skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Londoner here. Been to Frankfurt: it's small, but it's lovely. Only thing holding me back from moving is a mortgage and school-age children.

(Rant: Seriously, people get upset when you point out that Brexit is a dumb idea. But that doesn't stop it being a really, really, dumb idea that's going to ruin my country.)
Caveat: If it's acceptable to have significant latency or the interaction is asynchronous.
Yesterday? When has tech ever beat finance in pay?
Housing bubbles are caused by people getting loans they can't support, and the incentives aligned so that the people approving the loans don't care whether the borrower is able to pay it or not.
that is not in question, but full membership is now politically unacceptable to the UK electorate

the UK Government wants to keep barriers to trade as low as possible, it is seeking a free trade agreement

the EU is currently ratifying the Canadian FTA, and last week announced agreement with Japan had been reached that would reduce barriers by 99%[1]... whilst simultaneously threatening the UK with increased barriers to trade

[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/c874d02a-60ba-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26...
Different risks: using up all resources (running out of fossil fuels) vs an instantaneous mistake/disaster (global fallout some some weapon, or an asteroid, or freak solar flare, or something like that). Colonizing another planet protects against the latter and probably shouldn't be dismissed simply because it is not yet a solution to the former.
Hey, the spoon worked well, until I bought another one and left it in the office :) They had SVN running for everyone a week after and a month later they were running feature branches.
The EU's position is consistent with its founding idea of a free market tied to shared values and the rights of its people. Asking for a better deal is like asking Apple for 30% off on an iPhone because "their margin is 35%, so it should still be a good deal for them"–it's just not gonna happen.

It's not like these consequences weren't mentioned before. And I won't bother repeating the arguments about Britain's existing financial obligations which you chose to pretend to be ignorant of.
Always an entertaining thing to say, never true though. UK labour protection exceeds that stipulated by EU regulation. And it is likely to continue to do so.
I dunno how true that is. What about people who enjoy learning things
Touchée. I give you a point here. But there is the Idea of of the four freedoms for Europe. This may be a good thing or not (I think it is). But If you are part of Europe, you either take all or none. And if some Brexiters are claiming "look, we can get the same deal that Japan is getting this year" then they are delusional. The reason why Japan can get such a deal is because Japan is not a geographic part of Europe.

There are things that I don't like about the EU. Especially:

* Bureaucracy

* They spent 40% of their budget for agriculture subsidies.

* Now we have open boarders for immigrants from very violent and tribal societies. (You can downvote me for this if you like).

But here are many positive things. Freedom of movement. You can work, retire or open a business in any EU country that you want. Open skies - very cheap airfares (which will hurt the UK a lot).

What happens just this year is mind blowing.

* Free trade agreement with Japan

* Potential free trade agreement with Mercosur countries

* No roaming charges for cell phones anymore

* PSD2 for Fintech (Banks have to grant access to bank accounts for fintechs)

* Money Wires are very cheap or free within the EU. They can still take a day or two. Starting November Banks must offer "instant EU money wires". I think the time is less than a minute. Less than a bitcoin transaction takes to process.

* Military Headquarter in the EU, beginning of an EU army

Don't write the EU off. Nobody knows the future but for me the Brexit seems like madness.
I'm quite happy with local-only 1Password sync via SyncThing and LAN sync to my iOS gizmos. I've been avoiding using 1Password with cloud sync because it would increase the attack surface area for little benefit to me.

On the other hand, I do online backup where the data is encrypted by another passphrase before it leaves my machine. Given that I already have my 1Password file backed up with this method, would I be much worse off if I used AgileBits' cloud service?
Not intentionally. This was a simple bug: a history.pushState that should have been history.replaceState.
>They say, don't feed the troll.

They say it, but which part of my comment made you think I don't believe what I say (which is the necessary condition for it being a "troll")? Not to mention, that whether you disagree or not, it is a very common criticism against EUs policies, driven by big capital?

>Likely the EU will have much higher labor protections that the UK.

Maybe, maybe not, can't speak for the UK.

What I do know for certain is that EU regulations have unmade decades old worker protections and labor rights in mine (and other) EU countries.

That said, here's what a UK person writes: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/06/eu-doe...
They'll get it, eventually.

I gotta ask the opposite, why does the UK want such an FTA so much?

Could it be, gasp, that they realized they're actually fucked without one?
I have to say that as a consumer, Instagram Ads sway my opinion far more than and grab my attention far more than Ads on any other platform. I'm a heavy user, but it's also something about the format and the quality photography that just gets me.

