skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UPS has something like this. You can configure options using My UPS like "always allow the driver to leave the package at my door", etc., and you can login and divert a package that's in transit to a new location (like your office). The things that make it suck are:

1. They charge for at least some of these features, at a level that I personally consider unreasonable

and

2. The UX for managing this stuff is pretty bad, at least last time I looked.
Evernote uses local clients that are "online" only for backup / sync between devices. Everything's stored on your machine in a local db. They've got a browser app, but in 4+ years of use, I've never used it.

Evernote is basically my OS.
As someone who hasn't worked with Ruby in a while, I'm curious to hear if anyone has opinions on how Sequel compares to DataMapper.
Huh, that's funny, because West Oakland is mostly families and they are fighting for their lives to stay in their neighborhood due to pressure from people like you.

P.S. if you're scared, move.
One of the most important points that the paper makes is that everyone’s income and wealth tend to follow a kind of natural pattern during their life. [People under 40] haven’t been working for many years, so they don’t have an opportunity to save as much; they also need to make investments in things like education and new home ownership. [People in their 40's and 50's] have worked long enough they start to accumulate wealth rapidly.

I don't mean to SHOCK you, but did you know there's a massive age gap between young and old people? Also, an experience gap. Something Must Be Done About This!
And both of our comments in reply to the same parent were downvoted 10 seconds after posting. Is this reddit with a weird stylesheet?
Agree that being an introvert doesn't have to do with social "skills", but it does have everything to do with social "interest".

So yes, even though the problems you mentioned might cause one to incorrectly classify themselves as an introvert, it shouldn't take away from the actual problems introverts face when being pulled strongly in opposite directions by their disinterest in striking up conversations and by a real necessity to network in order to be successful as entrepreneurs.

Thanks for the podcast mention though - will check it out.
Amazon ECS vs. Joyent Triton
If you're drawing a Venn Diagram of "ways to commmunicate" in two dimensions, sure. If you're thinking about humanity and ethics and the way each of those skills is valued by a community in transition, the ellipsoids don't have to touch. Might I suggest the current incarnation of Donald Trump as a case study if Steve Jobs is too trite.
Looking good.

Something about that land-based ripple effect makes my brain think the effect is happening in screen space. Wonder why?
You're implying ASEAN members all act in unison -- they do not. They fight amongst each-other almost as much as they do with China.

And while they fight amongst each-other, China voices support for one while undermining that support in another fashion. Pitting them against each-other is common.
Just out of curiosity, can you summarize where exactly it is wrong?
SerenityDB – disk storage and real transactions under Redis compatible protocol
I think this level of detail is pretty good, even though it doesn't have specific transactions necessarily:

http://seethroughny.net/index.php?cID=375

AFAIK this is compiled by a non-governmental organization however.
> If you look at median income levels, they have grown substantially over the last 30 years.

You have mean and median reversed. Mean inflation adjusted income has increased substantially, median inflation-adjusted income has declined. That's because the distribution of income has become more concentrated.
> Ctrl-Alt-Del still reboots your system.

Actually, it triggers a script. which should "typically" point at the reboot script. It might not, though.

So, if you absolutely want to reboot, you have to do the 8x ctl-alt-delete

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.spec...

ctrl-alt-del.target

systemd starts this target whenever Control+Alt+Del is pressed on the console. Usually this should be aliased (symlinked) to reboot.target.

[EDIT] To address your new, edited in points:

> WTF? systemd is removing an obsolete group, not adding one.

Deleting groups is a bigger problem than adding groups, since it can cause subtle errors in Linux. Deleting a long existing group can break software which depends on it (rightly or not), and if its GID is re-used for another group, other pieces of software can start quietly doing the wrong thing.

> You're right in this one and it's a GoodThing

The problem is that it's another thing which can break at startup, and is now in the critical path to system stability. Suckless promotes simplicity, this is not simple.

> Yes, all features of Windows are BadThings

When in the critical path for system stability? Yes. I like quite a few different windows functionality points myself, but having those things suddenly moved from a relatively safe "child of PID 1" to the system critical "PID 1", they have to work perfectly, every time. Needless to say, they don't.
The statuary period sets the minimum that an employee and an employer must give. Unless otherwise agreed this is the only value to care about. A longer notice period can be arranged via contract. A shorter period can not be agreed (well it can, anything can be agreed really, but it will not be legally enforceable).

IIRC the statutory rules are as follows:

* After one month of employment the minimum period is one week

* After two year's of employment the minimum period becomes two weeks

* Each year after the first two one further week is added, up to a maximum of twelve (so because of how long I've been here the three months dictated by my current contract is pretty much aligned with the statutory minimum notice period).

