skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EU levies "EU taxes" to its member countries and then distributes part of the money back. It doesn't collect these taxes directly from EU citizens, but that doesn't mean the tax incidence wouldn't be on citizens.

EU collects about 0.3 % of VAT revenue of each country, and about 0.7 % of GDB of each country as a membership fee (which is the largest source of income).

EU also keeps most of the import duties levied on non-EU products.

http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/money/revenue-in...
If youtube fails to monetize, I think any sane VCs should avoid dumping any money into this area, period.
You can also be tagged in other people's posts, which you have to actively remove from photos (and I don't think it's possible to remove name-references in text at all).

Your group of friends is not a representative sample, and neither is mine.
Looks to be a really interesting article. Would really appreciate a font change and justified text though.
First of all, the opposite of "coward" isn't "brave", it's "foolhardy". Also, I don't understand what use these two concepts have. Risks are a continuum, and rewards are a continuum. Multiply the two together, and you get ROI. Everyone has a minimum ROI before they do something (you wouldn't jump in front of a train to retrieve a penny), it's just that some people have a higher threshold than others. When is the threshold "too high" and "too low", giving us cowards and foolhardy people, respectively?

It's all subjective, and a matter of preference. Denigrating people because they don't have the same preference as you is a dick move.
Really cool ! Thanks a lot, i'll definitely watch that. Now all we need is a good db access layer, and swift could be a language of choice for web api development right now.
Could someone please explain, how can they know beforehand the other electron in the other diamond is the first one's "sister"? What if those two are NOT entangled and will have identical spins? What defines entangled electrons? Is it a must that once they were e.g. in the same atom? Thank you. (I only completed 2 basic University physics courses which isn't enough :D )
Just so. What's a bored, super rich megalomaniac to do?
> otherwise sane and good people get angry about white people wearing kimonos

I think the only people getting angry about that are Americans, I don't think cultural appropriation is a problem in most other places in the world.

You don't see me outraged about the "Greek system" in fraternities, I couldn't care less.
So more ads, you mean?
No. He's a replicant. Probably.
Looks like that bitbucket is having problems too
It goes beyond that. You can't say "that's insane" without someone calling you an ableist.
Can We End The Increased Productivity Madness?
I've noticed that, oddly, England follows the US pretty closely in culture. Does anyone know why that is? It seems to me like any crazy concept that springs up to the US reaches England very soon.

Is it the shared language and the ease of communication?
Productivity and gamification app. Now with more space
Honestly, I don't get it. If you have something that is understandable, I wouldn't mind a link to it (don't want to start a flame war, though).

I'm Canadian and live in Japan. I wear Japanese clothes very frequently, especially in the summer (jinbei, yukata, geta). I like them. They are comfortable. I live in the country side and nobody bats an eyelid. The one time I wore a jinbei to a baseball game in Tokyo, I got many compliments from people on the street.

Like I said. I don't get it. They are clothes. Wouldn't it be racist to say I can't wear them because I'm not Japanese? Similarly, I can't actually think of any class/race implications for women wearing a kimono. It's not different from a suit or dress (other than it is really complicated to get on ;-) ). This just seems bizarre to me. I wonder if the people involved just don't understand what a kimono is?
> Yep, that's right. stdx.data.json's pull parser finally beats the dynamic languages with native efficiency.

'dynamic' is the key word here. The title is misleading.
seems OS X 10.11.1 did not fixed this. The version is 2.1.7 there but newest one is 2.1.8 :(
yes, bitbucket has been facing several problems in the last days. But it seems to be technical problems, and not DDoS http://status.bitbucket.org/
I don't understand why there have to be hidden variables in order for their not to be anything spooky about this. This is just how entanglement works. There's no way to understand some kind of classical "mechanism" for this. It's no more spooky than, say, magnetism. There is a state where some measurements of some properties are correlated. Big deal!
I don't make many hypotheses, but I do a shit load of experiments.
Here's the original paper of this attack (AFAIK): http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~hovav/dist/geometry.pdf

The other paper shows that this technique is Turing complete.

