skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't addressing the veracity or otherwise of the "100% success rate" claim, I was using a different quote from the article that was linked, stating the UK's financial regulator told a whistleblower to not contact them again.

Here's another quote from it:

Newsnight can reveal that not a single UK-
based bank has ever been punished for firing
a whistleblower within its ranks - even though
these individuals are protected in law

Debating whether the UK is the worst or not, or whether financial firms have a 100% or perhaps merely just a 86.4% success rate at destroying honest people's lives and/or careers is a distraction.

The issue is that the UK has serious corruption and (organized) crime problems, seemingly tolerated (at best) at some of the highest levels in the UK.

However hyperbolic you may find the journalism to be, it's a lot more instructive and interesting than yet another bullshit list designed to show just how jolly honest and law abiding we are, compared to the developing world.
Good book recommendation but my personal reaction if I ever encountered this during an interview would simply be standing up and excusing myself due to the lack of "cultural fit". Sure sometimes you need a job but compromising during job interviews is a pretty bad thing imo. You'll spend a good chunk of your time at a place, just walk if it smells funny.
Where did you read that? The project site says they have created 26 miles of new tunnels, also wider ones than ever before (6.2m). As well as 10 new stations. And all of this is slap bang in the middle of Europe's biggest city, which is pretty damn poorly laid out and not exactly conducive to huge scale construction projects.
> The ship presumes that people can't work from the other side of the world, but somehow they can work if they are only an annoying ferry ride or an expensive helicopter ride away. Who are the users who need to be close, but not really close?

You need everyone in a room, and that room needs to be somewhere your venture capitalists are willing to visit every few months?
"The article reminds me of a similar situation I have at work. I work on a large legacy application (but I am not a DM, I am not really invested in it yet), which should be slowly replaced by company, because we have a costly dependency on some vendor. Unfortunately, the new team doesn't want to consult our team!"

Then I think you are a Dungeon Master anyway. Whether you like it or not. You'll be pushed into the role. Advice you think is essential will be ignored and it will be painful to watch a lot of the same mistakes being repeated.

I think you can end up in this anti-pattern in two ways - either the old maintainers don't want change or the new ones don't want to listen. The result is the same.
>Artists have used rulers and compasses in real life since forever. //

Perhaps you could highlight some well known artists using a geometric drawing style to prove your point? My first thought would be Mondrian but I'd go with an app targeting vector graphics to get that effect.
I Took 116 Vitamin Pills in a Month and Didn't Feel Any Different
Reported that the City's contribution UK's national income is about £45bn or 3%, while London accounts for £334bn or 22% of the UK's. But to what extent is that 22% dependent on the indirect effect of the City? Britain will certainly be poorer and poor people will likely be even poorer. You want to see it removed regardless of consequences?

Tax havens are the only defence against rapacious politicians who, unlike business people, do not suffer the ill effects of their policies. You can always get votes for promising bread and circuses! Do you think that's true or false? The enormous debt burdens we see across the world attest to that.

For those who enjoy looking at both sides:
http://www.conservativehome.com//platform/2011/08/in-defence...
Well, OSH Park and alike are surprisingly good now, I even had some success recently with an ice40lp WLCS16 package (by pushing well beyond the recommended design constraints), got 1 passable board out of 3. So even a very small ball pitch is somewhat suitable for DIY.

What caught my eye in this SSD package is a low ball count, so it might be potentially suitable for DIY even without an expensive hardware. If it's possible to route it on 4 layers without too many small vias it might be a game changer.
Sure, but I somehow never encounter a problem where I need a real lockfree data structure other than a ringbuffer or a variation thereof. Interlocked queues are almost giving me enough.
There's "git request-pull", it's mostly geared towards email but you could probably plumb it into some IM clients with a bit of scripting.
It will cause friction and it doesn't matter what you are doing. Hate will produce friction. Counter speech is friction. Removing or blocking will cause friction.

This actions are made BECAUSE OF right-wing hate on facebook/twitter where people post that they should kill other people, politician, refugees. That's why they focus on this problem right now. Does this mean left-wing hate speech at the same level will not be deleted? I don't think so.
Good logging practice in Python
I disagree, I would say most programmers know too little math and even too little computer science. As a field we are way behind most other fields in how well we know our own field. Yet most programmers are somewhat familiar with many other fields because they spend a lot of time reading about stuff on the internet.

I think the reality is the opposite of what you suggest, programmers are in no way an example of a profession where most practitioners have a deep and extensive knowledge. For most programmers, the learning method is finding out how to DO things (as in, find an example on the internet, try it, it works, I'm done) without actually understanding anything.

You must be very lucky in where you work if you think programmers know a lot of math and even know what "category theory" is.
So, Xiaomi is getting the last pieces it needs to move into European markets. If it comes here (which has begun already), it has to play the patent game. Expect a $60+ markup on high end phones for that (industry sources).

