skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything besides the new laws about bars applies to London and the southeast of England, UK. Remarkable how similar the situation is in these two countries.

Could culture have something to do with this if they can avoid this cost of living crisis in continental Europe and most of the US? Or may be they're suffering there too. Only way to solve a lot of these issues is to be able to work remotely and not have to live or buy in commuter areas.
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Unit tests doesn't help when exploring the behavior of the app. Working in a live environment is wonderful for debugging.
Hi, I'm the author.

I used to use Leiningen for this, but found that it was hard to understand what project.clj was actually doing, to get figwheel, etc working. So once I figured out how well boot fit this use-case, I wanted to share the love!
Maybe if you don't go you'll be fired to make way for someone more passionate?
Thank you for pointing this.
ram upgrade would be nice, but imo speed is more important. SoC is still too slow to run anything that would need more than 1GB, but bandwidth is stretched pretty thin as it is ,shared with gpu - fullhd on 2 monitors with VGART666 already saturates mem controller.

also fast IO would be nice, one pcie lane or usb 3.0.
Depends on what you consider easy.

I live 12hrs off timezone wise to nearly everyone I know. When I am waking up they are going to sleep, and vice versa. The flights are thousands of dollars and 24hrs of travel time _each way_. To get to a base city. Where all but a couple of them _no longer live_. To get out to the cities they actually live in is a different flight for each of them, or for some hiring a car and driving because are no flights to there.

And only covers 60% of them. For the rest I'd have to go to different countries once again. For more thousands of dollars and days of travel time.

It, frankly, sucks. Hitting 30, moving away and working from home has made me realise that I really need to get a hobby to meet people.
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Instead, “It’s about a methodology for investigation, which includes, at its core, a relentless drive towards questioning that which came before.” You can both “love science,” he concludes, “and question it.”
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I've noticed that questioning some scientific finding often makes people think I am either anti-science, anti-intellectual, conservative, religious, or any combination thereof (I am none of these). To state quite the opposite, I think not questioning science makes you religious - you are putting faith in the findings, rather than disputing them or scrutinizing them with the scientific method (not that I think there is anything wrong with faith or religion, within their own realm).
Not GP but I think he means friends are those folks that are there for everything, from the birth of your kid to picking you up drunk at 5 am from the pub kind of thing. If the interaction you have with someone is 95% based around a single activity, they are more in the real of acquaintance than friend.

This is very subjective and each person will define a 'friend' differently. I personally, if I don't count my wife, I can count the number of friends with just my fingers, but for me, the word friend means someone that are there for you for whatever, that even after not seeing each other for a few years, there is no awkwardness and you can pick it up from you left. For others, someone you see regularly, have a few beers are considered friends.
Finally, a nice piece on Zuck in Berlin, Axel Springer's CEO is quite a smart guy turned that dino corporation into something digital in few years.

There was another public thing on Facebook (Q&A town hall Berlin) where the German questioners had a) so-so questions b) some really, really bad English skills and c) just felt like backwoodsmen, all paired by Facebook's European head who is also German and must be in love with Zuck (he interviewed Zuck few times on the trip and asked odd questions—why does an FB employee interview Zuck??). Absolutely nothing against Germans, nice people, but especially this town hall speak was a bit embarrassing and gave a slightly wrong picture of Germans.

EDIT: Hey downvoters, please read my piece again, it's NOT against any nationality—it rather criticizes how the interviewers/questioners were chosen which might give a not representative picture.
"Coders" just write instructions for computers. What use are they? Other people do the real work.

What do truck drivers do? They just move the wheel. Other people do the real work of building the truck and designing it and telling it where to go.

What do truck dispatchers do? They just tell it where to go. Other people do the real work of actually driving the thing, building it and designing it.

What do truck assemblers do? They just put the thing together. Other people do the real work of driving the thing, telling it where to go and designing it.

What do truck engineers do? They just design the thing. Other people do the real work of driving the thing, telling it where to go and building it.
Ah, I'm not using the safe in the above as analogy to the cyphertext; in both cases I'm talking about encrypted text being stored (printed physical form or digital data form).
To give context? It was the Axel Springer foundation that awarded the award, made the interview, and "lightly edited" it.
> Did Amazon once offer free shipping to people who didn't have Prime?

Yes. It wasn't next day delivery. You still get it, but there's a minimum spend requirement now.

> I'm pretty sure that they can't just change the benefits of Prime in the middle of my membership.

Don't they have a clause saying they can change the terms whenever they like?
" is that as IoT devices become more and more ubiquitous, I'll probably still end up with some kind of quasi-surveillance garbage in my house."

