skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Polling is hard; there are lots of ways for polls to be inaccurate (see the British Polling Council postmortem of the last general election for the gory details).

Those errors don't add up to 20 points. And I say that as a card-carrying member of the Labour party.
Yes, way back when windows mobile was dominating and a stylus was trendy (before they became untrendy and then trendy again) ;) Certain things, like bigger buttons would be trivial, but other things like touch friendly inputs wouldn't be. MS even released a bastardised touch friendly version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile_6.5

We're talking corporate intranets though, so a PC (or occasionally mac) will be the norm because that's required for productivity apps. Most things simple enough to be a touch screen app would fit into the category of also being simple enough for a web app. As I said, web apps are a good choice for simple and/or rarely used apps.

Irrelevant side story: For my second ever paid programming job (which only lasted a few weeks for other reasons) I was handed a fairly complex windows mobile app to learn. The app loaded every table in the windows CE database into memory when it started, which took about 15 seconds. Within a couple of days I'd modified this to load on demand instead, cutting start times to zero and impressing the boss.
Budapest (Hungary): Cloudflare Data Center #111
I bought a pretty cheap HDMI extension cable that snakes from one end of my living room (work desk) to the other (tv+consoles) that would argue otherwise!
Given their comment history, it's either not sarcasm or they need to find a new joke.
Wow, I haven't tried vs-code until today after I read this post. I'm surprised how well it works on my mac and it is so far awesome with VIM plugin. I might actually change from my exVIM environment to this one.

Btw, nice to have ARM support as well :)
Cesium is a clusterfuck of JS though. I also once thought it was cool then I tried to use it professionally and extend it. It's a nightmare. Mapbox and Vizicities are offering some good stuff with real DEM now. Fingers crossed.
> What happened to the old rule of thumb

People realized it's a stupid and impractical rule and ignored it.
There's absolutely no way that VB.Net is more popular than JS, anywhere you go.

It's not because of "liking", simple facts.
I've often though the best policy in a safe seat is to vote for the opposition, no matter who you support. It just makes the seat slightly less safe and hence your MP a bit more responsive to their constituents needs.
This may explain why some diets to reduce weight strictly prohibit any salt intake. When I read about that, their explanation was always vague and essentially was hand waving about an experimentally discovered fact.

This study hints the real effect - to combat excessive salt the body needs more energy that makes people hungry and eat much more than necessary to offset the salt consumption.
There's a (yuuuge) public Lidar dataset for the UK:

https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/18/laser-surve...

One of the motivations for the collection was flood analysis, which overlaps with your observation about coastal towns.
Well, Reuters also had an article on the meeting and the goals, if you prefer that source: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-diplomacy-id...
Totally agreed, the Monaco component is already in place and pre-dates VS Code.

It raises queries about what you do after the editor is running though (i.e. where does your terminal live? What about your interpreters/compilers?).

It quickly gets to the point of looking at SSH to another box like Cloud9 does it, at which point you may as well just run Code there and remote to it.
The desire for a trade war with the UK is not exactly high on the continent, especially considering the debt crisis is still looming over Brussels.

The UK will probably get a deal like Norway and will be better off without Brussels.

But then many other EU countries will ask: Who actually needs the political union?
"most recently 'if your CV will be read digitally, it should have a dark background'"

It seems to me that would be more likely to get a resume tossed out. It would be harder to read and would break your concentration when you're looking through a bunch. I guess somebody might think that will make you stand out, but at least for me, it wouldn't make you stand out in a good way.
Doom: To Hell and Back
Good point :), but I think they are likely working on Pacific time
Individuals have very personal views of finances. When people are asked how they should spend their own money, they're very careful with it and analyze expenditures and benefits carefully. On an individual basis, money is spent efficiently and people understand that.

