skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that I've heard some complaints from within Germany that the Blue Card is not so much about getting the best talent, but in fact is about getting the cheapest talent. The salary requirements are quite low, and in my experience, startups in Berlin have their eyes on those requirements when they start talking to you about offers. I'm not sure about the source of the complaints, but I would imagine that native German talent is not too happy about having their compensation undercut by foreigners who might happily work for the Blue Card minimums in order to come here. Just my speculation. It would be not unlike the H1-B situation in the U.S.
It might help to provide links of explanation.

Rozeff has my favorite overall explanation

http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff224.html

The next is typical zerohedge, ZH is more or less the 4chan of finance and politics so you get 10 kilolines of idiocy mixed with a couple excellent lines that make it all worth it, like "Your role, by voting, is to legitimise this corruption." (and edited to add "Democracy has become a religion and anyone who criticises it is labelled a heretic.")

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-02/guest-post-why-i-do...

A minority opinion by a self described "educated, politically conscious Black woman" (edited to quote "My ancestors who died attempting to register to vote, didn't die because they wanted to vote, they died because they wanted our community to have the power and self-determination to live a quality life." and my commentary is if the latter has been intentionally systemically removed as a national policy for members of my community, then the former is obviously meaningless)

http://www.stanford.edu/~arnetha/expowrite/activities/voteno...

Democracy is an effective PR campaign for an oligarchy to control the citizenry. A non-religious opiate of the masses. It makes money for the right people, and fools the fools into thinking their opinion matters or will even be considered.
No one is stopping you from porting whatever you please. All you have to do is sit down and do it. If I had to guess, I'd say that the main barrier you face is that you de-installed it.
Didn't know about this one... Looks cool for sharing snippets at StackOverflow
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This is technological bruteforce. Behold a more low-tech approach[0]:

> how do you photograph one of the biggest, most populous cities in the world without having any people in your pictures? With a lot of patience and an alarm clock!

[0]: http://blog.roberttimothy.com/2013/05/Deserted-empty-London-...

[Also]: http://humanless.org/
Not the author:

When I landed in Germany, they asked me how long I was saying, I told them a month, and they stamped by visa. I'd assume if you were going to stay for $some_larger_amount_of_time they have a resident visa (not sure if that's a thing) you apply for. My impression of the country was everyone was kind of private, but nice and surprisingly laid back. Coming from NYC it felt like a very "free" city.
For another multicopter in the $500 price range, check out http://www.thepocketdrone.com - the most successful drone Kickstarter of all time (raised almost one million dollars). Disclosure: I work for them.
My last trip to Germany was on a 1-way ticket. But I'm a U.S. citizen and came here with Shengen status, so that might be different from what non-Shengen visitors face. I don't believe that loads of cash will help you unless perhaps you're willing to invest a huge hunk of it here.
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This is cool. I'd love to have some sort of GitHub (or just Git) integration. That would be powerful.
> Some people live in small towns where the cool programming positions are adapting invoice management software for small businesses.

That's been essentially my entire (for money) programming career and I adore it, taking a crappy manual/outdated process and refining it to create a tool that becomes a core part of a customers business is vastly rewarding to me.
This is the best comment I've ever read. Seriously though, when it comes to business an internet presence is practically a necessity at this point.
It seems to be a mix of languages and frameworks. For example, it doesn't list Python, but it does list Django. No Javascript, but jQuery and Node.js (Angular programmers are out of luck).
I've only watched the first half but that's possibly the most interesting thing that will be posted on HN today.

Just wanted to write a quick note to try to persuade others to watch it (I almost didn't as I avoid videos).
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It's interesting that the clouds overhead (in the Chinatown before and after pictures) are averaged out, but the clouds on the horizon are reasonably fixed. I'm guessing this has to do with the apparent rate of movement since the clouds directly over your head always seem much faster than those elsewhere.
I can't help but to be amused by the irony of the NSA systematically weakening computer security and swooping in to help the FBI when American companies become victims of foreign spies that exploit poor security.
One can still cheat even in an environment where data is restricted. The 'cheating' part comes from being able to use the CPU to help the player make better or faster decisions. It doesn't have to be perfect - only enough to help the player gain an edge.

