skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's in the process of joining the EU (a process that started in 1959, had various setbacks and then restarted in 2004): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_Eur...

As to whether it's "European" is another question. You could argue that Portland is European, but it's a long way from Brussels.
Urk, I take it you haven't used Lync outside of Windows? The Mac version is horrible mixture of Silverlight+HTML5+Standalone App in which none of the mentioned pieces can't handle the full functionality. On the other hand Skype and Hipchat just works (unless you get hit by the Skype bugs:p).
It's fascinating to compare the comment sections under both videos. The first one is full of loathing and mockery for Microsoft and the features they simply did not deliver, the second one boils down to "this is the future, Microsoft is building the future". I wonder how the Hololens comments will look a few years from today.
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For Scheme, Lisping is probably a far easier and more tablet friendly interface. http://slidetocode.com/lisping
I believe those are optional gonads.
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I think many of these problems could be minimized, mitigated or some completely eliminated if millennials would actually vote. But they don't. And I don't foresee that ever changing. It was the same problem with my generation, gen-x (born in 1980 so I'm not quite a gen-x, not quite a millennial). We just didn't vote. I don't believe the <30 crowd has ever been a big voting bloc, at any point in U.S history.

Though, I noticed many of my facebook friends started voting once they hit their early 30s. I think that's when people start to settle down in life and either have the time to study/figure out politics, or get more interested in it. It might be the time where their youthful naive idealism vanishes and they realize that true change is a slow process. They become more pragmatic and more realistic. Much of their concerns tend to be more local/regional where their votes actually hold some power. It's less about voting in a president who can wave a magic wand and create their ideal utopia overnight and more about voting in a local city councilman or state senator who will best represent their interests. People they have actually met in real life and shook their hands.
"$3000 is a lot of money to put on a lie."

Nonsense, $3000 is peanuts compared to the costs to actually write anything for it. I.e. if you are expecting to be entertained by the device and not augment your creative or professional output by it you are probably not in the core market. I have no idea how it will turn out but it's not a VR helmet as such, it's a wearable HUD with AR capabilities.
hahaha, this comment is hilarious. Your parent comment shared an x-ray level of detail about the tech including naming the credit card reader model (MagTek), and a complete inventory of their technical stack ("Node.js on the Pis, NaCl for all crypto, TypeScript on the server (and Node.js), Stripe for handling payments, GraphQL for query handling for the iOS clients") and technical implementaiton details (QR code display and reading to distribute public keys during setup, Bluetooth LE data transfer code between Node.js on the Pis and iOS) in addition to the point of the whole solution ("sending the data to the server over Wi-Fi and in the streetcar, over Bluetooth LE to a co-located iPad Pro, and from there we used its cellular connection to talk to the server.")

What more details could you possibly want? He's gone above and beyond in sharing.

Thanks, erichocean
So what does this "supercomputer" mean in context of RT.com?

> The model is so far designed to tackle only one specific problem, but that is enough to set the groundwork for further research, and, according to Nicolau, biocomputers are coming our way fast.
I wonder if the idea of those in power (in this case a large voting block and those directly in power) having more to loose plays out in changes in the traditional balance between privacy vs safety/security?
> Why Karen and her far cousin can't have their own Wikipedia pages?

Well, if Karen is a bit character, it may be hard to find information about Karen that's up to the standards of Wikipedia sources. If there are only one or two sentences available to reference in any sources, it doesn't make for much of an article, and it might be more practical from an information-organization standpoint to have a mention of Karen combined into a page about the series in general. Most minor Pokémon seem to share pages, for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_(52%E2%80...
GDDMNSHTFCK.
Buffett just announced a $1M March Madness contest for Berkshire Hathaway
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Why did you not make use of CComPtr, ComPtr or the _com_ptr_t smart pointers?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ezzw7k98.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/br244983.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5yb2sfxk.aspx

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h31ekh7e.aspx
"What the market wants has been the lesson learned at Narrative Science. Its founding team included professors from Northwestern University’s computer science and journalism departments."

I wonder how the guys from the journalism department felt about putting nails in the coffin of their profession? I don't mean this as a criticism. I have the luxury of passing on jobs that put people out of work (or actively kill people) but it must be pretty horrible to be faced with the choice; "You can starve or make other people starve, your choice."

I do understand the arguments for working on machines that eliminate the need for workers. I just can't be as sanguine about the real world consequences.
Sorry to break it, but mostly people do like here (I know, because I don't - I'd much rather life at some smaller city).