(old source: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/400-smartphone-pay-120-p...)

Now they just need to solve their cash flow issues to fuel this growth…
It mostly applies for laptops and other portable devices.

Manufacturers may decide to solder the SSD directly to the motherboard, like Apple currently does with RAM on their laptop computers. This is beneficial to the manufacturer because it's more compact, less chance of mechanical failure, easier to assemble (pick&place instead of humans), lower price etc. In short: it's very attractive for manufacturers.

For consumers this is worrying though, as with the RAM on Apple laptops:

- You cannot replace a failed SSD, you need to replace the entire motherboard

- You cannot upgrade the SSD, so you have to accept the ridiculous price stepup when ordering the laptop (i.e. the 200 dollar price bump to get 8GB extra RAM on a macbook pro)

- Laptop is less valuable when trying to sell it on after a couple of years, because the storage size will be low compared to new SSD's.
> Compared to other nations, Britain's public trustees probably aren't so bad at serving the interests of the public.

Dave & Co have probably been the worst offenders in recent recent years for selling public assets and companies they have nationalized to buddies of theirs at massively discounted prices, beginning with the RBS.
Still it might be suitable for a relatively cheap mid range FPGA, even Spartan6.

EDIT: actually, no, it's a single lane PCIe3, such clock rates are well beyond the FPGA range. Pity.
The end-point of your logic is that bankers are too important to prosecute, which is obviously unacceptable.
Innovative Project!
> because people just don't do that in the real world

well, they do, but basically only in crappy interview situations.
Privately Owned Submarines
.wtf is a valid tld. Neat.
> oversimplify a complicated phenomenon

I thought the author acknowledged that it's complicated and that it has many aspects to it and that it's not easy to solve at all.

> useless drivel on medium

You are entitled to your opinion. I personally feel it was a good read and I share his sentiments of frustration and resent
Atari is making IoT devices, destroying childhoods
Much more, yes - modern ships have been built slower, with lover rev-engines, to save fuel. And a larger ship is inherently more environmentally friendly. And even the oldest ships do far, far less environmental damage per kilogram per kilometer than cars or other road transport. Not to mention that the issues with nitrogen oxide emissions in particular (the focus of the recent scandal) are less about environmental damage and more about the danger to humans from breathing them in, which is obviously a lot more important when emissions are happening in the middle of a city rather than out on the open sea.
That's just the Earth's internal heater with a nice insulating blanket on top of it.
See the video TED-Ed Buffalo buffalo buffalo: One-word sentences and how they work - Emma Bryce [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWbzjGIec20
Their attribution is incredibly incorrect, in fact possibly criminally so as I'm not sure if "Peace" has done anything illegal here. The person they're referring to is just a middleman, and most Russians tend to be able to speak Russian.

This isn't very surprising though, these guys are as incompetent as they get. Few years ago when I audited some of their stuff they still hadn't ditched all their legacy coldfusion code (and had debugging turned on on public facing sites for gods sake). Didn't take the DB then but probably could have.
Geothermal heat, more likely, or did I miss something?
TIL Slack consultants charge up to $1000 a day
Making of HypriotOS
LLVM apt repository switched off due to excessive traffic
With further training I don't think it's possible: since those movements are not useful nor harmful, they will appear in winning and losing matches.
A possible solution might be including some distance traveled metric in the reward function...
Would be nice to see a comparison with the Surface Book - I've fallen in love with mine, and I understand there's a substantial community for running linux on them.
The London figure is always trotted out. All accounting is done through London. Also counting money like this doesn't count "wealth". A bunch of people creating new money as credit actually soaks up wealth as the rest of the UK is forced to exchange actual labour and products for fiat money against ever increasing land prices.

Tax havens aren't bastions of freedom. Load of rubbish. They are allowing massive inequalities and letting rogues plunder common wealth.

Did Abmramovich personally add billions in value? Or did he claim he, not the Russian people, "owned" much of Russia's oil and then washed a good part of it through London property?
But paying your taxes isn't presented as an option.
Wikipedia says: "The project's main feature is 21 km (13 mi) of new twin tunnels."

So that 26 miles counts the tracks both ways. Well, it's not a short way, 42 km is a marathon.
You can only leave a job for another if there actually is another one.
Ask HN: Philosophical basis of mathematics?
How do we know what we know is right?
the money to pay for their man hours has to come from somewhere

Actually no, it doesn't have to come from somewhere. It's quite possible that we'll go back to a world where musicians aren't generally paid, except for a few who are paid up-front by rich patrons. That's pretty much how it was until the 20th century.
Webconverger

"Opensource kiosk software to get you onto the Web"

https://webconverger.com
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>There's also the little matter of the earthquake zone.

