skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding your last point: A depreciation of the currency is generally positive for a country. Expensive imports give incentive to use local products (e.g. food), at the same time exports become more competitive. That is the reason why the US accused China of keeping it's currency weak for years. It's the volatility in the exchange rate which makes it harder for companies to plan reliably, but most will profit from the new level (except airlines).

So while there will be some inflation (estimated at 3% at the moment), the economy profits from the exchange rate movements. The underlying problem is that the GBP lost value because of the uncertainty, and this uncertainty is not good for the economy. However, people voted for Brexit and a lot of them are happy with the result. So this uncertainty won't necessarily lead to less consumption. Current economic data looks better than what was anticipated before.

So as long as people are happy with the current situation and the outlook, the economy could actually profit from the vote in the short term. The longer term is of course very dependent on the deal that the UK will get.

Regarding your other points: A lot of promises were made in the campaign that are completely unrealistic (£200mln a week for the NHS). Not being part of the government makes it easier to ignore those promises. Boris is probably one of the only ones who could face questions at some point, in case the deal isn't as great as he believes.

As Conservatives are already in favour of a hard Brexit, it's hard for UKIP to get many voters in that space and to gain more seats in the next election. Farage saw the chance to sell the vote as his win (although he wasn't even part of the official campaign) without having to implement any of the consequences. The party is an absolute mess. They don't seem to have a lot of competent people, so Farage basically had to take over again. I don't think he planned that. Especially as they'll have to find a motto now. Their purpose was to get the UK out of the EU. With that done, the question is why people should vote for them.
In some cases glasses make it worse. Then you inevitably have to adjust them or scratch between the eyes when they get itchy, and then check-mate.
* The pound plummeting like a rock.
- Expected period of adjustment.

* Xenophobia, bordering on fascism, being advocated by the press.
- BBC is nothing but a continuous charity appeal.

* The gradual, quiet, handing of the NHS to private companies.
- Precedes Brexit.

* Ever growing demand for food banks, most notably by people working jobs that don't pay enough to fulfil basic needs.
- Precedes Brexit.

* The only vaguely viable opposition to the government self-destructing right when they're needed most.
- Precedes Brexit.

Completely off-topic.
- A chrome extension

- Sends fake data through chrome (a google arm)

- To google analytics (a google arm)

- To ruin googles data (its core business)

You tell me whether that's going to work at scale.
Similar articles were written about Jeff Bezos and Amazon 20 years ago.

"no profit", "losing money every year", "unsustainable" etc...

I admire Musk. Not a huge fan of the way he is funding his goals but don't really care, do what you gota do, it's caveat emptor in the stock market.

Musk's companies are not even close to the riskiest financial structures among public companies.

Rooting for success of Tesla and SpaceX. But I don't own the stock.

Sometimes the financial press comes across like they don't want anything important to happen ever. Reward requires risk.
Libraries are already packed and some lack Starbucks.
Agree. However, large enterprises usually have common compliance/access control policies, something not easily implemented across multiple VCS (unless there's a full-fledged internal development team dedicated to that).

Working in a big firm adds overhead, yet has certain benefits (resources, etc.). That's a whole different topic though.
It strikes me there's nothing inherently mercurial specific to this tool. This could very well be ported as a UI for git add -p.
> There were many PocketPC-based smartphones (PDA-phones), even from HP and Sharp.

Really? I remember spending quite a while comparing specs before getting an ASUS A730W. I remember a few interesting-sounding Zauruses (Zaurodes?) that were never released in the west, but nothing I could actually buy.

> Also, many inexpensive phones could run third-party apps, albeit crappy Java ME-based.

True - but they really were crappy. Whereas my PDA ran real programs - it was relatively easy to port and build existing C++ code (the UI toolkit was different, but all UI toolkits were different in those days).
Do you think that improving the model does not fall under "provide the Services to Customer?"
Supersonic flights over land is actually a fairly difficult problem to solve, as the noise levels are very high. This is a major reason behind why the Concorde only flew across the ocean.

Nonetheless I did not know Boeing was lobbying against it - that kind of protectionism does indeed hinder innovation.
How I've wound up being one of the people who don't update IoT firmware
My wife was a teacher. Their union was one of the most dishonest thing I've ever seen, with the school running a close second.

When we were having our first kid, my wife made the mistake of telling the school she was pregnant. Over the summer the school laid off every employee that wasn't tenured due to budget cuts. Then due to contractual obligations, they hired all of them back. Well, all except the three that were pregnant. The union did two things to help: diddly, and squat. A month into the process they indicated that they could get this resolved, then suddenly started straight up refusing to talk to us until we coughed up the next quarter's dues ($400 IIRC). As soon as we paid they told us there was nothing we could do. And since the wife wasn't qualified to work for the quarter, those dues were unnecessary.

