skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reductio ad absurdum is a great way to prove or disprove your point is valid.
You wish that the EU will punish the UK.

But that won't happen, partly because we don't want to punish the people living there. Partly because the UK is important after all. Partly because firms want to keep trading with the UK and want to keep there centers there, instead of moving around.

And at the end, they are the ones calling the shots.
Nigel Farage (UKIP) admits EU money won't be used for NHS
Will Scotland break away from UK?
http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21701332-brexit-has-sp...
> My guess is that stress is counter-productive to actually learning.

I'd qualify this with too much stress is counter-productive to learning.
If Smalltalkers had lied through their teeth in 1988
On "other cloud storage systems", nothing is stopping you from encrypting your files before uploading them.

This is exactly what I do for personal files that I upload to S3/Glacier for archival purposes -- they are GPG encrypted before ever being transmitted.
We're accelerating towards messages at a very high rate of speed.

This is in fact how we're starting to program in the 21st century and all programming will be of that type in the 22nd century.

The last popular languages that support this paradigm (Go, Rust, Erlang, Elixir) are exploding in popularity and entering the mainstream.

Message passing does in fact magically solve the problem of data integrity in parallelism when the data is immutable. Languages like Rust and Pony are starting to solve the deadlock problem, and 'data corruption' has nothing to do with messages or lack of messages.
I understand your point, but in this case it's a direct link to a podcast that you would normally reach through the main website or a mailing list - for normal visitors autoplay is the wanted behaviour.
A wearable subwoofer for your body
Ugh. Should read, "One semester I told my students at the beginning of the semester..." Sorry.
So you are referring to the second referendum about expelling immigrants, the one that was rejected.

I don't see what is so negative about this event. People got a chance to vote, and voted with quite a convincing majority (58%) against the proposal. Isn't that good? It shows that the majority of people, despite all populism and superficial media coverage, are still making the most human decision.
Thanks. I was using rclone last time to upload files and that's when I had hit the file limit. So I googled and found the link I provided in my comment. It appears that rclone does not support large file upload! hm...

EDIT: Actually it's in progress: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/456

EDIT2: It is actually already implemented in v1.30!
Searching for an opponent... :(
> Congratulations Britain, today you took back control of your own destiny.

Congratulations Britain, today you handed your destinies over to oligarchs in the City of London instead of oligarchs in Brussels.
A weak pound makes british products more affordable to foreign consumers,which should partially mitigate the trade deficit.
> How would you like it if you lent someone money, and they purposely defaulted, with the intent of not paying you back?

By not lending this person any money in the future... A default has very harsh consequences and is not pleasant at all, but it is a normal process in capitalism. It happens all the time, everywhere. This is why banks make risk assessments (normally).

> It is not okay to not pay one's debts. That's German citizens' money.

No its not. Its german banks money, they made the wrong decision in lending money to an untrustful debtor. German tay payers money only came into play when the state worked out the 'rescue packages' for greece. These 'rescue packages' were only meant for the greece government to pay back the banks. About 90% of the money given to greece goes directly into the debt-payback. So if anything german tax payers are financing the flawd descision making process of 'Deutsche Bank' and others.

And about the level of corruption in greece. Yes it exists, and is systemic. But so are the shady deals of Bilfinger Berger, the whole Berlin Airport-farce, the quicksand investments of the Landesbanken and virtually every public building project conducted in germany.
Thanks, we updated the link.
If there was a concession from the EU on free movement, I'm somewhat doubtful about that though.
Agreed. The "back of the queue" comment made by President Obama was merely posturing by the administration and doesn't necessarily reflect the views of Americans as a whole or even American politicians as a whole.
> a device that costs nearly $1000 and $100 a month for service

If you're going to make a fiscal argument then don't exaggerate your numbers by 60-120%.

They start at $400 and top out at $750.

If you pay $100/month for service that's your own fault, I don't know anybody paying over $60/month.
I think in the same direction. Not much will change.

Funny how the leave voters of fear and spite are now here talking about punishing the uk out of spite :)
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RhodeCode launched the developer program for the open source contributors of it's RhodeCode CE (Community Edition, AGPLv3). They even have "badges of power" (developers who contribute code get rights to moderate discussions on the Community Portal).
An bhfuil Gaeilge agaibh? I was correcting someone who didn't think that the Celtic languages and Latin were in any way related. That is not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Celtic explains this, even if the similarities are no longer obvious. Hungarian is unrelated to Latin.
This looks really cool, I just wish there were a sample chapter... I'd want to look at some sample code to see what kind of stuff I'd be getting into before I made such a time commitment.
One supreme parliament that governs two countries joined by a political union, both of which have separate legal systems. Which is very different from most "regions", within most countries. Thus why your characterisation of Scotland as just a region is inaccurate.
An excessive active сitizenship as well as an indifference or failure to intervene in a political life both disrupt stable political system.
China is very protective of its market, especially services. They have their own stuff - Baidu instead of Google, Alibaba instead of ebay/Amazon, etc.

