skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never said it was a dichotomy. Just because I presented an opposing side of an issue does not mean that I'm presenting a dichotomy.

One of the reasons that people are pulled from industry to fill these roles is because there is a view that they will understand the issues at play. This is true. We don't want people making policy decisions on issues that they barely understand. At the same time, it becomes the incestuous relationship that we have (aka Regulatory Capture) where there is incentive to make policy decisions that are pro-business while being anti-consumer.

There is some sort of a middle-ground to be had, but saying things like "people should not be allowed to hold office if unless they've been out of the industry for at least 5 years" seems a bit naive.
Agreed. Even Theo sees the value in a popular but crappy crypto lib that works that just needs a good gutting. Starting from scratch would be costly reinventing a security wheel and likely incompatible with OpenSSL... IOW dead-on-arrival.
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Most of the best features are in the paid version. I am leaning towards replacing Nginx with Haproxy for the reverse proxying part, unless they move at least the advanced load-balancing features to the free version.
what exactly is the use case for this?
Decomposing web app development
That may be, but the parent post did not limit the suggestion to just CEOs.
The GADM database of Global Administrative Areas has boundaries for every country, in a variety of formats. They're normalized into 4 "layers" IIRC. You can push them straight into postgis or whatever.

http://www.gadm.org/

(Oops, I just realised you're looking for full maps with elevation at each point, and this is just a bunch of polygons. Still a very useful resource.)
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The only reason I don't use Martini is because it uses reflection and there is no way around it. I like your approach.
Short answer: you probably can't. I'm sure there's something in the legalese in the Terms of Service about how they are able to sell the company. Technically Moves still owns the data, but they are now owned by Facebook, so I'm sure they reserved the right to sell their company.

The only way I can think of is if you can find a service that has a legally-binding promise to notify you with ample time to terminate your account and remove your data before merging with another company. But I'd be shocked if many/any companies do this, because they'd be hamstringing their value.
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That problem will always exist. But this does elevate one issue, working full-time to support yourself AND pay for education at the same time. The other issue is a tough one. It really depends on their life circumstances. Maybe if people will start living minimalist lyfestyles and be more conservative with their spending, things can change.
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Thanks. I set "reduce battery usage" but my phone doesn't have the M7 so the battery hit is still pretty bad.
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parent has some great points. You only will really learn by doing.

A couple of things you can do is start reading up on well designed systems and the gotcha stories. Personally, I track highscalability.com since I spend a lot of time working in distributed systems. They tend to have interesting insights and will link to tech talks and blogs that contain a wealth of information. Also go read up on some of the papers explaining the designs behind systems you use (e.g. Amazon dynamo) and why they made the choices they did. It'll give you some insight into how people measure tradeoffs and figuring out what's important.
One of the larger potential benefits is that kids planning on earning a bachelors degree from a TN university can now drastically reduce their overall cost of education by spending the first two years in a community college for free.
whats wrong with <table> ?
I'm pretty sure the best way to accomplish this is to jump into IRC and declare that it is impossible to be done.

You will have 6 answers in 3 minutes.
I'm uncertain as to why I'd use this over the official project offering [ https://index.docker.io/plans/ ] at roughly the same price point? [e.g. $50/month = 50]?
This is not idiomatic code. Briefly:

data Inches = MkInches Double deriving (Eq,Show)

There is newtype for this.

(MkInches u) \+/ (MkInches v) = MkInches ( u + v )

First two pairs of parens are redundant.

from_inches_to_cm vin =
MkCm (vin_as_pure_double * 2.54)
where
(MkInches vin_as_pure_double) = vin

Surely you want:

inchToCm (MkInches x) = MkCm (x * 2.54)

In Haskell we use camelCase.

Besides these fairly trivial mistakes there are simply better approaches for dealing with units.
I was in a similar situation. Due to circumstance, I was the only guy who knew about a particular thing that was fairly critical to the business who could do any work on it.

My old boss gave me a call and said "Hey, Spooky23, we're in a bit of a jam with <system z>, would you be willing to do some consulting for a few weeks?". So I did. Worked about 30-40 hours fixing stuff, and spent a few hours training the guy they hired.

This happens all of the time. Some CEOs/VPs/etc have class. Others don't.
Depends on the patent office, both the German & European patent offices are fairly liberal in allowing software patents.

The UK patent office is currently harder to get a pure software patent in.

It's certainly possible to get patents on software particularly if it has a technical effect. The UK patent office gives an example of software that improves a car breaking system would be patentable.
The libreSSL's commit log is a hilarious proof of the bad quality of openSSL
They can come from anywhere in the world, including their mother's uterus.
What would happen with the demise of software patents is an explosion of creativity, no longer bridled by the threat of shady actors (ab)using their patents to extract money from those who create.

