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Factual.

The bank my ex works at has as many traders in Paris as in London, for example, and that's fairly common.

I don't doubt there are many French traders in London - these banks shifts staff and roles around as if they're commodities. But that doesn't change the fact that Paris has a large proportion of the EU financial industry. Not as large as London, but substantial enough for Paris to be a major financial centre.
How would you prevent other developers to write C style code?
> A 15 inch, 1.55 cm thick, 1.83 kg laptop fits in a bag just as easily, and is comfortable to hold in one hand.

Are you sure that's "kg" and not "pounds"? I could not imagine holding a 1.83 kg laptop in one hand for longer than a minute or so. (I assume you hold the laptop by its side while the screen is open and active, which creates a surprisingly high torque on one's fingers.)

I'm typing this on an 2012 Asus Zenbook that weighs 1.3 kg, which is quite near the sweet spot for me. The only thing I don't like about it is that it has no replaceable parts whatsoever, and the 4GB RAM is starting to feel a bit tight. So if I ever decide to get a new notebook, I might choose something a bit heftier if it offers replaceable RAM, battery, etc.
Well, I think then you'd be breaking protocol, because afaik, in ham code you must obey procedure, and QRT tells you to stop transmitting.
At https://gutstickets.com we're currently trying to somewhat disrupt the ticketing market where, of course, ticket master is the big evil giant.

Our primary focus is to make disgraceful secondary ticket pricing impossible, something from which TM profits directly through subsidiaries such as seatwave.

But we also just want to have a fair price for fans. No hidden fees or absurd prices for minimal features. No dark patterns.

The fact that our tickets can't be copied, faked or printed makes this a lot easier - we couldn't charge for an fraud insurance or printed tickets even if we wanted to :)

And even though a lot of the market is locked-in there's still a huge long-tail of events and organizers that are free to chose their ticketing company. Hopefully the rest will follow :)
Wayland is less of a security nightmare, how would it work with Wayland?
Yes, but only marginally if they changed the size only 1 out of 1000 times.
I don't understand why they would move to France with a significantly non-zero probability of a Frexit. Is there something I've missed?
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I have the same opinion, actually. I was commenting on the state of mind of the Monoprix executives who probably thought "how unfair it was that Amazon got all the PR".
On the original ZX80 it produced modulated RF to connect to your TV aerial socket as it wasn't common then to have any other inputs on TVs.

More modern TVs have a composite video input which makes the RF modulator redundant. The quality of the picture is much better via composite video.

In fact that is how I used to use my ZX80 back in the day with a wire clipped onto the input to the RF modulator connected to a 9 inch monitor my dad liberated from work!
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Very interesting. I'm trying to think about real life applications for this. Where do you get the data? Are you thinking of making it as a public API? :)
My mum still messing up in garden and bringing to my home some vegs. Because she just has no job and nothing to do.
But what advice would you give someone who has an offer from Uber/Airbnb/Dropbox/Pinterest/Palantir? They're derisked to the point where the RSUs/options should have some value, and their offers to employees definitely reflects this.

I take issue with this statement. I think there's a confusion here between longevity and future risk. Yes, these companies have been around for a long time. That does not mean that they are low risk. The classic example here is something like Good Technology. It had been around for a while, and it had an extremely high valuation... right up until it didn't, and it was sold to RIM for a fraction of its peak. Or Twitter, for example. It debuted at $45. Now it's at $16. Imagine if a large portion of your compensation had been negotiated at that $45 price. Now that portion of your salary is worth less than half of what you were told it was going to be worth.

No, I agree with ChuckMcM. Valuing equity at $0 may seem overly conservative, but you at least have the assurance that you'll never make less money than that. Any positive equity on top is just gravy.
This has been debunked before: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26823489

The French consulate publishes inflated estimates without evidence for obvious self-serving reasons, but verifiable data from the ONS is singnificantly lower than that.
Sure, but that's still a human tragedy - there are probably people out there who would like to know that their loved one has deceased.
In an age where an overwhelmingly large chunk of valuable data is stored digitally, though, speculation about connections between the Kremlin and Kaspersky isn't unfounded, given Kaspersky's line of work; especially given that the Russian government's been known to act in bad faith in the past.
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Totally agree.

This kind of attack is really easy to make just by setting up a wireless network with the ssid you want to block and starting wireless containment countermeasures for rogue ap detection.
This is simply not true. If you look at the report of the Cour des Comptes regarding the tax rates of the financial sector [1] you will see that France take less taxes on bank than pretty much all OECD countries, the only exceptions being Portugal, Spain, Finland and Austria. There are a lot of methods for banks or big company to lower taxes in France and it works well with both bank and France's interests.

