skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking the largest portion of tech workers are young. Young usually means less tied to the ground they're standing and much more willing to relocate.

Once an exodus has begun the benefits and social compliance will pull a large portion of hold-fasts into wherever the tech sector would be.

The problem, however, is every country wants the tech sector to thrive, yet none are really attractive yet. We had a post on HN earlier about Romania, there was one yesterday about Spain and Netherlands has been on here twice.

It's a chicken and egg problem, where the companies move the people will follow, you can't expect people to go to Berlin if there aren't enough jobs and it's a hard sell to a company to move if there is no talent.

But companies absolutely have to make he first move.
The report this morning said the government gets $5b for environmental clean up and customers get $10b in fixes or buy backs.

We'll see.

There was a GM settlement like this (the pickup gas tank problem) and customers with existing pickups got a coupon good for $1000 off the price of a new pickup. So GM gets to sell you a new pickup and probably keeps any rebates or low financing.

Also the recent Ticket Master settlement for $420M. There's a daily allotment of coupons worth $5 off the ticket price on select concerts (read: not the popular ones) that are buried in a series of hard to follow links. They still have the same service charges like before, they're just more transparent about it.
Oh no. Is this yet another article about What3Words?

http://what3words.com
Multiply the current dates by 2 and to a very near approximation (~1% off) that's what you get :P
Hey guys. So you do consulting for drone companies looking to solve a particular problem, by adapting your previously made software system?
Stop sex trafficking by taking snaps of your hotel room with this app
I don't think a corporate death penalty (revoking the company's license to operate) is the proper answer. Figuring out the actual damage done, a punitive fine with a multiplier on top of that, being forced to take back all products and significantly more incidences of managers going to jail would all be excellent things to try first.

The problem is that the regular factory workers are the ones that would end up paying the bigger price in a corporate death penalty situation, and that companies trading abroad would be able to escape the penalty (in this case, for instance, the US could simply forbid VW to do business on their soil).
SaaS Labs
Nah fam. I need my balloons. /s

But really, how do we deal with a public who feels that they are entitled the stuff, and companies willing to sell it to them because it's more profitable?
Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets
I already posted about their superb ad format[1], but it happens to be an ad that is shown to premium users as well. Is it Spotify's negligence, intended malice or they just don't have control over the ads they show?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11853123
> Tau is completely arbitrary and should be based on minimizing the friction of use.

Isn't that what the proponents of Tau also argue for?
The Good News at the Washington Post, Trump’s Least-Favorite Paper
> 1) Dynamic typing is a subset of a static typing. This thing alone is enough.

This is like saying that more syntax is better. No, cutting away from something can make it better. This argument is not at all enough to claim superiority.

(C can be considered a subset of C++. Which is better?)

> 2) Static typing provides more semantic options in both compile and run time, meaning that you can do more diverse things. Also quite a strong claim for superiority.

"More diverse things" is ill defined. Which are they and why are they a net win? This is not at all a strong claim for anything, except "There is more".
Likely related to ensuring power systems are reliably guaranteed to stay available.
I said [of the guest]: "to sleep and eat breakfast"

Not [of the host]: to provide a place to sleep and serve breakfast.

The article's analogy uses rental agency <--> customer.
If Americans (of which I am one) and the US government believe that it is self-evident that all men are created equal, then surely they should apply the principles that they have enshrined in their constitution to all equals when dealing with them, regardless of whether or not they are a US Citizen or where on earth they are.
"I'm on the fence myself, but making decisions based on patently false information has a bad track record in the very recent past."

I very much agree. Ultimately, the difference between me and them is I admit when I'm wrong - rather than just digging a larger hole.

"And if they'll falsely accuse the Scots of "stealing" from them, falsely accuse immigrants of being bad for the economy, then really, who is safe in this post-fact politics?"

I think the UK really needs to go under reform regardless. I think if you're an MP or civil servant and you are caught lying, there should be some legal consequence. If you're paid by the tax payer and accept bribes or are dishonest, you have no place in UK politics.

What's really annoying is the only reason the Royal Family is still involved is to keep an eye on things. Well oh how they have slipped.

"I wish I could enjoy the looks on the Conservative Remain sides faces, as they process losing to a bunch of sociopathic liars. But schadenfreude is probably banned in post-Brexit Britain."

I feel bad for them. Perhaps the worst part is realising you're fighting for a Country that isn't worth saving.
The man from the article attended a common event with the other man who appeared on his friends suggestion list. Maybe facebook has a rule that if the event is small, the attendees can be assumed to have met IRL.
>> "In mid 2013 there were about 5.8m people between 18 and 24."

Which is what percentage of the voting population?
What kind of driverless cars do people want?
It seems that the grand vision of EU politicians is a massive centralized government ruling over all of Europe. From their POV it might be a reasonable grand vision.