The only net loss would be for the legal profession. Less money to the lawyers, less money to the patent office. More money to the rest of the economy. Like the parable of the broken window, money going to these actors is actually money lost to the economy. These actors do not create value, they only consume. In other words, the software industry would be rid of a parasite.
"Or people spend a lot of time and money trying to chase down something that a ground "found" and published."

Then again, you have the problem that negative results are rarely published. Many groups may repeat the same thing over and over, not realizing that many other groups have confirmed a negative result.

(Actually I think I saw a post here about a journal that aims to adress this problem).
Comparing rafting to climbing Mount Everest is unreasonable.
If FB hired them for the team, though, there's no reason to keep the app around. Those people would be moved into new roles and the app would be sunset.
Even if it did have a reason to exist it would still be discriminatory which was my actual point.
Have you checked out https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx ?
The Daily Fail is a rag, but this is the sort of story we ought to take heed of wrt attitudes towards women in the Bay area tech business. This rat may not be representative even of Bro misogyny - and got away with it too because of lawyers - but everyone should know who these guys are and call them out.
Don't worry, I'm sure there will be rejuvenation visas for engineers who are willing to work at a discount for the remainder of their extended lives.
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It is a safe bet to dump your green tickets into speculation because, while the speculation may work out, you know for a fact that those tickets are going to depreciate.

Green tickets are almost guaranteed to depreciate, but probably very slowly. Speculation can result in very fast and large losses. There is no such thing as a safe bet.
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That path you describe was definitely mine. I think the cycle driving that change is something like:

Things seem great -> I'm ignoring a problem -> Ok, there really is a problem -> I hate the problem -> Look, a solution! -> The solution is the best thing ever! -> Ok, I've taken it too far -> Things seem great.

Regarding the arbitrariness of building something right versus taking technical debt: to me that's great grounds for experimentation, as long as I can trust business stakeholders to give me room. At my last startup, we sometimes took on substantial amounts of technical debt, because I knew could always trust my cofounder to give us the room to clean up our messes when it became necessary.

But in a more pathological business setting, I'd be an absolutist. No technical debt! Never! Because I've seen too many places take that long slide from a little technical debt to an enormous low-productivity snarl. And then they just accept that as normal, generally for the rest of the company's life.

So I think a number of these engineering arguments are framed too narrowly. People often end up cowboy coders or architecture astronauts because that's what's working for them in their circumstances.
There is a high school in Nashville (Middle College High School) that is housed at one of the community colleges and is focused on getting kids to graduate high school with as many college credits as possible. Many graduate with an associates.
This comes off as a few companies trying to throw money at a rotten crypto lib, when only leadership like Theo's way (minimalism, dropping features) would have a prayer of rescuing it. So giving OpenSSL more money doesn't make sense, it's like rewarding failure because they've shown an inability to produce good code or maintain it well... More money won't help that, likely the opposite. Instead, TLS WG needs to get their act together and reduce their addiction to feature creep, release a reference library and comprehensive test suite. Then OpenSSL might have a chance after picking up a compass and a map and get back to some semblance of being a decent crypto lib, but more money is unlikely to solve this issue.
Hi seshakiran, I'm a cofounder of Gevva.

Our angle for Gevva, in a truly Googlized world as you say, is to 'do' where Google 'searches.' In other words Gevva skips the middleman for daily internet tasks with clear, standard input. For example, instead of finding one of millions of conversion tools, just tell Gevva to 'convert to pdf' and it uses the fastest and most reliable API to complete your task.

Thanks for the question, we get it a lot and it's definitely a question we think about often.
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They have tens of thousands of "passes" (basically accounts) and the payment information associated with them.
Wow, between mojombo and his wife, the "Don't fuck up the culture" rant, and this woman, it seems like the world is teeming with clueless CEOs.
Yes, but in an article about people who make a living breaking the law by selling illegal drugs illegally to people, it would actually be obnoxious and insulting to specify "hey guys when we talk about drugs we're only talking about the illegal variety"

Everybody understands that you're very clever for pointing out that alcohol is a drug too and that it's only ~The Man~ which makes some drugs illegal and others legal, but it's actually entirely irrelevant to the discussion being had in the article and your insistence on trying to appear clever is actually very tiresome.
Ditto. And I've ony used VS for about 2 years now
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Translation: "I'm so jealous of rich people that I want people to die because of it".