I haven't tried it in probably 15 years (and, I'm sure technique has improved exponentially, since then) but as long as you can access and reverse-engineer the data protocol (which you almost always can), you can add code logic to gain an edge.
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The target use case is interviews, but it works well for a wide variety of use cases as well.
We're used to that model then, but this was a long time ago - before "Valve time" was so accepted. They had been publically stating that the game was weeks from release, not saying "when it's done" at all. Additionally they had demo'd at E3 and claimed the demo was not scripted, whereas the leak showed it was almost entirely so.
The issue is the probability of a read error when reading the array to replace a failed disk is too high.

Hard drive capacities have been rising much faster than the unrecoverable read error rate has been lowering.
I'm saying that using a data interchange language (whether it be XML or YAML) is no substitute for a programming language.
Well, don't know about homogeneity - as we're not 'mass market'

HN seems to be the thick root of the long tail. Over time, it's less about intellectualism and more about group conformity. People just take comfort in belonging to an ostensibly intellectually elite group and use that as a proxy for real intellectualism. This is why there's a new norm of down voting to disagree. Now there's flagging to disagree. Also, there's now so much posting, new headlines that lack an up voting cabal have to be hand-promoted by mods to have a hope of being seen.

HN has been overrun by many who don't understand intellectual integrity and operate on the premise that it's allowed if the mechanisms allow it. Pretty much, it's now reddit as of a few years ago.
I wouldn't use it: my phone is too tiny and my china tablet sucks. I think is a good idea for people on the move, though. I currently use my tablet as a portable second screen when I travel. I use a usb share KM app to control it from the laptop and just keep a ssh there, mainly to tail -f logs or debug output (it charges through usb so I don't even need an extra charger and the whole set is compact enough to set up in a coffee table and fit in a laptop bag, plus it takes only 2 of the allowed 10kg handbag when I fly). I could easily see myself reading docs using your app on the next tablet I own every time I'm in a work trip, specially in the very few but still existent cases where online is not an option (even right now the wifi I'm in has a 5-10 second latency on any page I load and that's a pain in the ass when browsing the docs so I'm just using an offline version). That may not be a huge target audience group, but if you make a great product I'm sure you can sell it at a price high enough to make a good profit. Good luck :-)
Thanks for the feedback. We've had a bit of trouble with ProGuard. 1.0.1 is already submitted to Store and waiting approval. Thanks for your patience! :)
Does anyone know which tools this would use? Eg. Apache Thrift can compile definition files to different languages. But i don't think that is used.
At this level of compensation they would be competing with financial sector. I have not seen any evidence of this so far in London. I have not seen start-ups openly offer that kind of money so far. I think this is just a speculation from your side. Shame we don't have an AngelList.
This: https://www.facebook.com/search/4/photos-of is also quite interesting. Did Zuck really want us to see this? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=914230961663

Yes, it's a public photo. But seeing all tagged public photos in one place is a different thing. These photos are not shown when you click "Photos" on his Timeline: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/photos_all
I don't see any mention of "for god's sake don't let your pool get more than 90% full or the molasses gremlins will ooze out of your disk controllers and gum up the plates" in that list...
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codepad.io $50 a month. runnable appears to be free atm.
The game was not really that playable - you could boot up isolated levels, but it was completely unfinished. Huge chunks were missing. There's no way it would make a suitable replacement for the game that would be released much later.
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For learning how to fly in the sub $100 price range, get a Hubsan X4 H107C - don't be put off by the low price - they are crazy fun to fly. For the $1000+ price range, the DJI Phantoms are great. For the $500 price range, check out http://www.thepocketdrone.com - the most successful drone Kickstarter campaign of all time (raised almost one million dollars). Disclosure: I work for AirDroids who manufacture the Pocket Drone.
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Like I stated in a comment above:

The current behaviour allows you to uncover mutual friends between person A that has all connections hidden, and another person B that does not.

There's no way that I could know which specific friends of person B are also on the friendslist of person A just by looking at person Bs friendslist.

I also tested that "hack" with one of my friends that has all connections hidden. (I only see 1 mutual friend and no other friends)

The result was that I could see 38 mutual friends between him a the mutual friend I have with him.

And yes, that's what I meant. English is not my native language.
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Yeah, the title should just be "Don't be Evil"
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I think you're paying for the latency in this case
Owning an AR.Drone 2.0 the thing I most hate is using their mobile app to control them. The Bebop looks small enough to make it worth using my mobile to control it. I can see why the introduced the Skycontroller which looks pretty interesting. Saw a guy build something like this for his homemade drone.

http://blog.parrot.com/2014/05/12/introducing-parrot-skycont...
"I'd much rather have seen it built around scheme, [...]"

