skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see Germany's move to reinstate border controls as a way to pressure Hungary and to some extent Slovakia to agree to a quota spread of refugees. I think the german electorate would be easier to convince if they have a feeling all EU-members are pulling their weight.

Hungary has responded with policies (detaining refugees, also working on laws to allow police violence against illegal border crossings) that are likely not compatible with international law and I can imagine a EU court will convict them in a few months. Unfortunately, the refugees will be the victim of this in the meantime.

Also, I find the article overly dramatic, stating that "Free movement around 26 countries for 400 million Europeans is now seriously threatened.". Schengen has very little to do with the free movement of EU citizens, this was arranged by the Treaty of Maastricht and others.

I do agree though that this is further evidence that solid european integration is still a far away dream and for now national interests take the lead when the shit hits the fan.
Essentially, yes? I mean, are you suggesting these engineers are doing magic? That they wrote some new and amazing code that anyone could not write? That these 50 people are the only ones who could do this and somehow ended up at WhatsApp? Or are they just leveraging powerful systems efficiently?
Pretty please fix the url parsing so it doesn't include the angle bracket after a link, like this URL <http://google.com/> embeded in a sentence.
There is a big incentive for any state to have a well run tax administration. It is the profit center for the state.
There's many reasons for layoffs besides the belief that employees are negative / insufficient value. For example, companies do lay-offs in smaller quantities simply because a high level business objective wasn't met and a division is going to be disbanded as a strategic decision. In HP's case, I'm pretty sure that HP management feels that these targeted employees work for divisions that management can't foresee sufficient profit to keep operating which has increasingly become based around service and support for the old Compaq lines of business. HP has tried desperately to break into higher margin enterprise software and services for at least two decades now with mixed results and after failing to increase their brand value on the hardware side to approach something like Apple (I looked at HP's on the book assets compared to their market cap a few years ago and they were worth less than if they liquidated according to their market cap). Buying VoodooPC a while ago is an example of trying to increase brand value by associating themselves with "high end" stuff with corresponding mark-ups.

Organizational morale at HP has been pretty dire for at least a decade by now with few bright spots of news and a revolving door of leadership. I left HP in very early 2010 after a few years there when I was acquired in, but in hindsight I should have left probably the second I heard of the acquisition and cashed out what I could of my NQSOs / ISOs. I've been calling them the Walmart of tech years ago before these recent stories about Amazon showed up because unlike Amazon, the stories of poor pay, long hours, and consistently below-market compensation are very, very common at HP.
Well, it IS a different sound, and that can be measured objectively (I mean that vinyl players "color" the original recording and how much and in what ways they alter the frequency response and such).

So, it's not like $1000 cables scams etc, where the results are identical.

Now, the subjective part is whether this "warmer" sound is better than the more accurate (better fidelity) high quality digital sound.

For a lot of people, it is -- same way as we tend to like "saturated" images more, despite their colors not being true to the original.

(Of course I'm speaking in general -- if you, mr. outlier, doesn't like saturated pictures, this doesn't apply to your statistical noise self. Not everything is about you.).

Then there's the crackle and static that some (fewer) people also like, but I'm sticking to the basic vinyl "color" here.
"Stay positive and radiant today, Max. This is a great day for you to take control. Connect with others on group projects and feel free to offer creative input. Let the artist within take the spotlight, and cultivate this talent in any way you can. Take the time to engage in long conversations with people regarding recent events. You have a great deal to share."

Paraphrased from http://my.horoscope.com/astrology/free-daily-horoscope-leo.h...

I'd say your edit sums it up nicely.
At which point MS settled out of court and kept Lindows in business for many years to come.
Not to band-wagon it up, but I agree that Swordfish felt like an overly produced Mad TV sketch of a techno-action movie. Expensive cast - cringe worthy though.
Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime
That only works with direct messages. Spammers have upped their ante, and they are now sending spam by adding you to group messages which (when I looked it up) don't allow you to report them as spammer (you can still block them, but that doesn't prevent a spam epidemy)
That's what they have now. A third party clearing house (presumably using a relational database) that is the central authority on all intermediary transactions. Creating a blockchain is about removing that third party and instead breaking the trust up between the participating banks.
Another vote for Elixir. Well-documented with a growing community, and the code is very readable.
At this point, it may be cheaper to mass produce 32GB flash chips than 16GB. Economy of scale.
I don't think he's trying to sell this as something that's better. He could be showing his project probably to receive comments/feedback/critique.
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With none of the joys of actually using a mechanical typewriter.