While there is some room for ignoring a contract with unfair terms, unless the notice requirements set out in what you have signed are rather egregious you will be expected to honour them unless you successfully negotiate otherwise at the time. People can and sometimes do ignore this though because the costs and time involved in taking you to court for breach of contract are high enough that it just isn't worthwhile to most employers, but this is a risky stance to take as you could create a reputation for yourself that travels around your industry fairly quickly and may stick around for some time (and, of course, such action is morally wrong: if you signed a reasonable contract in good faith you should stick to it just as you would expect the other party to). If your contract (that part or all of it) can be declared void because it is not enforceable (you can't sign away the statutory minimum) this becomes moot. It can also become a moot point due to some other significant breach by either party then (well by the letter of the law it doesn't, but "you could take me to court but you don't really want the whole truth being a matter of public record do you?" can be a powerful argument in dissuading the other party from taking action).
I am surprised most of us only believe/get news from CNN & MSNBCish.
Vietnam is the one who building in the South China Sea.
Vietnam is building two islands: West London Reef and Sand Cay, at the year of 2010.

Vietnam build islands, CNN FOX cricket, cricket.
China build islands, it is against international law.

- http://amti.csis.org/west-reef-tracker/

- http://www.newseveryday.com/articles/16087/20150508/vietnam-...

- http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/08/us-southchinasea-v...

China, human right violations. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/china...
VS. Former University of Cincinnati police officer pleads not guilty
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/07/30...

And Stop and frisk.

- http://www.nyclu.org/content/stop-and-frisk-data

I am not sure who is violating human right now.
FTO Passport Revocation Act of 2015 (H.R. 237)
> Attacking me is not really objective.

In the decades I'm developing software, I've learned that there is no developer out there liking somebody else's code. There's always something. You can think you're objective and unbiased, but you're not, no-one is. FFMpeg's code might be a mess due to a large chunk of legacy / backwards compatibility code, but very likely the other side's code base is a mess in other people's eyes.
If China block ships from the area it wont be too hard to block their ships from Panama and Suez canals and deny access to Americas

Watch their economy crumble if they are prevented from selling this cheap knacks to the rest of the world.

It be a stupid move and the Chinese are far from stupid unlike the the Russians who are doing their best to tick every checkbox on a rogue criminal state chalkboard
Kickstarter: We did it, and our project failed
> What I'm saying is that average income might not have risen, but median income has.

That's exactly reversed; adjusted for inflation, the average (mean) income has risen, the median has not.
same here. My first run into with Basic was when I was 6 with an MSX. I was captivated by it but didn't understand what the white letters against the blue background meant. (MSX was ironically more popular in Asia than America where it was built by Microsoft). Pretty soon I got my own but it was a Korean version of MSX with only games on it. My friend had the MSX with keyboard and he showed me how to type stuff on it but we played games. It was interesting since I began to wonder how these games were made. Then later, I had an old intel 286 with monochrome monitor during the mid to late 90s. No internet, just a thick book about Qbasic from the public library, and me trying to create games on it. The thought of making my own video game was more than enough of an incentive to learn yet to this day I have not achieved it as I keep telling myself it's too hard, too much time.

Then came DarkBasic when I was reading PC Gamer in the late 90s and I got so excited about it. Downloaded it over the 56k modem (couple hundred megabytes) and fiddled around with 3d stuff. I learned how to make 3d models with animation in TrueSpace. But never got to make a complete game, just lot of new projects that never went anywhere. The most I got was creating a FPS level using sphere as the 'skybox'. It was so exciting to create my own world using photo textures and add lighting which gave it pretty good look. Gives me a huge shot of nostalgia just thinking about it and other early demos in DarkBasic. The UI was literally had a dark feel to it and that made it even cooler.

I've always thought that BASIC had a lot of things right in terms of being newbie friendly, I mean it was easy enough for a 10 year old so. It's what sparked my early interest in programming.

Even in the early 2000s we were using Visual Basic in high school, we could create a lot of neat things with it. Gui apps that just sorta worked. Anybody could pick it up and yes, students of all shapes and sizes were able to follow along and create things on their own. Everyone was coding.

Compare that with today with the myriad of frameworks and hundreds of different opinions happy to rip each other apart for the sake of ideology. A much less inviting community core (ex. stackoverflow) to new comers asking "dumb" questions and being punished. We seem to be going through a very chaotic period in the development world where Javascript is suddenly king and simplicity and user friendliness is shunned.
Feel free to mail me any time: jacques@mattheij.com

> What would your paid-for Firefox look like?

As free from corporate silos as possible.

