skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware of Lightsquared. But it seems like they were a "new player". If you look at the winning bids of the "Digitale Dividene (= digital dividend) I" and "Digitale Dividende II" in Germany it's easy to see that you have to be a big player to have real chances (or being even allowed to bid) in those frequency auctions.

"Digitale Dividende I": six 5 Mhz wide bands (always in "pairs") each between 570.849 and 627.317 million €. Winners: O2, Telekom, Vodafone.
(source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitale_Dividende#Frequenzver...)

"Digitale Dividende II": thirty-one 5 Mhz wide bands (some of them "paired") each between 39.011 and 255.967 million €. Winners: Telekom, Vodafone, Telefónica (formerly O2).
(source: http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/cln_1432/DE/Sachgebiete/Tele...)

Further I know of some radio stations (especially community radios) which refuse to accept special offers from broadcast carriers for digital radio (DAB+ and DVB-T(2)) broadcasting because of the fear that this could be used as another argument against them having an own analog FM frequency.
A lot of these concerns have been dismissed as "fearmongering". This case shows that whether the fear is justified or not, it affects the behaviour both in the UK and out.

This is the real reason experts were warning about the consequences: perception trumps reality. There may not be a direct impact, but the fear of an impact affects behaviour which in turn can create the exact impact itself.
I think that the reaction will be simply to adopt minimal changes in the short term in ways in which Euro treaties and laws are brought wholesale onto Westminster statute books. Significant change will only occur over time and limbo is to be avoided where possible - not just for the UK, but for everyone else as well. This is the only thing that would make sense even if everything was planned and orderly, which I think we can all agree is not the case.
I usually decide based on some combination of a) do I know the language/platform well b) is this for a client or for fun c) is this for learning, and d) is this a mainstream platform, then (e) if not, then does it have an advantage solving an important problem at hand?

If (b) for a client, then (a)/(d)/(e) are important. I know the .NET platform best and it's a mainstream platform, so I tend toward that one. If your strongest platform is X, then I think usually you should use X in general, unless something else has a distinct advantage (i.e., write device drivers in C or C++, not C#; use Y because it has libraries available that would save you tons of work, etc).

If (b) for fun, then I pick whatever I feel like piddling around with. Sometimes Node, Go, F#, C++, whatever.

If (c) for learning, then I pick something useful to me or something I need to get better at. Right now this is F# and C++ for me, but will sometimes be something esoteric.
Yeah, well - I think the moon is pretty good natured after astronauts walked on its face.

Proof: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eM1hv9ileaA
There are no new episodes of Car Talk being recorded since the brothers both retired and one of them is dead.
Why? So I can fuck around with OCR later?

The data is already structured.
The whole thing just reminds me about the radium water craze years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radithor
https://67.media.tumblr.com/1899ba50f59df9c88dace35c13c2c1a7...
Hah, the difference is, in middle America they are washing that breakfast down with a Coke or a coffee with 10 sugars, then a big fast food burger at noon, then snacks, then a big dinner.
I'm sort of surprised that this is the first time they've used rust for anything in the browser. I thought they developed Rust for this exact purpose?
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073942

and https://github.com/kwonalbert/riffle (author indicates that security bugs exist)
Will this include iOS devices too?

This is great news for the language as it's going to help make sure a wider array of architectures are supported.

Awesome work!
'somewhat'. The China-Vietnam war was more of a stalemate than the Chinese-proclaimed victory, and war between China and the Philippines would draw in the US, and guess who's going to win that naval battle. Neither side will use nukes over a naval dispute, and China in particular can't afford to get the West off-side, because it's the West that buys the lion's share of it's manufacturing - whereas the West has plenty of other places to look for manufacturing, albeit not at that scale.
Really, -4? Man, HN sucks
To receive EU grants, your research organisation needs to be in the EU. Isn't it the same everywhere else?
Better this than the alternative.

I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBo7Ug_1M8k

If you are British and was in the STAY camp. I encourage you to watch this.
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It's easy to quantify solar cells on an airplane, just look at power consumed by propulsion and compare to power generated by the cells. The result is that the power generated is pretty much useless and doesn't even justify the weight of the solar cells, unless you design a plane to be extremely light and with nearly no payload, a la Solar Impulse.

Solar could be good for drones that stay almost permanently airborne and just need to carry some electronics, but it's pretty much useless for transportation. If you must use electricity there, you'd want to use batteries on the plane, and keep your solar panels on the ground.
Yes, it's still a rumor, but there's been enough independent corroboration that I think we can be reasonably confident it's actually happening this time.
Super exciting!

I followed Rust at the beginning and I was pleased with the design goals of the language. However, I wasn't thrilled with the pre-1.0 documentation, and even after 1.0 there were breaking changes to the language.