[1] http://www.ccomptes.fr/Publications/Publications/Les-preleve... (in French)
> to see a model of how technical writing ought to be done

Well, this is semi-popular technical writing directed at people who are not theory-of-computation researchers. If all scientific writing would be written like this, then all papers would be at least hundreds of pages long and skip important details.

It's absolutely wonderful -- and I think vital -- that a researcher takes the time to do popular writing, but most scientific writing can't be popular. This kind of writing is usually reserved for surveys, like this one. Popular renderings of groundbreaking research also exist in publications like Scientific American, and blog posts by researchers like Aaronson who like (and are good at) communicating their findings in this way, but the important details are often very much research-level and quite impenetrable to all but very specialized researchers.
If your country blocks access to online banking, you would use tor.
The problem will be to get everyone to agree on a plan. The EU and China could probably do so (here's where having the EU is actually an advantage), but getting Belarus, Russia and Mongolia to agree to the same plan without at least one state trying to blackmail favourable terms out of it will be very hard to achieve.

A proper, dedicated track could probably bring huge economic benefits for everyone involved, but I don't see that coming. As long as volume is low, none of the states the freight goes through has leverage (could still be shifted back to air/sea) which somehow guarantees that it works.
> Word processing, YouTube, Facebook, and non-enthusiast gaming has pretty modest needs that are easily met by a mid-range i5.

You can go lower than that. When I didn't do enthusiast gaming, my desktop PC was an Intel NUC with an Ivy Bridge low-power Core i3 and its integrated Intel HD Graphics. That thing could easily do Portal 2 at 720p on acceptable niceness settings, and Minecraft at 1080p30. Video playback and browsing was perfectly smooth at 1080p, too.
No. The relevance is that you aren't going to read of the cases in which someone built the thing and didn't find any effect at all.
Apple didn't patent a "resistance", they implemented a control-chip in their headphones starting from the iPod Shuffle in ~2009, and patented that chip.

Purpose was to ensure a revenue-share from headphones so that every accessory-maker who wanted in-line controls had to pay a license to Apple to use the control-chip.

(the control-chip was meanwhile reverse-engineered and its functionality is now integrated in non-licensed headphones as well)
do we? I'm out of the loop besides major news because there's almost no hope left, so I missed it. who's pushing it this time?
This isn't popular writing, it's a review. The target audience here is definitely technical, just not specialists.
There aren't even published controls -- the test rig with a non-resonant horn, for example -- so we're way ahead of flight testing.
By that argument, any blog post that does not contain a comprehensive software development education can be criticized.

You should ask whether these techniques are useful in writing correct code and if they save developer effort, rather than picking apart irrelevant aspects of the toy example.

I don't think modern graphics code represents individual pixels as strings either, would you dismiss the post for that reason?
It's not criticism! As far as I know it's not against the rules to re-post. I just remembered seeing it before and thought I'd link to other comments people previously made.
> Paris has plenty of trading desks

I'm not saying Paris isn't a financial centre. It's just in a different league compared to London, NYC, Singapore, Hong Kong or Tokyo.

> The physical location of the trading desks relative to the markets matters little

Making markets requires plugging into financial and political power structures. Due to home-country effects, buyers and sellers of a security tend to congregate around the issuer.

A Singapore desk will hand off to New York to execute an order by a Singaporean buyer and American seller. Note: we're not talking about hedge funds. We're talking about investment bankers, sales-traders and market makers--relationship-driven businesses.
Houses don't make particularly good investments.

While it's true that you can sometimes come out ahead compared to, say, investing the same amount in the S&P 500, it's very rare that the S&P will need you to put a new roof on it or spend the better part of every weekend pulling weeds and doing DIY. The S&P will just wait until you ask for your money back, then give you lots more money back than you gave it. Houses make you work for that money.

Now, lots of people enjoy DIY as a hobby, so if you're looking to include "maintaining a house" as a new hobby then by all means buy a house. They're also quite pleasant to live in when compared with crappy apartments that are the usual alternative.

But only buy a house if you want to own a house. Buying one just because it's a good investment or what you're "supposed to do" will only leave you unhappy and wondering what happened to all your free time. If you don't believe this, pick any one of your homeowner friends and ask them what they did this weekend.
Real names is one thing, but I'd really like to see a "real age" system on the internet. That would make ignoring trolls -- who I suspect are frequently not old enough to drive -- a much easier task.

