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How does Nimrod compares to Go regarding concurreny,does it have some libs or some language onstructs ? thanks, I like how the language looks.
Devicons, an iconic font made for developers
I have tried Dorvak (I can touch type with it, but a lot slower than my non touch typing on QWERTY).

One thing I noticed since then is that as a programmer typing speed or touch typing is not so important. On the command line I have tab completion, and in my IDE I also have the equivalent. It rarely takes more than three keyboard strokes before I can get a sensible list to choose from. Its a lot more efficient than tying top learn to touch type.
Django's ORM seems to be one of the areas they're consistently improving upon. Sure it's not SQLAlchemy. But SQLAlchemy is just an ORM, while Django is quite a bit more. Though I really love how SQLAlchemy separates it's core from the higher-level ORM.
Malaysian airliner shot down on Russia-Ukraine border, 298 fatalities
Happy Birthday, Slackware!﻿ and keep update us..
I wrote a JSX transformer for Coffeescript, it's quite stable now:

https://github.com/jsdf/coffee-react-transform
Who owns testing?
Is it me, or is the text using DirectWrite (in 37) much worse than the text using the manual renderer (in 36)? The harshness of the renderer is one reason I prefer Chrome over IE.
This is targeted in the same article, although no clear answer is given:

Questions were raised as to why Malaysia Airlines had continued to fly over such a volatile region, where separatists were known to be shooting at aircraft. Qantas, the Australian carrier, said it had been steering clear of the area by 400 nautical miles for several months. Malaysia Airlines said that after the crash it immediately altered its flight paths, while other airlines either did likewise or emphasised they had already been taking alternative routes.

"With immediate effect, all European flights operated by Malaysia Airlines will be taking alternative routes avoiding the usual route," said a statement from the airline. It added: "The usual flight route was earlier declared safe by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. International Air Transportation Association has stated that the airspace the aircraft was traversing was not subject to restrictions."
Interesting ... does this do any kind of store and forward or relaying? Say I send a message to a friend who happens to be out of range, but there was another GoTenna user who neither of us know, but who is in range of us both, will it relay the message via this 3rd party (encrypted) or is it purely a direct connection between sender --> receiver?
IIRC when the other Malaysian Airlines plane went missing that went up on HN, and that was before all the 'hacker friendly' tracking technique stories.
Thanks and Great work <li>Download and extract the repository</li>
<li>Copy the <code>devicons.css</code> to your project</li>
<li>Copy the <code>fonts</code> folder to your project</li>
Link to GitHub repos: https://github.com/vorillaz/devicons
And that too, you will have to do across all the layers in an application stack.
Oddly, I think I have this. I've tried to explain the vague faint multi-colour noise that overlays my vision that is especially noticeable at night to e.g. my parents before, and they didn't get it. I've always assumed it's normal and that I just failed to explain sufficiently.

Reading the wiki article:
> In addition to visual snow, many sufferers have other types of visual disturbances such as starbursts, increased afterimages, floaters, trails, and many others.[9]

eh maybe; I have no frame of reference

>Non-visual symptoms such as tinnitus, depersonalization-derealization, fatigue, speech difficulties and cognitive dysfunction (brain fog) are frequently encountered.[citation needed] Secondary psychiatric sequelae such as anxiety, panic attacks or depression may develop and necessitate appropriate treatment.[citation needed]

Tinnitus: Yes, sometimes it flares up a bit for about half an hour before going away again. There's a background level of ringing in an even slightly quiet environment, but I'm not sure if it's just the blood rushing through my ears.

I also like listening to music at a loud volume (I find it hard to enjoy music otherwise.)

Depersonalization-derealization: Not sure. See 'depression' below.

Fatigue: Yes, which I've associated with my depression

Speech difficulties: I stutter and find it hard to remember names, but if I'm presenting something you would never realize either of these.

Cognitive dysfunction: Quite possibly. If I'm in a more depressed mood, I can't think.

Anxiety/panic attacks/depression: I was diagnosed with clinical depression a couple of years ago, when it got so bad I stopped caring about anything and went to a doctor.

Headaches/migraines: It varies wildly, but I do get headaches quite badly on occasion. I put this down more to stress & depression.
> There's a bigger risk from them taking the bus to the conference

The risk to an individual attendee of dying in a bus accident on the way to the conference is certainly higher than the risk of dying in an airplane crash on the way to the conference.

