skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing ridiculous about any legal interpretation of tax laws that allows one to minimize one's contribution. It's common sense. Even more so given the outrageous way in which government wastes the revenue it gets.

"No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue"

Lord Clyde gave this famous quote (in taxation circles) in the case of Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services v Inland Revenue [1929] 14 Tax Case 754, at 763,764:
The world is too much with us indeed.

Have you heard of Calhoun's mouse experiments?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experime...

Maybe we are exhibiting the attitudes Calhoun observed in the "beautiful ones". Scary.
Yes it would, capacity is created to match expected occupancy, increases in sentences pre-empt the contracting of greater capacity for the expected increase in occupancy. All but the smallest increases in sentencing duration equate to additional prisons, not merely the picking up of some slack in existing ones.
http://imgur.com/u8yIx4G
That's for the Famous Engine though, not the Famous Framework.
For what it's worth the Facebook app takes forever to load (like 3 minutes or more) on my 3-year old iPhone 4, while browsing for stuff on Safari stills works reasonably well, bar the odd website which throws a huge advert at you.

People would probably advise me to change my phone, to get a newer one, but why should we change our phones every 2 years? Why create more waste? Why spend money uselessly on stuff that should work for at least 5 years?
Doing something because you can is the worst reason to do so.
Indeed:

static const int eight = 8;

x * eight;

Sometimes magic numbers are just that - numbers. Adding constant definitions is often a good thing, but sometimes just adds noise.
As elsewhere in these comments: tax dodging is an obligation for any intelligent person.

"No man in the country is under the smallest obligation, moral or other, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest possible shovel in his stores. The Inland Revenue is not slow, and quite rightly, to take every advantage which is open to it under the Taxing Statutes for the purposes of depleting the taxpayer's pocket. And the taxpayer is in like manner entitled to be astute to prevent, so far as he honestly can, the depletion of his means by the Inland Revenue"

Lord Clyde gave this famous quote (in taxation circles) in the case of Ayrshire Pullman Motor Services v Inland Revenue [1929] 14 Tax Case 754, at 763,764:
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Dynamic Zookeeper Cluster with Docker
China definitely had its own WWII moment, the Great Leap Forward alone probably killed 30-40 million citizen, they executed or chased all their intellectuals out of the country... it was the "price" to pay to ensure there was no foreign influence in running the country.

Both countries started from nothing, had an enormous increase in foreign direct investment (including several bubbles) which led them to pull themselves upwards at GDP growth rates of around 10% per annum for long enough to make a noticeable difference in the standard of living.

Both countries are run by centralised governments with a mandarin-style meritocratic civil service pulling the strings (in Japan the keiretsu system with the MOF on top, in China the Party), and setting financial policy including invisible taxation mechanisms on the population (setting the rate on domestic deposits in China, continuous yen devaluation, tariffs and keiretsu consumer goods price-setting in Japan). The difference is that China waited until Deng Xiao Ping before changing policy and accepting growth as a path to prosperity, Japan started earlier and had a smaller population.

Inspiration-wise, I'd say Lee Kuan Yew had more to do with the philosophy and strategy of what Deng Xiao Ping set in motion than any imitation of the Japanese system.
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Yes, it's clearly Microsoft's fault here. Geez.....
"the lack of compatibility between regional power utility grids."

For folks outside the country, the grids here are actually like 19th century European railroad gauges in different countries. Meaning, after the tsunami in the north, when the nuclear power plants were shut down, they literally could not move electricity from one part of the country to another where it was needed (or could, but it was crazily difficult).
There's a nicely illustrative video by Hans Rosling here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTznEIZRkLg on the population growth.
Paul Krugman has a somewhat related theory.

http://www.vox.com/2015/5/18/8619687/paul-krugman-ceo-pay
Saudis are major overseas investors. They have a serious problem that, on the scale of trillions of dollars of cumulative oil income, there isn't anywhere safe to put that quantity of savings.

However, these savings are "personal" savings of the monarchy, because it's not a free country. The population have been bought off for the time being, and told that an especially patriarchal flavour of Islam is better than western freedom. But fundamentally it's a country that relies on importing food and desalinating water, so as the fields deplete they need to be careful not to turn into Yemen.
It's possible that they accidentally quoted the maximum power rather than the energy stored, which would make the figure correct but not what most would expect.
I almost fully agree with you. But... when looking at broader spectrum (Unix+Linux), I was tasked recently with migration of some sort of legacy app suite from AIX to Linux. Part of this were Bash+Perl scripts for various document modifications for printing purposes. What a clusterfk those scripts were...