This is the natural result of free market capitalism and private property, property owners (corporations) want to protect it and their profits from the plebians. So they buy the governments and strip plebians of their rights.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

Brezinski at a press conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

https://youtu.be/4usbR_kKCDs?t=397
> Analyze the problem, divide-and-conquer, then use high level abstractions that make parallelism a responsibility of the underlying implementation.

That's a better summary than mine, but I still think it's too little substance for a 60 min talk. If you want a parallel(izable) implementation then divide-and-conquer is a well-known schoolbook approach. The problem as I see it is that it's not easy to build (or understand) algorithms like that. I saw very little in this talk about how to address/solve that, except the obvious: better education.

I think it was also a bit irritating that he pretended there was nothing a compiler could do about the accumulation loop he presented as the first example. Isn't it obvious that a smart compiler could (in principle) optimize that loop so that it could run in parallel on multiple cores...?
There are many features that a P2P network would enable for this sort of hardware that would require large central infrastructure if done any other way.

Probably, it's either something like this or paying a subscription fee for these devices, as having them use other local hardware infrastructure is a non-starter.

I'd love a device like this that does P2P and lets me build meeting rooms across the different P2P devices. Just something that looks like a webcam, or like this, plug into the TV, and maybe have a button to start a meeting. That it gives access to my home network, oh well. I let anyone who visits more than once on my home network anyway, and also devices by a dozen manufacturers that I know aren't secure.
Isn't Meta supposed to launch its new thing on the same day, and cost an order of magnitude less?

https://www.facebook.com/RobertScoble/posts/1015392929212465...
Anecdotal evidence: within my circle of friends, Flipkart use has dropped considerably over the last couple of years. Personally, I haven't made a single purchase off Flipkart in 3+ years. Their prices are now usually higher than Amazon and they don't have the "long tail" of products I want.

Myntra, which Flipkart bought, is still my go-to source for buying clothes. It helps that Myntra has really the best user experience of all the other apps. Their delivery is incredibly fast too - I ordered a shirt last night and received it today morning!
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Chrome is steaming full speed ahead to become as locked-in, as broken, and consequently as hated as IE6. The Dark Ages are coming back, brace yourselves.
Hello! We're running NodeJS (ECMAScript 6), RabbitMQ and Redis at the core of our infrastructure. The whole thing is split into micro-components (eg: a worker dedicated to emails, another to client-side websocket, another to messages, etc).
> Apart from perhaps your parents or in the public sector, no one cares how hard you work

As far as The Market is concerned it doesn't matter how hard you work, but people do care.
I see lots of baby boomers trying to unload the business they've worked hard at the past 30yrs, hoping someone can pay cash at 3x what they make from it. Who can buy something that costs 250K if they've never had steady work let alone the burden of student debt? Eventually even that market will "correct" down to 2x or less.
Skype is terrible, I have to use it to connect with family in Europe & Australia and it's getting to the point where I'm contemplating teaching my 70 yr old mother how ti use google hangouts (shudders)

However, Skype for Business (formally known as Lync) is rock solid.

I would postulate that since the rebranding of Lync, the old consumer-Skype is on an end-of-life roadmap.

Hololens + LyncSkype in an enterprise & smb setting makes a lot of sense.
> because I had never heard of RS Components or Element 14, and I sure as hell wasn't given my card number to someone I didn't know

Farnell is significantly larger than Newegg or sparkfun or adafruit (even if you combine them). RPi distributes via Farnell or RS because many schools and colleges - the target audience for original RPi - will have accounts at RS or Farnell already.
Thought 1: I'm not wasting my time on a zuckerberg interview

Thought 2: Don't be a hater, give it a chance.

made it to end of second response

"In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook’s mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries."

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Because it is likely that this whole thing wasn't written "because it is interesting" or "contains valuable information", but because it probably fulfills some marketing purpose or other hidden motive.

I'm basically saying: If you're gonna read this, bring a big salt shaker.

Note for example the praise on Berlin as a tech location. Note how effusive it is. Now consider this: Starting offers for developers with 5 years experience at Idealo (property of Axel Springer) in 2010 were 20000 € per year.

I don't know any details for other things mentioned in that interview, but i would expect similar things to be "left out" as well.
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Author mentions difficulty of reproducing research as one of the issues in passing. There was a recent Nature special edition on the subject:

http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibility-1.17552

I believe this is the primary issue and the cause is from one of two causes:

1) secret sauce in research -- details are lacking because there is a push to commercialize things that come out of academia

2) insufficient experimental design -- small sample size, poor controls, etc.

