skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct, it's Ireland. As far as visa restrictions go it seems to be somewhere between extremely difficult UK and relatively simple Germany.

Cost is all relative, I guess. Pay is lower than SF, but I also am paying less than half of what I would for my apartment. Given that I was spending a lot of money to take what vacation I could in Europe anyway I actually save a good deal on vacation budget this way too.

I find I have to be careful in conversations because I sometimes gasp at how cheap places are, perhaps insensitively. I guess I just got used to apartments always being $2000+. Of course, it still stings that a "cheap" pint is €5 (I remember two dollar beer night in college not so many years ago!)
http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-3.5/slaktes...
Flightradar24 shows the move away from Ukraine airspace
Welcome back to the real world :) I'm going on holiday at the end of August. Sussex and the Edinburgh Fringe!
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Show HN: Rome – date picker component with no dependencies
https://www.waytag.com/ is a ZA startup that's been around for a few years. On a cursory glance, this seem quite similar? I don't think WayTag ever gained much traction.
"(X), où est-ce"/"Ici, c'est la rue (X)"/etc. is the form I've consistently heard from native French speakers.

And the point was not to say that the French is un-understandable, but that the structure and the use of infinitive form is alien to an English speaker. It does not naturally occur to an English speaker to use infinitives the way they're often used in French.
How Much Should You Get For Your Invention Idea?
Whenever I take vacation all I think about is how many days left till I have to go back to work. Vacations are like one big countdown clock looming over me. I'm honestly less stressed at work I think.
Which Wikipedia pages edited the most inside Houses of Parliament?
> Don't block; seriously, don't block. Just spit out the output of a properly-seeded PRF (e.g. AES in CTR mode).

/dev/urandom does that and it is the suggested way to get secure random numbers for 99% of the applications.
They do have a choice - as a huge book store they have a leverage over publishers which they have used with great success.

They CHOOSE not demand their books to be available globally from publishers.
Sorry to delete my comment after you replied, but I realized it contributed essentially nothing and is not the type of comment I like to see on these posts. I think this is a cool tool as well.
I think that postcodes divide a country not evenly but are chosen by population density and the distribution structure of the post provider. Look at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Karte_Bri... for example, each distribution center is responsible for one or two double digit prefixes, the first digit roughly indicates the region. Areas with high population density have a much finer coverage. I don't think there would be any benefit from switching to Map Codes, as they have to be mapped to something like post codes anyways and they are not precise enough to serve as residential addresses.
Tastypie is great if the way it works out of the box is exactly how you want your API to work. (And for some people, that's probably true.) If not, it's kind of a pain to hack in customizations.
New Brunswick is officially a bilingual province. There are lots of opportunities for bilingual (French/English) speakers in Ontario as well.
- we cover the whole process of website development - from mockups and designs (you can upload them to TrackDuck) to live website (can communicate with your team and manage issues directly on the webpage and get feedback from anonymous users)

- the communication is realtime

- we provide not only static image feedback, but animated GIFs also (you can see real activities of your clients on your website)

- both way integrations with Basecamp and Jira

- pricing - we do not charge for users (just for the projects you use)
This is a big stumbling block for Swedes trying to speak Danish (which is a very similar language grammatically, but pronounced quite differently). Going "all in" reminds many people too much of Swedish comedians making fun of how Danish sounds, so they worry they'll sound mocking if they speak like that. So, many will try for a less "exaggerated" Danish accent instead, which ends up not sounding very Danish at all. Doing the Swedish-comedian-impersonating-Danish accent is actually a decent place to start, but it just sounds wrong and borderline offensive to Swedish ears to try it.
I'm from Brazil and got curious about the "unlimited vacation", how it works?

The U.S. is the only advanced economy without a vacation floor. (To join the EU, 20 days is the lower limit.) Three weeks is typical for an average job (but some companies are sleazy and pool sick time and vacation under "PTO") and two for a crap job.

It's surprising how reliably you can predict the quality of a company and job based on vacation allotment. Four weeks: solid, professional, you'll be treated as an adult. Three: average, mediocre. Two: dysfunctional, run the fuck away. Subtract one week if they use that pooled bullshit ("PTO") where sick leave is deducted from vacation. It's a horrible policy, because it means people come into work sick and everyone gets sick more often, but not only is it (shockingly) legal in the US to deduct sick days from vacation, it's not all that rare.

