skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there was a large hysteria across much of the Eurozone about German domination of the bloc. Magazine cover after magazine cover painting them in terrible light, including some going so far as to reference back to Nazi times.

I try to keep up with politics and news and saw none of this (I watch foreign TV but don't read foreign newspapers a lot). So I don't think there has been a lot of painting germany as a bad guy in Swedish media, no. Why that is, I can only speculate. Would be interesting to hear if the same is true in e.g. Denmark, Finland.

> That coincided with the post effects of the great recession, when Germany essentially refused to allow more liberal central bank posturing and action to try to follow the Fed lead on how to properly respond to the terrible recession and the financial system consequences

If the 2008 recession was behind it, Sweden recovered very quickly and wasn't as hard hit (Partly because we weren't as influenced by ECB interest rate politics). Perhaps that is also a reason.
Nope. You're probably confusing Poland with Greece.

Poland's unemployment rate is about 100% better than Ireland, Italy, France, and others and almost 50% better than the EU.

In big cities is perceptively non-existant among young people (my perception and my girlfriend's).

Here is a chart: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate...
so, what I described above: another mixed agreement, where 99% doesn't require unanimity
You could do something as follows assuming all source files are in src/, your entry point is src/a.js and your output is build/scripts.js. I use browserify for my compilation but this would work similarly with webpack.

JS_FILES = $(shell find ./src -name "*.js")
JS_ENTRY = ./src/a.js
JS_OUT = ./build/scripts.js

$(JS_OUT): $(JS_FILES)
browserify $(JS_ENTRY) > $(JS_OUT)

Now anytime any js files within the src/ directory are modified, make will rebuild scripts.js
"DFW's suicide hit me very hard. I ended up coping by reading every piece of nonfiction he'd ever published. He was a brilliant, tortured man and I see so much of myself in him. His nonfiction was fantastic and I will consider my life a success if I can do half of what he did. . . . "

That's pretty crushing
I agree that is a real concern.

The disadvantage though is that thanks to zero-day vulnerabilities it means anyone who runs a software company can get hit my lightning at any time. And quite possibly through no fault of their own.

Though I suppose there could be insurance policies for that in the same way a home contractor has insurance for if they fall off a ladder.

At the same time, sending an auditor to an office for a couple days to assess their security readiness is cheaper for the tax payers than tying up the courts if/when a large company disputes the fine.
But what's the advantage over directly buying Dollars or Euros?

A very good use-case for cryptocurrencies is taking money out of countries with strict capital control, like China. But obviously, such governments are also quite authoritarian and will not have problems blocking a cryptocurrency if they see fit.
Black and Blue: IBM hires Bain to cut costs, up productivity
In the EU we have the incoming GDPR to legislate for (and penalise) data breaches like this. This directive is very clear and detailed on how data should be collected, securely stored and disposed of. US law is a decade behind the EU.
Right, but my point is that there isn't a deep need for a box checking exercise that gets a company out of liability, if they don't want liability they can just avoid creating it.

Conveniently this is most onerous for stupid business models.
I understand. I just disagree. I don't think the car analogy is apt, because it doesn't capture the inherit risk (to so many) that these companies accept. They willfully accept that risk - when data breaches are inevitable. I'm saying they should both be 10.
i for one welcome our new crypto-currency funded drug research clinical trials. Please try to be as ethical and scrupulous when doing your research as possible: it's important that we have high quality scientific results, regardless of whether they support our hypotheses, so that people trust the outcomes.
Yes. Corbyn has been a long-term left-wing Eurosceptic, who opposed membership of the EC in 1975 and acted consistently with that view until the recent referendum.

While his public statements during the referendum supported remaining in the EU, I would argue that the general consensus among most of the "remain" campaigners was that his support was lukewarm at best (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36506...).

In reality, the Labour Party membership are broadly not Eurosceptic, and it's my view that Corbyn mostly has to toe a non-too-Eurosceptic line, especially given the support he has among generally pro-EU young people that brought him to power in the first place.

At present, the Labour Party's position on Brexit is hopelessly muddled, something along the lines of "We don't want to remain in the single market but we kind of want something maybe sort of similar". There is no discussion about remaining in the EU.

I'm sorry I can't provide you with a much better source at the moment, but it's more complex than a quote saying "I love
Brexit".
After seeing about a hundred of these stories over the last decade or so, I don’t really need any proof. There’s no way I can file this away as “not a problem” when I think of Yelp.

Whether due to official policy or unofficial policy (company culture) Yelp has an antagonistic relationship with small business owners on behalf of their customers and it’s gross.
> It doesn't disprove it, it just demolishes that particular argument.

geezerjay made the point that the ability to experience pain is a useful survival trait, so we should expect it to be widespread.

