skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's Wirth's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

How bad is the problem? https://hubpages.com/technology/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualC...
Sure, it seems a lot could go wrong. Unfortunately I could not readily find the article in question again (damn you, Firefox bookmarks manager). Instead I found one in German that said kids who are schooled at a younger age have a significantly higher rate of ADD diagnoses, suggesting they are being misdiagnosed because of their younger age.
You can say "compared to the other European countries" instead. It has the bonus of being more inclusive! No longer will your statement exclude Norway, Switzerland etc.
A few egregious interracial mano-a-mano "mature" midget porn pics sprinkled with a collage of pre-teen bikini pics (A 12 line python script). And a pre-cooked rant from some Nazi site about negros and bitches and negro bitches was all it took to get me out.

Some concern from family and friends but a "Yea, got hacked, be careful out there" took care of that.

Make the system work for you mate.
That'd be an expensive machine! Take a look some time at the amount of design, machining, and just plain material that goes into pay phones, in the cause of defending against theft from their coin boxes - they're called "fortress phones" for good reason.
>Is there really that much of a market in counterfeit coins?

Take the amount of £1 coins in circulation. Sum the value. Divide by 30. Equals the market in counterfeit coins.

From http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/circulation-coin-...

£1 are 1,671.328 £m / 30 = 55.71 £m

The market in counterfeit coins is therefore over 55 million pounds. This is, however the cumulative, total value of the market and not per year.
Out of personal experience hiring many new staff members, this might be true for entry level to mid-level jobs with broad supply of candidates being a good match with their (claimed) skill set.

Unfortunately even that oversimplifies the actual situation - there is not one type of job and there is not one type of organisation hiring.

The higher up the ladder you go the less likely it becomes that you would get a job based on your resume / skills alone. You will need an endorsement of some kind that might come from inside the company or through a trusted external referrer (e.g. a specialised senior / executive placement agency aka head hunter used by the company for pre-selecting candidates - sometimes this is visible when the agency is advertising the role, sometimes not when the role is advertised under the company name).

Many of these roles are still advertised like other roles mainly to follow process - advertising every vacancy to the public is almost always a step to tick off in hiring processes.

While some companies - mostly fast growing or start-ups - are more open to "outsiders", in others the public advertising while still providing some transparency has long become a complete illusion.

My most extreme examples here would be with government agencies for permanent senior or above roles. This can be best demonstrated with United Nations post advertising.

The UN has a series of job boards where the public can apply to any of the jobs and all posts vacant should be on these (not sure if they still include the most senior ones - you normally find these in the Economist).

What they don't tell you is that a lot of them only take internal candidates and are not really open to external applicants - this can go that far that even staff members from other UN agencies wont through the first selection round when applying.

Other (non-professional) jobs might only be filled locally, e.g. if you would be in the UK and the job is in Switzerland don't bother...

After that, applying for senior posts when you are not "part of the system" is a completely useless endeavour. Here even skills seem to become secondary - with most of them you will have to be endorsed by your government. There might be a very small number of people that made it onto senior posts in the last 10-15 years without government endorsement, but tmk all of them had very strong internal / organisation support behind them. And most of them had an enormously hard time to fight off the "cronies" after they got the post - no surprise that even less survived the first 2 years.

Overall, job boards might be a good starting point for entry level positions or contract work. It helps you to identify potential opportunities, but there is normally no direct road to get a job from the advert alone.

Often you have a better chance to apply directly on the company web sites, or on sites like Kaggle or HackerRank.

Most importantly you need to find a way to stick out from the crowd.
So their automated systems detected malicious access as legitimate access, and legitimate access as malicious access? And this is somehow working as intended?
You're not the customer, you're the product.
We've actually completely rewritten python-for-android since then, it now supports multiple bootstraps and is not tied to Kivy at all, and it should be relatively easy to use the python distribution in a native app (although this could be streamlined).

CrystaX's support is great though, and actually python-for-android uses this for Python 3 builds.
In retrospect the 1990s components craze feels rather modest compared to what's happening now though, even if you allow for stupid ideas like CORBA IDL which hardly anyone ever used.

Right now it feels like every single tiny aspect of devops or JavaScript compilation/bundling or UI layouting alone has become more convoluted than the entire 1990s software stack.

I realize that we are doing a lot more with software now. But comparing only stuff that we used to do back then as well, like creating line of business applications, analysing some data, or create single user productivity apps, I can only shake my head in disbelief at the incredible loss of productivity.

