skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US taxes citizens on world wide income, no matter where they are resident, so they are probably the worst choice among the first world nations for the super rich. There are people, like Eduardo Saverin, who give up their US citizenship to avoid US taxes.

The UK is a haven for a lot of these people, as it has a very attractive non-domiciled rule (live in the UK, only get taxed on UK income or income which you bring into the UK - income which stays out of country is effectively untaxed).

Or, perhaps a jurisdiction like Hong Kong with no capital gains tax might make sense.
That's like Wine in reverse?
"This begs the question: what about DirectX 12 and Apple's Metal? If they didn't have similar engine developer involvement, that's clearly a point against DX12/Metal support in the long run."

There's several parts to this. DirectX 12 is going to run on Windows 10, and its adoption by developers is probably going to be entirely driven by how much of their target audience can be persuaded to upgrade from Windows 7. If Windows ships with better DirectX 12 drivers than Vulkan drivers (and I would bet that it will), then you'll probably see more AAA games written to DirectX12. Metal, likewise, is the preferred graphics API for reaching iPhone users, which are plentiful and (compared to Android users) lucrative.
The feebs are doing parallel construction of evidence. Nothing they say, claim, or testify to is credible or trustworthy. And the only reason it's trusted at all is that the judges get their paycheck from the same place.

In 40 or 50 years (assuming the country doesn't become some Hollywood-movie-esque dystopia), we'll find out how they cheated to find him and lied about his crimes.
Nice concept to go along with things like Accidentally Turing Complete.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complet...
" Instead, the intelligent, optimistic, apparently caring mind"

Interesting way to describe someone who apparently tried to hire people to murder others in cold blood.
Increasing Returns and Increasing Wealth Inequality
Show HN: New sous vide recipe community and iOS app from Nomiku (YCW15)
I wonder when, if ever, they'll dock LinkedIn for this. Easily the worst offender in my inbox as far as legitimate companies are concerned.
That's a great question. I see no reason a UI should change often, that seems counter-intuitive.
Nomiku YCW15 made this.
You don't use uk passports in "voting" so id take that with a large pinch of salt.
These are the vanishingly few people who have actually
seen the source to a game, the driver it's running on,
and the Windows kernel it's running on, and the full
specs for the hardware. Nobody else has that kind of
access or engineering ability.

One option is to release the source of the drivers, making it possible for motivated engine developers to do this without explicit access to AMD developers.

If they did this on Linux as well, then developers would have access to the full stack, in order to be able to learn about how the lower levels work and more easily track the problems down without simply a whole lot of trial and error on a black box.
We are building our app on FHIR (NavHealth.com) it's great to see so much interest on hn
Btw my suggestions were just a template. I'm flattered that you used them as is :)

1. For the blurbs - remove the icons and add headers. Something like this - https://cloudup.com/cGSjRmrWGkU

2. Gitlab.com as a product name is very confusing. When I first checked out gitlab.com my thought was "I'm already on gitlab.com, what's this other gitlab.com" :)
So I have changed it to Gitlab Hosted to make it more clear

Other Potential Improvements

This section - https://cloudup.com/c4vipl-QFBU tries to do everything. Explain features, introduce 3 different products and has a lot of text that could be removed

I would suggest making the entire block about features but in a layered way. i.e first introduce common features and then differentiate the products.

Some text could be removed - Subscriptions blurb can be replaced by "See our enterprise pricing page for subscriptions" or something similar. The way it is laid out now, it seems it is separate from Github Enterprise.

The current feature text blurb is too much text and too little text at the same time :) Too much because it is just
long lines of text. Too little because none of your features are explained elegantly. There is also a "much more" syndrome :)

Just see - https://about.gitlab.com/features/ - Powerful Code review - "Merge requests with line-by-line comments, CI and issue tracker integrations and much more" with a giant image. Text doesn't say much and ends with an ambiguous "much more" and the image is intimidating unless you are familiar with Gitlab.

Compare that to Pull requests section of stash "https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash?utm_source=bitbucke...

Images are not much help but they help in avoiding a wall of text and all the sub features are explained

The actual experience of using Bitbucket is not that great but they are doing a good job of explaining features :). Github enterprise also does something similar.

I think you should also move "Better than Github" to a different section like say "Why use GitLab?" Having it right at the top seems very defensive and a bit distracting.

