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Exactly, the price for a driver spot is driven by demand, it's not expensive just by law.

Traditionally, getting a driver license in Spain has always been like signing for a relatively well paid and secure job for life. And moreover, there is no need for any investment learning any particularly difficult skill. This is all supported by ridiculously high fares backed by regulations.

This is not to put the blame on taxi drivers, I truly believe they are choosing a honest option to make a living. But considering that an important factor, if not the most important, for the Spanish economical crisis is the inability to adapt to a global economy, with this kind of actions, the message the government is sending is: "don't invest your time learning to code, or getting engineering degrees because we are still trying everything in our hand to keep traditional professions secure and well paid, not like those new risky technological jobs". The average Spanish programmer is in a more precarious situation than anyone with a highly regulated unskilled profession.

Here in Spain, I'm constantly seeing measures to try to maintain the old ways of living at any cost with total disregard about how the rest of the world is evolving. I'm not claiming globalization is good or bad but it's happening, and if the Spanish government keeps trying to hide it from its population with more debt, in the long term, it only means less economical competitiveness for the country and slimmer chances to catch up with the rest of the world in the future.

Defending these minority groups only means more poverty overall for everyone in Spain.
that is the start and end of my point. the site is poorly made, and other than being a collection of links, provides little else

make-and-forget-unless-it-becomes-popular
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Desk editor and fellow hacker at dusken.no here. For international viewers, an English version of [2] is available here: http://dusken.no/artikkel/22627/a-brainy-family/

I'm stuck at home with a herniated disk, but more is probably getting translated as we go along.
I recommend watching Person of Interest. The TV show has started long before the NSA scandal, but it's like a Hollywood post interpretation of some major event. Except it was a premonition.
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No, this is the "you tried to gun me down last week - let me show you the weapon I've bought just for you!" argument: What goes around, comes around.
nice idea, but seriously get a designer. that landing page scared me away. sorry for being honest.
its been happening for a while... take a look at expression engine ecosystem.
Why do you use the phrasing "heavy-duty (dependant) type system"? Are you of the opinion that dependant typing is overkill for general programming?

What is your opinion of Idris?
Are you a non-native? The culture of overcharging foreigners is probably still pretty strong in many places (it was born during the communist time, where every westerner was perceived as a walking wallet).
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Linux kernel 3.17 is released with some nifty new features
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You can control who got a valid pseudonyms, and how many they are. And you can distribute pseudonym validation and make it visible enough that you make sure people don't record them.
Only in that the suppressed wages of engineers at Apple, Google, Adobe, etc., were the "market rate" through collusion. Or that $0 is the market rate of NCAA athletes who earn billions for corporate profiteers.
The Mosers' work is very much deserving recognition. They've made fundamental discoveries with really beautiful experiments (well-designed, well-executed, thorough). On a personal note, I referenced their work on place cells as a possible use of phenomena I was studying in my own research. And I wasn't even aware of their ideas when I started (they occupied a slightly different sub-field of neuroscience). It's delightful to see the Mosers rewarded.

Another item of note: During introductory neuroscience class, the idea was "Hippocampus, learning & memory. Hippocampus, learning & memory. Hippocampus, learning & memory." Perhaps not so brutally, and I may have missed some subtleties. I found it quite refreshing to learn that the hippocampus was involved so deeply in a task that wasn't so starkly "This arbitrary experimental task is aversive; I, mouse, must avoid it." Hippocampus...is there anything it can't do? <Leonard Nimoy: "The answer is yes.">

Following is a neuroscientist's get-off-my-lawn rant

or

A Comment Wherein `bl Gripes about Stretched Tech Analogies Concerning Neuroscience.

A GPS device receives signals from a set of beacons with well-established, fixed locations (i.e., geostationary satellites). Knowing the beacons' fixed locations, the device is able to triangulate its own position. A GPS device can go to a completely unfamiliar location and work exactly as well as when its at a location its been to hundreds of times.

One could conceivably think of a mammalian visual system surmounted on a position-encoded cranium as equivalent to the GPS beacon system. But hippocampal place cells would have absolutely no contribution to navigating an unfamiliar environment because they had not been "trained".
Make it well-structured, consistent and concise.

