skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes there are a lot of poor countries in Europe. If you look at countries where Europeans actually want to live (and where tech companies are) then the cost of living and taxes are high.

Also progressive income tax is common in Europe so you have to collect a very high salary to be much better off than the general population. E.g. You pay 40% on the first 50K then 50% on the next 20K then 60% on the next 20K... etc. A bit simplified but you get the picture.

Add to this that there often is a lot of "hidden" taxes in Europe. 25% sales tax on every dollar spent is not uncommon. Gasoline and alcohol (really anything considered luxury, polluting, dangerous etc) taxes are often very high in countries where tech companies are. And you first pay that tax and the sales tax are added so you pay tax on tax.

When adding all this it's not uncommon to reach 90% real tax on a dollar earned and spent.

There's and old saying that you can't get rich on a salary in Europe and I think it is at least 99% true. Some countries have an ok standard of living for the general population, but if you want more you will find that it is hard to achieve.

Also companies are taxed harder which makes it difficult to start new businesses based on innovation etc. You see a lot of consulting startups since you can start to bill hours right away. But no real value is created there..
Glassdoor has ranking by country.
If you feed the SJW monster, don't be surprised when comes to eat you.
Im very worryed about this. I would like to have my safe space right now.
> In developing countries this shift has already happened ('distance' to 'time') due to things like traffic jams, inconsistent infrastructure (some routes are longer but faster due to lesser traffic signals or better maintained etc.)

Then I guess Germany has not yet developed. But when talking about places people always specify the distance. Berlin is 584 km away from Munich, not 5 hours and 15 minutes. Talking about time to destination is something I have exclusively seen Americans do. Maybe that's because in the US distance and time are basically the same, since everybody takes the car and drives at the speed limit. But in Germany there is no general speed limit, and you might also decide to take the train or airplane to Berlin (and may people do) at which point talking about time would be confusing at best.
On time management
It's someone's personal website.
What on earth does anything in this article have to do with SJWs? Are they just the latest bogeyman to stand for "everything I don't like" for you?
Just curious what you are using for the backend with Java?
Strange... while I have mobile in mind, I test it on Chrome, on OSX. Checked it right now and it works on my desktop.

Issue is here: https://github.com/stared/quantum-game/issues/5 - as it seems that more people have the same problem. Any pointers how to solve it (or Pull Requests!) are welcomed! :)
> I came to the conclusion that python is unsuitable for servers, but until Go came out, there wasn't a realistic alternative, since C++ and Java are too heavyweight, and Ruby suffers from similar problems (don't know about a GIL).

If you're willing to go slightly outside the mainstream, there's stuff like erlang and haskell with kickass runtimes. And haskell, at least, is pretty strongly typed.
I think for a demo that is perfectly fine since you get an immediate performance indicator.

I remember that the initial fbdev-on-linux folks showcased their drivers with well known animations[1] at 4-digit frame rates and never had to answer performance questions again.

[1] IIRC something like glxgears and some 3d-tubes screensaver - might have that wrong though, that was about 17 years ago.
If any Python devs are out there reading: my understanding is that removing the GIL itself isn't the hard part so much as removing the GIL while satisfying certain constraints deemed necessary by GvR and/or the rest of the community. I know some of those constraints relate to compatibility with existing C extensions -- but there must be others too?

The reason I ask is Larry's attempt buffered ref counting surely has implications for single-threaded code that maybe relies on the existing semantics -- e.g. a program like this may no longer reliably print "Deallocated!":

Python 2.7.13 (default, Mar 5 2017, 00:33:10)
[GCC 6.3.0 20170205] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class Foo(object):
... def __del__(self):
... print 'Deallocated!'
...
>>> foo = Foo()
>>> foo = None
Deallocated!
>>>

A bad example in some ways since in this particular case we could wait for all ref counting operations to be processed before letting the interpreter exit, but hopefully my point is still clear.

Similarly, what about multi-threaded Python code that isn't written to operate in a GIL-free environment -- absent locks, atomic reads/writes, etc.? At best, you might expect some bad results. At worst, segfaults.

Are these all bridges that need to be crossed once a realistic solution to the core GIL removal issue is proposed? As glad as I am that folks are still thinking hard about this problem, I'm personally sort of pessimistic that the GIL can be killed off without a policy change wrt backward compatibility. Still, I do sort of wonder if some rules of engagement wrt departures from existing semantics might help drive a solution.
Yeah, I think Kevin Kelly got the facts wrong on that.

>In the 2010–11 fiscal year, the Foundation took in $539,410, almost entirely from grants and contributions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation#Fin...
So people could be click-baited into thinking it’s about “Doctor Who”.
Ignoring the law is also an available option.
Its a huge corporation now. If they took your attitude they would never have gotten off the ground.
hi again stared, great to see you finished this at last! Will have a play later.