So is Tokyo.
I find Thunderbult quite useful (but I'm on a Mac). Not sure why this guy is so against it, presumably there's reasonable peripheral support on other OSes by now?

He talks about editing video on the machine, Thunderbolt should allow for high capacity/speed external storage. I'd prefer the options Thunderbolt provides over HDMI.
He ran a fund which was based in tax haven to avoid double taxation. Lots of funds do things like this. It's not corruption or criminal.
It would be nice to put plots of these bacteria on the shady side of roofs.

That way you can store some fuel for cold and rainy days / months :)
An easy fix might be to turn single story strip malls into two story dual purpose buildings. Stores on bottom, rooms on top. I doubt this would do much to change aesthetics.
I don't think it's an overwhelming majority if everyone on your team is likely to be cut off at least once a year. At that point it doesn't take much lost productivity to justify the storage for local copies unless you literally have so many huge blobs they can't all fit on a laptop SSD.
I'd really like to hear what the community has to say, what the tradeoffs may be, etc.
Or... if the other job is literally no better... there's no positive benefit to be had, and possibly negative backlash.
> nationalized to buddies of theirs at massively discounted prices, beginning with the RBS.

What? I guess you have much evidence.
Except that everyone does that, I am sure spammers very well know that suffix trick.
That could be a good idea for game consoles, especially handhelds.
I would argue, that if you can't handle your budget better than that, you are mentally ill, and need help.

For some, it could be enough to get the payment daily, instead of monthly/weekly.

For others, they should not have direct access to their account, but would need to ask for permission from a legal guardian.
> The issue is that the UK has serious corruption and (organized) crime problems, seemingly tolerated (at best) at some of the the highest levels in the UK.

And yet you proffer no evidence.
Upcoming Xbox One – 2 will beat PS4 Neo in performance
It's factually incorrect that high ranking British politicians are named on the Panama papers.

It's widely known Cameron's dad was in the PP but also that he was not a British politician. It still stinks but there's no evidence of David Cameron being directly involved.
That's why your incomplete quote is continued by "or better to say, we shouldn't need".
Here is a little tip, each time you read about "tech talent shortage" replace with "cheap tech talent shortage". That's what we're really talking about here.

This article probably applies equally to the US btw.
When I tried visiting earlier, it was down because the database was over capacity, so a caching plugin will go a long way too. W3 Total Cache is a good option, but there are others as well.
In my seaside Mediterranean town many oaks have been cut down and replaced with palms to give the town a more glamorous look.

Now in those areas there is no shade and during summer they are deserted, the only moving objects are cars. Some grass and palms among asphalt and concrete are simply not a good heat moderator. It looks nice on a postcard though ^^.
Still, 13". That's too small for serious work, even if it super high resolution - that's only 1/4 of the surface area of a decent monitor.
It's true that a "successful" merge of text source can still result in semantic conflicts, I definitely agree and have experienced it. But the fact text merging works most of the time is justification to use it. But merging binary assets works 0% of the time, so it's a much more severe problem.

Further to it happening more often, the consequences when it does happen are worse. You can't even do a diff of binary files. If text source changes lead to problems you can look at the diff and gain an understanding of what was changed. (e.g. A renamed a method, but B checked in new code using the old method name). If you spend time altering a Visio file, only to receive the error message that it can't be merged, you literally have no other option than to open the original, theirs, yours, and try and look at it and hope you see all changes.

We should aspire to more than just "get by". The above problems can be solved by VCSs, just not DVCSs.
London is the cocaine capital of Europe
There's no problem with prosecuting bankers under laws that are tightly written and which can only be violated knowingly. The apocalypse case can only occur if bankers feel like they have no way to avoid being guilty, which is certainly true under AML laws but not really true under many other kinds of laws (like ordinary fraud).
That's not agile, that's a pivot :)
Which applies in exactly the same manner to the mentioned Spanish politicians too.
Have you tried the flask cookiecutter's?
After reading the trilogy, particularly the first book, I don't think "The Internet Galaxy" will add much. Even the following "big" one from Castells, "Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective", won't add much from a conceptual standpoint (although an amusing read, I think).

My perspective on Castells is biased because it was essentially the backbone of my academic training. I had teachers telling us explicitly that Castells' notion of information society was the framework (in the Kuhnian sense) on which we'd build upon. Having that in mind, I see Castells as a sociologist and his work (sociological) as a view on a society defined by information flows (not exactly computing, although computing and telecommunications are key enablers). Still, he keeps technological determinism at bay by considering the impact of geography, territory, matter - the physical (tangible?) dimension.