One of the best examples I've come across is the documentation for Rackspace Cloud Files: http://docs.rackspace.com/files/api/v1/cf-devguide/cf-devgui...
Steal someone else's doc. Someone who did a good job. (CC-SA licensed or similar so its legal) (And edited to add, doing the right/moral thing wrt attribution and thanks, is important, not just doing the absolute minimum that whatever legal license requires)

Not kidding. Its an effective checklist and provides decent balance, at least a first guess at checklists and balance. Think of it like a development framework... for docs.

A really difficult startup problem (aka a good one) would be automation for doc writing. When you code its really easy to have automated syntax checkers and testing systems and A/B binary search algos to scan thru a git repo to find when a bug was introduced... and when writing docs its still the 1980s, maybe 1990s, you've got a spell checker and maybe a grammar checker and possibly some kind of "grade level analyzer" that just looks up and calculates average syllable length of words. There must be something better out there.

There have been no shortage of historical attempts at inline doc generators and template systems and markup language for technical docs. However, none have revolutionized the world, at least not yet.

(Edited to add, just caring about this issue puts you ahead of the pack, which is either a very optimistic comment WRT you, or very pessimistic comment WRT everything else on average... Glass half full or half empty LOL)
Can you do a startup in the wrong country?
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So, I'm pretty sure you're just being intentionally stupid.

In the context of JavaScript, it should be fairly obvious that the "client" is a web browser.
And Mr. Poettering should know all about being an obnoxious asshole: http://youtu.be/_ERAXJj142o?t=16m31s
I'm not either, pron is. I just pointed out that the link didn't apply.
You're absolutely right that we need a designer (hell that landing page should itself be hosted on wym).

I intend to take some pointers from [here][1] when I'm too tired to be building. :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380344 (Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?)
More often than not, I want the in-place version. When dealing with a significant amount of data, it's better not to make unnecessary copies. What is your argument for wanting to discourage mutation? Either way, the argument of the parent comment is clear, it's best to follow established naming conventions.
Actually use the framework (every feature) and write down everything you needed to know to use it. Really, the more time you put into something the better it will be, so just make a good effort and it will be good.
Am I the only one who excitedly clicked on the link thinking it was some sort of library that parsed JavaScript in an isomorphic data structure that could be symbolically evaluated?
This is really an open source alternative to IFTT. I don't see it as really in the same space as Stamplay.
NOT REPRESENTATIVE.
To torture a metaphor: it's root access to your own mind.
Anything hinting at free association that isn't a direct propaganda line of statism will get you hellbanned on HN. Beware.
Unfortunately yes. Hopefully this is just a fad and people will grow out of it.
Larry Niven's short story collections are well worth picking up. His first is 'Inconstant Moon' and it's where I first discovered him. Some of the stories later developed into key parts of his Known Space cycle of short stries and novellas. They're all great stuff, but IM is the starting point.

If you like it you can check out the rest, if not then they're only short stories so not too much of an investment in time.
Isomorphic Javascript: for when you've decided that the 1993 Netscape engineers managed to produce the perfect language for programming computers.
I do use the framework quite a lot. Actually, I'm not even sure there are loads of users or something like that. It's more like a personal project that has the potential to be used in many projects.

But yeah, I'm a pretty heavy user of my own framework :)
Very rarely do I watch something and am instantly consumed by it.
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An easy mistake to make. The docs could be clearer.
So you're assuming that I don't know about this stuff? And that the members of Debian who voted against systemd doesn't know their stuff? Or even that Linus Torvalds (who's often complained about how bugs in systemd get pushed back as bugs in the Linux kernel) doesn't know his stuff either?

While it's true that systemd does have it's supporters; equally not everybody "who actually knows about this stuff" likes systemd either.
Have you gotten in touch with the folks over at OhLife? It would be awesome if they'd throw a link to your project up under FAQ so disappointed users have a place to go.
It’s still only one product. The innards and the software are exactly the same, no matter which watch you buy. Functionally they are all identical.

The customisability of the exterior is something new, sure.
Or KOHCTPYKTOP: http://www.zachtronics.com/kohctpyktop-engineer-of-the-peopl...
In my experience TDD is orthogonal to project design strategy. Whether your testable goals serve a bottom-up progression or a top-down progression, TDD is still a useful mechanism for advancing the feature set.
It's not a function, an infinite list or an iterator. It's a cyclic linked list.
Sparc had an explicitly available scratch memory. Pity there is nothing comparable in the more mainstream architectures.
the fact that you couldn't understand me 3 times in a row, should easily prove the fact that misunderstandings / poor explanations can be given

and it wasn't fairly obvious, I work software, not web-dev. using a browser as an application host is something I know of, but I do not spend any time thinking about.

