skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, in Germany left means Socialist, right means Fascist, and the differentiation between conservatism and progressiveness is actually something you can find in each of the corners. I also believe that Germany is not the only country like that. E.g. I have just finished watching season 3 of the tv show Narcos and it seems to me as if in Colombia this distinction also exists and it is enforced even stronger, with the liberal power being in government, and both left socialist and right fascist parties being military forces on the outskirts (considering the ability to kill as a political power as well).

I agree that there is a distinction between Islam and Islamism. However I wouldn't say one is political the other religious. In the same way we can't put German parties on a US spectrum, we can't put Islam on a Christian spectrum. For Islam politics and religion are not two separate topics. It's one topic. If there's a distinction for Muslims it is for other factors, which I sadly don't know however. (If a Muslim reads it feel free to educate me on that part. I'm certainly interested)
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We've been spending a lot of effort making GitLab.com more performant over the course of this year. We still have some ways to go, but every release includes performance enhancements based on performance data from GitLab.com.

We no longer see GitLab.com as a mechanism to stress test GitLab and we're certainly pushing hard to improve performance and availability.
Argggh. Professors!

You could nitpick the absolute shit out of any non-trivial work in the humanities--even the great ones--but most people have enough sense not to.

BTW, Foucault is actually readable. Who knew?!
With ICOs, there is a risk that people outside of the party circles actually making enough money to question and ask for some change.
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This is probably a better way of visualizing the parties:
https://politicalcompass.org/germany2017
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Many believe common people do not know what's good for them and that it's ok for special groups of people (governments) to impose their choices by force on the common people for their own good.
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How does one join your program? :)
I am making a choice to believe them that it is not a scam.
You can only know if their statement was true or not after the fact.

We all make choices like this daily on regular basis. However, its apparently appropriate to be scammed into various political promises, product descriptions, etc. But its not okay to be part of this 'ICO lottery' because one can easily be scammed? Give me a break.
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We've been working quite a bit of our NFS storage topology and have recently introduced some remediation to prevent outages based on NFS availability. Previously an NFS failure would have pretty wide-reaching implications, now it's a lot more isolated.

We're also working on an entirely new storage architecture for scaling and are slowly rolling this out. You can see more here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
They essentially killed themselves. First, there was the step to have a stance on everything, which a, IIRC small but don't take my word for it, majority wanted and they lost the people who supported them for their core values. Added to that lots and lots of internal strife and they became irrelevant, sadly.
There are a couple of digital banks like Monzo. Atom, Tandem, Starling and more (there's another one for digital nomads, I don't remember their name).

Then there are also other banks like Tesco/Sainsbury's which are definitely not 100 years old. More like started in 90s (but perhaps these reused some old banking licenses from other banks so don't count as "new").

Especially lately there has been a boom in fintech and lots of new challenger banks are appearing and getting banking licenses so that claim is definitely not true today, perhaps it was true a decade or two ago.
There are fully automated trains. However full automation requires not just a capable "train cockpit" but also a capable signal system (with supporting auxiliary systems). Introducing the latter is, as far as I can tell, the hard/expensive part.

As a note, not all trains have fixed speeds or fixed stops. As an example some signal systems may allow a train to enter a section where another train is already present if the driver drives slow enough to be able to stop before colliding.
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I was just having this conversation on HN about a week ago.

I think a union for web developers would be a fantastic idea. Like you said, not necessarily for negotiating pay, but that could be part of it. It would be nice if a developer could rise from being paid close to minimum wage to an average software engineer's salary without having to switch jobs 6 times.

As an industry we need to address the problem of endemic project failure. Companies who aren't in the software industry generally don't understand how to produce software. Usually it falls on individual developers to teach the rest of the organization how to do things like write stories, build a deployment pipeline, etc. How to trust programmers to do things at their own pace and not resort to cracking the whip all the time. Anyone who's done this knows it's an uphill battle. Usually programmers just choose to leave a dysfunctional org rather than stick around and get punished for trying to do their job. Then you have dying projects full of code no one understands or wants to understand.

It would be great if we could come together to take control of our industry and really turn it into a profession. If it's what people want, we could try to engineer a profession where it's reasonable for a developer to expect to hold the same job (or at least work on the same codebase - even as a contractor) for at least 5 years without a major upheaval. Or one where you can expect to use at least some of what you learn in university / boot camp on the job. Or one where workers are expected to have different output levels and they don't fear being let go for not being a natural fast learner like John. Things we don't have that other professions take for granted. All these things aren't going to happen in the current dev culture, but would in fact be beneficial developments not just for employees but for employers as well.