It's interesting that the same idea for the Grande unification comes up at least once per century, just repacked in a different ideology.
Blaming Elites for the Rise of Populism
> No, cutting away from something can make it better

What?!?

You can build a dynamic type system on top of a static one. The opposite is impossible. What else is there to even talk about?

> "More diverse things" is ill defined.

It is very well defined. Static (i.e., compile time) metadata allows to infer constraints in compile time. Dynamic metadata is useless for deriving constraints. A very obvious consequence of this observation is that there will always be far more boilerplate with dynamic typing than with static.
We have the means already: government controls on their stockpiles, and different tariffs for different uses of the gas.
To Kill a Mockingtest
Thrive Market, an Online Grocer, Raises $111M
Java vs. React
Im expecting the new beats to have something similar to this, or at least NFC if not.
"Butchering civilian populations wholesale was normal. The Americans and British did not play by those rules"

Perhaps you are not aware of the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, where as many or more civilians died as in the nuclear bomb detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which perhaps you also forget.
Do you have a calculation that would quantify the amount of work lost due the torsional elasticity of the wheel?

Because my experience is that if someone is talking about bicycles and stiffness, most of the time they haven't done the math.

If stiffness were really the problem, no one would be using low spoke count wheels, or radial/2x rears, or any of the funky asymmetric ones.
To me, the vote was actually non-binary.

There were the Remain votes, the Leave votes, but then there the Protest votes -- which from my perspective were votes that said "I want to Remain, but dammit I don't like how things are going right now".
Are they doing security testing as they go? I'm really looking forward to seeing how it fares against the typical "use after free" javascript errors that pwn to own always demo's. I'm not particularly a fan of Rust, but I certainly like the ideas that they are trying to incorporate in it.

Great stuff. Looking forward to see how it evolves.
SourceVoid Cloud: Cloud Hosting Platform for Dart, Nodejs and Static Apps
I was hoping React would go away
Facebook is Not Worth $33B (2010)
I worked there. Ways we solved these sorts of problems include: hardening the other side of the API/HAL when appropriate/possible, simplifying the driver model so that mere mortals could write drivers, writing our own drivers and overwriting known buggy ones for companies that couldn't get their shit together (usually network vendors), adding workarounds to the OS not to use certain features of certain cards, flying external engineers to lavish parties and our driver development labs and compatibility labs and providing one on one engineering development assistance from senior kernel developers, providing free testing of drivers for known problems before release, rolling fixed drivers into Windows updates, providing marketing funds as reward for fixing problems, and not using NVIDIA in the Xbox 360 after using them in the original Xbox as punishment because they were personally responsible for over 80% of blue screens in Windows for the preceding five years.

Sadly the motivation was often to ignore the data or watch it get spun by some jackass with the exact wrong agenda. It's just software, there's always a way to fix things if you really want to.
Sadly, the author of this drivel appears to be completely serious. And, of course, anyone who dares to disagree with her is simply sexist. Women like her are only hurting those in the field that are actually valuable contributors. How very sad.
> you can't expect people to go to Berlin if there aren't enough jobs

But people have been moving to Berlin for years now, regardless of what Britain was doing.

Affordable flats are already scarce and only getting more expensive - if anything, I'm afraid Brexit will only accelerate that development.
Eh.. Berlin is a freaking bad place for tech-talent to be in. I relocated there and worked for about 6 months before I actually came to the conclusion that it is nothing more than a rip off. I would happily move to the UK over Berlin in 9.5 out of 10 times.

The German tax rates for singles are ridiculous (40+%) and the salaries are way below what the UK pays. In addition, the German culture's work mentality is very similar to that of factories. On top of that, the benefits are non-existent compared to the UK (let alone the US).

http://demonshalo.com/the-sad-state-of-the-european-tech-sce...
Apple iOS Beta Kernel Unencrypted: Pros and Cons
We need transparency and clarity about the damage that individual cars cause, both for the drivers and the public. Something as simple as displaying the numbers to the driver with an obvious statement about the health impacts would help. Maybe even create taxes based on actual emission values for individual cars.
It can eye the tech talent all it wants.

I've lived in Frankfurt and in Berlin.
I've lived in Paris.
I've lived in Barcelona.

I've spoken with many stock brokers.

The one common denominator that I have found. Is that you can't just beat the feel of London.

I know if I had the choice, to live in Europe or live in London. It certainly would not be Europe.
I would question the assertion that Bushwick's (and BK's in general) gentrification is Airbnb driven. Manhattan's rental picture started getting unreasonable around turn of the century. Williamsburg, for example, was pretty much an urban wasteland around 1997 but was already a 'beach-head' of adventerous/artist tribe of Manhattan exiles. Regardless, the displacement of poor people from these areas is self evident.