It would be more akin to real life, if a 14 y/o tried to bully us in the street we'd laugh them off, but when they're anonymous on the internet it doesn't seem to occur to us that we may be dealing with a child.
I think it largely depends on the specific community and people in it. While some try to use online anonymity as an outlet to say and do things they wouldn't dare on Facebook or IRL, others seem to want a reality-like reputation around their username/account. A large portion is probably caused simply by community rules; just see /b/ and HN...

And to be fair, I've hardly ever seen serious insults on Facebook, but been called dipshit on anonymous platforms regularly. But again, this could be due to community standards.
Buying a house since 2008 has always been a great idea. So To answer your question - yes.

If you're coming with only %20 down in the Bay Area, you will turn cash poor, unless you're a millionaire. So think about that first, buying a house is the best mid-long term investment in life. But property tax here on a $1 million house is $10-12k per year. Home owner insurance is about $2-3k per year. So you're at about $12-15k extra per year (+$1000/month) just for the fact that you own a property. Now, the property itself will cost you about $4500/month at %3.8 APR for a $1 million house with %20 down.

Total of about $5500 net per month. Basically a bit below the average salary of an experienced software engineer in the bay area. And for $1 million, you don't get much here...
First of all this piece should be lauded and it is this type of transparency that ALL administrations should adhere too. Granted without revealing sensitive sources.

Second, the Russians didn't hack the election. As far as we'll all know, no voting machines were compromised. It may have been some email accounts of campaign officials (about which Wikileaks has already publicly stated the leaks didn't come from Russia). So starting off with the propagandist and frankly bullshit headline "Russia hacked the election" is in and of itself already portraying an extremely false narrative. Dangerous. Very dangerous.
Reading the Netflix engineering blog now and then, I do appreciate how many of their engineering decisions also take into account the effect it will have on their colleagues, i.e. "does this change affect how quickly/independently our engineers can do stuff"?
But what is the "problem" of Consciousness?
I think GP meant the Valve "New Employee" Handbook
Presumably it being broadcast in public.
There's a video[1] that has some history of the calculator in Japan that kind of mirrors this. There's a race to get the smallest and thinnest, but it ultimately ends with the calculator not being particularly good to use.

[1] https://youtu.be/1_GVkR0SITo?t=17m25s
Just one he bought at some point. May well have been the first computer i had the "fortune" of interacting with.
>concern when the President to be inaugurated does not believe intelligence about an American adversary

I dislike Trump for many reasons but, based on the track
record of the US intelligence community over the course of the last 10-15 years, if he approaches the intelligence briefings that are fed to him with the same skepticism that he has displayed for climate science, I can only see that as a positive.
I believe California has alternative methods to desalinization like the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, or recycling water which reuses 60-82% of water that would otherwise be wasted.
In theory at least, you're supposed to look at what is being said rather than who is saying it...

Not at all claiming I always do that myself, but some food for thought.
But the manpage is useful in itself already: I've been using a lot of

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etc. in the last few months. It covers a lot of string processing needs in shell scripts that you would otherwise have invoke sed or awk for.
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In Ham radio, you can't use any sort of secret message like that. Everything needs to be plaintext.
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I think we already changed significantly how we lived from a few decades back. Not because of climate change, but because of technology.

Renewable energy becomes competitive in many places worldwide since ~1-2 years, which will fuel investments and change the way we generate energy. Not because of climate change, but because of economics. Batteries are vastly more efficient than a decade back. It doesn't need a huge invention for batteries to be competitive with ICEs in cars, a few more years at current development speeds will likely be enough.

It was started with investments by people worried about climate change, but once it's economic it will be adapted by (nearly) everyone.

I think that we can beat climate change without needing to convince people that they have to fight it. Sell a decent electric pick up with ample range in the US and the extra power you get from an EV, in combination with home charging (finding gas stations on the country side can be annoying) could easily make it the best selling vehicle in the US. And I'm pretty sure it won't take too long for Ford to bring exactly that to market.
While I agree that expecting users to use real names is a bad thing, this knocked the air out of me:

> In societies including the US where violence and mistreatment of women, people of color, and marginalized people is common, we can expect similar problems in people’s digital interactions [1]
> [1] Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kate M. Miltner. #MasculinitySoFragile: culture, structure, and networked misogyny. Feminist Media Studies, 16(1):171-174, January 2016.

I reject the assertion that these issues are "common" in the US, even if "violence and mistreatment" is broadly defined as people acting rudely on the internet. A post by ESR was even flagged off HN because its message was that he expected evidence to back claims of harassment, which is a microcosm of the trend of "feelings > reality". This is absolutely ludicrous and I'm surprised Mozilla is funding this junk.

