skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much this. I've family members that work for a freight train company. The schedule is brutal: get a call, have 2 hours to get to work, drive a train for 10 hours, get 10 hours off (often away from home), and then you are back on call. They are expected to be well-rested for work when they get the call. The pay is good, comparatively, but it allows no personal life and no chance of other work or hobbies on even a semi-regular basis. They are only closed for 2 holidays - christmas and new year - and it takes a toll on health.
Yes and an all nighter to follow! Watched a couple of seasons of Six Feet Under with a buddy of mine years ago, it was fantastic.

No amount of time spent with friends is "really unproductive", it literally keeps us alive. I didn't see a note about it in this article, but I suspect that the no-income people that are happier with their lives are doing low cost entertainment activities with friends.
I've tried several browsers with one to many tabs and it's consistently slow. Things like the price prediction just time out. Really hope this gets sorted as it's becoming a pain point for me.

Yes, your article looks just the thing I'm looking for. I'll definitely let you know how I get on. Thanks for the writeup!
The new phones, the Pixel and Pixel XL are rumored to start at $649 for the smaller phone in the smallest memory configuration of 32gb. If true, this would mean the old Nexus line is well and truly dead and Google is taking the Apple approach to pricing. The Pixel brand is supposed to be premium at a premium price but currently has one product that fills that niche (the Pixel Chromebook) and one that doesn't (the failed Pixel C tablet that was repurposed from an abandoned Chrome OS branch to Android and launched barely functional).
Interesting that they used both 10/4 and 4/10 for the URL... They care about internationalization!
A lot of patents affect a huge, broad space different that the one they are supposed to cover. These guys filed the first application in '96, then started other broader applications linking that first application so it counts as its priority date.
The phone on the ground looks like it's got rounded edges like Samsung.
No, GDS are tremendous value for money. If you think it's expensive you should see what would happen if it were oursourced to Capita.

> millions of GBP per line of CSS

This is a silly metric, because quite a lot of the effort is spent in reducing the amount of CSS. And that's how other projects get screwed up: silly metrics.

The government is also under a statutory obligation to be accessible.
> While socialists do tend to be violent psychopaths

Oh come on now, that's just silly.
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I believe as well that the article is imprecise, since it elaborates on a trick question and tries to just inform about the term "pure" being hard to define, especially in a dynamic language.

To be referencing an exact quote of the article to make it very clear:

var arr = [{}, {}, {}];
arr[0].valueOf = arr[1].valueOf = arr[2].valueOf = Math.random;

Obviously this relies on multiple function calls, so the output of the original function `sum` is still predictable. I think predictability and the absence of side effects is still a much better definition for pure functions.

It's also a necessary definition in JS. Saying that 'the same call of the function with similar enough arguments will always yield the same output' is not a sufficient definition and way too simplified.
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Patent noob here, but wouldn't this violate the basic "you can patent implementations but not ideas" rule?

Did they actually patent all possible methods and apparatuses to select products based on personal information? Or was the patent for one concrete method and apparatus that did so and just formulated intentionally vague?
Just a few days ago, I noticed a bug in IE11 that destroyed a layout of a site of mine that used absolute position on a div. It worked in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and on mobile browsers. Things break just like in the 90's unless you constrain yourself to a very small set of commands and topologies that are guaranteed to work.
https://xkcd.com/1179/
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IB is ok for getting started but it will eventually hold you back. If you get to the point where you feel like you're fighting it as much as using it then look into doing your layouts in code with one of these libraries:

https://github.com/SnapKit/SnapKit

https://github.com/robb/Cartography

It may take a little getting used to but, especially for the kind of dynamic apps people want to build today, it will save you a lot of time and headaches in the end.

Also make sure you get your head around UIStackView. It's a little tricky to learn at first but makes a lot of common layout problems easier to solve.

Also, start using this library ASAP:

https://github.com/mac-cain13/R.swift
Like the rounded corners rectangle in Photoshop?
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I wonder if this would have the same conclusion when they're presented with calculus or other forms of math.
I like to use TypeScript with ReactJS.
And I was surprised to see some mainstream libraries using it: mobx, apollo stack.
And it is also a surprise to see really well updated typings for a lot of things in the react world.
At least their software probably works now.
Twitter lays off around 20, shuts down engineering office in Bangalore, India
Cash-only for everything is just about feasible, if you accept the extra costs of theft prevention. But bitcoin? Bitcoin is ridiculously traceable. Every transaction is public. Make one opsec mistake and everything is exposed.

