skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run a software company and our MD is the queen of government grant (she's ex-local government). Interesting to hear that tech grants grow on trees in your neck of the woods - can I e-mail you a couple of questions?
Only if they are late-stage investors. SamA specialises in being early, as do most of the other valley venturati. If you are a first-round investor, there is only downside in the bubble bursting.
I think the extreme case would be a packed struct where a multibyte member happens to span cache lines. This would not be causedby compiler optimization, but by manual deoptimization.
I'm only in London twice a month, and I still pay ~£2000 a year for train tickets to cover an 80 mile journey due to having to travel at peak times. The concentration of jobs in London, for as far as I can see no particularly good reason, is utterly frustrating.

In related news, if anyone is looking for a 100% remote Ruby (and willing to learn most other things) developer, get in touch.
If it is not connected to the internet then you can just use ULAs without any problems. You can even set up a registry and use ULA-C space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
Would it be even better to smoothly join with the zero level instead of coming to a sudden halt?
Made a chrome app myself, for a reason that might seem odd. It fulfills the java promise: write once run everywhere, and access more stuff than java (bluetooth, USB, serial etc.)
> "The aim of BREXIT is to reduce immigration."

That's not the only aim.

The EU isn't truly democratic. The central body of power in the EU is the European Commission, and they're not democratically elected. The European Commission is the only group in the EU with the power to propose new legislation, no members of the European Parliament can do so.

I'll be voting to leave purely because I believe in democracy. I want elected representatives to have the power to represent the public, instead of being employed provide a veneer of respectability to a deeply flawed institution. I certainly won't be doing so over immigration as I believe immigration provides a net benefit to the UK.
I know it's madness isn't it? That companies will pay a premium to have bums on seats in an expensive office in the middle of the most expensive cities in the world.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from a malice.
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I was holding down four jobs to "keep up" - the day job, freelance development, nightclub impresario, electronics refurbishment and resale.

It worked. I found myself rubbing shoulders with a-listers, throwing parties for royalty, launching gallery exhibitions, renting out the likes of Chinawhite, Boujis, roof gardens, raffles, blah blah.

Then I realised my head was disappearing up my own arse, that I was always exhausted, that I wasn't actually enjoying this, that I had a cocaine problem, and I hated these shallow, boring people who I was becoming one of.

Sometimes the only way to discover the true nature of something or yourself is to take it to its absolute extreme. You can muddle along in the middle forever, until you drown or just get bored of swimming.
Bristol and Bath are in the M4 corridor.

Out of interest, what sort of employees are you looking to hire at the moment?
Startups are somewhat more open to remote workers, but even then I've had to be in the office anywhere from twice a week to twice a month. My aim at some point is to completely remove the commute from my life, but at this rate I'm going to have to start my own company to do so.
probably because the early adapters of high-res in consumer markets (TVs, game consoles) were using HDMI in the first place (PS3 and XBOX 360). Displayport is more prevalent in PC use (not even laptops except macbooks which uses mini-dp).
I would suggest setting up a Patreon account and getting some recurring revenue that way. A few of the top paid Patreon's are working on games.
They're saying the second law of thermodynamics (in a closed system, entropy always increases) means a complex secret can't be kept for a long period of time: the tendency of life/the world towards chaos means that the truth will inevitably leak out.

It's more a poetic application of statistical mechanics than a rigorous one.
And most Londoners consider Bristol to be the middle of nowhere. I rest my case.
Really nice, except the design. I mean it looks like the front ports where aligned via CSS vertical-align. And the skull probably looks cool if you're 14.
oh yeah, the art, Jesus - even modern pieces go for 5 or 6 figures, as opposed to the nearly free digital art (which is sometimes breathtaking) that you can also print and frame...
> Anyway in Germany there is not much of a choice whether to enter Lidl or Aldi as they are everywhere and there seems to be little else.

While they're the biggest players, there are more traditional supermarkets like REWE, Edeka and Kaisers.
a good moment for chat bots, great!
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> I'll be voting to leave purely because I believe in democracy.

Without looking them up are you able to name all your local councillors?
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That makes it Aldi North. I don't actually like that one, South is much better.
Back in the day, in 2300 BC, records caught in fires were preserved forever, while records not so lucky eventually returned to the earth. (Barring the odd formal peace treaty inscribed in metal.)

We know a lot more about conquered Mesopotamian kingdoms than we do about successful ones, because step one after taking over a city was apparently burning it down, or at least burning down the palace.
Nice to hear that. It reflects my stay in the city, also for a month, several years ago.
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I was tempted to upvote you, as I also think Snapchat is nonsense.