We met on here last year discussing my quantum game. Shameless plug for everyone else:

http://tropic.org.uk/~crispin/quantum/

(Sorry about expired security cert!)
IMO the ProcessBuilder class is not a very good example, as the operators are designed to match the existing shell / bash ones (e.g. `#>>` is similar in behaviour to bash's `>>`).
often people just leave you when you go to prison.

A friend of mine had a boyfriend who was in prison and she was the only one visiting. None of his friends came and he was just in for a few weeks because he doged the train fare too often.
Why financial modeling is highly essential for both organizations
Export All Saved Passwords from Google Chrome
I did not expect to read my about my home town on a comment here... I have plenty of experience picking mangos on a family farm there and I can also say we drink insane amounts of water and sweat it all out. You can squeeze your clothes and watch the sweat pour out.

After the work day I'd always have an insane craving for a Bundaberg ginger beer. Maybe I'd be getting electrolytes from that?
Yep, I've noticed this trend for any article even remotely related to Apple. Everyone just uses the comments to rant about how Apple is gonna fail because of their newest product, yet barely any comments will be about the contents of the article itself. There's also an alarming trend of people just reading the titles and going off of them. Careful disrupting the circlejerk though, you'll just quickly be flagged.
removes shades mother of god. 1000+ pdf.
Well no, you're forgetting there's a very big Walmart 'Head Office' that would have its own culture.
>Or that a python process never really releases memory back to the system, just within itself, so the process slowly grows over the course of a few weeks.

This just isn't true anymore. Create a list with range(1000000) then delete the list and you can see the memory freed.
You are making a leap from "illegal" to "toxic" or to "terrible," while those are not the same.
I only hear bad stuff about Amazon, they churn through fresh graduates. Apple has this whole secrecy stick, but people stay long term there, even when (especiall when?) working for Jobs.
I dont recall any negative stuff about Facebook. Google would frighten me personally, because everyone is smarter than me and I would sink as a rock. Microsofts stack ranking seemed like institutional crippling.
Ask HN: Competitor lifted app concept and name and filed trademark
We are based in UK and US - CA (not a registered company in either). Competitor looks to be based in CA also.

A friend and I have been building an app as a little side project for a few years. With work and real-life etc. it's been stuck in beta for quite some time, but we were actually hoping to launch this weekend.

Today we discover that a competitor launched with an identical concept. Fine, it's an obvious concept that I was surprised no-one had come up with already, and we lifted a large part of the UI from Tinder anyway. What I'm concerned about is that they also copied the name (changing one letter: Chowder (https://www.getchowder.com) -> Chowdr (https://www.chowdrapp.com)) and filed a trademark.

Is there prior art for trademarks in the US (we have been publicly visible as Chowder since ~February 2016, it seems their trademark was filed in March 2016)? I was able to find some info about the trademark (https://www.bizapedia.com/trademarks/chowdr-87042422.html) - of note is that they have a pseudo-mark for 'Chowder' as well.

While I'm annoyed that this person lifted the concept and the name, I am more worried that they will make a trademark infringement move on us as soon as we launch properly, which we cannot afford to defend against.

If it makes any difference, we have the option to become a registered company in the UK (where I am based), however we planned to launch in the US initially anyway, so I assume this would still classify as infringement?

Any advice would be appreciated. At this stage I'm thinking we should just rebrand.
Thank you dang - you have said clearly what I've been thinking as I've watched the apparently never-ending stream of submissions.
human habits include many activities that consume a lot of water too - if you drink alcohol, salt consumption on that day/night is a must!

i find adding some soysauce to a cup of water and chugging that before bed takes care of most side effects.

and food does taste better with salt added, i must admit, esp. meat.
Do I need a new number and are these new numbers portable?
Check out the readings for Stanford's Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies course (https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/syllabus.html). There's a draft of the textbook for the course that's a great place to start imo.
This is from 2011 or so.
The little bit of nim I've done used musl rather than glibc.

I think it's moderately flexible to what is used because it transpiles to c first (afaik?)
How to become a Bitcoin millionaire
The FCC’s case against net neutrality rests on a misrepresentation
basic osmosis - water washes out the body's minerals. esp. tap water.

add a bit of salt to your tap water - it helps to retain water and doesn't flush out your deposits.

too much water and too much salt are both bad! had a dude in my village die after drinking around 5 liters on a dare - nervous system failure. it was so severe that he couldn't be saved.
A conflict with the US would have been pointless I assume due to geographical reasons, very hard to send troops over. Meanwhile Germany was posing a threat quite nearby. But indeed there were very complicated times and it's hard to blame someone explicitly.

I agree with you about the King Edward material, feels a bit conspirative to me too. Although some political and economical points there make sense.

Thank you for the book reference, will check it out.