Generally, the assumption is that you should get one week off per decade (e.g. 2-3 weeks in your 20s, 3-4 in your 30s, 4-5 in your 40s) and that, if you have less than that, you're probably too old for the job you're in (you should be further along). That's not a legal requirement. It's just the cultural expectation. If you're 50 and you're still on two weeks, you haven't succeeded at life.

(It's different for consultants, who get no "paid" vacation but charge a higher daily rate. They can generally take off when they want, and can make more than most salaried people working 100 days/year. If you can pull it off, that seems to be the way to go after 40.)

Some startups have undefined vacation policies. This can be really good (if there's a positive culture) or really terrible (if it devolves into a race-to-the-bottom dynamic). It depends. (The one company, with more than 50 people, that I worked at with "unlimited" vacation was terrible. That's not casual, of course, and it's just one data point.) Better is to set a guideline (4 weeks minimum) but allow exceptions.

In software, the more talented people (until they can become independent) solve this by working "from home" and doing a bit of working travel. Free of office distractions and interruptions, you can actually accomplish more in a 3-hour "day" than most people get done in their 8-10. The downside of WFH is that you're still expected to be available during the full 8 hours, and if people get the sense that you're getting your work done in three, then they ask why you didn't ask for more work.
How do they get a chandelier in a light bulb?
Why Bitcoin’s Path to Boring Maturity Starts in New York
The official docs are wrong.
TOO MANY ONIONS..... Them dam feels
TBH I don't see the point of PH when there are sites like AlternativeTo to name one of many that do the same thing and not just with web and mobile apps.

The way I see it PH is just a trendier (and barebones) version of these other comparison sites that happens to be in the same room with the guys making the products that are going to be compared.

That's a conflict of interest, there's no other way to say it, and I wouldn't take the opinions on PH as seriously as those from a 3rd party, same way I don't get a loan from a bank because of the ads they run but because of the rating unbiased consumer watchgroups give them.
You are correct. This is the real problem. (They even use an Indian business card as an example...)
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This service would have the extremely interesting effect of replacing itself with all your reading sources. Consider: Given a choice between buying a book elsewhere and reading it here, you're going to choose the latter because it's free. But also, if you normally read a book per month, since you're paying for it whether you read or not, you'd have to basically read more from here to be able to make it "worth it". So given a choice between buying a book elsewhere or reading a different one here, you're still going to lean towards reading it here. Pretty smart!
Not an actual expat, but travel a lot.

Lived in a small beach town in Mexico for a month. There were a lot of expats there, super cheap, safe, friendly town. Everyone there spoke enough English that I could get along easily without any Spanish. Quality of life was fantastic. Only downside was very slow/unstable internet access.

I'd seriously consider South Africa, a place like Durban. Great city, everyone speaks English, low cost of living, lots of culture/resources/fast internet, tons to do. Was just there for two weeks. Super nice people, very health focused society.
You have such an upbeat view after such dedication followed by failure. It's hard, so thumbs up to you!

What do you think were the contributors what you say is your failure?
I was giving you the benefit of the doubt until you put Arabic in the same category as Mandarin or Spanish. Vernacular Arabic is as much a single language as vernacular Germanic. Not at all. Mutually unintelligible languages that qualify as Germanic; Nynorsk, Bokmal, Swedish, Danish, Hochdeutsch, Allemanic, at least 4 varieties of Swiss German, Dutch, Frisian, Scots, English, Jamaican Patois, Tok Pisin.

[Incredibly vulgar abuse]

Learn a language if you feel like it, or it will be useful. Don't learn it for the money or the career. Trust me that aside from English all useless unless you can work in them well enough to translate to English.
I am currently on an indefinite hiatus/sabbatical/vacation after quitting my job at the beginning of June. I had been working on a project I didn't enjoy for a year and a half, culminating in the most horrible failed iterations I've ever been a part of: a new feature we started last November -- that should have taken maybe two months -- didn't get finalized until May. I've never been so discouraged and burned out on programming in my life.

I knew I'd need time to "heal" after that experience. It took a month and a half but I'm finally starting to feel interested in coding again. I'm really glad I took that time (and that I was lucky enough to have the means and an understanding SO).
Could that just be noticeable because they're side by side though?
Yes, you'll need to enable the flag, but it you are using it for communication within the team - it's not a big deal.
The whole screen capturing gives an ability to see the real interactions - when user scrolls the page, redirect to another page, etc.
ISTR that UK postcodes narrow things down to around 15 properties.
There are many more than that though. Basically you can draw a line from Congo to Algeria, and every country west of that line speaks French. There are 4 exceptions : Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

That still leaves a huge pool of speakers. Probably not enough to make it the 'most spoken language in the world by 2050'[0] because it is mostly spoken by educated and urban people, and far less in the countryside, but enough to make it a dynamic, growing language.

