skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article (and the "Mafia Expert" it's about) are both idiotic. The premise is that because corruption involves money and money involves banks and London has lots of banks, transitively, London is very corrupt. It then tries to equate Mafia violence with financial firms refusing to hire 'whistleblowers', as if having your legs chopped off is in any way comparable to having a career issue.

By similar logic, I could claim that Washington DC is the most violent city in the world, because the illegal drug trade is very violent and drugs are illegal because of politicians and there are lots of politicians in Washington DC.
Yeah that's a good point, I completely steered clear from talking about marshalling and/or interop (mostly due to lack of time), maybe I'll do a Part 2 and include that.
> In the next 10 years, software engineers aren’t still going to be limited to programming web and mobile apps. They’ll be working on writing mainstream computer vision and virtual reality apps, working with interesting cryptographic algorithms for security and building amazing self-learning products using machine learning. You can’t go very far in any of these fields without a solid mathematical foundation.

This is what scared and convinced me to relearn Mathematics. I hated it when I took it up before but I realized that the coolest jobs requires it.

However, after a few months of self-learning, I discovered that the hard part is not learning the concepts. It is structuring your learning in such a way that you can retain what you learned after a few weeks.

It has been a challenged for me to do. Learning new higher level concepts exposed my gaps in learning the fundamentals.
Ask HN: Logged out from multiple sites in more than once browser
Seems over night I have been logged out from multiple sites (Including HN, Google and GitHub) in at least the two browsers I use daily.

Still logged in on some other sites, e.g. twitter.

Am I missing something obvious and/or has anyone else seen anything like this before (i.e. happening in more than one browser and more than one site at the same time)?
Which makes me think, eventually technology will probably enable the processor to be in the headset itself. Then possibly an implant.
Exactly. Programming is mathematics, all of it. It is not just overlaping with mathematics in few peculiar areas but it is nothing but mathematics and must be treated as such.
That is an amazing reply to what was intended to be simple sarcasm. Ease of use/adoption is king in my book, although it's interesting to note php doesn't get any points despite its well-documented low barrier to entry.
I love comments like that, it's almost a history lesson on VB and the CLR!
ARM Cortex-A73: How a top-end mobe CPU was designed from scratch
I still think interaction is the major shortcoming and probably will be for the foreseeable future. Most of this seems to be a technology-psychology hybrid. I want to grab a virtual coffee mug with sufficient feedback so I don't grab through it, feel the weight of it etc.
Another part is finding good interaction paradigms which I suspect will fall out of better technology being available and in more hands (easy to prototype interactions). Wide spread first gen VR-Headsets and primitive interaction means (controller) will probably be good enough to drive that.
Facebook planning encrypted version of its Messenger app, sources say
Light field displays seems to be the answer. Also much more computationally heavy.
>The music is not the end product. The live show where I go to see the musician perform is.

Hey, how much of all the music you listen to you listen live? One percent perhaps? Don't be hypocritical please. Without recording you wouldn't get a chance to hear the best musicians from around the world.

Also a lot of people don't see or don't care about the difference between recording and live performance. For them music is the end product.
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You mean like voting for a government that sets a tax policy?
Light field displays?
Folks who shouldn't be N: folks who make declarations about who should or shouldn't be N. There's no gate and you, sir or ma'am, are certainly not the gatekeeper.
Facebook using people’s phones to listen in on what they’re saying
> That did happen in practice as programmers used the highest bits to stuff metadata and relied on the automatic masking

The old Mac OS did this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_memory_management#32-bi...
So you have no choice but to take the risk. Fine. But that doesn't make it a "valid surprise".

In ideal world it wouldn't matter: we'd have time to properly analyse everything we use and clients wouldn't mind paying to having things done properly. We don't live in an ideal world so someone somewhere needs to decide if the risk is worth taking. If you don't push that decision on to the client (because your competitors don't and you fear it will reduce your edge too much) then you have to make the choice and take responsibility for it.
These require a system which either backtracks or recognizes it's made a mistake and corrects it. I know how to do that with a rule-based parser.

It also fails on "British left waffles on Falklands." While there are two syntactic parsers for that, one of them borders on the absurd and should be rejected. The problem is that to parse some sentences requires understanding of the words and phrases it reads, which in turn requires common sense.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos: We Should Settle Mars 'Because It's Cool'
Sounds like it would be useful for prototyping / proof of concept stuff (in other word it will end up in production).
So...I'm calling in sick Thursday. glhf.
Your shirts were at some point designed by someone even if they have no artwork. The point is that creatives are involved in many facets of life that are not always obvious, and they are exerting man hours to create those things. Most of the time the creatives are paid up front, such as a car designer. But for music that's not the case, so the money to pay for their man hours has to come from somewhere and that somewhere is gigs, merchandise and royalties.

