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So? Every person in US has legal access to 4 tons of screaming death on demand. The amount of assaults done by car is minuscule.
Location: I'm a recent grad hoping to relocate either to Boston, Austin, Seattle, Atlanta, or the SF area. (I'm open to other areas as well, depending on the opportunity.)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: 100%

Technologies: AngularJS, Django, JavaScript, Java, Python, jQuery, HTML/CSS, MySQL, MongoDB, Bootstrap, Git, AWS

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Email: davestess (at) gmail

I took a break from job searching the past 3 weeks to work on an interesting project (esp. for those familiar with fantasy football) built with the MEAN stack. It's not 100% complete yet, but I have a working demo up on Heroku. Please let me know if you're interested in seeing it.
Agreed that HN is not facing a unique problem of *ist comments/members. However, as the OP points out, given that the leadership of Y Combinator say that "Sexism in tech is real. ... We—the tech industry as a whole—need to fix this. ... And speaking for YC, it’s also in our best interest."[1] it makes sense that HN should be taking concrete steps to make the community a safe place for diversity. It doesn't really matter whether or not a representative portion of the community is behaving poorly. If a subset of the HN community is making HN inhospitable to the diverse members HN seeks to support, that is the problem that the leadership & the community should be trying to solve.

[1] http://blog.ycombinator.com/diversity-and-startups
Germany has things like the Max Planck Society[1] (with 32 Nobel Prized), but it's not directly affiliated with a University, so it doesn't count in the rankings. It seems to me those rankings favor very large institution; are the score even normalized by number of students/faculty ?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Society
New brain implants can restore autonomy to damaged minds
Ranking universities based on career outcomes
Researchers Create Nanoscale Memory Devices That Mimic the Human Brain
How much delay is between zones? Some peoples services don't come up instantly. Perhaps when zone 3 when down, the users services in zone 1 hadn't finished coming back up.
That's not the American model–it's the American myth.

You're leaving out the parts where Americans are enslaved to their corporate jobs through employer-provided healthcare, lack of unions, and a weak safety net. Combine that with regulatory capture by corporations, extreme concentration of wealth, and legalized bribery of legislators, and now you've got the American model.
"No, don't take away my beautiful abstractions!"
This logic is flawed. When does a tourist cross from being profitable to being a drain?

The tax argument only holds water if your income is earned in the country you are living in. That money came from a system that is supported by government and shared infrastructure and services. So yes, there is a strong legal and economic argument saying if you earn money from Thailand you should pay taxes in Thailand. The key here being earning money in/from Thailand.

But if you are visiting Thailand, but earning money in the US and paying taxes in the US, it's pretty difficult to say that you are a net drain.

You absolutely are equivalent economically to a tourist as far as your impact on the economy is concerned. As a non-local citizen, you won't have access to state health care (if it's provided) or anything else tax paying citizens have access to. And your absence from the country would be a net negative value since you will be paying $0 into the local economy instead of room and board, internet connectivity, and general consumption, which all can be taxed with a VAT.

Edit: Also, I promise I'm not trying to be an internet jerk :). But I'm not sure what you mean by laws have had to deal with this exact scenario for a long time.

They haven't.

Generally speaking, the common case is for people to evade taxes by leaving where you earn money and claiming to be a citizen of some other country with more lenient tax laws. Which is the total inverse of this scenario.
Before. I ignored tax, mostly because at the minimum wage you don't pay much.
400 MB costs less than 2 cents. Is it really worth your time and energy to worry about disk space when you could double the space on your machine for $50?
"go to school for free collecting degrees and certifications until you get a job."

Even if it's "free," there are opportunity costs for spending years and years of your life in school. Rich families can afford these years with no problem. But the worst parts of a credentialism race fall on those at the bottom who can't spend a decade in school or can't hack the classroom material.
"...text is flowed into \em{frames} on the page..."

Is that the example?
Exactly, and it never too "tens of thousands" of dollars to buy a mill unless you were buying one new. A used Bridgeport that can turn out all the parts for say .45 cal automatics (or lower receivers for an AR15) can be had with minimal tooling for less than $10K and usually less than $5K.
UC had very low fees until a combination of financial happenstance and determined Republican meddling (by Governor Reagan) forced them to first raise fees and then institute tuition. This was around 1983.