As the responsibility for spending money is removed from the individual, efficiency plummets. Government jobs are the ultimate in a lack of accountability. Voters don't have the visibility to see what politicians and other government workers spend money on. The one entity that should effectively provide oversight on how the government spends our money is the government itself - and they're loathe to limit their own power. Then on top of all that, even voters aren't spending their own money when they make voting decisions. They're mostly rationalizing that their voting decisions are affecting the other guy, like "the rich".
I would like an answer too - I genuinely don't understand what the difference is.
I criticise her because of her strong authoritarian views and desire to turn the UK into an Orwelian nightmare...
Historically, in the evening.
Why vote Lib Dem? If the last election turned out slightly differently and the Conservatives still needed the coalition, I bet they'd be out happily singing the praises of Brexit to us all, and walking back their campaign promises. They previously always had a "were not like Labour/Con" cred, but the coalition showed that this simply is not true
Your comment is over simplistic because many reputable news outlets are reporting the hard observable fact that a general election has been called. Therefore the fact that the Guardian is a source for this is irrelevant. A single newspaper, The Daily Express is reporting comments made by a single Danish MEP, who could be from some mad fringe party for all we know, as if this is the official policy of four nation states. Therefore the Express article is mostly speculation based on a secondary source of information; a person whose personal agenda and relation to the Danish Government's official foreign policy is unknown.
i used to use rss for podcasts too but most just use dedicated services now they are a lot harder to find these days and im sure your right about the rest.
Your last point reminded me of some old days for me. I too taught as an adjunct when I was younger. I would try to bring industry insiders to visit for the Software Design course. Students loved these as well as sessions on how to get a real job. I was a bit surprised too.
What's preventing Uber customers to gather a few phone number of Uber drivers, and if Uber dies, to message them directly for a ride? It's a bit of a hassle, admittedly, but if you can contact the providers directly...
>Who would want to work in that kind of environment?

People who want to help build an awesome company, and like being a part of the team, and not just an accessory to it.
Hangs my current Chrome on Linux on a Core2Duo E8400 with older Intel onboard GPU - The old Google Earth Linux runs fine :(
Looks like only few places in the US and some other cities elsewhere have the 3D view (that too not properly finished). Rest of them are still the old 2D. Wasn't most of this already there? I have seen their 3D view before, so besides performance improvement nothing much is new?
If the books you are trying to ready aren't technical books, programming etc. See if you can get the audiobook version.
I can't tell you how many books I get through this way just listening to them back and fore to work.
Also, if you have to read paper books. Relocate to somewhere without social media. Go sit in the Garden or Basement or Roof etc without your phone. Try for 30mins (on your watch not phone :) )
That's funny that this would come up on HN right now.

I've just spent the last day or two struggling with a potential GC bug on Android. It might be somewhere in JavaScriptCore, Android, or Genymotion, but I really have no idea. The last few hours have consisted of repeatedly clicking through my app, and trying to figure out why it crashes every 5 minutes or so. In this case it's not a memory leak, it's memory that is getting wiped for no good reason.

I've also posted about it on StackOverflow [1].

So far I've really enjoyed working with React Native. iOS has been almost perfect, but all my problems seem to be happening on Android. There was one case where my components were just disappearing randomly during animations (even without native drivers). The only workaround was to rotate the component "keys" so that they were regularly destroyed and recreated. The native animation drivers for Android are also incredibly unstable and buggy [2]. Ah well, I would still recommend React Native, but only if you're already comfortable with Cocoa, ObjC, and Java. You're going to face a ton of roadblocks if you can't get your hands dirty with native code from time to time.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43470160/in-a-react-nativ...

[2] https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/13530

[3] https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-blur
Investing in the British Pound May Just Be Stupid
Not necessarily. For instance, in many (most?) SPAs, forms are just a... formality. Something to get your Bootstrap-based (or equivalent) CSS to look proper, but the actual form data is pre-processed in JavaScript and sent via an XMLHttpRequest.
Theresa May seeks general election
> I don't follow gaming news closely, so when I heard of the Wii U I thought it was a hardware revision not unlike the Xbox One S to the Xbox One. It took me over a year after launch to learn that the Wii U is an entirely new console.

