skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4 Powerful Ways to Leverage Social Media in Financial Services
iTerm2 version 3 beta released
There is an upscaled PSX emulator that works on ARM - PCSX ReARMed... worth a look for running great looking full speed PSX games on low powered ARM devices.

Video of the Enhanced Graphics on OpenPandora Handheld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydxoaHfymU
Tax havens, hmm?

So around the world, basically, the good honest career politicians from Argentina to Zambia are going around to profitable businesses saying "hey, nice business you have there! We'd like to take, say, 50% of your profits, if you don't mind, and spend it on our friends - government contractors, public-sector unions and the like. All the donations to our campaign afterward are purely incidental, I assure you, and none of the subsidies or handouts we'll use your money for are vote-buying schemes, none at all. Thanks for your cooperation."

... and the UK provides places where they don't do that, not on the top-line profit anyway. Sure. I can see how having that would be attractive to both legitimate and illegitimate operators. Its net impact on corruption, though, would be a little tricky to sort out.

(Postscript. As I'm being moderated down without comment, I assume that those doing so are those privileged enough to be in a nice low-corruption Western economy where we have a slightly better grade of politician than, say, Dilma Rousseff and her legislature. So I wish to note that despite cynicism about world governments I retain due respect for anti-corporate sentiment as well...)
"Prototyping" is done by developers. We have many existing tools for that use case.
Ahead of schedule based on an adjusted schedule during construction. They are slightly behind the originally planned schedule (a couple years).

Obviously this is still a very well executed project overall.
Indiscriminate use of CTEs considered harmful
Have to add that in truly corrupt societies the degree of power circles corruption is not any lower. It just looks less appalling from corrupt baseline.
Could not find anything on a ball pitch. Can it be suitable for DIY projects?
There's a great 360° video on Youtube that shows both the tunnel as well as the Gotthard massif through which the tunnel leads. It's in German, but the visuals are impressive on their own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDSCtXvL51o
I forgot to consider your list as aimed towards the Anderson Consulting people.

Having that audience in mind, wouldn't Manuel Castells' work (mostly, the "The Information Age" trilogy) be a good reference? Probably a little too vast.
Where are all these people buried who have been shot for not paying their taxes?
"Nine workers died during the work."

Although on-time or early and within budget, it is still a dangerous job to do. That is 0.346% of the total workforce (2600).
Netdata for IoT
Excellent tutorial! I'm a newcomer to Docker, and this was quite helpful. I'm currently using Vagrant to run my local dev environment and it's been OK. But I can see how using containers to split components up can make testing much easier.

One question I have though is how useful is Docker for deploying production applications?

Firstly, can plain Docker be used for the whole setup or is something like Kubernetes required to tie the containers together?

Secondly, is there a performance hit when you use multiple Docker containers on the same server? Or should it be a one-to-one relation i.e. one container per as server? If so, why not just use plain servers with Chef or Puppet for server management?

These questions are assuming that I'm using my own servers - something like DigitalOcean or AWS. I'm not a huge fan of managed container services; it feels like there's too much "magic" going on behind the scenes.
But most often, even in Sweden, it is not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallands%C3%A5s_Tunnel
Agreed with the previous poster. I've not given up a cell phone, but it is difficult to get by in the real world without it.

Think about finding a job. Most folks expect to reach only you, on a cell phone. Many employers expect the same.

Sure, it is a choice in a broad sense, but it isn't a realistic one if you want to take part in society.
> The premise is that because corruption involves money and money involves banks and London has lots of banks, transitively, London is very corrupt.

I thought it was based on the premise that:

London is the drug money laundering capital
of the world

and:

90 per cent of drug cash ends up in
the US and Europe via London

and:

criminal corporate activities within the City of
London which have dominated the headlines
over the past decade

and:

an alternative metric for financial corruption
[puts Britain and its dependencies] top of the list

and:

the four companies in line to buy [from the Government]
the UK Land Registry [which tracks the (often foreign)
ownership of UK properties] are all based in or have
close links to the offshore tax havens of Jersey,
Cayman Islands or Delaware

> career issue

AKA:

powerful financial firms will destroy the lives
and reputations of whistleblowers [claiming] a
100% success rate

From the BBC page linked to under 100% success rate:

The BBC spoke to one such whistleblower who wrote
to the FSA [UK financial services regulator] on
numerous occasions with his concerns about
behaviour at his then-investment bank.

The FSA refused to act on the information
and even requested that the whistleblower
never contact them again.

If the British Prime Minister is happy to defame other countries by name, then the UK should be prepared to have its own monumental corruption problems put under the spotlight.

This is about financial corruption; corruption in other spheres - police, judiciary and politics - is rife in the UK too.