What I find objectionable in terms of Airbnb is the corrosive effect that the transitional flux has on cities and neighborhoods. Manhattan is now basically worlds largest open air shopping center -- yes a bit shinier than before but not the Gotham of yore (which is sorely missed).
> the more I read from the media, the more I've leaned pro-Brexit, just out of spite

How can you possibly use "spite" as a justification to make decisions about the next few decades of our future?

Doing anything out of spite (Google definition: "a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone") is surely a bad idea for doing anything, let alone a decision of this magnitude, which needs careful consideration of the facts, not emotion.

> I honestly can connect more with those that were "Leave" on the E.U. now than in the beginning; simply because the media coverage has come off as so elitist.

"Elitist", being a request to listen to the experts, presumably; Nobel prize winning economists, the IMF, banks, businesses, the US government, the unions, major businesses, all the sane UK political parties, and so on. Yes, elitism is terrible. How could it have been presented differently to save your feelings?

What is infuriating is that many (most?) people voted according to emotion rather than considering the evidence.
Inside Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility
> You can build a dynamic type system on top of a static one. The opposite is impossible. What else is there to even talk about?

We are talking about the value of different kinds of type systems and using them. Being able to build a dynamic one on top of a static one says very little about whether or not dynamic or static typing is better for actual usage. On top of this lots of languages have added gradual typing, so this idea that you cannot take a language that is not statically typed and add a type system seems misguided.

> A very obvious consequence of this observation is that there will always be far more boilerplate with dynamic typing than with static.

I hope you realize that this is not at all what reality looks like.
This isn't new, it has always been thus.
Surely those toxins are much more containable than gas released into the air? A mobile phone is also horribly toxic, but I am not going to go onto the top of a skyscraper and blend it into tiny particles for the people below to breathe.
This is one of my favorite things.
It's just the same useless argument every year. Just use what you want. I've been taught pi since secondary school. I understand it well and can use it effectively. Never have I sat there and thought, "if only there was a shortcut to multiplying this by 2". There's whole sites, videos and movements to get tau popular. I just personally don't understand the point.
...and another:

Use of whitespace (vertical and horizontal) to group and associate code with related parts.

Its a trick borrowed from graphic design, but negative-space works really nicely.
What if I moved out from a neighbourhood because I had enemies there, we didn't like each other? Now I'm coming back to my parents house and facebook reminds me about them and them about me?
Using the Treaty of Versailles as an example makes no sense. Are you suggesting war?
While choice between tau and pi is arbitrary from mathematical point, things like pedagogy, notational simplicity and aesthetics matter.

The reason why I think π is probably better choice is because small multiples of constant are cognitively easier to process than fractions. 2π is easier to write and see as single object than τ/2. All we need to do is to make slight cognitive adjustment and think and teach 2π as a number instead of 2×π.
They probably are, so the NSA can request such data from them if they need it.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/01/nsa-paid-gch...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/21/gchq-cables-secre...

And so on.
I feel that it's reasonable to expect that Russian, Chinese, and EU members are tracking American activities worldwide. It would be a failure of their various institutions to not track and influence nations and institutions with world-relevant power or influence. This includes both monitoring and more aggressive attacks.

I also feel that as an individual person, I have no defense against this, partly because it's generally easier to attack a system than to defend it, partly because of the asymmetry of costs in defense vs attack leading to the lack of business or personal justification for effective defense spending, and partly because electronic monitoring and attacks are difficult to investigate by their international nature.

So if American institutions discovered some attack, they would release the information with proper political timing to influence national narrative, thereby inflating their agency importance, or it may further some group goals, the news media may proliferate and bark about it, and no national administration, including the American one, would be surprised at all. It would not update anyone's view of the world in any way.
Doesn't the K811 have built-in functionality for changing it's bluetooth pairing by a button press? Does that fail to work or were you just disappointed in its build quality?
Is there a way to avoid the data collection by changing the hosts file? What if I made microsoft.com point to localhost or 127.0.0.1?

Will the telemetry stop then?
It seems my phrasing was unclear. With "to sleep and eat breakfast", my intent was: a customer to sleep somewhere and eat breakfast there (as the end user), not for a business to serve that customer.

I made this point to the article's literal analogy of the car rental agency's need to validate a consumer to drive a car (as the end user). There is no license needed to sleep and breakfast.
Have you tried popmotion after the latest update?
New colours every time you reload the page..
Hi and thanks for the post, I'm the founder of Sourcevoid.

Long time reader but have not posting anything here before. Happy to answer any question if someone would like to discuss or ask something!

