skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered the opposite - will Lumen "looking" at the screen all the time help to drain it?
Britain has enough of "experts" apparently
https://next.ft.com/content/3be49734-29cb-11e6-83e4-abc22d5d...

The whole Brexit hoopla was filled with dishonesty and anti-intellectualism that would make likes of Trump proud

no wonder scientists are suffering, sure who needs experts...
If you uploaded both A and C (or equivalent), then you clearly published DeCSS. That's not a very interesting scenario. It doesn't matter which file was random. It's like being unable to prove which hand you used while robbing a bank.
The biggest problem this guy has is easily solved by having a valve on each section of pipe. As soon as a failure is detected, open all valves and let the pressure equalise evenly across the entire pipe, instead of waiting for a wall of air to hit you.
If you think probability theory is bad...

The old joke that "differential geometry is the study of properties that are invariant under change of notation" is funny primarily because it is alarmingly close to the truth. Every geometer has his or her favorite system of notation, and while the systems are all in some sense formally isomorphic, the transformations required to get from one to another are often not at all obvious to the student. —John M. Lee, "Introduction to Smooth Manifolds"
It can - will it, though, is the question. And what about ten years down the line?
Deposit insurance is part of the problem because it makes customers not pay attention to the security of their bank until it's too late.

If you want dead simple regulations, require that banks publish their balance sheet. (Perhaps with a bit of a lag, if you want to give them the opportunity to have some trade secrets. But easier to just ask for all current balance sheet items to be public.)

Without deposit insurance customers will take a flight to quality. Or see https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-08-27/lending-c... for how banks might want to make assets match liabilities.

Reinsurance companies might offer private deposit insurance for a fee to banks with good enough balance sheets.

Right now we have regulators require a minimum quality of balance sheets, but also giving an explicit and implicit guarantees that deposits with banks that meet that minimum quality will not go down. What I want to do is remove that minimum, replace it with more transparency instead, and remote the guarantee.

Argument stolen from this book http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=51...

The author is obsessed with figuring out simple regulations that only require a few competent and honest civil servants to implement. That's because competent and honest civil servants are one of the most precious resource.

For privatizing companies he suggests: just auction off the company to the highest cash bidder. (If the winner wants to take the former state company public, that's there choice.)

For bankruptcy: if creditors and debtor company can't agree on restructuring, just liquidate the company in an auction. (Court ordered debt restructuring takes up precious civil servants, and invites corruption.)

The author actually describes the how and why and historical background. He's actually worked in the field.
This is just really weakly argued. Firstly, the notation does use capital X and and lowercase x. You need to realize these are different. It's not substitution to go from X^2 to x^2. Capital letters are not real numbers, and thus it's a type error too. Secondly, if you are familiar with differentiation and integration, you are familiar with straight substitution not always being correct.
You should read up on Rocket Internet, they're far from being a startup. And Axel Springer is one of the largest publishing comapanies in Europe.
That's too bad. I only played once but had a blast and thought it was fairly straightforward. It's important to have a good group for this one.
Yes, it is normal. I am just saying what is the biggest struggle of non-German worker of Berlin startup from my point of view that almost nobody takes into consideration when they talk about the Berlin startup scene.
Assuming the economy doesn't weaken and we find ourselves with less money to spend.
That is a very astute observation. Those of us who've seen secular humanist tenets of "rights", being cynically used for all sorts of geopolitical ends, will realize how easy it is to excite folk with such talking points.

People don't realize the dangers of such universalist notions.
It could but it won't. Same as economic support for the Celtic fringes. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are not going to see the same level of investment from Whitehall that they have from Brussels. When Margaret Thatcher took aim at the trade unions and in one full swoop killed off various b British industries, she made no British attempt to fix the problem. It took EU money and EU programs to setup enterprise zones in the Celtic fringes. UK governments have long ignored the needs of the country outside the south east.

Same as investment in the NHS, which although not funded by the EU has badly needed structured investment for decades. Never happens. Successive governments just blame their predecessors or bad management and on this the cycle.
Here, I recorded a video to show the problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SekYlC4ON_U

I tried with 2.8.14 and 2.8.18, both running on Mac OSX. As you can see the Command-E option only shows up after I do "Export as".
> She hasn't said that.

She can't say that. If she said it openly, it wouldn't be a viable strategy.

The problem we've got right now is that multiple political power centers are locked into a multi-way game of chicken over Brexit, which can only be resolved by pulling the trigger on Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty or by definitively ruling it out -- and whoever takes responsibility for making it happen (or not happen) will catch a career-ending shitstorm of abuse from the other side.
Except for that small "access to the common market" thing, as well as the numerous advantages the UK has compared to any other EU member.