[0] : http://www.forbes.com/sites/pascalemmanuelgobry/2014/03/21/w...
In other words, there is no way to make a meaningful universal statement about vacation.

Except this bit:

Taking a break is good for most people.
The TomTom founders definitely didn't "just kill the postcode."

> Mapcodes were developed in 2001 by Pieter Geelen and Harold Goddijn, soon after the GPS satellite signals were opened up for civilian use. It was decided to donate the mapcode system to the public domain in 2008.

Can we get an update to the click-baity title?
Since I currently work remotely, stable/fast internet is a must...
I can understand this for “old” architectures (i386), but if a new architecture is added, there are no binaries with which one could be (in)compatible?
Is firebase even open source? How is this anonymous? Does anyone know what data firebase collects from its users?
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Seems very similar to the NAC: http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/
Microsoft Discontinues Android, ASHA and S40
Thanks. I agree that maybe, if you balance out the total good vs total bad, you could make an argument that world-wide things are, on net, better, depending how sanguine you are about population growth/totals. But the way he makes that blanket statement just pisses me off - he's obviously not looking too hard for other indicators. I don't trust anyone who can't take a more nuanced view: some things good, some things bad.

I agree that developed countries - still a large part of the world - are deteriorating.

- Debt, of all citizens and particularly of young adults
- Waste - I think there's some giant plastic floating garbage dump in the pacific
- Pollution - Most water bodies in the US are polluted (mercury). Haven't been to china, but I hear it's not a fun place to breathe.
- Food quality (cheap carbohydrates == diabetes for a big portion of the population). Also, how much toxicity do you want in your fish? Do we want to all be beta testers for Monsanto, just to stay alive?
- Food sustainability (pesticides - which eventually get resistant weeds, synthetic fertilizers, over fishing, corn-fed cows)
- Food cruelty (factory farming)
- Energy Sustainability - Pretty sure pumping unknown chemicals into your water supply (phracking) is NOT good.
- Population - There's still the fact that perhaps 2 may chinas may come into the world due to population growth, which doesn't seem like an optimistic outlook.
- Traffic - how much time do we sit commuting in mega-sprawls vs previous generations
- Mobility - how many of us have the option to stay close to our family when finding work (helps when raising kids), vs having to relocate for a megacorp
- Child care - how many of us raise our own children, vs have both parents work

So if we're doing a lot of things that are unsustainable, I don't see that as 'good'. I see that as 'bad'/negative. Maybe we will improve technology in the future, but past performance does not guarantee future results, and it most certainly doesn't mean we can all pat ourselves on the back for being so great ("improving the world").

So yes, I'm US-centric admittedly, but un-qualified rosy (or negative) generalizations piss me off, because you're probably not looking very hard[1]

I will probably read all of his letter some time, but it shouldn't have to be so off putting. Hopefully he doesn't try to sell his "fake meat" crap. You know what? If the world was so better, we wouldn't really have to eat that shit, would we? The same with veganism. Carbs are awful for your teeth. I also don't think most humans are designed to eat carbs, and I've lost enough weight myself to never want to eat them again. So if we all have to eat mass cheap carbs, to stay alive, things are not 'better than they have ever been'.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_science
If everyone on those networks were saturating their connections 24/7, then yes, there would also be network performance issues.
The bulk of your "business internet line" services are really only expensive due to the SLA that is attached. Drop your SLA, and the price will drop sometimes up to 80% (even though it is still technically "business internet connection" and is on the same business line subnet, etc).
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How does this relate to Filecoin?

http://filecoin.io/
http://filecoin.io/filecoin.pdf
can't wait for August to take a break from my daily job! The more I'll change my lifestyle in this short time, the more my brain will "refresh".
I hope everyone here will find his own "vacation", regardless of the budget.
Non dynamic?
I was having the same expectation in French, hoping to survive with only present, passé composé, future proche and "en train de" and avoid more complex things :)
And it will probably be enough, if I'd master them, but I still don't remember tons of verbs, words and the pronunciation, oh my god..
As an Italian it shouldn't be that difficult, many things are almost the same, and in some situation it is (e.g. reading it) but the pronunciation is not easy and false friends are everywhere, so most of the time I don't know if I'm saying something that is sort-of French or I'm just mimicking French by removing some vowels and consonants here and there from Italian words...
This is misleading - it uses Firebase for the server! How can the OP claim that the server is not storing messages if the OP doesn't control the server?

