skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't to save time multiplying by two. This is to uniform a hole slew of previously unrelated equations that can now be represented similarly.
> Once all the smoke clears. Britian has a real chance to be
> more competitive than France or Germany and that scares the
> hell out of them!

To be competetive UK will need favourable trade terms. And that will cost dearly with a side benefit that UK won't have any say in EU matters.
Fred Wilson's AFSE commencement speech: take risks, work hard and get lucky
> I'd really like Telegram to implement something that _is_ considered secure by many experts, but trusting _one_ experts word without any proof seems wrong to me.

Please read the link I provided before[0], it features links to a bunch of people saying Telegram is not secure[1][2][3][4]. It's not just Moxie. I actually have not seen any expert saying that Telegram is secure, but I'm interested in such thing. As the Telegram protocol is open, everybody is able to see how flawed it is. We know that. With a closed client that allegedly implements a secure encryption method (we also know it's good because it's open as well) there's a chance it doesn't work the way it's supposed to work, but there's also the chance it's working as intended. I'd rather take one percent chance over zero.

[0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr...

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf

[2] https://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-ba...

[3] http://www.alexrad.me/discourse/a-264-attack-on-telegram-and...

[4] http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/
The commercial/business sense of the term Asia-Pacific almost always include India; so the dissonance argument isn't really valid.
He should try to travel more, especially to muslim countries. Then we'll see how long it takes for him to be a victim of a drone strike.
Google gave a talk at the @scale conference in 2015 about this very topic. You can watch it here (30 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE
KGB doesn't exist for more than 25 years. Checking your facts would be a first step, i guess.
I have source up for a similar bot in C# - https://github.com/ScottRFrost/TelegramBot

It's pretty quick and dirty, but enough that you get the idea. It doesn't read HN, but it reads Beer Advocate, Bing, Calorie King, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Weather Underground, and several others.
At least it should be an opt-in, not opt-out.
It's 80% clickbaity bullshit and 20% mediocre gadget reviews. Long gone are the days when Engadget was a relevant source of tech journalism. On a tangentially related note, does anyone remember Engadget's apple-only sister site TUAW? That was a great outlet for a good long while until Engadget started to shit the bed a couple years ago.
Well, there are several levels of non-privacy to expect:

- Facebook collects data about me
- Facebook shares my data with big corporations who want to sell me stuff
- Facebook shares my data with my friends
- Facebook shares my data with people who aren't my friends

For many people, this is a surprising escalation of their expectations. For some, it is outright dangerous.
So you think using any of that protects you from the Chinese, KGB, etc.? Did you forget to block localStorage, too?
Arguments are a limited resource. I have 45 minutes on the train and I'm using it to argue about tau, and I don't have the time or energy for more. And when society is divided on a lot of issues, people run into outrage fatigue and become apathetic.

And to say that there is no such thing as time better spent unless you enforce an oppressive regime is a perfect solution fallacy. Sure, people will always do inefficient things, but if I could persuade even one person to behave more efficiently, that's a pretty significant gain.

I'd also like to note that if you're arguing for tau over the more popular pi based on its efficiency, you probably shouldn't argue against efficency.
But WaPo is now an officially Anti-Trump hit squad.

So all credibility is lost, despite the truth or otherwise.

Which is all very sad.
> a lot of the benefits fall apart if you don't have people working to maintain the build environment, automated tests, developer environments.

The thing is, a monorepo makes clear what multiple repos can obscure: if you have a software system, then you need all those things anyway. Multiple repos can hide the cost, but they don't eliminate it — in my experience, they multiply it. E.g. if someone makes a breaking change in a monorepo, he breaks the tests and he fixes them before his changes can be merged in; but with multiple repos someone can commit a breaking change and a dependent repo won't know about about it until days, weeks or even months later; the person responsible for fixing it has no idea what really changed or why; and he has a broken build until he does figure it out.

> The ability to force updates on dependencies in a single big commit can be really worthwhile as long as you're willing to spend the time to build the tools and do the maintenance.

It's like maintaining your car: you can spend $20 to replace your oil every 3,000-5,000 miles, or you can spend thousands every 10,000 miles. Up to you.
Are you using something like OpenCV behind the scenes?
I recently got a code review that in several places suggested I switch to the new Java 8 stream API [1]. I just flatly responded that it was far less readable, even if I could condense a half-dozen lines of code down to one. Where I can quickly scan over a foreach loop to get the jist of what it's doing, I have to closely examine each call in the new approach to have any idea what it's doing.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/ma14-java-se...
I think Dublin should be your go-to right now - English speaking, tech giants are there.
But there is no restriction to workers from UE, in this regard I think the OP talked about "the borders are open"
Healthy company culture beats startup culture.
If you think you can get a better deal than the one we have now, you are irrational or uninformed, if not stupid. You might get the same deal, but not a better one. It's just as irrational as an England supporter believing that England can win Euro 2016 after being knocked out.