It took me until about a month ago! I skipped the Wii and never considered the WiiU because I thought it was a Wii expansion, and as such I figured I'd update when the next console was launched (Switch). Once it was, I did my research and realized that the WiiU would've been a fine purchase for my purposes (retro gaming + nintendo first-party games for WiiU and Wii).

If I'd known what I know now, I probably would have bought a WiiU a few years ago.
Agreed. There is a very interesting and recent EconTalk podcast that touches on this. A great majority Americans are proud to be taxpayers, but many also feel that the money is spended wastefully. When interviewed in depth, this often reflects partisan misunderstanding.

EconTalk: Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My Lips
https://overcast.fm/+JDN9N7o
Fast Proportional Selection
Absolutely! I recently tried the Google Earth VR on Vive where the photogrammetry really comes into play, and I was awed just like back when I was a kid and hooked up my computer the first time to a color CRT.

Except getting motion sick 5 minutes later.
People stopped following that rule sometime around the time the computer was invented.
Brexit is more important than college fees.
yes (if they retry in 15 minutes)
When using multitouch interface and turning off "always voice" I was amazed at how expressive it is.
My house isn't even on there. :(
Travel Tech Potential: 5 Opportunities to Reshape Travel Industry
When the homepage was 'flying' over the landscape, I was dreaming how cool that would look as the background for my TV.
PhD should be able to get points for independent or state nominated migration though which is a far better system than 457.
Easypki: Creating a certificate authority the easy way
People deal with memory leaks in Java on daily basis, eg:
https://medium.com/@milan.mimica/everybody-leaks-f210631f13e...
http://www.evanjones.ca/java-bytebuffer-leak.html
http://www.evanjones.ca/java-native-leak-bug.html
His approval rating was highest his first week as president:

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Voting probability is lower.
It will be hard to be much cheaper since Uber is currently losing money hand-over-fist on a per-ride basis.
Instagram and Snapchat are also similarly opaque but they executed really well on their pivots. Twitter is not a learning organization. There is a lot of politics inside the org.
I feel like the biggest problem with the notability policy is that it basically disallows articles on anything niche. There's a game[0] which has several tens of thousands of users and a lively community, yet wikipedia refuses any article to be written about it.

[0]http://powdertoy.co.uk/
Good books for deep hacks
> The "auto-rotate around the landmark" feature

I think of this as "Drone View". I keep waiting for the JDAM impact.
This is probably a very common problem these days. One thing you could try is to use a timer and start with smaller goals, like reading for 20 minutes straight. Gradually increase it to an hour or so, and decrease the breaks.

I find that when doing really boring work, just having a timer present makes me focus. Obviously I'm not using a timer now...
Yes, I noticed that too. How is this done? There has to be some machine learning involved, accumulating all the aerial imagery and street view data and somehow generate a 3D model. This can't be all LIDAR data, can it?
Street Fighter II's AI Engine
Wouldn't people be able to deduce the spend on this black box section?
Isn't that what journalism is today?
Very cool! Is the same also available for the spending of Bundeslaender as well as communities? Lots of taxes also go there.
Pivpn: Simple OpenVPN installer, designed for raspberry pi
How was the 1% to 2% decrease in performance measured? Or was it a case of let's make up a number so our article appears to have an experimental basis.
I've done a C port of this code and hooked it up to my own midi controller. Much fun. Happy to share the code with anyone who wants it.

Funnily enough, the port I did was so brainless that the last bit (the perlin noise part) was originally in C, then ported by HN's very own josephg. I didn't notice this, even though Joseph was a friend of mine at uni. Once I finished the port and went to making sure all the licensing stuff was fine I noticed this all.
The UK won't get a deal like Norway because UK politics prohibits it; it's not politically acceptable to continue to send billions to the EU after leaving. If UK were to contribute as much to the EU as Norway per capita, it would be over 2 billion EUR per year.
> they actually played a positive role back then

Stop living in the past. Do you just want to wallow in self-pity about what could have been or are you actually upset about real problems that are fixable?

