skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, the employees apparently shuffle things around for local reasons and the app doesn't get updated. The employees will then badmouth the app to customers (well, one customer, at least...). "Oh, the app? Yeah, that's wrong a lot... We actually put that item over there at the end of that other aisle, because we wanted to put other-item here instead."
Kern only came into power in May, the social-democrats (SPÖ) have been in a "great coalition" with christian-democrats (ÖVP) since 2007. This coalition has been on rickety legs for many years now and there's not much the two parties agree on. There have been no noteworthy reforms for a decade.

There's also the threat of the populist far-right FPÖ, which has been gaining power again after two failed coalitions with the ÖVP 15 years ago (The FPÖ have been polling at ~30% for several months now, which is the largest approval of all parties).

Several members of the ÖVP-government and regional bodies are actively working against the great coalition and undermining the head of the ÖVP, sympathising with going back in a coalition with the fascists.

For all these reasons, Bundeskanzler Kern is not as powerful in legislature as would be desireable. Also I understand his remark as suggestion for a discussion and possibly a proposal for an EU-wide discussion on unifying tax laws. And he's probably fishing for votes with public statements on popular topics.

Personally I think he's the most promising Bundeskanzler we had in a long time, as he's an intellectual and is charismatic enough to potentially neutralize the threat of a far-right government.
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You should have: - Breadth in many different skill areas (Maybe you’ve written APIs and some front-ends and done some light devops and know a bit of Photoshop and have coded in a functional language … the more the merrier) - Depth in one area that you can really school us on (Perhaps you’ve written a pubsub framework as a sideproject?) - Experience writing code as part of a (preferably large) team

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Golang – encoding/csv: Reading is slow
> A story split in 37 tweets

I don't understand why people do this instead of just writing a blog post and tweeting a link to that.
> most people never use math beyond Excel

This seems like saying "most people never use science beyond English". Excel is a language for expressing numerical calculations, but how complicated or 'advanced' those calculations (or the theory behind them) are is orthogonal to the tool used.
As I wrote in my reponse, I use http://feeds.feedburner.com/fullhackernews to read a representative sample of what appears on the front page. It (tries to) include the content of the link, so I don't have to visit HN itself unless I want to see/participate in the comments.

I also use hnnotify.com to get notification emails when my comments are replied to.

FYI I use Gnus as my email and RSS reader.
You're pretending there is no a trade-off here, and that just isn't true.
As a Finn I generally get decent connectivity mostly anywhere. The rural town I live in has 7000 residents and all the three networks have decent 4G coverage here. Certainly not 1Gbps, but always tens of Mbps.

Pretty much wherever I go, I have at least 3G connectivity from maybe 2Mbps upwards. This basically anywhere except some areas of Lapland wilderness, where nobody lives.

This costs around 20€/month, 30€ if you want unlimited calls and sms.
Investigating a rootkit on kernel.org falls squarely within the NSA's counterintelligence mission. Until they investigate, they don't know whether it was done by a random 27 year old doofus or by a nation state.
Ask HN: Review our startup: Eventil, helping organise tech events
Eventil helps organise your tech events (conferences, workshops or smaller meet ups).

You’d like to improve upon Lanyrd concept (a directory of tech events & speaker profiles) and extend it with an all-in-one workflow tool to help organisers with everything related to tech event organisation e.g. finding a venue, ordering t-shirts/badges/lanyards, finding sponsors, in short: assisting in logistics for tech events organisation.

We’ve been successfully organising/co-organising the well known tech conferences (RuPy, PolyConf, GeeCON) for the past 10 years. With this experience we want to help others to focus on essentials, and as result to create more effortlessly even more and better tech events.

The prototype allows to:
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- manage « Call for Papers » process
- enable community voting for talk proposals

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> I don't see other countries like Russia producing better engineered products

India graduates good math and CS students from IIT, why is India not an engineering excellence hub?

Because they come to the US. US STEM grad schools are full of students from China and India.

I have interviewed many, many people and am usually quite impressed with the Russians interviewed. They usually do much better than American-born people. Maybe 1 out of 6 non-Russians are decent, the Russian batting average in my experience is 1 out of 2 or even 2 out of 3.

They do make good engineers, the problem for those countries is the good engineers move to the US where they can make money.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the concern were less about morality than about ingesting unduly high doses of hormones which might have some metabolic effect on humans as well as on fish.

Bingo.

I have zero moral issue asserting my dominance as the apex predator of this ball of mud to consume any and all prey that my heart desires.

