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> German is a very hard language

Usually German is classified in the second most easy category for native English speakers to learn.

http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang...
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Aren't they on github? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
They tried to move the Chef mailing list to Google but it didn't work out. Not sure what they had issues with.

https://www.chef.io/blog/2015/02/04/14389/
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I agree with you; I didn't get the prayer at all. It seems to call for some «pre death» period when you're not dead yet but somehow not truly alive, and I sure don't want that.

Anyway our own death is unimportant since we can't experience being dead. Death that matters is the death of others (dear ones). My payer would be: let me die any which way you want... but let me die first.
> Personally I have hard time understanding the benefits of running docker in public cloud, you still run a VM you still pay for that VM. It just one extra abstraction layer which increases complexity of your infrastructure and also reduces performance.

Simpler deployment and basically forcing "12-factor", as well as easier development environment setups. Nothing you can't achieve with other tooling, but it's nice to be able to guarantee that your dev environment is identical to your prod.
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Yup, Swedes find English easier because the languages are related, while Finnish is not. But broadly speaking, more or less anybody under 50 (60?) or so in Finland will speak and understand English enough to communicate, and in a university environment staff and students will be effectively bilingual.
If only human rights were a thing people were still in favour of - here in the UK the government and the majority of the population (through a sustained propaganda campaign) strongly oppose human rights, and see them as "EU interference". If you dare point out that Britain practically wrote the echr back in the 50's... Well, you try it. People turn purple and start calling you a terrorist.

It's easy in our little bubble to forget that most of the populace don't know, don't care, don't want to know anything about trade agreements, and will simply take the first opinion handed to them as their own.

The alternative is that people rationally think stuff through, and end up going "Down with humans! Dey took mah jurb!", which I can't believe.

Either way, if the UN keep it up, I'd wager you'll start seeing bits in the British press about how the UN wants to take our freedom and give it to someone else because immigration and terrorists and tigers oh my.
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There is clearly a knowledge graph coupled with this in addition to the speech recognition. Sorry, "meaning" recognition. I feel like there is an opportunity to connect the deep knowledge graph of Wolfram Alpha -- or that maybe Wolfram missed the ball by not connecting their graph in a more usable way.
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We're actively trying to change the culture and management is onboard. What this means is that not working long hours isn't a negative in performance reviews and advancement. However, people often feel compelled/pressured to work the long hours because a lot of their peers do it.
Same in Poland.
> That situation can hardly persist for long

Something like 10 years and counting in Toronto. Markets can stay irrational for a long time.

> The rent will have to go up eventually to close the gap

Or, property purchase prices unable to be sustained by rent or buyers' income will fall.
Which position?
That's a big generalisation for all of Europe. I look British, if people are really paying attention, or Northern Europe / Germany / etc if not. I'm obviously not local in Southern or Eastern Europe.
Only tuition is free, full room & board have to be paid for.
The espionage act, dating from the world war (The one with trenches and horses, not that new one) has no explicit whistleblower protection. It just talks about leaking sensitive information to the enemy It mentions forts, telegraphs...

The whistleblower protection act of 1989 eplicitly excludes those who work for the armed forces or the intelligence community (!). So basically the laws are wired such that the NSA and the Army are free to do anything (illegal) without scrutiny so long as it is also secret.
Well, we're an engineering company, so it'd have to be math with a practical slant. Do you have a background in machine learning, statistical modeling, and data analysis (all done in matlab or python)?
Surely those issues are not related to using Google Groups as an email list?
I am incredibly privileged to be at (or near) self-actualization, but—then again—so are most of the folks who have time to spend here on HN.

And regret-avoidance is an interesting beast: for me, it is incredibly hard to balance short, medium, and long-term goals, and understand when I'm actually pursuing a long-term goal vs simply wasting my time on something that will never really matter.

Props to Zuck for building something that a double-digit percentage of the world uses every month, but he's the exception to the rule. Most of us will not be so lucky(?), and it behooves us to spend our time wisely.
You write as though in some mythical past democracy was more open - but the reality is that while things are as bad as they ever have been, democracy has always been a Punch and Judy show for the masses while the man behind the curtain commits atrocities. We're just more aware of it now as the Internet has hurt their information control, and governments' reactive nationalistic propaganda is blatant and overt.

The meat has realised that it's caged, and the people-farmers are trying very hard to get the rest of the herd to trample the ones who say "guys, we could walk out through this open gate".
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With so many alternatives (even besides GitHub) I wonder why some took so much time to change.