At the time actuaries for the state were projecting dramatic multi-decade declines in population. You can see how that turned out.
I think they would be regarded as an other contracts of adhesion, and many provisions would be unenforceable (such as unconscionable terms)

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Europe

Codemix is a small, experienced team of 4 freelance developers who specialize in shipping high quality web & mobile apps quickly. We have some availability at the moment and are interested in working with startups or larger, established companies who need to bring their product to market without delay.

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you can also see our github page at https://github.com/codemix - we mostly work with PHP and Node.js
>> The job of a word processor is to produce a document that looks exactly like what you type on the screen. SILE takes what you type and considers it instructions for producing a document that looks as good as possible.

>> SILE doesn’t show you where the lines will break, because it doesn’t know yet.

Genuinely asking: Why cannot the above be done in real-time as the user types? (I understand that would blur the line between a typesetting system and a word processor, but if output of the typesetting system could be produced in real-time, then that boundary should not need to exist.)
No, he pays ~110€ less.
> Germany could not have produced Facebook.

"Could not" is a bit strong. "Unlikely" I'd agree with.

But my rationale is different: German businesses traditionally have a strong bias towards B2B models (esp. the "Mittelstand") and startups eschew consumer-facing business models. For example, America has Microsoft, Germany has SAP.
> The only real solution I can see is a dedicated logging server, giving true write-only or append-only access.

Yup. It's not that hard to setup, and while running it in a VM isn't as secure as can be, it's still a step in the right direction.
Is there any really good documentation (book, article, series, etc.) on all the different models for this sort of thing, how they work, and it what situations they are appropriate?
> 290.37€ this semester, which includes 179.40€

~110€ less
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When I read the EULA of softwares sold in France, they often contain restrictions on reverse engineering. In France, reverse engineering is a protected right for interoperability purpose. If some parts of the EULA are illegal, how can it be a legal binding contract.
Call me old fashioned, but i have never used Dropbox or a similar service.

For the last 4 years, i have been using rdiff-backup in combination with a cheap, $10 100GB VPS and it has never failed me.
WebSockets and Long Polling Overview (JS, Ruby, Python)
If you can get investors backing you, you really don't need to care what your family says.

It is just as cultural in the US that many families are affronted by their children or relatives that choose to try entrepreneurship over employment.
I thought it was interesting with this discussion in mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8394136

As other countries have shown some socialist movements in recent years (Obamacare, weed legalization, Germany making universities free etc), we in Denmark, praised for equality and happiness, are tightening the screw. We are not studying for knowledge anymore, but for profits.

Though I am Danish, I am not trying to complain or be overly emotional. It just seems very interesting that we're all, globally, moving towards the middle.

Yes, I am painting with _very_ broad strokes.
It's the perfect twofer: a credentialism race combined with discriminating against those with criminal backgrounds. And it looks so innocent from the outside, too.
Microsoft’s new Sway app – WYSIWYG
Nothing is cut and dry in Southeast Asia, particularly when the government has just been thrown out of power by the military. The first thing you learn when living here is not to expect anything to make sense or work the way it should in your view of what's logical or practical.

Certainly Thailand has a history of being much more strict about this kind of thing than its neighbors though.
Anything to do with Aurora ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iUm_Cqx2s
I use Dropbox, but mainly for sharing files between a team and with clients. Also for the Camera Upload feature to auto sync photos from my iPhone.

I otherwise don't really have need for cloud storage for my personal files (1 machine for work and for home!)

I patronize other companies that employee people whose politics I don't agree with, so I don't really see the need to get rid of it for political reasons.
Your comment implies that there are two classes of people, "gun owners who understand firearms" and "non-gun owners who do not understand firearms". A casual glance at the deplorable accidental and unintentional discharge rates in the US statistics should make it immediately clear that gun ownership and understanding firearms have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

I say this as a non-gun-owner who was taught to shoot the old fashion way, by a 12 year old friend who got a rifle for Christmas when I was 11, and have subsequently taken enough firearms training, including in the armed forces, to understand firearms well enough to be terrified of the huge number of ignorant clowns who own them, no matter how well-informed and responsible the majority of gun owners are most of the time.