If we don't do this type of thing ourselves, companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook will remake the industry in their image as they have done and are doing. This will result in a great worker pool ready for them to draw from, and a broken industry for everyone else.
You took the comment literally. I think OP's point is still valid. There should be regulations around sophisticated scams.
There are many ways to do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-base_system

But it seems clear that the grandparent poster was using the wrong word (“digit”) and likely meant something like “we can conceive of a 2-dimensional quantity as a single number-like entity”.
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Then force them to save a certain amount per month. What they do with their disposable income should be left to their discretion.
I had a discussion about crypto currencies with a pretty high level EU diplomat from the trade commission. His point was simple, as soon as they will consider the crypto currencies as a medium to escape taxes and general "rules" (whatever it means) they will simply ban or regulate them to put them back into the control of a central authority.
It seems as though SMF was a bit controversial in the community. I do agree that it's a bit overengineered, but on the other hand I would take SMF before systemd any day.
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Not all ICOs are scams. Isn't freedom also the freedom to make you own mistakes? I mean, if we were to use your logic for any decisions that may lead to bad outcomes, we would live in a totalitarian state.
Privacy doesn't necessarily mean black market. Financial companies couldn't effectively compete were their IP completely public to the competition.
The BoE lists all registered banks and building societies at: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/pra/Pages/authorisations/bank... - FWIW, it includes Tesco Bank there. Perhaps Computer Weekly is not the best source of this information?

Anyway, there's well over a hundred banks listed, and around forty building societies, so there's hardly a lack of competition.
Well, having physical branches it really not that important these days. If they give you a way to do usual tasks (change address etc) online or via phone there can be massive savings and increases in efficiency by getting rid of all physical branches.

All that real estate that is now occupied by bank branches can be give to some other businesses that actually need physical space (fashion/clothes, sports, restaurant, gyms etc) to use it more efficiently.

The only reason I had to go to a physical branch this year was to change my address and that is only because my old bank where my main account is doesn't have a way to do this online (seriously I don't understand why is it so difficult to make this a feature of online banking...).

I am using Monzo as my secondary bank and once they give me current account later this year, if it works smoothly and there are no issues I might get rid of my old bank account.
I'm not saying ICO's are scams, but do you think scamming should be legal?
> I do think that the AfD adds value to the democratic system in Germany.

Agreed. I dislike them and their views just as much as the next leftist, but they represent the opinions of a (small but) significant share of the German populace, and these ought to be represented by parliament proportionally.
Seconded: https://cr.yp.to/djb.html
PARTY PLAY MOBILE APP LAUNCHES FOR PARTIES ACROSS THE U.S.
I'm not sure how well it would fit as a first course, but the thing that really helped me understand what's behind differential equations is Steven Strogatz's wonderful book "Nonlinear Dynamics And Chaos"[0].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0813349109/
"Two consenting adults". That is a misrepresentation of reality. You could say the same about Pyramid schemes. No one forced others to buy into it.

The point is ICOs are akin to scams. And there should be a regulations around it.
Think if you're dealing with the sort of types who work in ICOs you need to be beyond business savvy and more expect to be screwed at every turn.
http://www.nobius.org/~dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf if you are interested. It's obviously dated (1998) but still an entertaining, and insightful, read.
Nice rant. Do statistics back it up or is it just a feel good government bash?
Immersive but also very battery draining...
COLLABORATIVE MUSIC APP ALLOWS USERS TO BUILD PLAYLISTS AND COMPETE FOR THE TOP TRACK

NEW YORK, NY – Party Play, the new music app dubbed as a free social jukebox, launched today in the U.S. market in both the App Store and Google Play. Unlike simple shared playlists on other existing music applications, Party Play allows users to share living collaborative playlists – pulling music from other apps, including Spotify and Apple Music – with friends, family and other everyman-DJs to easily set the musical tone for any type of event in real-time and as they evolve.

Party Play requires a Wi-Fi connection to create an interactive music playlist which can then be shared with other partygoers, road trippers or study partners on the same network. Whoever joins the playlist can then immediately add songs from Spotify, Apple Music or directly from their devices to the rotation. Users have the option to purchase and use Drops to push their selected track to the top of the shared playlist, creating both a fun competition and a sense of true musical collaboration! Party Play plans to add SoundCloud and other streaming services to the mix over the coming months.