There was Google Code, Landscape, or even self-hosted Git amongst others.
> No one said anything pejorative about NYT here

The comment was clearly pejorative.

Please don't post any more comments that attempt to stir up rage in Who Is Hiring threads.
First of all the German manufacturers should make their cars more secure. There are guys who can open X5/X6 in less than 10 seconds...

And then we can think about adding more technologies inside...
This is the insight. Proving "tactical voting is always theoretically possible" sounds bad, until you realize that there exist systems where tactical voting requires not only nearly perfect information about every other voters exact preferences ahead of time, but also solving cryptographically hard problems
hear hear! I've been using P4Merge for years since it's indeed very nice, also have it set as 'external difftool' in ST. Only disadavantge for me: line ending settings for the merged file are fixed, which is messy if you have repositories from different sources and/or different autocrlf settings
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Sadly I'm too useless and without resources to do that.
> Today, 21,000 children died from causes that are preventable. I don't see any posts on HN about that.

Guinae after ebola: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9544278

Why murder rates matter to humanitarians: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519472

Rohingya screen light portraits (Internet huts used by refugees) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9194870

Socio economic impact Of Ebola: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9194438

The aid industry, what journalists really think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9183675

Ebola update, review of needs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9038815

How the world's top donor spends its aid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008808

The humanitarian schemes aimed at countering Boko Harem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9008802

Nigerian Lives matter: the Baka controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8895047

Indonesia's mental health care: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8579494

USA child labour and tobacco: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7744420

Missing migrant project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679027

Unfolding tragedy Central African Republic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907365

What causes hunger?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678675

Edit: etc etc. have a look through my submissions. I post many articles like this.
Really? I was there for a month working and found that most people spoke flawless english.
"This community" and "our priorities"?

That's exactly my point.
Berlin != Germany

Just like Austin != Texas
This isn't WTF at all, that's exactly how regexes should work!
For those like me that are wondering what is going on, apparently some Silicon Valley executive died recently.
I didn't get that from watching Fox or reading Reddit. It got it from walking around my neighborhood. I walk two blocks from my apartment, and I'm at an intersection where windows were smashed and cars were set afire on May Day.

Ask me how I feel about the anarchists of Oakland who smashed up my neighborhood on May Day. Or how inclined I am to dismiss them as a false construct of political media. Go on...
Yes, that is correct and by design.

It boils down to (the lack of) trust in the CAs and the HSMs they use. Basically.
Regarding HSMs, a great read is the Cambridge team that broke the Luna CA3 Chrysalis HSM. A great reversing tale. "Unwrapping the Chrysalis": http://www.war-room.co.uk/~dc352/UCAM-CL-TR-592.pdf

Search around for more- I remember them having a few different write-ups.
Right: We're only terrible at perceiving constant velocity without visual reference because it's physically impossible to do so in a controlled environment, according to Newton.

What we're terrible at is perceiving constant acceleration in very fine increments, like 10 milli-G while standing, or on up past 100 milli-G while sitting or prone. This is directly equivalent to sensing a certain slope/grade in the terrain, if one is robbed of accurate horizontal (horizon) and vertical (trees/buildings) reference. The mind is capable of tolerating several degrees of tilt while being perfectly convinced everything is flat, so long as the visual references point in that direction... and even at greater extremes we really only notice topography when it's highly variable, cliffs and abrupt hills and sharp changes in slope. I have an unconfirmed notion that our ability to, for example, carry things on our back, or walk while pregnant, would be sharply curtailed if our body didn't automatically adjust to the different center of mass, and different perceived gravity vector from the standpoint of our skeletal centerline.

Humans directly perceive jerks, and they perceive them with alarm, because if the ground is jerking in a natural context it means you're about to fall off a slope and die.
Thanks. That's the tl;dr I needed.

Coming from the UK, this made no sense whatsoever to me.
Guinae after ebola: 1 point

Why murder rates matter to humanitarians: 1 point

Rohingya screen light portraits (Internet huts used by refugees): 1 point

Etc.

Thanks for the validation.
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It's about perspective. Besides education, one might plan to land a job nearby. Italy is very expensive while salaries are ridiculously low compared to northern Europe.
If you don't recall the name of Joe Biden, I very much doubt you know what the administration has done in enough detail to judge whether they were crimes, or if he had any involvement in them.
I can confirm this. It has been 15 years since my son died.

On a day-to-day basis there is a new normality in my life and the emotion surrounding his loss is locked tightly in a box. There is plenty of happiness and plenty of new happiness in my life.

However, at all of the happiest moments in my life the box is opened and I am reminded that we are missing the one thing that would make this moment complete.