The Leave campaign and the referendum have both been engineered to rid Britain of both UKIP and Euroscepticism, one way or the other. The only good thing that will result from Brexit will be the disappearance of Nigel Farage, who will no longer have a reason to exist.

Cameron has left article 50 inactive — more or less guaranteeing a Brexit trial period as far as the markets are concerned, and also guaranteeing a second referendum in the form of a Conservative leadership contest and subsequently a general election, with manifestos promising to initiate or cancel Brexit.

Worst case scenario, on a global scale, UK fares well and EU starts to crack — Leave campaign was right (against all the odds and math) and article 50 is triggered.

Best case scenario, UK fares badly, for EU it's business as usual, article 50 never activated, people vote for reformed Conservatives or Labour to cancel Brexit with landslide after people suffered with pricy food and clothing for months.

For a damage control strategy to handle the result of a fundamentally terrible decision — to ask the masses a question without a definition of a meaningful majority — it's actually not bad.
The extent to which it cost human lives is a function of the arbitrary emission standards that governments have set. Those standards are obviously chosen as a trade-off between too many harmful consequences of pollution and being too expensive for car makers to comply with. So it's not as clear as "VW killed people" but more like "VW killed more people than we expected them to." The standards themselves still allow some harmful emissions to be released. If had more relaxed standards then all the extra harm caused by the VW cheating would simply evaporate.
Congrats with the new trade deal Britain will make with China!

How about the trade deal Britain will make with the EU which is currently its main trade partner (both imports and exports)?
The people they kill are those who have killed others. Quit pretending they are innocents just minding their own business.
> billions worldwide speak languages that are inefficient and ambiguous

All humans speak languages that are inefficient and ambiguous. Thank goodness!
Barcelona feels like Spain? Frankfurt and Berlin feeling generally like the same country?

I can agree that London is the most international city of Europe -at least right now, probably not in the close future-, but your descriptions of the other cities feel very off.
>Junior devs can’t handle overuse of new tech.

heh, I'm a senior dev and I have trouble with the overuse of new tech. It's hard for me to learn when there are too many variables in play; early on, it's hard to know which bit is doing what.
We are definitely migrating. We were forced not to use AWS so far due to regulatory issues with data needing to reside in India. Long awaited!
Jumping off a cliff != certain death, but I guess thats splitting hairs. You seem very confident in the face of expert opinion and evidence in front of you. Does the fact that the people who have masterminded this spectacle seem to have no plan for what happens next worry you in the slightest?

I notice you use England, possibly a mistake but it seems this is the underlying attitude of the Leave vote - England is better off by itself. Which strikes me as frankly hilarious given how much we have to offer the world besides grumpiness, self deprecation and financial services...
Tbh I see the vote as a vote for democracy and self-determination. The immigrant question is secondary. The EU applies enormous political pressure all across the European continent and it's getting really uncomfortable, especially if the vast majority votes for something that is legally binding and your government can't act on it because of EU pressure (which happened here).
My biggest pet peeve is when people use pattern names in class names. You don't need to call things strategies if you're composing in behavior. Just call it the behavior.

val weapon = Sword()
weapon.attack(up)
weapon = Bow()
weapon.attack(left)

Often the pattern's implementation drifts a bit from the by-the-book implementation and it ends up being something ALMOST like the pattern but it's not quite anymore. Or it's more. Then the pattern name is still stuck there and it causes more confusion than it helps to clarify.
I didn't realize age of the account had any bearing on the intelligence of the comments posted under it.
The UK has a trade deficit with the EU. They will be hurting themselves, in a federation which contains some struggling economies as it is.
The "eurocrats" are elected, there are elections for the eu parlement every 5 years. The 28 (soon 27) members of the european comission are proposed by the member states (eg their elected leaders) and approved by the european parlement. And finally the council of europe is made up of elected national ministers (per domain).

With regard to the rules: you would still have to comply to most of these rules to be part of the single market (which most leave proponents want to be). Studies from WTO and IMF have shown that not going that route (eg trading under WTO rules) would impact UK severely (up to 9% of the GPD). See for example https://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2016/051316.htm
That's what they want you to think!
I have never ridden one either but weight on the pedals shouldn't matter. If you push down on a pedal as you extend your leg leaving your body at a constant height, that should be the same work as pushing just as hard over just as far against a seat. I'm sure there are subtleties – you can push more than your weight against a seat but a seat absorbs energy – but to first order it should be a wash.
I went with an HP wireless elite keyboard and mouse with it's proprietary plug. I plug that into a usb switcher and then plug the switcher into my mac and windows machines.

