skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the visualisation [1], something like 1000 people commute from Birmingham to Central London. Though it's not easy to tell, as London is divided into many statistical areas.

It's 85 minutes at the moment [2], plus the journey from Euston Station to the office in London. 85 minutes is commonly accepted for a total journey, but I'd guess most people with longer journeys are only doing this temporarily.

If you find places closer to London on the map, you'll see many thousands of people make ~30 minute journeys by train into London, before continuing by metro/bus/whatever. (If you can find it, try and click "Westminster and City of London". It's small.)

[1] http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/HTMLDocs/dvc193/

[2] http://traintimes.org.uk/Birmingham/Euston/0800/Monday
Well it is a colony "Down Under"
But you still need them in a Blockchain world, and still need to trust them.
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What's a releng role?
They can claim a tax deduction of all the taxes paid globally on their U.S tax returns.
Don't take yourself so seriously.
Australia was a British penal colony. According to Wikipedia, 20% of of today's Australians are descended from British convicts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia
Are people who never install new apps on their Mac safe without updating for now, or can this be exploited over the web?
Keep in mind that a 51% attack doesn't guarantee anything, it just increases the likelyhood that you can reorder transactions.
I think you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble if you try to collect and sell anthrax spores.
.. and Australia.

The native species that is closest would be the marsupial "cat" the Tiger Quoll.

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

There was also the Tasmanian Tiger, aka thylacine but they're extinct.
And you paid what money for iPhone 6 and how much for the Nexus ? That's the merit how they love you back. ;)
According to Wikipedia, the world's average energy consumption is 12.3Tw. Given that the Earth is gets 1366 W/m² of solar power at 149,597,870km, this means Mercury gets 9190 W/m² at 57,910,000km. Plugging these together, this tells us that a 12.3Tw solar array of 100% efficiency in Mercury's orbit would have a surface area of 1338 km².

Realistically, you'd at least double that, to produce the same power, as solar panels are <50% efficient.
Who is Scott Adams? And how did he enter this argument? Sorry I am trying to understand your comment.
Thanks a lot for these. The lean startup is already on my list, will check the rest.
You can't prove something is safe, because there might always be future knowledge that you don't yet know. A sticker that repels tigers will seem safe until the day you are actually attacked by a tiger. But only one attack is needed to disprove the premise that stickers keep tigers away.

In this specific case, the antibiotic agents started being added to soap decades ago. Of course we know a lot more about biology and health now than we did then. The FDA last year asked companies to prove they are safe for long-term use by the standards of 2015, and that is what they failed at. But obviously those standards were not available to guide a testing regime in the 1970s.
They've been doing that for decades. As has Apple. Both have also been shipping crap software for decades.

They're huge companies.
No. Reddit modified their algorithm weeks ago to remove /r/the_donald from the frontpage. Before it routinely made it due to the sheer number of upvotes and users engaged. They 'tweaked' their algorithm to allow more "diversity"; their words not mine.

Also /r/worldnews is HEAVILY censored to remove any criticism against islam in particular. If you see it it's probably because they missed a spot.
Company site: http://www.starfighters.net/

"Starfighters Aerospace operates the world’s only flight-ready fleet of F-104 supersonic aircraft"
Yep, tenants laws add a new layer of complexity to the asset, which as a wealth sink isn't really needed.
So you can extend your credit. But you still have to pay that. You don't get to spend that money.
Interesting read, although I'm slightly disappointed that there were no giant mutant ants after the "nuclear weapons bunker" tease in the headline.
No, but if they got robbed then probably they shouldn't get the full amount of their renters insurance.
They're called objects.
At least they'll be occupied that way. Maybe they can even have whole families move in there, with some sort of agreement that they receive a monthly payment in exchange.
I don't think so.
They would have lost ALL if the private key would have been compromised.
In this case they even managed to block some transactions and recover quite a big chunk of money.
I don't think this is "new" at all. It's been the Windows business model for a while: separate SKUs for separate user classes. In-place upgrades from lower SKUs were added way back in Vista (which had two more SKUs even, Ultimate and Enterprise Ultimate!).

I guess the "new" item here is the Office 365-esque plan for Windows Enterprise, but that isn't so much a "new business model" as a better small/medium business proposition for the low end of Software Assurance and the other large enterprise tools for Windows Enterprise licensing.
EpiPen Tycoon puts you in the shoes of the most hated woman in pharma
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What if it just showed all HTTP and self-signed HTTPS site address bars with a light red background, instead? It would immediately jump out at you on Gmail that something was wrong. Chrome wants to eventually indicate all HTTP sites are insecure, so this is a good way to achieve their goal, is it not?

