skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you think you can get a better deal than the one we have now, you are irrational or uninformed, if not stupid.

Sad but true.

It seems to me the EU has every incentive to offer the worst deal possible, to discourage other EU states from risking the same sort of vote.

Probably the best we could do is get the same deal as Norway, but Norway still pays money to the EU, follows EU regulations (many of them are necessary to sell goods to the EU), and allows the free movement of workers. (As does Switzerland, even though it's not in the EU, and voted against it.)

A number of Leave voters apparently want no immigration and those immigrants we have to be "sent home". I expect this includes all the ones born in London, Birmingham, Bradford, Leicester etc, whose parents arrived in the 1950s and 1960s.
I think it's more or less self-evident, but to put it explicitly, in the current political ambience, results of referenda and elections are determined more by people's susceptibility to scare mongering than rational thinking. Is this relevant enough?
https://listentotaxman.com/90000

I don't understand how anyone can pick Berlin over the UK after seeing this!
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Do you think there woulnd't be a literal uprising if the government dismissed it ?
> As if people from Sunderland or rural Wales were concerned about the cost of holidaying the Riviera or taking a hit on their non-existent stock portfolios.

Economic downturns and recessions disproportionately affect the poor[0] and disadvantaged[1].

[0] http://www.russellsage.org/research/special-initiatives/grea...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/disc...
Hi Im_a_throw_away

If you are looking for SaaS inspiration, maybe it's better to start with sales & marketing (Between January 2014 and January 2016 the number of SaaS companies grow from 947 to 3874.)

Source: http://www.saasgenius.com/blog/does-growth-hacking-work-stor...
That example perfectly illustrates what's so bad about unions.
FYI, Google open sourced their build system: http://www.bazel.io
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There was no device for them to know about. Some engineers altered software that manipulated existing systems under guidance from management.
Is the sequential concept of a timeline a good conceptual representation for asynchronous events that my run at different speeds?

I had in mind more kind of a matrix, but I am asking here to gain knowledge from people that already must have been thinking more about this than me.

How do you handle dozens or hundreds of animation events?
Basic language skills are quite useless in my experience, especially when interacting with people in some professional fashion.

One can start seeing some positive results only after B1+ level.

And some banks do offer services in English while others explicitly forbid this.
"Arm aber sexy" - Berlin's motto for you ("poor but sexy").

You will be paid super low comparing to other big cities (MUC/HBR/FFM), your rent will be already on a very similar level, your managers will be selling you the "vibe", you'll be expected to work like a machine, and the only way for you to escape by winning the startup lottery by having significant chunk of equity won't be available to you. Win!
On to more important matters, Gamma function or Pi function?

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/20960/why-is-the-gamma-fun...

Obviously, the Pi function is the right one since Pi(n) = n! for all integers n.
Or sometimes wedding parties, such as one where the US government murdered 47 innocent people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deh_Bala_wedding_party_airstri...
I understand where the 10 year exercise period came from and I can understand the arguments against it.

A solution I haven't seen put forward is a compromise between the common 90 day window and the 10 year window, which is to have an exercise period equal to the amount of time you were an employee. This discourages people from bouncing around jobs collecting equity but gives a reasonable timeframe in which to exercise if you do want to leave after putting 5 years into growing the company.
You are quite correct on all your points and I agree with you.

I suppose I could have expressed my idea better. What I meant is that for people with a programming aptitude there are no barriers these days. Whether they want to jump directly into software engineering or pursue another field and use their knowledge of programming as an asset, for the both choices the road is open. There are tons of information freely available for those who wish to learn. If one wanted to get an official CS degree it's also easily arranged, university chairs of that specialization are under-filled. At least that is so in Europe. For some reason the locals prefer economic/legal/business degrees and engineering isn't terribly popular. Can't say anything about the situation in the US though.
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Hey, sorry, you may have misunderstood me -- I'm not saying that it's only Moxie who's considering Telegram insecure. I meant that Telegram is considered insecure by many experts; but when it comes to the security of Whatsapp we can only rely on the claims of Moxie and Facebook, without the chance for open review.

> 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.

However, from the other side: Telegram is not _trivially_ breakable (there's a 2^64 attack, which is not 'trivial'), but Whatsapp might very well be simply MITM-ed by Facebook. So you could also look at this from a different perspective and say "A powerful adversary could probably break Telegram messages, but maybe all Whatsapp messages are immediately decodeable by Facebook".