Edit: See also the SciFi story Trouble with Lichen by John Wyndham - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_with_Lichen
Over-complexity was a major contributor to the failure of OpenSSL. I think there's a real danger of building an overcomplicated system that sets us up for problems in the future. Especially as it ties into everything, presenting a large attack service from other parts of the system that are supposed to be lower privilege.

I've accepted udev, but I'm still wary of dbus.
I've been waiting 20 years for people to do this. Still waiting. As the people who want to make glowing plants for streetlights have learned, reality is tough
How to get your team to adopt new technology in 3 easy steps
If they included Hans Island in this, any canadians are obliged to go there, build an inukshuk and leave a bottle of canadian whiskey for our Danish friends - i mean enemies! ;) - who happen by.
see also : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4797368
On some level I agree with you, but if you look at the things that Apple is able to do with OS X and timer coalescing [1], that central point of coordination becomes critical. You need a mechanism for starting and stopping all things, not just daemons, that plays by a specific, defined set of rules so you don't have multiple processes trying to do the same thing.

On another level, I feel the "unix philosophy" of having a lot of interchangeable modules taking care of small, simple tasks hurt it: each level of abstraction has a performance hit, and having to support multiple components in a modular way makes change management a nightmare. There's something to be said for the elegance of tightly integrated components: you can make assumptions that you couldn't otherwise make in a more modular system. I can see how it would be a problem if systemd were proprietary, but it's open source.

[1] http://www.apple.com/osx/advanced-technologies/
Drug dealers use burners by the bucketload. They have no need for fancy smartphone encryption.
99.999% of 99.999% figures are pulled out of somebodies ass.
Ask HN: python app that creates pdf from questionnaire
A few months back a company/organization open sourced their python app on github that takes in questions and outputs a pdf form. I believe they were using it for some kind of government forms. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me to it.
> base docker VM

you serious? criticizing systemd by promoting a totally new and un-tested software written by a single (for-profit) company.

> Also a lot of enterprise shops use daemontools and runit

provably not true. most enterprise shops run RHEL/CentOS which, to keep support contracts, runs sysvinit or in RHEL/CentOS 6.x ran Upstart. RHEL/CentOS 7 uses systemd and is not going to look back. Don't forget, the "serious" distros have used sysvinit for a very long time. Then they tried out Canonical's Upstart for a bit and decided it was not a step forward, but rather a step to the side. Now they have landed on systemd for very good reasons.
>You say this as if rejuvenation would be a good thing. Rejuvenation would further divide the poor from the rich

You say this as though the primary concern of human existence is economic equality.

You're also making the assumption that rejuvenation tech won't be cheap enough for everyone at some point.
Developing countries will abolish medical patents and will start making generic replacements.
for one you can get started with a private repo without paying for it. You can securely share it with your entire team and not pay one cent, and you can do that just by creating an account on gandalf.io.

Secondly, for those who're starting out using dockers, a four docker plan is optimal because most folks use a combination of containers inheriting from public and private repos. So you can pay $4 per month for 4 repos using gandalf.io whereas you have to pay a minimum of $7 per month for docker.io's service.

Thirdly, this is just the beginning and we're working on a roadmap of features, some of which docker.io might not provide.

Fourth - support is important when using a service, and support can have a specific flavour when using a startup offering. try gandalf.io to understand the flavor :) !
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Thank you! It's what really got to me about existing robots for schools - they don't give you any insight as to how they work.

Hopefully this one will...
You need good quality code to begin with. I have had a couple of jobs as a maintenance programmer for large projects, and the code on one was not something you could learn from. On the other hand I have been playing about with some Django third party modules, upgrading them to Python 3 for my project, and that is code I can learn from.
Not to nitpick, but doesn't changing the title of the article like this (from "Shades of grey" to "CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired") go against the HN Guidelines?

> [...] please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.[1]

I guess you could make a case that the original title ("Shades of grey") was misleading, but seems to be more a case of the OP disagreeing with the angle/implication of the title, and wanting to change it to something that aligns more with the OP's point of view.

(FWIW I agree that the original "Shades of grey" title is pretty bad in that it's both uninteresting and uninformative, but bad != misleading)

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Could it be that too many people see it as a way to get answers from homework?

I feel programming is like voting, if people aren't motivated to do it, I don't want them in the profession (or at the polls).

That's why I hate the "Get out the vote" efforts as well as "Teach people to code" movements. I'd like to see more self-motivated people that are interested in coding (not a well-paying job). I think this is what's happened to the law profession, too many lawyers that didn't want to practice law, just people who wanted a big paycheck and a couple of letters at the end of the name.

