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It devalued instantly after the unexpected voting result, but has since then recovered.

Compared to historical shifts over past decades, the impact of Brexit is not very visible on a chart. The falls from 1970 to 1975, or 1980 to 1985, or in 2008, are clearly more dramatic.

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/histo...

"Recent reports" are many and contradictory, as usual.
While I agree with you in the main, many economic liberals would still support government intervention to stop oligopolies, monopolies or monopsonies. They support free markets and individual choice, not just privatisation or corporatisation for the sake of it.
Singapore is the jurisdiction (not third world, obviously) which is famous for paying "market" salaries to leaders. From everything I've seen/read, they get value for money.

Presidential salary is about USD 3.5mm/yr. PM is similar, and other ministers are about half that, and there's variable performance-based pay as part of it.
It seems to me that you equal Computer Science to Computer Programming. The later is just a really small subset of the former, and like you write most people already know how to do it before they attend University.

In my CS studies we never learned any programming, it was kind of assumed that you already know how to do it. Instead we focused on all the other things like computational complexity theory, computer graphics, programming language theory, design of computational systems, theory of computation, human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence and all the other much more interesting stuff.

After I left university I in practice haven't written any code yet (in 5 years), I've been only working with designing big systems which are later populated with components which are programmed by programmers.

But even though, the mantra at university was always, we don't teach you any specific language, we teach you the building blocks behind those languages with the goal so that you can take a new language and learn it within two weeks because you already know most of the paradigms behind it and you only need to learn the syntax, the libs you can look up in the documentation.
Yep, and it won't end.
I like your points, I assume I will do all. "Document design decisions" is new for me, I will look for standards for that.
Please take a look at:

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/create
Hypothecation and/or ring fencing is generally bad policy anyway, but it has a certain appeal.

Here it’s mostly seen when people argue that road taxes (VED) and fuel taxes should be spent on roads.

I’m with Churchill on the one:
“Entertainments may be taxed; public houses may be taxed; racehorses may be taxed…and the yield devoted to the general revenue. But motorists are to be privileged for all time to have the whole yield of the tax on motors devoted to roads. Obviously this is all nonsense…Such contentions are absurd, and constitute…an outrage upon the sovereignty of Parliament and upon common sense.”
> What if they change the internals tomorrow? Would this "knowledge" be of any use?

Sometimes. I think the best response in theme of the thread so far is "When it starts to matter, I'll spend the time looking into it. Until then, I try to know just enough to clue me into whether it might matter."

As a concrete example, I know why stack and heap matter for performance, and I know that maximizing computation in a hot loop in something like assembly requires a fair bit of knowledge of the architecture and what instructions utilize what resources in a CPU you you can plan out usage optimally, but beyond reading some interesting articles that have popped up here, that's all I've bothered to internalize. I haven't done almost anything in C or C++ since college well over a decade ago, and all my day-to-day work is done in Perl. At the point I'm in need of a customized very optimized solution for a computationally heavy workload, I have promising avenues of inquiry to start with. The way I see it, that the optimal strategy for my current goals, and it's been the optimal strategy for quite a while.
I agree that programming is something which totally sufficient can be taught in vocational schools, no need to do that in university. My brother never went to university and he is a much better programmer than me when it comes to specific languages, etc. The idea behind my Computer Science degree is to learn the theory behind it. I would consider it a failure if it was just programming which I would have learned at the university.
Terry Gross is an excellent interview and I enjoy her work very much. However, the advice claims to be how to have better conversations. I'm not convinced that interviewing and having better conversations are the same thing. Further, I think some of the advice here is really more advice about interviews, and thus it is fair to be critical of the advice in a different context. Most of the criticism is really only on using "Tell me about yourself" as an ice-breaker. If I don't like being asked that question, than it is entirely reasonable for me to wonder if it is the best opener to use in general social circumstances.
I see people have downvoted your comment but I sort of agree with the sentiment.

I grew up in a rural town to working-class parents who hated me spending time on computers and wanted me to get a trade. I'm now 33 and halfway to my CS degree that I should have finished 12 years ago. The Army has been good to me but it's not the life I should have lived.

Even growing up rurally was hard. I was a very intellectual child and rural areas aren't the best environment for that i.e. family that actively squashes your interest as opposed to encouraging it.
> It’s adiabatic compression heating.