The system is sometimes convoluted but eventually the money comes out of the consumers pocket. The point I'm trying to make is simply that at least some of those dollars should make it back to the creator.

In theory that's what copyright is designed to make happen. I don't have as much of a problem with people getting stuff for free, they probably wouldn't have paid for it anyway. It's more about those who are making money off the artist without giving any back, and you could argue that Youtube does that if a musicians music is available for free and they are generating indirect revenue from advertising across the site.

If I know I can get a song on YouTube, I'll hit their home page, get an advertisement, then go to the song. They have profited from hosting the song in that example. They don't advocate or allow it, but it happens and the artist gets nothing for something while Youtube gets something for nothing.
Austrian citizens are subject to arrest and direct surrender to other EU states under execution of a European Arrest Warrant without extradition, since 2002. See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A3...

Austria did reserve the limited possibility of refusing enforcement of EAWs on its citizen for acts not punishable under Austrian law, but that's it; which is not much different from the optional non-execution provision available to all EU states.

It also has bilateral extradition treaties with other non-EU states including the USA, again, with some reservations for its own citizens. But to say Austria doesn't extradite its citizens is wrong. For most crimes, any other EU state can issue a warrant and have Austrian citizens arrested and summarily removed without any full-blown extradition proceeding.
I hope Switzerland votes for UBI, it would be interesting to see actual data rather than just conjecture. The point about people losing the will to work is interesting, as he also makes the point that jobs give us purpose and structure in life. If money is no longer an issue, or less of an issue, people may choose to do jobs because they provide purpose and structure.
It could also increase innovation. There have been lots of article on HN recently about the privileges white males have in terms of financial security, that make it safer to start businesses than non-white and non-males. UBI might allow more people to do this.

Another interesting aspect would be the economic effect of everyone having a minimum amount of money. I don't know enough about economic to say what the impact would be on basis good vs luxury goods and everything in between but I imagine it would have an effect.
There are already headset only solutions, but who knows how well they run.
Why are people so easily offended these days? why can't they just filter out the comments based on their content (like I do for example) instead of forcing their "safe spaces" on rest of us.
Anything from the kind of projects you are involved in, to salary matters.
I dunno, at least initially this could be the first M.2 2240 PCIe SSD. As far as I am aware currently you can only buy M.2 2280 PCIe SSDs. That's a significant savings in space. Alternatively -- for example an ATX motherboard -- could offer two sockets where previously only one would've fit. The Intel 200 series chipsets for Kaby Lake happens to raise the number of PCIe lanes by 4, how fortunate!
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This is $12.5b and 17 years for a 35 mile tunnel through solid rock. Seattle's transit plan is $50b, 25 years, and laying tracks on grade. Probably about the same number of miles.

http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/03/24/st3-draft-plan-over...
"delivered on time"

It's even better. They are about one year ahead of schedule.
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I agree with what you say, but it seems obvious to me.

On the other hand, what gets overlooked, IMO, is the "other stuff". Humanities, law, business, biology, take your pick!

When faced with a problem, a programmer is always looking at at least two issues:

1. to implement,
2. to understand the problem domain.

I see math being exceptionally helpful in 1), but at most somewhat helpful in 2) -- because at the end of the day, programs that we write tend not to be about math, or logic. Category theory does not help you understand the contract your company signed with some other company 12 years ago, and the amendments they made 7 years ago. It does help you implement these things concisely and correctly. What'd would help you understand would be for a programmer to know something about contracts.

Most programmers that I know have a certain talent for and knowledge about math. Most programmers that I know, also don't know a lot about the world outside of computers. That includes me, fwiw.

I think that their careers would profit from considering learning some non-mathematical domains more than from learning more math.

I'm not arguing against math, but I'm arguing for a good balance. To know at least the basics of some other domains, before you set out to learn a lot about one.
So the most ruthless mafia operate among international organizations, but from London, thus making Britain the most corrupt country in the world? Perhaps they never leave London, not old enough to travel alone, or they don't know how to use the internet.

There's nothing new under the sun, just the sensationalist Bremain propaganda you'd expect a few weeks before an EU referendum.
There is a bit on wikipedia[1] (more in the german version).