Btw, this discussion is a bit discouraging to me since I realise that not even after 100 years we can properly agree on some facts. Tech giants fighting fake news will have a big challenge.
While not on the same level as Cargo, I'd say l Leiningen is a very robust and nice build system for the JVM. Miles ahead of SBT.
Realistically when do you think a production phone with pm-os will be possible? Assuming if everyone that are star-gazers will chip in? I want to show my gratitude but I am also pragmatic. Thanks
I suspect the number of Reddit users who run AdBlockers and/or aggressively block cookies is non-trivial.

Indeed, one of the main reasons for this architecture is to measure the difference between what it measures and what the cookies method gives.
Those are interfaces not implementations of Stan, in R, Python et al. The whole Stan thing is C++, fwiw.
This is not a super power.
Then it is a case of what you meant and what you said being different things. So, yeah, people give a crap when something is confusing or incorrect. I mean, we write code, right? Being correct matters. NoSQL means it is something other than a relational database.
Mark Sobell is a class act. He has been a mitzvah to both the programming and writing sides of the *nix equation for 30 years. Free is about $50 less than this download should cost.
Bayesian inference is just an extension of logical inference to probability distributions. The "correlation is not causation" reaction is off base here.
The major problem with this tutorial is that it doesn't cover single file components (https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html) at all, which are superior to (and preferred to) implementing string based render functions (which rely on a runtime template compiler). Indeed, the Vue NPM package doesn't even provide the runtime template compiler by default. Stuff like what the article promotes are great for development if you just want to include a <script> file, but are clunkier than the way that you're actually supposed to do things.
When do we update the homepage to a modern design? [lists.debian.org]
People often mistakes law and ethics. Although with Airbnb, I'm not sure if I would give them the benefit of the doubt.

While I agree that not all things illegal is toxic or terrible, knowing what we know about "disruptive" companies and the persona behind them, I think it is a safe bet in this case.
Many should actually be, but non-violent drug offences definitely should not even be offences in the first place.
Why would anybody do that? Maybe only when you charge by hour it makes sense because making something more complicated than Todo list is a struggle.
It seems very good project. Because I am using fedora I couldn't use it though, I wish there were a rpm package too. or at least linux .run package would be great.
Now here is an exercise for information wranglers. How to present Debian to the world...

The rest of this mailing list thread makes an interesting read for a slow bank holiday weekend (UK)
I spent about 30 minutes speed reading through it only to realize I barely made it out of the first chapter. Dense read!
The Science Behind the Flamingo’s One-Legged Stance
T-Mobile is tied for Most Reviled Company in my life, right next to Time Warner Cable ("now Spectrum"), and my local infuriating privatized electric power monopoly. Most Americans have one of these, so they'll know what I'm talking about. Every time I see John Legere's face, my fist involuntarily swipes for a hit.
I have this book. Was a pretty good introduction to Linux for me. Mark Sobell is awesome
Realtime Bitcoin
Are there any more modern real-time water effects out there/being researched? This basic effect has been around for a while now.
Turns out it's mentioned lower down, but the focus of the article is still on Vue.component, which really shouldn't be the case.
BTW, Qubes OS is considering to add ReactOS as an official template VM.

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2809
This sounded like a good idea, until I remembered most spam bandwidth was stolen.
>I dont know where you heard that from.. certainly not anyone with a background in management.

Yeah, because they'd probably be saying things like this:

>Culture creation/management is taught in business school... the culture the management creates is there to serve the purpose of the organization.

Distilling culture creation into a taught subject is antithetical to the genuine nature required by the act itself.
It's been eighteen months guys, time to rewrite all our front end code from scratch!
> All UI events and layout on the original iPhone were handled on the main thread.

But what else happens on the main thread? The way I understand the article, UI and input are delegated to a dedicated compositor thread to prevent the heavy processing on the main thread from interfering with responsiveness.

I would assume that iOS also separates the timing-sensitive UI handling from anything that might take longer than a single frame to process. Either way, you end up with one thread doing the heavy lifting and another keeping the UI responsive.
Of all kinds of crappy code I've ever seen
If a company's solution is able to maintain a real-time model of the world on top of which reasoning and reaction at human-level speeds is possible, never mind the driving cars - that's priceless!
But within 4 months no one in the BA C-suite will remember this happened.
I've also been working with DSP processors in audio processing. The only time I've used actual inline assembly was storing stack pointer to measure stack usage.

For saturating arithmetic and other stuff we used compiler intrinsics, which freed us from handling register allocation, stack management etc by hand. On that processor there weren't special instructions for saturating arithmetic but a flag was used instead, the compiler also kept track of that one too.

We did read the assembly result and tweaked C code until assembly looked like what was expected, though.
ES3 requires floating-point texture support, so any mobile GPU which supports that will support floating-point textures. The extension may not be exposed in ES2 of course.