I get sooooo tired of Windows either remember old stuff or forgetting new stuff. It is such a kludge of an OS.
> No single entity should be able to terrorize the citizens of a nation state like that.

Talk about hyperbole. Plenty of countries like Switzerland or Norway don't feel terrorised by the EU, instead exist peacefully alongside it. Plenty more want to join voluntarily.

Another fact that seems completely ignored- you can't put a price on deliberately creating links so that European powers don't tear each other to pieces, just like they have done for thousands of years. The EU deserves credit for minimising the likelihood of devastating war, which has happened for much of recorded history in Europe.
Nearly all js at google is typed to some degree with closure compiler annotations.
Kudos +3

Edit: Does anyone else feel... increasingly... trapped?
The KGB and spy agencies of old used to need to assign agents to sit outside your house to watch you.

The NSA is a different breed of agency, who can now record whatever everyone reads, hears or says and keep these records almost forever.
When was that? I drove through coming from Italy a few week ago exiting at the French border on the North side and nobody looked at any passports.
Russia’s new spy law calls for metadata and content to be stored, and backdoors
Wait. What?

Every single source I've talked to always said some variation of this: "You cannot speak German (as a foreigner) in Germany, because everyone loves to answer/reply in English for various reasons (considering that polite/more interesting/easier than trying to autocorrect the German)".

Older people (50+ maybe?) might be worse here, but in general I'd say that everyone speaks English.

I especially challenge your 'Speaking German due to national pride', because that's really, really wrong (even HN had an - English of course - article about the special and challenging issue of national pride in Germany).

Sorry that you had a bad time, I'm not challenging your experiences. But your generalizations based on that are wonky as hell..

(Disclaimer: I'm German)
Yet, this study says that NY housing stock is down 10% down to Airbnb.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/27/airbnb-new-y...
To be fair "attitude" wasn't his only argument. He cited what seem to be concrete arguments which included lower pay, higher taxes, and fewer benefits relative to the UK and US. You countered by questioning why he expects high salaries then provided your own unique experience for becoming a partner at a consultancy company.

What are the best prospects for your friends who did attend university or anyone else who didn't work 50 hour weeks for 5 years and become a partner at a consultancy company?
Of all Europeant cities I've been to I liked London the least.
Thank you for the correction!

I was misinformed by some of my local media that said it was binding.

"Het referendum gaat door en het is een bindend referendum."
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/02/19/brexit-afgewend-eu-berei...
Er, the Leave campaign was expressly against free travel, and it's kind of silly to think you'd get the same trade terms leaving the EU. So the choice you provide to support the idea that maybe the leavers have it right is neither one the leavers are offering (on the travel part) nor one that is remotely realistic on either point as a result of voting leave (it's something that might have been achievable by staying in and advocating a different course for the EU.)

And you live within a representative, rather than direct, democracy which features non-binding referenda; the people speak with binding authority through elections of representatives. There may be reasons that the government should put the results of the referendum into policy, but appeals to the nature of the system of government do not provide that reason.
Pivot in pure SQL, with an application to the entity-attribute-value model
I don't think synthesizing alpha-decaying nuclei would be practical. Neither would be refining them into higher concentrations. Plus it wouldn't stop the He-3 shortage.
National Helium Reserve
I could not care less.

- 1.0 to 1.2: Hard to pair, and very unreliable. First major version, I'm sure they'll fix it...

- 2.0: More bandwidth. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 2.1: Adds "Simple Secure Pairing". Still hard to actually pair. Still unreliable.

- 3.0: More bandwidth. More features. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 4.0: Bluetooth Low Energy released. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 4.1: More features. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 4.2: More features. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

- 5.0: More range, more bandwidth. Still hard to pair, still unreliable.

I have the latest Apple "Magic" Trackpad, hooked up to a Mac Pro. At least once a day, latency will take a dive, or it will completely disconnect. I have to turn the trackpad on and off repeatedly, to see if it will finally re-pair by itself. No other recourse, you can't easily access bluetooth settings on a mac with only a keyboard. (Which I made sure to get with a USB plug, since my last bluetooth keyboard had the same issues.)

I also have a Samsung Level BT headset, paired with a Samsung Note 5 phone. I can listen to Google Music or Player.fm for between 1 and 10 minutes until the headset will suddenly blast noise at full volume, and become unresponsive until I turn it off and back on again. Left my ears ringing on more than one occasion.

I've replaced my "magic" keyboard with a USB one, and recently hooked the trackpad back up via USB. I've stopped using the Samsung Level and went back to an old pair of headphones with a 3.5mm plug (that Apple is now trying to get rid of.)

I had a past without wires. I am moving to a future with them.
This creates the risk of making what you are doing explicit at the cost of obscuring why you are doing something.