The project wasn't with out Problems but because of such strict planning they could be solved. For example one of the TBM's got stuck for months, another issues such as sub contractors delivering fraudulent materials also had to be dealt with. [2]

Although the Swiss part went well there are issues with the connection in Germany and Italy. Some projects in Italy haven't even started yet and one part Switzerland is now paying for just to get the trains through.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel
[2] http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/natur/was-die-tunnelbauer...
You can still declare bankruptcy if that becomes onerous.
One must remember that Estonia started from zero, as regards to bureaucracy. I wish had a picture of Estonian coast guard 1991, schoolkids in wooden WII soviet gasboat. But very serious and with AK-47, so I do not have the picture.
Will the 512GB model be on the same size package?
That would be pretty dense.
I am still waiting for Samsung to release the 1TB version of their 950 Pro, which comes on a much larger M.2 80mm form factor.
Does it seem odd to anyone else that this plan seems to pretend northern NJ doesn't exist? It would make much more sense to me to make the "triboro" a full-circle rather than a half-circle. If you look at underground map of London you don't see any half-circles.
On its tomb will be written :
The over-promising Cloud has been an under-delivering clown.

A quite vulnerable OS (by lack of ease of maintaining the state) running in a quite hackyly (thus porous) secured envelope is no more cheaper nor efficient than correctly written software running in a diminished context (jails, chroot, pledge)... coders that write correct software are expensive and cannot be compensated by more CPU, RAM, bandwidth.

If common sense does not work, and financial sense cannot convince you ... I hope some will get your senses back before their customers change their mind.
Video about using clang/LLVM for the Mill here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyzlEYspqTI
Nothing more complicated than this:

is_a_palindrome(S) {
assert is_a_string(S)

if reverse(S) == S
return true
return false
}

A string is a palindrome if it's equal to itself reversed. The example "solution" in the article is dreadfully overengineered to death and back. Noone interviewing should be happy to see such a solution and noone being interviewed should expect to be required to give such a solution, to such a trivial problem.

Unless of course the recruiter is trying to catch you pants-down, but then the parent article wouldn't post that overengineered "solution" as a gold-standard, like they did.
Fun article! Interesting titles.

Of the post-Radium-Age list, I'd like to point out C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength for special attention, just because everyone and their dog has some experience with Narnia and usually has some preconceptions of what Lewis is all about based on those -- but this story is likely to defy those expectations. If you'd like to turn your one-dimensional stereotype of the man into something more nuanced, this book is the ticket. Also, a good portion of it (indeed, the central plot-bearing part) is of Extremely High Quality (as endorsed by George Orwell... albeit with certain qualifications for the rest of the book). This portion reads sort of like a spiritual prequel to 1984 (a work that would come 4 years later). It's also surprising to many people to find Lewis writing, even incidentally, about eroticism, and that's quite besides the chain-smoking butch-lesbian chief-of-police (rumored to be a sort of character Lewis slightly fancied, if I recall correctly).

Third in a trilogy of space stories (which few are aware Lewis wrote) this novel just barely predates nuclear weapons - so Space is still a positive thing instead of being a place of vacuum and death filled with the missiles of global thermonuclear annihilation. Also, if you've heard about how fascinated the author was with Relativity and time moving at different speeds in different places (e.g. in Narnia) you may have wondered why Lewis never did a time travel novel. Turns out, he started one, and its rough draft eventually turned into this. My advice: read the short and sweet Out of the Silent Planet first for context, skip Perelandra (dangerously overdosed with overt Christian allegory), and then try this thing.
just to be fair, during the NEAT project the budget has been adjusted several times.
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What you mention is a board/library issue not a tool issue. But looking at how the AVR community has solved this, it is certainty solvable at "apt-get level".

Also, apt-get works just fine on Windows 10 nowadays :)

edit:
For the record, there is nothing wrong with a new tool system. But adding layers of layers of complexity and dependencies to something simple just because you couldn't care to learn to do things the standard way only creates problems for you and your users.
Snapshot from April 23:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160423035750/https://bitquabit...
6 weeks vacation is considered lazy? I don't disagree with your point btw just shocked that that's considered lazy.
This is what I noticed most too; then I wondered how it compares with Crossrail. (Obviously I imagine tunneling under London is vastly different than under a mountain.)
A much shorter tunnel, but with two new underground train stations, is being built under Stockholm, Sweden.[1] It is about 1/6 of the Swiss budget (about $2 billion). It will be completed on budget and slightly ahead of time this year.[2] So it can be done.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_City_Line

[2] in Swedish. http://framtidensinfrastruktur.se/artikel/snart-fardigbyggt-...
One approach (which I've used in our build definition where we ensure we have a clean workspace) is to rename all folders to "a" and recursively dig into them before deleting.

So \a_quite\long\path\with_files\module.js becomes \a\a\a\a\module.js

And you can usually delete that quite fine.

It's terrible. It's ugly. But it works.
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I accidentally wiped a GitHub organization that had a few popular repos on it
What do you mean by a developer perspective?

The corruption described is almost entirely contained within the area of high finance; it's not a very corrupt country from the perspective of the average John Bull. It is however quite deferential, which means that power and prestige let you get away with things.
If you hold a position of trust (elected politician, policeman, bureaucrat, CEO, board member, employee representative, union boss), and you use the powers of that position to further some private interest rather than the interests of those you are set to serve, then you're corrupt. That's more or less Transparency International's definition, and I agree with it.

