skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly more complex than that, as the ECHR isn't an EU institution, so Brexit won't result in any significant change to the relationship with the ECHR (it's a little more complex than I've made sound, as there are some relatively minor links with the EU).

However, May has stated her desire to also leave the European convention on human rights (and replace it with a UK owned Bill of Rights). This is not something that's happening as part of Brexit, and no bills have been presented before Parliament with this as a component or purpose.

I would assume that the government would take the pragmatic approach that it's better to focus on Brexit for now, and deal with the ECHR once Brexit is over with. However, I have no inside knowledge of this, and that's just my wild and unsubstantiated assumption.
Some companies are going to be overvalued, and some undervalued compared to how much value they will make in the future (e.g. how much profit they will generate over a ten year period).

If I manage to figure out that Company A is overvalued compared to Company B, and I short Company A in order to buy stock in Company B then by doing so, in a simple supply-and-demand model... Company A's stock will go down very slightly (because I shorted them), and Company B's stock will go up slightly (because I bought their stock).

A higher stock value helps a company - they can sell some of their own stock in order to raise more funds. Therefore, the value I've provided is I've made a calculated decision that the economy should be spending more on (for example) robotics and less on coal because robotics companies are going to more successful, and coal less successful.

Allocating funds to the more profitable companies and industries is one of the strengths of the market economy - it adds efficiency.

Price-finding in general adds value. Also market liquidity adds value. I wouldn't discount what these people do, even if they are narcissistic selfish assholes as a breed.
Yes, so they're both unproductive pursuits.
Exactly. I'm pissed of that they treat us Reddit users that way. If they don't want to use Reddit they can just fuck off somewhere else and let us be. We don't need them to "moderate" us.

I have a lot of respect for the Go team but they sure are bad at managing communities.
1. I'd rather have them up 1% to 10%.

2. After all, the customers are over paying for the word Patagonia.

3. The cost of goods must be low? I could be wrong? Patagonia must make all their gear in the USA. They wouldn't dare charge those prices for Chinese made goods? I disavow number 3. (Trump is rubbing off.)

4. This will be a nice end of year right off?

5. The Goodwill will be more than any loss today.

6. The 501C3's look like a lot of "feel good" nonprofits. I recognized one that has people literally running around federal parks parks and pulling non native plants, while the founder makes a very good living. (I should "out" her.)

7. I wish I wasen't so cynical.
I suggest AirVPN (no affiliation). I’ve been using it for more than a year, and it’s reliable, with plenty of servers and good speeds. If I am not mistaken, it’s operated from Italy.

Another option is to rent a VPS/dedicated server somewhere outside the UK, with decent bandwidth and data cap, and configure your own VPN between your systems, using the rented server as the internet gateway.
If your in the UK http://www.hotukdeals.com/black-friday lists all the current deals.
If you read the article, you'll see there are 55 million Americans freelancing. Surely you don't think all of those people are highly paid designers or engineers like those visiting Rackspace in the video! Yes, a few fit that demographic, but it's a small group.

On the whole, freelancers are more likely to be drivers or home cleaners than tech workers.
Amazon is part of the list of sites being tracked. Any reason you felt otherwise?
Oh yeah, they totally blew it with the Plan 9 community too. I had hoped they learned their lesson, but no.
Instead of "fuel pumps", did you mean "heat pumps"?
Nobody wants to sign the list of "People whose internet history we should look at first"
This is the point I'm trying to make, they have had a long period of economic growth, people will put up with a lot if they see their situation is getting better. The question is what happens when the growth flounders.
It's easy to get lost in all the hate, as those groups tend to be more vocal. So I'm writing this here just to what I reasonably can to stand up against all the negativity. I feel so helpless just reading all these comments.