I am (still) no expert, and Java developer on top, so working with these in vim/ultraedit was a bit nightmarish compared to what even basic Eclipse can offer you for debugging in Java. But the worst issues were bash comamnds that compared to AIX had a different syntax, and they for example ignored some parameters, or some params had different meaning... Bear in mind I was not in position to pick up which version of bash, perl etc gets installed where.
The linked document mentions 50,000 kW and 300,000 kWh.
XP was almighty popular for any sort of scientific instrumentation, in no small part because of its good compatibility with Windows 9x (!). Manufacturers of advanced equipment tend to worry about small things like Proper Science rather than OS versions and other hipster stuff, and they're often small companies, so they historically tend to go Minimum Effort Required when it comes to interfacing with computers. They're also very worried about performance, so they have to go low-level, increasing the likelihood of incompatibilities with the latest and greatest and reducing maintainability in general.

A lot of drivers were developed back in the '90s and just tweaked for compatibility when absolutely necessary. Long-term compatibility is also why that world tends to favour Microsoft, that's one thing Redmond really cares about.
I Don’t Want to Be Right (2014)
Where I'm from pretty much all degrees are 3 years? Does that mean you need some form of post-grad (Masters?) on top?
Half a million a year in profits / wages is definitely a bit beyond lifestyle business. In wages it's possible top of field in something that really matters to a large enterprise. In profit, it's a whole lot of work in a very specific and high value area.
Now consider following:
- There are mobile apps, which do not talk directly to database.
- There are online games, that do not talk directly to database.
- There are Cloud based apps on your computer, that do not talk directly to database.

So why Web apps should talk directly to database?
Vert.x 3 released
Thank you... even in TFA, the handlers all seem to be synchronously bound... how do you tie these into async communication channels?

It really bugs me in this day and age, that frameworks are build without async client-server being a first-class behavior at least by example.

While I really appreciate the various demos for say TodoMVC, which allow some framework comparison.... what I would love to see (from TodoMVC or similar) would be an abstracted interface that is expressly async (even if only using setTimeout) via callbacks or promises for the data access. It's part of the story that is very important. Also, a very simple router... perhaps requiring a hello/login/register screen (user:user) and the todo screen.

I know TodoMVC was supposed to be just trivial enough to show something between the various frameworks... that said, I think we really need just a hair more.
That's not the original source though, FYI.
It's also worth noting that this kind of legislation flows from the US entertainment industry. The US leans heavily on Australia to toughen up IP laws, and there really is no grassroots movement here that's interested in them. Some would say that Murdoch is involved as well, but we do get infected with US law via treaties.
Top 7 Trends of Mobile Apps in 2015
It would be interesting to know how novel those sequences are (obviously, the outcome would be far less impressive if what we hear is basically a looped, noisy sample of a song that already exists).
A clean Windows install is a must, as others mentionted.

As for hardware - there are really two options. Either a ThinkPad (whichever flavour suits you) or a MacBook Pro with Windows (yes, it works better than most). Hint: the MBP will probably be cheaper, based on your configuration.
Love the quotation, and also didn't realize it came from a Bible verse originally.
I hear from Famous as UI System, but what is (in simple words) Framework - Engine - The Machine - The User... the blog post is really confusing.

Got it after watch the Website:

"The Famous Framework is a new JavaScript framework for creating reusable, composable, and interchangeable UI widgets and applications. It balances declarative with imperative and functional with stateful, and it's built on top of the Famous Engine."
This is normal but that doesn't mean it's good... or bad. Retention of 20% can be good for some industries like education apps, but is low for social media apps.
For about $100 bucks I expect a LOT more than this.
Forget popularity, do the right thing (in business)
I didn't make a video but I did something similar ^^
https://twitter.com/Sephiroth87/status/608460838467420162
> chains like Target are actively giving increasing space on their shelves to a slew of New Age players like [...] Hampton Creek (which sells a popular plant-based mayo)

I understand people who buy "junk mayo" (I do, more often than I'd like to admit) but I really don't understand why you would buy "high end mayo", because, if you're quality-conscious, how hard is it to make your own?

Or is this some kind of vegan mayo? But it's also possible to make your own mayonnaise with no eggs.