Regards, Robert
I completely disagree, every method can be split in private methods. In that way you don't need awful and unhelpful comments in the middle because you can understand what it does simply from the method name.
It's a kind of praise, isn't it? He's saying "that's SO FAR from everyday that's BOUND to be bad".

Personally I find it great that YC is spending money on venture³ and even less likely to pay off than the average startup. Good people do something to improve the future, not just line their own coffers, and if does line the coffers, so much the better.
On the other hand, maybe increasing the cognitive load is beneficial to everyone in the long term:
http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/
The colors actually change after each page refresh
The thing is if this is so rare and so precious, why is it cheap enough to put in balloon.

Now obviously I get that it is not currently rare, but that once it gets rare that's going to be a big issue.

But there are people whose job is to prepare for the next 100 years. Those are governments. Shouldn't they just buy the whole lot of it while it is cheap, that's good use of public money if you know your country is going to need the stuff. The newfound scarcity should push the price of helium outside of regular human entertainment budget.
Can't wait for nearby ads[1] to hit me from a far larger distance in the future.

[1] https://developers.google.com/nearby/
It will mostly depend on how the work permit situation plays out (and I suppose on the pound not tanking and making wages less attractive). A lot of London tech companies have a non-trivial number of non British employees. If there's any sort of work permit hickup that could be pretty troublesome.

Another advantage of London, the financial sector could get trimmed substantially if there's an exodus to Frankfurt. I'm not as bullish on London not facing major issues as a startup hub due to the Brexit as most people I've talked to.
Low spoke count is a trade-off between aerodynamics and stiffness.
There was no incompetence here, just malice.

Fires, jail and fines for the involved execs, but don't hurt the customers and shareholders and the rest of the employees.
It's not "spare" housing. People who buy apartments for use with AirBnB are reducing the housing stock available to people who want long term rents or to buy to live.
Thats a very simplistic and in the end not really satisfactory explanation. After all not every conflict ends in genocide and Ausschwitz. And as evil as it is when women are raped by soldiers in war, normally they are not tortured to death and their genitals mutilated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
Anyone interested in an unconventional account of WW2 from the Japanese side might appreciate a film called "Under the Flag of the Rising Sun".
here is a hosts file that tries to do just that:
https://github.com/WindowsLies/BlockWindows/blob/master/host...

Edit: although some people seem to be claiming the Windows bypasses the hosts file for certain hard-coded domains, so you might have to block these domains at your firewall instead
Salaries are way below what the UK pays, or way below what London pays? London often pays close to double other parts of the UK.
Shared state between different parts of the code sounds an awful lot like something that could be a class.
What's the estimated lost energy? Where does it end up as the wheel flexes?
A easy way of making code into "paragraphs" with comments is to just move it into a function. So in the end, this large function you're talking about, is just calling the other ones, creating a paragraph while the functions are just "words". Makes it easy to test and no need for comments :)
I can confirm something similar from some other wars, including the huge distortions presented to the public at home. Every side presents themselves as fighting "honorably" and "justly." But you see how much remains intentionally distorted, where even stealing student's work and showing it to the world as the "report of our security services" is symptomatic:

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

"The media seems to be right" until the war comes to you.
Reusing Abandoned Big-Box Superstores Across America
5 Tips on How to Improve Your Mobile Advertising
Complexity of basic company setup is low enough that it's basically a wash. Delaware has benefits later, due to legal environment and tax, but the main benefits of Delaware won't matter to you until you get big.
I agree with the tooling part.

I tend to prefer the functional version to threading because (1) honestly, like fluent interfaces, it seems overused (2) function application is damn easy to read and (3) as soon as you have as many nested operations, it can and should be refactored into meaningful auxiliary functions.
The first line reads as:

Multiply all ... 4 copies of ... the length of ... the string "200". So, basically, the length of that string multiplied by itself 4 times? (exponent).

The other form is more like step-by-step instructions, which is nice. However results are implicitly being passed at the first or last argument (I don't always remember which), and most everyday functions don't fit in the first/last category.
That's a sadly America-centric view of the world. Shell's spills in the Niger Delta are just as bad or worse and nobody cares because it's some weird foreign country that doesn't appear in their news:

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

The total volume of oil spilt was on the same order of magnitude - about half that at Deep Water Horizon. But the environmental and health problems are perhaps worse. It's close to shore and there's hardly any cleanup work, compensation or health protection.
>Utter scumbags

All of them? All 80,000 employees are scumbags are they?

I happen to know a few, and at the very least they don't denigrate people they don't know on the internet.
Treating 2π as a single entity is probably the best option for now. Not sure if formulas like 1/2 (2π) r^2 will ever catch on, but in more complicated formulas it's probably better to not simplify things like (2π)^4 / 6 to 2^3 π^4 / 3.