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London will still be the centre of English-speaking Europe. It's the biggest irony of brexit: London is vehemently opposed to it, but likely not going to be all that affected by it.
Since we are talking RSS:
For years I have tried to find a good RSS reader for my android phone and have failed so far. The feature that mostly kills it for me is, much to my surprise, layout. For applications made for reading text, they all seem to hate the idea of letting the user actually decide how he wants that text displayed.

If you can even change the font size, often there are only predefined options, only works on certain views (article but not list etc.). Forget about changing the font itself or the colors aside from light/dark themes. It is ridiculous!

Do any of you know of a reader app, that lets me really customize that stuff why also being somewhat minimalist? The best thing I found so far is Palabre, but it also clutters the screen with useless header images, buttons and "Similar content" sections.
Make one?
This sounds easy enough to do.
Sorry but I don’t understand the problem: you have British citizenship. You can reside and work anywhere in the EU. That puts you in a fairly enviable position. If you marry your wife is entitled to permanent residency (I think it’s called permanent leave to remain), which is a lot easier to get than say any US equivalent. British permanent residency is (for now) EU residency.

It’s also not quite true that your children would be stateless. This vastly depends in where they’re born. Also there are provisions for this in UK law. Lastly grandchildren of UK born citizens (which it sounds like they would be) are entitled to an ancestry visa. This gives 4 years to live and work in the UK without restriction. If they’re still there after 4 years they then get permanent residency and are entitled to apply for citizenship a year after that.

EDIT: so it’s been some years since I lived in the UK and the rules have gotten much harsher on spouse visas, namely there is an income requirement for the Briton (£18,600pa) and the spouse visa is for 30 months renewable for another 30 months so now it takes 5 years to get ILR (indefinite leave to remain). It used to be 2.

Still, it’s an option. As are other EU countries. Ireland, Sweden and even the Netherlands look like decent options. Maybe Austria too.
> But the Ethereum pre-sale looks perfect – and that’s what makes it worth querying. “Donations” from Eth-heads around the world not only flowed into the Ethereum Project’s wallet in great quantities, but they flowed in with the mathematical precision of a power function, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for two weeks straight.

I went through holdings of top 5 ICOs on Ethereum. One of things struck me was that many of the ICOs had huge amount of cross holding. So, X was holding a lot of Y and Z coins, while Z was doing the same with other ICOs. The number of inter-connections was astounding.

So my opinion is that something is off with the ethereum ICO system. I know that sounds tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy and I don't have solid proof or graphs. But given the evidence of Ethereum's distribution it looks more likely.
I guess I was unclear: that could probably be reworded to say "I don't think anyone specified GPS"

That ggp prefixed that line on AGPS with "even"; they were asking for citation that Google persistently tracks location, and just used AGPS as one example.

The point being, saying Google allows you to disable GPS is a world away from saying Google allows you to disable location tracking. And I'm not talking about IP geolocation.

I don't even know if they do completely respect your choice to disable GPS (citation needed indeed here), but I do know that they persistently track you via WiPS/WFPS at the very least, if not other methods.
I have a 5th gen X1 Carbon. Great machine in every aspect but RAM, and runs Linux flawlessly. It has 8GB RAM, which is more than enough for Linux plus developer containers, but not quite enough for running VMs; and it is soldered to the motherboard and thus non-upgradeable.

My setup cost ~1.5k€ (base setup plus larger NVRAM, better screen) although if you add touch screen, 3G and other bells and whistles you get to 3k€ pretty fast. I wouldn't add any hard requirement over the base machine.
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I would recommend "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage"
>>If we had comments asking people “how can I more easily shoplift video game consoles?” — would we allow that?

Send me that link to download a car.
Could you please explain your Whitehall (prsumably Civil Service) rhetorical question? I don't follow, and I suspect it's a little brief for others also.
why are you making this a partisan issue
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So then all he needed to do is write his name in addition to his IP address in the comment?
Academics consider anyone who has worked in industry “tainted”, such a person would never make it to tenure, even if they wanted to

Tenure is about the only carrot academia has to dangle
Hmm, I was expecting the sampling frequency to have been made independent of the USB bus, (i.e for the sampling to occur purely on the picoscope itself and data merely relayed over USB).

I don't even know what the frequency limitations of USB are I just know it's capabilities are highly dependent on the host so relying on it for precise high frequency sampling seems like a bad idea, and if that is the case for the picoscope then you are correct, I just find it a surprising design decision.