Homebrew is excellent software, and the malice expressed in this and similar threads does in no way reflect (my) real world experience of people's perception of Homebrew. I would go so far to say it's probably the best piece of software that I know, it's really easy to use, always works and helpful if something goes wrong. Good software is pretty rare to find, especially open source software with no commercial backing.
A good leader keeps his people's bellies full and their ambitions low... or so the tao goes.
For example, data about installed software versions can be used to automatically find systems that are vulnerable to certain exploits.
This is already possible. They support Cloud-init: https://dply.co/help/cloud-init
The UK voted to leave the EU not the ECHR which is a different treaty organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Convention_on_Human_R... for more information.
Is it just me, or are some of their prices double the price at Amazon ?
Reading the legislation its not "Entire Internet history" as most people would understand it. It looks very much like they are asking for NetFlow data without saying that explicitly. They want a Time stamp, port, source and destination IP and amount of data transferred. This is terrifying, I think the “Internet history” narrative is being setup to be deliberately confusing.
Wait, don't they huge fines paid by Chase, Goldman, and others, indicate that there was some criminal activity involved in how the banks assembled and sold the CDOs?

Why would the boards approve the settlements if there wasn't some kind of legally culpable behavior?

I'm not one to advocate for prosecuting people for political reasons.

But given how people from lesser socio-economic classes are incarcerated far too often for property crimes involving much smaller amount, it's hard not to perceive a hypocritical double standard at work here.
People put up with a lot in America. That's mostly because of money. Take away the money and you will have problems.
IntelliJ IDEA with the vim plugin. This gives me great code completion, auto imports, go to definition etc. And the ergonomics of vim.
Depends on how you look at it. Remember that in UK, there's no concept of separation of powers - the Parliament is sovereign, and the executive (monarch excepted) derives all power from it, inasmuch as the Parliament chooses to grant it. And one of those powers is to set policy for the entire cabinet.

In a sense, UK actually has too much democracy, and too few [formal] checks and balances on the power of the elected legislature.
Yes, fuck you too. Try a little empathy next time, and failing that, reading comprehension.

I said the decision should be theirs. I did not say my body couldn't be parted from them, I said it was their decision to do so. I used to be registered as a donor, but because the law has now changed that my donorship overrides the wishes of my loved ones, I have withdrawn it.
Its likely you could even use DigitalOcean in London because they're likely not subject to this legislation as they don't provide *DSL-style services?
No complex commitment necessary. You'll be faster with vim in less than two days. You'll never look back.

alias nano='vim'
Whenever something becomes topical you get a flurry of articles on the frontpage. At the moment it's China, but next week it will be something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty
Dude I didn't know this. Thank you so much for sharing. Wtf.

BTW next time add link to source instead of cancerous subreddits.

https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=282044
The European Court of Human Rights is separate from the EU and the UK will will still be part of it after Brexit. But the political climate might be such that leaving ECHR could follow on from Brexit
> The privacy concerns nonwithstanding, I'm puzzled how ISPs are supposed to actually implement that load of bollocks.

DPI products have been doing that for years. No biggie.

The law is still stupid, but not for technical reasons, imo.
A wet dream for police states. Distribute dumb terminals to government-run cloud servers for free and soon enough the only people who don't make their whole life transparent to the state are the criminals.
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It might be so, but I also find reports of 3+ million illegals, 4+ million dead people, and other alleged acts of fraud to be suspicious... If we're going to go down that path it won't be pretty and it will likely involve more than just those 3 states. That said from what I read MI has already declared they've certified (recounted) their results so at this point Stein is just hustling money. I do wish technology could advance our voting systems on the whole though.. possibly block-chain based? but might require voter id! oye
> They will have to become more democratic and accountable to their population first.

I respectfully disagree. There is no need to do it as long as near total control over information is possible - and it is . Western, money-and-profit-oriented business don't see or don't care that any help they deliver in exchange for money will kill them later when internal-external asymmetry of Chinese economical and political system becomes too cumbersome to deal with.