Hopefully this is a sign of Rust's maturity. I'll have to look at it again:>)

EDIT: s/from/at/
That's a big list of hyperbolic and controversial positions. I normally don't demand citations, but in this case...
If you loan people money and they don't pay it back you loose money...
Right? Stiffest forum on the internet right here
There are a few "true" FM radios hidden in there, but each works only on select devices, and most of them require root access.

Just a fun trivia fact ;)
Even if Servo doesn't pan out as anything more than an experiment (though I'm optimistic that it will), I think Rust will bring real benefits to Firefox by enhancing security of isolated components like this mp4 parser.
Funny I thought the same thing.
> fiscal and banking mismanagement in Greece/Italy/Spain/Portugual are destroying German and British

The fact that Greece/Italy/Spain/Portugual devalue the Euro below where a deutsche mark would be is a major component of Germany's success as an exporter over the last decade, and conversely those countries' inability to devalue their currency has caused them a great deal of pain.
This should be interesting for solar-powered remote-controlled aircraft, where battery weight is less of a concern.
This is awesome! Was just wondering about something like this recently after installing bugsnag. Off topic, but what are everyone's thoughts on bugsnag vs sentry or other similar systems?
Link to the paper: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/99859/9277182...
Does this imply anything regarding rust compiler package for distros? To support the Firefox build, all distros will have to have good rust compiler packages now, right? (I'm sure the status is already not bad, I haven't checked recently..)

If it becomes something dependable, infrastructure-wise, like Java, this might mark the beginning of a more serious uptake.
EU money doesn't come out of thin air. It comes from taxpayers. The UK is a net contributor to the EU so the UK government could choose to fund all current commitments and still be better off.
Fair enough. I'll stop talking :)
Wut?

There are certain benefits you get by being a member of this club.

I am leaving your club.

Then you no longer get the benefits that members of the club get.

YOU ARE UNFAIRLY PUNISHING ME!!!!
I wonder how many other things like this will be impacted. By "like this" I mean not terribly obvious, but when you hear about it; you realize it should have been.
I look at whether I need a quick prototype or a long term solution. I find it is much quicker to hack a web based prototype in NodeJS as compared to Java. Also, what kind of UI do we need, most of the times it's a web/javascript based UI then the choice is NodeJS because of seamless data transfer using JSON, other times the backend doesn't necessarily have to talk a lot with UI like Batch jobs and I prefer Java. If I am going to need a lot of CPU intensive jobs where manually spawning multiple threads can be beneficial I would go for Java, NodeJS will not be very beneficial in that case. Other than that it comes to features each language provides, like rich and robust concurrent and collections library of Java. Similarly if a lot of data analysis is required python is a clear choice of many, again because of the rich data analysis libraries.
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Which is entirely understandable, no? (Hate trump personally, Brexit is a win though)
Of course it doesn't make sense. I'm talking about what the the headline says.
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Did this (having G & F in CV) help finding next jobs? i.e. possibilities to skip/ease further [tech] interviews? (in this case, it might be worthwhile to allocate some time preparing for interviews at G or F).
Makes sense if you wish to work. But most people in this thread talk of spending that time on video games.
See also "How to stay anonymous online (mit.edu)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12077621

Edit: I wish they also compared it with i2p.

Edit2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073942
Sounds like you are describing Intentional Programming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming
Okay. Thanks for letting us know. I've always thought that dozens (or even hundreds) of governments from all political sides and from 28 different countries could not have gotten a project entirely wrong that they supported voluntarily for the mutual benefit of all member states during the past 40 years, but since you think otherwise I'll just take your word for it.
> Why don't they just bury the cables like we do here ?

In rural areas it's just not economically feasible to bury cables. Sure, some cables are buried and follow the roads between population centres, but they also need to cross fields, go up hills and span the wilderness to get to many places that would take many miles of detours of twisty roads and tracks.

For the power companies and telcos to bury cables where we live they'd need to rip everything up and start again, and even then there's a fairly good chance that some piece of agricultural equipment would rip the cable out of the ground. Burying stuff is hugely expensive.
> Science taught me that it's all just atoms and the void, so there can't be any deeper point or purpose to the whole thing; the kind of meaning most people yearn for — Ultimate Meaning — simply doesn't exist.

I don't think that is something science can teach you. Science can give you the scientific method, but answering the question "Is the scientific method the only valid means of knowledge?" is philosophy not science. It seems the author is trying to smuggle in a particular philosophy under the guise of science.
not that i consider paying for adware, but that's honestly not as bad as i expected.