The school was the really shady character though. If we had kept silent about the pregnancy, she would have been hired back, then fall under their disability leave. We fought the whole thing, and of the DoL said the way they managed the layoff was above board, and while the whole thing stunk, it wasn't technically illegal.

I understand the need for unions in the early 20th century, but I have yet to see a single example of a modern union helping any employee.
But that's presumably also because getting to altitude and speed requires vastly more fuel than maintaining speed at the desired elevation.
Have you try it first or u are the usually hater that talk only because the Modules aren't in MVC/OOP and the code is a developer preview?
Test the code first, after u talk.
Check this useful article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comparison-linguistic-apis-na... about comparison of quality of different text analysis API.
Distrbuted warehouses rolled out to support 60000 merchants in Nigeria
They didn't have an APU (weight), so towing to runway would need an external spin up too. It would probably have no air or hydraulics until it got there.

Engines and intakes were designed to be supersonic efficient, which meant they were horribly inefficient at subsonic and taxi speeds. SR71, XB70 and similar big supersonics of that generation had similar, but worse, issues. Being military it didn't matter - they used to just in-air refuel the SR71 right after takeoff!
The British torpedos used in the Falklands war were designed in 1925 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_21_inch_torpedo#21_inc...
Renewables overtake coal as world’s largest source of power capacity
You're talking about the plot from the foundations series of books, by Isac Asimov. Where's the line between sci-fi and reality.

One foundation will keep all of human knowledge, while the universe goes at war for 1000 years straight.

Spoiler Alert: A second foundation, secret and hidden even from the first one, will keep all of human knowledge as well and protect the first one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
One of my golden nuggets from ~15 years ago:
60x 1.com
http://11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111...

You can click thru 60 times!
Yes, GitHub is now my go-to resource when I got problems (before it was Stackoverflow)

1. Google the problem

If Google don't has answers.

2. Look into the source on GitHub

2. becomes 1. if I used the lib for a longer time or I know it's really small.

I think I became a better developer that way, because I now see more often how other devs do things (code- and process-wise)
Don't make these design mistakes on your next app
On the flip side if you don't have a lot to lose you might as well take risks.
> I.e. having a basic understanding of how git manages its data makes hardly leaves me with situations and repository states that I cannot resolve.

If your dvcs allows you to get to that odd situation then it's already bad. Think about it as a tool for masses, maybe someone really familiar with GIT internals can resolve all odd situations, but imagine introducing GIT into an Organization with 1000 SVN users. The costs of all the guys learning in depth git is just too big.
I got it from my father, who rose from poor to wealthy through education. He taught me that education was all that mattered. When I achieved a prestigious Silicon Valley position after dropping out of college, I considered myself a fake who would be discovered at any moment for a long time. All my colleagues had compsci degrees. Thing is, I eventually discovered that I could hold my own. What my father taught me is only one way to achieve success, as I later realized. But that he taught it as dogma crippled me for a long time.
The Starcraft trigger editor[1] is probably one of the best living examples of the basis of a visual programming language.

[1]: https://youtu.be/cOHgaONC6nw
maybe I should have quoted the part that was wrong:

>>[someones comment] appears to have nothing to do with the article we're supposed to be discussing.

This is wrong because mentioning a short bet is on topic for an article about a negative news event.

Regarding your other point, I haven't researched it. I can only say my other comment on this thread (about what Musk knew about quality) had nothing to do with anything you mentioned.
I think GIT staging area wouldn't make it so nice to use in the end. Unless the whole thing is abstracted more, but then we get into the gitless discussion again.
Would be nice if the title would suggest what he did. He was an important blogger in the early days? What did he write about?
Baidu File System – A distributed file system for real-time applications
I generally agree with that article.

Using "personal" email servers should be the rule, not the exception.

When using centralized email servers, you have a single point of spying, subpoenating and hacking.

However, messages should be encrypted, not only the transmission, the messages themselves, and kept encrypted on the servers (be they personal or organizational, centralized or close to their users).

But the only company that did that had to close under pressure of the US government's agency (cf. Lavabit).

There is still the opportunity to build an opensource secure and easy to deploy email server system that end-users could easily install at home.
There was a period here on HN where every week or two they'd be a story or an Ask HN about someone hitting the limit and having to shut down.

To add a bit more to the context to the parent, all these third party clients made it possible for people to use Twitter how they wanted to, to tailor it to them. Twitter decided they wanted you to use it in their way.

It was a big shift in the culture of twitter. It's hard to quantify as everyone has their own perspective on it.
As I wrote in my other comment, inflation at current exchange rates is forecasted to go to ~3% over the next year. That's much higher than currently, but not dangerously high for the economy.

At the same time, the volatility of exchange rates are worrying businesses, but the absolute value is probably rather positive for the economy. People will buy more local and exports are cheaper. The economy seems to hold up well and will probably continue to do so until Brexit actually happens.