But yes, basically W^X is defeated.
Another thanks here. I'm between cmus and mocp at the moment due to the segfaulting bug on Debian[0] but might try to compile the latest version from source if these have been squashed upstream...

[0] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=cmus;dist=...
$('p').css('text-align', 'justify');
Putting the ‘I’ in ‘IoT’: This is the cloud-based glue that IoT needs
There's so much potential for mis-scoring here. Take the 'wasted' example. You can't just grep for the word, it depends on the context. e.g. What if someone is a big fan of the GTA games? The game uses the phrase 'wasted' when you die - so if you happen to be posting GTA videoe, your descriptions might end up lowering your credit score!

Credit scores at the moment at least can be queried and mistakes corrected. This new kind of scoring will be opaque and unaccountable.
Evolution of personal file management and why it is not completed
Not sure why this was downvoted. When I was a child (in Germany) blackface was common for chimney sweeper costumes (representing soot). I grew up in a city but there was only one black kid in our entire school -- and to be frank, it would have never occurred to me to shame him for his skin colour.

I'm aware of the implications of blackface in the US (and of blackface used to actually imitate darker skin tones) but it's incredibly insulting to assume that the US is representative for all Western cultures.
I don't really understand where the foreign culture is needed.

If you walk around in army uniform and have never been in the army, you will invite criticism or even a kick in the butt. If you dress up as a nun or as a priest you are an impostor. If you decide it's cool to wear the "Ring of O" on your right hand, you'll invite some inconvenient misunderstandings - especially as a woman.

Everyone should be aware of societal codes and either obey them or live with the resulting misunderstandings. Shrugging your shoulders and violating those codes makes you a not nice person at worst, but casting this in "oppressive west vs. the rest" terms just muddies the water.
Venturi pushed the old PRV V6 engine to more than 400HP on some of its sport cars, this engine had its problem but in the De Lorean version is probably nigh indestructible.
I guess we were using nothing really. We had RequestTracker (for ops) and Jira for development and I found myself in the middle. At the start I was the sole sysadmin and did the small amount of developer support stuff as well.
We've tripled in size over the last ten years.
As we grew I was doing the jobs of product owner, business analyst, developer, devops, sysadmin without really being conscious of the change. The great temptation is to think that things won't work unless you're involved because you know it all.

Boiling frog syndrome in a way(1)

Not having to decide priorities is a massive relief; the product owners know they have to discuss priorities with each other and my team leader, not me.

(1) yeah I know it's not an accurate analogy.
It's not a strictly Python problem. He's deploying new code with updated dependencies in a separate directory, while the original site is running.

If you manage globally the dependencies you would probably brake the running version of the site during deploy, because it may expects different (old) API from his dependencies. For example the new code may NOT require a previously used dependency, and thus the deploy would remove it and the running code would collapse.

Also, if the deploy fail midway you'd like the global environment to be unaffected.
When I used to use django ages ago, there used to be Django south. I think its built in now.
Oh, come on. Everybody knows you can only be racist against brown people.
But not backwards. The photons have a direction. Perhaps we need physicist to comment :)
I'm not so sure - I'm already languages junky. There comes a time when you have to stop learning new languages and start using what you know to create stuff.