Some come from a coastal area, and will keep complaining about the lack of a sea their entire life, and they are loud. If you are just listening around, you'll get a very biased sample.
What Did a Year in Space Do to Scott Kelly?
I tried the hololens at the Microsoft store on fifth avenue. I got 3 five minute demos: a 3d modeling app, a wristwatch marketing presentation and the robots attack video game. The device is really quite amazing. Being wireless seems like a big deal to me. The limited field of view is certainly an issue, but seeing objects suspended in front of you is surreal and futuristic. With cardboard and oculus I got motion sickness. Holo lens didn't cause vertigo, but it made me feel like I had eye fatigue. I don't know a better way to describe it. The possibilities for these devices are amazing, I hope they live up to the expectation.

To me the killer app for these would be football replays and extra overlays beyond TV.
Axel Springer publications are also among the most notorious offenders of privacy laws whenever they feel like they're missing a juicy scoop otherwise. Of course they're all chubby with Facebook, especially because it allows them to get high-definition photographs of murder victims, suspects and everyone else they want to bring to the immediate attention of their readers:

http://www.bildblog.de/77136/sein-wort-in-ihren-ohren/
Background: Typesafe was the primary commercial entity behind the Scala programming language.

They've recently rebranded to Lightbend:

http://www.lightbend.com/blog/typesafe-changes-name-to-light...

This announcement has caused some controversy in the Scala community due to their explicit focus on Java customers, and changing a name that was semantically linked to Scala itself.
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That sounds strange to me. There are a lot of companies searching for good developers in Berlin, working in Berlin myself as a software developer and knowing plenty of others i can't believe they can find anyone halfway decent who would work for that kind of money because there are simply a lot of better options.

Besides that, your point is valid, but aren't any kind of awards always about marketing, new connections, brand recognition etc ?
'Work remotely' really only works for some professional services. Most work doesn't have that opportunity - whether it's construction, hospitality, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transport, emergency services, sanitation, mining, childcare... the list goes on and on.
King's Cross is super dodgy, especially at night. It attracted drunks, deros, druggies, prostitutes and other unsavory types. It was not a nice place to visit and it had a reputation for violence.

The lockout laws have stopped the violence. They have also caused collateral damage in the form of these closures.

So there you have it. Would you rather be safe out or cry over the closure of a few late night businesses? Having experienced all sides of King's Cross, I know which I'd choose.
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games signs up Mitsubishi as sponsor
I asked around. It is likely you would need a chroot or at least special multilib/multiarch packages installed. The Debian Wiki has more details: https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port
Yes, deletionnists are driving people to other venues. Wikia often claims to run the world's biggest wiki once you aggregate all their communities. It's sad that the Wikimedia foundation let the deletionnists destroy so much value in Wikipedia without providing an alternative (like dedicated community wikis).
I would like to point out that you are missing one of the most important stances: one of probability. Sometimes you dont know, but factors indicate a percentage probability, that should be updated as the data changes.
Not actually true. I have a simple puzzle game running in iOS with mocl. Lisp does the Model+Controller part and the View is in ObjectiveC. Once the game is running I can change states like level-up/down, etc. and the changes are reflected in real-time. I cannot change functions like in a true CL environment on the desktop, but I can definetly change global things to see if e.g. my flow works...
Except for the reference JDK, all commercial implementations of Java also provide AOT compilers to native code.
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Adaptive code execution with Dart
The cynic in me says they're working the crowd :)
Amazon enters UK fresh food market with Morrisons deal
Seeing the execution as a 2D representation reminds me a bit of Subtextual. @pgbovine: I wonder whether you've seen this. Thinking of higher dimensional representations of code has led me to think that our current way of programming is still stuck in a world heavily influenced by terminals, even given the most modern programming language. Alan Kay's work also seems to go into a direction that tries to break out of this 1D world.
Customer Experience vs. Customer Engagement
Having supported thousands of netbooks across 50+ schools I can say they are an awful teaching tool.

They require constant maintenance and updates and installing software is a nightmare. Remember these are being bought by schools where there probably isn't even a full time I.T Technician on site and there is rarely the infrastructure in place to automate any of the work.

Getting young children to simply log into a netbook can sometimes take most of a lesson. After swapping out netbooks that have keys torn off, ones that haven't been charged and ones that don't have the software installed - the kids are frustrated and the lesson is over.