Typing on a real mechanical typewriter is really fun, at least until you get tired. You have to put so much force on the keys that your forearms get into it. Stressed? Take out your frustrations on the typewriter. But the best is that carriage return lever -- SLAM! I used to slam that thing so hard that the typewriter would slowly migrate across the desk, and I'd have to readjust it when feeding a new sheet.
and do you pay them my day rate is £500 :-)
The Apple iOS 9 Review
A few random things, a game with a couple friends (http://www.craterkings.com), a funny little Craft Beer Generator still very much in-progress (http://chrisgermano.github.io/CraftBeerGenerator/), and a very rudimentary stock trading bot http://stockbot.infinityclub.us/ (add "#[symbol]" [no quotes] after the / to follow a specific stock, it starts with 10k if there's no existing data, unfortunately you need to keep the window open for it to keep "thinking")
Poker just has an image problem - you don't see anyone getting in trouble over the "fantasy football" sites that are thinly-veiled online sports books. Hell, they even advertise on national TV during football games, so it's not like they're flying under the radar at this point.
Not sure why you were downvoted. I've heard the exact same thing from people working there and have worked there.
Where does the phrase “dry run” come from?
Built as a series of experiments with AWS Lambda, the AWS API Gateway and various other pieces of cloud.

Zero Infrastructure

And a surprising amount of configuration
Southeastern Brazil sits most directly under the SAA, which increases background levels of ionizing radiation for those in the geographic area.

If there existed a map of these Li-Fraumeni variant cases, which it seems there does not, it would be interesting to compare that with the position of the SAA.

It seems reasonable that a P53 mutation combined with higher background radiation would lead to increased cancer risk in those with the mutation, so the location in southeast Brazil seems like it might not be a coincidence.

One also has to wonder if the P53 mutation itself is an artifact of high-Z exposure, even though it looks to be identical in all cases, but the genetics may rule that out.

It may be that the Brazilian Li-Fraumeni variant situation gives us our only model of cancer risk in a low geomagnetic field environment, which is very interesting for human space exploration.
Irving TX 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade electronic clock to school
This is wrong. Whales live longer because they are bigger. Larger animals have slower metabolisms and consequently longer lifespans. See this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15855403
Sergey Brin on taking moonshots and the value of failing
I believe our divergence is somewhere under the definition of 'intelligence'. The word is very ill-defined, to the point that we are reduced to describing it functionally in many cases, as with the Turing test.

>Human intelligence is the intellectual capacity of humans, which is characterized by perception, consciousness, self-awareness, and volition.

That's a very normal definition of intelligence. AI is defined (among many other way, naturally) as "the study of intelligent agents"; 'agency' is a requirement for an artificial intelligence.

Since we started with the context of 'paperclip maximizers', I've been talking about intelligence in that context - in order to be studied as an intelligence, a thing must have 'agency', the ability to intentionally act. A thing that doesn't have agency can still have behavior, and that behavior can still be studied, but the behavior is emergent, not intentional - the system does not have agency unless it is capable of having goals, and of making decisions to achieve or progress toward them.

In particular, capitalism isn't 'trying to maximize capital' - that's an effect it's (supposedly) having, but not an intentional one. It's a pretty clear emergent effect - if many of the actors in a system are trying to maximize their personal capital, then the system turning out to maximize net capital should surprise nobody. It's very equivalent to calling a diffusion chamber a 'maximizer' of entropy - a diffusion chamber does maximize entropy, but by calling it a 'maximizer' (in the context of 'paperclip maximizer'), you would ascribe agency to the chamber - it's not trying to maximize entropy, that's just something that it happens to do.
If this is anything like the last set of layoffs and sell offs the the early 2000s, there will be a lot of smaller companies starting up that will handle the business that HP will start to lose.

I worked at a large company that used HP hardware with large, multi-million dollar contracts and a lot of our business went out to these smaller companies. The level of service that your father can provide is important to large enterprises. If your father doesn't want to start his own company, someone else will. He should start talking to his colleagues and his boss - maybe someone is already thinking of starting something.

These sorts of layoffs can create opportunity for people like your dad. HP can't just lay off that many people without hurting parts of their service line.
It seems like a highly biased opinion piece. Better to just read the news instead of this crap.
I would say that face to face to someone that makes such statements while being clearly on the rich side of the table, but that doesn't make my way right. Thanks for reminding me the guidelines, I'll try to behave :-)
New Trello power-ups
An open source tool for planning sustainable public bike paths
If you are a founder without a salary then you get none of that. You are considered unemployed during the whole time you manage your company.
already saw some comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10224223
Stellar is indeed decentralized but not distributed [1].
What I like about Stellar is the concept of gateways and trust. It adds a whole new dimension for transactions.

[1] http://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/cs217/Baran64.pdf
Do you mean "fine" as in "very fine lines", or "looks fine" as in "looks good"?

Cause that looks like a printer that ran out of ink.
Sad but true. I suppose families with a high cancer rate will die off - evolution.
IIRC the TP3 compiler was very fast because it didn't optimise much. Compilers at the time were far easier to beat with Asm than ones today.

