skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take a look at the Contract-IT-Job-Market on IT JobsWatch uk ( https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/Contract-IT-Job-Market).

It's a bit biased to the banking sector; but it gives you a general idea of the skills demand (and rates!).

edit: Not just banking sector; but IT service providers. Europe (and the UK) are mostly service providers, I mean: usually don't develop IT products that they sell to others. We usually integrate and maintain stuff developed elsewhere (mostly by US companies).
- If LN is very popular and successful won't it decrease miners profit to dangerously low levels?

- How does Omise GO provide the most important bank feature: borrowing money? After all that is the main source of bank's income & impact on economy.
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> Transaction fees are really the biggest issue right now, and there are tons of different approaches people are working on. Just like the Internet had hard time scaling in the early days I'm sure people will figure it out.

"Yes, don't worry we'll just solve this extremely technically challenging problem."

That's an article of faith.
What an odd question.

Like a few others I believe in a clutter free work environment. However, life doesn't, and my desk is a mess. I clear it once a month, but after a week it's piled high with junk. Right now, USB cables, batteries, notes, documents, bills, tools, pen drives and sd cards, toys to be fixed, books , cable ties, scraps of wrapping paper, tape, a pair of socks, lego bits, a battery from an old phone, the back panel from a Samsung tablet. I can't even see my keyboard right now. Major clean required before I can do any work
> My point is that to execute randomly downloaded code is realistically impossible to secure

This is absolutely not true if you have a MMU and something like a protection ring. In such an environment code by default can do nothing malicious. The only thing making it insecure in any way are the syscalls offered by the operating system.
The exact proportion might differ and never is that, but the concept is conserved.
I'd hoped by the end the author and friends would've set up some kind of labour system. After all, it seems they controlled the economy and controlled a lot of mining-time indirectly. I'd have hoped this would lead to them tendering large infrastructure & art projects / city-building with their massive wealth and leave a long-lasting mark on their world.
What do you get from fractional ownership of an orange?
I wonder if this guy will look at this topic and all the counter arguments and downvotes and actually stop and ask himself if maybe its possible he is a bit brainwashed.
They didn't state it directly, but indirectly.

The exact quote is:

> Since we were already locked into the Apple ecosystem (with paid apps and media), we bought iPhones.

So, they are locked-in into the ecosystem partly because of media. This directly implies they can't move their media out, for else they wouldn't be locked-in.

I'm not lying, and received no Upvote, still I'm responding. Actually, I think I'm risking downvotes for responding to a rather angry comment without content for the topic of the link. It's simply that you asked, so I answer.
Should have a [2011] tag. Not sure why this Palantir content is posted now?
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The East has more manufacturing and rural area. Also there are several huge companies located there in the West like Apple, Microsoft, EA, Sun, ect. The East also has a lower cost of living. I my home state a rather lavish home for a quarter million dollars would get you a 10' x 15' condo.

Tech needs food and manufacturing. You can't have one without the other.
Trade unions get seriously bunched panties about power to conference booths. Organizers are forced to play along, ostensibly for fire marshal and safety rules but really for union getting its cut.
The weather effect isn't about the cost of the shelter space. There is less incentive to put up with shelter rules (or risks, as the case may be) when the homeless can sleep outdoors somewhat comfortably year-round.
Right, Gruber's theory is poorly supported. He should detail a "fake" software UI scenario that the side button protects against, because I'm not seeing a single one.

A fake pay button couldn't do anything more with the Apple Pay system modal UI than present it. It can't trick you into completing it. The side button click adds nothing. The side button doesn't stop it from presenting a fake payment UI. And furthermore the App Store is a first party app so requiring the side button there can't possibly be to protect from nefarious apps.

A better theory is they just want total UI consistency. Since they need to use the side button for in-store Apple Pay, that wins for the App Store and in-app purchases as well. But even that doesn't quite make sense either, because then why are they requiring it for installing free apps?
Only because they’re using comskip. Don’t give Plex credit for simply setting a post process script. It’s also not very reliable as you need to tweak the settings per channel/show and so on.
Shenzhen is going whole hog with public transit seems they're opening a couple of subway lines every year at the moment
The problem isn't very prevalent in Android devices, because they have more "voltage headroom". The chipsets are not pushed to the limits / the red line, so battery degradation won't result in performance drops or sudden shutdowns.

Sudden shutdowns do still occur for some devices, but it is nowhere as iPhone devices pre-throttling. It's also something that didn't affect previous iPhones before the 6, because those devices did not have a very thin redline.
Evil runs on volunteers better than it does coerced conscripts.
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Another case: btce. Now turned to Wex. They got the possibility to run with users funds but instead they decided to stick around.