You're also assuming that the government would sit still in the face of a serious erosion of the tax base, and not crack down on it. The US is bad enough with its arbitary seizures of cash, let's not destabilise the situation further.
in most of the cases they are not relevant...
True. We even had a different concepts of travel. Trips to Socialist block friends were valuable; you'd have a chance to buy some deficit things yet you knew it's not really abroad. Tours to "Capitalist countries" (i.e. rest of the world, ranging from the USA to Bangladesh) however were like oral sex to a Catholic priest: rare chance to see sinister but attractive world, and raise your social status among the peers for rest of your life.

> Max Weber says that there is a blessing of bureaucracy - it is supposed to be impersonal, so in theory it should be objective and just ignore personal biases/preferences provided that you stick to the procedures.

Oddly enough it was bureaucracy that was cementing life order in socialist bloc in identical way, and Guanxi/personal corruption is a manifestation of it. This really stems as consequence of implementation of Marxist tenets and I maintain is deterministic and unavoidable. It seems many can't really comprehend how big a footprint Communist effort leaves after its gone. Historic and cultural continuity is typically destroyed or at least mauled. All ex-communist countries have shared experience in the same way all rape victims regardless background have it.
Oh, they're called monzo now? I guess changing one letter was the cheapest in terms of logo redesign :)

I think what they are doing is bold (especially in terms of security, I think their head of security role is still open?) but ultimately the right thing to do for a truly disruptive banking startup.

I don't think it's possible/easy to bring the features people want from modern banking software front end (free text search through transactions etc), with a legacy banking backend.
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Well if this happened in the US, wouldn't this count as hacking under the CFAA? For instance weev got 3 years for running some GET requests on a sequential number.
My guess? a smart phone that has machine vision built in? ten four? sounds like tensor flow - machine learning.

Interesting how the search box grew to include images...
I'm not sure what other structure a UK bank could have, other than Plc?
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Number 1 reason for myself is the associated thousands of scripts/calls/cookies that slow sites down to the point of being unusable.

Number 2 reason is how appropriate they are in the context of the media. I can understand having ads to fund a site, but full page ads with miniature close buttons on mobile and even worse, the App Store auto directs just destroy the journey.

Number 3 reason is the crap I get shown. YouTube insists on showing me war simulation games or trading apps. I care for neither. I also wonder how people with PTSD cope with the casual 'war as recreation' ad's that can spring up when watching something like a woodworking TY channel.
Are you serious? Can you see you yourself right now? Take a step back, back from the politics, and think about the kind of behaviour you are defending right now.

It's not even Hillary's behaviour that makes me lose the most faith in western democracy. It's people like you. The people who go around justifying this corruption because your candidate did it and the other candidate's party is trying to dig it up.

You make me sick.
> You can get to approximately 50% penetration safely without storage[1], then you have to start adding factors that can deal with intermittent sources like wind and solar[2].

Keep in mind that this number will vary depending on generation mix. Specifically, it will depend on the response time of your dispatch-able generators. If your primary source of non-renewable generation is big steam turbines with a painfully slow ramp-rate (e.g. coal generation) then you're going to have a bad time.
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Ask HN: Smalltalk, Platonic idea world and Giordano Bruno memory techniques
I have a philosophical question. i have read design principles behind smalltalk (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk.html) and i have notice many relation with platonic idea world of Platone and after Plotino, and also the art of memory of Giordano Bruno. Someone know if smalltalk has been influenced also from this idea?
The release date 10-4 is radio code for "understood":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten-code
Well anyone who tries to access a slow loading page cares. As does anyone trying to use a page that misbehaves because over-aggressive javascript taking control in unhelpful ways cares. Anyone who's phone runs out of battery because some script is in a crazy loop cares.

They might know know or care what the technical reasons or solutions are. That's supposed to be our job.
Cool project.

Personally I like the idea behind RetroBSD [1] - port of 2.11BSD Unix intended for microcontrollers.

I was thinking if a system like this powered by solar panel would be a good idea for poor countries. The idea is to have computing of the past in sustainable form available for poor. The main problem is probably to have a cheap and low energy display. Maybe epaper made in bulk would be enough? But probably such a computer can only be cheap if made in bulk. Maybe it could be cheaper than RaspberryPi? The question that remains is what about networking? Maybe they could function in similar fashion to BBS, but using shortwave radio?