Note that:

- 32-bit float texture filtering is not required to be supported, as it may cost significant area.

- Floating-point framebuffer support is not required, due to patent issues... :S
Toddler panics during deer interaction – Funny fail
The nearly 5M US Census Blocks with zero population (2014)
Updates to Raspbian packages can be installed via apt-get as usual. The same goes for packages specific to the Revolution Pi, those are made available through a separate apt repo: https://packages.revolutionpi.de/dists/

Upgrades to new releases can be performed either with an in-place "apt-get dist-upgrade" as is customary on Debian-derived distributions, or by creating a backup image of the eMMC, flashing the new image, then copying over any customized config files from the backup.
Analysis of casino shelf shuffling machines (2011)
The problem wasn't the code generation, it's that it was maintained in a way that made it very difficult to update in distributions. They also broke the stdlib in a few versions. But even if you ignore all of that, if it was supported by upstream then we would have more fate in it than using a franken-compiler. ;)
What are good examples of popular websites (not behind a login) that make use of Vue or React?

I ask because I keep reading about it, all programmers seem to use it, but I just don't come across websites that use it. Is it only used for backend dashboards? Or do all Vue/React sites fail to gain traction for some reason?
That might be some copyright issues here, you can't make a 1:1 copy of the original Windows shell I guess.
I find these three books entertaining.

[Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott](https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Chan...)
[The Business Blockchain by William Mougayar](https://www.amazon.com/Business-Blockchain-Practice-Applicat...)
[Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper](https://www.amazon.co.jp/Digital-Gold-Bitcoin-Millionaires-R...)

If you want to dig deeper, read [Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos](https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-C...).
Actually, the Scientific American article is wrong. This space study also concludes that salt is harmful. Now possibly in more ways than was previously known.
Not all of the maintainers came over to LOS. They only support devices with volunteer maintainers.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/faq.html#my-device-is-not-officia...
Walmart Labs is likely a subculture within what you describe.

If I had to guess, unlike their masters they probably find adorning their office walls in the stuffed trophies of union-organizing retail employees to simply be poor taste.
Some of the arm instruction set manuals seem harder to come by than others. Recently I reverse engineered one of the firmwares of the ImmersionRC Vortex 150 racing quadcopter (it uses an stm32f3 chip, arm cortex instruction set). It was pretty hard to come by a copy of the full instruction set manual - i just assumed that kind of thing would be a quick google away. Eventually i got there and made my changes but it was harder to get going than i expected but for different reasons than i was anticipating.
Mobile Twitter uses React. https://mobile.twitter.com/facebook

Airbnb uses React https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/432044

Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit Mobile, new Reddit Profile pages are all high profile sites using React that aren't just 'backend dashboards'.
Actually, they already have these tasks in their JIRA, so might get it right eventually.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the element is poisonous per se. Many good/healthy substances are poisonous at high levels,e.g.:
Vitamin A poisoning [0]
Water poisoning [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A
[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
Reddit's new profile pages and their mobile web app both use react.
Every so often there is a post that makes it to the top of HN about how Facebook ads aren't worth the money at all. And that other ads aren't much better. Marketing departments are completely insane (look at the leaked pepsi logo manual) and exist only to continue their own existence. Many corporations don't even bother to test their ad campaigns to make sure they are effective.

The fact that people buy ads is not at all evidence that they are effective.
If you've seen how aircraft controllers and pilots work, I think that "following the rules" is a very fair assumption to make. But ignoring that, obviously if implemented there would be fail-safes.

> It's easy enough to build a system that never breaks if you're willing to assume perfect behaviour

It isn't though. Seriously, think about how you could safely route several thousand flying hunks of metal through fairly small air corridors (which all have inertia) and you need to maintain strict flight schedules. Then think about how you need to factor in all of the edge cases caused by emergencies on planes (these are all included in the process for flight controllers). Then think how you could mathematically prove that safety.

Yes, it's easier if you assume that people will follow a certain process (and actual flight systems have so many layers of fail-safes that it's ridiculous) but it's definitely not "easy enough".
I've taken a class in college about the Linux kernel, and it's still amazing to see how complicated it actually is.

I've got a fairly good idea of how many pieces work, but the whole thing together still puzzles me at times.

I think that it's one of the biggest achievements of the internet as a tool for progress, and it shows that good intentions and pragmatism (together with some good Linus insults as well) can go a long way
There is also a 3rd Edition which was released in 2012.

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Commands-Editors-Prog...
lets assume that's true.. executives are employees, and they report to the board. Are you saying the board can't hire executives that genuinely reflect the culture the organization wants to build/maintain?
With this site, you can compare up to 8 maps at once:

https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?lon=-122.424438&lat=37.776229&zoom...