This is why old people cry at weddings.
Yeah, but the question nobody's posing is: why should it?
That's a question I personally can't answer. I don't see any higher meaning in "leaving a legacy". You'll be dead anyway.
Why shouldn't we focus on living a better, more relaxed and less stressful life while we're here to recognize that?
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Off the top of my head it was a VEGF antagonist, so avastin knockoff. I'll try dig up the paper when I'm off mobile
His death made the front page of the BBC website.
Only in America.

A few places in Britain have put these jars out, mostly pubs in tourist areas and American codew shops. I've never put anything in them, since the previous container for spare change was a charity collection jar, usually for a local charity.

The charity jars are quite common in pubs, convenience shops and supermarkets.
One can want a legacy without fearing death, and one needn't die to have a legacy.
The tuition fees may be low but the cost of living is very high in Switzerland.
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I'm reminded of an absolutely abysmal experience one time entering France through CDG. We arrived fairly early in the morning (I don't remember exactly, but let's say 7:30), a fully loaded jumbo jet, and so did about 6 other flights. The line to get through the passport check must have had over a thousand people in it. There was one officer on duty checking passports for the first hour we were in line, then two. Over on the "Shengen entry" side there were 4 or 5 officers so of course that side cleared out fairly quickly and those entry officers sat around doing not much.

We decided to entertain ourselves figuring out how long it would take to get through, assuming 1,000 people were in line (and also to figure out if we needed to make plans for meals while waiting).

Getting through a border usually takes no more than 2-3 minutes per person.

1,000 people will take 33.3 hours to process, assuming no major issues and 2 minutes per person.

When the second officer showed up, around 10:30am, we had moved just a few feet in 3 hours and had taken time to go get breakfast. We estimated that the single border officer had processed around 100 people in that time. More planes had emptied out behind us and the line snaked through as far as we chose to follow it during bathroom and food breaks.

So we assumed we had about 900 people in front of us...with 2 guards that worked out to only 15 more hours of waiting.

Eventually, a little after 1pm (and our lunch), somebody had the bright idea to move some of the officers from the Shengen area over to the international entrance, at this point the entire international terminal at CDG must have been clogged with people, and we saw a handful of major arguments and one fist-fight in our part of the line. We had moved forward about 25% of the way at this point and were trying to figure out which overpriced crappy snack kiosk we wanted to get our dinner at. They added 5 more officers (a total of 7) and they cleared us through fairly quickly after that.

Since then, I've had obvious questions about information asymmetry w/r to capacity planning. Border control could use the arrival schedule (which was known months in advance) to estimate the number of needed officers at any given time of day 90 days in advance. By setting a maximum queue wait time, they could decide capacity. The unknown variable would be international passports vs. Shengen, but past history could provide prior ratios useful for future planning.

I don't know if they ever availed themselves of this information, but I was not impressed with the DCPAF's (or whichever agency it was) planning or execution.

The rest of our stay was nice though.
While amusing, the anecdote is off in a very important way: it is not a single person ordering dessert, but an entire party of people who represent different conflicting majorities. In such a real situation you can get whatever "absurd" result you want by just asking questions in the right order.

Ask your dinner party "Do we prefer Apple or Blueberry?", and a majority might reasonably answer Apple. Ask them "Blueberry or Cherry?", and a slightly different majority might reasonably answer Blueberry. Ask them "Cherry or Apple?" and a different majority would answer Cherry. You would get this situation, for instance, with the following voters:
2x A > B > C
2x B > C > A
1x C > A > B
A beats B by 3:2, B beats C by 4:1, and C beats A by 3:2.

This is a rock paper scissors situation -- or a "condorcet cycle".

Now suppose instead of simple Sidney there were actually these 5 people ordering dessert. Is it really that unreasonable that the group as a whole might pick blueberry once cherry is on the table even though a majority prefers apple to blueberry?
FileZilla are one of the few major projects who actually agree to this. Complain about it on their forums and you'll get a ban.
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Main reason: I know it properly and hence can get pretty much anything done fast - faster than in the other 2 main OS'es. Although admittedly if I spent more time learning the others I could get things done there as fast or maybe faster as well.
Other reasons roughly ordered by priority:

- it has Visual Studio. Sure I can get around using an editor and a Makefile - or XCode if I really must, but nothing so far beats what VS gives me (note: mostly C, C++, C#)

- hardware indeed: decent, all kinds of form factors, not too expensive (though same goes for unix of course)

- legacy reasons: some of the hardware/software I work with only runs on Windows

- for desktop it is actually on par, if not better, then any other alternatives out there

- tried an MBP for 3 years but had a pretty bad experience with overall so turned back to PC harware. Yeah I know a single case is not representative but it was just too much trouble esp. given the money spent on it
I also find it hypocritical that usually religion is bashed/downvoted to hell, yet its not the case when a rich person is doing it.