I'd happily pay $50 for a clean-by-default (no 3rd party cookies) version of FF.
honestly, how does indo come into picture?
The start menu isn't old software/API's.
"“Dorozhko’s alleged ‘stealing and trading’ or ‘hacking and trading’ does not amount to a violation” of securities laws, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of United States District Court ruled last month. Although he may have broken laws by stealing the information, the judge concluded, “Dorozhko did not breach any fiduciary or similar duty ‘in connection with’ the purchase or sale of a security.” She ordered the S.E.C. to let him have his profits."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/business/15norris.html
I've played in the past with ray marching http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26628848007/rod-m... (I eventually did it all on the gpu) so I'm curious how this is split between cpu and gpu?
You would if you also ran a business where they were your biggest customer.
Ask HN: Is there anyway to track analytics of an image?
Is there anyway to track analytics (like putting a "google analytics" track code) of an image? How this could be possible?
Your analysis might confuse two different phenomena.

When you mention TEPCO pouring "400 million gallons" into the Pacific, what you're talking about is them dumping contaminated cooling water from tanks into the ocean. The scale of that dumping is caused by (a) the ongoing need to pump water into the compromised reactor to cool it and (b) the large amounts of water they've already stored. However: that water is also filtered, to remove the (actually dangerous) Sr-90. What's being dumped into the ocean is HTO, not Sr-90 or Cs-137.

On the other hand, the meltdown at Fukushima contaminated the entire area with Cs-137, most of which is in the soil, sediment, and sand. The Cs-137 contamination is much worse than the HTO contamination. However, it is also not ongoing; in fact, increase in cesium detected around the plant has fallen dramatically in the last two years.
Randy Gardner – record for the longest period without sleep
I believe the even more classic solution would be to hire someone to answer your door and manage your servants. There's no reason for a single family estate to have a doorman, but plenty have butlers.
Create a unique working envirement at home
the trust has more to with NATO vs Warsaw, then the benevolence of usa.
The need to replace sysvinit was/is valid but systemd is truly a horrible piece of software. I would argue that systemd has (greatly) increased overall complexity and simply camouflaged it by moving most of the logic out of init scripts (unit files) and into program logic. And then added an http server and binary logs.

The original submission title, while editorialized, was pretty apt in my opinion. There really does seem to be a core group of people involved with the GNOME, RedHat, and systemd projects that seem to want to add features just for the sake of adding features, or perhaps so that they have something to claim ownership of. Gnome basically decided that text-basd configuration was too sane and opted for a mix of config files and the Windows Registry (gconf, dconf) which is a hilariously poor design choice. One-size-fits-all doesn't work unless you are Apple and your users will happily swallow your marketing BS and wait in line to buy a new iphone every 2 years.

The startup world is rife with the notions of "out with the old, in with the new" and "change for change's sake" so it's not surprising to me that a great deal of HN readers are Poettering apologists.

But to me, it sure seems like systemd is just a chance for Poettering and some others to pad their resumés, or else perhaps simply an ego trip. I honestly can't find anything about it that makes me go "hmm, that's a good feature that outweighs all the other negative parts".
What about a game like Worms or Tanks? Simple artillery firing with destructive landscapes. Maybe two castles firing siege weapons at each other?

Worms:
http://ciaranmccann.me/wormsjs/

Tanks:
http://www.addictinggames.com/strategy-games/tanks.jsp
This is a pretty bad list of issues with systemd. A large portion of criticisms in this list seems to be due to a misunderstanding of the author about what is actually in the systemd git repo. The git repo contains udev and other deamons in addition to the init process. As a result, most of the claims on this page about things going in to the init process are incorrect. If you look the actual release notes they are usually referencing a completely different daemon.

For example the line 'pid 1 does DNS' points to a release note about a separate daemon called 'systemd-resolved'.

edit: grammar
No space for postal/zip code. May want to take out the discount column or allow it to be removed; If I'm not giving a discount, I may not want the customer to see that.

I like that you can either add a new row below an existing row or at the bottom.
Serious question: has change.org accomplished anything ever?
If you really look at this history of computing (back at least to the 1970's or so), you see that very many things go in cycles like that. Certain concepts come into vogue, become the rage, lose steam, are replaced by something else, then come back, become the rage, lose steam... lather, rinse, repeat.

Why exactly this happens is an interesting question. I don't know the answer, but I have a vague suspicion that it happens where there is a fundamental, ultimately unresolvable conflict, and the "answers" just oscillate around the central issue.
If software is art, then systemd is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.
It is not a binary "banks always want less regulation". Banks, like other entrenched interests, will be for or against regulations, depending on if they advance their interests or not.

