom, supported by taxpayers bailing out the banks, surviving thanks to the inbred gombeenism that is still prevailent despite the largest recession in any of the developed countries since 2007, see this great lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LCofepdUzE
You don't need a transponder to show up on radar, it just makes it a lot easier.

Radar operators have a hard job telling a plane from clouds or echos. A transponder makes that job a lot, lot easier.

However, if you have a good radar system, you can happily track the contact without a transponder. In fact this happens all the time, I had a very nice chap at Farnbourgh West LARS (Low Altitude Radar Service) do this for me, when the shed I was flying had a little bit of a failure. For newewer systems such as those used by NATS automatically keeps the data assigned with the trace, using their proprietary algos to filter the noise.

If this happened over the UK, the transponder went off, ATC couldn't reach them, then a couple of Typhoons would be sent up to go have a look, and if need be escort.

With this background understanding of how modern Radar services are used piratically, taking into account a bit of background of the Malaysian authorities (short version: no terrorist attacks have ever happened even with our extremist religious views, honest.) Then this article will make some more sense:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/13/mh370-satellite...

It is becoming clear they knew full well what was going on. They had the ACARS data. They had contacts on their radar, which they would have understood to be the plane, if not at the time, soon after. (But they really should have understood at the time!).

This stuff happens all the time in air safety investigations. See Egypt Air, or Air France!
I know, my point is that both "real" capitalism (the libertarian kind) and "real" communism are fantasies.
Uninstall Extension from Visual Studio
Real life hacker, always a pleasure to read. Go on Tim!
You would need further advice, but I believe you would be subject to Portuguese employment law.

At least, you would pay Portuguese taxes for that employee and you would likely need to register with Portugal as an employer.

UK advice: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nic/work/new-rules.htm#5
How big a threat are patent trolls while incorporating in the US? Companies get sued for scanning and emailing documents!
Web turns 25: Robert Calliau, the other inventor
2 years ago, my diagnosis would have meant death within a matter of months as the treatment I am getting didn't exist. I look forward to the day when no one has to go through this. For now, I am not dwelling on the sadness but I am trying to leave my wife and children with as few worries as possible and with as many happy memories as possible. It breaks my heart to know that I might not live to see my 6 year old's birthday and no one should have to go through that.
Man Walks Nearly 3000 Miles Through China
Ask HN: do you git merge or git rebase?
I realize that the kernel folks use git merge but it seems saner, to me, to use git rebase to bring upstream changes on local trees.

What do you prefer, and why ?
In search of Air France Flight 447
Busting the myth of France’s 35-hour workweek
Sorry to hear, look into THC oil.
It's also an Unfriendly optimizer. Capitalism's local maxima often consist of things like Gilded Ages and Great Depressions in which return on investment is maximized to the hilt at the expense of nearly all other values. Yes, once we force it out of those local maxima, it goes back to generating wealth in a way that people actually want it to, but eventually, without deliberate management to keep it out of them, it always finds another damn local maximum to get stuck in.
Microsoft Said To Drop Windows Phone Fees For Some Smartphone OEMs
Malthus was wrong.

Hans Rosling, "What Stops Population Growth?"
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth...

In Malthus's model, new people only consume food and breed. But we do this other cool thing, too, we also think about human problems and how to solve them. We all add resources to the computer of humanity.

Some really cool, like Norman Borlaug, go around the world and teach people how to grow more reliable crops, stopping famines, increasing the reliability and scale of the food supply while lowering the resources it takes to produce the food. It's sometimes said he's saved a billion lives. He did so without increasing the strain on others, but by spreading knowledge and increasing efficiency, maybe even lowering the strain on the planet.

Humanity's ability to solve problems isn't in a flat linear relationship with how many people we have either. If we just have 100 people, they all have to farm all the time, and can't stop and think about much. With a billion people, we get economies of scale, so we just need 40% to be farmers, and we can have, say, 20% work on logistics, 10% work on massive aqueducts and public infrastructure, and 10% be scientists and inventors.

At a certain point, every additional person makes it easier for more people to survive on the planet. And yes, there is some raw physical limit to population on this rock... but visit the Russian Taiga, Wyoming, Namibia, or Mongolia. We're nowhere near that point yet, it's several orders of magnitude away. And if you note Rosling's points, we probably won't keep growing anyway.

He notes that population growth is really a switch towards health systems with lower infant mortality. You have previous generations that keep having 10 kids because only one or two of them will survive, then the health conditions improve and suddenly all of them survive. The next generation or so reverts to normal family planning, having just one or two kids. Malthus was wrong to suggest that people just breed as much as humanly possible.

All that said, I don't think you should be downvoted for asking a question. If we buried every premise we disagreed with, we'd never get a chance to lay out the reasons we believe the opposite, we'd never convince anyone. We'd just be insisting on dogmatic agreement, rather than any actual understanding of the complex issues.
Researching should have been the job of the CPA
Is there any PayPal account available?
Netflix 'Always on top' player lats you watch while working.
On a story that is big news like this, but not big enough to dominate coverage: yes. There are so many moving parts that they likely have several reporters on it with the goal of being the first to break the story. But it's not a big enough story that they feel they need 3-4 separate stories on the front page. At last until there is some resolution.
Large portions of our culture have a mental block about thinking that capitalism might be doing the wrong thing. Or rather, they simplistically equate "capitalism" with "freedom", fail to acknowledge that capitalism imposes its own imperative (namely: return-on-investment) on society, and thus end up wondering why these intelligent, free individuals haven't chosen to engage in noble, moral work. Since the presumption of "freedom" cannot be questioned (by noting that the capitalist imperative and the incentive structures flowing from it have a compelling power all their own), only one possible conclusion remains: all those intelligent, free individuals are just not very noble people, actually.

These people then proceed to sulk in a corner at the general suckitude of our species while voting for more capitalism.
The highest source of personal bankruptcy in China is medical expenses.

Something something about the largest risk of poverty for middle class people in China is medical expenses.

Source: WHO speaker at a longevity conference I attended.
deepfacebook

Btw, does this software match faces to people or just draws a rectangle around faces?
Apple adds new warning and rules regarding In-App Purchases
It comes from deep learning, which is all the rage in machine learning since a few years back.
It's the other way around, actually. HIV gets a massively disproportionate amount of funds. Cancer gets disproportionately little.

Also, as we are eliminating competing risks, cancer is emerging as a huge source of death in developing economies.
Google grants “super flagger” powers to British security officials for YouTube
Well they haven't yet confirmed the wreckage to be from her aircraft. The clues are strong, but then again clues were strong in other directions in the past.
umm - I would recommend a cheap hosted git account on something like RepositoryHosting/XP-Dev . It's definitely not worth managing the VPS git repos yourselves.
Facebook OpenGraph integration using NodeJS.
Overpopulation being the downfall of civilization is a complete myth.

Even in developing countries such as Bangladesh the average family now as 2 children due to education and great progress in women's rights.

I don't have the figures off the top of my head, but population peak will be more than manageable.

The problem will providing energy when everyone on the planet wants a washing machine.
Where are the details on this project? I'd like to know if they've published anything or if the datasets they are using are available.

From what I can find, it seems like the method they are using is incredibly inefficient.
Always double your estimates because management will cut them in half anyway.
Apple's recent changes to IAP via Slideshare
From what I've heard from friends/family that have mortgages, here in the UK the mortgage company stipulates that you have to get life insurance in place to cover the remaining loan amount before they approve your mortgage.