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This is similar to the election in Australia just after Julia Gillard took power from Kevin Rudd. Basically to quash the people complaining that she didn't get voted in and just usurped power instead.
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> it's easy [...] lambasting teachers, for example, for their spending on computer software

And maybe it's a good thing.

> do you like being micro managed at your job?

You are conflating micromanagement with financial control.

In democratic societies, public work is done under public scrutiny. Taxpayers have constitutional rights to review budgets and complain to elected politicians.

Private citizens and companies have privacy, instead, as the "public" and "private" word suggest.

In dictatorships it's the other way around.
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iOS developer for 7 years. Not sure I agree with every point.

- Storyboards are incredibly, incredibly helpful. I work on complex UI with well structured layout constraints, sometimes with dozens of constraints per view controller. That's a lot of boilerplate code that you'd need without a storyboard. Also, you can see the layout in real time as you create it. No need for a run and check workflow to get layout parameters exactly right.

- While I agree about not using external frameworks for the most part, there are some that I've found incredibly helpful. Recently I used one along the lines of 'TOCropController' from memory. Looked great, no changes needed - saved heaps of time.

- I'm a big fan of Core Data, but I've also worked on projects that it hasn't been a good fit for. I once helped move a project to a straight SQL database (reason was mostly performance related).

- While I mostly agree with going native, there are always exceptions to the rule. The native experience is always best, no doubts there. But sometimes cross platform can save a ton of time, and doesn't detract from the goal of the software.
Of course it does... just read this thread. Everybody just wants to stop and destroy the tories because they are the tories and, you know, fuck right-wingers because they are right-wingers and we have to stop conservatives because fuck the tories because they are right-wingers and tories

Obviously such mindset has only accelerated the downfall of labour under that spineless sissy Corbyn. And even that they are trying to ruin because now labour guys are antisemitic and pro-brexit and whatever the hell.

Tiring, tiring. Politics is getting tiring.
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I disagree.
Let me give you an example. Some years ago,the irish police had a grievance, they were paid less pay for holidays than normal working days. This was because when on holiday they were just receiving their normal salary and weren't getting certain other expenses.
In other words, these expenses weren't real expenses but a form of tax-free pay.
They had been introduced as an under the table pay increase during some negotiation or other, probably as a way of hoodwinking the taxpayer/other workers or circumventing some pay-cap or other. As I understand it this type of thing is/was common in the public service.
There have been moves towards openness.
Already lists of government payments to private contracters are published in Irish newspapers.
Also lists of tax defaulters and details of their settlements are published regularly.
Public servants having their salaries and expenses published is just another step further down this road.
The same should apply to welfare recipients.

Being able to see who spent what, where and how is probably the greatest way to ensure tax money isn't wasted.
Easy to overthink this: create a memory leak by retaining un-needed references.

I forget where I read it, but I once saw GC characterized as changing memory management from managing the nodes of graph to managing the edges. It's more automatic and safer, but there is still a finite heap and there are still pitfalls.
Copy from a monero dev answer on reddit:

Heuristic I not applicable to RingCT, so moving on...

Heuristic II is basically people sending a transaction to themselves and thus creating 2 new txo's (amount and change). Then at some point people spend both txo's in one transaction. This is something that can be avoided by just not sending coins to yourself and by the wallet giving you a warning when you are about to spend 2 txo's stemming from the same txo.

Heuristic III is basically the fact that the newest txo in a transaction is likely the one that is being spent and can be prevented by people actually keeping a small reserve of XMR and refilling this at random intervals. Don't spend all your XMR all at once just after you received it.
This article makes a lot of assumptions on the reasons. And hopes people buy it.
thanks for the link...

Yes this is precisely the perspective I want to view on Google Map, with the added benefit of being able to double click on a distant peak and fly right to it, or perhaps also a feature to return to previous position so one can easily toggle between points of interests
There are some pretty good apps that will tell you the mountains that your phone is pointing at. PeakFinder, for example.
Very interesting! Do you know how is the constraint solver library implemented? Does it use a different general implementation than the regular prolog statements?
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Netflix has the problem to keep license deals and/or shows are 1/2 seasons behind theirs.

If they would license their own shows to other providers with the licensing deals they would want from someone else.

Won't this benefit us all? Or why wouldn't they do this?

PS. They should request the same license deals from other content providers though. Eg. HBO, ...
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Last part of your comment reminds me of the birth & death of javascript [0]

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
each time I look at google's 3d representations for things, I really wonder why they don't do manual touchups for certain places

I mean, if you are including the Eiffel Tower in the intro pages, could both make it look cleaner, and make it use less net resources
Was wondering why it seemed so much faster. Looks like they're serving gzipped dds (gpu compressed textures) for the tiles as well. Would be interesting to see a WebAssembly version of this.
Good for you.