The only question about whether the UK is the "worst" is whether other so-called open, accountable democracies are any better, which I doubt.

But it's about time we started putting our own house in order, instead of blindly pointing the finger at the usual suspects, poor developing countries, who can only dream of having corruption so established that it's not even referred to as such; and when someone does call it what it is, people instinctively write it off as "idiotic".
can strongly recommend kipling's "with the night mail" and "easy as a.b.c.". i was amazed at how sophisticated they were - i would definitely have placed them well within the golden age if didn't know when they were written.
SATA, PCIe, and M.2 drives are trivial to replace.
Tamper-Proofing Question Papers with Digital Technologies
For me I found that having an education in math made me a better scientist, and being a better scientist made me a better developer. Having a background in mathematics makes you very sensitive to when and where assumptions get made, as well as very exacting about the line of reasoning between evidence and conclusions. It's surprising how common unchallenged assumptions can be in science, but in development work it's practically a disease. Troubleshooting and root cause analysis are extremely important parts of dev work, and it's amazing how bad the average dev is at it. Prone to jumping to conclusions and ready to blame the usual suspects even when the evidence doesn't match.
The fact that git man page generator is so damn good should be a clue or something

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
> Apart from being soldered to the board?

That should be an absolute dealbreaker, though. Talk about holding your data hostage...
What does identity mean in today’s physical and digital world?
Depends what measure of money supply you're using. Under some measures the same "quantity" of money at higher velocity counts as higher money supply (which arguably better reflects the effect on the real economy). Under other measures money created under fractional reserve doesn't count.
Agreed, considering the amount of processing and information loss that happens in the optic nerve (in people with healthy vision) you could save yourself a lot of processing, and get a higher fidelity result (potentially indistinguishable from reality).
It is telling two things: 1) The ability to compete and cost associated to compete is worse in US and Europe. 2) Further, patents are mostly used as anti competitive behaviour; it is not related to "innovation", nor is it related to research and development.
APPLE CAMPUS 2 June 2016 Construction Update [video]
"We’ve pitched people who are really confused when they look at what we do. They say, ‘Wait, this isn’t a software business! The margins are too low!’ And we have to say, ‘Look at the cash flow.’ Many VCs are used to seeing 90 percent margins on a million dollars of revenue. When you’re talking about real world industries, you might be seeing 10 percent margins, but it’s on a billion dollars of revenue."
Adrian Kosmaczewski – Being a Developer After 40 [video]
A bit disappointed since I read the headline (it has distro in the headline somehow my brain stopped at xxxxOS) and thought it was an OS developed from scratch (I was ready to get impressed by writing/porting a browser for it as well). Alas it seems to use Raspbian. Still a fun project but I'd probably tackle that with a startup script or something.
Check out this amazing 360° video about the tunnel with your smartphone (or use the mouse to drag the view).
http://www.srfcdn.ch/srf/news/gotthard360/index.html
What's interesting about Musk is that he doesn't at all seem to be doing any of this for the money. It doesn't seem like it's greed that motivates him, the way you might think of other top CEOs. He's all about vision. He's an idealist with competence and resources and for better or for worse, he will probably have an impact on all of our lives. I would hope for the better, but idealism and egocentrism can create a toxic mix. So far I love everything his companies have done. I love watching the spacex videos. But we should judge him and his companies based on their accomplishments and their actions and not on the PR and media spectacles that surround him.
> Once the new Berlin airport is finished in about 5-10 years, I'll fly down there to celebrate.

Rather if the new Berlin airport is ever finished...

In other words: If you want to celebrate, rather fly down to Berlin now and celebrate the opening of the Gotthard tunnel in Berlin.
I would argue with waterfall model (naïve translation of engineering to software) being out of favor for decades now, almost nobody actually makes "blueprints" for software. Agile, XP and TDD is basically "put something together and make sure it doesn't fall apart when we ship it".

Now what actually requires engineering is a whole another perspective. I'd argue most software development jobs are closer to "renovate the kitchen" than "calculate building wind load" type of work. Also remarkably in construction, the latter task turned out to be much easier to automate.
About the work-flow with forks. You could just give each dev it's own branch, then restrict push for the other branches.

Bob:
- "Hey, check out my latest feature!"

Alice:
- "update Bob"
- "Cool! merge Bob"
Why Isn't Predictive Analytics a Bigger Part of Patient Care?
If you have an X-Ray to check if the balls are soldered perfectly, then yes. Put it on the board and off with it in the reflow-oven. Keep in mind, it's only 20x16mm.

If not, then you're mostly out of luck, but you can try if you manage to source it. And find some datasheets. And have a driver for it. And...

