skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of these extra costs could not have been prevented or foreseen. No one could have anticipated China's thirst for steel back in 2001, let alone 1995/6; or the fact that, prior to the GFC, investment in major/mega public/private infrastructure projects worldwide was snowballing due to burgeoning western economies, putting a significant increase on demand for that (relatively cheaper) steel too, as well as the engineering services and human capital to drive it.

One thing I see time and again, in projects I've either been involved with directly, or indirectly, is a failure to do any substantive geo-technical assessment in the early planning phases. Not understanding your environmental invariants properly (when they are usually diverse due to the physical scale of these projects) always comes back to bite you later on. It's usually (eventually) a critical path item on any schedule since the structural design is so dependent on them.

"In April 2006, a consortium involving American Bridge and Fluor won the tower contract. It was built in China to save money—a decision that carried its own costs when inspectors later found poor welding and busted bolts at key points that required fixing. Frick says the current $6.5 billion total is a rough estimate, and that it doesn’t include interest or financing costs."

A mistake most larger EPCM's made in those days. The horror stories regarding the quality of Chinese steel and fabrication back then are very real. It is unthinkable now to let any fabrication of that nature happen there without adequate on-the-floor supervision and oversight.
Not all species can be bred and farmed in captivity.
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There is one key issue that is routinely ignored. The US and other countries have two sets of data protection rules that govern police and security services. One set of rules for residents of that country (e.g. US persons) or domestic data and another much less stringent set or rules for everyone else.

So even if data protection rules were perfectly adequate in every single country on this planet, there would still be justified concern about transferring data across borders.

That's a situation that must change, and it can change without taking away the bowl of sweets from security agencies altogether (which will never happen).
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Fair enough; thanks for just the warning.
It's probably a bit messy, because we started deforestation in the mesolithic I think, and we had an uneasy standoff with megafaunal predators well into the iron age.

From Wikipedia: With the advent of agriculture, larger areas began to be deforested, and fire became the prime tool to clear land for crops. In Europe there is little solid evidence before 7000 BC. Mesolithic foragers used fire to create openings for red deer and wild boar. In Great Britain, shade-tolerant species such as oak and ash are replaced in the pollen record by hazels, brambles, grasses and nettles. Removal of the forests led to decreased transpiration, resulting in the formation of upland peat bogs. Widespread decrease in elm pollen across Europe between 8400–8300 BC and 7200–7000 BC, starting in southern Europe and gradually moving north to Great Britain, may represent land clearing by fire at the onset of Neolithic agriculture.
It's not remotely controversial in Scotland - estates effectively have legal requirements for the numbers of deer they need to shoot each year to keep the population even vaguely under control (in fact, many campaigners complain that estate populations are allowed to keep deer populations too high to improve the commercial hunting.) This is generally accepted because, as you say, they have no natural predators. Is the situation different in England? I didn't realise it was.
Are metric measurements all derived from the value 1kg? If so, does this mean that the entire metric weight range can now be officially based on mathematics?
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OS X Developer? Help Realm build dev tools (employee or contract)
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You need to have 1) experience building native applications for OS X (not just iOS) + 2) experience building custom UIs that go beyond using regular AppKit controls.

We’re open to hiring you as a contractor (based almost anywhere), or as a full-time employee (based in San Francisco).

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silicon-28 sphere(s?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y (yep, they let him palm it)

watt balance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlJSwb4i_uQ
Well, viable strategy now for many startups (also EU ones) using US infrastructure is to block all EU customers. How is that good?
> instead of shelling out for yet another upgrade to a spreadsheet program that will be used to do exactly what they would have done with a spreadsheet in the 80's -- or even funnier, for a version of that spreadsheet that still does the same things, but slower, in a browser

Oh yes. This whole e-mail is just golden.
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/61198/if-xml-...

http://blog.codinghorror.com/xml-the-angle-bracket-tax/

http://nothing-more.blogspot.co.uk/2004/10/where-xml-goes-as...

SOAP's serialisation of RPC predated the popularity of JSON, and has largely been replaced by JSON for web-RPC through REST APIs. Why? Because it's needlessly verbose and complicated.

(I do worry that new serialisation formats are being developed in a vacuum, and we'll reinvent ASN1 or something)
Because it's one of the most important sources of funding for tech companies (justified or not).
Although that supposed trend seems to be exaggerated--at least in the US. According to this piece http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-millennials-are-less... for example, the actual trend seems to be that a fairly narrow slice of demographics (25-34 with college degrees) mildly prefer living in a few specific dense urban environments like Brooklyn.

