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Ariane 6 is a joke. First launch in 2020, billion dollar budget. Compare this with what SpaceX did. Are you kidding me? This should have been more ambitious.

Airbus wanted to use SpaceX but the French flipped out so they have to stick with Ariane.
India has the same general conditions as described above, and to a far greater extent than the US or France. Rather than individualism it's "every family for itself", but apart from that your description fits India better than the US.

Crime, apart from sex crime, is far lower. On many occasions I've walked around at night and been in no danger.

I'm not even sure if black Americans satisfy your criteria, actually. The US has a huge safety net - most of the bottom ventile are supported by the government. And my general impression is that black communities are far more collectivist than the rest of the nation. Do you have data on this?

Something really weird. On the one hand, the minute I heard your theory, I immediately thought "wow, this has to be overfitting". Then it took only a few minutes to realize these conditions are actually quite common and probably describe everything besides Scandinavia. And even those Scandinavian nations have subgroups with far higher crime than income levels would predict.

I'm sorry you found my question insulting. I'm simply attempting to determine if there is a real theory here; many people expressing similar mood affiliation to you have none, and I'm trying to avoid getting into a long debate about mood. My apologies.
this a posted a few days ago
Create a 5th div that exactly overlays the focussed element, and give the overlay an inset box-shadow. (You may need to pass through mouse events programmatically.)
Don't complain about downvotes, the points usually rebound to positive a few minutes later.

Also, it's better to flag the spam instead of complaining. You need some karma to flag an article (500?). Enough flags can kill a story. If you are going to complain anyway, try to use complete sentences:

Bad: "wtf is this on HN?"

Not so bad: "I think that this story is off topic and spam (but I have not enough karma to flag it)."
The problems with "unions" is that they are a nebulous thing. The main thing they do varies enormously from sector to sector.

They are associated with and often still do a lot of things that I really want to part of. I associate joining a union more with joining a political party than what you describe, rightly or wrongly.
> In the UK I pay ~£16/$25 per month to be a member of Prospect, a union for workers in the telecoms sector. When I was made redundant (downsized) they were able to get me an excellent settlement and provided me with incredibly useful professional advice.

Thanks, I didn't realise we had a union for our sector.
Thank you!

A printable list of commands would be nice.
>> "1) no comments from strangers, ever."

As someone who's been using SoundCloud for 6 years this has always been one of the features they've done right. Comments aren't obtrusive, they can be made relevant to specific parts of the song, and they are easy to access (or not access). Sure on very popular tracks with thousands of comments you get spam/useless stuff but on less popular tracks comments can be insightful, provide feedback to the artist and provide information useful to the listener.
This is absolutely true. One of my favorite arcade games from the 80's where I've spent countless hours and played it to death and I can't remember the name of it. To this day the quest to find it again continues. It's like an adventure or something.
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I agree, but I doubt it would be in the interest of those making the decision whether to prosecute. So, I fear it will not happen, at least not for a few decades, maybe a century or two.

Yesterday, I heard this quote: "America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." (Reagan, 1983). Made me immediately think of gitmo.
The point isn't that they are details. It's that you made them up.

You seem to be imagining a scenario where there was a dispute over custody where a court was involved, and that the court, knowing that the mother would move in with a psychopathic criminal, handed custody over to her.

I'm not sure what article you read, but the one linked mentions none of that, so I'll assume that this is a figment of a very bitter mind.
I think you are mistaking systemd pid1 and systemd the project, this is not in pid1 but in the networkd component.
I've been in interviews where they made it so obvious they didn't want anyone with any commitments it was cringe-worthy. Also accompanied by a contract in which you agree to do as much unpaid overtime whenever deemed necessary by the company in order "to do your job".
You mean do some sort of opportunistic encryption on http:// connections? Wouldn't that just make things ambiguous again?
Your data has a story
Reminds me of this recent Businessweek story:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-wor...
This is worth reading, to develop your software engineering skills.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Personal-Software-Process...
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yummyfajitas' point about noSQL DBs was -- the old guy saw DBs before SQL was created and understand the trade offs.
Ask HN: Best chair with attachment for laptop
Can anyone suggest a chair with an attached table or desk if one exists for working in a compact space with a laptop. I use Aeron chairs at work, but for hack sessions outside of work I am usually at a coffee shop. I was hoping to find a decent chair that has some form of attached surface to put the laptop on.
Probably would at first. Go ahead and build it!
This greatly helped my understanding of how compilers work.