Idris is on my list already, but J actually looks really interesting. I've only really seen it used in Code Golf before. Might have a little play.
This post is about the fast project, which is claimed to beat RapidJson, a very fast C++ json parser.
Thanks for responding. Yes, a lot of interesting stuff there. Looks like a great rabbit hole to fall down!
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks#json
The Difference Between YouTube, YouTube Red and RedTube
Clang is the next Webkit
POWER inherited a lot of baggage from the IBM R/T, the first real go at RISC, so it was the most un-RISC-like of the RISC ISA's. That was the included all the addressing modes and a surprisingly rich ISA. Those were all considered no-no's for unlocking the advantages of RISC.
The owner of SmartOdds betting company, Matthew Benham is applying his company's statistical insights to the clubs he owns. This has proven quite successful. Great to see Arsenal doing the same.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/27/how-fc-midtj...
Please give the latest version a try. I am not aware of any segfaults that have not been fixed upstream. Debian packages a really ancient version of cmus for some reason.
I'm not sure who said it but there's a witticism that goes something like "You have to have gone to university to be this stupid".

If you look at anything closely enough, everything becomes problematic. But of course the correct conclusion is that if you define everything as problematic, the term "problematic" ceases to be a useful distinction, so you should dial back a notch and figure out what problems actually matter.
Forget about the US only thing...Cann't argue with that really.
This is a nice work method. But my biggest grip with it is that I use the GPU for CUDA calculations.

At least in OSX it's not possible to directly access the GPU trough a VM (in Vagrant or any other way), while in Linux it's possible with KVM.

How does it work on Windows?
With synchronous_commit = on the throughput heavily depends on your IO subsystem and the number of concurrent transactions.

As every transaction has to be durable at commit, fsync (well, fdatasync() if supported) of a sequential log is required. Most single drives can do a ~100 (rotational disks, normal speeds) to a few thousands fsyncs/sec. If you have a battery backed raid controller you can do tens to hundreds of thousands, since the data will not actually be written to disk.

Concurrency matters because several commits can be made durable with a single flush to disk if they're happening concurrently (sometimes called "group commit").

EDIT: spelling, grammar, minor clarification.
But if both processes are listening on the same port, how would he check the health of only the new process?? How do you determine which process answers each incoming connection?
EU's Top Court Rules Bitcoin Exchange Tax-Free
>they bred elephants back then until they became very small not unlike ponies.

Unlikely, considering the images of the elephant with a guy sitting on its back. Looks like a honest-to-god Indian elephant.

Most likely, the size got lost in translation between whatever measuring system they had in the 16th century, SI and those measuring units from the colonies.
WSJ posted a statement in response to Holmes' interview. http://www.dowjones.com/press-room/wall-street-journal-state...

> Nothing said at the conference by Ms. Holmes refutes the accuracy of the reporting done by John Carreyrou or of the articles, which were subject to the Journal’s rigorous and careful editing process. Contrary to Ms. Holmes’s claims, the Journal shared all facts and anecdotes published in the articles with Theranos before publication, in accordance with our longstanding editorial practice and principles. The company was given plenty of opportunity to respond. Ms. Holmes declined interview requests from the Journal for more than five months, but the general counsel and outside counsel of Theranos provided significant input, which was fairly reflected in the articles.

> We note that Ms. Holmes sought to challenge the reliability of our sources, but it remains the fact that she doesn’t know from whom the information for our articles was gathered. We assure her and our readers that our sources were well positioned to know the information they provided about Theranos, and they were vetted before publication.

> The Journal reiterates that our articles about Theranos were thoroughly reported, fair and wholly accurate.
Ever seen a better mousetrap?
Yeah, that's how I would typically do it, but he isn't on AWS and he's aiming to keep the cost down. And he's also keeping it simple, so no load balancers etc.
I don't read D, but here's the code anyway: https://github.com/mleise/fast/blob/master/source/fast/json.....
Even algorithms "proved" correct sometimes turn out to have bugs:

"I was shocked to learn that the binary search program that Bentley proved correct and subsequently tested in Chapter 5 of Programming Pearls contains a bug."

That's from Joshua Bloch's discovery in 2006 that Java's binary search implementation was broken:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com.es/2006/06/extra-extra-re...
It's Scala. They show the definitions of the "When" and "And" in the post:

case class And(contract1: Contract, contract2: Contract) extends Contract
case class When(date: LocalDate, contract: Contract) extends Contract

It's basically a DSL on top of Scala.
> Americans and the Japanese really don't have much history of oppression (except for WW2 internment), so I'd say it "doesn't count" as cultural appropriation.