Overall there is something of an urbanization trend (especially in emerging economies) but it's not as pronounced as it's often made out to be.
SQLite is amazing. It should definitely get more popular - it gives you relational DB features while still storing everything in a file. Which means portability, performance, and no bloating the entire OS with another database driver / server.
Again, the benefits of multi-touch (as opposed to reliance on physical buttons) provides an option. Software like BetterTouchTool (or similar, I've not looked for alternatives for a while) can detect a tap in the middle section of a Magic Mouse (and likely a Trackpad too) and map it to whatever you want.
How can you help your team use a time tracking software?
Or indeed a well-received musical about the life of a Founding Father (I did not see that coming): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_%28musical%29
Positive discrimination is not only reaction to negative discrimination. It may also be just plain simple discrimination. Of course people may claim that positive discrimination is always just a reaction, but in reality it may be just sexism or racism.
Doesn't sound very rigorous. How do you know when A1 and A2 are "equal"?

To be honest this method sounds a lot simpler. You only have to track two numbers!
The noble savage is another Victorian invention.

The Victorians can hardly be singled out for conquering and enslavement, given that was pretty much the norm for human history to that point. Victorians are saints compared to roman times, and the Romans themselves were honourable compared to what went before.
With two-phase lookup errors in code that does not depend on template arguments are caught earlier (when the template is defined) than with one-phase lookup (when the template is instanciated). Which is why template code written for Visual Studio might not compile with a standard conforming compiler.

>instantiating a template is literally a textual substitution

I'm being pedantic here, but that's not quite the case. Example:

template <typename T>
void foo()
{
T t;
...
}

foo<int[2]>();

With simple textual substitution this would result in a syntax error, as

int[2] t;

isn't valid C++ code.
No, it's not "definitely" questionable. Public passenger aircraft fly over warzones all the time, also today.
Please read his 'Letters from America' column: http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton/letters-america

His articles are very approachable and written with a lot of wit and vision for where new research is taking economics.

For example see his take on new research on minimum wage at a time when most economists were very sceptical: http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/deaton/file...
Kill or be killed. Simple as that
And it became so probably because it's easiest - you can build whatever crap you want, slap some ads on top and earn $$$. In time, the whole industry learned that it's not even worth to improve the actual utility of the product - focusing on sexiness and addictiviness is better, because it drives even more ad views.
The Torah allows polygamy.

It may have been a practical necessity after husbands died or were killed. No welfare or social security survivor benefits or similar programs existed.

But IMO it's something that only single men would truly find appealing. Married men quickly realize that additional wives and accompanying additional children are the last thing they want or need. :)
Nope, more useless EU bureaucracy (stupid cookie popup) just to pretend that the NSA won't get (be given) the data by EU governments. Everyone thinks the cookie law is dumb, but there it is, constantly reminding everyone of their folly.
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Central dispatch for gypsy cabs?

Are you trying to make a cogent argument? because all I see is a nasty insult.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
I live in London and always wanted a nice detached house with a small garden. This wish of mine prices me out of London. We are about to buy the above mentioned house in a nice suburban area. Not because we prefer suburban to urban, simply because of the economy of the London property market.
Supermicro is where it's at. 10k buys you 4x dual socket 6-core Xeon E5-v3 servers (2U Twin^2). Totally 48 cores, 256 GB DDR4 RAM (minimum config).
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IANAL, but I don't think it's that unclear; the ruling essentially said the Safe Harbour is void, and so the US is now just like any other non-EU country regarding the Directive, for which there probably already exists jurisprudence.
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Question: If Facebook manages data within Europe, what are the safeguards in place to ensure that there won't be mass surveillance, e.g. face recognition, shadow profiles, friend graph browsing?
What on earth is wrong with us humans? We seem to hunt animals to extinction for nothing more than a trinket manufactured from them! It has no life saving medicinal value or any such other kind of intrinsic value.

One day our children will look at us with disbelief and disdain as one of the most idiotic unenlightened "civilised" generations.
Honestly why? Will you make that many desktop apps that are all the same?
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It has actually been done: the SR-71 Blackbird had one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Astro...
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I was working at a place that had decided that they needed "big data tools" and part of the team was developing a Hadoop data cluster and myriad of other tools (Tableau, Reddis cache etc).