That being said, most people are peaceful. Crime-wise, they are slightly willing to do bad things (like stealing quietly from the market). Those ready to kill or cause great damage, are not normal people and are not most people.

Go to Japan and see how people behave their. America is violent and so is many places in the world. But I would not lose faith yet.
Sorry about that, I couldn't include the full title in the submission. I figured it was the best I could do, because if we challenge our understanding of evolution, haven't we also challenged what evolution is?
I'm happy with any better suggestions though!
I guess that Train technology is old enough that regulations about drivers, signals, and safety surely assume that there is a phisical person in charge of driving.

Maybe the first step towards automation is beign able to drive the train remotely. Technically feasible; but is it legally feasible?
The article goes into this though, these challenges are something that comparable international projects have faced in much worse ground conditions (which extenuates the issue).

The magnitude of cost difference does not stem from engineering challenges.
Hmm, one more thing to block.
In that case, why don't Android devices face sudden shutdowns as frequent as iOS devices (yes, you can point to isolated cases, but it is nowhere as prevalent as Apple devices pre-throttling)?

Note that this problem only occurred on devices where Apple fully designed the chips (iPhone 6 and later). "Off the shelf" chips, and those used for Android, simply have a lot more of a voltage window.
Cool so my adblocker will detect their script and block it too.
Yep I'm aware haha.

I made https://chillee.github.io/OpenReviewExplorer/, so I'd love if all conferences used openreview.
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A book claims that Americanisms will have absorbed the English language by 2120
I did extensive research on conlangs about a decade ago. My conclusions were that the conlangs worth actually trying to learn were

* Esperanto, because a significant number of people already speak it

* Ido, because it's a significantly improved version of Esperanto

* Novial, because it is significantly more rationally structured than Ido

* Interlingua, because it's a significantly more rationally structured version of languages around 700 million people already speak
Should be easy to prove that then now that it is clear what to look for.
We regularly build lots of heavy and complicated things, building them on Mars is going to be a problem. The biggest thing we've shipped there so far is the size of a small car.

The process of colonizing Mars should be that we realistically look at how much payload we can send up there, how much it costs, and then we find some adventurers willing to take risks to go.

I don't think it's unrealistic to say as a first approximation that the first people to land on Mars can expect a 10% chance of dying by just trying to get there, and 30% of dying early due to some complications, e.g. radiation exposure.

Those would have been fantastic odds when the New World was first colonized, or when soldiers landed on Omaha beach. Colonizing Mars needs to be looked at like that, not in terms of sending some government employee into a dangerous situation, as if though they're going to repair some machinery here on Earth.

Instead, NASA views their rules on safety as immutable, and is coming up with designs for habitats and ships to satisfy those rules, without ever having the discussion that perhaps those rules are unreasonable given the endeavour.
That’s just the quantity that are actively playing it now. The important thing is, what proportion of adults played as children? According to statistics online, football is the most popular high school sport, with participation twice that of the nearest, basketball, and 2/3 of children participate in organized sports.

I looked it up, and apparently the stats for tackle football are about 4.5% of kids 6-12 and 9% in the 13-17 range.
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There’s been good progress in foodbank tech despite it being a fork. http://m.wfp.org/news/news-release/blockchain-against-hunger... Good luck Vitalik
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You're confusing the slowness caused by the updates (which doesn't exist on Android) with the slowness caused by the flash storage degradation (which absolutely does exist). I too have an old Nexus 10, which died from that cause, a common problem.

That's exactly why I think microSD support is so important. Your old card got slow? Buy a new one for $20, copy the files over, done.
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> takes a certain amount of chutzpah to hear about all these eminent people saying "This will be the next hot thing, you better get in now!" and think to yourself "Actually, sounds like bullshit to me."