Filling in some gaps in your argument (please correct me if I get them wrong), you're arguing that there are other negative stimuli that could have equivalent usefulness and therefore pain itself is not beneficial for optimising survival. Any equivalent stimulus would do.

Since there's no way to tell what anyone feels, the entire subjective experience of pain can only be defined by looking at analogous physiology and response. We can look at things like whether a species has nociception, whether their nociception system interacts with their central nervous system, whether they respond to painkillers, how they make choices about negative stimuli, adaptive avoidance, etc.

To have the same survival value, your 'negative stimuli' must be indistinguishable from pain. They have to be because you imply they illicit the same response in the same situation, and (barring species that are clearly missing key parts of nociception) the response is all we can look at.

Your argument seems to rest on redefining the (admittedly vague) biological understanding of pain to mean a unspecified subset of 'things that are indistiguishable from pain'... which I don't buy as being anything other than an existential conundrum and in my opinion doesn't seem like a basis to call geezerjay's comment "over-simplistic".
If we get a "hard" Brexit i can see Scotland voting to leave within a few years, ill put 90% odds on it.

Ireland maybe unifying? Not impossible.

The union looks very weak from where i'm sat right now.
Say hello to mutation. The process that says screw you to trying to try and remove such genes.
Sure, but this predates Hinduism.
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It is perfectly reasonable to WISH that a couple of flimsy pieces of information cannot be used for identify theft and fraud. Maybe in the next few decades we will modernize such things?

Until then, however, if companies like Equifax are going to deign to hold sensitive information on behalf of THE PUBLIC and profit of of that, they had better take responsibility for it or face consequences if they fail.
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I never meant to imply that 15-20 minutes in vimtutor would make you a vim wizard, or that you'd remember everything that vimtutor went through. There's no quick and easy answer to switching to something that does things in a fundamentally different way.

Also, I hold some fairly controversial opinions: you don't need dozens of vim plugins; you don't need to compete with vim golf champions; you don't need an extensive configuration.

What you do need is to fully grok the idea of normal mode as an editing language with verbs, objects, and modifiers. Once you "get it" then you have a working knowledge of how to construct "sentences", and learning a new text object allows you to apply pretty much all verbs to it. Same for learning a new verb; you can apply it to lots of things.

Over the years I've learned a lot of interesting vim things and I've forgotten most of them. Because I don't need them every day or even every week. That's ok. The things I remember are things I use often, because they're useful in everyday editing.
The SO moderator was rolling back an edit made by another user.
> there is the little matter of the ~£60 billion shortfall that the EU has to find from somewhere.

What is this figure? https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million... claims a UK net contribution to the EU of UKP 8.6 billion in 2016.

You could argue that that would be a yearly shortfall over a number of years, is that what then comes out to 60 billion? Or are you talking about something else? Also there is the matter of the exit bill, which should offset part of that amount.
I was criticizing the disconnect between the picture and the caption. I'm pretty sure Amtrak has trains that are just as bad as some of those in France.
This is one of the most poorly written articles I've ever seen.
That's the state of the world now. Long term, if cryptocurrencies are to be genuinely useful and pervasive, it will probably be exactly one that nails all the design issues and captures 99% of the market.
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Pfizer Halts Research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Treatments
Overzealous prosecution is the default, not the exception. Prosecutors build their careers on high profile convictions. It's a systemic problem.

MIT was not without fault either.
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"it's difficult to leave so why bother"

- It's difficult to beat with a whisk than an electrical blender so why bother.

- It's difficult to play field sports with half a team so why bother.

- It's difficult to cut off your nose to spite your face so why bother.

At this time, this is how this argument sounds to me. The EU is an emergent phenomena. The natural course for a collection of neighbour states that wish to have peace and free trade.

The UK still wants to have peace and free trade for sure, but has decided to construct an entirely different artifice through which to pursue these goals, quite apart from the states with whom she wants to continue to have peace and free trade!
This is purely anecdotal, of course, but our company which is a large software developer in the UK, is facing a lot of difficulty hiring from EU(candidates drop out citing Brexit half way through the process too) and we already had several EU employees leaving specifically because they don't want to live in UK anymore due to perceived hostility of Britain towards them. We also work with a local Russel group university and I know for a fact that after the referendum, number of applicants for PhD positions in CS from EU countries has dropped down from an average of 160 applications/year, to....3 applications last year. Everything that is happening is monumentally bad, but I think UK won't see some of the bad effects for years which of course makes everyone think it's absolutely fine.
You say that, but then we currently have almost limitless incompetence at the highest levels of government. So many aspects of Brexit that have been completely not thought about. The idea of an absolute trade barrier with our largest trading partner being thrown around as a valid idea.