Am I wrong in thinking this? or are you referring to a different reason?
YT is essentially a monopoly in the small producer content discovery market.

Hosting is not YT’s primary service. Discovery is.
Is this the level we are sinking to?
Lots of innovation occurring in the CI/CD space around Kubernetes. We just added JenkinsX to the cloud native interactive landscape:

https://landscape.cncf.io/grouping=landscape&landscape=ci-cd...
The question is should I consider Europe as a single entity or it'll fall apart if serious problems will arise. Are you sure that Spain people are ready to die to protect Romania? I don't know. Also Russia have tremendous nuclear power which will be used as a leverage. Can EU destroy the humanity? Anyway I don't want to compare Russia and EU, I just want to say that power and "balls" is what matters in the end. China buys Russia properties as well, so it might be the same there.
Very cool. Would be amazing to get performance numbers.
PHP has shortcomings, for sure. And I'd probably scorn at people for using it for production-grade, "serious" tasks, and I'd be sure to find some security issues within their code (it's not just php, it's the libraries AND the coding style it promotes).

But for an hackaton? 36 hours to get something done? It may be totally be the best tool for the job.
This is so disappointing to hear what I've suspected for a while.

I'm a huge fan of OS X but was recently forced to move my creative work to Windows for GPU power and affordable CPU power, and honestly I've found it good enough to work with but I still do miss having Terminal and Finder.

As much as I used to love Apple hardware I could honestly just do without it these days with their laptops getting worse and their pro line being a choice between M.I.A and a disposable workstation. The only thing I'll miss is OS X.
As incompetently as the government is handling it, I suspect it won't be too bad in the end.
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I have a few issues with that link.

Namely that a traffic light system is a huge, huge, HUGE oversimplification of complex issues. While the analysis seems fairly transparent, I don't think many people will actually look into it past the traffic light.

I checked out the uni I went to: apparently the students union got an amber light because of "no tolerance to sexual harassment". How exactly does that violate free speech? The right to free speech unequivocally does not give you the right to harass people in any way. Similarly "Rules and Regulations for the Use of Information and Communications Technology" is an amber for institutions: does that mean all AUPs are in violation of freedom of speech? Most of them come down to "please don't hack our infrastructure or download anything that will make the police come round".

Also when things like "bans on specific ideologies" are very likely to get misconstrued. Banning groups which verbally harass others is likely going to be seen as a ban on free speech, despite the fact that such bans may be warranted.

The whole analysis and ranking system seems biased, and completely garbage to me.

Edit: since I'm an idiot and didn't realise that you could expand the amber/red points on the site, my uni SU's "no tolerance to sexual harassment" was due to them adopting the NUS (National Union of Students) guideline that sexual harassment is defined as ‘any unwanted comments which makes someone uncomfortable’, and the ICT rule was ‘Users must ensure that the content and tone of their email messages cannot be considered offensive.’

Both of these appear reasonable to me. There's some genuine debate to be had over the issue of no-platforming but all this site is doing is furthering their own agenda, which seems to be that they should have the right to insult and harass people however they want. As always, this is relevant here: https://xkcd.com/1357/
> Podcasts are the best example. They were the way to distribute certain content. Users adopted podcasts because the content was there, even though the UX was/is clunky. It happened to be decentralized and rss-based.

I would argue that podcasts are as decentralized as emails are "decentralized". When was the last time you downloaded a Podcast from a self-hosted server? Most people download podcasts through iTunes, SoundCloud, etc. because...centralizing makes sense economically. In this environment, RSS is virtually meaningless because the whole point of RSS was to have an open standard in a world where everyone ran their own RSS servers. Once it becomes centralized you're better off just distributing content as a centralized feed like Twitter.

> The fact that podcasts work better economically for content makers than youtube... that was incidental.

Nothing's "incidental". There are always reasons behind everything. Let's dig in further to see what's going on. When was the last time you've sat through a shitty Podcast that's 1 hour long? You probably haven't. Now think of how long most Podcasts are. Yes, they are mostly "long-form" content that are 30 minutes to 1 hour long.

Now think about the last YouTube video you watched. How long was it? Probably like 3 minutes to 5, or maybe you watch a conference livestream or tutorial that's 1 hour long, but those are exceptions. Most people go to YouTube to watch bite sized videos. This is why ads don't work as well on Youtube compared to Podcasts. Why would you watch a 30 second ad just to watch a 2 minute video? Naturally, if you have the same content, people will watch the videos WITHOUT ads. And this is where the "race to the bottom" begins.