It's not meant to be built around any language. If there's a language you want to use, just start using it. All you need is access to the system calls. The whole point of making everything a file system is so that you don't have to cram everything together in the same address space. There's no foreign function interfaces or calling conventions you have to deal with if you want to use a new language with the system. It's all reads and writes. Ocaml, Haskell, and ML all have read and write, so if you want to use a less primitive language, there's nothing stopping you.
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It has Node.js, which I guess is JavaScript. Or do you want direct access to V8?

Edit: If you expand the list of supported languages, it shows Python too.
I've always liked http://ideone.com/ for testing snippets. Bewildering array of supported languages including esoterics.
Yeah, have you heard of IP-law?
ading ci6 of 'y','i','o','e' makes a nice difference, giving "bouncy" names. Generating more gives more chance of good names.
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Quite choppy at the moment so it's hard to play with, but how does this differ with ideone.com ?
Interesting OT even for a native english speaker. I'm frequently surprised at the origins of idioms that I use all the time.
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It would be awesome to just open a project on github & run it without downloading / installing. Great tool to tinker & learn. Add some profiling tools to the mix while you are at it. Imagine you are trying to decide between 2 different libraries or frameworks. You could just fire them up in Github & try out for a bit before making up your mind. Would be nice to generate compile & generate binaries on the fly too instead of downloading them from 3rd party sources.
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That last bit is the unusual thing. In real life you meet a lot of people who think Snowden should go to hell, but in Hacker News you are beyond the pale if you think that NSA surveillance is less important than say, homelessness, global warming, the drug war, etc.
Where are they running the code? I could easily write malicious code that would crash the machine on which the code would be running on.
The peachyprinter's (not peachtree) drip system also drastically reduces the resin needed in comparison to existing DLP/SLA/Photolithographic type printers.
I wouldn't say they're slow. You wouldn't believe the rate they're adding features to Dota 2, for example. I believe that they're actually quite a small crew with very ambitious projects, and they tend to move around a lot.
How do I access that "Edit Privacy" dialog shown in the screenshot?
'video' makes me wonder if there's a way to 'hack' an encoder (h264/avc?) to use P- and B-frame information to mark moving areas (that's what they're supposed to be good at) so that "only" still data (I-frame minus what moved) remains. Now you've got a lot less data to churn.

Also, in this process, could marking pixels with "stillness" probabilities resulting in some blending factor (alpha channel?) before flattening the I-frames thing work?
Ironic. I switched from Evernote to Springpad a year or so ago, because Evernote was so awful. No great loss though. I never really found much use for either service.
This are (probably) the installation costs.
Couldn't agree more. Open offices, while fancy looking, sport apalling usability. After moving into ours we had super issues with the team adapting to the noises and layout. Things got better only after most of the people started using headphones.

Separate office with a closed door = productivity boon.
I found a full working rails app, which does everything from creating the database to running the webserver.

What I'm actually interested in is how they suddenly got on nr 2 in google :-)
I saw the interface designer Mike Matas was in the list.

Mike Matas joined Facebook a few days ago (incorrect! see bottom), before that he founded Push Pop Press (digital publishing company). For some time he worked at Apple designing new interfaces (presumably iOS7) for iOS and MAC. He was also de founder of Delicious Monster, the makers of Delicious Library, which interface was later copied (inspired?) iBooks from Apple.

Being Mike one of the +400 friends of Zuck and also working at Facebook, I wonder if they where real-friends before being aqui-hired. Or maybe its Zuck adding him as facebook-friends a way of welcoming Mike to the company.

EDIT:PushPopPress was acquired by Facebook 3 years ago, not a few days ago. http://pushpoppress.com/about/
Mike Matas has been at Facebook for almost three years.
28 days later and 28 weeks later were filmed at silly o'clock in the morning in London to get an abandoned feel. They just had to digitally edit out some early morning commuter traffic on a bypass that was visible in a couple of the scenes.
I'm fully pro-abortion, pro regulated market capitalism, pro welfare and state healthcare (I'm English and I think the NHS is the greatest thing the UK ever did).

I have a complex stance on government/capitalism, I think certain industries (particularly natural monopolies like utilities, transport (trains) etc) should be state owned/run or possibly state owned/privately run (with sufficient safe guards) as those industries enrich the whole of society and shouldn't necessarily need to make a profit (shortfall covered from taxation).