Arkadii Oganian, CEO and Founder of Party Play, marks his own experiences with creating playlists for events with friends as the driving force behind the app. “Inspired by beach parties, house parties and open-air events, a friend and I started planning our own stylized get-togethers, hoping to generate the same kind of feeling we’d been experiencing at these energetically electric events,” says Oganian. “But there was a problem: nobody wanted to manage the playlist all night, or figure out what would kind of music would make everyone happy. And so Party Play was born.”

Party Play aims to save every party from being tied down to a single DJ, a bad playlist or a disorganized music experience. Through collaboration with family, friends and other partygoers on the perfect shared playlist for any special event, Party Play is poised to define the way the world parties for years to come.

Located in the Canary Islands, Party Play was founded as an entertainment company in 2013 by Arkadii Oganian and Ara Safaryan. Today, the company has five full time employees on staff. The Party Play app launched in beta mode in 2016 and to consumers in 2017.
> "definition of done"

My first programming job had exactly this problem. Spec started at "connect these two services together using webhooks for $700" and creeped its way up to "build a database-backed web service that replaces both of the original services and then some for $4000, plus development expenses."

It's still not done. It'll never be done. But thankfully, I got out after it was off the​ ground and someone else maintains it now.
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what makes you think china's institutions aren't?
Yes because business interest lobbyists are so pro-ICO...

Venture Capitalists are all on board with a technology that forces them to compete with the masses during seed rounds...

and existing companies are all about upstart competitors having an easier way to get capital early on...

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Oh, my bad then, I thought posts had to be related to Technology in some sense, this just appeared to me to be one of those PM rants, all over again
Will probably need a vague working-knowledge of it.

Even if AI stalls out again for a while, you'll probably still have to integrate some piece of ready-made AI into a product at some point during your career.
Youtube-dl at #18 is hilariously telling, although to be fair it's great for archiving clips (from all sorts of sites, not just YouTube) that may get deleted due to all sorts of reasons.
So now you are going to decide what consenting adults can do with their money, by deciding they can't invest in ICOs and other scam^H^H^H^H unregulated schemes until they have put enough away to satisfy you.

I'm not sure this is qualitatively different to a ban, really.
I was very ill in Barcelona and was told by relatives there wasn't a point in going to the hospital unless I wanted a 6 hour wait for ibuprofen.

Same in USA, unless you still have a knife stuck in your chest. IN USA, that ibuprofen might cost you $250, along with the $XXXX for the doctor's visit. Maybe I'm exaggerating with $250, but having some outrageous bills, I wouldn't be surprised if they bill you separately for the pill AND for opening the bottle and getting one for you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=emergency+room+visit+cost
Because the cap is arbitary. It says that no matter what kind of person someone is and whether they are a partner or relative of someone who is already a national or legal resident, they are not allowed residence.

It gets even worse if you apply an immigration cap to refugees and asylum seekers as well, at which point you're saying that the arbitary immigration cap is potentially more important than their survival.
Exactly, I agree
And 20 years later, this essay is still as relevant as the day it was written. I agree with pretty much everything that's in the essay, except for a few small points.

> There is nothing wrong with keeping the functional notation for density functions – as physicists and engineers always did – as long as one bears in mind that density functions cannot be evaluated, but only integrated.

This always bothered me, since, as noted in the very next section, distributions don't have an analogue to pointwise multiplication. Even worse, there is a perfectly servicable notation for such "dual functions/vectors" that physicists have been using throughout the second half of the 20th century. We could just use a consistent notation and not confuse new students, but no. "It's always been done this way" is a terrible argument and leads us to the confusing mess of notations that people still use for integrals and integral transforms...

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Apart from that I would teach people recurrence equations/stream calculus before going into the limiting case of differential equations. It's true that differential equations are sometimes easier to handle analytically, but this is neither relevant (as the article notes) nor a great point in their favor, since we just end up teaching students a bag of tricks instead of explaining why something works...
Well, I think mainly it's because Google is behind webcomponents.org. It has ZERO mentioning on x-tag and other competing frameworks. Ironically, it is called "webcomponents.org".

It's like visiting a store called "phone" that sells iPhone exclusively. Google has definitely got own its down agenda with the so-called standards in this regard.