Getting those back will cost more than staying in, and already has.
That's not racism. Xenophobia, maybe, but obviously not racism.
The Global Gaming Investor Map – Open Resource
> Now that's a fine thing in a computer language -- and there are philosophers who say mathematical truth is no more than computation. But mathematical notation is for humans to talk about things that have meanings that humans can understand.

Then how come an unfamiliar piece of source code is easier to follow than a mathematics paper using unfamiliar notation?

You can look up the definition of each function and learn precisely what it does, without ambiguities. You can open up a debugger and trace every step of the algorithm. Source code tends to be formatted to emphasise its division into units that can be analysed separately. Even if the code uses a framework you don't recognise, you can probably understand some of the underlying logic just fine, thanks to a consistent syntax and (often) descriptive function names.

In a mathematical paper, often there's some notation that isn't defined and there isn't even any pointer where to look for definitions. Important objects are given one-letter names. Theorems are often only numbered; good luck remembering what lemma 2.17.3b was about. Proofs are written in prose (instead of something like Leslie Lamport proposed[0]). You have to fill in conceptual gaps and remind yourself of unstated assumptions. Notation and terminology is often ambiguous — what does "exponential time" mean? Is it DTIME(2^(c*n)) or DTIME(2^polynomial(n))? Does "increasing" mean "strictly increasing" or "non-decreasing"? Is zero a natural number? And so on.

A mathematical formalism that could be interpreted in a purely mechanical way would be a huge improvement.

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
> who will, quite rightly, be able to say that democracy in the UK is a sham.

Except that there is also a large amount of people that had no idea of the consequences. Lots of people were calling for a re-vote afterwards because "oh shit this is actually not so great after all". Which is okay, actually -- it should be possible to change your mind when you see something doesn't work the way you want it (it'd be great if politicians did this more).
Biggest barriers for trade, like tariffs and import fees, were dramatically cut in trade agreements decades ago. They are not significant barrier for trade anymore.

Modern trade agreements like TTIP are mostly about rules, regulations and property rights. Countries must give up sovereignty and harmonize their governments if we want to marginally increase international trade. We are paying higher price for smaller gains.
Indeed.

If you are a board game enthusiast, chances are you'll eventually get bored with basic rules and want something more complicated that allows for interesting game mechanism or complex decisions. If you look at Board Game Geeks top games, a lot of them have a high complexity rating.
Uk is a net payer for an abysmal percentage of its GDP.
Objectively earns much more from the European Community than the breadcrumbs that spends every year to be a member.
It can replace EU subsidies only if the economy and the government income stays the same.
And everything as for now is pointing to the opposite.
A lot of high paying jobs (and very highly taxed) in banking are moving in Europe, a lot of businesses in the uncertainty are slashing investments, house market together with consumer spending is plummeting.
Only a blind person can't see that next year there will be far less money in the government disposal.
And, guess what, I don't really think that their first priority would be to reinstate all the subsidies coming from the EU.
I am not saying it is not possible and definitely total immersion helps and at some point you will learn the language but it is not easy to spend 9 hours at work where you speak English and after that go outside and immerse yourself to German for a few hours and do that every single day for at least a year.
Apache Beam: The Case for Unifying Streaming APIs
How are you defining 'western world'? I live in Spain and, outside of the tourist resorts, very few people speak English.
Reading a "simple" research paper requires a different approach compared to reading a newspaper or a blog. I hope the following explanation helps.

The notation actually helps to keep things simple. I think of it as a kind of metalinguistic programming [1] where a notation is introduced which then makes the important parts easier to understand.

I am not mathematically inclined but I have to read papers containing maths quite a lot of the time. I tend to read them 3 times.

The first time, I tend to skip the equations altogether and just get a feeling for the paper - what is it about, is it useful for me to read?

The second time I have a pen and a highlighter where I actually label the mathematical symbols with arrows and words (using the textual descriptions). I also highlight important sentences. I think of this stage as trying to make the paper as clear as possible for later reading.

In the third stage I am trying to understand the paper as a whole - something it seems you try to do on the first read, I am familiar with the frustration because this is what I used to do.

I quite enjoy reading papers now and I have more respect for the notation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalinguistic_abstraction
Its amusing to see a Swede complaining about lack of top down management when Swedish culture and decision making is notoriously consensus based.
"they are extremely powerful tools, and in the wrong hands things can and do go wrong."

Like guns, or even some drugs.

"That doesn't make them illegal."

But it should make them heavily regulated and scrutinized, which they aren't, and won't be unless for some serious civic activism.
The part about Stockholm being 10 years ahead of Berlin sounds very delusional to me.