I put all the campaign (it was an ad tech company) data that we actually used to alter bidding behaviour and it could fit into a sqlite3 DB that was < 5MB. Using python the sqlite DB worked like a charm.
> I think they also allow for cloudy weather preventing any sights from being taken

Is there not a modern equivalent of the medieval 'sun stone'?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)
Because I really dont. Yes Power used to dominated performance. I have always thought with every tick and tock Intel has closed the gap or leap forward already.

But where is it used? Is it shrinking? I have no idea, at least everything have shown
http://www.theplatform.net/2015/06/04/x86-servers-dominate-t...

Intel is still winning / dominating, there were talks of Google using POWER8, haven't seen anything more. And knowing Intel with a clear Roadmap coming up.

Do Power8 have any place in Cloud Computing?

I too, wish Intel would have more competition, but i dont see the choice of using it. Most of the distributed and In Memory Processing aren't using it. But then I guess i am not the target audience.
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It's not built-in ;-) Also its syntax is horrible:

d = a.add(b.mul(c));

instead of

d = a + b * c;

Even COBOL's

COMPUTE D = A + B * C.

was clearer than Java's OOP notation.
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My understanding is that this is done so people get consistent monthly payments in the common case. Otherwise people who plan based on their monthly pay at the start of the year might end up in serious difficulty when it suddenly drops. If this results in your being underpaid for whatever reason, it will be corrected at the end of the financial year.
Yes. Now they get to be on the semi-dominant end of the spectrum.
Very nice. It seems identical in functionality to my own side project: https://grouplet.cc, however you have do have a nicer UI because I'm not the best designer in the world :-)

Grouplet is free, and has quite a number of groups using it. It's so cheap to run that I didn't feel it was worth charging for until I have an insane number of emails being sent every month.

Good luck, I hope it works for you!
I don't think that building high, dense housing is the important part. I think what you need are walkable neighborhoods where all the basic necessities are met in a small area. If you have to drive twenty minutes to get to a supermarket, a school, a restaurant or a bank, there is something wrong with the neighborhood. High density makes it easier to solve that problem, because it makes local businesses more profitable, but it is not strictly necessary. I'm pretty sure that people prefer a small house with a garden to a high-rise if the neighborhoods provide similar infrastructure.
Duplicate, very close in time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10385743.
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And other entries from the same guy can be posted without any problems. FB is saying that their "security systems" detected the link "to be unsafe", but comparing source of that particular post with other posts, I don't see any significant difference (except for the text, of course). Sounds like the text itself contains information which is unsafe (for FB).
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The European Data Protection Directive.
Trident missiles (a type of ICBM currently being carried aboard US submarines) do just that.

Once launched a Trident, using a camera, gets a fix on a single specific star. It then uses the data on that star's position to correct for any errors in its internal guidance system.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident_(missile)
COBOL is like HNs shutter shades.
From that article:

> Nobody has ever said that WGM is equivalent to GM, everybody knows it's not the case, WGM is just a step towards IM then GM, to make sure the player does not lose interest as it is so hard to attain the higher titles.

That's all well and good, but what prize is there to encourage men who are at the level of WGM? Why is no prize needed for men?
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There are seven so called "base units" defined in the SI; meter, second, mol, ampere, kelvin, candela and kilogram [1].

Of these, mole and kilogram are dependent of the kilogram.

edit: this is a good, if maybe a bit misleading, illustration: http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/upload/SI_Diagram_Color_A...

[1]: http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/metric/si-units.cfm
No, at least second and meter are defined with math and elementary physics (e.g. second is the time it takes for a specific atom to oscilate a specific number of times).
Actually, the concept is most often associated with Rousseau in the 18th century. What the Victorian era had as an advantage was steam powered printing presses to spread uniform cultural concepts (regardless of their veracity or value) over broader areas more quickly. I'm glad we're finally living in an era that has gotten past that.
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> We may even end up with a special Snowden version of the cookie warning

Depends. The courts might rule that that sort of "click-through" agreement is invalid and doesn't count as consent.

Update: Already happening. DPA of Schleswig Holstein: Transfer on the basis of Model Clauses unlawful. from https://twitter.com/CarloPiltz/status/654214641975984128
I feel that the poaching is awful but when I saw the last pic, I did have a second where I said "Well damn...that bird is a real fuggle."
True, but people think total rewrite when they think convention and this is just amendments coming from a different direction.
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... I'd like to run it with Rails.
It'll do wonders for EU start ups using EU infastructure.
Don't forget work. As much as I love having supermarkets, banks, schools and restaurants within walking distance, the one thing i fear losing more than any of that with an impending move is not being able to walk to work.
I like a lot of things about sqlite, but I don't like the fact that it doesn't enforce types.
Uber, Lyft, et al are just central dispatch for gypsy cabs.