You see this in every industry. The energy industry hates environmental regulations, but they like more regulations when it serves to diminish the viability of alternatives like solar.
AFAIK in SysV ctrl+alt+del would trigger reboot which anyways involves shutdown scripts.

> Actually, it triggers a script. which should "typically" point at the reboot script. It might not, though.

The world might end.
Benefits of this idea: Quirky. Takes advantage of strengths. Easy to implement?
Cuban missile crisis in 1962?
Smart developers should look to IoT platforms to conceive apps
The tone is very negative and does not allow that there might actually be legitimate reasons for wanting systemd to do things that it does.

It just reeks of fanboy drivel, not a well-reasoned analysis taking into account multiple viewpoints. This is the type of content I would expect on Reddit or Slashdot, but not HN.
You realize that China is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, right?

The only time the UN can act is with the support of all five permanent members, which also includes Russia. Guess how often that happens.
"I'd like to have this printed, bronzed, and posted next to every startup founder's monitor." — Marc Andreessen (https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/626972494650454016)
Like jbk, I'd like to hope it will happen, but the combination of significant tribalism, plus the very different development philosophies may prevent this.

For the merging to happen, there would have to be both some agreement on the technical direction of the two projects, as well as some sort of social resolution, which would likely involve some maintainers of one fork or the other leaving.

Regardless, from my point of view, it seems unsustainable to keep on merging from libav to ffmpeg at the pace that Michael has been doing, so the projects will end up diverging enough at one point that momentum ends up behind one or the other.
See my comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9982777
About 10 years ago a new company appeared, with great promise for a clean-energy future. With the awkward name XsunX, their goal was to produce what they called "power glass" ... a type of glass that contained barely-visible solar cells and wiring. Tie it appropriately into a building's electrical system, and viola! a window becomes a power generation source.

The notion was that since the modern aesthetic is glass skin for large buildings, then why not let that new skyscraper in London, NYC, Houston, etc generate some of its own power from the acres (yes, acres) of glass covering its exterior?

The solar cells would be less efficient for a variety of reasons, and most windows wouldn't face direct sunlight all day, but these inefficiencies would be countered by volume: the entire building would be covered in solar cells.

Fantastic idea! And ... it fizzled. The XsunX website still exists, but you have to find really old press-release PDFs buried within to find any mention of Power Glass.

Use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, though, and you'll see their website years ago focused almost entirely on Power Glass and its promise.

I really wish this idea could take off ...
In NYC, I never lived in a doorman building, so I would rely on the delivery service's solution. For the USPS, they leave a slip and you can go pick up the package on Saturday. For UPS, you can have the package rerouted to a UPS store. For FedEx... you should have the package resent.
For those who were around for it, I'd be interested in a comparison with the ffmpeg/libav issue and the GNU Emacs/XEmacs times.
Any idea where junior contractors find work?
Turtl's new syncing architecture
Is the info about the attempted coup d'état wrong then? Because that's completely nasty. If you don't like the project leader, make a real fork and hope there is enough of you who will jump ship. Abusing the fact that you control the infrastructure to try and lock out the old leader is bad.
Java and Android Developers Roundup #2
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/13099...

Enough said.
But they'll have the correct author against them, no?
This petition persuaded Playmobil that there is a market for Playmobil figures with disability.

https://www.change.org/p/playmobil-please-make-disability-to...

The Lego petition doesn't seem to be doing as well. It's disappointing that Lego doesn't see the market.
So, I've got to admit, I don't really Java. But I'm really curious what's going on in that first question. The blog post says "T is replaced with Exception"... but the type parameter that was given was "RuntimeException." Does the compiler just ignore that type parameter and work within the context of that function?
Really, is it necessary to have another systemd perma-sulk?
How agile distinguishes between product managers and product owners
Makers, take up this challenge, boost your productivity and live healthier
Can this be termed as the near saturation of Game Engine technology? Or there are still many undiscovered ways in the tech stack to make it work?
That's the point - you don't have to live in SF or rent office space in SF, you can avoid SF altogether while still having the benefits of the startup scene an hour away.
I do not want to offence anyone, but something which is not said by the article is that the first known inhabitant of this territory were the French. This place was taken by the British at a time of French weakness, exploiting the chaos of the Napoleon's defeat. All that to eventually force the inhabitants out for building a foreign military base, just because (apparently) the British government did not have the will to develop their own nuclear weapons.

As a French, I hope some day we will have a brave enough government who:

* tells the British to refuse to have foreign troops occupying a full territory displacing their own people;

* says that the current situation is wrong, and that these territories are supposed to be French, with the same legitimacy as the Réunion. There is no need to go to war or alike for that, but I feel this is something which should be said.
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