To be clear, I'm absolutely no fan of Brexit, but I don't think that it will have negative effects in the next 1-2 years. In the longer term this may look very different.
Why the internet is broken
There are some book recommendations at the bottom of the article, which are missing the (IMHO) latest-and-greatest introductory resource to Haskell: the book Haskell from First Principles.

http://haskellbook.com
Before they were mainly filled with people reading newspapers and writing in notebooks. Discussion still happens when people find it valuable.
The FA says that the perception that the Concorde was expensive was incorrect and that the airlines raised it's tickets costs to match that incorrect perception.
If I have to guess, the primary organ used in prediction of the future, especially catastrophes
Chatterbox – All in one support software
ReoGrid is now open source
So what is the distinction? I mean that as a genuine question - Vidarh's position seems to be that the death penalty is intentionally taking a life, and shouldn't have a different moral standing to murder.

The response seems to be that that's a bad argument, they don't really believe that there's no distinction, and it would be stupid to believe that.

If I don't see a distinction of moral significance between the death penalty and, say, the CEO of a company deciding to painlessly execute one of their reports that they discover has gotten away with serious embezzling for multiple years, scorn doesn't help me understand the distinction someone else does see.
Announcing Practical ES6 – And the Modular JavaScript Book Series
Came here to say that I love Twitter and am online on it far more than on any other service.

I even clicked on its served commercials, because Twitter has my professional network and managed to score some ads that triggered my interest, versus on Facebook where I have a list of friends and acquaintances with which I've got little in common with.

Their problem is their ad inventory and their targeting. They should serve more ads and improve their targeting.
A language can grow in popularity while still remaining a niche language. Haskell is a very good example of that, but I really can't say the same thing about Clojure.
> As the irish figured out, arbitrarily low corporate taxes are just not possible in the EU.

Well but sorry, you are wrong here. The Irish selectively made deals with companies, that was ruled illegal. Not having low taxes, which works great in case of Malta. (5% tax for foreign investors)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/leesheppard/2016/09/05/the-eu-ca...

> Last but not least, the EU could just take the stance that the continued announcements of the legal government to invoke article 50 constitute sufficient grounds to start the proceedings.

I suspect more countries would leave the EU if it did something highly illegal like that, but can't be ruled out. The EU is like the Soviet Union so criminality is part of its nature.
Follow the Money – How the DoJ Funds Activists [pdf]
Giving estimates
Are you actively seeking startups or do you wait for them to come to you?

What would be your Ideal investment and are you investing in Food Tech startups?
And could be used with antennas that harvest electrical energy from the background EM radiation. It could lead to battery-less sensors with long life.
Well I go way back, for me the first time it was PERL for web programming, that lovely write-only language.

The biggest one though was Javascript when Netscape first invented it. Suddenly FE development went from HTML without even CSS to actual programming, and one could see the potential of the platform.

Then ActionScript 2, which was the short lived phase of Flash where it evolved from a vector toy for making spinning logos into a JS-like language (they were in the ECMA committee and everything), but you could do all sort of crazy animation and sound too. Sadly ActionScript 3 and Flex ruined it all for me, turning Flash into Java. But it was fun while it lasted.

Luckily by then JS was reborn thanks to jQuery et al, and the next "wow" moment were all the APIs known collectively as "HTML 5" - from WebAudio to WebSockets to Canvas etc.

And finally ES6 / WebPack and React / Flux, finally we could break away from the MVC model that never sat well within a browser environment, and with a modern language to boost.
iTunes as a solution to (legally) rip your existing CDs

Technically, this wasn't any more legal than recording a CD to a cassette tape. It's still an infringing copy. It's just that nobody was ever sued for it, as far as I'm aware, and it's since been legalized in some places.

There were a few CDs with anti-rip technology (including the famous Sony rootkit CDs), but the industry largely gave up on that after losing the DRM war.

If workable DRM had been deployed fast enough, neither Napster nor the iPod would have existed. That's part of why the fight against DRM is important.
Why not both? I thoroughly enjoy the flavor of many of the capsicum chinense variety — Bhut Orange Copenhagen and different kinds of habanero in particular — the burn kicks in after a few seconds, which is fun too, and then the taste returns once the burn wears off. The aftertaste can linger for hours and it's amazing.

Just think of it as sort of a culinary sky dive.

That's not to say that I don't enjoy other tasty, less hot, peppers. E.g. Bishop's Crown aren't particularly hot, but their taste is great and very fresh.
Don't worry, it was promised that the NHS gets £350m more per week after Brexit.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-vote-l...
And how can costs be gibbering?

Staggering via autocorrect?
Meanwhile, in Switzerland, businesses are suffering because the Swiss Franc is too strong.