as I said, atom jumps to mind

that being said, I knew that my interpretation was wrong (I actually had to explain that my initial view was wrong, 4 times, to you, my god) so I looked for more information

which is the meat of my complaint, it doesn't provide information

- - -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415448

- - -

all you have been doing is telling me that my interpretation, which I considered incorrect, is incorrect. I don't know what you are trying to achieve with that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415363 "hmm, maybe I'm missing something here"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415420 me saying my interpretation was meaningless, and also very specific use of the word "either"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415472 me saying my interpretation was meaningless again

and then you finally tell me my interpretation was wrong. I think I know its wrong.
You can't choose what your potential customers will use to find you.
Lack of food is rarely a problem that is found in isolation. It usually exists in a context of social and political turmoil. If first-world countries want to stop people from going hungry, a good first step might be to stop exporting arms, rather than concentrating on handouts.
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> Try telling Haskell that ;)

That's funny because Haskell has monads, which was firstly a philosophical term but has three different meanings in math and another one in music theory (which is just math too).

You can argue Haskell's monads are monads (in the category theory sense), but I'd argue in Haskell they mean "a way to express types of sequential computation" (they're one specific case of monads).

You know what these have in common? They all allude to "mono", which is an actual word in Greek. Just like iso and morph.
That particular market is incredibly distorted.

Available funding is constrained complicated ways, and the whole incentive system is a mess.

Departments/PI's can't hire for the positions they would choose, so they hire postdocs for very short terms (often 2 years or less) because they can. Candidates can't get the positions they want (e.g. TT positions) so they take post-docs until they age out or find/settle on something. Everyone understands that there may not be a classic TT position for everyone interested, but the system has so far mostly failed to come up with any sort of viable alternative for long term employment. Not that TT is what it used to be, either.

As a result, continuity in labs is very difficult to maintain as the senior people rotate out too often. Couple this with the growing tendency for PI's to spend more time fund raising than doing research and you have a lot of lost and wasted effort.
It was discussed recently in LLVM mailing list: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-July/074530....

Chances are, someone is already working on an implementation.
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Just starting a union won't get rid of swing shifts. Some public transportation drivers are in a union and work swing shifts.
Read the book:
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ISBN-10: 0321103289
A little bit of context... I overheard my 17-yo daughter lamenting the closing of OhLife last week and it dawned on me that there might be many, many others in her position. Did some quick googling and didn't find any replacements that were exactly the same as the original. Opportunity?

Lately I've been obsessing over the FAN stack: Firebase, Angular, and Node.js. And I happened to have a full 3 days available last week, so I hunkered down and cranked this out. And I have every intention of setting it up as a sustainable little passive income project and FAN playground. I can't really imagine why OhLife guys felt the need to shut down. I could be way off but back of the napkin calculations for me show this costing less than $100/month to host, even with massive uptake.

Now once I went out there and started doing a little promotion, realized that it turns out that there are indeed a couple of other contenders wanting to take OhLife's place. One is an open source program that you can run yourself. That's only going to appeal to the tech crowd (I think.) And there's one called Trailmix written by some guys from Thoughtbot which is charging $3.99/month. (My gut says that won't fly.)

Cool thing is that the source for Trailmix is open. It's a Rails 4 app so I got to see what the same app looks like written in Rails.
Thanks, that's actually a great idea.
I thought Buzzfeed was on the list of domains you can't link to? If not, this post is a good example why it should be..
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Isn't this fundamentally similar (as an idea an purpose, not an implementation) to the Internet 2 effort, which started in the mid-nineties if I recall correctly?
> Maybe you are the problem. I don't know a single OSS developer that is more hated than you.

Lennart's complaints about Linus are on point here. But not for the reason Lennart thinks.

Linus has scathing personal insults. And people don't hate him. Because most of the time... he's right. Linus has gotten where he is through brains, a lot of work, and a certain amount of luck. His code has been adopted through sheer technical merit.

Lennart has written a lot of code, but the perception is that much of it was adopted for political reasons. This adoption goes directly against the core principles of the Open Source movement.

i.e. people feel emotionally betrayed.

In contrast, Linus telling them to go fuck themselves is just strong wording around a technical discussion. It doesn't hit emotional buttons in the same way.

The "feature creep" of systemd is another case in point. Systemd is increasing it's functionality, and forcing people to use it. Because the alternatives are no longer supported, or their favorite software is now welded to systemd. This process hits more emotional buttons.