I will be voting Lib Dem as I always have. Not that fussed about EU membership either way but if the LDs can capture a decent proportion of the 'remain' vote then that could mean a huge boost.

Best of luck!
I believe Jeremy Corbyn has announced Labour will support it. That's not really the same thing at this point.
No thanks.

It was your austerity cuts that created the favourable climate for Brexit in the first place.
I wrote a wrapper around Selenium and Cucumber to achieve much better UI test coverage without the overhead of writing and maintaining chunks of code (PageObjects and so on.)

https://github.com/saiscode/8tomation

Just a regular .feature file (with minor restrictions) can seamlessly interact with any webpage without needing brand new glue code.

The framework also supports parallel verifications. E.g., if you want to check multiple items on the target page in parallel, you can do that too.

//I'm using this for my clients right now
I was a Corbyn supporter, on the basis that we'd had too many Labour leaders who went against the wishes of the members and supported Tory policy.

Then on Brexit, he went against the wishes of the members and supported Tory policy.

Needless to say I'm no longer a supporter. Of course, it's easy to forget that all the other leadership candidates and challengers would have done the same.

I'd love to see the scenario in your final paragraph. I think May knows it's all or nothing, and if anything gets in the way of her timetable, it's game over for her and for Brexit.

I don't honestly expect that to happen, because I'm fairly sure that Corbyn is either delusional or compromised - and also willing to use a three-line whip to make sure the election goes ahead.
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The trouble is, the Lib Dems under Farron have essentially become a single-issue party.

That decision potentially alienates about 1/3 of their previous voter base who voted to Leave, as well as those who did want to Remain but either don't believe in overriding a popular referendum on democratic principles or don't feel strongly enough on the issue to disrupt things further.

Given that we're talking about the Lib Dems here, all of those could be significant groups. It's quite a gamble to bet your whole political strategy on attracting enough voters from other parties because they feel so strongly on Europe, and according to recent polling, it looks like it's a gamble that is going to fail unspectacularly.
Vote swapping is possible, there was at least a major platform for the last General Election and it got quite popular. Consider reading about it.

A quick Google search found this but I'm sure there's much more than that: http://voteswap.org/
You can ctrl + drag/pan to look around your current point in space.
Just why did they re-use the K8s logo on the landing page?
According to what I read here the Labour is going to lose many seats. Are those Labour MPs so eager to lose their job? Amazing.
I wish he had a happier, more peaceful life, even if at the cost of having a phone with buttons or having to use a Thinkpad.
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Labour's problem is they are basically two parties, the metropolitan socialists (remain) and working classes (leave). I doubt any leader would be able to fight this upcoming general election - it's a huge mess for them.
also I noticed that at least in Switzerland, the imagery is significantly older than the one of the "Earth" layer in google maps. If I had to guess, I would say the images on Google Earth are from 2011, whereas the ones in Google Maps seem very current: last summer.

edit: Actually, the "earth" layer of Google Maps is identical to Google Earth. What's more up-to-date is the "satellite" layer which I only see offered in the mobile apps.
Not all of us, but the majority of us do.
This is the last chance the UK has to avoid fascism.

I wish that was hyperbole. But I really don't think it is.
Maybe he does, but at 48% of those who voted it's not much of an echo chamber.
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In my fantasy of UK politics, the centre and centre-left parties would form an opposition coalition ahead of the poll, proposing some radical reforms like PR, as well as some socially progressive policies like reigning in the surveillance state, thoroughly reviewing the drug laws, reviewing basic income as an idea and instituting some sort of evidence-basis mandate for law-making.

I realise this is a pipe-dream, however.
fly / zoom to approximately 2nd story level of a typical single family house. Then pan up. You'll find that you can not pan high enough to view the horizon line.
next step: edit an image using a full score for a song thus creating a movie.
What is the difference to the 3D view in Google Maps?

edit: (honest question, dear downvoters...)
I'm thinking of the fact that there's far more 'older' people, young people are less likely to vote & young people also captures people below the voting age.
This guy did a hackier- and probably even cheaper - DIY camera a few month ago http://www.niklasroy.com/project/195/DIY_thermal_imaging
A lot of people claimed they regretted voting brexit after it became clear the brexit camp actually won.