Ignore any flak you get about this. It is the best one-sentence description I've ever read about Uber.
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debugging the data, no.
debugging the code, depending on how the representation looks like, probably wouldn't be too bad...
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/ works and (for now) shows the same content. Disgusting.
That's use of the data to which you've "consented" by their EULA. "Mass surveillance" specifically refers to warrantless bulk access to that data by security agencies.

(Shadow profiles are plainly a violation of data protection law; do they exist for EU users?)
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The downvotes are because it comes across as a shallow, middlebrow dismissal.

An interesting and useful criticism would first engage with the strongest arguments of Rich Hickey (creator of Transit and edn). If you find something in his Language of the System talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU) that you either (a) disagree with (b) think XML solves already, I and many others would certainly be interested in having that conversation.

Note that this doesn't mean the exposition of "Why Transit" can't be better, but that calls for constructive criticism on how explain the ideas better, or a question made in qood faith. What it doesn't call for is a hostile reply saying in effect "pff, already been done already, stop reinventing the wheel".
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I was referring to GlobalFoundries since yes, AMD no longer fabricates any of its own chips. The car note is interesting. I think it is less about tech and more about price probably. Because it shouldnt be difficult to do the ol' chinaroo dupe like they do with phones and handbags. Yes, a car is significantly harder but I dont doubt the ability to be copied
The complex history of the Highlands doesn't help either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
This is one of the very reasons why I "deleted" my Facebook account three years ago and never looked back.

I for one do not welcome our new content curating overlords.
> The US and other countries have two sets of data protection rules that govern police and security services. One set of rules for residents of that country (e.g. US persons) or domestic data and another much less stringent set or rules for everyone else.

This is going to be generally true of most countries. If it weren't the case, most forms of espionage would be subject to prosecution in the spy's home state.
The hornbill is a remarkable bird, with over distinctive 100 species.

They are also one of the most intelligent. When you see one in a zoo, he is actually watching you - it feels like you're in the presence of a primate.
This is yet another data point against people who argue, "Well, civil engineers can estimate complex project accurately. Why can't well software engineers?" Well, as it turns out, civil engineers aren't that good at estimating either, for the same reasons, no less. Shifting requirements are as much of a problem when building bridges and tunnels as they are when you're building software.
I've never done it with JS. It's not really a problem in C, though. If there's a lot of data, you're no better off with text; if there's not much, reading binary data isn't too bad. You've usually got other problems on top of decoding the actual data - like, why is this data coming in the first place? Why isn't the code accepting it properly? Why isn't the other end listening? The data encoding is just the tip of the iceberg.

Either way, the advantages of binary often outweigh the difficulty of having a human read the data. As the saying goes, code is executed far more often than it's read.

(Most binary formats have some fairly obvious possible text representations, at least for key fields (they're just encoding ints, floats, strings, bitfields, etc.). When you're having difficulty, or you're simply curious, you can print them out. If the format is any good, malformed messages are easy to check for in code - this code is not harder to debug than any other. If anything it's actually easier than with some kind of text format.)
Good quote. Yes, another aspect of this is which wild do we want to have?

Which is why Pleistocene rewilding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding ) is a thing. From that page:

> Opponents argue that there has been more than enough time for communities to evolve in the absence of mega-fauna, and thus the reintroduction of large mammals could thwart ecosystem dynamics and possibly cause collapse.

Life is messy.
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Oh amazon please get your naming right. Why does every service have to be named so utterly confusing? I was expected some kind of cloud NLP library. Would have been cool.

Out of curiosity, does anyone have a real life example where they send petabytes over the wire? You know, outside the adult industry.
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Whether you're accompanied by a gillie often depends on the estate and your experience. If you've completed the Deer Stalking Certificate (DSC) levels 1 & 2, there are many opportunities to wander around on your own with a gun, with the landholder's permission of course.

I agree this is unlikely to happen on many of the larger estates, but there are still opportunities, including joining an existing syndicate or leasing land yourself.

I'd also point out that generally you have the right to decline a specific animal pointed out to you by the gillie, but need to keep in mind it may be the only stag you're onto all day!

Also define "large distance." I'd contend there's not many deer highland stalking shots taken at distances greater than 200 meters and most more likely between 100-150 meters.