Further, it's getting rather tiring that the US is always listed as an example when countries/societies exist without legal protection for all races/genders and where slavery and forced labor is still legal.
It's a survey that's been made more popular than the usual. Not all surveys can be like this or they'd all be at least this long. Even relatively long surveys are usually restricted to about half the length of this one.
I really the technical explanation about how to write to a device on different platforms inside an electron app.

Described here https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/tree/master/lib/src/child...
You've now changed the situation quite significantly. In every case so far, I've been clear in arguing about multi-lane roads where the road isn't fully congested. This isn't some made-up scenario cherry-picked to prove my point: this is exactly the case I'm concerned about, and the one I understand you to have implied in your initial comment. You're now concerned with a one-lane highway.

In nearly all cases I've argued that the slower vehicle should merge right, not speed up. The only case I've suggested increasing speed is when the driver of the slower vehicle doesn't want to modulate speed moving between two lanes to allow faster-moving traffic to pass. You're now concerned with the slower driver needing to speed up.

Given you're no longer contesting the original supposition, should I assume your agreement? You've now moved on to specifically construct a situation — significantly different from the original — where "it's possible the faster driver ought to slow down rather than the slower driver speed up." You're asking me to argue and potentially agree to this new situation, while not once having conceded or even shown understanding (or asked for clarification) of any of the points I've made so far. That said, I'll continue to do my best to argue in good faith and respond to your new situation.

On a single-lane road, a driver should drive the speed they're comfortable with the conditions, including traffic. A following vehicle will need to slow down to avoid rear-ending the lead vehicle. Absolute speeds and number of vehicles above 2 are irrelevant.

If the following vehicle is tailgating, the lead vehicle can maintain their speed, speed up, or move out of the way depending on opportunity. Those are the things they can control. They're not under any obligation to chose one over the others; it depends on their assessment of the situation.

Practicalities aside, just thinking of the ethics.

The rules of behavior really don't change. If everyone were behaving legally and safely (within the min and max speed limits, safe following distances), you still should move right to allow faster vehicles to pass on the left, and for the same reasons: prevent passing on the right, prevent congestion, both of which decrease risk of collision.

At this point, I can't think of anything else to add, nor am I interested in discussing new tangents. I sincerely hope you consider changing your driving behavior, as it will improve traffic flow and be safer all around. Be well, and drive safely.
> Assange repeatably - and again tonight - said he was sure it wasn't Russia.

The very fact that Assange is has so strenuously denied it was the Russians is itself odd and suspicious. He couldn't possibly know if it is or not and yet he's been adamant since day one. He's either a gov agent, liar, or idiot. And I don't think he's an idiot.
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It's a distribution, bundling vim with a whole bunch of plugins and configuration that's supposed to work out of the box.

Spacemacs is the same for Emacs.
I doubt this, since Facebook doesn't seem to care much about fantasy names.

They get most interest data about you from within FB (what pages and posts you like etc.) and from pages across the internet you visit through like buttons embedded there (even without clicking them). So there's a lot of relevant meta data directly linked to your account and no need for them to know your real name.
I have a friend who makes a living writing CUDA kernels as C++ templates. His job will be safe for decades to come because noone will be able to decipher the code. :)
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I misread that as "He made a laptop slightly thicker to add 3 hours of battery life". I was waiting for the subtitle "Apple hates him" or something.
Oh boy, this immediately reminded me of a Kickstarter from 2013 -- the Zendock. It only raised 100K but that was decent for a KS back then. The creator tried but eventually couldn't finish the job before the money ran out. Unlike other failed projects in which backers have accepted failure, this one is, 4 years later, still attracting vitriol on a weekly, even daily basis: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coleflournoy/zendock-th...

This "dongle-killer" is a different beast...but I've found that these kind of hardware campaigns rarely go well. It's not just the inevitable missing of deadlines, but the non-guarantee that the creator will get the details right, everything from polish to MFi (when it comes to Apple's mobile devices), never mind long term durability.

It helps that this campaign is from a creator with experience in actually delivering. But when I read the comments from their most recent million-dollar campaign, I don't feel I could trust them to execute well on this https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hypershop/isticktm-usb-...
Even though the article is not that well structured and if you exchange machine learning with data analysis it would read same less the 'fanciness' of the term, Expert systems will have a significant impact on urban life.

If we look into street light patterns or parking control systems it is obvious. For the underdeveloped places like Jakarta, Delhi, or the places mentioned in the article data-driven urban planning and to some extent urban-planning-as-a-service systems will surely help the decision makers where to build which part of infrastructure.