One last thing - Link to some interesting projects using Gitlab and make it easy to find. You can even link to Gitlab.org somewhere. Looking around a repo gives a better feel for the product.
We also multitask and use lots of software where the CPU is a bottleneck like browsers, compilers, virtualization etc.
Do you think that there's any chance of getting interop via FHIR (with or without SMART) as a condition of winning the DHMSM deal? My impression (rightly or wrongly) is that a lot of vendors are doing a lip service/wait-and-see approach to FHIR and truly opening up.
Isn't Google's Native Client the Vulkan of the web? Or rather wasn't it, given adoption outside of Chrome is unlikely to ever happen.
A tax on thingy?!
"We certainly do not claim that publication record is the best measure, or a complete measure. However, it is the record that everyone sees and compares in CV, for jobs, grants, reports, etc."
> That always makes me really sad.
The only upgrade Intel cares about is the purchase of a new system. That is why Intel is taking a revenue hit.
I shall be having sausages. Inna bun.
Is the Apple watch the new Edsel?
You said "has been achieved in an armed conflict". That's an exaggeration because 'armed conflict' is so very broad, and includes bloodless wars. You've qualified it now with "has been achieved in long term occupation by peacekeepers." I agree that if you narrow the definition enough, you can make it be correct.

(I should have included the Falklands War as a war with few innocent/non-combatant civilian deaths compared to military deaths. Argentina lost 649 people as part of their military force, the UK 255, and three Falklands civilians died, from friendly fire.)

There's little need to look towards Soviet occupation for a comparison. We did long term occupations of the Dominican Republic (1916-1924) (http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a491390.pdf is the best document I found on the occupation; most other references are to the 1965-1966 occupation) and Haiti (1915-1934), which was publicly described as a mission to 're-establish peace and order'. We also controlled the Philippines from 1902 to 1946. There was insurgent opposition in all three places. By comparison, the US response in Iraq is indeed much better than General Smith's order to "KILL EVERY ONE OVER TEN" as part of the American atrocities in the Philippines.

In any case, when you talk about long-term peacekeeper forces, you need to include things like the UN peacekeepers on Cyprus, who have helped prevent sectarian conflict between ethnically Greek and Turkish Cypriots. And done so with very few casualties. (Go ahead and add another qualifier, in that the UNFICYP has only 1,000 people.)

But put all that aside. When you write "this rate of collateral damage is far better than has ever been achieved in an armed conflict" ... how do you know? How do you measure collateral damage? Whose numbers do you trust, and why?
But but... only n00bs black with white border cards ;)
I would like to know if they offered Elizabeth Long a bunch of money to stop her campaign against them. https://www.change.org/p/tyler-droll-and-brooks-buffington-s... After all it did happen after they received a ridiculous amount of money. Kind of feels like we are in a bubble and may see another color here.
I found it very useful. I'm going through something similar - I know I'm smart, but I made some bad career choices.

I'm now largely starting from scratch and seeing folks like Vik do it is encouraging.
You can search by set and sort by price to see what your cards are worth. I'm fairly sure the only big money comes from Revised dual lands and Force of Will in Alliance.

http://sales.starcitygames.com/buylist/
@jewel, @kikidrew, @rpwilcox: We're building this: https://fieldbookapp.com. We're still in private beta, but message me (jason@fieldbookapp.com) and I can get you an invite.
Yeah, Chronicles and 4th edition really took a lot of the fun out of having some of the cool old cards. Of course, it also let you actually play with them, even if people would say "Oh man is that a... oh, it's 4th."
Chris diBona says Google will be keeping a public copy of all unmigrated repos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9192554
Namely, routines that were running in quadratic time but for which there were asymptotically faster implementations available.
Some people, blinded by their desire to see drugs legalized, will see any action taken in the presence of an undercover officer as entrapment.
Pai's dissent touched on a point no one I've talked to has considered: the hundreds of tiny carriers--mostly WISPs--across the US who might/will be affected by this. They can barely compete against big telco and cable as is.
The drive has 400 MB/s on the interface. That means that it's possible to deliver 34 TB per day to the disk and the rated 300 TB are achieved in less than 9 days. But the scariest effect is the "write multiplication:" the possibility to deliver the small chunks of the data through the 400 MB/s interface which can result in much more data actually overwritten on the flash (as the atomic size of the writes on the flash is quite big).

Of course an average consumer can't produce that. A lot of the data I write to any medium at home is never overwritten. But not every use is the use of an average consumer, knowing the actual limits is important.
>I wonder if/when web developers will reach a similar point of software layer implosion. "Easy to code against, but a bitch and a half to debug or tune"

for me it was 3 years ago in web. And 6 years ago in Enterprise java.
> a perpetrator a lot of people could actually empathize with

A perpetrator of what? Downloading files he was allowed to download but at a faster rate than the rulemakers had anticipated?

What was the crime?

Creative prosecution by the feds is outrageous, and should be shut down... those engaging in it should be shamed and prevented from ever practicing law again.
Still searching for it :)
That last quote really resonates with my experience of software dev in general. "easy" API's generally do it by making a ton of assumptions. Modifying those assumptions becomes a huge pain point and that's if the API even allows you to modify that particular assumption.
"The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can’t have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles - kingons, or possibly queons - that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expounded because, at that point, the bar closed."