Yes, except for that time when the US forced Japan into treaties at gunpoint.[1] And that time when they put everyone of Japanese ancestry into prison camps. And the time they firebombed Japanese cities. And the time they nuked Japan twice. And the time they occupied Japan and executed civilian politicians.[2] Except for those things, there's not much history of oppression.

I apologize for the snark, but your comment is completely disconnected from reality. Cries of "appropriation" are only tenuously correlated with oppression. For example: the French never oppressed the Maori, but people got angry when a French ad used their facial tattoos.[3]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dki_Hirota

3. http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/44467
I'm also the majority (sans the geek part).

In threads about Facebook I see people so focused on various minorities and corner cases that they act surprised by behaviour of people on Facebook, even though said behaviour is perfectly ok for the vast majority of Facebook's users. I think it's good to remind everyone that not everyone wants everything they do to be as private as possible, or has a reason to. In fact, most users don't.
> we learn better from failure in general and the failure of others

If they've been rejected from YC, they're not failures. They're still working on their idea. You can't learn from their failure until they actually fail.

It's also really hard to learn from the failures of others. Most people only learn the hard way. I'm one of them, so I don't meant that in a judgmental way at all.
Low wages and long hours persist at iPhone factory, says labor group
NFV Service Chaining Orchestration for Any Network Topology and Architecture
From the post:

> Aside: With regard to technology choices, the guiding principle I’ve been following is to keep the stack as simple as is feasible for as long as possible. Adding things, like load balancers, database replication, key value store, message queue and so on, would each have certain benefits. Then on the other hand, there would also be more stuff to be managed, monitored, and kept backed up. Also, for someone new to the project, it would take more time to figure out the “ins and outs” of the system and set up everything from scratch. I see it as a nifty challenge to stay with the simple, no-frills setup, while also not compromising performance or features.

> Let’s set some constraints: no load balancer (for now anyway).

But yeah, that would work otherwise.
Dude, I'm a grad student in categorical logic and I've worked with PLT. That's why I used them as an example. To formalize most math, the simply typed lambda calculus won't do, you need dependent types. But the logic used in math is almost always extensional, and type checking an extensional type theory isn't computable. Huge chunks of math, from analysis to chaos theory, are simply not computable.
So, how is it going with D? Last time I gave it a look I really liked it, but I sadly left the place when I hit the multiple standard libraries problems.

Anyone using D in real life, among hackers here?
I'm enjoying The Non-Designer's Design Book - (http://www.amazon.com/The-Non-Designers-Design-Book-Edition/...), as a guy who spends hours trying to figure out why my layouts look like crap, this book has really helped me get to grips with the basics. Which is tbh, where you need to start. After that, just keep reading, designing and failing. Dealing with the inevitable frustration is key (see educational mithridatism). Learning how to use a good design tool also helps a lot. I'm playing with Sketch which is pretty awesome.