Salaries in Stockholm are lower on average, CoL are higher, and it's next to impossible to find an apartment there. Not exactly the best environment to attract talent.
That's a good point; British "agnostic" "liberals" (incl. notably Mill), often defended the British task of "civilizing the barbarians" the world over.
I voted to remain, I believe that being in the EU is beneficial to the United Kingdom. This article, however, at the very beginning suggests:

> Britain has been a powerhouse of discovery since the age of science began. Newton, Darwin, Crick? They parted the curtain on gravity, evolution and DNA.

> Now comes Brexit, and to use a non-scientific term, the scientists in the country are freaking out.

Britain joined the EEC in 1973, the discovery of gravity, evolution, and deoxyribonucleic acid, all happened well before we joined the union and happened without EU funding. I don't think the sciences will suffer too much from a withdrawal of EU funding, since the government will want to remain a leader in these fields, the industries that will suffer will be agricultural and manufacturing, fields that are deemed to primitive for the current century.
Some resources that could be helpful:

http://www.howtogermany.com/
http://www.exberliner.com/
http://www.meetup.com/berlin-expats/

Guess one could get help and exchange info there. But I'm speaking without experience here.

Could you (and others here) give some experiences with the issues you mentioned? Doctor, shopping for something more complex etc.
I can imagine it's difficult with governmental stuff, but for the others I assume there should be solutions. E.g. going to doctors in expat-heavy boroughs, going shopping in tourist-oriented areas etc. But I could be completely wrong. So please tell me about your (negative) experiences and the barriers /showstoppers.
Why Data Quantity and Data Quality Are Not Mutually Exclusive
As another commenter pointed out, not doing Brexit would be politically un-tenable, as it would basically hand power straight to UKIP, and further enflame right-wing/fascist sentiment in the UK.

Denialism is not a useful response to our current situation.
some suggestions to deal with the issue OP is describing, using existing tools;

Night Mode Pro, firefox extension to invert colors of website; https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/night-mode-pr...

Stylish, firefox extension to apply styling on sites (make white background dark): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/

There is more options, for other browsers too.
Article: http://www.ghacks.net/2015/05/18/turn-any-page-in-a-night-fr...
I strongly identify with this problem. I've used "hackervision", a chrome plugin, for years. It works pretty well.

hackervision inverts website's colors. I'd prefer to read white-text-on-black-background everywhere. If I start using programs that force a white background, I'd consider using lumen.
You appear to be in denial.

"Our new PM was a remainer" - but, she was eurosceptic her entire career, the very first thing she said was literally "Brexit means Brexit", she has repeatedly confirmed it's going to happen and she has set up an entirely new ministry to ensure it does. Meanwhile the EU is so impatient for it to happen they are demanding it starts immediately. There is no way back.

With respect to "it's difficult to leave without screwing the economy", that seems hard to justify given the number of countries that are not in the EU and yet which are not "screwed".
Android N IS SET TO PUBLIC RELEASE
She also said "Brexit means brexit."

Roughly translated to: "an undefined portmanteau means an undefined portmanteau."
Domain experts who have no clue about tech are doomed. They are still very numerous in business, treating the tech people as support staff, rather than strategic staff. Generally sprinkling tech in a haphazard way on top of an existing organization, instead of reinventing it. This is exactly why disruption has been so successful in so many industries. It's been, generally, just a case of swapping the hierarchy around in favour of tech. That said, I am of the opinion that tech experts who have no specialization in a specific domain, are also increasingly doomed. Being an awesome coder, by itself, is no longer enough because there is so much global competition in a skill which has low barriers to entry for millions of talented people. You have to operate at the nexus of tech and domain and therefore know both really well.
I found this online: https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/eu-uk-fundi... Seemingly this is a pretty unbiased source (but who knows nowadays).

In that document it states that most of EU's research funding for the UK ends up going to higher education, and it accounts for 9.7% of their total budget. This doesn't sound like much but it's a considerable amount of money and it isn't spread equally over all areas of research.

Of course there is also pan-European research in/from the UK which will be hit by far the hardest (and one could argue is among some of the more important research).

So depending on their area of research your PhD student/professor connections might have a good reason to be upset.

Of course it is bad for anyone to take out their feelings on other people by making up stories/insulting them. But then again I question what your own motives are in posting this comment online. Especially considering that there are plenty of people who seem to have the opposite experience.