So are Podcasts absolutely superior to videos? No. Podcasts have their own drawbacks. Because Podcasts are long form content, listeners don't want to end up wasting their precious 1 hour. Therefore it's really hard as a podcast publisher to get people to listen to their podcast. Which means initial "acquisition" is much harder for Podcasts compared to YouTube. But once you "acquire" the listeners it's worth it because they have "chosen" to listen to you on an on-going basis. Which is why I asked earlier when was the last time you sat through a shitty podcast. It is much harder to build an audience for a Podcast compared to Youtube, you really need to be able to produce super high quality content.

My point is, these different types of medium each have pros and cons. But there are always very good reasons if you look behind the scenes. Nothing is "incidental". And again, this all comes down to money.
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TSB online banking chaos continues for a fourth day
Summary (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16902208 ):

> This appears to be an IT failure comparable to the 2012 and 2015 IT failures at the Royal Bank of Scotland. These involved multi-day / multi-week full/partial outages, and multi-million pound fines.

> FT: https://www.ft.com/content/9178ef60-46d9-11e8-8ee8-cae73aab7....

> Background: TSB is a UK bank. They had a planned 50-hour maintenance window over the weekend (Fri 16:00 - Sun 18:00), to move away from Lloyds's systems (following the "un-merger" in 2013-2014). This went wrong, in what is likely to become a textbook example of an IT failure.

From a letter from Nicky Morgan, chair of the UK Parliament's Treasury committee, to TSB CEO Paul Pester:

> The reports of unauthorised transactions, access to other customers’ accounts, and failures of in-branch services have all the hallmarks of an IT meltdown. This is yet another addition to the litany of failures of banking IT systems. Potentially millions of customers could be affected by uncertainty and disruption.

More from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2018/apr/24/tsb-on...

Some interesting screenshots of people seeing debugging information in the front-end:
https://twitter.com/bcleeve/status/988333991676796928
https://twitter.com/apphancer/status/988698182170357760
https://twitter.com/thejackthomson_/status/98856435451268710...

Ironically, TSB's parent company issued a press release (in error?) claiming that the migration has been a "success"! http://press.bancsabadell.com/en/News/2018/04/banco-sabadell...
>>This is something we're going to have to get way better at.. ...government created markets.

The goal should be to eliminate government created markets not get "better" at creating them...

> You need (or at least, they opted for) a centralised core:

That is the problem they opted for the centralized management, one does not need it for EBT, they choose it because they wanted control over how and where the money was spent which means they needed a contractor they controlled.

>We also can't expect competition or market forces to fix problems with the central core, at least unless that competition can be designed in.

In this case it comes down to data ownership. Like so many other things in modern society in the US we have a warped sense of ownership where a company that collects information about you owns that information, you do not own your own information. Until we change that these types of issues will continue to arise

As the article stated commercial banks attempted to shut down services like MINT for people until a law was passed requiring the banks to allow users to access their own data with 3rd party services like Mint.

This type of legal requirement should be expanded to all personal information
Two theories off hand without research to double check.

1 - nuclear explosion involves the conversion of a tiny amount of mass into rapidly expanding cloud of energy conveyed by various particles. The significance being the drastic density difference before and after it’s blown to bits. This difference is equivalent to a sudden moment of regular mass since energy and mass are equivalent and energy has gravitational attraction. This is roughly the same as attempting to catch the gravitational waves theorised to be produced by a supernova. We can’t catch these yet due to insufficient sensitivity, but despite the nuclear explosion being ridiculously tiny compared to a supernova, we are also ridiculously close compared to the supernova, so the proximity to the event may “win” and make it strong enough for the detectors to see it.

2 - the equivalence of nuclear explosions to earthquakes in terms of energy displacement into the earths crust, and in particular underground tests of them, has been established. (This is obviously dependent on the size of the explosion and if it’s an underground test or not, since underground tests dump basically all their energy into the surrounding geology they make it a “more effective earthquake”). Earthquakes can speed up or slow down the earths rotation, which has tidal effects which involve the moon, so between the seismic and seismically induced tidal changes, we get to affecting the moons orbit and consequently we get a tiny gravitational wave which once again is detectable only because of how much closer we are to the source compared to the things we built LIGO to detect.

Of course I might be wrong on both of these. They were just fun to think about on my ride home from work. :-)
Thats not the discussion. The discussion is if opposing views are allowed to exist or whether you get shamed for thinking and proposing something that is as politically valid (human flourishing).
Can't she fix that by getting her GED?
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I personally just use the mobile web version of Feedbin.