Unsurprisingly, a searching "x-tag" on webcomponents.org returns pathetically two components.
As I said on this forum before hearing people talk about postmodernism as if it is the current "thing" within continental philosophy circles is really odd. It hasn't been for a decade or more.

The backlash against these methodologies has been pretty severe within continental philosophy itself. For example, Meillassoux's critique of correlationism pretty much says that the whole epistemological manoeuvres, perhaps vulgarised by postmodern turn, by which it is claimed there is nothing "real" without a human correlated to it and that "reality" cannot be truly accessed, only reality as it appears to human beings, distorted by power, ideology etc etc.

There is a good description here though might be pretty high level. https://euppublishingblog.com/2014/12/12/correlationism-an-e...
There's all sorts of things that consenting adults aren't allowed to do, even if 'free and willing'.
I can create a new cryptocurrency over a weekend. It's not really that hard and most of these ICOs are just copycats with few parameter changes. Projects which actually develop something new are very few so kudos to them. Majority are just quick copies of existing code and rebranding.
>Foucault is actually readable

well that's just not true
If a government wants to do that, and the hosting company is not able or willing to fight it on a legal basis, it's really not about how easy or hard the actual implementation is. This makes nearly zero difference in the grand scheme of such a surveillance program.
You definitely aren't the only one with that opinion. If you've visited the card's homepage or tried to register for one, you'll have realized it confers almost no privileges.
There was no potential health damage. The biggest scandal is how such a small issue was made this big by everyone involved. Read up on it. You can swallow 10.000.000 times as much fipronil as maximally allowed and still walk home from the hospital.

Putting the blame on the farmers is wrong too. How on earth could they have known that what the cleaning company used was illegal?
And the best bit: if it breaks you can repair it yourself!
> are there still British people in London

This is the stupidest thing I've seen on HN today.
I think you've missed the main point of this rule. The rule enables you to communicate across the hierarchy, instead of having to traverse it.

For example: you can work directly with someone at the same level as you in another department without having to traverse the hierarchy. This is actually the opposite of the problem you highlight, as traversing the hierarchy often creates choke-points in senior management as they have to co-ordinate everything going through them.

Of course, it's good to keep management informed of important issues, but that's what the CC line is for!
> The odds are much higher that your project will not be successful and so the choice of technology doesn't really matter.

I'm very well aware of that. I wouldn't recommend anyone to give such what-if scenarios much weight in their technology choice without tangible concerns. Yet, Java is one of the few technologies where I find myself thinking about its legalese at all, so I wondered if others had the same thought.

I guess it's because there's now a good bunch of new programming languages that start to compete on Java's grounds and don't have such PR disasters like the Google-Oracle lawsuit.

To be fair: most of the technical reasons for me choosing Java are based on improvements that came to Java under Oracle's ownership.
Recent UK NHS Scotland experience - went to "Minor Injuries" unit with what I thought was a minor injury (infected cat bite). Was immediately taken to A&E and saw a doctor almost immediately (within 5 minutes) - got an X-ray (which took < 10 mins) and was admitted to a ward where I got multiple intravenous antibiotics. Responded very well so no need for surgery and I was out two days later.

Food was decent, care by staff was very good and WiFi was excellent!

Edit: Turns out that a deep cat bite can be very nasty!

Edit2: This was lunchtime on Wednesday - I know that if I had went at midnight on a Friday it wouldn't be quite so simple...
>> We don't send any personally identifiable information to Google.

> Yes, you do

PII is a term of the art which the GP is using in its standard sense and you are not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personally_identifiable_inform...

(This is independent of the deontolic status of your comment.)
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The name of the thread doesn't really match the article name now, does it.
> What about the Pirate Party? I hoped I'd see Piratenpartei Deutschland in the elections...

It is in the elections, cf. for example

> https://www.merkur.de/politik/bundestagswahl-2017-diese-part...
I think we already live in a totalitarian state because of the "freedom" to make your own mistake (aka be scammed by someone with more information and bad intentions, aka "the market").
No, the SEC memo wasn't weak.

It basically said "we are watching this space" which will frighten anybody who knows that the SEC isn't in a hurry to investigate.

They can get you for things from years past (IIRC 10), so they don't have to rush things.
I think Tesco, Sainsbury's etc are just resellers of banking services. Actual banking licenses are the thing there have been none of for 100 years iirc, I don't think GP comment just pulled that assertion out of thin air.