China is positioning itself as a global monopoly externally but cutthroat capitalism internally. External players are allowed in only if they bring more than they take out - again, they might not notice or not think it's a problem.
Full disclosure: one of my books is on the list, but there are lots of titles - many of which seem relevant to fellow HNers
I would bet all my money on .NET Core. I'm also .net dev with many years of experience and was quite skeptical about the platform last years, but since birth .NET Core, since they bought Xamarin and Mono, went from closed source to open source model, went to Linux, did amazing job on performance and stability of .NET Core I see that the future of the core is very bright. It's not mature now but good enough for many project, IMO.
Well, RISC-V is coming and some of that will be fully open source, freely licensed hardware. For example: http://www.lowrisc.org/

Peripherals are a lot more tricky. RISC-V is concentrating on the CPU cores, cache hierarchy and interrupt controller. Peripherals will be proprietary for a while, but could be open source one day.
PPTP is fine to avoid this madness; it will mask all traffic from a single IP to another single IP.

It is not safe, that is true, but it's better than nothing for this specific purpose.
thanks Wes, purchasing now!
I only hear good things about the nordic countries and that news just tops it.

Lately I've been researching Tesla's solar roofs but it seems to me that it will be a difficult thing to pull off in UK due to building control and all kinds of other arcane systems that prevent use of modern building practices.
I sure did, as I looked at countless other car-related videos, just found it interesting that the system behind the Google ads couldn't "guess" that I don't really have the money to buy a Porsche (for starters I fly low-cost, which Google knows). But as the other commenter says, maybe I'm not meant to buy it, just to be envious of it, which I most certainly am.
> Why not open an issue

The maintainer already stated it's not a bug, plus the nature of the message implies opt-out was a design choice.

> of course, why would we do

Why start a fork before "attacking" the maintainer? Are you suggesting we need to audit every code base we use? As reasonable as checking every box of morning cereal for glass shards.

The software is spyware. Words like "spyware" and "stealing" are correct, I don't care how it paints the maintainer to describe the situation accurately, they created that situation.

> calling out this kind of behaviour is the least I could do

by "calling out this kind of behaviour" you attacking critics with poor arguments? That's not support, its fan-boyism.
If I live in the UK, but I am not a citizen, can I sign this petition?
How can I protect myself from government snoopers?
I have text editor commitment issues; I change editors somewhere between bi-weekly and bi-monthly. Some of the reasons why I switch to and fro:

- Visual Studio Code—pull factors: Better performance than Atom. Solid language support for Python, and excellent for JS and TypeScript, and the Language Server Protocol means that the UI is identical no matter which language you use. Looks good. Push factors: Not as customisable as other editors, especially visually. Startup time still leaves me wanting.

- Atom—pull factors: Infinitely customisable; basically the Emacs of the 21st century. Looks good. Push factors: Git integration is nowhere near as good as VSC (ironic considering its authors), and I've yet to find a Git plugin I really like. While it's not unusable, the performance isn't the best.

- Sublime Text—pull factors: Performance. The ST dock icon often doesn't even get to finish its first bounce animation before it's ready to go, and it can handle large files amazingly. Push factors: Stagnation, both in the editor and the plugin ecosystem, compared to Atom and VSC. (It seems like this has been improving a bit lately.)

- Chocolat—pull factors: Really beautiful, native Cocoa UI. Buffer list in the sidebar instead of tabs and command-click for split windows is really neat, and I wish more editors worked this way. (VSC and ST can both be configured to get half-way there, but they both conceptually differ with Chocolat on how splits work, and I prefer Chocolat's approach.) Push factors: Less extensible, and worse plugin ecosystem, than anything else on this list. (You can't even provide a third-party autocompletion engine.) Not cross-platform, so I can't use it on my Linux box at work. Configuration is through a GUI only, so difficult to keep under source control and sync across machines. No complete-as-you-type. Hasn't had a release since June. Actual text editor widget seems kinda janky sometimes.