I believe much of it is driven by a desire to architect every little app as if it had to scale to Facebook or Google size tomorrow, use Web technology for tasks that it is completely unsuitable for, and define "right tool for the job" in such a granular fashion that we end up using at least three database systems, three programming languages and scores of other distributed thingies in every single project. Just look at those "our tech stack" posts that come up frequently. It's insane every single time.

Now it's microservices. What used to be components with well defined interfaces sending SQL to an RDBMS in the 1990s has become a swarm OS processes with networking, service discovery and HA infrastructure in between. To keep it running you need some sort of cat herding devops and monitoring system. The possible failure states are beyond the capacity of human cognition.

But it makes total sense if you're a huge corporation that has an entire team working on each of those services. For Amazon it could indeed reduce coordination effort, increase accountability and make the system easier to scale. For a team of 5 or 10 people it's pure insanity to put a network between two "services" that don't absolutely have to scale independently.

We're scaling out everything instead of scaling up, even though scaling up is hugely more efficient up to a scale that 99% of all projects never grow into. In some cases (particularly in data analysis), we're paying 60% margins to cloud hosting companies for clusters that could be replaced by a single laptop using a simpler architecture.

The Web is such a great thing for all the new things it enables that we simply couldn't do at all in the early 1990s. But I really have to ROFL every time someone says "right tool for the job" and then goes on to layout a data entry form using CSS.

Here's my prediction: We're going see clusters of AIs running on top of AWS GPUs to optimize line of business apps for AWS pricing structures that no human being is able to fully grasp any more. And all of it will be set up by highly paid consultants sold by armies of salespeople.

Here we have an explanation for the productivity conundrum that has economists scratching their heads. So much more sophisticated technology and hardly any productivity growth. How come?
There's your killer app.

Feed it a million or so porn images of people with all kinds of different body types. Then have it guess the closest match. Finally run this. Presto change-o! It's those x-rays glasses kids everywhere wanted for years.

I could easily imagine it being done live-motion and 3-d. Run the whole thing on a set of AR glasses.
You'd think so, but every stage in the process so far has led to another drop, at least temporarily, even though they've all be widely trailed beforehand.
Why is it bad?

edit: oh yeah I see it now
I've actually been really impressed by Shenzhen I/O (http://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/), which is a game where you have to program microcontrollers to build weird products. The built-in programming language is an ultra-simple assembly language, with either one or two registers, and about a dozen operations. Program length is limited to about 10 or 15 statements. There are external ROM and RAM modules which store about 20 values. Every challenge comes with a pre-made test suite.

Something about these extreme restrictions and the simplicity make for excellent, puzzle-style gameplay. And I think you could add a Shenzhen I/O-like "microcontroller" to a lot of automation games (like Factorio: https://www.factorio.com/) and it would work very well.

I think that one of the problems with adding traditional programming languages to games is that there are no constraints to make it challenging, and that you can write fairly large programs. But a deliberately limited and simple language could be fun.
Put your blog on on .onion address on the tor network. I get far more traffic from within tor to my hidden service than the exact same copy of the site on run on the clear web.
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From my other comment above:

We know 1 in 30 £1 coins are counterfeit.

Take the amount of £1 coins in circulation. Sum the value. Divide by 30. Equals the market in counterfeit coins.

From http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/circulation-coin-...
£1 are 1,671.328 £m / 30 = 55.71 £m

The market in counterfeit coins is therefore over 55 million pounds. This is, however the cumulative, total value of the market and not per year.
As another commenter has said, people don't bother with blogs anymore. Seems that Facebook pages are the way to go for engagement. Instagram too, if your content works for the medium. I think Twitter is good for some niches, but its popularity wildly varies by country.

Dramatically sad as you can't get more walled garden than that, but that is the future we built.
> ad hominems are frequently
> used in moral
> characterizations

Attacking an argument on the basis of who's making it, rather than its content, is frequently used in moral characterisations? Please could you give an example or two to help me understand?
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That's very cool. 45 years old in good shape in those days must have been a status symbol in itself. 45 years today is pretty wise already but back then I'm sure your average wandering 45 year old knew basic field medical techniques just to stay alive.
You could call it an unofficial form of Quantitive Easing.
Being able to quickly swap out a standardized battery at a charging station would be a huge competitive advantage.
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"Minio" as a drop in local replacement for s3 has been great for local development. Small Golang binary.
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That seems weird. Why would they spend 10 years of research to produce a one-off collectors item?
For interfacing with OS (window, sound, input), I use SDL bindings for Go (go-sdl2). Graphics is 100% being made in RAM pixel by pixel, so SDL is blitting the final image (see the emu/hw package).
> Go is the new C

example
Or morph a face onto existing footage. I'm surprised this doesn't more obviously exist already, although I guess I haven't been actively looking for it.
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But, what do you do with your counterfeit coins? You've invested all this money and effort in minting equipment, but it would look extremely weird to spend more than like 20 at once.