Apple is halting progress of web standards right now. Apple is locking in users into its closed ecosystem (good luck trying to develop for iOS without macOS). Google and Facebook are "embracing, extending, extinguishing" the web (AMP, Instant Articles, PNaCl, etc). Even the W3C has bowed down to the copyright industry with proprietary window dressing in the name of DRM.

Not everything these companies do is evil, the attacks are far less orchestrated than those carried out by Microsoft back in the days, but they're happening and they're here.

If you just want to hate Microsoft for nostalgia's sake like the grumpy old vet who still can't get over how the US lost in Vietnam, that's fine. But don't pretend you care about principles if all you can do is hold a grudge against what was and don't give a fuck about what is.
I keep multiple journals, one per project. I use Notepad and a program I wrote years ago to total the hours up for billing purposes.

It's great for long term remembering, like what settings were used for a serial port, links to downloads, etc. I also like to put a "Next:..." line at the end of the day so when I open the log in the next morning I immediately know what I need to work on.
This strikes me as a bit of a contradiction. I get why one might chose a more expensive Xeon processor and I suppose I can sorta understand needing a display for a server. But surely the iMac, so far at least, is all those things where desktops differ from servers (and for that matter Workstations).

It's almost as if Apple figures that seeing as they already have the mechanical design for iMacs down pat, they might as well wedge a Xeon in one. That doesn't really seem like Apple's usual MO to me.

I suppose a more accurate description might be a "workstation grade iMac".
And it is a bit ironic that New Labour introduced tuition fees, the Tories were the coalition partner that wanted to increase them, but it is the Lib Dems who caught all the flak.
I find myself often thinking this. Louis CK sums it up really well when he says "everything is amazing and nobody is happy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8LaT5Iiwo4
That's right. Musk himself didn't say "power", though.
Nationalism is the road to war in Europe, and always has been. It's not fascism I fear, but nationalism.
I can't figure this out myself. I could swear that budget accounting is designed to be as unreadable and incomprehensible as humanly possible. Take a look at http://www.budget.gov.au/2016-17/content/bp4/html/05_art-16.... and scroll right to the bottom. Taken at face value, this seems to suggest total actual appropriations just for the Treasury portfolio were $765bn in 2015-16. Given this equates to about 43% of nominal GDP in 2015, there must be something else going on here that I''m missing.
The great thing about a GE is that the media forgets about the election expenses scandal.

Only those of us that follow Michael Crick on Twitter are kept up to date.
I'm not sure that's it's only LIDAR data. There are e.g. some cranes and scaffolding that also are 3D modeled. I assume it's some magical machine learning pipeline that accumulates the aerial and street view imagery, LIDAR where available, and generates a 3D model.
I don't understand why people run Linux on a Chromebook. The point of a Chromebook is ChromeOS. If you're running Linux it's just another Linux computer.

I develop on a Chromebook some times. I use a DigitalOcean VPS, using tmux + vim to code and ChromeOS to debug.
Chuwi's Latest Budget Laptop Has Same Panel as Microsoft Surface Pro
Lib Dems looked pretty comfortable with the whole thing
Apparently one of the dependencies is MySQL.
Twitter is basically a customizable, interactive news ticker.

The market for news tickers isn't as large as it is for some other types of social networks. People need to move beyond user count.
I checked some of not so famous places and 3D re-construction of environment is really good. I would assume they probably have even higher detailed 3D environment internally. Now if they can only allow to use this for developing self-driving cars algorithms :).
I love the way they play well with web standards: http://imgur.com/a/c9cNT
"Brussels" is not in debt.

The monetary union has serious problems, but not all the countries in the EU are part of it.
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Make a list of places you would like to visit, things you would like to do in the US first.

Visit a college friend, family, see a live sporting event or concert in another area of the US.