It doesn't matter whether you believe their actions are altruistic (protect everyone!) or sinister (protect the CAs!) ... by treating self-signed certificates as worse than nothing, they send a pretty clear signal to independents that it's the latter. Treating them both the same would be a great step toward building confidence to those who don't trust their actions currently.
They charge nearly 200 bucks for a year certificate. They must be mental.
> "Tap View Apple ID", seriously?

This has always seemed like a horrible user-hostile dark-pattern on Apple's part. When you subscribe, Apple says to go to Settings to unsubscribe or turn off auto-renew, but it's very opaque. It's also hidden behind a username/password prompt.

It would be much better if there were a Subscriptions option directly under 'iTunes & App Store' – even if there were still a password prompt behind this, at least people would know how to find it.

But Apple have long, long needed to modernise their entire iTunes Store experience, of which subscriptions are just one small problem. Does anyone know if it's still running on WebObjects? The whole experience has always felt slow and un-responsive, which felt normal when it first launched, but now feels very behind the times. It wouldn't surprise me if the subscriptions issue is a result of this too. Would be interested to hear if this is the case.

It's always felt like poor discoverability and lag were big reasons behind their social efforts (Ping/Connect) failing too. Not every social network needs a web presence, but presumably it'd help to be able to access/link to this content on the web at large, rather than it being buried deep inside existing apps.
We do our best to wipe them off the face of the earth. That's a lot more dramatic than Schedule I. I've never heard even the most ardent anti-drug ranters say that we need to make the marijuana plant extinct.
YouTube should work
It's especially interesting to watch Hermine travel up the US east coast right now. NHC forecast track here for the next 5 days: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?5-daynl#contents

Right now is especially fascinating because the Euro and GFS models have recently begun to agree on the storm re-forming into a hurricane in a couple of days off the New Jersey coast. It's a fascinating time to watch wind patterns in the US right now!

Edit: Another really interesting tool is the Total Precipitable Water product: http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tpw/natl/main.ht...
Also, the four Buran liquid rocket boosters were designed to also function as the first stage of a smaller launch vehicle, Zenit. At one point, Zenit was set to replace many of the existing Soviet launchers -- that never quite happened, mostly because Zenit is built in the Ukraine, but it has still been a reasonably successful rocket (and although it hasn't launched yet this year, I believe a few more launches are still planned).

The RD170 engine family developed for Zenit has been very successful. A half-sized version (RD180) powers Atlas V, and a quarter-sized version (RD191) powers the first-stage modules of Russia's new Angara rocket family.
Silicon Valley CEO isn't sure if in-office stripper party is a great idea
It will never work in that use case.
And I was hoping that the recent ethereum fork after the Dao debacle made it clear for everyone..
I wonder what the deal is with the fact that in the UK, everyone who uses the BBC iPlayer on any platform must now own a 'TV License' and pay £145 per year.

Until yesterday, you could use the app to watch things on catch-up. Now the 'levy/subscription/tax/license' is mandatory.

Is there a loophole they're using that I'm missing? eg: That they don't want to call it a 'subscription', even though that's exactly what is. (Well, more of a 'tax', but they hate calling it that too.)
Credit where credit is due: Nullschool is a lot older than WindyTy, and WindyTy is a fork of Cameron (Nullschool)'s code.
well the EU's case is that what Apple and Ireland did is illegal under existing laws. it's not like they made new laws now so I don't see your point.
Workers live from 1 to 3 years. A queen ant can live for up to 30 years! I guess less down in that environment though.
More sales records are being set even after the new tax http://vancouversun.com/business/real-estate/tax-shows-no-si...
It's interesting that given the collective problem solving skills of ants, that they are apparently unable to figure out not to fall into a hole.

I wonder if they just fall through by random chance, or if there was some ant at some point that left a "hey guys, there's food down here" pheromone trail, and all the ants that came after just reinforced it into an ant super-highway. If no one ever comes back to say "actually, there isn't any food down there, just an inescapable pit", then I guess ant logic says there must still be something good down there.
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The USA is alone in the world with it's odd repatriation laws.

If a company pays x% tax somewhere overseas - they still have to pay full amount of corporate tax when repatriating - meaning US companies are 'double taxed'.

I.E. They pay 30% in Russia, then another 35% in the US.

That's crazy.

In most countries, you pay tax in the jurisdiction overseas - and then a 1-4% 'repatriation' fee bringing it home. This is more rational.

The US also has crazy high corporate taxes - some of the highest in the world - added to this a crazy bunch of odd loopholes.

The US tax system needs to be cleaned up here:

A) Small repatriation tax, and don't double tax foreign sales.

B) Reduce corporate taxes to make them more competitive with international standards.