More of a personality thing. If you would pitch Dropbox or Facebook to me today, I would consider it bullshit just like back then. Nice little niche maybe but certainly no Unicorns. Who would put sensitive personal information into the cloud?! Obviously not much of a market.
which is ironic as the RAF was a fairly hopeless terrorist organization that did not carry out many actions

I met an old school mate years ago she was working as a PA for deutsche bank in the uk and she mentioned that the senior mangers where annoyed as the UK would not allow them to have armed body guards.
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Why would they, they have nothing to gain from doing that, all it would do is accelerate the decline of Windows revenue.
You shouldn't, but as there are multiple root servers you should round robin them instead of hitting the same one every time.
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Having just visited Melbourne, I truly hated being forced into paying $7 (AUD) for the privilege of getting a myki card to make a $4.10 trip each way (so $8.20). There is no longer any way to buy paper tickets, and unlike San Francisco which can print out reasonable RF-enabled single ride tickets for MUNI, everyone took it as obvious that $7 AUD was simply the cost of doing business. Thanks for the backstory on myki!
It seems unlikely that you were able to overload the Google public dns server, and it also seems unlikely that you were saturating your connection. Thus you probably hit a rate limit. If you go recursive, and cache at least the TLD servers, distributing requests evenly across the 13 logical servers that typically manage a TLD such as .com, you’ll probably see a much higher per second throughput than through the google server, but still constrained by rate limits.
For my American cousins I thought I would mention a little more about Rugby Union. Concussion is less of a problem in Rugby than in American football, and this is not an accident. Rugby is addressing this in several ways.

1) Years of rule changes, and stricter enforcement. Now a top level player who tackles someone above the shoulder, or tackles without attempting to hold on (so no clothes-linse or body checks) will be sent off (which in Rugby is catastrophic to your teams chances). If you lift a player off the ground you are responsible for putting them down again. Drop them on their head and expect a lengthy ban. This hasn't changed the spectacle of Rugby much, if anything the skill levels have improved.

2) Protection. Around your head Rugby only allows you to wear a small soft 'scrum cap' which protects from bruising and wounds from head clashes, like the things boxers suffer with around their eyes. Their is a light collar bone protector which seems to be about 1/5th of the thickness of the equivalent Gridiron gear. That is all. The impacts are still impressive to see, indeed are perhaps more impressive on an un-armoured body, but with lower G-force to the head

3) The size of the people. In both sports their has been an increase in the mass of the players. However US football players seems disproportionately massive. In Rugby their are not rolling substitutions, so you have to carry that mass around for 80 minutes, and therefore a compromise is necessary, perhaps gridiron could restrict the number of subs, or the squad size so the bruisers actually had to run. The miracle of sports nutrition, with the characteristic protruding jaw bones, seem to be producing bigger players than they may if they had effective controls against doping. Yes I said it, from across the pond, it looks like steroid abuse is rife in several US sports.

4) The concussion protocol. Any player that appears to have been knocked out in Rugby gets sent from the pitch to be examined by a doctor for a minimum of 10 minutes. If concussion is detected there is a mandatory period off playing. If concussion recurs this can be months! Welsh International George North suffered repeated concussions and missed most of the following year.

During this same period Rugby has become a tougher sport than ever, but without killing the brains of our young men
How would advertisers know which sites have most users of their target group? This is the kind of problem that Google solved for them.
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A system usable out of the box by non-technical consumers, as an alternative to a Windows or Mac laptop, or an iPad.

People used to say the same sort of thing about the iPad. You could put Linux on a tablet for half the price. Yes, but only 1% of the population would be able to use it.

Of course Pixels aren’t aimed at ordinary consumers though. They are high end devices aimed at developers, because Google wants to support an active community of highly skilled and capable developers working on apps for the chrome book, or at least ensure that their cross platform web apps are Chromebook compatible and take advantage of the platform’s features. They’re much more likely to do that if they have a Chromebook they actualy enjoy using and do dev work on, rather than just having an extra low end device around for testing.
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Yes, but if these ads were not possible, we would probably still have something like HN.
Misleading title, author equates "English" to "British English".
The safety of your mothers' e.g. online banking, privacy, computer data(pictures, home videos etc) is less important then the company you work for (and probably has insurance)?

update: Apparently for many here, protecting your family is less important. Sort of happy you are not my son or daughter giving me computer advice.
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I think you must mean

checkCapacity :: Int -> (ZonedTime -> IO Int) -> Reservation -> IO (Either Error Reservation)
Not incorrect at all. Its a perfectly reasonable function of the operating system to tell the user that their battery is end-of-life and it should be replaced.

What is "incorrect" is all the justification for this unacceptable, anti-customer behaviour. The current design serves no purpose other than to treat the customer as a cash-cow, who must upgrade their phone at the EOL of their battery, or suffer a degradation in the capabilities of a device they own. Or, do they not?
I'd say any mention of URL should be avoided for the sake of confusion.

I can't count the number of times I've been asked by a developer running a web server on a random port to "make sure to include the port" on the A record I'm adding.
The problem with browser benchmarks is that they don't measure what you actually care about most, which is rendering a web page loaded over the network. That is hard to measure, so instead let's just rate browsers by stuff that isn't important, but easy to measure...
Anyways, irregardless, that was understood. We are “killing it”.
> And I’d like an answer for once other than the super literal “Because their server returned the status code 200”

Hopefully I can answer your question.