This is mostly just wishful thinking on the part of the Remain side. Opinion polls have pretty consistently shown very little change in overall sentiment on Brexit. In many cases they seem to have observed marginally more regret among Leave voters than Remain voters, but the numbers were small enough in both cases that it probably wouldn't have affected the referendum result itself, and surely far too small to have much effect on a general election result.
My quick (and probably off) analysis: Tories found this timing to be the best one to call an election based on the disarray of UKIP and Labour. Tories are again playing politics, they want to get a good slice of UKIP vote and keep Labour at the current level at best. I believe the only real alternative to another May government is for Lib Dems, Labour, Green, to make a coalition against this Tory initiative. Otherwise, should be an easy win for May.
How many of those followers are bots?
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The last 2 major versions of Android have had this build in.
>you're dealing with governments that might or might not have enough money and motivation to do proper accounting, staffed by people who might or might not have actually gone to college.

I get the impression there are swaths of the HackerNews audience who have no idea how "the other half" lives in places outside of the major urban centres.
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The panoramas generated do have links to the relevant locations in Google Maps - though no "flying" :-)
That's oboe. You might be thinking of brown?
From the Guardian:

30m ago
11:44
Corbyn confirms Labour will vote for early election

Jeremy Corbyn has put out this statement about Theresa May’s announcement.

I welcome the prime minister’s decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.

Labour will be offering the country an effective alternative to a government that has failed to rebuild the economy, delivered falling living standards and damaging cuts to our schools and NHS.

In the last couple of weeks, Labour has set out policies that offer a clear and credible choice for the country. We look forward to showing how Labour will stand up for the people of Britain.
Labour confirms it will vote for early election.
You should really just ask for the email when they press save or something. I am sure it will give you a better sign up rate.
But not for at least three years unless there is an early election...
Haven't seen a party opposed to austerity in a long, long time.

I'll probably be voting short term "stop this madness"
Are you sure they are safe? Historically they may have been, but this election will be different and many Tory supporters may not feel like giving them a manifesto for a hard brexit.

Labour are a disaster, so I suspect the Lib Dems may benefit strongly from the current situation.
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Given that the country basically fell apart the moment we went out of coalition government - yeah I'm not too uncomfortable with the record at this point despite lots of reservations on things like austerity and the tution fee embarrassment (which in the scheme of politics today is the least of anyone's concerns).

I would have prefered a Labour + LibDem coalition in 2010 and 2015, but for what its worth the Lib Dems kept the conservatives on the side of sanity between 2010 and 2015. Without the lib dems they were torn apart by the far right of their party.
Party before country.
Just create a Vector and keep adding things to it, indefinitely.

I once encountered that in a production environment (circa 2000). The server kept stats while it was running, appending them to a vector on every iteration of its main loop. On the development environment, on x86 processors, it took days to exhaust the memory and the issue was never spotted. On the production environment, on an 8-way ridiculously fast SPARC machine, it took a couple hours to completely lock up the machine.
go to chrome://flags and enable overriding the gpu black list
also there is an option to force Hardware acceleration.

I tried it and works fine.
openly blocking the call for an early election would be really interesting, but I wonder if it would actually lead to either Corbyn or May resigning.

There are straight forward routes through for both of them.

May :- repeal the fixed term parliaments act (which would be an entertaining kick in the teeth to the Lib Dems)

Corbyn :- accuse Labour rebels of not respecting democracy and even question their motives w/regard to Brexit.

On that basis I can't see enough Labour rebels actually turning out to block it. They're more likely to walk away from politics completely (their heart was never really in the business of fighting for something).
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While this is an interesting topic I feel this documentation did not explore it in a very meaningful way, and it was not worth watching.

My main takeaways: they process 2000 pictures per hour per moderator, which translates to 1.8 seconds per picture. They show (parts of) the training process for new moderators in south Asia (India i think), and for all of them this is their first job at all, and I assume they are largely motivated to just get any experience and something on their resume. Because of their religious and cultural background the content they need to filter out has a greater taboo and possible psychological damage than I'd attribute to the average user of those platforms. Because they don't show it, I'm left to believe they will not be trained how to deal with the psychological effects of their job.

I only know how damaging this job can be for the moderators from other articles I read previously. Only that knowledge puts this in any meaningful perspective, by putting real faces to this ungrateful job.
I used to be a Conservative supporter, but now I just look at Westminster and wonder what the hell happened. Didn't David Cameron basically do this very same thing only a year ago? He expected everyone to be with him and vote Remain, and look how that turned out. Now Theresa May is literally following in his footsteps, thinking everyone is on her side. I'm so confused.