Unless they can fool machines, it seems very inefficient.
Exactly, the lack of looting is the biggest detail in this case imo.

To me it speaks of a panicked crime. Combined with the season, spring or summer, I don't believe the crime was panicked due to bad weather conditions.

Maybe it was a very young person taking a revenge shot at him because of something Ötzi had done in the near past.
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Aye. We should just go back to using the Royal Mail.
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HN is not just tech stuff - it is anything discussed by techies. This absolutely belongs here.
It takes a special kind of logic to look at rising prices, stagnant wages, and conclude that things are better.

Oh, no, wait, you didn't say better/worse, you said 'goods that we have less of'. So even if people bankrupt themselves over a broken leg, or go into decades of debt for a home or education, everything is just peachy! Even better, actually, since we can add credit availability to the list of things we have more of! http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-credit-card-...

There's also more jobs: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2012/ted_20120731a.png ! Gone are the dreary days when you were set for life by your 2nd job - these days you could find yourself looking for a new job any moment - how exciting!

Edit:

Oh, and there's more prisons, too! https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/overviewincarcerati...

I guess I stand corrected, we have more of everything, and shouldn't complain, even if corporation's obscene wealth allows them to buy politicians and regulatory agencies. Who cares how concentrated power and wealth are, as long as there's enough bread and circuses.
You certainly fooled yourself in assuming that, it is, at least I thought it was, common knowledge that facebook does not delete a single thing ever they just disable it for user access.

I seems to remember this was exposed a few years back with the introduction of a "past memories" features or something that mistakenly took some of the supposedly deleted content and put it in the spotlight.

They hold onto this data because:
1. You gave them full legal rights to do so by agreeing to their ToS and giving them full ownership of everything ever collected on you by facebook.
2. Exploiting user data is how the make money. (well that and investor story time).
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I know this doesn't affect your point, but it's interesting: "till" is older than "until".

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=until
Interesting. Thanks for the links.

I have indeed had some pound coins which were tatty round the edges and had to be pushed through a self-service checkout several times or wouldn't even go through at all. I still hadn't realised they might be fake, though.

I have noticed that a lot of old 10p coins are noticeably a lot thinner (presumably worn down rather than starting out thinner) than new ones. Is this as it should be or should I start looking at these with suspicion too?
britcoin
Love the positive approach to bringing good coffee to places where people would often settle for less, be it due to time, noise or weight constraints. Any chance you guys are looking for a mechanical engineer to scale up production?
Chances are every data about you facebook ever collected still lives inside facebook, outside access is just disabled.
Article is from June, 2013 ... right about the time the Snowden revelations were just starting to come out. Additionally, author is Moxie Marlinspike, a prominent privacy advocate in his own right.
I've been wondering about this as well. I just started out blogging (just a personal blog with a ton of opinions and software stuff) and have no idea if it gets an audience or not . I don't really care if I do, besides the feeling that if I look at the stats, it equals talking to a wall sometimes.
There is no such thing as a market price for a lithium battery. Even standard sized cells are far from a tradeable commodity.

Things like double digit subsidies and grants for eco-* stuffs in China and EU distort the picture.

What it means is that biggest Chinese EV makers with big enough GR-office can get cells for 20% of what is a wholesale price for Western buyer.

Chinese complain that 2kw/h battery packs for scooters cost $400 retail. They probably don't know how much they cost in US.
Ask: Has anyone sold software to the conferencing industry. Advice?
I've got an idea and a prototype that solves something very basic in how conferences are being conducted today. To the best of my knowledge it's novel and relies on some of my university research.

I'm looking for advice from other people who tried selling to conference organizers and content creator. Can anyone please share his insights ?

Thank you
But there are also a lot of £1 coins in circulation that are more than a decade old. I sometimes get coin bags from banks and even from those, some are rejected by vending machines and look crude.
So you think a professional job is exactly the same as working on a supermarket checkout?

An attitude like that will get you filtered out as not a culture match in a lot of places.
You just have dev instances and production instances. It's definitely not perfect and scales terribly as the team grows.
Would not Janitors be outsourced
Never noticed them.