I would like to see an open publication that as a part of publication the result must be reproduced in a separate independent lab or two. This would almost double the required funding (maybe less because you eliminate false starts). Maybe just a few institutions could handle many reproductions.

There is a bit of a self-healing aspect in that the non-reproducible and non-interesting/advancing studies just get dropped on the floor. However, it would lend a lot of credibility to a journal that required an independent research confirmation.
It's not necessarily for home users. It should be damn good for providing professionals a task specific hud. Think of architects surveying a construction yard where the the virtual model is laid over the construction work.
I thought light doesn't move in a straight line, but instead takes all paths from the source to the destination (it's just that most paths cancel each other out)?
No kidding, it was otherwise such a simple thing to tuck away and use even for GPIO/breadboarding projects, but then you had to find one or two dongles to handle wifi/bluetooth turning the whole thing from handheld to a cluster of wires, dongles and connectors.

Massive improvement if that was all that happened.
sure
but it certainly did move there. So it's not like it's 0% chances long term.
My impression was that they were overselling, if anything.
Dad was entrepreneur, figures.
I love that MS tries to push the boundaries with new tech and ideas, but I absolutely loathe them because of their fake marketing of the products they actually do end up creating. Let me take this moment to remind everyone of the Kinect teaser [1]. Now watch the Hololens teaser again [2]. They couldn't deliver the Kinect as advertised 6 years ago, and the fact is they won't be able to deliver the Hololens either as advertised. $3000 is a lot of money to put on a lie.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qlHoxPioM

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aThCr0PsyuA
I can't remember there not being a minimum spend. I can remember back to 2005 I think.
Pretty sure you're getting downvoted (i did not) for actally praising one of the companies most reviled in Germany. See my comment below for details on why it's reviled. Edit: Facebook is also widely hated, since many germans have very strong opinions on privacy thanks to the history with Stasi.
I have always wondered how the systems evolved.

Why Karen and her far cousin can't have their own Wikipedia pages?

It's not like it's going to be printed and more Pokemon is less about the chemical elements, so what if half Wikipedia it's about Pokemon? or Star Wars? if the pages are up to the standard there is no reason for not being included.

This reflects how the people related to this topics are just more knowledgeable (about the topic) and willing to cooperate to the Wikipedia than other groups.
"If they aren't targeting me, who are they targeting?"
Providing professionals a task specific augmented reality HUD.
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Yeah - I was confused by that. Bradford has a population of 293,277, whereas Leeds (15 miles down the road, border to border and included in the larger West Yorkshire stats) has a population of 751,500.

It seems a bit of a push to categorise several small cities and larger towns separated by miles of rolling hills and countryside as a "Megacity"
> Hey downvoters, please read my piece again, it's NOT against any nationality

You weren't downvoted for that, you were downvoted for being a Facebook shill. Or "Zuck" shill, if you prefer that.
The problem of array overflow/underflow is undecidable in the general case. Various verification techniques (like SMT solvers) can only prove some usages, but not all.
It's targeted at companies that invest in development kits with a goal of making serious money in the AR market. Microsoft does not intend this to be a product for use by early adopters.
No fewer than three autoplaying video advertisements that made it past my hosts file. Ugh.
I don't think it could work. Computers with specifically designed algorithms and extremely fast connection could exploit such a real time market and outperform human traders. Nobody in his right mind would let that happen!
I've participated in three hackathons involving pizza and sleep deprivation, StrathHACK[1] once and Do You Have The GUTS[2] twice.

It's a great way to have a fun weekend, get job offers from local sponsors and learn new technologies in an environment where you can ask get help from experienced people. It's not about writing realistic, maintainable code - but that isn't really the aim.

On the health side of things: Going to an event and having unhealthy food isn't terrible. It's a short event - having pizza for a day isn't going to kill you, and at these hackathons healthier food (sandwiches, cereal, burritos) was also provided. If you want to sleep, you can, but there's nothing wrong with occasionally working through the night.

[1] - https://hack.strathtech.co.uk/
[2] - http://gutechsoc.com/hackathon
Typo in the home page: 'electical'
95% of jobs are for maintaining an existing code base. So they just want the person who will jump in and start working on it with minimal bullshit.

Honestly, learning the syntax of a language takes under a week. Learning the culture and APIs can take years.

I've been having to do Objective C for the last year and a half. I don't like it, but it's my lot. I understand the language, but I can't say I understand all the tools and APIs, still.
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As a source of motivation for students, does anyone could point me to some "real (open source) code" where the programmer commented a loop with an invariant for clarity.
Well, in the gaming scene, most of my news comes from social media sites, fan sites and fan run wikis, which don't tend to be run as businesses.