There are always two sides to a rising or falling currency. In the case of the weak Pound, it is good for exporting British companies and for tourism.
> Then earlier this month he stepped back in as party leader of UKIP after his replacement was forced(?) out/unable to garner support?

Wasn't there some scandal around his replacement (rumours of a punch-up)? There's also the possibility that this was his plan all along.

> What I'm trying to get at is this whole Brexit triggered a huge depression in the value of the Pound. Yet the Conservatives and UKIP are still in power? Or can no one do anything until the next general elections?

Remember that the public voted for it in a referendum - the Conservative government was opposed, at least officially.
WW3 THE WAY ITS GOING AN IMMACULTE CONCEPTION HAS HAPPENED MAYBE WITH TRUMP
No, it says customers thought the Concorde more expensive than it actually was, that's a very different statement. That people thought Concorde tickets more expensive than they were doesn't mean they were cheap by any stretch of imagination.
Well at the moment we don't really have a well-organised/stable opposition party and the Conservatives are given a pretty free ride by the press. The Conservatives are currently polling at 47% so as you can tell, most people are not too up in arms about the whole situation.

As for Farage - I don't think anyone really understands his actions or motivations - I wouldn't put too much thought into it.
> 1. What percent of the population will just take their guaranteed income and do drugs/play video games/party all day, instead of being ambitious?

This probably depends quite a bit on just what level the income was set to.
Every excuse is good to make some more money. Maybe this will make companies look for OSS alternatives. I doubt it will make any impact for government agencies, as they are not spending their own money ;)
On second "Lord of the Rings" movie, "The Two Towers" extended edition DVD, is a making of documentary. Peter Jackson explains that internet connection in New Zealand was so slow, that the special effects artists used their iPods to copy data on it to work at home in London.
Top 30 Free Web Scraping Software
> Can someone explain this part of Brexit. Nigel Farage resigns in July 2016 after he wins the vote. Why? Says he did "his job" and didn't want to be a career politician (according to Wiki)

> Then earlier this month he stepped back in as party leader of UKIP after his replacement was forced(?) out/unable to garner support?

He didn't want to be the one holding the bag once brexit had passed, so he skipped town for a while, let others handle the early fallout then came back fresh as a rose with little to no blame.

The man's a shit-weasel.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12780271
I didn't mean it in the literal sense that she actually wants government to own and direct 100% of the economy, but she is in my view closer to a Socialist than to a right winger.

A right winger would not want to expand an already bloated government to direct even more of the economy, that just doesn't make sense.
List of visual regression testing tools, recently updated
Data Mining Helps Airports to Automatically Scale Capacity with Demand
2 tons of fuel cost around $2000 (obviously this would vary, but that's the sense of it), a single seat on the Concorde cost $6000+ one-way towards the end of its service. Apparently the economics of a) retrofitting an auxiliary power unit to the Concorde so that it could be towed with engines off and b) adding personnel to the ground crew for towing the airplane did not make sense. And even if the airline cared greatly about the environmental impact, 2 tons for a few Concorde flights is a tiny fraction of even a single airline's fuel usage.
The project is not super mature yet, but you could give Frege a try. Frege, as opposed to other solutions, is Haskell in a JVM.

https://github.com/Frege/frege
The sources for the emulated devices are very interesting to read. E.g. https://bitbucket.org/pcem_emulator/pcem/src/c3548dff8c8b235...

I imagine the emulations are based on some public docs or existing driver implementations, and probably not completely accurate--but accurate enough to work with some (most?) drivers. Emulating a lot of old hardware at that level is impressive.
Blimey, I never thought I'd find someone on Hacker news that lives in the same town as me. Up the Cherries.
First line: "Just so we’re clear, this post is a thought experiment, not any form of commitment to deliver Go 2.0 in any time frame. While I personally believe there will be a Go 2.0 in the future, I’m in no position to influence its creation; hence, this post is mere speculation."
Ryan hasn't as yet specifically unendorsed Trump.

And 20-30 GOPs flipping to vote against the Republican nominee for President would count as a "spectacular twist', I think.

> There's a clear procedure for handling it.

Indeed there is!
I work as a developer at a German library and privacy is taken very seriously here. We're not allowed to store full IP addresses in the logs (they have to be truncated to /16). Google Analytics is out of the question (we have to use self-hosted Piwik), as are direct social media buttons, we have to use wrappers that only load the JS after a user clicks on it, and even that has to be approved by the "Datenschutzbeauftragter". Even external links have to be explicitly marked as such so users know when their Referral information is leaked to other websites.
Uber Nigeria Provides Low Interest Loans for Drivers to Buy Own Cars
> you are incorrect in assumption that burnout can happen only once you lose passion for your work

The assumption is not only incorrect, but I believe it is exactly reverse: Losing passing is one of the consequences of a burn-out. It is not a cause, but instead one of the (most visible) symptoms.