However, the risk of 100 of them dying if they all take the same flight is almost certainly higher than the risk of 100 of them dying in bus accidents on the way to the conference (even if they stay together and all travel in the same bus). Even very bad bus accidents in cities in first world countries tend to leave many more survivors than fatalities.
Asthamtic here; I feel ya. However, I can also walk into a pharmacy here (Ireland) and explain to them that I'm an asthmatic, and need a releiver inhaler. They will give an "emergency" inhaler, (same inhaler, no questions asked) over the counter and ask me nicely to go to the doctor for the next one.

You're probably an edge case. The vast majority of people who are ordering from online pharmacies are doing so because they think they know what they're doing, and because they feel X or Y, they should take Z. This isn't really a problem with inhalers per se, because the amount of them you are required to ingest is actually pretty damn high before you are in any danger, but for stuff like prescription painkillers, people are self medicating and avoiding doctors visits for issues that they should be seeing a professional for.
Or "unbroken", even... ;-)
People are unfortunately probably going to post stuff like this, guidelines or not. It gets flagged and or moderated down pretty quickly in most cases, though.
How reliable is that video?
I recommend that you instead read some of the posts that have been upvoted on LessWrong. For instance, here[1][2][3] are some of the highest-voted, really good posts.

This article is sensationalizing a single downvoted post from several years back, and holding this up as evidence of LessWrong being stupid. By the same standard, I could paint any community-built website (such as this one) as anything I please.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/4su/how_to_be_happy/
[2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...
[3] http://lesswrong.com/lw/4e/cached_selves/
Hey,

If you'd need someone looking into UX, UI and front-end work on this, shoot me an email (contact information in my profile).
I work within the fields of digital design and would be very interested in giving a helping hand for a project like this.
If you thing the State will ever do the right thing then you're wrong.
In Haskell, `a -> b -> c` and `a -> (b -> c)` are the same types.
FWIW, it's now fixed.
Thank you. F@$!#% paywalls
There is only a subtle distinction between selling an information service like targeting and selling the underlying information.

Consider, a mobile phone network that sold drone strikes on its users using the privileged information they have on their location. The precise flow of money and information is not that important to the consequence for the end user.

Google targeting is "using information about me to benefit another company for financial gain of Google". It is not silly to call this selling...
Because it's ridiculous to think this is a conspiracy? It's a complete coincidence. On any long range flight like this you're likely to find a big bunch of people heading to some conference or other. Especially one like this that's a convenient link between Europe and Asia.

It's also 100 people from a conference of 25,000.
They shot down a A300 thinking it was an F14, and they were in a heightened level of alert because they (the USS Vincennes) were in Iranian waters, chasing a small naval boat that they claimed shot at their helicopter.

As an aside, the IR655 tragedy was one of the first were data was available to separate fact from fiction.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/18/opinion/witness-to-iran-fl...

This tragedy, IR655, and KAL007 are all stark reminders that war is often without discretion.
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Using the high bit to indicate an error result isn't unknown on other OSes either - see NTSTATUS on Windows, and HRESULT in COM.
if you look at the mh17 flight patch for the last couple of weeks you will notice that they all flew different route (west or over the sea of azov). This downed plane took extra steps (100km to the east) to fly over the war zone, almost as if pilots wanted selfies with russian troops in the background.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MAS17/history/20140717/10...
The NOTAM is pretty standard for overflying a small-arms / light-weapons conflict zone. Mortar and medium artillery can loft up to 30,000 ft on high charges.

It obviously didn't consider the use of dedicated anti-aircraft weapons. But even primitive shoulder-launched MANPADS like the original Strela-2 have been recorded striking easy targets over 24,000 ft ( a Hunter over Oman in the 1970s ).
Perhaps I don't have enough karma to message directly, but can't see a way to send messages inside HN. Can you provide a way to contact you?
Witness to Iran Flight 655
They are only partially replacing them because at the moment they are more expensive. The very moment producing electricity by burning coal becomes more expensive than by using solar or wind energy, we will see a huge spike in the number of solar/wind farms built. And burning coal will become more expensive the less we have of it.
On Windows this will require stripping a digital signature off the target exe file. Microsoft did a good job conditioning people into not running stuff that is not signed, so BDF'd binaries are really no good for online distribution. Thought I guess this may work with users who run all and everything they download from the Internet.
I'm afraid that I don't follow what you mean by interferometry being the next big thing. I was pretty well under the impression that it was the PREVIOUS big thing. For example, when I was in undergrad, the oldest professor in the department had done interferometry during his PhD thesis. His adviser, who died before the moon landing, had done interferometry during his thesis.