Most foreign companies are forced to pair up with local Chinese companies. The transfer of IP is "included in the price of access to the market", to put it mildly.
There are significant limitations when it comes to foreign participation in Chinese stock markets.
Also, China now runs 4 of the world's 5 biggest banks.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/04/investing/worlds-biggest-ban...
Great example. I'll add that the "compile everything to Javascript" ecosystem shows that it's easily possible. Arguably, it's already being done for web stuff just not below a certain level of the stack. There were related fields that did this stuff called agent-oriented programming and meta protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-oriented_programming

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-object_protocol

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

In agent-oriented programming, one could send the code and data packaged together to the remote site. It could do any necessary computation there through the platform's interface to prevent lots of data being transfered. It might also do typical RPC's on remote sites. As it was interpreted, it could in theory even modify itself to use a different communication or storage method.

For meta-objects, that was just ways to create other objects. Starts with stuff like CLOS and Smalltalk that's really about clever ways to specify systems. Also allows self-modifying or improving code. Later versions, applicable here, allowed one to specify protocols or interfaces that meta-tools would turn into libraries for one's programs. Some even had interpreters built-in so apps could negotiate arbitrary protocols during runtime. Such tech gets us closer to the idea of focusing on a higher level and how things communicate rather than their state and coding specific procedures for sharing it.
>The British were not an external enemy.

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

>The shared dream of settling the continent was real but - given that said continent was already occupied

I doubt you understand how large the US is if you think that. Most of it was empty. The union was already strongly formed before the genocide of the west got under way.

>Shared culture, language, religion? Language, mostly.

I think you might underestimate how much a single shared language helps mobility, doing business, spreading culture, etc. The fact that the EU embraces individual country identities will mean it will never be as cohesive as the US. If every state in the US spoke a different language, the US probably wouldn't have even made it past the size of the original colonies.
In case you didn't notice, the pound just went down the toilet. A ton of GBP is not worth all that much suddenly.

If by "down the toilet" you mean back to February 2016 or early 2009 levels. It's hardly way off recent historical lows. If we see £/$ parity, then we might have an issue.
> Otherwise we're just getting tangled up in definitions and it's all a moo point.

I agree. I would say a lot of things people do in OOP isn't really OOP it's just object modeling principles. You can apply the same principles in a different language without notions of objects/classes (javascript) comes to mind.
HTTPS for custom domains is why I didn't go with GitHub Pages.
I have literally never seen anyone using anything but the stock keyboard in iOS, and I live in Thailand, surrounded by locals who more often than not don't speak English.

Line is popular here, but only because it has stickers and iMessage doesn't.
Intense propaganda on both sides, so nothing western media or Russian media says can really be trusted.
Actually the working time directive is right at the core of what the leave campaigners disliked about the EU.
The point is not that making health care more free market would necessarily improve it. The point is that using the US healthcare system to beat up on free markets is fallacious, because the US healthcare system is not a free market in the first place.

Cards on the table, I do think that more freedom in the market would be good for the entire system, from top to bottom. But I can find myself in total agreement with those who think it should be more socialized that what we have now is a really crazy, chaotic system that seems to manage to combine the worst of both worlds. As a result, it's every bit as valid to claim that socialized health care is a disaster because the US health care system proves that it doesn't work... which is to say, an entirely invalid and fallacious claim.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to pile on about the name. Please in the future, don't name your software product something that sounds cool but doesn't actually describe what your product does (except perhaps in some sort of metaphorical, oh-I-understand-it-after-the-fact-but-I-wouldn't-have-thought-it-meant-that-upon-hearing-it sort of way).

Some of us actually work on gravitation or teleportation. Congratulations, you just made it harder every time one of those people Google! Yay for human progress!

/still angry at Steam, works with actual cutting edge steam technology

That said, I wish you good luck with your product. There is definitely demand for more friendly and easily deployable cryptography products. I wish you success.
I'm interested - what precisely are the barriers you see?
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I've backed Moonlighter[1] and Cosmic Star Heroine[2] on Kickstarter. They might be worth a look, although neither are out yet...