How different would the implementation be for x64? Would it primarily be a matter of translating opcodes and calling conventions? For example, pop ecx is 59 [1], and on x64 it looks like it would be pop rcx, which is also 59 [2][3].

[1] - http://sparksandflames.com/file/x86InstructionChart.html

[2] - https://defuse.ca/online-x86-assembler.htm#disassembly

[3] - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff5...
And it's substantially south of 1000 lines of code. It's not a full PPP daemon, but it is enough to set up (it seems) PPPoE - useful, example, for small embedded DSL routers.

I love that people bash Lennart for code he didn't even write...
Does anyone know if something like Prospect exists in the US? In the U.S. the only unions I'm aware of are collective-bargaining type per-workplace unions, where either your workplace is unionized (and therefore has union representation) or it isn't (and therefore doesn't). When I worked in the U.S., I was unable to find an organization that would let you join individually, and then provide employment advice and representation. There are professional associations like the ACM, which you'd think might provide some employment & advocacy type services, but the ACM at least doesn't provide anything like that. I'm not sure if that's because of American labor law making such an arrangement difficult/impossible? The Danish quasi-equivalent to the ACM, IDA [1], does provide those kinds of services, but the labor system is quite different overall.

[1] http://english.ida.dk/about-ida-0/about-ida
> dependency injection isn't needed in RoR, as mocking/stubbing is so simple, and built in (with RSpec, say)

Disclaimer: not a RoR guy.

Dependency injection isn't about unit tests. Dependency injection is about weak dependencies, easier refactoring, and preventing bad design decisions from being a disaster 5 years down the line. Dependency injection is a good idea no matter what the language/framework is.

That's the point of the parent comment. A dev in his 50s would point these things out.
It feels like time goes faster as I get older (I'm mid-twenties).
That's sounds good and easy, and can accomplish the goal, I'll open a PR for try your approach, thanks!
I use this as a secondary table/cooling pad

( adjustable height)

http://img5a.flixcart.com/image/cooling-pad/n/f/8/dgb-murray...
So glad to see the "new Microsoft* is so much different than the "old Microsoft".

/obvious sarcasm
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There are legitimate reasons for moving the functionality of an external program into a library and using the library directly. Unfortunately, the reason for a PPoE library is not given. If I had to guess, it probably has something to do with running on an embedded platform. Or, possibly, the normal pppd binary requires too much of an operating system than systemd can provide at the point where networking needs to be set up.

These are my guesses. Your guess seem to be that Lennart is unaware or unwilling to consider orthogonal design?
"We can't..."

UK has had a fairly strong market liberalization starting from Margaret Thatchers reign 30-something years ago.

e.g. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisation_of_British_Rail

What do you think happens when a state monopoly is suddenly privativized without serious competition in the market?
no need to manually handle clicks, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3680429/click-through-a-...
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Many on HN would like to show up tptacek. The lack of response speaks to the lack of evidence.
Two oddities, there's a technical difference between a GUI desktop environment and an operating system, even if the commercial vendors insist they're conjoined twins and alternatives to that worldview are a thoughtcrime. So this is an OS of the Gnome variety, not a OS of the retroBSD variety.

The other oddity having lived thru a slightly earlier era in high school, we did TONS of sneakernet peer 2 peer filesharing using floppies. The stuff he needed would be getting would be kinda obsolete, on the other hand the school had stuff laying around so if you wanted a "turbo C" it was literally sitting in the library waiting for you to copy it. Anyway I'm surprised he never found anyone to trade "warez" with.

In '99 when the story started I already had 5 or 6 years of experience with a linux desktop at home, first with SLS floppy based installs off a BBS, but by 99 I had a couple years experience with Debian, makes you wonder what would have happened if the guy had been on an abandoned isle with a linux distro instead of quickbasic...
To find an explanation of the process I would really just look at the number of programmers working in any given year. There are many times more new programmers starting professionally in 2015 than 1985 while mechanical engineers, lawyers and poets get produced at a roughly even rate.

That in itself creates a huge skew, there are fewer 50-something programmers because 1985 produced fewer programmers. I think a lot of the concern/focus on the youthful "fetish" in the industry is this kind of an illusion.