Hell, I built an interferometer during my thesis. I tell myself that it's not old hat because I was doing it with neutrons instead of photons and we had a clever way of getting huge fluxes without drowning out our signal, but it's also something that you can explain to a grad student in half an hour. Or an to undergrad in ten minutes.

Anyway, I'm sure that I'm missing something here. In what area had you heard that interferometry might be the next big thing?
ISPs are loosely segmented into "Hosting" and "Client", except they're usually called "content" and "eyeball".
Equilibrium lifestyle for humans? It amounts to saying that we could run out of problems. Since we can't, we'll continue to create new ideas and new technologies. And then deal with the unforeseen consequences. Etc.
Exactly. Americans are complaining about petrol hitting $4/gallon in some states, but if they had to pay $9-10 per gallon like some European nations do, they would drop the massive 6.0L V8 engines and switch to 1.6L turbocharged diesels tomorrow too. It's only a matter of price.
It is usually a few professors, who have their researchers and a bunch of PhD's with them. The thing with researchers though is that if done properly every single one of them should be a leading expert on a very specialised area of the field. Only the full professors probably could more generally be considered a leading expert probably.
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Can you provide a reference to, or a better description of the 'ideas coming out of UK local government' please?
Speaking of Empire I've always loved this article about someone who was addicted to playing Empire and developed coding skills to process the email reports to win out:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/26419/...

Is there anything comparable these days?
As someone who is almost done with a fairly large personal project that's built on top of the REST framework (~8,000 lines of Python). I gotta say it's an awesome library. Whenever I find bugs, someone on GitHub is always ahead of me. I've been using it with Python 3, and so far I've had no 3 specific issues or bugs. I especially like the way DRF handles permissions and throttling. It's quick and easy to switch out the permissions on any given view. Features like the built-in throttle classes, and search filters are very convenient. The thorough documentation, and browse-able API are also really nice. My only real suggestion would be to break up some of the larger code blocks, and add more hooks. This would make the framework even more flexible than it already is.
All I see in COMM is ksoftirqd, btrfs-transaction or md127_raid. No real programs names :(
I don't think this is valid anymore. The author states that team is more important than product. However, if you have a great team you will always have a great product. If you have a bad team, you will never have a good product. For that reason, team = product, so product is removed from the equation.

Then you have these three statements

1. When a great team meets a lousy market, market wins

This is probably true, since a great team can win in any market, no matter how small - or they simply open a new market.

2. When a lousy team meets a great market, market wins.

I don't think this is correct as this is not the case for 99 out of 100 startups and it normally only holds true in really, really strong markets. However, in most cases, a lousy team means a lousy product, means no product market fit.

As an example you can take Facebook. Insane market, however, it took an extremely good team, in our case Mark Zuckerberg with a unique launch strategy to finally open that market of social networks.

3. When a great team meets a great market, something special happens.

This holds true and this basically happened with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Instagram and all of the unicorn startups.
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> lack of automatic dependency resolution

I never really felt this to be a problem. Slackware has everything you need in the installer you hardly ever have to install new stuff for most of the standard things.
I tried the pharmacy counter approach once at several pharmacies, they wouldn't do anything without a prescription from a doctor. In the U.S., asthma inhalers are used by a few silly teenagers to get "high" (for those without asthma: effective rescue inhalers are corticosteroids that as a side effect also accelerate your heart rate). The reaction in the U.S. of course has been to make the rescue inhalers difficult to get for the ~25 million people in the country with the condition.

I would want to see some estimates on how many people are actually abusing online pharmacies to harm themselves or others vs. people using them legitimately to get medication that's otherwise unavailable or too expensive locally. I know at least a couple of women that use them for birth control, because there's a product available that way that isn't available in the U.S., that has less of a hormonal impact than the usual stuff. (I don't know the name of the product or anything else about it, though.)

As far as abuse goes, I suspect that abuse of ADHD drugs might be somewhat common, and I'd bet there are at least a few on HN doing that (because it's been discussed before), and honestly I find it difficult to care at all about that kind of abuse.

I don't think that further removing access to affordable medication is the right way to get people to see a doctor.
My first too, 3.0. I remember laughing at the package descriptions while installing, one in particular: bison: a parser-generator in the style of yacc. I eventually left because the lack of meaningful package management was becoming too much of a hassle maintaining systems longer term. For years I then roamed between various distros, trying most of what was out there, and finally settled on Gentoo around the mid noughties which I found to offer the same or higher degree of control but without the manual process overhead.

Strangely, with the way containers are going, I think I'm actually becoming more likely to head back towards Slackware's userspace as a well tested and documented minimalist environment, in the near future than in the recent past.
I thought about using smartphones for this kind of thing. They are always online, like a web-server. Also, everyone can install an app.