Also, as this is highly parallelisable problem, autovectorisation with SIMD instructions will produce huge performance boosts.
Author here. In case it's not obvious from the article, the game URL is: http://www.playkeepout.com

Happy to answer any questions!
Something that I've noticed about South African brain drain is that it's mostly motivated by people simply wanting a system that works for them - at least in tech. If I'm working my ass off on a product that I believe in; I don't want to be, frankly, babysitting the government.

From what I've read France is also in the business of destroying productivity - if they want people back they need to start reconsidering overuse of red tape.
Our startup was created in France 2,5 years ago. Here is our experience:

Some of us started working on the project while getting unemployment benefits (huge boost).

We get (very) affordable office spaces from the city and various incubators (we are located in Paris).

We are able to live on first customers + 0% loans from the state + hundreds of thousands of euros in various grants for innovation (http://www.bpifrance.fr/), so we don't need to dilute our shares by raising funds too early.

We get no income taxes for the first years.

Employees have social security. Healthcare is cheap and very good.

Why would we want to start run company anywhere else?
Love the mouse-wheel scrolling! Very nice :-)

Unfortunately, I was thinking it was going to be a crowd-sourced version of a sea-launched space vehicle... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)

Ah well, this is pretty awesome too.
I guess I'm not really thinking this is a hardship on the interviewee, but wondering more if you're implicitly filtering your candidate pool. But you make good points.
This "Reviens Léon" initiative is a masquerade and based on the grotesque idea that expats are not french because they crossed a border. Countries are not bound to frontiers anymore, if I'm growing a network out of my country, I'm becoming an ambassador of the whole french culture. How is that less beneficial to its international standing?

French companies and administrations deplore the lack of tech engineers, but at the same time, they don't bother to reduce the overwhelming amount of bureaucratie needed for foreigners (out of the EU) to come work in France. Sounds like the definition of hypocrisy to me.
The full paper with more detail on the model used to and its applications is at http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04425
Android uses the repo tool to manage the many git repos where the actual code resides.

https://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html

Not sure if that's what gp meant.
To be fair cheques are still popular in France and regularly used by administration, landlords and individuals.
Yes, even minor* medical issues can run into six-figures. I developed a non-critical arrhythmia last year, medication didn't fully control it, so I opted for catheter ablation.

The procedure itself, plus the related office appointments and tests, was around $50,000 (after insurance discounts). That included separate bills from the surgery center, the hospital (I was admitted overnight), the cardiologist, and the anesthesiologist.

That's for a one-off problem that is now corrected. If it were cancer, or something else that required ongoing treatment, costs rise rapidly.

* To the degree that any medical issue can be minor; my life was never in danger and risk permanent disability was low.
Here is a good anti-refugee argument, from a refugee:
https://vine.co/v/eTZO5j3q9Vp
I'm french, while it's true a lot of startup / opportunities in tech appeared in the last few years, most of them don't pay anything.

They all advertise "good work ethic", "good environment", "good whatever" like it justifies for you to be paid like a graduate for an experienced position. You want talent? Pay the price.
I agree, Wired didn't cover the subject with the kind of detail programmers would expect.
I think it fits in well with a
lot of her other projects, which are seemingly obviously jokey:

http://lauren-mccarthy.com/

This one in particular: http://lauren-mccarthy.com/goodbye/

>This past fall I left Boston, after spending the past 5 years there. To deal with the emotionally and logistically overwhelming task of giving a goodbye hug to all of the acquaintances and friends I have accumulated over this time, I designed the Hands-Free-Auto-OK/GOOD/GREAT-BYE! Machine.
death and taxes next on list of problems to be tackled by scientists.
Gentoo users: there's an USE flag for that ;)
[https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-staging/wiki/Installa...]
Fantastic! Helping kill time between support calls :D

There always seems to be a little "L" shaped room by the exit, has anyone else noticed this?
14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
Even when you have been made redundant?
Share it:

Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Could Bypass "Screen Lock" Of Android 5.0 Within 5 minutes

http://haktuts.blogspot.com/2015/09/Bypass-Screen-Lock-Of-An...
PHP? They're known for being a huge Django (Python) success. Or did fb converted them to HipHop?
Exactly how I was spammed, and I echo someone else's comments that I can't believe you can't activate a whitelist.
It's Carly Fiorina's legacy! And Meg Whitman carries her torch.
How old is Hackers? Not only does Nynex no longer exist as an independent entity, the company that acquired Nynex (Bell Atlantic) no longer exists as an independent entity (it exists as part of Verizon).
Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Could Bypass "Screen Lock" Of Android 5.0 Within 5 minutes

http://haktuts.blogspot.com/2015/09/Bypass-Screen-Lock-Of-An...
What I suspect is true but obviously can't prove: Person with completely healthy brain at age 200 would not be well functioning human being in the society.