For example, if I want the latest information about Zelda U, I wouldn't go to IGN or Kotaku or Polygon, but instead to Zelda Informer, Dungeon or Wiki depending on what exactly I was looking for. If it was more general information, then that's what the likes of GoNintendo are for.

Of course, I could always just go to the company instead of a middleman; most of them are moving towards marketing straight to the consumer rather than the press. Given that most of say, IGN's information comes from summarising things like Nintendo Directs and E3 presentations, or from what's trending on Reddit or Twitter or Youtube, it seems more logical to go straight to the source than through the middleman.

Would this work in all fields? No, stuff that's dangerous or complex (like say, reporting on the war in Syria or what not) tends to need more professional organisations. But if you're after information on games, TV shows, movies, music, celebrity gossip or sports, then to some degree you can pretty much entirely replace the professional media with fan sites and blogs.

It's also why paywalls are going to be a problem even in the short term; anything factual you put behind one is going to end up on the fan run sites and aggregators anyway. If a big site puts something interesting up behind their paywall, then it'll be maybe about ten minutes before someone's ripped the whole thing, stuck it on sites like Youtube and its then been posted across the entire blogosphere.
I am routinely astonished by Apple's R&D capabilities, yet many interactions I have with their actual software leaves me with a dire impression. The lesson is: familiarity breeds contempt.
> For someone that's familiar with parallel programming topics and language, is this talk easy to follow? I'm trying to figure out if the fault lies with myself or the presenter.

I think it was easy to follow if you focused on the aspects of general interest (= what he was doing in principle, e.g. divide-and-conquer). But sure, if you wanted to understand exactly how the merging of "bitonic globs" worked, then no, that's not easy to follow.

I remember thinking when he started talking about merging the "bitonic blobs" that "Yea, yea, sure, you can divide-and-conquer, but it's just about as much work combining two of those partial solutions as solving the original problem! There's got to a be a better way...", and I basically stopped listening to the details.
Hmm, sounds like the start of a typical setup-to-fail management philosophy, just needs the other side of the coin to maintain the current balance:

"This should easily be abused to keep untalented old people 'in their place' which the youngsters imagine they get all the power. We're still walking away with the profits.

Have everyone ignore the proposal, then force all to critique it - just ensure both roles are considered equally invaluable. That way no one will get a raise during performance review. And we're still walking away with the profits."
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I find with the right choice of libraries, and using CLion IDE I'm as efficient in C++ as I was in Java. The introduction of c++11, along with modern refactoring IDEs for C++ has been a godsend.

I prefer the Rust language, but until there's an IntelliJ/CLion class IDE for it, I don't know if I'd go down that route...
Well, yes and no. You can prove all the properties liquid types can without actually using liquid types, just by running the algorithms that infer them. Either way (inferring with or without types) the problem of indexing is undecidable, and cannot be verified in the general case (but it can in many common usages).
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Hey! Which way? Email notification for an unread message from visitor to operator after 1 minute, if visitor doesn't leave his email, is that right?
I have the exact opposite opinion. Skype still works quite well (although sometimes it's not great about syncing chats across devices, but it's better than Facebook), while Skype for Business has constant issues and makes me miss Lync.
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I'm fine with IDs in URLs (either redirected to a pretty URL or not); I'm suggesting that you simply make sure that unpublished content doesn't get redirected to the pretty URL so you can avoid this kind of information leakage.
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I beg to disagree, the use of Flipkart has gone down considerably because their prices are much higher than of Amazon. I personally have not used Flipkart in a long time now. Latest buy was from Amazon three days ago.
Hi! We're still early in the product, mobile apps are in beta ATM, we're working on native versions for them, current versions are just transitional versions.
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There are other systems (and a few open source modules/configurations) that do this for Drupal, at least, like https://www.acquia.com/products-services/acquia-content-hub

It's a lot easier in 8 since it has an API-driven design for content entities.
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> no more automatic NAT firewalling

NAT != firewall

IPv6 doesn't take away your stateful firewall, and NAT isn't providing ANY security. Your private IP addresses are betrayed all the time by your browser (and TCP option headers). NAT has done an incredible amount of damage to the internet; it prevented the development of true peer-to-peer software and forced everything to centralize.

The solution - even for IoT in the few places IoT isn't a surveillance scam - is to remove NAT by using IPv6.
No mention of foreign investment driving up housing prices?
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