C) Get rid of the loopholes and actually make corps pay the tax.

Obviously - the EU needs to clean up it's act as well.

Sane, rational taxation would have solved the repatriation problem - and the EU/Ireland tax avoidance problems a long time ago.

Unlike healthcare or some other unwieldy subject - this one is easy. Everyone knows what needs to be done. Nobody seems to be willing to do it.
With the amount birds (and other small creatures) I find dead, dismembered and half eaten on my doorstep, I find it hard to believe that it's as much as 0.2% ... I only have 3 cats and one of them is a kitten, so I can't believe she's that effective yet. I've not had them very long. I'd wager if I bagged all of their kills I'd have 6,000 on my property alone by the end of the year. I'm one farm of hundreds in our area, many of whom probably have cats to keep the rodent population down.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that while it's unfortunate that this renewable power resource isn't completely benign as we'd like to believe, it must be a slow news day to be writing about the 6,000 birds a year it kills given its size. I imagine if you cordoned off an area of a similar size and threw in a couple of dozen cats in there, even with food and water, you'd chalk up similar numbers.
That wikipedia article actually says just the opposite. According to it the hydro power was almost all built in the Soviet era, the wind is small agricultural units also built long ago with no large, modern installations, and there is virtually no solar power.
“We’re winding down Starfighter”
The other day I tried to figure out how to change the 2nd city shown on the Apple Watch's default watchface. (There's a "world clock" feature that displays the time in another city in the corner of the watch screen.)

Turns out that the process to do this involves first configuring the city in an app within the iPhone, and then on the watch doing a series of UI actions: a force-touch, a swipe, a tap and turning the "digital crown" to find the right city within a UI element that is a list although it doesn't look like one. Several of these actions are entirely undiscoverable (the force-touch and digital crown in these contexts are just actions you have to stumble on by trying all the possible combinations, I guess).

I don't think there would have been any way to figure this out without googling it. And this is a feature that's prominently displayed in the default view of the Apple Watch screen, so it's perfectly reasonable to expect that users will want to change the city.

It's hard to believe that this device was designed by the company famous for the one-button mouse. I do find the physical design attractive though.
1: Presumably, people won't post redundant downvote comments. One or two tends to get the point across.

2: You can still collapse threads.
Happily the 421-a exemption program referenced in that article was allowed to expire. Not because of a consensus that it was a bad idea (which it was) but because of a pissing match between the governor and the mayor. We have to take our victories where we can get them; hopefully they'll continue fighting forever.

We still have structural problems in the city property tax code -- for example condo and co-op buildings have to be taxed as if they were rental buildings, a complex calculation that generally undervalues them. But if and when those are fixed, I think full property taxes are would be enough. I don't see the need for a punitive rate on top of that. At least not in NYC, other cities may have a bigger problem with absentee owners.
You make some good arguments. The problem is you are assuming that Putin is rational on this topic.
What's the problem? You're still perfectly able to provide service to customers who've already got a subscription; you are only denied the ability to offer them an opportunity to
purchase that subscription from the app.
That's a fair point, and this is merely my opinion, but if I could afford housing all over the world, I certainly wouldn't want to deal with the fact that I maybe cannot go visit London/NYC/wherever on a whim and stay at my own private residence. Renting has downsides even with "perfect renting arrangements" which cannot be mitigated by a third party (well, without presumably breaking an entire host of laws).
Just to clarify: LTO is what most other compilers (including LLVM) call what LTCG is in MSVC.
ThinLTO is a very different LTO model than "standard LTO". The ThinLTO slides go over the various LTO models that exist.

Previously, before Google built ThinLTO, we built LIPO (and WHOPR) for GCC, https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LightweightIpo
Google isn't going to use GCC as it's compiler anymore, and in fact, has mostly moved off it. We needed to replace LIPO, so we built ThinLTO.

The problem with LTO models in general (as the thinlto slides go over) is how to make it scalable. Part of that is memory, part of it is parallelization, part of it is optimization/analysis speed.

THe memory issues are about how memory efficient the IR is and
how demand driven IPO is.
IE can your whole-program analysis go function by function, without it taking a lot of time and memory to import individual functions (and throw them away if you need to).

Most LTO is slow because it tries to keep large parts of the program in memory at one time, and has no good way of being as lazy as possible about pieces of the program.

The parallelization issue is "what is being serialized to make LTO work". Some compilers parallelize the backend code generation, some parallelize nothing. There is often still a lot of serial stuff (global analysis, etc).

The CPU time issue is how fast you perform analysis and can generate code.