What I do take issue with is not knowing the long term effects of things like high doses of hormones on us (humans). I'm not educated enough in that field to know if my fears are well founded, but my gut tells me I'll be better off not eating Tilapia so I don't have to worry about my dick falling off (or growing a new one!).
We have the technology for large scale carbon capture, that's no problem. The problem is that carbon capture is pure cost, no gain (measurable on a company balance sheet).

To solve this, we need a global carbon tax, probably close to $100/ton. For reference, US emissions per capita is ~17 tons.
I think I have written about this some time back. Care to read it and find out if it is related to your assessment? http://blog.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/using-mac-os-x-as-a-sel...

Changing the GUI has a function, btw. Just yesterday I wrote a custom stylesheet for Slack because its developers chose “the right values” for people who can see gray-on-grey “contrast” well (so, not me).
Planet Money is definitely one of the best podcasts out there. Everyone should give them a listen!
I went back to check the original video I saw when this happened from USLaunchReport and it's on there too, the (above) link does say that the object flew by, like after the initial explosion it shows the object on the other side of the rocket. I don't believe this part to be true, I think that was debris, which would mean that something was "flung" into the rocket making it explode.

Not quite as juicy as aliens, but still possible sabotage.
This is what a sales tax, like VAT, is.
There is. Constructing nuclear power at the same rate as France did successfully in 70s and 80s would be a big part of the solution.

France constructed 40+ reactors for population of 60 million in ~20 years. If we did same everywhere, we could build ~9000 reactors in 40 years. If one reactor would be on average 1000MW, producing roughly 8TWh yearly, we would get 72000TWh from the nuclear power alone. That is about a half of world's current energy production (155,000TWh).

This would be of course a gigantic political and engineering project, but no major new scientific or technical breakthrough would be needed.
So, what are we going to eat now as veganism is out of question? :-/
The need for pluralism in economics
This blog post by Steve Keen, Professor of Economics and Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University London, is an excellent summary of the flaws of the Neoclassical Economics school of thought that currently dominates policy making world wide. In it, Steve also discusses alternative approaches to modeling the macro economy that made apparent the inevitability of a Global Financial Crisis well in advance. For those unfamiliar with Steve Keen's work in heterodox economics, this post should be a perfect primer.
Downvote me all you want Twitter developers. You know it's true.
"I'm proud that we send more people to prison..." Wow, Indiana, yet another reason your state disgusts me.
False Choice: A dark pattern which threatens the credibility mobile apps
SafeInt also does wonders and stops you from doing things you shouldn't without going to extremes, at least the last time I used it.
https://safeint.codeplex.com/
> You can collapse comments

For some reason I forgot and thought I was using HNES for that. Sorry to whoever is analyzing this data, this is why you get bad data: people (read: me) are dumb.
My suspension of disbelief is blown every single time I see a laptop with its logo removed, de-badged car, fake name substituted for a real store or news outlet, etc.

It's tacky when they start taking about the benefits of some product, or use something inappropriate to the context, but I want to see actual products (appropriate to the period, location, characters, socioeconomic status, etc) because the alternative is so bad.
I have been back to the two work sites I worked at the day the lumps appeared. Dusty & cobwebs, but did not see any spiders. Dismantled mattresses & box springs to find only dust bunnies. Couch cushions' sole inhabitants were coins & food crumbs. I had been spending inordinate hours diagnosing a "gremlin" in my jet ski over the previous 8 weeks; it is sitting on a trailer I often lean my shins against the frame just above the affected sites. I have knocked many webs off it over the last rainy weeks in Phoenix. That is all I know so far, and admittedly, it could still not even be BW bites. Other than that, my stamina is back, minor crmps are gone and I trimmed off 10lbs(4.5kg) of excess weight, which is nice.

Coincidentally, I had a blood infection 17 years ago to the day recent symptoms started, Aug 11, 1999. It was misdiagnosed(sans blood tests) as mono-nucleosis and I suffered similar intensity of pain and kidney/liver damage for weeks before identifying the genuine problem. I was young & most lingering issues have abated but system is still compromised and a hit by a strong enough hemotoxin(recluse or a rattle snake) will likely be permanently debilitating, if not terminal. So, no, not courageous, just at peace w/ mortality & very grateful for every new day.

Edit: A correction to original post, as well, the site on my left leg did also open up, didn't see it under all the leg hair[0].

http://i.imgur.com/l0KZWhT.jpg

Edit 2: original right leg pic moved, link broken. new url:

http://i.imgur.com/dX6N39V.jpg
Because corporations thrive purely on the society they are making money from. No company lives in a vacuum.