Fleets of iPads are much easier to manage. It takes 5 minutes for a teacher to push out an app via an MDM platform to all iPads. The latest educational apps out there are being built for iOS first. Best of all they are relatively virus free. Also kids recognise them as being an expensive piece of equipment and treat them with more care and are more enthused to use them.

iPads let you get straight into the content and the technology just gets out of your way.
CE? Really? Can you share anything else? I thought even the GPS manufacturers had moved on.
Andy Murray backs five UK crowdfunding startups
> This is not a problem of big cities as such but one that Beijing (and China more generally) has because it has only recently transitioned from a developing country.

That's where it happens: Big cities in developing countries.

> scalable to and sustainable for the projected 10 Billion population.

Are ten billion sustainable at all? In Megacities? Will it be more sustainable to have them living mostly in Megacities? I don't believe those theories that these cities are more sustainable.
Maybe there should be some kind of IoT security standards or maybe some Security Company testing and handling "Secure IoT device" rubber stamps to every tested and compliant device?

This is because every company that has been making "Things" for the last 5-100 years are now thinking about making IoT devices without understanding anything about Internet or Security. The Nissan Leaf or that toy maker Vtech cases are good examples of this.

A Quick starter for the rubber stamp list:
1. Authenticate every request
2. Use encryption in every phase (transport, passwords etc)
3. Really, handle basic Web security
4. Be really, really protective about your customers data in every way
5. Don't sell the data without consent from the customer
Kodi struggles with H265/FHD on Rpi2, but I'm hopeful this one will make it.

Any other suggestions on hackable and cheap H265 capable machines?
This reminds me of Eiffel, where loop (in)variants had to be explicitly declared, as part of its design-by-contract dogma.
Great product! I already use it and my retention have just explode. My users now talk to me easily and I can retrieve a lot of feedback. I have test other products like intercom and cie and in two words: it's expensive for a lot of complicated tools that I will never use.
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Polish Billionaire Regroups Assets to Fend Off Orange, T-Mobile
John Oliver Destroys Donald 'Drumpf'
One of the things I find funny is that the halting problem is the least of my concerns working in mainstream programming languages today.

Maybe back in the day when people were using basic and assembly language it was easy to write some gawdawful mess but since structured programming I think it is easier to do the right thing rather than the wrong thing. Partially because we have good constructs to work with, secondly they are good constructs to reason with -- for instance, you might have the idea of a loop invariant in your head when you write the loop, even if you don't call it that.
It states in the article that violence had decreased 40% prior to these laws. Is that just a coincidence?
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Super charge your input placeholders
I'm not going to cry over a couple of drunks who can't get their drugs quite when it pleases them.

Initially the article seemed promising, but then it just devolved into the usual lockout law garbage.
If you're alive in 30 years, chances are good u may also be alive in 1000 years
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Yep. That was exactly what I had in mind.
The law around bar's isn't that far off. Few examples from recent memory...

- http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/23050/1/plastic-pe...
- https://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/were-closing-the-vibe-bar
- http://www.cable-london.com/broadcast/single/we-have-closed-...
Admittedly the first guy to ask a question was kind of a joke but other than that the questions were pretty normal for events like this which are heavily scripted PR vehicles anyway.
> And it is PASSIVELY cooled!

So is every phone. The fact that it's $35 is the impressive part.
Not sure about dwarfed. I'm at least 50x more productive at prototyping Python than in C.

I don't understand what passion has to do with the language/library choice.

Assuming there are some people who are primarily motivated by the language they use or syntax of that language, what about people who don't care about the language and are more interested in algorithms and data structures? What about people who are motivated by the final product?

Also, lack of such studies leads to people not trying new "stacks" because they are afraid that it's a new unproven technology that probably won't work.
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Say what you want, but I doubt anybody would accept anybody as hedge fund managers after 6 months into a Hacker School. The fact that 6 months or less of training are enough to make $85k is very, very, telling of the situation. Note that those huge salaries and easy barriers to entry will bring salaries down and commoditize things. I think it's good that sometimes you guys do a bit of reality check, especially if you plot things against the long term. I doubt 10 years from now a RoR developer will be so much above the median salary.
Berkshire's Abel Sees Annual Pay Surge 48% to $40.8M
How is this built exactly? In a petri-dish?
Very cool! I'm writing an app right now that could really use some extra direction as users start filling out forms. I'll definitely be checking this out - thanks.
But isn't it a google glass with color?
> Edit: Facebook is also widely hated, since many germans have very strong opinions on privacy thanks to the history with Stasi.