I'm not American but if I where I'd be anti-second amendment (it's largely a settled issue in the UK, privately held guns are rare).

I'm against an interventionist unilateral/bilateral (usually us and the US) foreign policy, while it's nice to think we can help play world police when you actually look at it we only intervene where we have a vested interest (even if tangentially through the US) and quite frankly spending that kind of money when we have major problems at home is idiotic.

I'm in favour of much stricter regulation of personal data (quite frankly the law simply has not kept up with the progress of technology) including government use.

I'm in favour of prison reform towards a more Scandinavian model, whatever your views on punishment vs rehabilitation the re offence rate here is so high punishment is clearly not working.

I support the reform of our political system including the introduction of proportional voting, reforming the house of lords (it should be elected).

I'm undecided on the monarchy, one side of me leads towards been a republic, the other half values the history plus there are advantages to your head of state not been the head of government.

I'm undecided on immigration, I lean towards a point style system similar to what the US and New Zealand use.

I'm undecided on the EU, it's been very difficult to find clear evidence on way or the other for whether it's a benefit for us as a country.

I'm undecided on Scottish independence (and quite frankly it's the job of the Scots to choose anyway) however I do think if they vote for independence it should full independence and they should be unable to rejoin the Union without a full referendum (including Wales, England and Northern Ireland).

I'm pro-nuclear and pro-renewable's (Nuclear is the only realistic technology we have for massive baseload generation at present that doesn't produce huge amounts of CO2, it's the least worst option) with renewable's on housing stock providing a useful input.

I'm anti-Trident (it will never get used) and think we should reduce military spending hugely (We are currently spending far too much on defence), reducing the defence budget by 20 billion (about 40% reduction) a year and putting that into upgrading the civil infrastructure makes more sense.

Essentially I believe in things that each of the major parties in the UK both love and hate (which is one reason why I like proportional representation, I can express complex political beliefs in a more reflective way).
Really liking this! Hope we can have something like this in iOS8 :)
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I very much doubt it was a "requirement" in any sense. My guess is that the co-worker from India totally misconstrued the situation, due to not having a good understanding of American culture.

I could easily see the dialog being quite friendly, and going something like:

American: "Hey, that was one hell of a deployment, but it's done now. Let's have a round of drinks, to celebrate!"

Indian: "No, I don't want to."

American: "Awww, why not?"

Indian: "I've never had alcohol before. I don't want to."

American: "Come on, try it, it's fun! We do this after every big deployment."

Indian: "No, thanks."

American: "Okay."

The American thought he was being friendly and inclusive, by encouraging the Indian to participate in a pretty common American celebratory custom. The American was somewhat more assertive than the Indian was expecting, like many friendly and outgoing Americans can be. The Indian misinterpreted this as "pressure". She tells her Indian friend. He lacks a good understanding of American culture, too, and misinterprets the American's behavior. He posts here, and we have this discussion.
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Nifty, but this one has a higher purpose. It can run an entire project in a framework.
Amortized over 10 or 20 years? That sounds comfortably low to me.
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And the list at [1] doesn't include rsync.net, who's business is providing reliable off site disk storage.
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I may be wrong here but to address a comment above, my hunch is this is spawning a light, short-lived VM for this, which doesn't eliminate security concerns but would be sandboxed enough to make it tougher.

I was trying to get some info on environment in C++ but unfortunately,

> Oh no, there's a problem with Runnable!
Arducopter is open source: https://code.google.com/p/arducopter/

You can tinker around with the source code. Memory of the APM is limited, though.
I'm missing plain old C? You could use the C++ one but an extra one for C would be nice.
Hmm am guessing this site is getting a lot of traffic at the moment.
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Even from the example link the post gives, I am neither friends with Mark Zuckerberg (who has a private list) nor Chris Hughes (who has a public friends list). In this instance I have not had to befriend anyone!

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/friends?and=ChrisHughes

And given that FB has a history of just changing the default security for things without telling anyone, or making the defaults fully open/public, this is a little worrying!
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There are plenty of names that are nonsense (Kodak) or whose meanings are not obvious (Pyrex = Pyro (fire) Rex (king)).

Using a created name means you have less risk of trademark problems. You also create a strong search benefit. (See Fedora's baffling decision to rebrand their file browser as "Files" and their curated package manager "Software" for examples of something that is now impossible to find using search engines.)