But banks' trustees aren't the public. It's their depositors, shareholders and customers. And by most accounts, they serve those reasonably well.

So yeah, they could maybe make a case that Britain is the most corrupting country in the world. But that is not the same thing. Compared to other nations, Britain's public trustees probably aren't so bad at serving the interests of the public.
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Scotland's latest bridge coming in under budget and on time even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensferry_Crossing
Original vision of Bitcoin
Is the size of the history/repo still an issue? Shallow clones seem to be powerful enough with newer git versions.

You can push from a shallow clone since v1.9.0 http://stackoverflow.com/q/6900103/2361979

You can fetch more history on demand
http://stackoverflow.com/a/11834692/2361979

You can fetch the full history on demand since v1.8.3 http://stackoverflow.com/a/36123631/2361979

You can push/pull between shallow clones. This of course fails, if you the repos have no common ancestors.
Well, we broke the tablet gui we had when we ported to Qt5. It's going to take some time to restore in a sensible way. I do want Krita on my Android Hybrid Cintiq Companion, but I worry that that tablet is not powerful enough...
You can check a small animation[1] of the rail traffic from this upcoming weekend when the first passenger trains will pass through the tunnel

http://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/?hms=08:40:00&day=2016-06-...

[1] http://imgur.com/cN3HKPp?v=2
The solution to buy-to-leave is surely extremely high taxation on properties left empty (and I'm talking "10% of market value" levels of taxation, enough to obliterate any possible returns on investment).
we started this as an Hack during The Next Web Hack Battle 2016:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/05/27/10-brilliant-iot-ha...

another article from the researcher Marzia Aricò:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reuse-improve-marzia-aric%C3%...
https://github.com/c9/core/issues/304
There's a million reasons to love Switzerland, and now there's 57km more of it. This is amazing.

Once the new Berlin airport is finished in about 5-10 years, I'll fly down there to celebrate.
So basically don't donate to the poor?
been waiting for this to come out for a long time :)
Works well, Iceweasel has better HTML5 support on the Pi than Chromium.

Though struggled getting Iceweasel to start in full screen from command line, afaik there no flags, one way was to close in fullscreen state or install a plugin. Further IW shows first run dialogs. Annoying if your deploying several Pis, then theres the cursor which unclutter package helps to solve. Lastly matchbox x uses less ram than LXDE which was important in my use case.

Chromium is better if you want to seamlessly deploy Pi's without spending too much time configuring them, theres a trade off somewhere - the official Chromiums package is old and IW is newer with less API.

You may want to consider wrapping your command inside the while loop in the script above. I added did this after I experienced IW and Chromiums unexpectedly closing sometimes. Helped alot.
Well, as we noted in the release notes: Krita on OSX still has problems with rendering the image because we're depending on OpenGL and Apple's OpenGL drivers are missing stuff. You can disable OpenGL for now; we want to fully support OSX in the 3.1 release, which should be out in September.
So, to get correct output, you need to give it incorrect input? You don't capitalize names of animal or plant species in English.
The only thing I've understood is that they don't want help.
It is indeed. Just take a look at the thoroughly corrupt and secretive process of awarding a train franchise.
Great project!! I'm glad to know that and i hope it'll grow soon!! Congratulation to all contributors!
> The premise is that because corruption involves money and money involves banks and London has lots of banks, transitively, London is very corrupt.

The premise was that the banks of London launder huge amounts of drug money... I don't necessarily agree with this article but you're just avoiding the points it makes.
hmmm. this seems wildly unneccessary. derivatives are complicated finacial products, why do they need to be introduced into an ecosystsm that is complex by itself. also, on mobile (presumably also on the web) it just says derivatives built on ethereum and a link to the white paper. no idea what this does/use case. might be wise to put up a but more info.
It's amazing how hot it is in some places underground, up to 44C. Wow.
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I was invovled a couple of times in bidding for the government contracts. Do not have proofs, of course, but the entire design of this system was very open for corruption.
Most dies already have to go through multiple processes even when it's not a SOC/CPU so I don't think the extra cost is that high.
You are saving money on binning and packaging costs, and multi die packages are also a possibility if you want to make low cost BGA parts with less performance.
sure, but 'feline alarm system' is kind of vague - what type or model worked for you?
I really hope your software isn't even remotely this huge to justify it though.
Thanks for pointing that out, I would have missed that important detail otherwise. The majority of his games are indeed in HTML5, so I do wonder what made him choose Flash as an export target for the one or two such games I've seen.
Spain, not UK, is by far the most corrupt country in Europe. High rank spanish politicians are involved in the Panama Papers.