I mean you can always use evil-red-text. But then what is the point LyX?
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You are comparing ultralisk-backed battle in psy storm with a pair of protoss not even started to evaporate few zerglings.
Yes, but I've been conditioned into thinking a fault with the vending machine is much more likely than a counterfeit coin. Just the other day, I was using a vending machine that had a special panel on the front of it, with the specific purpose of rubbing your coins on it in the event that the machine didn't recognise them!

I've definitely noticed worn coins before. Some of the current pound coins have been in circulation for 34 years, though, so I'm not surprised there'd be quite a range of wear.
Go with security cameras. Higher bandwidth connection for more pwning abilities.
> But, what do you do with your counterfeit coins?

Launder them through your other criminal activities.

"Hey, you want to be paid for all the drugs you've sold recently? You can have 500 in 'real' or 1,000 in fake notes + coins."
The alternative would be to actually delete the account as it should have happened in the first place when the user requested it years ago.
Camera HDR modes usually take 10 to 30 frames at full sensor resolution (RAW).

That comes out to 16 Mpixels * 12 bits/pixel * 30 = 720Mbytes of RAM. Doable just about for a smartphone.

If RAM is a concern, by using custom silicon which can process HDR very quickly, you can start to discard the first frames before the last is taken. The hardware necessary shares a lot of logic with video compression (calculating motion vectors etc.)
My best bet, after mulling this over for a few minutes is that the fake coins are sold in bulk to people who handle lots of small change - kiosks, fast-food joints etc - then they just mix them in with the real money in the register for giving change.
The tests can be introduced incrementally, once forgers get good enough to pass the currently public tests.
> and call it britcoin.

BrexitCoin
To demonstrate feasibility and estimate costs. The tech could then eventually be rolled out but since Germany is part of the EU for EU-wide legal tender all mints need to switch: "standard" euro coins have a common design and reverse, and a national obverse (with some restrictions).
Don't vending machines only check weight, size and if it's magnetic? Should be easier to fake for a vending machine than for customers then.
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The media can't really challenge the government any more, unless the government has done something truly unpopular. If they do challenge on something which doesn't have strong public opinion then they [the media] risk losing interview and access rights to the politicians.
My blog also doesn't get too much attention. And it was always like that. I was writing in a couple of places, a couple of my blogs, and on a corporate blog. My most successful blog post had about 10k of visitors across the first year.

I also noticed that the average session time is about 2 minutes, sometimes is just too short to read through a blog post. So I assume that people come there just to get a solution to a problem they have, not to read through all the text.

Another thing is that over 70% of my blog entries are from two posts, a tutorial like ones. And this is only because someone found them informative enough to place a link on stackoverflow, and some other places.

At the very beginning I wanted to earn on the blog enough to work only on the blog. In reality that's impossible for a technical blog, and instead I just treat it as an interesting part of my CV.
Odds are increased that Scotland will eventually go for independence. Northern Ireland is closer than ever to a Republican majority in Stormont and speculations are on the rise that a border poll might be on the table in the near future (as in within not too many years; it will still take time) and even some unionists appears to accept that there is a greater than ever chance of a unified Ireland. More importantly: at least some unionists appears more accepting of that possibility, as they see Brexit as yet another example of Norther Irelands concerns being ignored - how the negotiations unfolds will potentially have a dramatic effect on the Northern Ireland issue as a result.

Irrespective of that, it's pretty clear that Brexit will force Westminster into promising drastically increased levels of devolution not just to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but also to the major urban regions like Greater Manchester and Greater London that will reduce the de facto power of Westminster dramatically and allow the regions to drift even more apart in terms of differences in public policy.

At the same time there is a major split amongst those who considers themselves predominantly or only British or who considers themselves British first vs. those who predominantly see themselves as English, Welsh, Scottish or Irish first, and British second or not at all, with "Britishness" being weak and fractured.

Basically, to a lot of people living here, the UK means as little or even less than the EU, compared to other parts of their identity.

And a lot of the political discourse has been around how the elites ignore people. What people are about to find out is that in that respect the London elite were the ones ignoring them, not Brussels, and accordingly Brexit will not solve any of the problems they had in that respect.

Expect to see increasing upheaval and pressure for more power to be devolved from Westminster as a result. E.g. after the Brexit vote there was a brief flash of people talking about pushing for independence for London, and while that won't happen anytime soon if ever, expect to see those debates flash up again and lead to an actual (if miniscule) political movement at some point over the next couple of years.

I personally think that while the UK may persist in some form, the UK 10 years from now is reasonably likely to exclude Scotland, and the UK 30 years from now is likely to exclude Northern Ireland, and be more like a loose federation with massively devolved powers to Wales and several English regions and at least Manchester and London. Maybe even with increasing support for Welsh independence.