Also note: you have provided 5 links, but [0] simply refers to [1] and [2], [1] says that "We stress that this is a theoretical attack on the definition of security and we do not see any way of turning the attack into a full plaintext-recovery attack", [2] claims that there could be attacks (but does not provide one), [3] is a real attack, [4] is not about an attack.

So while I see that there are valid concerns re. Telegram's security, the links you have provided are a nice example of the Internet echo chamber.
> There are two types of countries: those using 'metric' units, and those who have been to the Moon.

What about Liberia and Myanmar?
Educate yourself: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/civilian-deaths-drone-st...
Yes, I think that's reasonable, the whole campaign was of a poor standard. Very negative, and with little explanation of the actual mechanisms of trade or governance underlying the question.

Having said that, there's plenty more you could bring up against the Leave side. The central claim of the imminent accession of Turkey in particular was an outright lie. And the general stoking up of xenophobia in order to get their way (followed by duplicity in trying to redefine their campaign the day after the vote had been taken).
Fluent interfaces make code a joy to write and a huge burden to later review and reason about, particularly when the object you are interacting with changes mid way through on certain calls. They are something I loved when I was younger, but now doing code reviews they are the bane of my existence.
Exactly. It's much a "stickier"/"easier" mnemonic to tell a(n English-speaking) grade-school student "the area of a circle is 'pi r squared'" and let them giggle at the incongruity of the fact that no, silly, pie is round!

It builds a connection to a thing they already know, and it's "silly"/"absurd" enough to be "sticky" in terms of memorization.
Recently I read a quote somewhere along the lines of: picking a baby name makes you realise just how many people you dislike.

That, and: my neighbour/coworker/friend already picked that name.

So, I'm highly skeptical about the usefulness of software and data.
"That was a reflection on how according to roel_v HN was a place of intelligent discussion when he joined."

Tss, rose-colored glasses and all, and the world is a different place from what it was 10 years ago; still at least back then the main 'problems' were the excessive focus on nootropics and quantitative finance; not that it was overrun with populist high-school angsty political drivel.
There was a point, somewhere between 2009ish and 2011ish, when that was really no longer true, except for the distributions that hopped on the PulseAudio boat really early and had audio broken for a few releases.

I have no idea what happened after that but it's really screwed up.
Totally agree. While I respect and try to adhere to the organization and naming philosophies of the "Clean Code" approach, I've also been bitten later when going over something that I hadn't worked on in months. I concluded that my brain has a state as well as the program, and comments are for reloading my brain state. Only when my brain is in the correct state do my names make complete sense. And still, unless I had ample time to make sure everything is perfectly coherent (how many times does that happen?) I'm still sometimes left wondering.

A comment that clearly explains "why," and sometimes even "how," is extremely helpful no matter how Hemmingway I think I am in the moment. And I also find chasing little factored-out bits of functions all over the place is tedious- like reading a paragraph of prose where a lot of the true meaning is delegated to footnotes. You're either skipping it, or constantly stopping and looking for the damn footnote. In code, sometimes that means grepping the project to find the damn thing. If it's small and used once, consider leaving it in.
That's part of the reason I spend every political conversation discussing the merits of a multiparty (not biparty) system.

Pretty sure I've convinced at least a handful of people to vote Gary Johnson as a protest vote. Though personally I'm all about that #Snowden2016
I agree that the outcome will take time to truly be seen, especially in startup scene.

It turns out though that roughly 30% of VCs money in the UK comes from the Europe Investment Fund (as Limited Partners in their funds), which is funded by the European Central Bank, of which the UK is currently a shareholder, although it will only be as long as it is a member of the EU.

From an FT article on the subject: "To put some numbers on it, as of the end of 2015, there were 144 UK private equity funds supported by the EIF and almost 30,000 small businesses. The EIF estimated that €3bn in equity capital in 2015 had been enabled by its €655m direct investment that year."

I wonder if that will have an impact on the ability to attract talent?
It's not about the factor, it's about making the connection to the circle obvious.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987414
From the perspective of a younger dev, this seems like excellent reading for older devs, who tend to enforce their personal style without deferring to the de facto language standards (or PEP 8 for those working in Python). In fact, perhaps everyone could do with downing a half dozen humble pills and optimize their code for harmonious human interoperability than anything to do with machines :)
> it's a government that has created this problem in the first place, keeping the price at below market price

Okay, there's a data point I missed. The price should be appropriate, and in this case too high is better than too low. I agree in general that when the market can do something, it should. However, I don't think the market is capable of seeing into the far future (see petrol prices, which are way too low in the US and only more-or-less appropriate in Europe due to taxes).
I have the same issue with a Philips SHB7150 headset. Music will play okay using A2DP (with occasional stuttering and pitch changes) but all Skype calls automatically revert to HFP (extremely bad quality). So the device has what looks like a decent microphone that is completely destroyed by Bluetooth (where in the stack this happens, I don't know).
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I think they just call it "typing" now. I had to look up what "touch typing" means. There isn't really an alternative; a person has to know qwerty to type, even swiping on a smartphone.
> Perhaps it's because the media coverage has been so one sided

All the most one-side media coverage was on the Leave side, wasn't it? The Sun, The Daily Mail and The Daily Express in particular -- the main mass-circulation tabloids -- were full of pro-Leave lies.