But I have discussed Snapchat with the youngsters at my work. They all "get it" in a way that I don't seem to. And we use it for advertising, and it brings in revenue (our target market is aged 18-25).
That's what I mean by interpolating towards a zero crossing.
Maybe thats exactly what should happen?
I mean, whole "security" antics where companies loose tens of millions of logins/credit cards numbers and it all ends with "southpark BP apology"
People fuck up epically and get a slap on a wrist with a promotion, I mean, come on
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"If you're tired of London, you're tired of life" is the usual response to that. Preferences differ. I'd hate to live in London for the long term (I'm probably tired of life) but I have friends who live there, love it, and wouldn't leave unless they absolutely had to. The rent is just something you have to put up with.
Cornwall isn't my neck of the woods - I just know that my retail clients there have often paid for our services through a government grant. I think it's EU money intended to stimulate growth in remote areas.
Also Brighton is quite nice. Good amount of tech jobs, awesome music/culture scene and it is quite close to London, making it possible to commute daily.
Better article: http://www.rossbencina.com/code/real-time-audio-programming-...
No. Westminster government has been obsessed with London as a finance centre to the exclusion of the rest of the country. Leaving the EU will only make things worse in London.
Frontend and backend (php7) engineers. Modern stack, aws.
There's a TV miniseries about that very subject called Wired.
You always want to decompose your model to help reasoning about it though, no? Even if you're modeling as a state machine, rather than a single big state machine you'd want to separate it into small orthogonal state machines as much as possible.

I see the functional approach as taking that one step further: separate the large proportion of the program that doesn't depend on state at all (i.e. that's conceptually just a great big lookup table - which is the mathematical definition of a function) from the operations that fundamentally interact with state. I find anything involving state machines horrible to reason about, so I'd prefer to minimize the amount of the program where I have to think about them at all.
There are plenty of areas within London that comes out better. Croydon, for example. Zone 5. Still expensive if you need to get in to zone 1, but property is far cheaper, helped by an unwarranted bad reputation (Croydon is safer than most of the central boroughs of London, for example, and incomes are above the London average).

A large part of the issue is that younger people are chasing the top jobs in London without being willing to deal with typical London commutes. I have had plenty of co-workers who insisted on living in zone 1 or 2 because they could not bear the idea of moving out to a place like Croydon, despite knowing I was paying less on a 3 bedroom house with a garden than the typical cost of a studio in the areas they have chosen to live in.

In fact, I pay less on my mortgage now for that 3 bed house with a garden than I used to pay for one room in a flat share in zone 1 when I first moved here 14 years ago. Sure, it takes me 45 minutes to get to a central London train station. But I'm 20 minutes walk from one of the largest commercial centres in the UK (Croydon has the 3rd or 4th largest shopping area in South East England).

I have a hard time feeling sympathy for most of these people. Sure, there are lots of people that genuinely struggle in London, but the high prices in large parts of London largely reflect that people willingly put an extremely high premium of being within minutes of a central tube station.
Irrelevant. Society made up by Einsteins would have average IQ 100 as well.

The problem would be real if society was mostly people that can't have any positive impact on science, but I don't think it's true, especially if we trained everybody with the listed assumptions.
I can. The IPCC is targeting a 1.5C limit to global warming, while some say that we should study a worst-case scenario 4C increase in temperature [1]. The linked article [2] concludes that carbon release from thawing permafrost doubles if you increase temperature by 10C.

[1] http://www.climatecentral.org/news/governments-should-study-...

[2] http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...
Right - okay interesting I'll get my Google-fu on
User Lockin. Great.
The gaming performance is too low to justify the price. Intel Graphics is still nowhere near the performance of discrete GPU from Nvidia or AMD.
Most londoners I know who rent constantly whine about how they can't afford a deposit (yet are unwilling to consider moving further out than zone 2 to save on rent so they'll be able to save up for one).
No. Your point being?
I am interested in Snabb and other methods of doing high performance packet processing to help with developing DDOS protection methods that could be implemented without expensive hardware.

If DDOS filtering modules can be written in P4, then they could be used on software switches and maybe even compiled into packet filters that run before packets are processed by the Linux kernel (or compiled into a kernel-bypass module for embedding in an application).

I think we really need to have better support for low-level high performance packet filtering (i.e. before the packet gets to higher levels in the kernel).

With multi-gigabit networking becoming cheaper, we really should have better support for dropping bad traffic.