[1] http://moonlighterthegame.com/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQNG5t8wCs
Regarding Smalltalk, I don't think Alan Kay has ever felt it was a pinnacle of language design (or even a complete implementation of his ideas). He has said in several talks that while Smalltalk was a PARC project it saw many re-imaginings, but once it went out into the world it basically was frozen and hasn't changed since 1976. Here's a good history of Smalltalk - http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/.
As a Swedish national doing business with clients in London, I fear the implications of this. As it were, I was able to stand up my business and start working with clients in London in a matter of a couple of weeks (with the lion's share of bureaucracy being Swedish, not cross-state.) No VISAs, no satellite entities, no special tax lawyers, just get a Swedish company up and start working with the UK. Done.

The EU may be flawed in many ways, but the free movement of people, goods, and services ain't one. Unfortunately, that flies squarely in the face of the leave campaign's "controlling the borders" message.

Sad day today.
You don't need to be a Roman patriot to oppose the Persians.

That said, yes Romanization was real, but it impacted small population and it mostly suck in the Med, and did not spread to far into places like Britain. Making a connection between the Roman Empire and current Europe is quite a stretch. Much of the Empire was not even in current EU countries, Turkey, Egypt and all the richest parts.
and will probably shift further that way itself.
It's not subsided you just pay a group rate. Basically COBRA let you maintain coverage by paying full out of pocket costs. That got to be over 500$ / month for a young, healthy, single person getting solid coverage and not actually cheaper than what was on the market. It was not even tax deductible like employee health coverage.
We think you're really going to love this. Love is redacted, and is not an adjective, it is a verb.

If the intent was to reduce hyperbole then love should be replaced with appreciate or like. Otherwise this makes text unreadable rather than stripped of superlative.
This sounds a little bit like microservices, which are at the very least a heavy-handed way to enforce separation of concerns. (I know they can't possibly be what Alan Kay was talking about in 1998.)
With all the attention they got, roughly 30 downvotes, flagging, your attention, you'd think I posted the most substantive posts this site has ever seen.
The film with the aliens and Jeff Goldblum made that particularly clear.
It also worked out well for children of the less-educated. As evidenced here by the 75% remain vote of the younger population.

Unfortunately this fact is lost on the less-educated.

The older, less-educated and less-productive members of society are robbing their children of a future they not only desire but voted to preserve.
A sad day for the youth of the UK.
Looks a lot like an Arena allocator tied to a specific execution context.
IIRC part of this argument was that Scotland contributed more than the uk average as well, they most per person outside London/South-East England. Additionally parliament haven't been particularly forthcoming over tax rights, easiest way around that argument was to split income tax into a federal and regional income tax and let us set the later.
I am from Argentina and use Amazon Cloud Drive.
Alan was a Molecular Biology major in college and has stated before that the basis for OO messages was originally inspired by cellular communication:

> I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual
computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages (so messaging came at the very beginning -- it took a while to see how to do messaging in a programming language efficiently enough to be do messaging in a programming language efficiently enough to be useful).
This is the consequence of not teaching domains of problem-solving through actual problem-solving. You see the same thing in math. I had an excellent practitioner of this method for AP calculus. I learned limits by attempting to find the area under a curve using ever-shrinking rectangles, until we got to pushing them to zero width. And now, 15 years later, I still remember the concept. I don't necessarily remember how to do any particular problem involving limits, but I know what limits are and when they apply to a problem.
so why not say FTPS?
Ask for a change of start date. It is not their business what you do with your personal life. All you have to say is you had something personal come up and you need to move your stuff out by a month.

You run the risk of them rejecting you, but otherwise it seems the company policies will have rejected you anyways. Most companies are willing to wait for an employee they've already agreed to.

Also it is very possible that they're looking for things other than marijuana. You should find out what the type of test is.
Summary:

Three steps to a high impact job:

1. Work out which problems are most pressing – those that are big in scale, neglected and tractable – as we covered in part 2b.

2. Choose the most effective approaches. Think broadly by considering research, advocacy and earning to give as well as direct work, and choose the best approach for the problem. That’s what we covered in this article.

3. Within those approaches, find a position with excellent personal fit and job satisfaction – something where you have the chance to excel, the work is engaging, you like your colleagues, it meets your basic needs and it fits with the rest of your life. Otherwise you’ll burn out and have much less impact. We’ll explain how to work out where you have the best personal fit in part 4.