I guess in the end, there is no real linear path to learning design. You just sort of have to bumble along until you find your stride.
Bitcoin Is Exempt from VAT, Rules European Court of Justice
It's people like you who are telling the US government that it's ok to surveillance citizens. With your logic, you are saying you have no reason to hide anything, so the government can keep tabs on you. Just because you have nothing to hide doesn't mean you can become a victim of an error as well. Take this story http://www.wired.com/2015/10/familial-dna-evidence-turns-inn... where a man who "has nothing to hide" and innocent became the suspect in a murder due to him sharing similar DNA It could be you one day, you don't know.
There's a setting that makes tagging require you verify and accept the post/photo. I.e. when I turn it on, you can type the letters making up my name, but without my explicit consent given on a case-by-case basis, the name won't turn into a link to my profile. Not everyone enables it, but it's not an obscure feature either. Also, some combinations of privacy settings make you disappear from the tagging suggestion lists completely, but I haven't figured out how it works yet.
I'll add this to my reading list next to Saramago's The Double, the source material for 2013 film Enemy.
You're kind of there, but I think it's helpful to drop the notion of wave-particle duality you have since it's confusing you. Watch Feynman's videos about it (or just read his book called QED) if you want clarification, but I think it's best to for the most part think of the particles described in particle physics as particles with special rules and behaviors that wouldn't make sense if they were just tiny spheres, avoid thinking in terms of "waves", and learn about those special rules as you can. Anyway one way you can think of the direction is that it's on the most probable path based on the weighted sum of all possible (even absurd) paths through the local area, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation. At the classical level, absurd paths cancel each other out, and in general the path a photon takes from A to B will be along the curve representing the least amount of time needed. (Hence the "bend" of light as it enters water since photons propagate through water at a different speed.) Whether one actually observes the photon going from A to B depends on that configuration's probability.
All of Europe follows US to some extent.

There is Hollywood and most of stuff in internet in English is written by people form the states.

But then there is also the U.S. geopolitical and economical hegemony. People copycat everything american hoping that magically some of that success would stick too.

Results are weird. Some people advocate saving tap water here in Finland. Despite our country having very large number of lakes and swamps and no foreseeable shortage of water.
There's still lots of great football stats work being done out in the open, at http://statsbomb.com/ for example. One of the founders of StatsBomb, Ted Knutson, went on to be hired by Matthew Benham to do player analytics for his two clubs. There hasn't yet been the sudden land grab that there was in ice hockey where all the best analytics bloggers got hired and silenced pretty much overnight, but clubs are getting far better at this stuff.

Between Opta's human-based on-the-ball event tracking, and TRACAB's computer vision player tracking solutions that they provide to the Premier League, there's a bunch of interesting computer science and business going on around this stuff.
The death was a tragedy. But not even the family blames Amazon for it. And the article does not really point to any evidence that the company was responsible. So I'm not sure why the its name is there in the headline. If Jeff had died while working at the building supply store would there have been an article about the life and time of workers at mom and pop stores?
As listed in the comparison, a similar tool would be noping, which is packaged in many distributions already (Debian/Ubuntu: oping, ArchLinux/MacPorts/Homebrew: liboping).

http://noping.cc/
Remote jobs, relocate jobs
How about .. have one db with log of events (cqrs style), the other one is transactional and transactions are being performed based on ordered events.

When deploying new version - backup the transactional db and keep a pointer to the last event in events db. Keep the events db running.

If restoring - restore transactional db backend based on backup and "play back" all events from the events db.

The distinction can also be made using one db and backing up / restoring subset of the tables.
Magnetic effects are local, since photons are sent between the objects; ie. distant objects don't interact with each other, they interact with photons locally, which then "carry" the force to the other object, where they again act locally. In fact, magnetism is a realtivistic effect; it's how the electrostatic force behaves when things are moving.

"Spooky action at a distance" is something that's non-local, ie. there's nothing being transmitted between the objects; they "just know". Even if there were something being transmitted, it would have to be going faster than the speed of light.

A great example is gravity; in Newton's model, gravity is spooky action at a distance, because objects (eg. planets) are in a pure vacuum, yet everything is aware of the location of everything else. General relativity replaces this with local interactions: objects are interacting with the spacetime around them, curving it; movement follows these curves; and changes propagate outwards at the speed of light, as (gravitational) waves.
Hey, I'm not telling the USGOV anything. I'm also pointing out that a lot of people have perfectly good reason to have default privacy level set to "full public", and it's neither weird or wrong. I responded to a HNer apparently bewildered by that fact.

I support you keeping whatever privacy level you like, but don't force me to hide things if I consciously, in full physical and mental capacity, decide I don't want to.