skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly - companies like Rockstar don't seem to have too much of a problem recruiting developers in Edinburgh. And re-locating from somewhere else in the UK to Edinburgh is for many people not as huge an issue as other relocations could be.
Is not just for three.js. It's for anything HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Originally I built it because I needed a temporal editor for coding on ChromeOS and the new packaged apps -- for which there is an editor in the works already -- hadn't reached the dev channel yet.
In the UK you're not allowed to talk about what went on in the jury room and given what we're seeing here it strikes me as entirely sensible.

Yes you can argue for transparency, but you're not really getting transparency, you're getting one persons edited highlights, possibly misremember almost certain skewed by personal bias what's been learned since, with none of the subtlety, none of the responses or questions or process that was undertaken to reach those positions.

I've served on a jury in the UK and I have a view on what happened in that room but I'm absolutely certain that other jury members would see it very differently. As a result anything I told you about how the decision was reached would I think be pretty suspect.

If you want transparency then record and document the whole of the jury's deliberations (with all the appeals and arguments that will lead to), but the current situation seems to be a halfway house which no real merit.
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Some of that cost (just some of it now, don't freak out on me) is the price we pay for sanitation and hygiene. Sure we could make more efficient use of food by handing that half-eaten Big Mac to the guy behind us in line, but that might end up costing more in the long run. Like filesystems, we lose some food to partitioning, clustering and fragmentation.
Full report here, for those who are more interested in the report than the media reprint: http://www.nrdc.org/food/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf

The issue is, it's a long supply chain (farm to fork) with waste occurring all the way.

Overall, fruit and veg is the worst (52%), then seafood (50%), then grain (38%), then meat (22%), then milk (20%). Of course, meat "wastes" a lot more, because it requires lots of inputs, as vegetarians are keen to point out.

It's also broken down according to where the loss happens- farm, post-farm handling, processing and packaging, distribution and retail, and consumer loss.
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DHTML was just a way to sell books with 'DHTML' in the title.
Indeed and they are very good Universities. Haskell (the Glasgow Haskell Compiler ghc) was a product of there.
As one of the designers behind Neat, I like what Zurb have been doing with Foundation, but I'm not entirely fond of their semantic grid framework. Many decisions have left me scratching my head and wondering if there wasn't a better way to do things (innerRow() and mobile[...]() mixins are some of these).
I think a lot of the talent is drained away to the South, as bulk of the jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh are in Finance or public sector.
Agreed - and this is quite obvious to anyone who isn't already carrying quite a lot of bias with them to begin with (Apple zealots, basically). He was acting as an unacknowledged technical expert and that's very very dangerous.
Isn't Scotland holding in 2014 a referendum on independence from the UK?
Not much. They are likely to stay using the pound and Scotland already has its own legal system. And it would remain in the EU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_arc_waste_disposal

We need to get energy sorted first, but the waste is not going anywhere.

But seriously, landfills are really not a big environmental problem.
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Hardly at all.
At the risk of a flame war (it's a perma-warm topic in the UK) Scottish Independance will have minimal up or downside when considered broadly.

There are lots of clever Economists who expalin how different choices will cost / bring in millions or billions but I have yet to see anything promising more than 2k per citizen - and to be honest I doubt anyone will move house to get a 2k pay raise, so the overall effect - minimal

of course some areas of Scotland are long term grindingly poor and recieive lots of start up credits (they are called enterprise zones) - but they are nit focused on HN style startups, services and light industry is the bigger recipien of enterprise grants.
The title should be "Distraction Free Writing with MacVim"
That's not where the startups are it dates back many years.
Well Galway is generally regarded as a good place to live, if you don't mind lashings of rain.
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From that I assume that if a block's hash matches something that's already in the archives then you retrieve the archive block(s) with the same hash ID in order to verify that it is exactly the same (byte-for-byte)? And this wouldn't be possible with Glacier as you can't just retrieve the block from storage to check there and then.