If you do this, you’ll be doing what contributes, and have all the ingredients of a personally fulfilling career too. In this way, there’s less trade-off between doing what’s best for the world and doing what’s best for you than there first seems.
Oh the irony, coming from a country with a fucking Monarch and an unelected House of Lords
How would we communicate with an alien civilization? How would we establish a common frame of reference from which to establish a communication protocol. Think along those lines...
https://www.backblaze.com/pod.html says ext4.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/vault-cloud-storage-architect...

Each of the drives in a Vault has a standard Linux file system,
ext4, on it. This is where the shards are stored. There are
fancier file systems out there, but we don’t need them for
Vaults. All that is needed is a way to write files to disk, and
read them back. Ext4 is good at handling power failure on a
single drive cleanly, without losing any files. It’s also good at
storing lots of files on a single drive, and providing efficient
access to them.

They have since migrated to ext4, but judging by their job description they might still have JFS in use. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/seeking-data-protectors/

Diagnose and repair file system problems with JFS and ext4 and debug
other system problems

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0rev...

We upgraded the Linux 64-bit OS from Debian 4 to Debian 5, but we
no longer use JFS as the file system. We selected JFS years ago
for its ability to accommodate large volumes and low CPU usage,
and it worked well. However, ext4 has since matured in both
reliability and performance, and we realized that with a little
additional effort we could get all the benefits and live within
the unfortunate 16 terabyte volume limitation of ext4. One of the
required changes to work around ext4’s constraints was to add
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) above the RAID 6 but below the file
system. In our particular application (which features more writes
than reads), ext4’s performance was a clear winner over ext3,
JFS, and XFS.
Why not use percentile instead? It's fair. It's clearly the best way to compare students within a class or within a school. (I've heard India has been doing this for years.)

If you then insist on normalizing the percentiles across schools and eras, have the students also take a standardized final exam (like GRE, but specific to each course). You don't have to test every course, just the ones that teach fundamentals. This should be more than sufficient to make schools (and percentiles) comparable. This is comparable to the british first/second/third-class system.

It'd also do wonders for pressuring schools to up their game. It's be mighty embarrassing if a tony private school scored substantially lower on their standard tests than a moo U. It could also validate MOOCs and other alternative forms of instruction.
That is false. They did tons of Austerity, but the Austerity did not achieve it goal. Look at their NGDP statistics, when you NGDP is falling like that its essentially impossible to make a real surplus even if their efforts had been 100% efficient and honest.

Had they had their own currency that was well handled their problem would still have been considered, but reforms could have actually helped.
> I would guess no small part of them will try to move to the remaining EU states.

Ironically, that might not be as easy as it sounds. Closing the borders works both ways.
I have a generational art program that I wrote under Go 1.4 which was absolutely crushed by 1.5's GC. The program heavily abuses goroutines, so I'm cautiously optimistic that this optimisation would allow me to keep my version of Go current once again.
> A "collapsed economy" is fertile ground for fascism and aggression. Be careful about what you're wishing for here.

Of course, this is the opposite of what Boris Johnson and Farage would want, right? You might be forgetting that no one outside of the UK could have changed this - the UK will reap what it (the majority of voters) has sown.

That's one perverse curiosity question answered for me; the final one will be answered in the US in November! Good luck to the denizens on both sides of the pond.
Emailing SaaS companies to test support time
> That confusion over what Brexit might mean for the country's economy appears to have been reflected across the United Kingdom on Thursday. Google reported sharp upticks in searches not only related to the ballot measure but also about basic questions concerning the implications of the vote. At about 1 a.m. Eastern time, about eight hours after the polls closed, Google reported that searches for "what happens if we leave the EU" had more than tripled.

For fucks sake.

Cameron should have run a dual referendum:

1) Should the UK stay in the EU, or leave the EU?

2) Do you have confidence in me as PM?

That would have allowed people to give him a kicking while also voting stay.
I took it as being split in 3: orthodox, roman catholic, and protestant.
Can someone explain what happens next? Will UK really leave the EU? If yes, how long will it take? Will EU ask them to leave or just wait for UK to initiate the process?
2012 state petitions for secession

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_state_petitions_for_sec...
It's really a minor factor compared to lack of investment due to austerity. This is the frustrating aspect of it, that the working class brexitors have been blaming immigration for many issues and the remain campaign have failed to make it clear that austerity is a far bigger contributor.
I think it'd be really interesting if someone tried rewriting the Linux kernel in D (or Rust for that matter) and then compared the performance, lines-of-code, etc.

Maybe it could even be done with just one small but critical portion and linked, so it isn't such a monumental task.
The AOL guide to the Internet, ca. 1999
Checkout out the print format options for recast [1], which is what jscodeshift uses behind the scenes.

[1]: https://github.com/benjamn/recast