Do you like hiking/camping/beaches/museums? Plan a trip to do something you'll enjoy.

Plan a short trip to one of those places. A 3 to 5 day get away.

Come back and reflect on where you want to go next/if this is something you want to do.

Experiment with a few trips like that before you sell your stuff shut down your home.

Next choose a destination in Europe and go for a couple weeks to test it out.

You'll get a feeling if it's something you want to do for 3 months, 6 months or a year.

I wouldn't worry too much about it being a red flag on your resume. Taking 6 months or a year off to travel is reasonable. Plus if you have the talent and experience and you're a good fit a company will hire you. And if taking time off is a red flag it might not be a company you want to work for.

Good luck, have fun. YOLO!
Corbyn isn't in Europe or Scandanavia, I'm going to assume your post you're under 30 and in the UK judging by your support for Corbyn. Maybe you should ask yourself why in your lifetime a Labour leader hasn't won an election without dominating the centre of the political spectrum. Corbyn is too far left to win a general election the press have nothing to do with it, Teresa May is becoming increasing right wing and he lacks the common sense to vacate that position.
Not as much DIY, but for $260, Sparkfun has a nice looking 80 x 60 FLiR thermal imager:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13233
I've only gone as far as the Xbox 360, and while I agree that Nintendo remains special (re-playing Metroid Prime and Zero Mission for the umpteenth time on my recently-bought WiiU while the new Zelda is right there and jealous of my lack of attention), there are a number of amazing non-nintendo games that I played on my 360 and laptop:

Shadow Complex (metroidvania style game, and actually pretty good), Metal Gear Solid V, Red Dead Redemption, Far Cry 3, Rayman Legends, Fallout 3, Prison Complex, Device 6... and that's not including PlayStation exclusives that I am almost certain to love, like Ico/Shadow Of The Colossus.

There's plenty of amazing 'different breed' type games outside of Nintendo, is what I'm saying. At the same time I agree that Nintendo remains special: out of all the games I've played in recent years, Metroid Prime, Wind Waker, Breath of the Wild, Zero Mission, Mario Galaxy, Animal Crossing (GameCube), etc. are equal and often better in my book than all the other great stuff.

I guess my point is that as a gamer dipping in and out of the 'scene' alongside figuring out what React Router decided to break on this update and dealing with adult life stuff, there's been plenty of great stuff outside of Nintendo, but nonetheless Nintendo has remained a consistent source of gaming joy that, in other places, is harder to find.
AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4096 MB.
I always wanted a Keurig with a translucent case.
UK version:

http://app.wheredoesmymoneygo.org//
Conspiracy theory: May expects the Art 50 talks to not go well and having the election after Brexit has fully played out over the next two years will damage her approval rate. Having the election now means she doesn't have to worry about her approval throughout the negotiations and won't have to face an election right at the time the consequences of Brexit are felt by most voters.
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Out of curiosity, what's the performance of VSCode on ARM compared to X86?
That's not true. Last Uk election was very close and that was reflected in the polls. Same with brexit.
Definitely go for it. No matter what you feel now, you will probably greatly enjoy the experience, even if you're not that excited about it beforehand.

I would sublet the apartment if possible, but if you can afford not to, that's fine too.

I don't know about the US, but as a Scandinavian my adventures in the my mid 20s certainly didn't hurt my employability. On the contrary I suspect that I've often been shortlisted because my résumé stands out. So make sure to do really interesting things! The main reason for that is of course that it will make YOU more interesting too.

So just do it, don't hesitate. Go for two years if you can afford it, there's plenty of time for working later. You will not regret it, but you will of course regret not going while you could. Once you have a family it will be much more expensive and complicated.
I remember when AOL kept trying to lock 3rd-party clients out of their Oscar protocol (for AOL IM). They resorted to requesting random chunks of the official AOL IM binary to verify that it was an official client. To keep up with this, 3rd party clients would have to distribute AOL's client with theirs, and then AOL could sue them for unauthorized distribution.