Especially as most people will need Enterprise to at least disable some telemetrie features it just sounds fair to make it rather cheap.
I don't see this being good for anyone in the long run. It enables the user to avoid a difficult, but important conversation. It's a generally held opinion that breaking up over text message is disrespectful and tacky, and this is even worse than that to me. The generic responses send to the person on the receiving end are likely to be hurtful as well. Better than ghosting someone I suppose?
Come on now... viber, wix, fiverr? Those are basically Skype, Squarespace/Wordpress, and a million other professional services marketplaces.

There's nothing unique about any of those companies.
That's why I said 'lesser title for CTO.' They don't necessarily manage a project, so much as act as a leader for channeling communication between management and coders.
See how far you have to scroll down the list to find an university inside the EU (excluding the UK).

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...
I'd actually go hard for British (elite) universities as partners for the next round of Horizon. It'll take longer until they get no funding and others will avoid them. Most importantly there's still going to be plenty of Brits from said universities reviewing the applications :D
But for the specific case you're discarding here - a solar-powered camera drone - doesn't this new motor provide a serious improvement?

Low-cost solar-powered drones could be a wonderful tool for aerial cameras.
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Many things could be said about it but today is a particular bad day to talk about the "EU's retarding democracy" as we, the UK, just got a new prime minister no one voted for...
Those are "double first cousins". I even have some triple cousins in my tree, where three siblings from one family married three siblings from another family.
If I'm understanding you correctly you're confused why only the hardware column is checked--is that right? That's, unfortunately, a common complaint. The columns _should_ correspond to only the second factor, with an assumption that username/password (a "knowledge" factor) is likely the first factor.

Some backstory on that decision: the site originally had columns for each 2fa company/product you could use; e.g., Google Authenticator, Authy, etc. Listing all the options was not scalable as the number of options grew, so twofactorauth.org went with a more abstract classification based on the second factor interaction. A few examples where that matters:
* If you refuse to use an easily misplaced fob then you might avoid sites that only offer hardware 2fa.
* Not everyone can receive SMS, but maybe they can download an app (software) or reuse their hardware token.
* Some people prefer a voice call, so they might choose a bank that allows for 2fa-over-voice.

Hope this helps.
There is a whole article that explains the headline. The headline can't include 100% of background.
Science funding is extremely competitive. Why would it be rational for EU researchers to take on additional risk?
So far it's only been used in Servo, their next-gen browser project.
This. I've shared this definition with a number of aspiring seniors over the last few years - Allspaw describes "senior" far better than I ever could.
As a result of majority voters voting in favour of Brexit and to recover the democratic deficit and negotiate UK's exit from the EU a new PM has been appointed who did not support Leave. She was selected by Westminster which is largely supportive of Remain

It would be very hard not to conclude that it is actually Westminster that is retarding democracy.
> This article doesn't go into DRM when there is no digital to analog conversion.

There is always digital to analog conversion, it'll just happen upstream from the phone. There will always be iPhone -> headphone jack adapters.
"The App Guy" on Hacker News? What a pleasant surprise! I love your podcast mate!
> Not only will the EU trade treaty need to be renegotiated, but so does the 50 other trade treaty with other nations - those treaties took a lot of time and over 600+ negotiators to write, the UK only have 30 negotiators and about 2 years.

The UK hasn't done their own trade negotiations for over 30 years. The EU has. They haven't got the right people with the right experience to do this (yet). They need to hire the best they can, or outsource, in order to get things in place within the deadline once the UK parliament has voted the referendum result through and Article 50 is submitted.

It is going to be tight. I imagine that Whitehall is in a shit storm right now.
>oh and playing Zelda, Mario, hell even a real pokemon game, on a touchscreen sounds awful

I completely agree with this. But it's easily solvable - just make a controller. You buy the app on the platform, play a limited selection of games with the touch screen, and when you're ready to upgrade, you go buy a controller at your preferred retailer.
> Greece/Italy/Spain/Portugual are destroying German and British wealth

Just wait and see what "destroying wealth" means.

England gave up on producing food during the Industrial Revolution, gave up on imperial colonialism after WWII and gave up on manufacturing after Thatcher. Now it is giving up on the services economy. It will be interesting to see what comes out of it.

Edit: Britain is not a paragon of fiscal responsibility. The only reason it hasn't been punished by the markets is because the markets are, to a great extent, in London. Things will change a lot.
Agreed, and think what it will mean for non-STEM research funding.
I find the opposite. When I am really hungry (usually after a long bike ride or similar) I will eat almost anything. Usually I don't have a sweet tooth, but in those cases, I crave sugary stuff far more than normal.
People are able to push through a whole lot of suffering when they have meaning. When all pleasure is taken away (e.g. concentration camps), only the people who have something to live for are able to survive. (ref. "Man's search for meaning" by Viktor Frankl)

Too bad he doesn't mention evolution, because it plays an important role in preferring individuals who find meaning in something.
Video of the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJtef410XaM
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I've never had an issue valuing my life knowing that it has no eternally persistent meaning. A poor analogy, but I like to explain a finite life's meaning by asking if a movie is any less enjoyable knowing that it's going to end.