I could easily see a malfunctioning government unilaterally deporting EU citizens.
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Interesting. Then by that rationale, since families used to on average produce vastly more children per closed family unit, the amount of gay children in total should be dropping?
Your point 5 is quite a strawman. As everyone who does real (applied) crypto knows, it's not about maths and algorithms. Those are sound, but the devil is in the implementation details.

Let's not pretend cryptocurrencies are usable for payments. They are not: the technical side is way too hard for random people to use. I'd say, PGP-hard.
How did this end up on the front page?
Mars is about 10 times the mass of the moon, so maybe that helps. Though the Kuiper Belt is about the same mass as Mars, so not sure if that's the answer
Are you sure about wolves considered pest in France? I haven't found if that's the case.

Still thank you for your answer, I didn't know about the quotas.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what Kucoin Shares are. Are they not just shares in other bitcoin markets? It looks to me like it's just a "currency exchange", really. Or are you actually buying shares in some underlying company that provides value? If it's the latter, then sure, it's like buying shares on eTrade. But if there's no underlying company or product you're investing in, then I don't seem them as being similar at all.
My methodology for estimating a development project:

1: Ask the team for estimates on each dev task
2: Double the estimated time for each task
3: Add an additional 25% contingency overall

This usually comes more or less on time.
More of a reason for data breach regulations to exist. If your CSO can't keep up, then he or she should be fired early.
The idea that you can make high-level strategy choices about security without intimate knowledge of that domain is what needs to go away. That kind of thinking is the product of a business culture designed to keeping rich people with MBAs employed over making sane decisions.
Show HN: Just started a curated list of tools
Using pdftabextract to liberate tabular data from scanned documents
I’m Always looking for new tools to test and try. Many of these are Free or Open Source. Among the favorites, those that work without installation “out of the box”, and multi-platform. All Tools are tested and reviewed personally. The list is not exaustive, ans is continuously updated, every suggestion for any new tool is appreciated.
Right? It is hard to believe government in the 21st century taking a countervailing position protecting consumers against powerful interests running roughshod over consumers. The Credit Reporting Agencies in particular have statutory protections that make snowflakes jealous.
I personally believe companies should be fined regardless.

But one caveat I’d add to your point. Companies should not have a free pass for losing data that isn’t directly required for providing the service the user requested; or when storing data the user did not give them permission to acquire.

Data should be a liability not an asset.
Neat. When do they release the home lucid dream inducer?
code repo: https://github.com/alifier/Restaurant_success_model
> This seems like a real indictment of the ambulance system?

Not really; ambulances aren't intended to actually minimize time to physically reach the hospital, they minimize time to emergency medical attention by, in effect, bringing part of the hospital to you.
> So I don't think there has been a lot of painting germany as a bad guy in Swedish media, no

I think you have to consider that would very likely be because Sweden isn't in the Euro. For example there has been widespread blame in Finland, that their protracted economic suffering was from being unable to control their own currency to respond better to their long recessionary environment.

It got extremely heated amongst Eurozone members.

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-painted-as-villain-in-euro-cris...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/15/eurozone-de...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/17/business/global/the-rest-o...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/26/german...

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/06/angel...

"Why not blame Germany?"

https://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/10/euro-cr...

"Who is responsible for the eurozone crisis? The simple answer: Germany"

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/who-is-responsible-for-t...

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/politics/2012/06/angel...

"Eurozone recession deepened at end of 2012" (Germany was blamed for that, due to their ECB preferences of policy) -

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-21455423

"Two versus 'La Merkel'; Italy and France Team Up against Germany" (2012)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/two-versus-la-mer...

It keeps going for a hundred more stories like those. If you dig into local Greek, Spanish, Italian, French, British media over those couple of years, Germany is largely the villain of the Eurozone economic crisis. You'd even see it represented constantly on media sites like Imgur.
Mars is much bigger than the Moon, so it's hit more often by stuff that could send rocks our way. In terms of delta-v, Mars is not so much farther away than the Moon.
Well if that's the case - that he's actually buying shares in some underlying company - then I'm just misunderstanding. Again, my knowledge is very superficial here - at a glance it looks like Kucoin is just an exchange for other bitcoin markets. But if it's actually an exchange to buy shares in real companies, then that's a rather different situation.
The article says "drawings". How many such drawings were found they did not say.
Okay, please tell me what restrictions are in place to stop someone from Poland immigrating to the UK?