I never heard of Goldberg till now... and I think thats the case for many people on HN.
AFAIK it didn't on bbc.co.uk. Perhaps bbc.com but I don't look at that.

It's all about FIFA bribes and rollercoaster accidents.
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None of those make money selling GPL software. The GPL software undergirds the product they sell, but it is not the product itself.

MySQL: Fancy proprietary version with non-GPL features makes money, GPL version sits there doing nothing. Used to make money from a traditionalist dual-license model before Oracle took over, now they just neglect the GPL version.

WordPress: Makes money from hosting and consulting, not from its software.

Drupal: ibid.

Firefox: makes money from search affiliate deals and charitable donations. This is closer because they make money by getting brands in front of Firefox's installed base, which is sort of close to making money from software, but still indirect.

Android: Google does not make money from Android directly except insofar as they negotiate licensing deals with phone providers for their closed-source "Google Apps" suite and/or for "Google Play Edition" or other official branding on a phone. In these cases, they are selling a collection of Android apps and/or Google branding, not the GPL software that runs on the phone.

I don't know of any case where a company sustained itself on the sales of actual GPL software. Every open-source company lives off ancillary services or licensing deals (dual-licensing like MySQL or branding deals like Google).
I think I feel similar to AndrewKemendo. "Legacy" is a wrong word, maybe "positive impact" is better. Being a good dad is cool and nice, but if I had to chose one, I'd rather die knowing that I helped lift a million people out of poverty. Or even a thousand.

I get strong feelings of love and need for relationships, but I sometimes feel they're more of an hormonal failure mode than anything fundamental. I want to love and be loved, and be the best I can be for those close to me, but I don't feel that those in my immediate vicinity are somehow morally more important than all those random people I don't know.

I guess there might be no good answer, but the "common wisdom" is that to be happy, you should focus on yourself and your relationships as opposed to the world around you. Maybe it's a common sentiment, but there are people who genuinely don't feel that way.
So what? People die all the time, we don't need a post about it, let alone some religious spiel.
That's not what it means as I understand it, it's about not treating someone as already dead before their death. Instead to acknowledge their existance and use the time left positively.
Winning the hearts and minds, perhaps? It's probably cheaper than trying to compete with Hollywood.
Generalizing, dogmatic attitudes, some of which are religious - and some of which are expressed in your comment - are harmful.

It's just as silly - and intellectually easy - to blindly condemn culture and religion as it is to blindly follow them.

There's a wonderfully epic two-part South Park episode that makes this point:

http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s10e12-go-god-go
http://southpark.cc.com/full-episodes/s10e13-go-god-go-xii
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Eeyowtch.
Be kind to yourself. Don't rush. You are in recovery. It is my experience that grief is an illness and it lasts more like a year.

Like all major illnesses there will be scars.

However, It will be OK.
I suppose it's only fitting that they pick ruby for their landing page. I'm confused as to the overall goal with this launch though. Is this just a case of moving into an underserved market?
Most projects have quite a lot on the table without worrying about hosting all the time. There are bugs you have a hard time fixing or even finding, there are many opinions on how the project should develop (including some real paying customers if you are a successful project), there are people problems in the team. And hosting is something that probably hasn't been touched for years. Maybe the guys who configured it the first time around aren't even on the team any more.

Without big news something so basic is probably not even on the table.
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It got the Space Needle question wrong. It gave the answer for DC rather than Seattle.
I wonder if it is based on Freebase.com knowledge graph, which Google discontinued last month. http://www.freebase.com/ (and recently IBM has bought Blekko web search and knowledge graph engine as a replacement for Freebase to power their IBM Watson)
> Does that make me the only one who uses PayPal solely because a bunch of people selling things online

Selling things online, on the internet, where there are no country borders.... Sounds like international transfers and payment to me.

Am I missing something?
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And the reverse question would be: why shouldn't it? Why should I focus on living happily and have family and relationships? I'll be dead anyway, and so will everyone I ever loved. So I guess it's up to one to pick for him/herself. Some want to focus on their own small world, others want to leave behind some lasting change affecting many.
I believe the POSIX subsystem has some kind of support from the native API that prevents you from writing your own random subsystem and expecting it to work; I don't remember what it was though (it's been a few years).
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