- Vim—pull factors: Modal editing. (All of the others have Vim-emulation plugins or a Vim mode, but they have varying levels of usefulness. Chocolat's can't even easily do key remappings last I checked.) Rich plugin ecosystem. Push factors: Vimscript somehow manages to be the only language more puzzling and hideous than Bourne/Bash shell scripts, although to its merit it doesn't have a keyword called 'esac'. GUI mode is essentially an in-process terminal emulator.

There's a few more I'd like to try, like Brackets, Coda (I love the idea of having terminal emulator tabs in your text editor! I'm not sure if I like how web-focused it is though), and CodeRunner; and a few more I've tried before but not stuck with for any length of time, like TextMate and BBEdit. I also used PyCharm at work for about six months, but stopped when the VSC Python extension started getting good and haven't gone back since. But those are the ones that I've actually used in earnest for a decent length of time and still regularly switch between.
Might be a flippant comment, but that's the first thing that went through my mind. I've never gone deep into caring much about government overreach, but that was a terrifying subconscious reaction.
http2 as a transport, some metadata like url or header as a signal for a load-balancer to route the stream somewhere else (to a vpn endpoint in this case).
After the second world war, Soviet Union was growing so fast that many smart people in western world that communism is superior to capitalism.

However, Soviet Union economic growth peaked in 1959. It was primarily based on catch up growth: recovery from WW 2 and moving ppl from agriculture to industry.

Is China similar story?
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2015/12/09/like-soviet-russ...

A good read on that:
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Nations-Fail-Origins-Prosperity/d...

I give 50/50 chance to China will avoid this fate, but not more.
Just route everything though a 4G router and change the prepaid sim card every month, it's honestly the best way for now.
Wells Fargo's product-per-client quota springs to mind
Apress [1] are doing ebooks for £9.99 and print books for £12.50.

Picked up a copy of Practical Common Lisp for £12.50. Even second hand these are going on Amazon for £25, and lord knows I've been through that book online enough times to know it's about time I got myself a hard copy!

[1] http://www.apress.com/gp/shop/cybermonday?&token=cyber16&wt_...
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It's one of those apple candy keyboards. Typing on those is only slightly better than typing on glass.
Collection batch files to make Windows 10 more private
Not especially viable for 100GB+ consumption per month. There's no cost-effective option for this volume, AFAIK?
Why You Need to Ditch Content and Switch to Video Ads
Awesome! Seeing a few sales come through from this.

Enjoy it!
I predict that a year from now there will be a massive data leak (perhaps known to some underground circles only) with personal details matched to browser history - why - because most agencies in UK does not know how to handle your data securely.

Meanwhile, you better setup your VPN on DO or one of the cheap ARM-based cloud hosting companies. That's what I did and it works flawlessly for as cheap as $5 a month - or the price of a cup of coffee.

This setup is fine for all types of activities except downloading larger data files, which can be offloaded elsewhere with some clever routing or just jumping on a different box.

I do understand that this might be too much for the average Joe but if you care about your privacy, that exactly what it takes.
UK residents can also sign, there is a checkbox on the form to confirm you are a citizen or resident.
I think we're discussing trading here. I'm not prepared to give anyone financial advice, but I'm probably not personally a huge fan of retail bankers, investment bankers, wealth management, expensive mutual funds, and so on.
Thanks for sharing. Was looking for this :)
This. Intel has a lot of catchup to do there. NVidia's drivers and libs are simply on a different level. For example I've seen the same OpenGL code execute faster on an ancient Tegra 4 (mobile) platform than on an Intel Haswell with HD Graphics (which is supposed to beat the Tegra 4 by miles according to raw specs).
(2013) Understanding ssh-agent and ssh-add
If you look at Google Play Store you will see a lot of comments from non-expert users (you can easily see it from their messages). Maybe that is because writing a comment in Play Store is easier than subscribing to a mailing list many projects still use or registering in a forum.

Also maybe they do not say anything because everything works ok for them?
> I think Snowden mentioned his colleagues used to stalk their exes.