Stasi, Gestapo, Biedermeier era, … Germany has been on the receiving end of oppressive surveillance for longer than it has been a country.
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Since I actually read the article, rather than parroting preconceived cowardice about "unsavoury types", I don't have to make this false choice:

> Bravely, his government had first tried to tamp down the issue with cold facts: statistics showed drunken violence was actually decreasing, by almost 40% according to some estimates, and the culture of small bars was starting to sap violent drinking away from the city.
I think the issue is how quickly they identify the whales location. It seems like they have been able to track the movement fairly well. I imagine it takes a while to get a ship out to the identified location of the sound's origin, by which time the source has probably moved on.
so true! and when you you reward the bullshit artists with money and grants.. it multiplies the bullshit a thousand fold
Without trying to think too much over it (still haven't had my morning coffee), I think your representation of light corresponds to a wave vision. However, per wave-particle duality, you can also consider light as moving photons (particle vision of light) and then yes, every single photon moves in a straight light (tries to). So it depends in how you're trying to see light.
Be sure to watch the video, great stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVr5HWzecKI&t=1h8m20s
Missive co-founder here (https://missiveapp.com). We built the app for a similar purpose: a way to share and comment around the heavy email load we get as a team.

Missive is designed to work with any email setup, not just shared inboxes. Our help@ and sales@ addresses just forward emails to our personal inboxes. This way each person keeps control of their own inbox, while being able to comment within threads and see who’s replying in realtime thanks to Missive.

Would love to have your thoughts. Feel free to ping me on Twitter @rafbm or rafael@missiveapp.com
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That's my reason for wanting 2GB.
I don't think this is unique to boomers.

They've spent decades building something - they're probably the people least capable of objectively valuing the business. There's too much emotion tied into it, especially if they're at a point where they could sell but are just as happy to keep working, meaning the price needed to get them to leave goes up.

It's not unique to business owners, either. One of the real estate websites have a "Make Me Move" option, which is basically the homeowner saying what number they'd need to pack up their shit and leave. It is consistently 180-200% the actual market value. To the point where you want to ask the homeowners what exactly they're smoking that they think their house is worth even close to that much money.
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Here in the UK, the parties that millenials did vote for promptly went back on the promises they made to get those votes.
I'm curious, what article was deleted that you can cite as an example of destruction of knowledge?

edit: it's a serious question! Instead of down voting, just tell me. Or even downvote, but at least tell me.
> The problem of array overflow/underflow is undecidable in the general case.

Obviously.

> Various verification techniques (like SMT solvers) can only prove some usages, but not all.

Turns out this is good enough for most cases. Verifying 80% of your array index manipulations is better than verifying none of it.
Though Stuttgart, at least, really is "just a city," albeit one dense with industry and finance. If the author was looking at describing cities that exist as quasi-independent entities, I'm not sure it'd really fit.

As well to consider is its size: as big as it feels, the city is around 600k people and the official metropolitan region, even with its 5.3 million, is very low density (the Wiki heads say ~340 persons/sq.km., vs thousands in other reported areas).
Any chance to have other languages supported? I'm thinking about PHP here for instance.

As I plan to write a blog that would involves PHP code, that could be a nice interactive addition.
We have the same problems in the US. Real estate prices in major urban/semi-urban areas are insane. Among my peers (mostly Gen-X, born late-70s), there is a general consensus that the Boomers have ruined the country for future generations - they borrowed and consumed and never invested in infrastructure. We are saddled with massive student loan debt that the Boomers never needed because colleges were once largely affordable.
>it may be hard to find information about Karen that's up to the standards of Wikipedia sources

that's a fair reason but I suspect your second point is more relevant

>and it might be more practical from an information-organization standpoint to have a mention of Karen combined into a page about the series in general

quoting report

"The world probably doesn’t need zillions of explanatory articles about the Japanese video game franchise Pokémon."

why? if people are willing to devote their time to the task I don't see a reason why their work shouldn't be preserved.

On the other side I do also understand the reason behind it

"keep a standard"

but for the same reason you can't get technical on technical topics and we have the simple English entries.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen

Maybe just as we have the simple entries we should also have anime and sci-fi.
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Sure, the language has progressed, but the libraries, resources, documentation, ... haven't to the same degree as with more popular languages.

Trying to do anything in Java and things go wrong? Google, click on the first StackOverflow result and you have the blueprint for a solution. The same can not be said about Racket, at least not with the same breadth of problems.