If we're being pedantic (and I don't mean that pejoratively), this would have been more correct if you'd left out "adiabatic". If gasdynamic compression heating is being induced by a fast-moving body in the open atmosphere, it's not strictly adiabatic.
The advantage of IOTA compared to for example OrbitDB is that you want some kind of proof of work for the metadata. Otherwise everyone can just create instantly millions of fake entries. However, regarding the mentioned snapshot problem, you can of course then create a simple copy of the IOTA tangle entries on orbitDB.
You better view papers as tools, facilitating further research and a citation as use of a tool. So a lot of citations indicate that a paper is a pretty useful tool for other people's work.
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During what two activities?
How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies
The irony is so strong, I first though the comment actually was talking about China.
Ericsson, Vodafone, BMW Advocate for C-V2X for Road Safety in Europe
So American libertarians are the true liberals?
How about holding a grand committee on all the disinformation all of these governments have distributed and force-fed us for centenaries in some cases?
I disagree - citations count is not a linear measure of quality of work, or importance, and there are significant anomalies and unfairness's in the way things get cited. For example, write an early text book and you may get a tranche of citations without doing a significant amount of important original research. Grad students who co-author with famous authors also get a significant boost due to the reputation and connectivity of their mentor.

But, I think that most senior academics will have less than 15k citations in total. 17k citations for a single paper is remarkable; it's an indication of work that was important, original and definitive.

I only referee in compsci, but in compsci citing papers that are nothing to do with the work in hand, and citing them to generate authority for your arguments does not wash and leads to rejections. Citations point to the basis of your work; establishing that you are building on firm foundations and differentiating your contribution from previous contributions to enable the reader to learn. Being cited in this way is being a teacher to the community.
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Maybe the commenter is unfamiliar with what constitutes a symmetry in physics.

In physics, a symmetry of a physical system is a physical or mathematical feature of the system (observed or intrinsic) that is preserved or remains unchanged under some transformation, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_(physics)
Yes, I understand that. But if a fool buys a broken tool and builds his home with it, how long do you think this fool's home will last?
Ask HN: Would you pay to keep all your data on one cloud?
Recently, Flickr limited the storage for free accounts to 1000 photographs. Quite a few users are not willing to pay for more photos as they think they are already paying for services like iCloud, Office365, Dropbox, and so on.
A lot of us already pay for storing our data on somebody else cloud. Some of these services are free today (as Flickr was too, once upon a time) can change to paid anytime, and will do sooner or later given the data to be stored is increasing manifold.

So rather than storing data on someone's cloud, and having multiple such accounts, why not have one which you pay for, yourself. (Of course, provided it addresses your security concerns, keeps data encrypted, and take measures to ensure enough backups and everything) would you pay for your data to be moved to your own cloud rather than being distributed like it is today?
> in a country rich of natural resources while the people never profit from it?

Exactly because of that. When a country is rich in resources, the population isn't needed.

See: The Resource Curse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
I actually count 7 (1 LU, 1 BE, 3 GR, 1 FI). If you discount the crew, who face a higher risk than passengers, it's 3 (0 LU, 1 BE, 1 GR, 1 FI).

There are some worse recent accidents involving head-on collisions at significant speed [1], [2], but to see whether the resulting investigation concluded that differently-designed trains would have reduced injuries, the report (for me) needs to be in English.

For that, since the UK has the safest railway in Europe (the world?) we need to go back to 2001 [3], with a closing speed collision at 142mph / 229km/h and 10 deaths. The investigation report [4] concludes (12.10) "The crashworthiness displayed by the passenger coach body shells, when subjected to end impact, was adequate. The first five coaches had some of their survival space reduced by roof, floor and side impacts, or penetration by large missiles or other vehicles. Impact with the underside of the road bridge was responsible for roof damage. The ability of the vehicles to protect their occupants was compromised by the loss of some roof sections and window glass."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andria%E2%80%93Corato_train_co...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Aibling_rail_accident

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Heck_rail_crash

[4] https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130904004318/ht...
The page shows no content.. in the other hand, my ad-blocker just blocked 125 external requests...