Sure, eventually our existence is rendered meaningless but that doesn't make it meaningless for me, now. Call that an illusion if you want, but it's as concrete as anything you can prove. Besides, what would a "not-ultimately-meaningless" existence look like? I haven't heard any proposals that sound appealing to me.
will fix. Thanks.
What is the recommended way of keeping the URL of the service straight? To set up a DNS pointer to the DNS name amazon generates, with a "low enough" TTL?
How Will Web Components Change CSS Architecture?
Private, endowment and British funds can make up for the EU.
Getting out from under EU regulations and negotiating as a free agent is a better deal for most Brits.

[ edit: must have touched a nerve. +1 to -4 in an instant. ]
I find it hubris on the point of the device makers. Like, "what? you don't have unlimited streaming everywhere?" As a commuter in the NYC area, streaming is in fact not available consistently everywhere on the ride in... but my fm radio on my ipod never stutters. (Of course, some static here and there...)

And as more information sources move to the terribly named "HD" channels of radio, I worry that my current ipod will start to have even less content available.

When I think of all the features I never use on my expensive phone, having one I want to use already built in but disabled is somewhat frustrating.
It makes no sense for relations between countries to be structured as an exclusive "club". This just retards progress and leads to stagnation when it becomes impossible to get all the members of the "club" to agree.
But if this is running on Ethereum, who is paying for it? Doesn't it need "gas"?
IIRC the telemetry involved here was only run on the nightly/developer edition versions. Or something like that.

The restrictions on telemetry on release versions are pretty stringent. It's possible this was measured on release, I'm not aware of the details, but I suspect it wasn't.
This will happen. Rust can already be compiled to JS, although that's not very practical for client-side work right now.

When WebAssembly is finished, stable, and widespread, I guarantee people will be using end-to-end Rust (among other languages).
If I am not mistaken - individual countries are not willing to negotiate trade treaties before the UK invokes article 50.

Even if by some miracle Theresa May decides to withhold invoking article 50 before creating new treaties using back channels with the 50 other trading partners of the UK, it wont be possible to enact them until the UK leaves the EU
and negotiates a new trade deal with the EU.
I don't think tree shaking would help much. Speaking as an author of one of those mini-virtual-dom libraries, from my experience/research, the choices of features to support are usually tightly integrated for performance reasons.

For tree shaking to work, it must be possible to statically infer that some code is not part of the dependency graph of your application. Something like SVG support requires extensions to the virtual dom node structure that the renderer's visitor looks at, so it's quite difficult to make it into a hook and not lose performance to various overheads. It's also worth mentioning that over-modularizing can get boilerplatey (e.g. https://github.com/paldepind/snabbdom#inline-example)
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Okay, here is what you wrote:

> Given that the US is a lot more racially heterogenous than the majority of the world

"The US". You didn't say "Framingham". You know, it's really a PITA to have discussions with someone who can't just say "I made a mistake, I edited my comment" or something like that and instead try anything else.
Love those blamestorming sessions....
Collect, centralize, recharge, reuse. Maybe have a solarimpulse battery carrier to distribute them while flying.
I just mean you need revenue to pay yourself such that a tax-deductible contribution to a 401k is actually tax deductible. (Being a solo person with revenue is absolutely fine, I wrongly assumed you had done this recently and thus might be pre-revenue).
Saving you a click: #28 Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Also: "The Times Higher Education (THE), formerly the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), is a weekly magazine based in London, reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. It is the United Kingdom's leading publication in its field."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Higher_Education
There are a few good points in this article. That said, remember, everybody thinks everything was better back when they were growing up.
Except you'd still be able to use the lightning cable for audio, bluetooth won't be the sole method of audio output.
Every conversation we've had about the EU for the last five years or so. The entire world has been talking about the relative lack of wisdom of trying to hold the entire EU to one currency for a long time, financial mismanagement, Germany strong-arming Greece into plans not good for them while Greece holds the threat of leaving over the entire EU to get better deals, and all sorts of such financial issues for a long time now. Speculations that the EU was on the path to a breakup have been rampant for years, even before immigration issues were being discussed. Only now that the breakup might actually be happening is it a total surprise to everyone.

(I'm surprised more people aren't celebrating Brexit. Before Brexit, the EU had all kinds of problems. Now suddenly they've all been solved, apparently. The selfless sacrifice of the UK should be celebrated by the EU, since apparently all the bad stuff is going to happen to the UK, alone. That's the problem with the "turn up the heat" approach to making people do things in politics; it may make people more likely to do things, but not necessarily the things you wanted.)
Although the idea of Lovecraftian cryptography is appealing to me.