ThinLTO is meant to allow you to parallelize basically every step, import exactly the parts of the program you want at a given time in a quick and memory efficient way, etc.
All of them, AFAIK. I think it's been like that since more or less IE7 days.
If you realitet the oner to live there and pay property taxes is quite risky to use a straw man.
You raise some good points.

The Crowd Safe is essentially a YC Safe (which in turn is a standardized convertible note) that gives companies control over when to convert, rather than conversion necessarily happening in the following financing round. Given the ubiquity of convertible notes in early stage financings, legal treatment shouldn't be a unique concern.

To your point on startups not being able to convince VCs to fund them: much of the value of crowdfunding, from our perspective, is the ability to democratize the fundraising process by putting the decision of which companies get financed into the hands of the average person. While VC investment is surely a signal to take into account, the VC industry as a whole has shown itself to be biased in who it chooses to fund (more here: https://medium.com/equitycrowdfunding/new-impact-new-inclusi...).

For many companies, there are also significant brand loyalty and marketing benefits to doing a crowdfunding campaign and letting their users play a role in their growth as a company.
I sometimes do fire breathing, alongside fire spinning. Pretty much everyone who breathes fire as a hobby or performs professionally uses high purity paraffin.

Alcohol is bad because it burns hot and gets you drunk while you're doing it (very bad) and doesn't make a very impressive flame in comparison.

But yes, it's very dangerous. I refuse to teach anyone who I ever remotely believe will try to shortcut the safety procedures that are designed to make it at least not kill you most of the time.

The short list of safety stuff looks something like this:

1. Don't wear synthetic clothing, especially not nylon or polyester. That stuff will melt if it burns. You're actually better off with bare skin, but really you should wear something that doesn't burn easily.

2. Use a sturdy bottle (won't break if you drop/throw it) with a self-closing valve. If something happens, this will let you ditch the bottle fast and free your hand up for more important things. Last thing you need in an emergency is for your fuel bottle to spill fuel everywhere.

3. Have another fire breather watching you with a fire blanket for safety. If something goes wrong, it's their job to more or less tackle you and smother the flames as fast as possible. And if something really goes sideways, it's their job to call 9-1-1.

4. Check constantly for wind direction, and definitely don't try anything if the wind is unsteady.
> At the end of each subscription duration, the subscription will automatically renew until a user chooses to cancel it.

What happens when a user dies? I mean, that does happen occasionally. Are the relatives on the hook to somehow email apple the death certificate to clear out their debts five years later? The issue of death on the internet is woefully overlooked. Perhaps there is an opportunity here for a startup to provide "closure services" where they settle all accounts.
This blame placed on HW stems from a lack of understanding of RAM physics/electronics. As dimensions scale down, these things happen.

The market has chosen to adopt the cost benefits of smaller transistors and higher capacity for the same $. It's a mix of physics and market forces, not malfunctioning hardware.
"They can claim a tax deduction of all the taxes paid globally on their U.S tax returns."

No - I don't believe this is true in the sense you mean it.

Effectively for corp. taxes - US companies are indeed 'double taxed'.

This means US companies are incented to leave zillions overseas and not bring it back to America.

The US tax code basically ignores the fact that the rest of the world exists. Most countries tax codes have to deal with the fact there is such a thing as 'international markets'.

The terrible thing is - there is any easy fix. Any President could pull it off I think.

If the US got rid of double taxation, and reduced the corporate tax rate - I think most business leaders would accept the closing of all the crazy loopholes.
It's funny, because 4chan, especially it's topic-focused sub-boards, isn't nearly as unfit for this as it might seem. Yes, the signal-to-noise ratio will be low and it'd be generous to pretend the conversation will always be civil, but there are some pluses:

- No downvotes, so opposing viewpoints don't get suppressed

- (Multi-)Reply support, so you can address your response to a specific post or posts

- Everyone already expects a low signal-to-noise ratio

- Everyone comes expecting some amount of personal attacks, offensive content, blatant trolling, and off-topic posts, so seasoned commenters aren't driven off by this behavior

- Default anonymity means no way to earn or lose reputation, so the only way to judge a post is by its content

4chan has plenty of downsides regardless and it won't appeal to everyone. But compared to Youtube comments or the typical CNN comment section, there is far less majority-moderation, far less intermingling of policy points and personal attacks within the exact same post, and far less propensity for people to respond to comments they deem off-topic or irrelevant.
It still protects from passive wiretapping which is strictly better than no encryption at all. It's a shame browsers are treating it way worse.
Yes, I rented a flat in Rome right near the Trevi fountain, in a beautiful old stone two storey building with a lovely courtyard. There would have been somewhere between 20 and 40 apartments there.

There was a software / techical business of some sort in one corner, but I don't think I saw anyone else.

(Thank you AirBNB)