I use an adblocker all the time. I make no exceptions, and I have never whitelisted any site. If I notice something managed to sneak through a filter, I send a pull request to add it to the filter.

I know I'm robbing the content hosts of their ad-based revenue. So why do I keep doing it?

Because I fucking hate ads of any kind. I want all ad-based revenue streams to dry up permanently. And I put a lot of effort into that. Fuck ads. They can burn in hell.
The server is the source of truth. The client only duplicates logic that's present on the server in order to optimise for network delay.

For example suppose I smash a block of iron ore with a pickaxe. The client tells the server that I used my pickaxe to smash the block of iron ore, the server checks that yes, that pickaxe can smash the iron ore, and adds one chunk of iron ore to my inventory. By duplicating this logic the client can anticipate that I'll get a chunk of ore, but the fact it did that doesn't actually give me ore in the world, it just means my display updates even before the server replies saying "Also now you have ore". I actually think the ore example doens't happen in modern minecraft because a better pick might give more ore, or even auto-smelt it into iron ingots, and the server would decide some of that randomly in some cases - but you get the idea.

Network problems can cause this to de-synchronise. The symptom might be e.g. you dig a block of sand on a new server, your client shows you now have sand, but when you move to where the sand was, your client rubber-bands and the sand re-appears in front of you. But the server is the truth for everybody else, they'll see you lurching about trying to dig sand but failing, and when you fix the problem, you won't have any sand.

Modders are mostly working on the server, although since they add new graphics and other elements the same mods are usually also needed by the client (it just doesn't run the server elements).

Some logic does live purely on the client but it's mostly quality-of-life stuff, e.g. auto-mapping. All the visuals live on the client. So a client can make opaque blocks see-through for example, to some extent, which would be a problem for cheating in combat games, and hit-scanning would be easy to cheat in a client too.
They would still find themselves in the filter lists. It's hard to trust any ad company, that is unfortunate truth. I did text only Amazon links sort of advertising but it triggers some unlock filters because of the affiliate link.
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I think in this case it is more like:

Government: How much for the tunnel?

Company: $5M

Government: Ok, but we need it next year and will fine you $20000 every day too late.

Company: That's ok. But then it will cost you $200M.

Government: OK.
You also get small parties extorting billions in pork for their support or pet project in the UK the DUP and Libdems in the previous coalition did this and likewise the greens in Germany.
That's what happens when someone wants to look/sound smart, but actually isn't - lots of jargon, piled like spaghetti, impossible to follow.

Actual smart people are generally effective at explaining complex things succinctly and in simple terms.
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They do expand the acronym in the second paragraph:

... to identify chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the living.
While everything that is going on with ads is horrible, it does work. This is very wrong side to hope for things get better. There is fraud but companies pay premium for ads because of it and in the end customers.
Not a misleading title - necessary for the last sentence in the first paragraph.

And should the non-clarified form of the language not automatically be assumed to be the original form of it? Compare Spanish Spanish vs Mexican Spanish, it feels an unnecessary clarification
You can buy USB sound ‘cards’ for less than a dollar. I find the premise of this article kind of unconvincing.
"And to fix it is "far better" than to recycle it"

Because what, because you say so? I mean, I can say it's far better to dress my phone up in a green skirt and hang it outside my window as a Christmas decoration then. About just as relevant.

"Time passes, MS is slightly more ok and Apple is bad."

You seem to have missed the lesson from the Apple thing: companies ain't your friends.
The chance that someone would send him money a second time is very small, and the act of terrorism comes with risk of getting caught. If the extortionist is in it for the money, it doesn't make sense to continue the same scheme. It might make sense to start a new scheme, however.
It's not entirely risk-free, as the spending of stolen or other Bitcoins of questionable origin is not trivial. Even if you use Monero or Z-Cash, regulation requires you to specify how you earned the money when cashing out. Yes, you can make something up, but you will need a good, plausible story.
No one has done as much damage to English as the English. Maybe its time to let someone else carry the torch for a while. We can't do any worse.
Just another special case of erosion of all kinds of diversity as we become globally connected. Biological, linguistic, cultural etc.

If you want to do something about it, and you aren't an American, then preserve what's unique to your place and people. Don't get swept up mindlessly in the global consumerist culture. Merely lamenting is not going to save vanishing diversity.