[1] http://retrobsd.org/
I made my first attempts at coding at around 13-14, maybe sooner, when trying to change config file of the game clonk planet[0], but quickly gave up on changing anything significant.
Didn't really touch another line of code for several years, it wasn't even in my focus, when I began reading XKCD and thought to myself - maybe LISP is for me... At that time I was around 18, and didn't even make the whole tutorial (the one provided by DrRacket) - it did introduce me to some general programming concepts though, which would prove helpful later on.
It didn't help that I didn't visit the right school for it - there I learned mostly languages and didn't pay attention in Maths, which proved to be a really stupid move.
In the year after my "Matura" exam which is probably the italian high school diploma (I might be mistaken),
I frequented a year-long course on web development - in the End we should have been able to call ourselves "Webmasters".
There we were taught the very basics of html and css in two weeks and javascript in another two-week block, as well as some tinkering with our own virtual server writing simple bash scripts and generally trying out Debian.

Now I'm in a secure but not very well-paid job as webdeveloper, where I have to code in classic ASP and mostly just do boring-as-hell copy-paste work.

[0]http://www.clonk.de/
If North Korea had 0-day browsers exploits, they wouldn't be using them on cooks.org.kp
That format also has the benefit of being in the correct order when sorting by name and by date.
Probably the reason why they label it as "GovBuy" instead ;)
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Heh. No. They keep the code in a single repository but it by no means a monolith.

Kubernetes is FROM Google. Along with some of the most advanced distributed systems implementations in the world.
I'm not saying it can't happen, but double-entry accounting will usually detect it and the ACH system* will usually let you reverse it.

* Or whatever the UK equivalent is.
"Sillybank"

I know it's childish but I couldn't help but laugh at this.
I think there have been quite a few attempts now at a cross-platform mobile framework which compiles to native while allowing you to work in some higher language. Am I wrong? If not, what sets Exponent apart?
Given the long list of "breaking changes" and "Deprecated or removed" I think it is premature to suggest that they are moving towards stability.
Cool, they should use HoloLens or VR to do a 3D virtual show room. Something like this would be nice: https://m.reddit.com/r/HoloLens/comments/53lfmt/someone_crea...
It is not the case anymore. Flow now supports windows out of the box.
I remember that time when I said on HN that most meta-analyses are complete garbage because of statistical/mathematical effects that weaken the result and that the conclusions are necessarily as flawed as the underlying data. I got downvoted into oblivion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534296
Actually, patents do precisely claim commercial monopolies over ideas.
I'm not baiting down-votes. Far from it. Just voicing that TL;DR is annoying. There's a reason you can't have both text AND a url in a HN submission - it's to encourage people to actually visit the link.

Next, we'll have people just copy-pasting the entire article body as a comment ... :(
I gave Android Studio 8GB of heap space to play with, and it still manages to run out. WTF.
Also I hope people who go to museum would refrain from photographing and actually enjoy the art experience while there. MoMa especially was very bad in this regard and it was very difficult to look at anything and not be asked to move out of way. Some museums ban photography and I think it makes them much more enjoyable.
My team is 'locked' into TS on a large project. We have yet to purchase any TS related tooling, and have no plans or need to do so. Given that TS transpiles to JS, I'm unsure as to how any project can be truly 'locked' into the ecosystem. I'm really unsure what you are basing your fears upon.
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I'm confused why these are in units of energy kWh? Shouldn't the just be watts a unit of power?
Funding an attack on a patent is also a great way to solicit counter attacks. Patent trolls like to sue.
There are tons of opportunities to improve banking and credit, but these overarching statements about new technology yay and micro services good and batch processing verboten... Ugh, total jargony bullshit.

Building the best X is about using the best tools to do what X needs. Not everything craves massive scale and a TON runs better on a well provisioned RDB!

Want to revolutionize banking? Fine, but don't forget the fucking CAP theorem when you're storing my cash.
The "Michigan Left" was used a lot in New Orleans when I lived there. I didn't know there was a name for this pattern.
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It has, thanks to http://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=georgewfr...
"Large internet companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Twitter have shown that single monolithic codebases do not scale to large numbers of users".

Strange that because banks have been using relational database technologies for that task for years.
I would shed no tears if JS were extinguished. It's a terrible mongrel language that is not well suited for large projects. TS is a tremendous improvement, if you ask me.
If you were leading the Pixel phone effort what would you choose as the top three market differentiators?

To start one small thing I'd do is match Apple on the length of update support window.
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I use that format to sort my picture folders. So, sorting by name sorts by date as well.

Additionally, I add the month text (mmm) as well to the date, which makes it easy for me to quickly recognize the month, otherwise I mostly have to count :(

So like, 2016-09(Sep)-19

That way, the sorting still works, and I get to see 3 letter month abbreviations as well.
Slow DSL. I pay a lot for 2mbps internet and frontier won't upgrade. I can upgrade with ublock plus.

If adtech companies leaned on Washington to get better internet in the field, I would support them. But they don't.
So... just ignore them?
How much money are we talking about here? It sounds like a lot of money if a bank had to call other banks.
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At 3 AM on a Sunday, you discover a critical bug in a library provided by a third party.