In the early 70s, Rockstars were by definition in their 20s. These days, if you are looking for rock mega stars who can fill arenas anywhere in the world, you will find rockstars of all ages. In fact, rockstars like Mick Jagger (70s), Steven Tyler (60s), Prince (50s) are more likely having had decades to accumulate fans.

It turns out that the 27 year old rock god cliche was a product of the fact that it takes time to make a 60 year old and no one was making rockstars in 1929.
> the only thing keeping me (or someone else) from my car if I park in a WSU structure/lot is a simple programmable barrier gate.

Those gates aren't as simple as you think :)
Given that less than 1% of employees are partner level or higher, this idea is numerically ludicrous. To the best of my knowledge, the "up or out" thing ends at the "senior" level -- well before partner -- assuming it even still exists in the new system.

The posts from "Mini" are always interesting; the comments much-less-so, and recent ones consistently seem to devolve into immigrant-bashing.
Yeah! is the approach I also follow in the library, you can check it here https://github.com/zzarcon/focusable/blob/master/app/focus-e...
In Canada, we called them badges, or at least that's what I remember: Scouts and Venturers were a long time ago.

But, yeah, that was exactly my confusion too. I was expecting really bizarre "diff -c" output....
Not a startup but have you considered Google? They have a whole legal team dedicated to this kind of stuff, you'd have a lot more luck there.
Thats something the raid handles. Plus its loud in the server room, we have to wear ear defenders. I'd assume that in most cases its on smart errors. However, as I let Dell do all the heavy lifting its pure speculation.

From talking to ex-seagate people most errors are because of misalignment, X-IO (http://xiostorage.com/) make their money by bundling Re-alignment tooling into their disk packs. If I was in the market for pure block storage again, these are the guys I'd buy. (they call it remanufacture)
I know almost nothing about Quantum Mechanics, this seems to provide an interesting model for all particle behavior. I realize it's just a model, but why isn't anyone attempting to explain the actual 'fluid' part? What is that? They just refer to it as 'space and time'.. is this some form of pure energy field? is this the Higgs Field ? (or some other field) I realize that this might be an extremely stupid question. It seems consistent that matter (or any particle that has enough energy to become matter) would exhibit similar physical behavior as the experiments shown (like the pilot wave experiments in silicon oil,etc), but I'm sure my understanding is extremely naive.
Yes, all the big corporates have that where they take all the pain of legal stuff but I wish to work at a startup and most of the startups dont have a legal team. So was just wondering where to look for such startups.
Huh? I certainly expect my car insurance to pay out. I expect them to pay the minimum they can, which for collision insurance means "not quite enough to actually replace my car", but I expect them to fully cover any liability I might have, up to the limits of the coverage I bought.

Actual experience has borne out these expectations.
Your original statement was that just because Einstein knew physics doesn't "automatically make him qualified to condemn the rest of the society to produce what he and his brethren deem desirable."

That needlessly gendered statement is identical in structure to my objection that Hayek's understanding of economics doesn't "automatically make him qualified to condemn the rest of the society to" dictatorships, even if only temporary.

Gunnar Myrdal shared the prize with Hayek but had quite different views on government, and regarded Hayek as a reactionary. Myrdal was, among other things, a member of the Swedish Parliament for the Social Democrat party. You can therefore only conclude that the Nobel Prize committee was recognizing those areas of economics where Myrdal and Hayek had similar views. You cannot extend that recognition to include all of Hayek's views.

If forced to choose between having all of my limbs cut off and having just my foot cut off, I think I could express a clear preference as well.
It may not matter for some but this article is advocating trying to instantiate an email address to see if an exception is thrown. This is likely far more expensive than a decent regexp based on the email address specifications.
Do they have the option to only use a large ram cache?
This is not exactly what you are looking for, but i have this one:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rolf+benz+577
A more technical error is in

> [...] that transferrin has undergone positive evolutionary selection in a manner often seen in molecular arms races between mammals and viruses.

but all the discussion is about bacteria. Bacteria and virus are very different, so the strategies against them are very different too. (I'm not a biologist, but this strategy to sequester iron while in transit looks like unuseful against virus, because the virus is only active inside the infected cells. IANAB.)
I strongly disagree, when I was 15 I got the same advice and it nearly turned me away from programming. K&R is not a good standalone text book. (Sure I had no internet and just a redhat5 clone, but K&R just was not that helpful)

I would pick Rust to learn over C when starting today. Rust matches today's machine beter. It is a more organized language and eco system. And most of all learning to code corect is easier when you do not run into undefined behaviour right and left.