"A Simple Makefile" .. not that simply exposed.
An ipfs installer would be awesome. I tested the integration of the js version of ipfs, but for me, it doesn’t make sense that every single project starts there own IPFS server in the background. Imagine in the future you have like ten tabs open in your browser and you 10 server running. Also, it’s a lot slower performance-wise, and you have problems gettings this running in older browsers, etc. Regarding the scaling we choose IOTA basically because we believe it’s the best solution regarding the scaling aspect and of course because it’s feeless.
Is this really your experience or are you stating what other devs say what their experience is? Because slow and laggy are no issues, especially on iOS with insane JS performance. "Not looking right“ – I have never had a single email or review saying this.

Normal people care about the tasks they can complete with your app and maybe missing features, but not small UI details.

And furthermore: even small details that aren’t perfectly polished aren’t necessarily a deal breaker. But of course, it depends whether or not your app is exchangeable and lots of competitors offer a similar experience or not (where polish maybe matters more).

I had great success by having my app generally different from the others. But I have to admit that it’s a niche app and not for the mass market.
Yes it is. It's also probably got an easier claim to that word than 'white' does.
I know :-D, but there are also these articles:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/08/decentral...
I am a „liberal“ German and I really have a hard time to translate that correctly. I am neither conservative, liberal nor libertarian. German „liberalism“ and how it is seen in most countries is a distinct mix of all of them, but not in the extremist sense: while we european liberals like to be conservative in private, we accept and promote civil liberties (including abolishing death penalty and being allowed to smoke marijuana) and still want much less government and taxes (yet we do not hate the government as the libertarians do).
Maybe this site should do a survey: How many conservatives friends and co-workers do you know?
It was not the ad that was deemed too political. The problem was that it was made by a political organization. If Iceland had made it themselves, it would likely have been fine.
Wait another hundred years and it will be close to magical. We have the collective habit of ascribing great properties to old technologies while bitching about the technologies we have today. I'm certainly no exception here, but the fact is that if it really was that good it likely would have won in the marketplace. Nostalgia is a powerful agent of deception.
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> sure methane is more short lived

I don't know that this is helpful at all since it either burns or degrades to CO2, and is a significantly worse greenhouse gas before then.
Thank you for this link. So if I wanted to ask someone to get something specific for me if link them to

http://psref.lenovo.com/Detail/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_A485?M=20MU...

And they'd go somewhere and get quotes? What's the process?
>> "When it starts to matter, I'll spend the time looking into it. Until then, I try to know just enough to clue me into whether it might matter."

Exactly.

Stack and heap are not important in the C# example I gave. What matters is whether the data structure is a "reference type" or a "value type". This impacts the way we pass arguments to functions, scope of a variable and related side-effects etc. However, where these types reside has very little meaning since the memory allocation and cleanup etc. are not in developers control at all (unlike C, C++).
You actually support my argument in the way that he's established himself as the teaching authority to the community. But imagine him being wrong and all of the people's work who cited his is wrong. All that knowledge and insights - wrong. Isn't it also an ideal of a scientist to remain critical of everything and just make assumptions that "if that is true then..." or "if this is wrong, then..."?
So many people based their work on his ONE paper. Jeez, imagine how much it would cost to find out that this paper is worth nothing.
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God knows how many startups ignore those licenses. Most will only care during due diligence
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Just a detail to add to what you said, the school system is defined by the Bundesland, meaning there can be differences through the country.
You're making a good point. However it's not "exactly because of that", the Wikipedia article also states:

> Most experts believe the resource curse is not universal or inevitable, but affects certain types of countries or regions under certain conditions.

It's not only the natural richness. So let's look into all of the conditions. And who establishes those conditions (see my questions above).
I assume that this my own cloud is actually managed by someone else, who does all the hard work.

Maybe I would pay for that (I'm paying for my backups now), but the owner of the servers (the cloud) should be able to demonstrate that it won't spy on my data and metadata, not sell it, be able to protect it, etc. and stay in business at the same conditions. Furthermore I don't trust any of the current companies, why should I trust this new one?
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Actually, the theory is the opposite: Wealth can be created from anything.

But, it has to come from somewhere.
The older I get the more I realise resources are limited in some ways but not in others. Running out of petroleum isn't as bad as it sounds. Other candidates have already appeared. Reclamation will occur.