The targeting is incredibly good too. I've discovered random brands on Instagram that I've bought clothing from which I never would have expected to do. I would never consider such a thing if I see the same kind of advertising on Facebook or Twitter for example.

Instagram is extremely trendy right now, possibly far more than in the past when it was smaller.
yeah just reading the news will make you better-informed than 95% of the population probably
In large parts of the world mosquitoes can kill you through a variety of diseases. The Yellow Fever vaccine can kill you itself. A stimulated immune system isn't much good to a dead person, and mosquitoes certainly aren't the only opportunity nature offers in stimulating our immune system. I would be happy to see all the disease vector mosquitoes eliminated completely.
> There needs to be community pressure on companies to allocate resources and time for employees to contribute back to whatever projects they use.

Companies don't allocate resources and time to employees without expecting a return on investment. Any contributions made on company time would have to managed by the company with the intent that they serve its needs first and foremost, or else be considered theft of company resources and time.

It sounds like a good idea but I can't see it turning into anything but an opportunity for companies to leverage control over open source projects.
Honestly, you're probably better off buying BTC.
> What that means: we are pretty open for everyone. We don't care where you are from, we don't prefer doing business with people that speak the local dialect (which might happen in other parts of Germany).

Unless you are from Eastern Germany or overall from Eastern Europe. The stories I hear from friends how welcome they feel in Frankfurt once they mention their origin. All top people US companies are fighting for...
Right, I wasn't saying polymorphism was the only solution. I was saying deeply nested if elses are hard to maintain. There's many solutions to avoid them. So I think we agree, use what makes sense given the context.
Yeah, I didn't get it either.
>It's sad to see

No it's not. The top comment is a bug report because people are using the app. It also got fixed, which, for a comment chain, is about as much value as possible.
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The templates used in web2py felt good. Dont know what happened to web2py?
I'm an EU citizen, and am entirely satisfied with how the EU is handling brexit. The UK has been getting special treatment for long enough. At some point you have to decide whether you want to play ball, and the UK decided not to. Too bad.

>threatening to institute trade barriers against the UK (unless it pays vast sums of money, and then it's only to begin talking about a free trade agreement

Like the kind of money that other EEA members are paying to access to common market?
Nice, it left me wondering how the dialog of Rovelli continued.
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You are being downvoted, but I am from Spain, which you can consider it was the superpower before England, and looking at what Spain is right now, you are right on the money.

England/UK won't become the superpower they were before, just like Spain won't either. Yes, they'll be okay, they have survived through worse, but that's it.
Finance already beats tech, apart from that small handful of ultra high paying roles in that handful of companies like Google.
I don't feel there's a market - for very generic things you have Wordpress plugins or Wix, for anything less generic you simply can't create it without a very specific use case in mind. There is no "generic social media website" more specific than that Wordpress plugin that makes it look and feel like Facebook.
For engineers it almost always does, unless you are the top .001% of talent.
For future reference, you might find it helpful to read "man defaults" and "man PlistBuddy". And its binary is at /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy.

I can't say I blame you, though. Figuring out what all these tools did and what they were for required a fair amount of reading and experimenting on my end.
Raspberry Pi's are the second thing that comes to mind.

ARM is owned by SoftBank, for what it's worth.
There is no research to even suggest that we are going to be able to synthesize one type of matter to another arbitrary type without expending an absurd amount of energy, making it useless to do.

The idea that you could do something like that is even more outlandish than having robots that could automate everything a human could.
How foolish of me! For best results, they'll want to build the 90-foot levee to surround the local airport, power plant, hospital, and resort hotels, too.

http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/con...
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"Freedom of movement" as in "let's bring in cheaper foreign workers and lesser wages and the collective working bargaining powers of workers in each country".

The same freedom of movement that SV companies celebrate when they bring in foreign IT workers with H1B Visas, and then pay them less.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/fixing-...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-h-1b_us_5890d86ce4...
as long as the EU regulated bits split off into different parts of the EU (Dublin, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam), there's little threat to the long-term future of London's financial sector

however, if they all end up in one place, that would be a significant long-term threat
It's about leverage in the power sense, rather than financial. If systemically important banks are outside the EU's jurisdiction, and that jurisdiction lets them fail, it could hurt EU member states more than the foreign jurisdiction. Thus banks that are systemically important to the EU must not be outside the EU's supervision, one way or another - in direct opposition to May's obsession with sovereignty.