Do you have any stats on the number of collisions you've seen?
The Scottish government has been pushing to lower corporation tax for a while now. They've been prevented from doing so by the English government as they fear that companies will simply hop the border to reduce their taxes.
The reason they are short is the huge expense of building modern landfills in densely-populated areas. They're not just a big hole in the ground.
Whatthekeycode.com - quickly find a js keycode for any key
If anyone is looking for an AMAZING and well documented theme all ready to go:

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Only if you don't drink water.
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Is there nothing more to it than revenues? [that's not intended to be snarky and rhetorical however it sounds in your head!] Like do you think "Wow, sorry we missed them, they're making awesome stuff" or is it primarily financial.

This kinda fits in with the Kickstarter discussion, scale is entirely different of course.

I guess in short is business more about making money or about creating value.
The Scottish National Party (ruling party in Scotland) is trying to hold it in the weeks just after the 700th anniversary of the greatest Scottish victory over the English at Bannockburn.

It's unlikely they are hoping for a nationalistic fillip but more a negotiating position over the actual wording of the referendum - but it is an amusing bit of chutzpah and what one expects of the SNP leader :-)
Exactly, I'm trying to convert it to linux, I'll update once I finish struggling to get the columns right ( getting that colunm feel ).
That’s why he added:

> "It is questionable whether the monitors observed would actually have evidence of file-sharing that would stand up in court."

However, it’s not really that much more work to verify if that peer is sharing the file in question. Just request/offer few random blocks. There’s no mechanism in place to assign peers in BT network varying degree of trust.
I've been working in Cork a couple of years ago (callcenter…), and wasn't too excited about the living conditions. Very high rent for pretty bad apartments, and the city itself was a pretty bad mix between some money spent on the inner city and pretty rundown estates all around. Granted, once you leave the city, it's gorgeous…
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Scotland also a pretty active tech/meetup community. Living in Glasgow I'm mostly familiar with the ones which happen here, but if you're interested in tech startups or want to chat with some fellow geeks you should come along.

Some of my favs are RefreshGla, RookieOven, Techmeetup and Popup Hack (which I organise)

There are details and more events listed on http://glasgow2.com/
of course some areas of Scotland are long term grindingly poor and recieive lots of start up credits

My area in northern England is like this - you can't move for constant advertisements for "start-up events," in the local newspapers, on the local radio and so on. It just feels like a way of spending EU money. I don't think they actually hand out many start-up grants or credits, they just run these endless "events."

I live in a small town of 8,000, and they even have them every month there, plugged ceaselessly on the local radio station. It's quite a good way of propping up the local media with advertising revenue, but I'd be interested to know how many people actually get anything out of this.
There is also a ridiculous law that you can't use math at blackjack tables.

Its like only stupid people can play blackjack and if you are clever enough to beat it, then you are cheating.

Put simply according to them the game is fair only if you lose and casino wins.
You make a great point of: penny wise, pound foolish. At first, shopping for the day can be like that. However, buying things like spices, oils, rice, etc, in bulk that do not go bad is a part of it. Ingredients you buy daily are exactly enough tomatoes, exactly enough ground turkey, just one small onion, etc, items that are priced per pound rather than cheaper in bulk.

I think that buying your perishables daily (if you can) can save you a lot of money and wasted food.
It's not specifically about landfills. It's the wilful ignorance of the consequences of exponential growth curves, just because we personally happen to live on the left side of the graph where things are kind of OK.

It's the same kind of thinking that caused the financial crisis, it's the same kind of thinking that will probably cause the death of our species, if that happens. It's utterly morally reprehensible, and we're all guilty of it. Our entire modern civilisation is founded on it.
The punchline of that joke is completely invalid: in the novel, the tycoons do in fact grow their own food. But then again, why bother to read an actual book when you can form your opinions based on hearsay?
Moreorless, a less packed utility set
A neat collection of utilities and helper classes, combined with boilerplate to make your css work easier.
Twitter is not (primarily) a conversational tool
> Can we please not call it Silicon Glen though?