It is also worth pointing out that since the point of firearms is to make it really easy to kill things it would be disingenuous and stupid to claim anything other than "a gun owner only needs to fail in their understanding or self control for a moment to kill someone", and anyone who believes of their fellow gun-owners, "we never make mistakes"... well, people like that have good company in murderous tyrants the world over.

Everyone makes mistakes now and then. When people with guns make mistakes, other people die. Because the purpose of guns is to make killing really easy, and when you have a technology that makes something really easy you get more of it. To claim otherwise is to claim that intercontinental travel was as common before steamships as after, which is false.

Guns are a tool to solve a problem: killing things. Gun advocates in the US claim that this tool, and this tool alone, can be applied to the unrelated problem of personal safety. I say this is an unrelated problem because it is: in every other developed nation it has been solved more effectively than it has been solved in the US, without substantial reference to guns.

Let me say this again: the problem of personal safety has been solved better (people are safer) in every other developed nation without ubiquitous firearms. This is just a fact. Murder rates in Canada are lower than in the US. Murder rates in England, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Switzerland (where firearms are all inaccessible, remember), etc are all lower than in the US. People in those countries are safer than in the US, despite the freedom of all Americans to carry firearms and the overwhelming victory of the gun lobby in the US in the past couple of decades.

So anyone who advocates firearms as a good solution to the problem of personal safety is like someone advocating bloodletting for personal health. It is a solution that has been tried and failed. It's time to move on to something else, like civilization and the rule of law.
The problem is really its architecture rather than its implementation. The only way to fix the performance aspects of Atom (slugishness, RAM and CPU usage) is to start over and redesign it from a perspective of performance.
> general taxation in which case the people who didn't go to university (generally less well off) are paying for your degree.

That's a nice story, but it doesn't tally with the other story about UK tax revenues being overwhelmingly provided by well-off people. So which is which?

General taxation is not a bogeyman, if done fairly. If a poor person had to pay 1p per year to send a poor kid to university, with the other £8,999.99 being paid by a well-off person, I don't think the poor would have a problem with it... would you?
They already did that. Roguesci (Rogue Science) Explosives & Weapons forum was brought down by US government. That place was the most solid source of information I've ever seen in this particular area. http://www.amateurpyro.com/forums/topic/3641-what-happened-t...
@jeffbarr I just wanted to say thanks for not only posting this, but also sticking around in the comments section. Makes you + Amazon seem way more human :-)

Also, in case you have any "cloud servers" you want to decommission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373394
It is worth noting that this is also the opinion of RMS.
The regulatory aspect only comes in when shares are cashed out probably. The new RedditCoin wouldn't legally be shares so it's not bound to the same regulations. Only once the Coin is cashed into a share would it transfer and get bound to the same regulatory hurdles. At least that's the way that they'll probably try to set it up to avoid those issues.

IANAL
Computers are metal but programming languages are for humans. The purpose of functional abstractions is primarily to help humans produce correct code, not necessarily to optimize for speed. Referentially transparent functions, immutable data and type checking are meant to provide guarantees that reduce complexity, make a program easier to reason about and help stop the programmer from introducing costly and dangerous bugs. It doesn't matter how fast your "fugly imperative code" is, if it's incorrect. And the lesson we've learned the hard way over and over again is that humans are just not smart enough to reliably write correct fugly imperative code.
Unlock and tethering are great points. I'd forgotten those reasons.
As just a plain editor, it's hard to compete with vim/emacs/sublime. The interesting things LT offered were around connecting to running pieces of software and the truth is that we just ran against a wall in what we can do with our current languages. That's why Apple's effort with Swift is so important: they're designing the language to be tooled. We didn't have that benefit and along the way we learned that it actually wouldn't help that much anyways.

Any single tool is going to be an incremental improvement (at best) on programming, because the source of the issues is really the model itself. My suspicion is that programming is going to change substantially over the next decade, because while we've been worried about machine learning, rails, and hadoop, the notion of the machine changed out from under us. We're already starting to hit a wall as a result of that - reasoning about highly concurrent systems with the programming models we have now is nearly impossible. If we continue pushing LT for that way of thinking, it's unlikely to make much of a difference. Instead, there's an opportunity to embrace that change and take the ideas of LT to their logical conclusion: what would a stack built for today's machine that is meant to be used by humans look like? We stumbled on a solution as we did more and more user testing of LT and in the interest of self preservation we ran with it.