These are also papers that, not coincidentally, hate the BBC for being independent and excellent value for money.
Your Cauchy argument is actually misleading and runs right into my joking example elsewhere in this thread about needing to define a new constant Sigma=4pi to work better with steradians.

Pi doesn't always represent only a pure circle. Eg, in solid angles there are 4pi steradians over a sphere. Or 2tau. Or what I define as Sigma.

This extra factor of two when using Tau should be just as disconcerting to tau enthusiasts for steradians as pi is for radians.

Your example is talking about shooting particles in all directions over 3D space. This calls for a solid angle approach. Which means you should be integrating over steradians just as you'd use radians for an angular system. There are 4pi steradians over a sphere's full solid angle, the wall only covers 2pi steradians. Meanwhile the extra factor of two comes from the integration of decreasing infinitesimal wall cross sections over the azimuthal angle.

The fact that it comes out to 1/2 tau is merely happy coincidence. Ie, the geometry introduced an extra factor of two because it's just as easily 1/4 sigma, and for a solid angle system (shooting particles in all directions) you should be using steradians. Hence sigma.
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I get that. In the US, airline pilots have limited employers to choose from and lose years of seniority if they move to a new employer. Unions play an important part in conjunction with government regulators in keeping a safe workplace.

It IT/software dev in the US there has been quite a bit of demand for the past several years, so when a company starts abusing their employees they see their dev team start to evaporate.
Keep your personal quirks out of it

Don’t personalize your work in ways that would require explanations.

I like taking advantage of variables to compartmentalize logic.
Correct. Current KBB good/very good value is probably a safe "it will be this or higher" number.
Steal pages just by asking Facebook to turn off login approvals, send a fake ID
I think our military power has evolved from the post war arms race into a pro-trade insurance policy.
Certainly. Yet there's been a tendency later to declare SQL wrong and deprecated and to incite everyone to forget about it and go with an ORM as the only way. I do not accept that. The stronger the ORM zealots are pushing the more repulsive the idea of an ORM becomes to me. But of course it's just another instrument that has its place among the others.
This is the only thing I noticed before quickly closing the page. Completely unreadable.
Specifically, Vonnegut was present at and survived the bombing of Dresden, which became part of (the main?) the inspiration for Slaughterhouse-Five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#World_War_II

The book makes a lot more sense once you understand Vonnegut's history with the bombing.
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The KGB ceased to exist in 1991 with the break-up of the Soviet Union, a full three years before HTTPS was invented.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
> There are other reasons to Leave that have nothing to do with economics (or immigration, for that matter).

I would like to know those reasons, thanks. Almost what I have read from the leave camp are economics, immigration and some nebulous freedom.
What happened in 2011ish that made everything go to hell again?
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There should be at least several around still, depending on where you're located.

If you're in Australia, this group seems legit (I used to train with them years ago): http://www.tesoma.com
I cannot even fathom why you think that's less readable than someone's mangled foreach loop.
> But on to my point: not all points or opinions should be 'reasoned' with, or deserve an intellectually honest debate, or even a reply.

> So in summary: no I won't be seduced into a useless 'debate'.

Then downvote or flag and move on. Your comment is as much a part of the problem as the original was. If you make a comment make it a substantial one.
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This is inane advice. I'm aware of credit cards, thanks.
What does the AMA know about LEDs and health? There's nothing in this article about why they made these recommendations. And the article compares LED lighting to 'before electricity', instead of to for instance existing sodium lamps?

It is an opportune moment to make the recommendation, since folks are converting to LED so rapidly.
thanks, this looks like a good start.
I would like to add "watchers" and "signals" that could trigger sequences. But I do not want to reinvent things, sure there must be something already out there (I am just an occasional user of js animations for gui elements, so I have no clue about the js animation universe).
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He 4 is usually used for He cooling, which goes down to roughly 4 K. With He 3 you can get a little bit lower, and He 3 has some properties which makes it more useful at even lower temperatures, but the usual cooling is done with He 4, which is not exactly cheap. (I was once told that liquid Nitrogen is about the price of cola and liquid Helium the price of Whiskey, at least in a very rough sense.)
> Now, British interests come first. If the UK wants to do something and France or another country doesn't like it. Now it's tough luck.