I frequently catch tests in code reviews that don't make it clear why something is being tested and what the overall expected result is beyond the effects being tested.
Won't mention my overall opinion, though I have some knowledge. Just a warning about this particular point:

"I’m Zach Holman. I was number nine at GitHub ..."

"More than once I had been confusingly introduced as a founder or CEO of the company."

"I had been the top committer to the main github/github repository for the last two years, I had just led the team that shipped one of the last major changes to the site, and around that time I had had a mid-year performance review with my manager that was pretty glowing ..."

"I’m pretty broke after working part-time and living in San Francisco for so long. Even though I helped move a company’s valuation almost two billion dollars, I haven’t made a dime from the company outside of making a pretty below-to-average salary. That’s after six years."

(https://zachholman.com/talk/firing-people)
How many government employees does it take to track and analyze my every movement?
Next you're going to tell me that George Washington never actually chopped down a cherry tree!

http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/cher...
I hate wires with a passion. I don't what's wrong with me but I manage to tie, bust, wrap, tangle them in every most ridiculous possible wrong way all the time. I'm always sniping for multipairing mp3 capable headphones.
That's the problem with defecting to a country without the rule of law. You're always a bargaining chip.

As soon as there is a sufficiently high value trade on the table, Putin will put him on a plane to the United States, without a moment's hesitation.
Going by personal anecdote (well, by my grandmother who fled Silesia as a child): German refugees in late WW2 largely considered the Russians far more gruesome (violent, rape-y, etc, especially when drunk) than the British and Americans, although some considered their brutality justified by what they were hearing from how German soldiers (and the SS especially) had treated Eastern Europeans.

I'm guessing it's because Germans had racial propaganda dehumanizing Eastern Europeans (Slavs are "untermenschen") and the Russians retaliated once they were able to. They had seen far more gruesome behaviour by the Germans and had less inhibitions to treat them in kind. The Americans and British, OTOH, had merely been exposed to the far more "conventional" horrors of war (i.e. civilian casualties from war and occupation) until they found out about the camps.

As for the lack of atrocities committed by the West: don't for a second believe anything about the Pacific theatre of WW2 was lacking atrocities. Japan quite literally raped China, yes, but the US routinely firebombed Japan until they literally nuked city centres.

The fire bombing of Dresden (a German population centre) is considered a morally questionable decision these days. The routine fire bombing of Japanese cities is not even talked about. And whether you consider fire bombing civilians a war crime or not, the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki most definitely were.

The thing to know about war crimes is that the legal framework for defining and punishing war crimes we have today (even if we make far less use of it than we should) didn't exist back then. There was no legal basis for the Nuremberg trials, legally speaking, other than victor's justice.

The reason no Allied (including Soviet) commanders or politicians were tried after WW2 wasn't that they didn't commit any atrocities, there were simply no international laws they could be charged for violating.

Note: I'm not arguing whether the way the US fought Japan worked or not, or whether the death count would have been higher or lower had they done it differently. I'm merely arguing that objectively speaking not only the "bad guys" have done horrible things to humans in modern wars. And I haven't even mentioned how the Vietnam war is perceived outside of the US.
Post-brexit, all the talk on both sides is about the immigration issues, the financial contribution and the future of the UK. No talk about the cultural identity of the UK or a debate about whether it is a european culture. Both brexiters and bremainers see the EU as an economic agreement only. The UK should go its own way. the anglosphere is a better fit for them. The support for bremain ranges from reluctant, to lukewarm, dispassionate and wary. We should seek people who actually believe in EU's future. I think Brexit was inevitable, although it came prematurely.

All the current brexit leaders, however, are delusional. UK needs to find better leadership to get through this.
There are two types of helium. Helium 4 is useless except for balloons. It's cheap and there's a big supply. Helium 3 is just 0,000137% of the total, is important for science or stuff, and this is not sold for balloons.
> But it wasn't obvious before the vote. At least not to the average voter. A lot of the blame for that has to go to the media who printed anything the Leave campaign.

Which succinctly sums up why simple democracy is a bad way to make large scale decisions. It's good it was non binding.
What BenFrantzDale said, plus: my old recumbent was front-wheel driven, but most of the weight was born by the rear-wheel.

So yes, I had problems on hills, because there was not enough weight on the driven wheel.

But mine was a very special kind of recumbent bikes, without a classic handlebar and instead steered with the feet. Most recumbents are driven on the rearwheel.

For the curious: I used to ride a flevo racer with a very unique steering mechanism. (See eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyTP5I8hv5Q)

It's a very curious bike to ride, with a long learning curve.
Are you thinking of alpha decay?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_decay

I'm not sure there is any conceivable way to use that in manufacturing helium gas at an industrial scale.
Helium is also a product of nuclear decay/fission.

That's how we got the big stockpiles in the first place.

Helium is produced naturally in any radio isotope that undergoes alpha decay.