However great and driven Elon Musk might be, he would never have made a single cent if he had started Paypal in Somalia. And what differentiates a market in Somalia from another market like, let's say, France?

Let's take this further. Zuckerberg makes a lot of money in France solely thanks to the technological infrastructure built by the society living there. Why would the French public let Facebook exploit this environment for his personal profit, while not paying its fair share to maintain the very same socio-economic environment that allows it to make money in the first place (and that everybody else is contributing towards)? Anyone would describe this behavior as parasitism.

Let's imagine you spend ten years building a shoe factory. After ten years, a stranger comes in and starts to use your factory at night to make shoes and sell them for his profit. Are you going to let him use your factory for free?

Even if your answer to this is "Well maybe there shouldn't be any public infrastructure in the first place", it simply shifts the problem somewhere else: if a private company would be managing the infrastructure, rest assured they would also ask for usage costs...which is precisely like a tax. A feodal tax.
It's a really interesting piece because it shows how 'popular confidence' is a different thing than 'investor confidence'.

That said, it would seem that this was not a 'fake currency' -rather the introduction of a more sound system that people actually did trust.

In a way, simply implementing good financial policy.

But the details of it are pretty neat :)
I believe the OP's exercise was to do the division manually not mentally.

Basic mental arithmetic is probably the most used in day-to-day life. It feels weird having to whip out a calculator/phone every time you need to make a quick estimate.
Wine and linux drivers will never be good enough to play games. You might as well install windows 7 in a vritual machine. And this whole thing about spying... you can install O&O ShutUp10 which helps a lot but on the other hand, if you're on the internet, chances are everything is spying on everything. Google is spying on you, facebook is spying on you. Unless you're only using TOR and chat clients with end to end encryption, if someone wants to spy on you, they will. Don't get me wrong, I don't condone Microsoft for this (hence the o&o comment) just that there are other players here as well.

On the other hand, being a user of all three OSes I could complain about all three of them.
Wonder how the author feels about full disk encryption, which is also used by bad guys.
Sure, but it isn't _super_ technical, it's technical.
Writing it inside Twitter means people can't share/like [retweet/favorite] the whole thing, but instead readers will pick specific parts they find most interesting. This gives the author more finely grained data about which sentences hit the mark for their audience.
Math is abstract, and so are most of its benefits.
What do you mean by "too diverse"? Is filtering by subreddit not sufficient to find the right niche?

I wonder because it seems someone could emulate HN simply by unsubscribing from the defaults and subscribing to HN-related subreddits (programming, startups, etc.).
Hmm, I'm at 500 now, and I don't see a downvote arrow. I tried logging out and in again. Is there a trick to the ux?
Anyone know what currency oil is traded in?
I honestly don't believe that a country would stop having companies, or not have access to certain products because of such a tax. Remember your country would have no corporate income tax, it's the consumers of your product who are effectively paying the tax. Only companies not making a profit would take issues with such a scheme.

Take Q8, they own gas stations in Denmark. Apparently they've made no profit in Denmark, EVER. That is of cause a blatant lie. They've just moved the profit abroad. Taxing the revenue, directly at the pump, would either drive a lying company out and make room for more honest ones, or they would start paying their share.

There's ALWAYS someone who see an opportunity. Coca Cola leaving because they refuse to pay your tax? Fine Pepsi will swoop in that same day.

What you're suggestion is that companies will only ever operate in countries that makes it possible to be creative with taxes.
OH! I'm at 501 now and the arrow appeared! Off by 1 error in the code! :)
You seem to describe a very different world of programming than the one I live in.

I have no dislike for logic, formal proofs, category theory and such: I can live in that world just fine. However, almost none of the problems I've ever had to dealt with in my 15 years programming made me wish for large amounts of that: I've used bits here and there, but going all in never made any sense.

The hard part of most tasks I had to do in professional programming is to gather enough information to even begin to write one of those formal specifications: Knowing what real business needs are, understanding how distributed systems fail, working around bugs, reading library code quickly and effectively, learning how to factor code in a way that would evolve well with changes in what the application needs to do... that's where the value is. 99% of that is talking to people and making educated guesses about the future: The implementation itself is trivial. With that, was able to get solid code working in languages that were ill equipped to handle any of the fun pieces of math that you'd need to write mathematically-minded programs.