Commercial support: send email. You get an automated message back with a ticket number. Around 6:30 AM you get a call from Delhi that satisfies the 4 hour response SLA, and the support analyst says that they will look into it. At 11 AM you get a request for a dump and certain logs, some of which you had already sent them...

Open source support: after getting zero google results, you look through the source code while running a debugger. It takes you two hours to find the place where it makes an assumption that a signed variable will never be negative, an hour to test your fix, and five minutes to send a patch to the mailing list. It is coming up on 6:30 AM, and you conference in the two people who need to approve emergency changes in order to get that approval. (This is a bank. You can't unilaterally make a production code change.) Everything is deployed before 8 AM.
Part of the problem (among many) is the patent office is funded by fees. So they naturally favor "approving" patents, because applications are their revenue source. Plus it cost businesses to invalidate a patent, but the patent office doesn't bear the cost of bad pattents.

https://www.uspto.gov/blog/director/entry/an_update_on_susta...
That's almost like Brewster's Millions, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/.
Because the article talks about all these technologies on a basis that appeals to engineering sensibilities -- ease of development, tolerance to failure, latest hotness, etc. Many fewer words are spent explaining these technical decisions from a perspective that considers the bank's strategic interests. Without much relating it specifically to the needs of a bank, there's not much to separate it from any other company's explanation of their tech stack.
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Having worked in the industry, most top tier investment banks run on microservices, some for over a decade. Just because microservices is the new buzzword doesn't mean it's suddenly a bad, or risky idea. I don't know about the backend state of modern retail banking, but I'd be surprised if this wasn't also the case.
My experience has been that a great amount of work is simply idle. Forced idleness. Survive this for 40 hours a week. Factory work: Do these things over and over. Retail cashier? Do this over and over while some of these people treat you badly, including management. Fast food is worse. I worked in a call center once - inbound collections for a phone company and heard horror stories about how soul-sucking telemarketing was. There isn't much personal growth in many of these: I'd say that by the time one works 40 hours in some of these jobs and takes care of one's needs (and family), there just isn't any room left. And it isn't like there is much flexibility - you are expected to put the job first.

This is precisely why I didn't want to work in a factory when I was young. I lived in a town surrounded by the shells of people that used to have life in them, but after 20-40 years of boredom, repetition, and merely being a piece of the machine had severe effects.

Work may not be an evil in itself, but the culture of it really can be and most work out there simply isn't a rewarding experience outside of getting money. I'm not convinced that this sort of idleness is preferable outside of having money.

If the culture should change, it might be different. Encourage outside life, make policies so that folks can have family time and take care of them, discourage overtime: make sure folks have wages and free time enough that they can do something after taking care of things they need. This won't fix the horribleness of some jobs, but it will trap folks a little less.
I am interested in what tools you would suggest for said visualizing/comprehending.
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Just because the bug was discovered doesn't mean it's been fixed in deployment. ;)

Remember, as well, the bug was only half of that paper's findings; they also found fundamental flaws in the method. Besides which, there are widespread methodological flaws that IMO make more difference.
Well, I hope for the head of the NK chief propaganda minister that the grand divine dictator's internet does not break down with all the traffic from Hacker News..

"Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Sohae Space Centre to inspect the ground jet test of a new type high-power engine of a carrier rocket for the geo-stationary satellite."

It sounds really hilarious, but it reminds me of the soviet era in the Warsaw Pact member states. Poor citizens. We are so lucky to have a degree of control over our supreme leadership..
Under what mechanism would the "extinguish" part be at all possible?
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Because the unit of measure takes into account how long you used a watt. It's a measure of rate... Sort of like a car uses mph.
Well if your goal was to optimize your taxes to pass on as much as you could to your heirs you failed at your goal.
Why not? I've seen it done.
I'm not sure how responsive gas plants are, I believe it can take an non-insignificant time to spin up, when demand at that point my have subsided.

There is always a baseline need for energy, seems most sensible to me this comes from a modern, nuclear source and not the relics we rely on today.
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I think GP means it is notable that, in 2016, the zone list for NK is so small that it can be perused in mere seconds due to its short length (as compared to any other country).
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Also good reasons to use HTTPS.
The rankings are made out of the interactions with the content.

Currently we calculate the ranking with the obvious interactions like hits, votes, comments and the number of 'tag a friend'.

At the moment you can see the sources in every article. We show you who published an specific article.

But you are right - we should implement a detail page where we show you all sources we use.
Their pictogram of a phone in 2016 is a rotary phone.