That said, polluting the air and water is still not a good idea. Burning coal is still stupid.

Humanity had more than enough food to feed everyone but we are too greedy at the top to actually do so. We dump food in stupid ways for stupid reasons.
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I found the new HP driver download site is similar to your description. It changed a couple of years ago and I find it horrible to use and incredibly frustrating. You can't look at a driver then go back to the same page layout, I think it does the search again and leaves the sections minimised.

ESET downloads is similar, it used to be just a list and each one had a download link. Now for each product you need to select a couple of dropdowns to get the correct file version, tedious and annoying.

I think it's just the way web design is going, they are removing functionality and turning it into something that looks like a two year old child's colouring book. Generally the amount of information has been reduced, and what little websites do publish is buried.
Thank you! I did an hour and a half of reading last night on these. Especially on https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4358. Very, very interesting and certainly put me on a watch out about Flutter.

Also, this should really be a top comment.
> "Symmetry" is reflective not rotational. Currency exchange is a map not a graph.
"we" is "i".

3 out of the first 3 wrong, I'm curious why is this being objected so much, maybe people are annoyed about Thanksgiving.
What I'd pay for is robust, bullet proof, guaranteed, storage for small amounts of data that holds immense sentimental value.

This would be about 100 photographs or short video clips, mostly of my child.

I have thousands of photos and they're mostly ephemeral nonsense that I don't care about. But I also have a few that it would be devastating to lose.
Hmm...

> a list is a list is a list.

I would think that to be useful, a list will be a list of something. And that something will almost certainly be domain/model specific. Even if you expose just a list of strings, those strings will have some sort of semantic actions associated with them.
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There's even a specific page for rotational symmetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_symmetry
Isn’t Trudeau’s Canada supposed to be be a free-for-all “post-national” state?
In addition to helping other countries, which I think they should rightfully do and am happy to hear about. I wonder if the A.I. community will invest in educating the lesser privledged in their local communities? Mainly those from poor areas that don’t have access to technology and educational resources?
30k euro per year here. I am now finishing my 4th year abroad. It is easier than you think even if you do not stop unnecessary expenses.

I believe that universities should not teach marketable skills only because these are what some employers like - instead they should teach skills that are not trivial to learn by yourself (some of which might be marketable). If you have already learned Python in uni for example there is no reason why they should also teach you C or Java just because employers like these languages as once you learn one of them learning the others will be trivial. Teaching type theory, formal proofs, and other stuff about theoretical CS however sounds like a good idea as learning these alone will probably be difficult for students that do not have a good background in functional programming.

As for "widening" your mind, I don't think that I would be interested in "widening" my mind on anything not relevant to CS. I would avoid any degree that claimed that it tried to do that.
But 0 isn't always null right?
AND 20MB of stuff to download, for 100s of requests, in 40s, with a 140MB memory footprint. For what should be just text.
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People love to have communities they connect with at a deeper level. This and the above help explain why top hi-tech centers like Silicon Valley and NYC tend to propagate themselves and even mid-tiered hubs find hard to compete with. Decisions by Google and Amazon to expand in NYC despite high cost-of-living are examples of their effects.
Agreed Flutter for :
Android /IOS /Web /Windows 10 /MacOS
Would be the amazing killer combo, that would cause me to invest considerable resource into Flutter and switch my team to it.
I know there is an unofficial versions that apparently do this, I would need the comfort of an official proven Google version.
Eiffel would be such an example, from the list I have listed.

Regarding JVM, hotswap is only limited if you constrain yourself to the OpenJDK basic features.

As we in the Java community are well aware, that are other options out there, like HotswapAgent and JRebel for example.

Commits adding Fuchsia support for ART started to land on AOSP, so lets see how much love Flutter/Dart will actually get from Google internal politics.
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There's also the more strategic aspects of interplanetary exploration. Namely: rendering those places conceptually impractical as a doctrine of area denial.

Area denial isn't just about land mines. It can mean fomenting political unrest among the constituents of a standing, stable, and sustainable Martian colony, so that it's suddenly an unappealing alternative to solving Earth's problems. Don't go there, it's the Salem witch trials and the holocaust all at once. Stay here and fix the biosphere instead.