3 theme options
2 article list options
You can show/hide 4 interface elements (feedname, date, summary, image preview)

6 fonts options
9 type sizes

It's enough for my needs.
Do you by any chance have a source on this? I believe you, this is just such a clever system that I want to read more about it.
Well yes, but Finland wasn't experimenting with basic income for philosophical reasons. They were experimenting because they have high unemployment and a complex, and expensive, welfare system.
So what they wanted to understand was the effect a basic income had on those factors.

The next stage of the experiment, that wasn't funded, was to extend the experiment to include the employed. Even there, I would expect they would still focus on low incomes as that's where you would expect to see an effect.

To go beyond that, it's not clear what you'd learn without having a very large scale experiment i.e. one that materially affects the level of taxation. I can't imagine they'd be interested in that without seeing a significant, positive effect on the first two categories.

And as a side point, I don't believe the idea was ever to test a UBI just a basic income. Unless you're intending to do away with all differentiated welfare, highly unlikely in a social democratic country, the universal bit is probably more harmful than beneficial.
Because sometimes you care about performance?

Although, based on a quick look at the code this thing isn't going to go particularly fast.
>After brexit I’d like to see business & gov across the EU standardize on english as lingua franca to enable faster growth.

Do you imply that brexit might make it easier for that to happen? That sounds counter-intuitive to me, once the UK leaves I believe that the only country in the EU who has English as an official language will be Ireland and even there it's cohabiting with Irish Gaelic.

Beyond that I've always been torn on this issue, on one hand having a lingua franca across the EU would be amazing and English is probably closest to achieving that, on the other hand English is effectively the language of American imperialism and its cultural hegemony. In an ideal world I'd prefer something less politically loaded and tied to a foreign superpower, like Spanish, Swedish or Romanian for instance (I'm picking random European languages who cannot be suspected of having any kind of cultural overreach in present day Europe).

Of course in this case maybe practicality trumps ideology and we should just accept our English speaking overlords for the sake of convenience.
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After years of looking around I found https://www.inoreader.com/ (also available as app). _Finally_ a decent replacement for Google Reader IMO.

UI on the site is a bit clunkey IMO, but the app at least has some customization options (font-type, font-size, different layout sizes, open tabs inside the app or direct them to an external browser, etc)

No affiliations, other than that I'm a happy user!
No the states should require it as part of their contract with Conduent that Conduent provide it for free to the End User.

Conduent makes more then enough money of EBT to run an API for the data, this idea that the propel app is some kind of "burden" on their severs is ridiculous
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What’s interesting is Laura Ingraham refused to back down and her viewership when up, not down. And many of her sponsors did return.

http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/383482-ingrahams-ratings...
It would be nice to see some STEM-affirmative universities without any x-studies leaching. Professional complainer is a viable career path these days and it starts at uni.
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Yes, the UK government is behind the erosion of free speech on campus.

The Counter Terrorism and Security Act of 2015 imposes a statutory duty on universities to have a "due regard to the need to prevent individuals from being drawn into terrorism". This means that institutions now have a statutory duty to participate in the government's Prevent strategy. This means UK universities have a legal obligation to narc on students who are too Muslim.

As a whole, universities have tried to finesse this attack on free expression this by defining violent radicalism as a signal of mental illness and telling us lecturers that we should feel obliged to refer struggling students to mental health services. Ultimately, though, when the intent and design of the rules is fundamentally bigoted, there is only so far that technical compliance can mitigate that.
There will always be government created markets. Who else should pay for infrastructure for example? Do you want to privatize all of that?
Zuck? no, better call him Suck!
Cool that he used the photo of the Stuttgart (Germany) library.
There's also the issue of what has happened now that students have to pay through the nose for courses. They are now customers who expect high grades for their fees. This has certainly changed the dynamic with regard to rigorous marking in some areas
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Ironically I tried to close my TSB account on Saturday morning because I'd just switched to Monzo Bank and was told they couldn't close my account due to the issues they were having.

Still no access to my old account this morning...
I think you should run your QT app inside Electron!
I loved when a few years ago one of the motherboard manufacturers brought out a MB with a tube based audio stage.
> The goal should be to eliminate government created markets not get "better" at creating them...

So we're all going to individually contract with "General Jim's Defense Systems" or "Admiral Bob’s Global Security" ala Snow Crash? The parent is discussing natural monopsonies, where there's no reason for a given territory to have more than one purchaser, such as national security space launches and social security distribution systems.
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