How about a switch layer that runs in the kernel? Physical NICs and virtual NICs could be handled by the switch layer (programmed using P4 or eBPF). The kernel would only have to handle packets it receives from the virtual NICs. This would allow packet filtering and even some routing to happen without having to go through the kernels network-stack. The software switch layer would work like a data-plane with the kernel as the control-plane (like a lot of hardware routers/switches). If the computer has specialized hardware (smart NICs, co-processors), then the switch logic (P4 code) could be handled in that hardware instead of on the CPU.
You can't post that without contact details in your profile.
Not all the amenities. Where else has the same range of bands playing as frequently as in London? The same range of stage plays? Where else can you find such big communities for even quite obscure hobbies? (I play Netrunner)
CISPA grants civil immunity for sharing information with the government.
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The European Commission is elected by the heads of government of the EU nations. That is a whole lot more democratic than the house of Lords. It is actually as democratic as the manner in which the ministers in the UK are selected.

And in any case a whole lot easier to fix, than to leave for. Because to be honest the EU is more democratic than Westminster. After all Farage is in the EU parliament but not the UK one.
It always amaze me, how companies at London resist remote work. I did returned back to Czech republic (want to be closer to family as I am having kids now) and jobs, once plenty, dried out very quickly, even when I am willing to commute to London biweekly and even willing to spend extended time there.
ClickHouse – high-performance open-source distributed column-oriented DBMS
I'm a C++ developer working in games dev, my machine has 64GB of ram and that's absolutely definitely not enough. I've got a 12-threaded Xeon and just compiling the whole project would take nearly 2 hours on a single PC, distributed it takes 20 minutes(and uses most of RAM). If I need to run my own game servers I'm running from swap constantly(the usage hovers around 90-110GB just for the server + client), we had SSDs installed specifically because of that - but I think IT is already putting together PCs just for programmers with 192 or 256GB of ram.
But even working in Unity on a small project, 16GB is bare minimum.
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This is surprisingly common. Mechanical parts (HDMI's tiny pins in a high-precision injection moulded body) are expensive, while it's now very cheap to just stick some chips on a board.
I think it's a when, not an if. The only way to avoid a housing pop is to not blow a housing bubble, and it's a little late for that.

Yes, it'll cause pain. The longer they keep kicking the can down the road, the more people get sucked into buying at comically inflated prices on the assumption of ZIRP+HPI forever, the more painful it'll be. And the politics are slowly but surely changing, as the shut-out shift from an easily-ignorable minority to a near-majority.
Brighton, bristol, etc.
Yes, the data has a significant chance of being wrong. But it is useful only insofar as it supports a prediction with a probability of being right that is greater than 0.5.

That's what makes the data useful and that's what makes it a privacy issue at the same time.
Demystify the use of HTML in TextView
Your browser (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) most likely uses Google SafeSearch. That phones home with a super cookie every 30 minutes.
In our area we have wheel and coin locks. Wheel locks only work in retail parks though as there are too many possible exits in other locations.
Germany never had baggers. In fact, to me as a German, the job of a bagger appears about as nonsensical as that of a telephone sanitizer.
The two systems clearly solve different problems. The coin system is to encourage people to put the cart back in place; the wheel lock to prevent people stealing a cart. A euro fir a cart is not a bad price, if you need one to take with you.
Orange Pi is based on a much newer generation of SoC - A7 is newer than A8, and the Orange Pi is also quad core rather than single core and built on a more modern process node. They're not really direct competitors though since they have such different peripheral sets and intended uses - the C.H.I.P can be battery powered and has WiFi, whereas the Orange Pi is more suited to fixed/media applications thanks to its higher power usage, Ethernet, HDMI out, and better video decode hardware.
I agree, the price at Amazon.com is $673 (and you still need RAM and a SSD). You can build a pretty decent gaming PC at that price, the only disadvantage being portability. But how often do you need to move your gaming PC?
Nope, since many stores include shipping in the price, or offer free shipping after a minimum order amount.

BTW, I'm criticizing the fact that the shipping cost are not easy to find upfront, not that there are any. I'm even acknowledging that they worked to reduce them.
Caveat: I'm the OpenRent Founder.

I would dispute the research slightly, not only is CountryWide data probably not the best out there (they'll deal with higher end vs. huge non-"high street agent" market), but grouping all of London together will be massively skewed by the unbelievably high rental values in prime central london.

That's not to say London isn't expensive, and a big chunk of income goes towards it, but in terms of the actual percentages - I'd take it with a pinch of salt.

Most referencing companies will look for 2.5x rent -> gross salary. So if you earn 30k annual salary, you can afford 1k per month on rent. If you look at:

https://listentotaxman.com/30000?plan=0

You'll be taking home roughly £1,950. So that's roughly 50% of take home going on rent (54% if you're repaying student loans). Anything higher than that, and a referencing company won't pass you - so it seems odd CountryWide are suggesting their average is 57%.
Original Link (for those who don't want to go through PH):
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> There are some times where imperative thinking seems more natural

This is certainly true. But there are also times when there is nothing natural about it at all. Consider this scenario:

I give you a cup of coffee. You set it on your desk to cool. Then when you go to take a sip, the cup is empty! You see, I gave you the same cup I was drinking from.
This seems like the most sensible thing to do, and was actually what I was getting at :)

What do you mean by latency issues? Why would there be any?
Yeah I've somehow incorporated depression into my life. Suicide is now always a choice, I have a few plans if things go really, really bad.