When we grow we gain experience. That experience shows as habits, perceptions, attitudes and thought trains that makes functioning in the society easy. We learn to see the world trough the past experience. All this turns from asset to liability when society where you live changes beyond the global parameters our cognition settles into.

In other words: Our 'mental posture at large' is path dependent and it gradually settles into some state and becomes less malleable over the years. We can still learn new things and change our thinking, but internalizing the changes becomes increasingly harder in the core level. We don't even want to try to change certain notions because our identity is tied to our 'core beliefs'.

Society where people (especially rich and powerful people) would live 200s would be some kind of dystopia of geriatric thinking. Young wold have to kill the old or stage revolutions from time to time.
As I said above, the Firefox screenshot looks like a printer that ran out of ink, the Chrome version is slightly better, but look at the letter 'T', that's still wrong, a hairline that falls between pixels. That's only acceptable for text that is not actually intended to be read (thumbnails, mockups, zoomed out stuff, etc).
But changing laws when there are radical shifts to society doesn't?
The levels are procedurally generated from a pool of chunks. We currently have too few different "exit" chunks, so that's why it seems a bit repetitive.
I bet that WhatsUp infrastructure would work ~ 35 engineers.

That's a social problem though (the fact that 35 guys generate so much cash, while on the other side of the planet 350 millions are looking for a way to pay the rent), not a technical one :-)
He has more than one research, he even has a factory where he provides materials to a big company here in Brasil. It is irrelevant for this discussion anyways, since it is completely unrelated.
Works fine in Chrome on Android, IE, Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Opera, try another browser.
In 1992 (3 years before Schengen) there was just 15 states in UE and 672'000 migrants. Last year, 626'000 migrants for 28 states.

Yes, 23 y.o. tsunami really exists!
I think this is amazing, I wish more services would adopt this. I hate when I'm on Amazon or Newegg and I'm zoomed in just enough to where I can read things, but as I drag my way around an image it has to re-render it numerous times (even if I "go back" to a spot). I guess Amazon and Newegg are attributing for bandwidth wasted loading an entire image that may not be looked at? Not sure. Still love this.
I just made a video explaining to business people what an API is
> but programs in them aren't really "first-class citizens" of the platform

But now you are moving the goalposts.

It is irrelevant whether programs are "first-class citizens." It doesn't stop one from enjoying and experiencing programming, and it certainly doesn't prevent someone from making just as complex and interesting programs regardless of the environment in which they are executed.

The point I am arguing from your original post is the following:

> Unfortunately I don't know if it ever will reach the same level of importance as literacy, because the industry seems to be trying very hard to discourage regular users from ever becoming programmers or even "advanced users"; see the War on General Purpose Computing:

I very much disagree that anyone is trying to discourage regular users from becoming programmers. Whether you are in a sandboxed or locked down environment is an irrelevant implementation detail. Virtual machines can be explored on such systems, even if the real ones can't.

(And, as an aside, Codea for iPad can export a user's project into a native app that can be developed further or uploaded to the App Store. So even environments like the iPad can, and have, produced "first-class citizen" applications. In fact, we published the first game coded entirely on iPad in 2010. It has had millions of downloads.)
The problem is work ethic. I've been to France on business on 2-week stints about a dozen times, and I can tell you from my experience they do not want to work hard -- at anything. 6hr workdays, and at LEAST 1hr for lunch and worst of all they look at you like you are the crazy one for wanting to get more done each day.
Why not link to the original news article instead of to a blog that quotes it?
I'm not saying you're wrong, but I completely disagree with you.

I would argue that the primary reasons people fail to better fulfill their potential are lack of time, poor health and grief or hopelessness in the face of death. I also strongly believe that the epidemic of disastrous short-term thinking among us (particularly our 'leaders') is directly linked to the fact that each of us knows we're going to die all too soon.

I could meet you halfway and say that in our current form, we may not be ideally suited for significantly longer lifespans-- but we can change ourselves with drugs, technology and genetic engineering, so it would be a temporary problem.

The only paradise I believe is possible is one we create, and we cannot do it with this pathetically paltry handful of decades we're allotted.
A sample size of 10 is hardly something to base any meaningful conclusions on.
No, I'm not saying they are used more often, but they are more important in major application domains. Floats are used more often, but often not because they are domain-appropriate, often as a premature optimization, or as a matter of developer convenience because many major tools (languages and libraries) make float use more convenient.

Exact rationals are in a similar situation.
So you're taking the time to build out a more cumbersome audio system but don't want anyone to think you are putting forth the effort because you might enjoy how it sounds better?