A server which runs on a smartphone and holds all your data and only friends and services you like, get that data.

The biggest problem would be traffic, I guess, but it could probably be minimized with sending only deltas and p2p-meshs.

This system could use a web-api to integrate better into current landscape.
Off-topic: Jean Valjean as described in a book would not gain much by being exposed to popular opinion and definitely not by the society back then. His first crime have been party out of desperation, but the rest was just him being impulsive and not thinking even five minutes ahead.

He was very close to current low socioeconomic status (ghetto) boy stereotype - those do not get breaks nor lower sentences.
Malaysia is not going to be a major player in this particular incident. We are too small to be of any significance.
To be fair though, hasn't everyone who has started playing with HTTP in code manipulated online polls at some point just to learn? Does anyone actually put any weight in online polls other than linkbait headline sites?
Why unfortunately? In such cases, HN usually provides a lot of insightful technical comments. If a mainstream news item considers technology or failures thereof, I don't see why it doesn't belong on HN.
You've basically conflated what an independent NGO provides as a choice to what a government enforces as a policy. No point in debating things now. I'll leave.
From the OP (emphasis added):

> Originally (in the days of Linux 1.x / 2.0) Linux attempted to be binary compatible to existing Unices on common hardware (the personality(2) system call is also part of this). As time passed, compatibility with other Unices became mostly a non-issue – but now we do need to maintain binary compatibility with older Linux binaries…
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On any given flight you'd probably find a large number of X, where X = leading AIDS experts, semiconductor researchers (MH370 anyone?), football players, etc. You could fit a conspiracy theory for any plane crash.
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But it was heavily flagged. After an hour, it was at a far lower position than other stories with a fraction of the votes of the same age (e.g. the Nimrod link).
And that is the main problem here: ISP's are competing with themselves. This is why everyone hails Google Fiber so much: it's a dedicated internet service provider, and does not compete with another branch of the same company. As a result, they (or any dedicated ISP for that matter) will try to get their users the best internet experience and speed out there. In theory anyway.
Ask HN: Looking to partner up with a growth hacker
I'm working on a cool web service that could help lots of people and make money. It's currently in stealth mode and close to launch.

I need a growth hacker to partner with me and build this into a world-class, future-altering business.

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That's not really true, check out this comparison of flight paths:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2014/07/17/mh17/4f...

It was a route taken by SQ ,KL and others

EDIT: oops sorry I haven't realized the labels aren't part of the image, I took it from here

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/17/world/europe/m...
Oh no, it's not you. I say that without DirectWrite font looks nice and smooth. With DirectWrite it's broken, it looks like some Win 3.11 font without anti aliasing. Just look at letter w - you can see pixels forming diagonal lines. And bottom row with grey letters is almost unreadable.﻿

Edit: I was referring to screenshot shown in article, not to DirectWrite in general.
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It's funny, I was just this morning digging into syscalls and how they work. I even submitted a link to one of the pages where I learned new things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8052183. Thanks for posting this one!
I disagree.

My grandfathers Wartburg from soviet era takes 7 to 10 liters on 100 kms. Most modern cars have around 5 liters on super-economy mode. Sure they are much heavier and saver, but overall fuel consumption is not much improved.

You should also calculate energy needed to produce and maintain the car. Wartburg engine has only 7 moving parts and can be disassembled and fixed with screw-driver. Most modern cars are thrown away after 10 years, because it is too expensive to maintain them.

I think we could easily reduce energy consumption 5x by making simplier and lighter cars. I am not saying to give up computers and other modern stuff, but keep it standardized and replaceable.
Really? I wouldn't trust this with any form of secure communication.

https://ephchat.com/?room=%3C/title%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http:/...
I just bought it and it does not work on iPhone 4. I did not read the description before buying, my bad.

Unfortunately the app does not appear on https://reportaproblem.apple.com/.

[Edit] The app finally showed up on the "Report a problem" page
I think I may be suffering from this as well. I thought it's normal but I do remember not being able to explain it to my parents when I was younger. I also experience most of the related symptoms:

* tinnitus - less nowadays, but I remember having some problems at night as a child

* depersonalization-derealization - it's occasionally happened for as long as I remember

* fatigue - I thought it was caused by my depression

* speech difficulties - yeah, I thought it's related to the brain fog I get when I'm nervous

* anxiety

* depression

Now, my visual symptoms seem fairly mild, I wouldn't say I've been affected much. But if the other things turn out to be related...

Is anyone doing studies in the UK?