Things are also somewhat more interesting since if I'm anxious about something, I remember that hey, I am dead, whether its 50 years from now or tomorrow (I think Bushido had something similar?).

Nothing really matters so stop worrying and try to enjoy the grind...
The app is quite interesting and I was amazed until I realized the play button doesn't display the circular progress indicator on time. It has an ugly lag. This is why web apps are not quite there yet. And yet it is amazing they can record, store and sync audio like that. Almost like real apps.
London is nice as long as you live on the outskirts.

When I first moved to London, I lived in Farringdon and then Marble Arch, and the first couple of years it was awesome to be able to just step outside the door and be in the centre of town (at Marble Arch I literally had two minutes walk to be on Oxford Street, or could cross the road and be in Hyde Park). But the pollution was certainly awful - it's the only place I've lived where your snot would be black at the end of the day. And then I moved to Barnes (South West London - very leafy, very affluent), but when we decided to buy it was too expensive, and we ended up moving to Croydon (zone 5, South). I don't think I'll ever move closer in towards the centre again. If I were to consider moving elsewhere, it'd be either further out, or along the edge of London somewhere along one of the major train lines.

You get the option of working in the centre when it makes sense, it's far more relaxing, greener, far less pollution, and far cheaper.

I can see the appeal of moving somewhere else entirely, but this is a decent compromise for people who want easy access to London but don't want all the downsides of the centre.
Time happened, and all civilization is perilously fragile.

Don't be so surprised. For a while there we couldn't rebuild the Apollo rocket engines either.
I'm currently writing something to be published on leanpub. How do you take care of marketing/promotion? Do you just leave it to sell or do something more proactive?
We had a previous discussion about this, and for its price ($675 with no RAM or SSD?) you can build a really nice mini-ITX system that uses a full size PCI-Express 3.0 video card. The mini-itx system will run circles around this with its laptop CPU. With the right mini-itx case it will still fit nicely into a home theatre setup or in relatively small spaces.
I've seen these at Lidl in Germany, too. It's really great; when a new checkout opens, I see the green light coming up and can immediately take first place in that queue.

One trick that I find helpful: When in the queue, leave some space to the person before you, to make the queue appear longer and thus incentivize the cashier to open the next checkout.
> If I had to redo it all I'd make a 2D platformer - as overdone as that is, it is something that is far easier to work on and there are not nearly as many technical battles.

I, for one, am extremely happy that you don't get to redo all of it :P
Yeah, VR has been a new and exciting development that will really promote a lot of upgrades.
London is perfectly fine on a 50k salary, provided you don't try to keep up with people who earn 3-4 times as much. It sounds to me that she was on an entry level or clerical/secretarial position (nothing wrong with that), but that's not what is usually associated with people who work in finance. The solution there is not necessarily to move out of London, but simply realize that in banks in London you are going to be surrounded by people earning >150k (and often much more) and there is no point in trying to keep up with them on a 50k budget.
I'd be up for reforming the House of Lords as well, it's not an either/or situation.

The members of the European Commission are appointed by the heads of government from the member countries, however this matters very little when the mandate of the commissioners is clearly stated to be to represent the interests of Europe over the member countries. This isn't based on some biased media story, this comes directly from the horse's mouth. Check out this video from the European Commission's own YouTube channel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpgO1EPO_Y

From that video...

“The commission is a group of politicians, men and women, who meet every Wednesday in Brussels. We call them Commissioners. Together they form the government of Europe so to speak. They all have their own specific responsibilities and come from different countries. It is their role to defend the general interest of the European Union. When they take their oaths, they swear not to accept instructions from their own government.”

> "And in any case a whole lot easier to fix, than to leave for."

Perhaps I haven't made it clear. The only ones with power to reform the EU to make it more democratic are the EC, who would need to voluntarily give up their power to do so. How are you expecting that to pan out?
I used to study next to a lab that made synthetic diamonds, the cost was about $50. Far far less than the 'savings' the article claims.
That quote is from the 18th century.
Things change.

If you're tired of London that is because it's overcrowded, it takes forever to commute, it's noisy, it's expensive and it's required of your to get at least tipsy every Friday.
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> Any app that does audio has at least two threads of execution: the main thread, and the audio thread

As a side note, I sure wish browsers would hurry up and implement web audio workers so that this could be true for me!
He's probably using Ubuntu. They chose to patch Chromium's user agent to identify as Chromium, not Chrome. Obviously that breaks stuff.
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