I'm actually thinking of voting for Lib Dems for the first time in my life, only because they said they'd hold another EU Referendum. And I say this because I honestly don't trust any party actually want's to take us through Brexit anymore, nor will any of them do a good job of it. I feel like a Lib Dem government is currently the best of a bad bunch.
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article then immediately describes how ... needs open-source code to have a decent terminal, SSH client, and package manager

No, article describes how to get linux-like console/ssh/packaging manager on the system which have its own completely different environment. You can use PowerShell for everything described (yes, you'll still need to install ssh module, one command), but you'll need to use PowerShell syntax instead of Bash.
On the contrary, there's a ton of maintenance, and the hosting providers like GitHub and Microsoft pay teams of people to deal with the infrastructure. (I've worked on both.) This involves not just the physical infrastructure like the servers, though of course there's that, but also maintaining the bits on disk. Your repository will get duplicated across multiple disks on multiple machines, perhaps in different availability zones, and then of course they're backed up to yet another location.

So what companies like GitHub and Microsoft provide is - yes - the fancy tools on top but also teams of professionals ensuring that your repositories are available quickly.
I don't think it alienates any of their base. The Lib Dems have always been hugely pro-Europe, I doubt that anyone who voted Leave would have been a supporter in the first place.
You can't use the Express as a source, it's not a creditable newspaper and has it's own agenda here.
I don't​ know why Google Earth exists. The satellite mode in maps is very good, doesn't depend on PNaCl, and is part of Google Maps, where it makes sense.
I hear you. You even see people openly embracing Enoch Powell's ideas again.

Brexit and Trump removed the taboo on fascism and those long time closeted fascists are now very openly pushing their propaganda. The rest of us are too busy defending their right to destroy our society and our values.
Pretty sure the other claim is true. He wrote software for Atari, no?
Too bad polls haven't been accurate for a while now.
Worth noting that the largest "regional" party, the SNP, has 54 MPs which is six times the 9 MPs that the Lib Dems have.
> This is mostly just wishful thinking on the part of the Remain side.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-leave-...

"Four per cent of Leave voters polled said they thought Brexit was the worst thing to have happened this year,"

The result was 51% leave 49% remain, it would be the reverse if they could vote again today.
Most Scots are against a second referendum, and against independence [1]. May is just giving them what they want.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_second_Scottish_indep...
I would love to know the design and performance difference between this and redis.
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What if I want to get into AI / data science? Would it be any different?
Sorry for any confusion. I don't mean to say deep learning is used in this app (though it might be). What I wanted to say was that with the advent of generative networks, generating 3D models on the fly from a few image data will hopefully keep getting better.
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The reason Itanium never achieved the mass acceptance Intel expected is because, even with Windows running on it, it never ran x86 software at a reasonable price/performance point.

That was one (and surely important) reason. There were lots of others reasons

> http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590/06au/projec...

(seriously: everybody interested in the history of Itanium should read this text), for example:

"Davidson also pointed out two areas where academic research could create a blind spot for
architecture developers. First, most contemporary academic research ignored CISC
architectures, in part due to the appeal of RISC as an architecture that could be taught in a
semester-long course. Since graduate students feed the research pipeline, their initial areas of
learning frequently define the future research agenda, which remained focused on RISC.
Second, VLIW research tended to be driven by instruction traces generated from scientific or
numerical applications. These traces are different in two key ways from the average systemwide
non-scientific trace: the numerical traces often have more consistent sequential memory
access patterns, and the numerical traces often reflect a greater degree of instruction-level
parallelism (ILP). Assuming these traces were typical could lead architecture designers to
optimize for cases found more rarely in commercial computing workloads. Fred Weber echoed
this latter point in a phone interview. Bhandarkar also speculated that the decision to pursue
VLIW was driven by the prejudices of a few researchers, rather than by sound technical
analysis."
Surely this is a Tory own-goal? Petitioning the people again (whilst ignoring the inconvenient ones)? You'd have thought Cameron's dodgy success rate would have put paid to that. Of course your lot fell for the PR one... that worked so we got one on Scotland - ooh squeaky - and then he tried it again on Europe:'not so great' as POTUS would say. How easy will it be to make this an anti-Brexit vote, a vote to keep Scotland, a vote on the NHS, on social care, an anti-Trump vote, a pro-status quo, conservative with a small 'C' anti-change vote, an anti-war vote, an anti-elitist grammar schools, a kick the arrogant Tory toffs of Johnson, Gove and Hunt... the Tories are hugely unpopular in spite of the Lab-Con polls (Labour are just even more unpopular)

We live in interesting times!
Of course the UK will be fine. The doomsday rhetoric is completely out of hand.

The EU is going to fragment and crumble over the next ten years. And Europa will be, if not fine then at least better for it.