The perception is that Open Source is about freedom, personal choice, etc. When people have choices removed in Open Source software, it hits emotional buttons. When they get told "my way or the highway", they get deeply offended on a personal level.

Lennart may be right in all of his technical decisions. But the environment he's in means he's guaranteed to get a lot of flak for it.
Yes, you are right. Sorry for the misdescription, I don't know these English terms well, I'm a Chinese.
I wonder if full disk encryption by default will render Android unusable to blind people such as my self? When I encrypted my Nexus 7 2012 running 4.4 it turns out that you are prompted to enter your password before the talkback screen reader starts talking. Needless to say this is a major issue and no one from Google appears to be interested in fixing it as far as I can tell. With my iPhone Voiceover comes up talking and allows me to enter my password while still having the device encrypted.
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It is indeed true that taxi licenses in Spain are so outrageously expensive that taxi drivers have to take a mortage big enough to buy a house, to pay for it.

There are certain industries in Spain which have legal barriers of entrance, so that it is very difficult for newcomers to get in, such as pharmacies and taxis. Think of it like a mafia.

That said, it has been proved on a TV programme, that a spanish-looking person taking a taxi, the taxi took a short route, and a foreign looking person taking a taxi from the same place to exactly the same destination, the taxi took a much longer and expensive route.

That said, it is my opinion that taxi driver and truck driver as a career has its days counted, in the light of innovations such as self driving cars. Obviously there will be a fierce (and presumably violent) opposition to the introduction of such disruptive technologies, they will lobby as a group (or as a mafia) trying to avoid that overtaking the market, but in the end those technologies will win.

So in the end, it is irrelevant if Uber can or can´t operate now in countries like Spain, because taxi drivers have no future.

The only hope for smart taxi drivers will be to buy a self-driving car and operate it 24hours a day (that is, embrace innovation as opposed to resist it, resistance is futile), while working themselves on something else, or just enjoying life.
dweet.io, the pub/sub service from BugLabs now has alerts, which means you can fashion conditional triggers. Still in beta though.
That was my thought as well. It's Google's product, and there are alternatives. Why should they have to change it? If people keep using it, they are probably getting the results they want. If not, those people are free to pursue the alternatives.
Yep you're right, that one solve a very specific problem about monitoring resources. We want to empower people to build products in an easier and more efficient way :)
> How does "government" know exactly when to tell people to look for something else?

I'm not sure why you put government in quotations, but the government doesn't know; it's supposed to decide through bargaining.

> Do you think it's possible that the "insiders" might try and influence the state to get them to tell that to newcomers in order to gain a bigger share of the pie for themselves?

Sure, but that's the name of the game. I would hope that politicians who want to get reelected support sensible policy (or at least a sensible "grand bargain"). The way the game is played sucks, but it's a lot better than living at the mercy of those who have more means (not that it isn't like that anyway, but at least democracies give people the power to organize and form an opposing power to capital).
I especially agree with your last sentence.
As a Stamplay co-founder, since the thread is getting crowded of many HN users that know this space very well I think that this is the perfect place to share my vision on how programming will evolve

https://medium.com/@giuliano/programming-easier-better-faste...

Feedbacks are welcome!
You have just found a hard problem. :) More seriously I find depending on the users needs, different documentation are needed. Documentation for beginners. Specifications which include any gotcha that anyone ever tells you, also what it doesnt do that people try. And how-tos to get stuff done. And never believe anyone who tells you the code/test documents itself. It doesn't. It just means your trying to get the users to document it for you. Which isn't terrible if you have to do it to lower cost, but lowers uptake, and gives a worse experience.
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Buzzfeed does some really fine reporting. But this doesn't seem to be a good example.
I'm really not surprised. fscanf is a really general thing, it handles many cases and has to do 'perfect' text to floating point conversions.

As a rule of thumb the formatted I/O functions are quite slow, and floating point makes this much much worse.

It's one of those few places where rolling your own functions for your particular use case will be much more efficient than using the one size fits all standard library solutions.
In Germany and Spain, there's a state-maintained taxi cartel. They don't want any competition - that's the point of a cartel to begin with - and so, their friends in the government are working to prevent it. All the bullshit regulation is just part of maintaining the cartel.

Apparently they don't have this problem in Poland, and rather unsurprisingly, taxis are cheap and competing by having nicer cars etc.
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