On a more serious note: It would be very nice, if it was possible to design a board with components like this, but it is way to hard and needs way too much equipment and experience to do right.
I'd hate to see that, one of the big benefits of the RPi is that everything stateful is on the memory card.
Cache digests for HTTP/2 Push: lossy compression saves the day again
I guesstimated it to 0.83 mm from the single image in the article. That's not very small by BGA standards, as far as I know.

On the other hand, 1,500 MB/s data and PCIe are quite serious levels of performance by most DIY project standards. :)
Timingapp.com is able to track Firefox urls somehow.
That was lackluster: Nothing specific, just generalities.
Hey, how is that at all legal? That source code belongs to Facebook, so isn't he committing a copyright violation by posting it on his blog? And the extension he wrote is a clear derivative of Facebook's code, so he shouldn't be able to upload it without a license from Facebook.
I think the "true threat" is a good bar, though. It would stop things like the prosecution of a guy here in the UK that joked about blowing up an airport because his girlfriend's flight was delayed.
I'm also a professional software engineer who did very well in high school and at the university and, similarly, my wife consistently beats me at this type of games.

Granted, my wife is well-educated and I believe she is smarter than I am, but it's like she immediately sees the solution while I see the input and have to work out the solution. I usually attribute this to my deficient color vision, since that's the property that usually trips me up. Alternatively, I've wondered if I'm focusing too hard and if the best approach might be reacting on instinct and relying on my subconscious to solve the problem before I'm consciously aware of having parsed the input.
I believe I have really talented "dungeon masters" in my team. When discussing new technology to adopt or refactors, you need their input but I am never sure it there are raising valid points or if there are subconsciously defending their dungeon.

We all have our biases, myself included, maybe by wanting something new and shiny, I just want to become the next dungeon master.
I think a distinction between most corrupt and largest dollar sums involved in corruption, should be made. The UK is a very wealthy nation with very large, global banking interests. That inherently tilts things in terms of scale.

If we're going by most corrupt, the UK is absolutely not at the top of that list, nor is Spain, in regards to Europe.

I'll go with Transparency International's rankings of most corrupt in Europe, I find it far more plausible: Ukraine at #130 globally, Russia at #119 globally, Belarus at #107. Those last two are fascist dictatorships, the corruption is nearly absolute in terms of state power and abuse.
The courts also recognise that Boolean oracles do not impede privacy. It's how drug sniffing dogs are justified.
Great project my dear friend. I'm really happy for you. I hope that the project will soon become a reality.
However, building passenger transit in an urban area is a very different thing, even if a long underground tunnel is a challenge in itself.

Mining through solid rock is not really that expensive these days. But when building metropolitan transit, arranging traffic around of an existing population is not easy, and building transit stations is an expensive business.

Making a tunnel through solid, hard rock is in any case cheaper than making a tunnel through non-solid earth which needs to be supported for every inch all the time.

Regarding cost of mining solid rock: in fact, where I live, I think in the construction of underground train line, the actual cost of mining is pretty much offset by the price for sale of rock matter, which is then used for claiming land from sea to construct new housing. It is fairly silly over here because we have a low population and lots of land, but when the city claims new land, it can build there and sell it without purchasing it from existing owners, and all the increase in land value from zero (in fact no land at all) goes to the pockets of the city, and the pockets that the city chooses.
> The completed tunnel travels up to 2.3 km below the surface of the mountains above and through rock that reaches temperatures of 46C.

Is this solely because of the pressure or is there something else (say water?)?

Also, I think they forgot degrees (°).
Thanks!

I was just turned on to SYZYGYS's music based on Harry Partch's 43-microtone scale. It is hard to stop listening to it today, but maybe because it's novel for me.

Mathematics is all about patterns and relationships, so music is an aural expression of mathematics as has been said by so many others, yet I never tire of seeing (and hearing) examples of this.
Platforms like Virtuix and Infinadeck are interesting designs for this problem.
`libsystemd` just provides an implementation of the socket-activation protocol. It is documented and can be implemented easily without libsystemd: after all it's in the end just reading which file descriptors to use as listening sockets from an environment variable.
"The engineers responsible have been sacked."
I think the article touches of a more general problem that I have been thinking recently about. That is: In the absence of understanding (which costs time and effort), how do you decide that some expert opinion on the matter is good or useful or not? (This problem crops up everywhere in human societies, often in politics.)

It seems that people use many different heuristics:

- We have an expert, surely his advice is good.

- We have an expert, surely he is bullshitting us for his own benefit.

- The subject matter is complicated, surely it must be useful, because the problem is complex.

- The subject matter is complicated, surely it's because people working on it over-engineered the solution.