The UK's sovereignty will need to be traded away to get any alternative free trade deals in any case, but UK politicians have been too cowardly to make that case to the public, so the fact that nothing is really going to change much on the red tape front hasn't sunk in yet. You can't trade without agreement on standards, and to get multiple parties to agree, you need one of those nasty globalist organisations involved.
Started family, needed stable income and insurance, salary was still plenty to finance savings and a comfortable life in NYC. They also let me go remote without a second thought when I asked.

I quit last year to look after my kids and do my own thing, although the decision was driven more by boredom than any desire for more pay.
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Got me curious on the German/Japanese mentality being similar, could you elaborate please?
I ignore anyone who makes pedantic word-choice arguments when everyone is clearly capable of understanding what's going on. At best, it is more obsessed with their own cleverness than actual discourse, but more usually is just dishonest.
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Well what is the analogy? If you're saying the UK is in a position analogous to that of a "colony" of the EU then it is your reading of history that is bizarre.
I started my website project with such a template: a Ruby on Rails project (open source on github) that already included user registration, email list management and selling products (ebooks). Over time I've replaced almost all parts but it was a huge timesaver in the first couple of months. I could see that work for Rails, Django, Express.js and similar frameworks.
Well, one might enjoy learning about the six-legged things living under everyone's eyelids, but the knowledge of the fact can hardly make one happy.

Learning history can serve as another example.
>an example of competition

Not when you are leveraging monopoly power to gain market share somewhere else. This kind of capitalism tends to degenerate.
Invite local friends to work in your space?
Actually, credit was given. FB's head of product publicly admitted to copying Snapchat's features.
Thanks for letting us have access to all your personal data!
I use firefox bookmarks synced using Xmarks.

Each account has a unique email address, and important accounts have a unique password element added.

I use firefox bookmarks to note down in a cryptic manner any variations to the common themes I use. The bookmarks are synced across computers.

The upshot is I always use firefox bookmarks to log in to a site, which means I am not clicking links from emails and I am always in an extension free browser.
Do Americans, Canadians or Australians?
Now tell <strike>East Texas</strike>Delaware that...

Edit: honestly, the idea of having the software patents disgrace/mess untangled seems hopeless by now. I can't even begin to imagine what kind of seismic event it would take to pull that off. :/

There's so much more money involved now (in all kinds of places - now we have massive passive collections both in old- and new-style companies) than last time there was a huge fight surrounding software patents.

Sure, each US state and each EU country can work towards making things harder for patent trolls, but how much will that help in most cases where products are global and the patent troll can pick their venue at their leisure.
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Well... at the very least I now know my IPv6 actually works.
To achieve social intelligence AI needs to be able to be persuasive
A huge point of microservices is to create code that is independent of eachother. Your database backend is tightly coupling what should be completely independent services. Microservices were designed to scale your engineering departments just as much (if not more than) your performance. You are throwing away the major point of why microservices were created in the first place when you do what you're doing: so teams in large organizations can do independent releases. That you cannot see this as a major benefit makes me think microservices are a poor choice for your use case.
> Until browsers support a different language natively other than Javascript (which will never happen), Node + React is currently the most straightforward path to get there.

I think WebAssembly is promising for this. You could write your app in any language you want, as long as it compiles to WebAssembly.
strace - to see what a program is doing / where exactly something is failing if the error message is bad

ltrace - same as above, if
strace is not enough

perf trace - if you don't know the exact process to strace upfront

https://github.com/brendangregg/perf-tools - to track disk accesses or exec calls

env LD_DEBUG=all - debugging dynamic linker issues
Taking small similarities between 95% of society vs a specific entity designed to manage dangerous crisis to justify anything. In that case dress code, which is also overkill.
Good idea, I will add that in once I figure out a better way to deal with the output; I feel like it needs to be cleaner. Might make it menu driven.
What makes you think 10 years is not short term? Last crisis, that we're still recovering and suffering consequences (arguably Brexit is one) from, started 9 years ago.

What makes you think the UK can "win" anything in 10 years if it goes down the Brexit path? or 20 years for that matter, feel free to move the goal posts around. I'm curious.
Tech never did smarten up. I wore business casual every day to work from 2008 onward, no one ever said a damned thing.

Did put on a tie when making presentations to the desk, though.
That's interesting, just in my experience, Germans are way more likely to speak English than the French, even if they know it. I always thought it was their pride or something heh. Learning either is a daunting task...
The interesting flipside to the copycat issue is that Snapchat intentionally did not copy Instagram. And that was probably a mistake.