What is not possible however, is for a product that has to sit on shelves for any period of time to have no preservatives and no pasteurisation.
I've looked at a bunch of paleo blogs. It surprises me that almost all of them include coconut and olive oils. As if hunter-gatherers in the paleolithic era could drop by a grocery store and buy themselves a jar of oil. Now, it seems likely that whole coconuts and other nuts are healthy, but oil??? Isn't oil basically like other foods that are not whole, such as refined sugar (consists of only sugar and no other nutrients) and refined grains (almost only starch)?
I would rather have the reverse. Python bindings for Rust.
Cool :). It would have been nice to see some more screenshots or product videos in order to get a feel for it.
> The key to success is to get the users hooked during that critical first 3-7 day period.

FOAD. The key is offering something useful, so you don't have to think like a crack dealer. OSMand never lost me as a user.
I think I like your musical taste.
Checkout http://milk.samsung.com built using famous.

Stackoverflow has lots of famous snippets.
Nice project but the documentation is a bit terse (yet). We like https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat atm.

Things that would be essential for me to use it in a company are

- LDAP or OAUTH integration
- Hubot integration

I'm not sure Zapier integration cuts it for use cases where I want a self hosted solution.
I'm excited about Famous. The initial negative reaction from the community reminds me of the initial negative approach towards React. My gut tells me it is going to be very famous.
Lexus has created a real Back to the Future II hoverboard
Awesome game, and a very detailed writeup too.
upgrading from a 14 year old OS to a 5 year old OS.

ouch.
The water shortage in the US is caused by a combination of 'wasting' too much water on things not related to farming and insisting on farming unsuitable crops on unsuitable land. On the other hand countries like Argentina and India will likely have above average crops this year. And that's kind of the point. Sure at any given time you can find areas doing way below their average when it comes to agriculture, and there may very well be areas that are farmed today that won't be farmed in the future, but at the same time you'll find completely different areas doing above average, and new technology will let us grow crops in places where it wasn't profitable to do so before. As I said it's a distribution problem.

As to water, it essentially reduces to an electricity production problem. As soon as electricity gets cheap enough relative to the price of water, you can start firing up the desalination plants and get as much water as you want.
Not a great example: a) US-only b) breaks the back button
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Spare a thought for the poor bastards Microsoft assigns this to - there can't be a whole lot of job satisfaction in porting bugfixes to a fifteen-year-old EOL'd OS for one customer.
Ecclesiastes 3 King James Version (KJV)

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/india-is-los...
you still lose people to starvation, you are living above carrying capacity.

By that definition the carrying capacity of earth is zero. No matter how few people there are on earth there will always be some scenario where some guy starves to death because he couldn't get to the other side of the valley where the food was.
The greens aren't really interested in this issue; it just panders to their inner-city elite demographic. Also, I wouldn't clump the independents together - the PUP or the DLP aren't usually up for what's right.
Americans can PRINT dollars to buy OPEC Oil;

Others have to EARN dollars to buy OPEC Oil;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocurrency#Currencies_used_...
That's hilarious and just what I would expect from a bank in Switzerland. I am a Swiss programmer myself and, seriously... that's one of the reasons why I stopped working for certain Swiss companies.

Three years ago, I worked for a quite popular hosting company. I coded a few features for a web app and had many restrictions, because people at Credit Suisse still had to use Internet Explorer 5. Well, at least I was told so...
Looks like one of those image-cleaning planted articles.
After long debates and tests I came to the conclusion that the best hardware for Windows is a... mac book pro.

Running Windows on a Mac will reduce the battery daily life (from ~5-6 hours to ~3-4 hours) but even so, is better than most non-apple devices.

The price/performance ratio is about the same on either apple or non-apple laptops, so this is not a blocker.
This should result in some pretty interesting developments for rich text editing.
For more statistics and a historical look at world population growth (including references), see the "World Population Growth" charts at OurWorldInData [ http://ourworldindata.org/data/population-growth-vital-stati... ]
Dutch court orders the government to cut carbon emissions
Reddit Is a Shrine to the Internet We Wanted and That's a Problem
I've been using docker for cross compilation.
Will there be plugin support so teams can share their add-ons?
Example of Using Open Containers' Runc to Host Ubuntu Vivid Verdet
It's not something most people know how to do, and you have to pay for a blank media set. There is usually a "recovery partition" instead, but how well do those work?
I don't really get why there is so many Slack alternatives coming up these days.

On every post like this there is tons of comment linking to other Slack alternatives, it's not like this is gonna be _the_ Slack-alternative.

Here is a non exhaustive list :

RocketChat : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624737

Let's Chat : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040841

Friends : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9461504

Gitter : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6739074
That warship was NOT disabled due to NT issues. It would have been exactly as disabled if they had used Linux, or Solaris, or OS/2, or any other modern operating system.