- The thing is old, surely it has proven it's practical use.

- The thing is old, surely it uses obsolete technology.

- There are lot of features, surely the thing will solve my problem.

- There are lot of features, surely it's not all needed.

As above examples show, in absence of information, decision making will be subjective. And that's where the article falls flat, IMHO, because it wants to give an advice, but it can't, because there is probably no rational advice to be given, aside from, have somebody else (who you trust) understand the original system as much as possible and then tell you.

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!
What's the business justification for retaining cell tower logs for 221 days?!? Surely they can be anonymised after two weeks.
Also british - Cameron's father (and probably Cameron, caught lying), non the less.

EDIT

Why the downvotes?

Factually incorrect? Don't think so: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/07/david-cameron-ad...

You don't like it. Fine, but don't downvote it.
Clang-based C++ to D language converter
To be fair I doubt any top CEO does it for the money, greed is a very poor motivator.
Is it really the deepest, doesn't it just happen to have a lot of mountain on top of it? Other tunnels, by reference to sea level, are probably deeper?
Interesting suggestion! I think it was around when I made the list but I hadn't read it yet.

I think it might be too long for the intended purpose (maybe a little too academic?). On the other hand Mumford also wrote a trilogy "Technics and Civilization" that I did hope they would read ...

And certainly the McLuhan books are more cryptic for most readers. On the other hand ...
Orcas are first non-humans whose evolution is driven by culture
How to get started with issue tracking
Money laundering used to have a fairly precise definition when the crime was first invented in the 1970's: "knowingly working to disguise the origins of money gained through crime". But over time various people (primarily aggressive tough-on-crime politicians) have watered down the definition until it's now more like "any financial transaction that someone somewhere doesn't like".

We can see the slide in the USA PATRIOT Act which removed the "knowingly" from the original definition. Now you can do money laundering without even being aware of it, under the American definition, simply by interacting with money that was earned by criminals.

Once they started chipping away at the mens rea requirement, the standards had to be redefined. Now it's not enough to avoid money you know to be criminal. You also have to avoid money you merely suspect might be criminal, lest it later on turn out to be the result of crime and you get sucked in after the fact. Hence banks turning away people who want to deposit cash. The fact that the cash has innocent origins is insufficient.

Then they went further and defined money laundering as failing to do 'enhanced due diligence' on any transactions related to a 'politically exposed person'. There is no clear definition of either term, meaning banks have to make it up as they go along. But the spirit of the law is that a PEP is anyone who might conceivably be corrupt. This was meant to fight corruption by forcing banks to investigate anyone who might be receiving bribes. With no definition and heavy penalties for non-compliance, which by this time is entirely in the eye of the beholder, private firms sprang up to compile blacklists of PEPs, some of which contain millions of people. There is of course no way to get yourself off such a blacklist.

Now throw sanctions compliance into the concept of money laundering and now you can be an evil corrupting money launderer simply by processing a payment from a firm in country A to a firm in country B where there are no laws in either country A or B against the trade, and the firm in country B is run by a guy who some powerful bureaucrat has decided is in some way shady. No evidence or trial is required and there's usually no way to get yourself off such sanctions lists. One US list of sanctioned people is simply a list of names with no other clarifying information, meaning people with generic names end up being treated as guilty-until-proven-innocent.

By the time we're done, you realise that every bank in the world is guilty of the modern definition of money laundering, simply by virtue of working with money.

If you're interested in the topic of abuse of AML laws, read the book "Treasuries War".
If I can tap into the brain, I'd make it like in Matrix, to be able to upload skills and connect minds together wit AI.
You say, "Prime numbers used to be useless when first researched," but when the Middle-Kingdom Egyptians were doing their initial research on prime numbers, they needed them for the algorithms they used to calculate with fractions. These were used in the Rhind Papyrus to calculate things like the volumes of granaries. You could hardly have picked a worse example.
Well obviously it's part of the Requirement Engineering process to adjust the schedule when the requirements change.
Social Chain's Steve Bartlett: Spread the Word
Actually, it is 3 months. Food, rent, utils., ins., gas, pocket money. Adds up quick. Anybody that has 6 months of all that lying around doesn't need an emergency fund. Basically it's 25% of your annual net worth.
TL;DR: "I'm convinced we can make factories better."

No shit.
That would be either unreasonably punitive or easy to avoid. Properties needing renovation or structural work can't reasonably be penalised for not being occupied, so owners would simply arrange for unoccupied buildings to be permanently having work done on them. I'm sure there are plenty of builders that would help them out for moderate fees. I'm sure there are other ways round something like this too.
I would say let the UK leave the EU and let's ban financial transactions with the British-run network of global tax havens.