I have no reason to trust that Firebase isn't storing the messages. Why should I?
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My first instinct was: bad idea.

But then when I thought about it is actualy something that has troubled my quite some times.

Lat and longitudes are perfectly fine but in general they are to "simple" for people to use.

When I think of a location in the world I generally think of the country cause I know to some extent where most country's are located.

For example I would to describe some place in Miami I would describe it as in the lower right side of US and continue to work downwards from that.
I have "unlimited vacation." Basically, there is no allotted number of days for vacation. At first, it sounds great, and for a day off now and then, it is. However, you can't just leave and spend all month at the beach. You have to justify your reason for taking off a week or two, asking yourself questions like "Have I done enough to justify a vacation? Can I take time off and not let down my team?" In contrast, getting a guaranteed number of weeks off doesn't require you to justify any time taken off. Instead, it's viewed as part of your compensation.

With all that said, unlimited vacation is not that bad in a good workplace with an understanding employer and team. I work hard, and I don't feel guilty about taking time off. What's annoying is when employers hire you with the lure of "unlimited vacation" and actually plan on turning you down if you try to go above a normal amount of PTO. In that case, it's all to their advantage.

When it comes down to it, be skeptical anytime an employer says things like "unlimited vacation" or "flexible hours." Unlimited vacation can mean that they just don't have official vacation days (and can deny you time off), and flexible hours can mean hours only flex one way: up. What people often don't see is that while the 40/hr work week and standard 2 - 4 weeks of vacation seem archaic and even oppressive, having time limits can also protect you as an employee. Remove those limits, and you just have to hope your employer continues to promote healthy work habits.
It's funny, for years I focused purely on the technical, or at the very least the technical reason for something. But the more I do this, the longer I'm in it, the more I realize that very little is technology.

It's really all about the human factors - and mostly the emotional ones.
It seems[0] as though in british english (.gov.uk) learnt is acceptable.

[0] http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/threads/5331-Ues-of-Learne...
Low-altitude SAMs (a/k/a "MANPADS", Man-portable air-defense systems) can be quite small. But SAMs as a weapons class cover a lot of ground.

The Buk missles are ~700 kg (1500 lb), 5.5 m (15.3 ft) solid rocket systems. They're close to a sub-orbital missile system, and might be picked up by an orbital tracking system.

That said, I'm not sure what optical or infrared tracking exists. There's some discussion of SLBM/ICBM detection by the 7th Space Warning Squadron, but it seems largely reliant on ground-based PAVE-PAWS radar.

There was the 1960s MIDAS orbital infra-red detection system, replaced by the Defense Support System:

"The satellites are in geostationary orbits, and are equipped with infrared sensors operating through a wide-angle Schmidt camera. The entire satellite spins so that the linear sensor array in the focal plane scans over the earth six times every minute."

So any given spot on Earth is scanned once every 10 seconds. DSS involved 23 launches, I don't see information on presently active satellites.

There's also the note:

"The DSP constellation may have offered an excellent vantage point for an early warning system against state-centric threats such as missiles, but military analysts warn its ability to collect intelligence on non-state actors is severely limited."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MANPADS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system#Missiles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Space_Warning_Squadron#Miss...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_Defense_Alarm_System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Support_Program
Don't you find it a bit disingenuous to skip disclosure that you work for the company?

You could have submitted this with so much more information instead. Maybe you can tell us how it works, or provide a working demo that doesn't require a 'trial signup'.

The linked page claims that this does video capture, including capture of the user's desktop (outside the browser) without using 3rd party software. How?

Also, why are you storing this in gif format? MP4 is much smaller and has support in modern browsers. Twitter is even using it to replace gifs (re-encoding gifs on upload to mp4). It seems odd that if you're already capturing video and converting it to a web-consumable format that you would use gif.
Does anyone have any idea why Linux has a distinction between /dev/random and /dev/urandom?

Legacy adherence to some defunct interface?
Ignorance on the part of kernel devs (seems unlikely)?
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=learned%2C%20learnt
I've been using Slackware for years now both at home and at work. It's a great distro and that's because of Pat!
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I live in Playa del Carmen, MX a lot of expats live here and recently i have been meeting programmers or remote Startup devs working here, internet is unstable once in a while in depends where you live. There are a couple of coworking spaces and plenty of coffee shops where you can work close to beach.