More practically, though, incremental improvements are hard to sell - not just to VCistan, but to programmers as well. Hell, even orders of magnitude improvements are hard to sell to programmers. We'd have no way of sustaining ourselves if we couldn't find some avenue to eventually turn this into a business - we looked and couldn't really find a reasonably quick way to do that. Matching the millions of man hours that have been poured into vim/emacs and so on is just not in the cards for a couple of guys with not much funding. Plus it seems programmers are increasingly less interested in paying for anything in general, so that didn't make our prospects all that attractive. With Eve there's a much clearer path towards creating a sustainable business that is able to continue towards the ridiculous goal we set out with from the beginning: to empower the world's creators.

We use LT every day. Lots of other people do too. It fills an important part of the ecosystem and we hope it continues to infect other tools and organizations who have significantly greater resources than a couple of guys in SF. But either way we will do our best to make sure that it continues. Unfortunately, though, it just can't be our primary focus - both because I think that would be focusing on the wrong part of the problem and because at the end of the day we have to pay ourselves and there's just no way for us to do that.
I loved dropbox, it was very useful. The Rice appointment was totally surprising, and the drop-dropbox page was fairly well-written, so I dropped Dropbox. It became immediately clear the company I thought they were and the company they are diverged some time ago. It doesn't really matter when, now.

My .bash_profile is much more of a mess now, but I'm more aware of where all my hard copies are. Before, I relied on Dropbox way too much to keep important stuff around.

Besides, tarsnap has a better CLI, am I right? ;)
it forces society to automate mindnumbingly boring jobs when there is nobody left willing to do them

I missed the headline that the biggest problem with the economy right now is "too many jobs that are too boring to do."
To control your API or not? The answer is
> handle a linked list as rapidly as the JVM handles an array

A linked list is not an array. Particular operations will have different complexities. One data structure is not "more rapid" than another.
So, why is this not in malware databases? Seriously, shouldn't this be up there with Conduit Search?
Node.js Web Crawler
I have to wonder if my recent blog post, "The MSRs of EC2", on September 15th has prompted this discovery: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-15/the-msrs-of-ec2.... . When I posted that, I could find no examples of MSR usage in EC2 or Xen.

I haven't checked after the reboot, but I hope the MSRs I'm using can still be accessed: IA32_MPERF and IA32_APERF (to calculate real CPU MHz); IA32_THERM_STATUS and MSR_TEMPERATURE_TARGET (to calculate CPU temperatures); and MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT and MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT1 (to see turbo ratios).

I use them in the showboost, cputemp, and cpuhot MSR-based tools: https://github.com/brendangregg/msr-cloud-tools
one highly visible recent example of this is thiel's proposition that startups should try to create monopolies and avoid competition. this is taught from multiple perspectives in the core curriculum of business school. every mba (who didn't just dial it in) knows this, so it's not particularly insightful to a b-school grad.
> The worst solution is to get less people educated

I agree with the sentiment that since the pointless massive debt of a university education makes the graduate baristas life more miserable and thus can become more frustrated and prone to demand change in the system, but you could have the same outcome by skipping the wasted years and just getting frustrated mixing drinks straight out of your compulsory state regimen.
We renamed Aurora to Eve, though it's changed significantly since that video. We found lots of issues with that way of thinking about the world and so worked to find a better model. The name Aurora didn't seem to test very well, but we've found Eve to work rather nicely.
did you try duplicati? the fact that dropbox doesn't have client side encryption is a MAJOR issue

also duplicati is open sourced
All the best to Mr Perham for his new project (which I guess won't be Ruby software), Sidekiq is a fantastic piece of software that addresses the needs of Actual People™ and does it in an efficient and streamlined way. That being said, it is true that the model is not as clear cut as the "Full-time Open Source" in the title would have you believe.

Which doesn't change the fact that there is an open source version of Sidekiq that works perfectly well, the Pro add-ons are most likely the only non-free parts and you don't necessarily need that to use Sidekiq.