I think a lot of these new users asking dumb questions are those types of people, they shouldn't be in the profession imo.
A little less than that, but yes, students get a stipend during the period when they're full-time university students (bachelors or masters, up to 6 years maximum). It's currently 2500 DKK (€350) for students who live with parents, and 5850 DKK (€780) for those who don't.

Some details: http://www.su.dk/English/Sider/agency.aspx
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Though not OS, Apple's Healthbook might help you out soon.
anecdote from a guy with hep c != evidence
The command decorator is nice, but the group decorator feels wrong, why create a function that does nothing just to decorate it? I'd rather use `cli = click.Group()`.
There is something about the prospect of treating aging that makes people take leave of all economic common sense.

Move your argument to 1940 and make it about the prospect for future treatments for heart disease to see how ridiculous it is to suggest that only the wealthy would have access to these medical technologies.

One of the interesting things about our age is that medicine is largely flat. Rich people can buy more time from more expensive physicians, and pay people to do their legwork and phone calls for them, and lie in pain in better-looking ward rooms, but there are very, very few forms of medical technology available to them that is unavailable to someone with a few tens of thousands of dollars and the time to make the phone calls and do the legwork.

Given that the treatments for human rejuvenation will be infusions (made up in a lab-factory in bulk, or a specialist clinical plant to order, and requiring very little attention from trained staff to administer) rather than surgeries (requiring a great deal of time from specialist staff to carry out), I think that the odds of their remaining expensive for long are minimal. Economies of scale emerge rapidly for such things.

(Infusions because these treatments will be things like delivery of engineered bacterial enzymes, gene therapies for mitochondrial DNA, drugs to break down cross-linked proteins, stem cell transplants, and so forth).

Look at stem cell transplants as the model of how the price of such therapies rapidly moves downward due to inter-regional competitive pressure for treatments of this nature.
There have been laws in place for that in Brazil for more than a decade:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil#Drug_patents
Moves wasn't free.
Studying Shakespeare is not like studying the first version of Java. It's like studying an extremely well-written program that happens to be written in the first version of Java. We wouldn't ignore a monumentally important program just because it wasn't in a modern dialect of Java (or in a more modern programming language). We don't study Shakespeare to study that period's English; we study Shakespeare to study literature. And we shouldn't ignore the monumental literary importance just because his work happens to be written in an older version of the language.

There will likely come a day when modern English has diverged far enough from Shakespeare's English to make Shakespeare genuinely incomprehensible to modern English speakers, but we are not there yet. Shakespeare is difficult (much less so when seen performed, I should emphasize again), but not incomprehensible like Beowulf or even The Canterbury Tales.

And when we can genuinely no longer understand Shakespeare that will be a sad day because there is always something lost when translating, especially when translating poetry or very poetic prose, and especially when the translator is not as skilled a writer as the person they are translating (which is almost an inevitability with translating Shakespeare).
There's also Clint by Kenneth Reitz (https://github.com/kennethreitz/clint)
Addendum:

General Fusion has gotten tens of millions of dollars from serious investors. The idea that their design would need to accelerate many tons of molten lead to 2 km/s every pulse (i.e. once per second!) is just too ridiculous.

I need to be less polite/trollable.
Is the situation really that dire? I have a large collection of Apple II games on 5.25 and they all work. I frequently buy old boxed games off eBay and never have problems.

Certainly how they are stored counts for a lot.
The same is true of all medical therapy to some extent.
There are something like 17 million enrolled higher education students in the US, and with the current exchange rate, that would equal about 24 billion USD in stipends. Not really sure such a thing is politically tractable, not to mention the quality of the product (the degree) varies highly by college.

For reference, it appears Denmark has about 230,000 enrolled college students.
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Throwing money at a problem without competent leadership just makes matters works. The leadership has to have a grasp of what's wrong for any of that money to be used effectively. If history were any measure, it seems as likely as a blizzard in the Sahara.
No. The article was written by a woman.
It is the same on Fedora and Arch. But you can visualize it as an svg. It says so right at the bottom when you run the command.

> -- Try a shell pipeline like 'systemd-analyze dot | dot -Tsvg > systemd.svg'!
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I actually understand many of the reasons why companies need to let people go. Sometimes it really does make sense to stop having someone as a full time employee. But if that person did anything significant during their employment, chances are the company might need a little of their time again in the future. That extra, on-demand time should be compensated well; and the possibility of such a need should be discussed before the exit.
I am sorry ma'am, but you cannot go into retirement and will not be allowed to die, you have an important piece of infrastructure to maintain for the rich.
I wish, I have tried multiple times and no one wants/can do it.
I have used Rove (http://www.roveapp.com), but I preferred Moved after testing it. Now I will be back to Rove.