With your last sentence i wholeheartedly agree (as sad as it makes me). These days it seems that most people aren't even aware that they place themselves in a position where no one disagrees with them (see Facebook).
Can I ask where you are from and how long you have been there? Are language classes not an option with the amount of work involved with the with working at a start up there?
I started doing a lot better in calculus when I started using longer notation (e.g. f = x -> x³ instead of f(x) = x³) and making sure that things "type checked". For instance, this tendency to use f(x) to refer to a function, rather than just f, was very confusing to me, because f(x) is an element of the co-domain while f is a function (typically from real to real in my undergrad classes). I had to figure this out by myself because the textbook I was using and the prof all went with the notation that wouldn't type check. When I finally realized that dy/dx should instead be (d/dx)(f), things started being a lot clearer to me: derivation takes a function and returns a function and f is a function so everything checks out.
> The second time I have a pen and a highlighter where I actually label the mathematical symbols with arrows and words (using the textual descriptions).

Gee, it's almost as if we should be writing the words out instead of writing one letter variable names.

Funny how programmers found this to be good practice and mathematicians still write with a notation that's purposefully unreadable.
> I am not saying it is not possible and definitely total immersion helps and at some point you will learn the language but it is not easy to spend 9 hours at work where you speak English

I'm pretty sure at work they understand German, too.
Agriculture might benefit because the UK now has the option of allowing GM crops, which the EU tries hard to block for what it claims are health reasons but (given the lack of scientific evidence to support such a policy) is actually yet another form of agricultural protectionism.
I found easier to understand the synopsis than the home page: http://www.jodorowskysdune.com/synopsis.html
That would prove that democracy is a smoke screen for populi.

Well, nothing else to expect of European "Redo votes until we get expected result" Union.
>”quite rightly, be able to say that democracy in the UK is a sham" //

A marginal advisary vote on which headline campaign points on the winning side were demonstrable lies? I don't think that demonstrates our representative democracy is a sham.

It is a shambles, but your conclusion is unsound.

If the populous now would vote the other way, how is pressing for exit of the EU democratic. All you're proving is that good liars can pervert a vote.
Understanding underlying math is what allows people to create improved algorithms. If it's just "implement scikit" then you barely even need a developer.

Understanding why things work is still important and why software companies still routinely test on algorithm design.
What he means by "no middle management" probably is that people are left to their own devices with little oversight and direction. That sounds good - until you work in an environment where direction is missing. The worst job I ever had was getting paid to do whatever the hell I felt like. Everybody working on the same goal, in the same direction, is next to impossible to achieve, when it happens it's pure luck. It has nothing to do with the qualities of the individuals. Of course, this starts at the top - adding middle managers when the top doesn't direct adequately sure won't help.

I worked for a startup in the dot com era that everybody knows, which was eventually sold for a large sum (not a website, infrastructure/OS). I saw it a lot - and I myself was guilty of doing it - hiring people with great qualifications but we (and I) had no idea what to do with them! We just hired them. We (and I) gave them no directions. I'm somewhat ashamed of how I myself failed back then, but on the other hand not really - at 20-something the experience just isn't there.

Slightly related, I recommend this video for a perspective on "innovation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo (The true history of Silicon Valley. TL;DR: Gigantic government funding for R&D during WWII made it possible, only then came private capital.)
Leave camp promised all that money to the NHS.

http://imgur.com/AJzU5nd

http://imgur.com/indvx6a

The NHS is currently underfunded, to the extent that Darzi walk in centres are closing and some important targets are going to be loosened because trusts have no hope of reaching those targets.
Actually the claims are primarily on environmental reasons - horizontal gene flow etc.
Yes, because no politician ever broke a promise when it came in handy.
Supercomputers find a way of making 'imitation graphene' from salt
Agriculture is a core area of Tory expertise as they are the party of landowners. Manufacturing is what Labour as party of trade unions is about. Brexit is about a return to an imaginary past era half Victorian half 1950s all make believe. Science is not really on the radar.
Why is it obviously not racism?
FreeBSD 11.0-BETA3 Available
> How is PC-BSD doing nowadays? Is it really worth installing and using?

Anecdotally, I installed it on a spare laptop last month and the first main hurdle was that the disk partitioner kept failing until I first manually fdisked the disk to a single partition.

The second hurdle was that when it booted to the desktop there was no system tray icon to enable wireless networking and select an SSID, despite the 4965 chipset being fully supported. Presumably it requires some messing-around with wpa_supplicant.

I haven't had time to go back to it but both would be deal-breakers for the 'common person'.
Mary Jo White isn't a banker, she's a securities lawyer. She was a big deal partner at a major law firm before she went to the SEC. She's almost certainly going to go back to the same job after. All her incentives are aligned with aggressive enforcement of securities laws. Her firm makes money when the SEC comes down on people, not when it rolls over and lets things slide. You can see this starkly in the antitrust world. There was a lot more money in antitrust practice back before the current trend of going easy on antitrust enforcement.