What I like quite much about his work is exactly this aspect: he presents a vision of a society dominated by the intangible, while still dedicating rather extensive chapters on the geographical asymmetries of the world. This avoidance of technological determinism, the "information is key but place and physicality still matter a lot, as evidenced by real-world data" notion is why I see Castells as a great reference.
Wearable Tech Claims It Can Make You Happy
No need to explain, just yet another scam on top of bigger scam called Ethereum.
Really happy to see some real contributions! Maybe crowdfunding and Open Source has a bright future together?
> Number theory. If you’re ever asked how one algorithm or data structure performs over another, you’ll need a solid grasp of number theory to make that analysis.

Um, what? I mean, apart from some fancy/hypothetical cache aligning nonsense, I have no idea how this makes sense. Maybe someone can explain?
Fractal tree of life explorer, evolution mapped back to 2.1bn years ago
Why couldn't it be?
Here's a Krita timelapse of a painting that starts with using a "ruler" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEXnpwIL45Y
Facebook takes down PH journalist's anti-Marcos post
At least the workers had air conditioning: http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/gotthard-system/

Security of the workers was strictly controlled. Working temperature for example was not allowed to exceed 28°C, which was achieved through cooling installations.
> David Cameron has finally admitted he benefited from a Panama-based offshore trust set up by his late father.

> Cameron also admitted he did not know whether the £300,000 he inherited from his father had benefited from tax haven status due to part of his estate being based in a unit trust in Jersey.

Maybe he was not directly named in the papers, but he committed as much (or as little) corruption as the Spanish politicians.
I don't think that reading about stuff online leads to knowledge, just like repeating writing the same boring CRUD app over and over again won't make you a much better programmer.

> As a field we are way behind most other fields in how well we know our own field.

I'd be surprised if that was so. I think we have a tendency to idealise other fields' achievements :) Additionally, I think you're using a scientist as a role model for a programmer. I don't think that's a good role model. Most programmers are technicians, not scientists. They produce products, not knowledge.

> You must be very lucky in where you work

Hm. It is the case that I'm lucky! I work at a University, in a PL group. So the people around me daily have better math foundations than most. I'll admit that there is bias in what I say.
Comparison with other tunnels: http://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2016/gotthard-system/imgs...

And a German article about the nine people who died: http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/die-toten-arbei...
An OSI layer model for the 21st century
Great idea, absolutely TOP! Hope this could spread quickly, thus helping a huge number of people across the world!
I've been very happy using DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com) over the last year. I find I need to refer to google for maybe 1% of my searches, usually for specialized technical topics.
Awesome project! Think about the possibilities in disconnected countries or regions, simply amazing! Can't wait to see this become a reality
Baby dragon born in Postojna
This and the rest of the subway system. It kind of hilarious looking at that map and seeing a dense web of subway lines with none of them going to New Jersey.

I'm guessing this is because the administrative boundary means there's no incentive for New York governance to do anything to benefit New Jersey?
Geothermal heat is due to radioactive decay in the earth's core, so you're technically both correct.
Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese
The snot-spattered experiments that show how far sneezes really spread
http://www.postojnska-jama.eu/en/news/2016/nov-stran-z-novic...
Python docs, easier than Sphinx
Other than every quote in my two posts?
If anything, self-hosted cloud software will continue to grow in popularity. It's cloud-based Saas companies that are more hype than substance (read Disrupted for an unsavory inside look).

Self-hosted cloud software will continue to grow in popularity though. Shameless plug alert: I recently released Wheatbin which is Open Source and 100% free: http://wheatbin.com. Github repo is here: https://github.com/wheatbin/wheatbin
> Has Nvidia had any success at all in mobile?

In recent years, Google Pixel C, Nexus 9, Nexus 7 (2012), that Project Tango tablet, and Nvidia's own Shield devices (TV, tablets, handheld). See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegra

Not the best-selling lineup, but a fair amount of developer mind-share thanks to Google's penchant for Nvidia SoCs and Nvidia's own outreach.
I guess that is not the link to the extension.
Cool stuff for app user retention
Concurrency Primitives in Intel 64 Assembly
I don't often comment on such things, but there's a suspicious number of new accounts commenting (only) on this post.
How do I remove the pre-loaded BIOS/UEFI and install a trustworthy one?
Top GCP sessions from Google I/O 2016
I used to do the same [0], quite a while ago now, until I discovered Screenly Open Source Edition [1]. There are a lot of tweaks to get right, and it does video, images and web pages. I made a fork with basic authentication to the web administration interface [2], in case the network is not private.

This project does look interesting though. Last time I did this the Pi was a bit underpowered for some JavaScript heavy dashboards and the Wi-Fi was really flaky. Perhaps the Pi 3 has fixed these things but I haven't tried it.

[0] https://shutdownscanner.com/blog/posts/Raspberry-Pi-Digital-...

[1] https://www.screenlyapp.com/ose

[2] https://github.com/jpsingleton/screenly-ose
Doesn't Apple do it currently with their SSDs as well?