It's a matter of public record that MI5 staff have been abusing their powers and had to be disciplined:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mi5-misuse-of-surveillance...
> I’ve asked some contacts I have at Livermore if they had such a policy out there, and they said they hadn’t heard of one.

Either that or the policy is a secret and they're not allowed to tell anyone about it.
If you are ok to host it yourself, then you can use Piwik [1]. I use Clicky[2] and I'm satisfied with it. The dashboards are better in Clicky.

[1]: https://piwik.org/
[2]: https://clicky.com/
There is no restriction on where you must live to stand for parliament- I encourage you to stand against him!

Although, I would concentrate on Theresa May herself (I considered doing this at the last election when all this was mooted but blocked by the lib dems, but I stood where I live instead.)
Copy of my comment on other thread:

I would urge everyone who can to sign the petition against it.

This, in my mind is a problem, not because of the obvious costs (ISPs storing _literally all_ metadata for a year), and the insidous privacy concerns, but how bad Govts are at keeping information secure. Below are 3 recent and well known examples of Government Mass Data leaks- this information will be compromised at some point, for profit or espionage.

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

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449927.stm

https://www.troyhunt.com/when-nation-is-hacked-understanding...

IMHO, trotting out "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" BS doesn't mean that at some point, that data will be misused, even if the UK (My) Government doesn't suddenly turn dictatorial.
Sixa: A personal computer in the cloud
Aixtron hasn't been doing too well lately. So there is definitely a positive side to an acquisition.

From Aixtron's website on November 17 [1]:

>CFIUS [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] informed the parties that it plans to recommend to the U.S. President that the transaction be prohibited based on CFIUS’ conclusion that there would be no reasonable way to mitigate the U.S. national security risks perceived by CFIUS on the basis of the mitigation proposals submitted by the parties to date.

> Both, GCI and AIXTRON have decided not to follow such recommendation as a result of which the matter has been referred to the U.S. President for decision in line with CFIUS statutes.

If I understand that correctly, Aixtron SE has investments in the USA and the CFIUS is now moving to block the acquisition because they think if GCI owns these investments that the national security is threatened.

Or am I misreading something?

[1] http://www.aixtron.com/en/press/press-releases/detail/aixtro...
Thank you - damn, i fell right into the "I thought Europe = EU" trap.
Either you find things that would work a lot better for them after the change or the change just doesn't make sense from their point of view. Just because you have less work with a public cloud that doesn't mean your users will be happier too.
E-Voting can be easily solved with ID cards combined with something similar to the blockchain so that you can verify your vote if you need to.

The technology is there but I don't think there is any incentive to make it happen.

The only problem that I can see is that we cannot be certain that any e-voting technology will survive future information security research and as a result the design needs to factor continuous upgrades.
I'm working in the industry, and came from astrophysics, and intend to return to it one day. I would have stayed, but when the salary is 10x or more and you have a family, it's an easy decision. A part of me always feels dirty doing what I'm doing when I see news about Hubble, New Horizons, etc.

And as for 'super smart people', I'd just say quants in general are 'super smart' at the very narrowest of mathematical problem sets, but shouldn't be let within a mile of a compiler. And they shouldn't be invited to parties either.
Here's the government's current projection for total energy consumption in Finland between 2015 and 2030 (if the link works):
http://www.hs.fi/webkuva/taysi/560/1479969511874?ts=73

It's in Finnish I'm afraid. The legend from top to bottom is as follows (sorry, some terms used are unfamiliar to me):

-Oil, incl. biocomponent (?? Biodiesel etc?)

-coal

-Coke, incl. gas

-Natural gas

-Nuclear energy

-Net electric import

-Hydroelectric

-Wind- and solar power

-Peat

-Wood fuels

-Other

Basically the changes vs. today seem to be:

-roughly 5-7% increase in total energy consumption

-Cessation of coal use and net electricity imports

-The above are mainly compensated for by increased reliance on nuclear power and wood fuels.

-In percentage terms, solar and wind are projected to increase significantly, but total contribution in 2030 is still projected to be quite small.
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