Spiegel was explicitly against the concept of "accumulative" profiles.[1] The accumulative feature they rolled out last year was Memories, a private gallery that only the user could see and show to people in person. And he was explicitly against making it easy to add tons of friends on Snapchat. He wanted it to be about your "seven most important people."[2]

Well, turns out people do in fact like their Instagram accumulative profiles to store and share highlights with their followers. And it turns out people like getting engagement and adulation from a broader network of followers.

So, as much as I dislike the crass copying that Instagram/Weil did and his attempt to pass it off as just a "format" -- that's bullshit, they copied vast aspects of Snapchat stories and messaging.. calling it a "format" is naked intellectual dishonesty. I noticed Weil back in the Twitter days and this intellectual dishonesty makes me respect him less.

But Snapchat also did not make the right strategic product decisions here. Spiegel, to his credit, went with a bold vision and strategic analysis about what people want. Turns out it was just wrong with respect to how people want to engage with and present their experiences to a broader set of friends.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykGXIQAHLnA

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/technology/snapchat-ipo-v...
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Thank you (and GP) for the Paglen reference, I remember watching this talk but could not find it again afterward. Now bookmarked.

I especially like how the CCC crowd slowly realizes why a photographer/artist would be talking at this conf at all. There's definitely a "ho shit, that guy ain't playing" moment there.
They allow it. Just make sure your MD is behind you.
Many of these all examples of what Language Log terms "nerdview" (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4509), using in-business jargon incorrectly with outsiders because you either don't know or don't care that they won't really know what you're talking about.

It's held up as an example where your use of language, whose purpose should always be to be understood by others, shows an explicit or implicit contempt for your listener.
Sure, in Frankfurt you can speak English almost with everyone. But never in government offices; all paperwork must be done in German. One headhunter from Frankfurt was recently complaining about it to me, pointing out the fact that Paris made sure bankers can do all paperwork in English whereas Frankfurt doesn't care. And obviously his own well-being depends on attracting people to Frankfurt.
Humanity will find equilibrium one way or another. Exponential growth is merely a symptom of an insufficiently hostile environment.
In addition to the brilliant accessibility features, there's a limited set of devices running iOS, all with known camera specs and picture quality, which can definitely help in maintaining some consistency in results by reducing variation in input.
In your logic "life support by banks" = "pay for concerts and stuff". The dimension you are missing is spatial, in that this would now happen elsewhere from London, and the "externality" of non-banker Londerners being able to experience this, is the negative effect referred to by the OP.
At the age of 41, after a decade of freelancing plus raising two kids, I am in dire need of leisure time.
Ok ok call it midlife crisis. But I also see that in all my friends lives.
I don't know yet what to remove from that full/filled life, for some leisure time.
Yeah I give it ~40 years. Things are highly likely to normalize by then either way, whether England is an irrelevant island or a global leader in something.

If you got 40 years to give away to some assholes who don't care about you, be my guest.
Wacky. If that is the case, California's GDP could surpass England's.

The exit really is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It takes all kinds to make a world.
I am surprised that you left the ruin of Greece off your list of things that you don't like about the EU.
And one day you realize you have to change your data model, and absolutely all your application are coupled to your whole database. Oups!
I sometimes use snapchat, I never use instagram. There's nothing wrong with occupying a niche.
As the old saying goes "no brown in town"....

It's an old UK social class signalling thing.

Only really applies to particularly stuffy organisations these days - but the do exist in the finance/legal worlds.
>Ideally, social mobility shouldn't rely on the promoting the richest person up to managers and executives.

I think we agree 100% on this point, no?
> Half the population has an IQ below 100

I'm going to quote a junior high school mate, because what he said nearly 25 years ago still rings true. For background: Finland has mandatory conscription military service. Every year you get an honest cross-cut of the entire population.

The sentence you used highlights a real fact, but it leaves it without context. What I'm going to say next is guaranteed to be both insensitive and politically incorrect, but I believe it has to be said.

As my mate said: If you think about the "average" person, with an IQ of 100, you should also realise just how dumb that person appears to you. Sit down and take a deep breath. Half the population is, by definition, dumber than that.

While in the military service, I learned this the hard way. I saw enough people who had trouble tying their showlaces, let alone the ability to hold a constructive argument. And like everyboby else in the military, everyone of them was given an assault rifle and live ammunition within 96 hours of starting their service. That gives a whole new meaning to fear.

The only thing separating some these individuals from Gomer Pyle[0] was the lack of psychosis. (When I became a medic, I met those too. We had to provide them with hard prescription drugs to keep them subdued and maintain a suicide watch to make sure they could be escorted safely out the next day.)

I can say with honesty that the military service recalibrated my view of humanity. And it's not pretty.

0: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/