Also, are you suggesting the EU doesn't have open borders?
This is a little bit sensationalist (is that a word?).

It's not like Windows that bricks your laptop. It's a handful of hardware config, and you can easily boot with an older kernel.
Yep, you're right, I didn't read the revision comment
that is a dockerized version of the bitcoin reference implementation. you can build it with `make build-image` (consider to use multiple threads to build the image - check Dockerfile under code/docker).
> The cost of electricity use to produce them adds a value to it.

That's not true. What makes you think so?
Oh wow. I recently dug up Max Payne again. Guess what, I find some of the content to be quite inspiring:

The trick in my situation was that there was no trick, no matter what the movies tell you. No rules, no secret Mantra, no road map. It wasn't about how smart or how good you were. It was chaos and luck, and anyone who thought different was a fool. All you could do was hang on madly, as long and hard as you could.
I was going to make some sort of quip about tech people liking tech news on tech sites, but yeah, this is a stub of an "article" and should probably be removed.
This is the most plausible theory. After all, we are the only human civilisation which has not yet collapsed.
I've been using Microsoft To-Do since the earliest pre-release versions. It's…ok. It's by the folks behind Wunderlist, which Microsoft bought, but it's lacking some power user features that made Wunderlist stand out.

I'm actually thinking of going back to a paper planner. It's a lot easier to grab a pen and add something to a list than type it into a todo list, set a reminder time, etc.
> we might be well-served by accepting a paradigm for 10 minutes and building on it rather than always chasing after the next hot thing.

Exactly this.

> I'd argue Make is more like PHP than it is GIT.

What would you want a make replacement to look like?

Make is pretty 'roll your own' in places, but I've found it to have a nice balance between expressiveness and terseness. For simple projects, there isn't much to do in make, and for the more complex projects I've been involved in (embedded work, a self-hosting compiler, etc.) make can still generally express the build process within the confines of Makefile syntax. (In contrast to more modern tools that might require plugins in a different language, etc.)

For the compiler project I mention, the build process includes building several executables in C, running them against a pre-built VM image to compile another VM image, translating that image into C code that is then compiled and linked into the VM to produce another executable, after which there's a unit test suite. Root rebuild command is 'make clean && make tested', and there are only a couple hundred lines of Makefile code to get there. (There's also cross-compile support, etc.)

I'll admit that there was a certain amount of effort involved in writing those Makefiles, but I've also implemented the same build process using a modern GUI tool and found it to be much more difficult.
How your work environment is the “invisible hand” controlling your productivity
I don't think there is anything "obvious" about any constellation. They all seem like a stretch, to me. Why is Orion "obviously" a hunter and not Elvis swinging his hips?
Apple Store reportedly evacuated after iPhone battery overheats
This would presumably mean fewer roles advertised. I haven't noticed that either.
See also discussion from 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917128 (28 comments)
Exactly so. Well, British and European goods.
Be good at one thing, not average at everything
Undermine mass surveillance with free software and your phone calls
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Well you are a founder only if you have some core competence critical for the project. Then you can't be excluded. Just having an 'idea' is clearly not enough (and not having any valuable competence which can't be just hired on the market means you probably can't have a valuable idea either, ideas come from experience with something in a way no one else had).

If that competence is not technical, fine: this is what technical cofounders are for. But if someone has an 'idea' of something without deep experience in a particular industry which makes him indispensable as a founder, that idea is no better than any of 5 or so 'ideas' i can invent if you buy me a couple beers in a bar. 'sitcom startup' as someone called these.

It also makes chances to get funding slim, even if idea is by some miracle a good one. Because there is no answer to 'what prevents a random guy from copying it' question, which every good investor must ask.
Specifically in the second case: How do you get the timestamp on these stamp files to update, or do you just do it manually? And if you are doing it manually, why not just run a shell script instead?
That's plenty fast enough. Secrets are secrets.
I jumped from your chip to a 6 core Broadwell-E and it seems to give me about 15% more performance out of x264 encoding and 5% from x265.

I see the same jump from C4 to C5 Amazon machines. I'd love to chat about encoding with you at some point.
To nitpick: calling setState in componentWillMount does not cause a re-render, so as long as it is not dependent on an async function it does not technically hurt your app -- even though the docs state that initializing non-async state in the constructor is preferred.
https://reactjs.org/docs/react-component.html#componentwillm...
It’s called DMT
Nope, if only because you can upvote a question only once and he only had five questions asked.
Aaron's second paragraph there sounds like Social Penetration Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_penetration_theory
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Thanks for clarifying that for me.