--- Mort
When working in web hosting, I noticed Google Bot would take down many poorly optimized websites. Your site needs to be able to absorb a simple search indexer crawling your site. Next the OP will be writing about Yandex, Yahoo or Bing DDoSing his site.
Anyone who has written at least 2 seminal papers deserves a mention. Collins. Blei. Vapnick. Tibshrani. Many more.
North America's first road usage charge program begins
TechCrunch article about Tender: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/11/nomiku-tender-app/
It certainly is a form of nepotism, but since when do we regulate nepotism?
Using Selenium WebDriver to Run Mobile Web Tests
If I remember correctly it was a left associated buffer building operation.
This kind of spam actually deters me from signing up for much of anything anymore for the purposes of quickly test driving the service. I feel like just putting in my email address and a password is now more often than not considered an invitation to start emailing me useless marketing material once a week until I eventually get frustrated and open one of the emails to proceed with whatever their unsubscribe process is.

I have notification "fatigue" as it is and I don't need my attention drawn once a week to an email "ding" from a company I tried once.

If I were creating a new service I'd explicitly state on the signup prompts that I will not be send you marketing material, or at least have a checkbox.
Interesting Disqus comment by Jessie King: [1]

This story illustrates one of the most important aspects of economics, and one that often seems to get lost in the rush - an economy needs to do something other than move money around. The concepts of money, value, and all that, are all just a means to an end. In this case, the end is an enduring, entertaining game, and they achieved it.

All too many real world economists seem to forget the fact that there is no value to an economy unless it is serving some end beyond its own cyclic process of simply shuffling value around.

1 http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...
It is hard for me to believe that uchicago.edu should outrank illinois.edu. Illinois.edu is a famous top-tier CS program; uchicago.edu is a top-tier university with a relatively small CS program.
Socially and server-wise it has centralized them.

I do agree about other social networks though.
Yes, but they require a native app. This is web only.
hahah check it out, FroskKiller! it's actually pretty cool...
Small Gods was described to me, by a minister, as one of the best books about religion they'd ever read.

"Thou Shalt Not Submit Thy God To Market Forces!"
I think you're thinking of this bugfix: https://github.com/nominolo/HTTP/commit/b9bd0a08fa09c6403f91...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6912474
I'm just surprised my CS department made the list. That's nice at least.

Even though we are at the bottom...
Normal people graduate from college with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. Normal people are unhealthily obese. Normal people go bankrupt from unexpected medical expenses. Is it your aspiration in life to be normal?
Well-executed marketing is still execution.

...even if the rest of us think it's a tad silly.
Exactly. This is why I like Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy [1] so much. Basically with easy constructs it becomes harder to build simple systems, even though the simple constructs are harder to learn.

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
GM recalls about 64,000 Chevrolet Volt hybrids
Ah, should have read past the second paragraph of the first post, my bad.

It's an interesting read, but at the first glance it doesn't look all that different from a lot of other programming blogs out there. A brief one-sentence description of the blog's scope under the title would be nice.
The Colour of Magic is a bit weird because it's basically a Fritz Leiber parody, even down to the structure. (Spot the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser cameo in the first chapter!)

I'd probably go with Mort. It's damned good, it's tight and to the point, and it's got Death in it.
Selenium is still the best for web testing, but Appium brings even more to devs. When does Appium get more robust is the big question.
I see your Unicode there... and I like it! Nothing more to say, really. Awesome :)

(EDIT#3: I overspoke. Nevermind, beautiful!)
Agreed. A government is fundamentally just an organized gang that defends by force the right to tax some population, and I don't see anything wrong with such gangs formalizing the procedure by which one comes under their jurisdiction.

It strikes me as analogous to the Mafia documenting a convenient, well-understood procedure by which to pay protection money/bribe them in exchange for some benefits associated with their possession of the means of physical violence.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/224

By classifying ISPs under Title II, they become subject to these rules.
I had and continue to have a lot of laughs with Pratchett. One of my favourite ones which I only a couple of years ago re-listened on Audiobook while walking about town and was giggling outloud uncontrollably was this quote:

> ...if you haven’t smelled Ankh-Morpork on a hot day you haven’t smelled anything.

> The citizens are proud of it. They carry chairs outside to enjoy it on a really good day. They puff out their cheeks and slap their chests and comment cheerfully on its little distinctive nuances. They have even put up a statue to it, to commemorate the time when the troops of a rival state tried to invade by stealth one dark night and managed to get to the top of the walls before, to their horror, their nose plugs gave out.