They were using a client/server architecture, where the clients were essentially smart terminals for data entry and display. The failure happened when someone entered a 0 in a field that was not supposed to ever be 0. The terminals did not error check that field and reject bad values, and the server did not error check its input (probably it was written under the assumption that the terminals did the validation). The result was that their server application divided by 0.

The application did not trap divide by zero exceptions, and so NT did exactly the same thing nearly every other modern OS, included nearly all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, does when an application does not trap this kind of exception: it terminated that process.

The application developers had not made provisions to automatically restart the application if it failed, and the terminals couldn't do anything with the server application down, and so the ship was dead.
Web Design: Colour Me Happy
There are soft wisps of vapour that can be seen during that clip.

My money is on it being a compact cryogenic superconductor and the Meissner effect.

A new state of the art in compact cryogenics would be pretty cool. (pun intended)
But this hoverboard is likely little more than a gimmick.
Zesty is hiring Rails engineers
Here's the code: https://github.com/mattermost/platform

From the look of the screenshots ( http://www.mattermost.org/70-2/ ), I'd say there are some copyright concerns with the styles. This isn't a Slack alternative, it's a Slack clone. That's very problematic from a copyright stance. Why not create your own design style?

Gogs had (has?) this same issue: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1069
I'll just note that, since you need AC-DC conversion for a battery anyway, you could build one with two converters connected to two grids ...

(Good illustration of sunk costs though. Presumably it's prohibitively expensive to merge the grids.)
Unions didn't "leave out" anyone. Doctors have a professional association, which as you point out isn't quite sane in what it allows in terms of overtime. But as a result becoming a doctor is a far more exclusive endeavor.

Doctors are also paid quite well, in large part because of that exclusivity.

Not trying to defend the worst of current union behavior, but even now unions are useful; thinking particularly about teachers' unions, which fight to get teachers decent pay. It doesn't work, unfortunately -- teachers are paid less than babysitters -- but they'd be paid even less without unions.

That said, teacher tenure is too well protected by unions; a teacher who is no longer trying should be able to be fired.

Not sure what a better alternative to union organization is. Probably workers earning equity in companies they join, as much as possible. And I'm not talking communism; there are companies today that practice this. But it could be that unions are like democracy: A terrible way to run things, but all the other options are worse.
Pure propaganda and manipulation. Guess it goes with the medium.

If the worry is "not enough young people", what is the logical continuation? When we produce lots of young people now, and those become old, we need even more young people, and so on? So population growth is the only way forward?

Not even mentioning that today fewer people are needed to take care of other people than in former times. For example one farmer can produce food for many, many more people than one hundred years ago.

It's obvious that population can not grow indefinitely. Just think of the surface of the earth. There is a limited number of square meters. Eventually you would have so many people that there would be one person per square meter.

Maybe we could even live like that. We could live in skyscrapers, or even in little boxes Matrix style and spend our days in spacious virtual reality.

But the question is: do we want to live like that? We have to also think how we want to live, and how that can be made possible.

In the same vein, I guess the world obviously can not be overpopulated. If if were overpopulated, people would start dying until it would not be overpopulated anymore. That's presumably what is already happening in some regions of the world anyway, and has always happened. In "Collapse" Jared Diamonds describes a tribe living on a small isolated island. When they get overpopulated, some members simply had to get into a canoe and paddle away, to die on the sea alone. It's not a new problem.

But again the question is, how do we want this to play out. We can let people be born and then starve to death, or we can not let them be born in the first place.
Unions aren't perfect, granted. But even now they serve a purpose.
upgrading from an OS put to test for 14 years to an OS put to test for 5 years.

Yay!
I'd love to hear your story. If you're so inclined, can you shoot me an email? aline@alinelerner.com
they need transmission facilities to their customers outside the kingdom.

Not necessarily, there are lots of industrial processes that become very attractive if electricity is plentiful and essentially free.

Look at Norway again. Before they had oil two of their major exports was artificial fertilizer and later aluminium. Both these products required huge amounts of electricity to make and Norway had lots of cheap hydroelectricity. So instead of trying to export electricity, they built huge factories next to the power plants and exported the aluminium and fertilizer produced in these factories instead.
Chromium eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
The #Startup Ecosystem Map of #SriLanka is now live
Send a registered, written letter. There are legal requirements for written letters that mean MPs have to respond to them. I'm told that you should also ask a couple of disparate questions in the letter, as this means they can't simply respond with a form letter.

letter-to-MP tips
https://www.efa.org.au/Campaigns/lobby.html#tipsletter