Will you still call it "British" if Scotland decides to leave the UK in favor of the EU?

Isn't there even worse luck for the UK should they want to sell something to the EU which doesn't meet EU standards, and France objects to the change? And won't British manufacturers who have both a domestic and mainland market have the overhead of following two sets of standards? I guess it's tough luck for them.

> scares the hell out of them!

Sitting here in Sweden, I have a feeling more of confusion than being scared. The longer the UK drags its heels on leaving, the more it feels like the UK just want to be the special snowflake in the center of everyone's attention.

We wouldn't mind Scotland joining the Nordic countries either. See http://satwcomic.com/part-of-the-gang and http://satwcomic.com/new-nordic for a comic view.
This problem has been solved other places. For example, in Hong Kong, all operators have a statutory right of access to common areas of buildings to provision services to customers in the building.

http://www.ofca.gov.hk/filemanager/ofca/common/Industry/tele...

Incorporated Owners/Building Management:
"(a) should not impose any fees, deposit, access charge, administrative charge, escort charge or rental charge on the Operators for the access of the building, the use of the common parts of the building or the use of the in-building telecommunications system of the building for the provision of services to residents or occupiers of the building
(b) should not enter into any commercial contract which will unreasonably restrict the right of a resident or occupier or deprives a resident or occupier of the right, to have access to the public telecommunications services of his choice. Any such agreement is void to the extent that it imposes such restriction;"

Would be nice to see similar legislation adopted in the USA.
That's like the function composition operator [1] in Haskell, right? Very neat :D I wonder if there's an equivalent macro in Scala ...

[1]: http://lambda.jstolarek.com/2012/03/function-composition-and...
> Of interest there are rumours that the EU is to announce a superstate http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/683739/EU-referendum*

The Express is a provably unreliable source with no interest in telling the truth about anything beyond the football scores.
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Reminds me of Taylor series. The factorial terms eluded me for so long until I realized it was a cancelling factor for accumulated derivation of polynomials. Now there's this link in my mind between powers / derivation / factorials.
But it's a bit cheaper than Singapore. For EC2, it appears to be ~5% cheaper!
Too many teams in too short a period.
You can still get iPods in all sizes and colors. They're pretty decent.
I don't understand why people use the Facebook native app at all. Their mobile website works quite well and should avoid many of the issues with the app (location sharing, battery drain, etc).
As irony would have it, I traded in my Cayman for the Passat TDI. Car for car straight up trade
Would you mind sharing your contact info with me? I'd love to pick your brain about some of this stuff, especially your perspective on Berlin, startups, tech cofounders, etc.. I checked your profile AND your website (and domain WHOIS too :P) for contact info. My email address is in my HN profile so if you could please drop me an email with your info, we can take it from there.
Winston Churchill also voiced support for an "United States of Europe" in 1946, right after WW2:
https://archive.is/kOGDK
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"Oh yeah, and this is our awesome in-house build system. You're really going to enjoy working on ads!"
Maybe we could subscript tau with dimension n.
Unreadable to you could mean readable to others.

Sometimes you have to learn different paradigms and ways to express computer program.
What would it cost if extracted from air, considering only five parts per million are helium? The number I've seen is 10,000 times as much as currently.

Solar radiation producing helium in the upper atmosphere - how would you extract it from the upper atmosphere? I would have thought it doesn't mix with lower atmosphere due to atmospheric escape.
Uhm, yes, you're absolutely right, I have missunderstood you and I absolutely agree with what you're saying. An open client with a secure encryption is always preferred, but I doubt we will see Telegram become that one because they have been ignorant to people pointing out flaws before.

> but Whatsapp might very well be simply MITM-ed by Facebook

As long as you're not inspecting the binaries you use for Telegram (or build the applications by yourself) however, you can't guarantee it's not MITM-ed by someone either. Maybe you do, but most users certainly do not. When downloading the Telegram app from Google Play, there is not much difference to the WhatsApp app. You're basically trusting small groups that they provide the "real" binary to you. Not much of a difference to trusting Moxie's words, is it?

Link 0 was to remind you of the link I posted before and the other links might not provide specific (or effective) attacks, but they point out flaws in Telegram's protocol (1,2,3) and the way they test / value the strength of their encryption (4). More flaws are very much plausible for a homebrew crypto solution.
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