The idea of carrying chairs outside to appreciate it is so hilarious. It speaks a wealth to me about working class pride in whatever circumstance and condition your town and life is in. That “This may be so, but it's mine” attitude.

Terry's plots were fun but his best most memorable things were his insights into every day life; his grandoise fantasy elements were always the backdrop to the characterization and human elements, always witty.

> Rincewind had in any case seen his past life flash in front of his eyes so many times that he could sleep through the boring bits…
A long time without access to hardware documentation, and even now that that is sometimes more forthcoming, simply a lot fewer resources than the proprietary drivers have. The proprietary drivers have many years worth of several full-time developers, testers, access to hardware engineers to solve problems together, etc.

The open source drivers have frequently been written by volunteers, or professionals who do it as only a small part of their job, have had to spend more time and effort reverse-engineering rather than having documentation and the ability to talk to hardware engineers, and are perpetually at least a few months to a few years behind the proprietary developers who had access to all of this before the hardware even came out.

It's impressive what the open source drivers have managed to accomplish, and they are improving, but they are severely handicapped compared to the proprietary drivers.

This excludes, of course, Intel, but Intel focuses on lower end integrated graphics rather than high-end discrete graphics, so it's not quite comparable.
stdin and stderr are assumed to always be streams, so anything which accepts them won't seek on them.

However, if you give a program a filename on a command line, the program's likely to assume it's an actual file.
obsolation

"Obsolescence", perhaps?
Entertaining. However, far too specific.

I broke my [iphone]

Wrong. Correct answer iPhone 6 screen
That quote didn't seem like him at all, in fact it seemed to be showing a mindset completely at odds with his books, quick google indicates you maybe missed a key part:

"And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye"
Appium is fully based on Selenium and all commands are derived from Selenium codebase. Appium is only for mobile so if you think of testing any mobile web stuff here is a great framework for that. Another great article about this can be found here:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/01/14/basic-test-automa...
It seems the only way there can be much pricing power is onerous regulation preventing others from stepping into the market.

That could be another aspect of first-mover advantage: no latecomer will have the same opportunities for regulatory capture that Uber and/or Lyft will have.

It's not a question of if the taxicab incumbents will lose their grip on the regulatory process, but when. Whoever takes their place will be able to shut their competitors out, or at least make life hard for them.
Looks neat!

I like the AWS integration. Cloud Watch et. al. [AWS stats] are comprehensive, but with a pretty bad UI. It also make sense to extract into a dashboard that can aggregate from many sources.

Also noticed support for Elastic Search and a few other well known suspects. Hopefully there will be more!
I think Night Watch is my favourite too. A little bit dark, and lots of deep questions about morality.
You cannot abstract away complexity. This is a lesson people relearn every 2-3 years or so.

From the javascript frameworks - I use only backbone and jquery - first as a simple router, second for easy dom traversal.
> when's the last time an indie game directly programmed against DirectX or OpenGL (barring webGL)?

I don't work in indie, but my understanding is that this is still pretty common, especially for games with any budget at all.
More to the point: when money is locked up in vaults, it doesn't contribute to the economy. The value of money is in making it circulate around.

Doing that consistently is an unsolved problem. If money leaves your pocket as fast as it flows in, you aren't building any wealth for your future, and there are entire classes of things you can't do with your money: save up for a large purchase, invest, buy anything that isn't in your current means. But when money accumulates in the hands of a person so fast that they cannot spend it, cannot do anything but stick it into long-term investments or play status games, then the money isn't moving as fast as the rest of the economy needs.
So maybe the trick is to travel without a battery or cover so that it's not a "real" phone, but "broken phone parts" and thus hopefully subject to less scrutiny.
As the bearded German put it, capitalists are in it for the MCM+ rotation, while the rest of us are in it for the CMC.
"The Light Fantastic" was my first introduction to Terry Pratchett back around 1989 or so. I was definitely hooked. To me, the first two books are lot more like Douglas Adams' books: vehicles for cool ideas and good humor, but not particularly interesting or insightful stories. The Discworld books would have played out pretty quickly if they'd stayed that way.

But then he got better. Much better. Much, much better.
One of the odds things I've noticed about empathy is that a great many people are very bad at recognizing it in others. Empathy doesn't just look like playing madlibs to the tune of "You feel $FEELING. That's $ADJECTIVE!".

And beware of anyone who calls for empathy but displays none for their audience. That's just manipulation.
A few great excerpts from the article:

>founders vastly underestimate the risk of busted financing

> It's vital that you have a clear picture of the traction and proof points you'll need to show investors when you eventually do raise your A. And these proof points have to both demonstrate a significant jump in valuation and de-risk your concept

>Keeping your burn rate low until you have product-market fit will give you the best chance at building a big company.