If anything, the experience I've had working with people that were heavy on the math has been dismal. I worked with a rather well known dev who has published books, gives a lot of talks in FP circles, and is a lead dev in a huge mathematically driven library. We worked on on a rather novel distributed systems. He hid in a corner with a copy of Mathematica for a couple of months, and came back with a paper that proved a well performing solution to one of the things we had to do with our distributed system: Great!... Except, not so, because his proof only worked in a mythological environment where there is no latency between nodes. Under real conditions, the algorithm's properties led to unacceptable results, and he just hid behind the proof.

I don't have papers and patents behind me. He knows a lot more category theory than I do. But It took me a day to implement a completely unproven algorithm that had far better performance properties in a real case. This is not due to any special brilliance of mine, but because I sat down and approached the system like a scientist or an engineer would, instead of like a mathematician.

In my opinion, teaching the scientific method and the basics of engineering in other fields will serve your average programmer far better than being better at math ever will.
> Everybody happy, except the Austrian government

And the population of Europe, who does missing out on taxes from these large corporations. This is not an Austrian issue, but one of the whole EU.
I think you can just install a pirated version, run the Windows Genuine Advantage check (or whatever it's called). It will report that it's a bootleg version then give you an offer to pay for the license to make it legal.
"26/ Ppl are generally happier: focus + flow + roadrunner mode (only 2 speeds, 100% & 0%) + fast results = happiness for both emp & co"

Wow, I just don't know what planet this employer lives on where employees supposedly _enjoy_ sitting around idle until suddenly "holy crap tight deadline must crunch to make it!" Every once in a while, fine that stuff happens, but if a job were consistently putting me in "roadrunner mode" for every project, I'd be out of there in roadrunner mode too. Preferably before the anxiety and pressure turns into burnout.
A good friend died a few years ago wingsuit BASE jumping in the alps. It hit me hard. He was incredibly smart. He was one of the top guys in the sport. He was careful and deeply researched and understood the physics of wingsuits. Thus why I think the following quote from the article is dangerous because it might give the impression to certain people that they will outsmart the complexities:

"The simple truth is that wingsuit BASE jumpers don’t know what they are getting into, don’t know how to practice the sport safely, and don’t even know enough to know how little they know."
> Pushing for ISPs to be barred from reading http pages is easier.

That's needed, but even then any random person who intercepts the cables can read your data. Or with WPA2-PSK, anybody with the password can read your data. So, treat HTTP as in the clear; it's likely someone's watching.

> Tor is good, but slow, and many websites block it or show captchas.

Tor has high latency, but the bandwidth is not that bad. CAPTCHAs only take 20 seconds per site. Other points are true.
How long did you have to pay it back?
I've used websites with Cloudflare over Tor. There's a CAPTCHA that takes about 10-20 seconds to solve, and then you can continue browsing the site.
Perhaps we could, by adopting the way Firefox, Wikipedia, Internet Archive et al. operate.
That response is frustrating, but that's not a fair criticism. I feel like "You must be doing it wrong" is a hyperbolic simplification, too. This will happen in any community where you're getting voluntary support. Hell, when I'm supporting people at work I will sometimes start with, "Hmm, well, I'm not having a problem doing this." (and try to put that in a way that's not dismissive, but informative) Then I go and dig into and fix their problem. It is one of the first steps in troubleshooting. e.g. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ If you're not paying for support that might be where your support ends. At least you have a clue that it's not completely broken.

"At least when we complain about bad windows features, we're not going to get gaslit." I feel equally frustrated troubleshooting Windows/Linux/OSX and third-party software. Most often I'll find someone with the same error, the first reply is something like "it's working for me, can you post a full log?", a full log is posted, and there was no further correspondence.
Suppose we discover that plants have a concept for pain. What will vegans do in this case? Eat purely synthetic food?
>We are comparatively loose with immigration statuses that don't permit work. Tourist, student, etc. visas are relatively trivial to obtain.

That's a weird statement, I feel like you lack wider context. As an Australian, pretty much the only place in the western world where I need a visa /at all/ to be a tourist is the USA. In something like 50% of the the world, I can just show up at the border whenevs and they'll let me in on the promise that I'm going to leave in a few weeks.

Your standards are actually pretty anal compared to almost everywhere else. China and Russia are really the only comparable places.
I think it's notable too because maintaining compatibility is something that Microsoft seemed to value and spend significant resources on.

Are there any Windows APIs that have been actually dropped and not just deprecated?