So a modern language like Rust will expose more concepts to you and picking up C is easier afterwards, although you might not want to.
Without a lot more details, it's impossible to say anything specific. At the very least, I don't think anyone here could tell you if visa is really the reason you were rejected by the startup - it could just be the most convenient reason that the startups gave you.

It's very very hard for startup to sponsor you a work visa, whether they want to or not. Every year, the new window for applying the working visa (H1B) starts at April 1st, last year it took one week to fill out 210% quota of the visa for the whole year (translation: even if you did apply, you have less than 40% of getting the visa). And the visa won't take effect until October of the same year. It means that for a company, they have to wait for you at least 6 months before you can work (not counting any other months of interviewing and otherwise). For that reasons, most companies that can sponsor visa only do so for people who can already work using another visa, while waiting for the H1B visa. Not to mention the chance of not getting the visa in the first place.

That said, do you want to work for a startup, or just come to work in the US? If it's the latter, you might have better chance with finding a subsidiary of a US company in India, and hope that you can negotiate/ get them to send you to the US (you would be working for them first in India, obviously). I've known friends who came to the US this way. But beware of what you're getting into, many HN users here will gladly tell you that the H1B visa is evil, or might I say, literally Hitler.
It most certainly does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Changes_with_ag...
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US unions are notoriously combative cold-war era affairs. I wouldn't give up the search, but the average union differ quite a lot from country to country.
Yes, there is no amnesty for human right crimes, that means those people were only protected inside Argentina. And the Nuremberg defense doesn't work against the Nuremberg laws.

On a side note, it was not exactly repealed, because you can't repeal an amnesty (ie voting a new law that removes it). They found that its creation was unconstitutional, meaning that it was void from the onset, like it had never happened. Learning about those 2 laws (+ley de pounto final for the ones giving the orders) when I was in Argentina was extremely formative on a law doctrine point of view.
What are some good applications of game theory? Where is it used usefully in the real world?
> "Just following orders" didn't work at Nuremberg because we were trying the people who gave the orders too.

The only reason the Nuremberg trails happened at all, was that Germany lost. No-one was indited over fire-bombing Dresden, or nuking Hiroshima. People didn't go to prison over atrocities committed in Vietnam.

While there should be prosecution over this, it seems unlikely to happen in the current US system. I'm not holding my breath, but with the continuing unrest in the country, there might be some actual changes in the coming years. But a lot would need to happen -- for example there's the need for a viable political power-block other than the Democrats and the Republicans -- I sadly don't see that happening any time soon.
Maybe systemd as a project should try a rebranding campaign. The init daemon is only one of its many tools now.
I must be lucky because in 25+ years I have worked for only one manager like that, during my (brief, and regretted) foray into sales. Every other manager I've had has been interested in building things and enabling his employees to do great things.

My point is just that if you have a manager like you describe, leave. You don't have to with that; there are better options out there.
EpicDavi linked this doc: https://github.com/willyg302/clip.py/blob/master/docs/main.m...

> For example, Click has integrations for fetching terminal dimensions and setting environment variables. This may be useful, but it also means trying to use Click for an embedded CLI (say, one running in a text editor communicating via websockets) is extremely difficult.
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It's not just about coming to work in the US.
I want to work at a fast paced environment generally seen at a startup and I have previously worked for indian startups and they tend to exploit the developers(atleast thats what I have experienced), hence US.
Infact, I have earned more by freelancing for US based startups/companies on Odesk in a month than what I got after working for a startup for 6 months in India.
and btw what do you mean by 'H1B visa is evil'?
You are also conflating the "init.d" replacement with the project that is aiming to provide basic OS building blocks.

networkd is quite orthogonal to pid1, what it is not orthogonal to is that nowadays almost every system needs network connectivity so bringing up the network is part of the basic system. And systemd (the project) is trying to be the basic building blocks from which you can build an OS out of.
I'd like something I can use while lying in bed.

I suspect I am getting a repetitive stress injury as a result of using my laptop in bed, usually by crossing my legs, then placing the front edge on my stomach and the back edge on one leg.
Is "Stuyvesant High School" the new code name for Madoff Academy?

I don't believe this for a second. I considered believing it, for one second, but immediately realized it has to be bullshit.