How about this? :-)

http://www.scotsman.com/business/technology/internet-start-u...

"A NEW technology strip, dubbed the “Silicon bridges”, is emerging in the centre of Edinburgh as the city becomes a hotspot for internet start-ups."

(Although I'm amused to see they still haven't corrected the typo in the place name in the headline.)

> Edit: As a developer from Glasgow I find it hard to find interesting start-ups.

Try hanging out at the tech events around town <shamelessPlug> - see details on http://opentechcalendar.co.uk/index.php (Disclaimer: that's my project).</shamelessPlug>
Someone had suggested me to use TamperMonkey [1] for installing scripts on Chrome.
It worked for me.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dhdgffkkebhmkfjoje...
Seriously? I'll even skip the lmgtfy:

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members

The mailing list is open to the public. If you do decide to participate, please treat it as you would when joining any long-standing forum.
There is also a ridiculous law that you can't use math at blackjack tables.

Not true. There is no law (in the US) forbidding card counting. However casinos will kick you out (or most likely politely ask if you might want to play something else) if they believe you're counting cards effectively (they have no problem with people who count cards badly). But this has no basis in law and isn't an accusation of cheating. It's just the casino exercising their right to remove anybody from the casino floor for any reason they feel like, much like they have the right to remove you from the casino floor if they don't like the way you're dressed for example.
>they got things moving along faster //

We can't really be sure of that can we. What we can be sure of is that there's no way to summarise the CSS standards compliance of a browser or to indicate concisely the browser level requirements of a website for a human. This I fear makes designing for the web a case of breaking down and designing for lots of individual UA that meet a list of hundreds of different point versions for different abilities instead of being able to simply design to a standard HTML5+CSS3 and readily see that the top X browsers will support (with some issues of course) the elements of those standards.

Instead of one current standard there are now hundreds of standards?!
I am based and from Scotland (Glasgow). I have a startup that going to be looking for a first round of funding in the next few months, anyone had experience with this? Is there an equivalent Kickstarter for the U.K.?
For the fullscreen part, the rest is pretty universal (theme, settings). Granted, gvim in Windows makes it a bit hard to get proper fullscreen, but there are workarounds[1]. If you're running it in a shell, most of them should have fullscreen options if the window manager/OS doesn't offer that anyway. And well, setting lines/columns might resize the window again...

But alas, the very meekest cannot be at peace, if his ill neighbour will not let him rest.

1: http://peterodding.com/code/vim/shell
Maybe because they had an internal 132 page document detailing every pixel they want to copy from Apple? http://www.bgr.com/2012/08/08/apple-samsung-patent-lawsuit-i...

And maybe because even Google thought that their tablets were too much like Apple's tablets. http://allthingsd.com/20120725/apple-google-warned-samsung-a...

And maybe because their stores look like Apple Stores, their chargers look like Apple chargers, their Ultrabooks look like Macbook Airs, and some of their phones look like iPhones.

Apple never went against Palm, nor Microsoft, nor any other manufacturer, simply because these devices were distinctly different than Apple's products.
And yes, I know that the case verdict was only about some specific patents (and no, these didn't include rounded corners), but it's probably clear that the decision of the jury was also influenced by things like the above.

You see, even if, technically, the patent system is a mess, and technically the verdict is therefore wrong (which I don't think), Samsung are still copycats. They're not the good guy, just because they use Android. Instead, they're just a capitalist company like Apple.
We're a startup in Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow) - (http://www.getadministrate.com). This post annoyed me b/c I was just about to post about the advantages I see starting and running a business here :)

The author misses quite a few of the main things that I find great about being in Scotland, although I do agree with the general thrust.

Some thoughts about Scotland compared with the USA, having previously started and ran 3 companies there:

- wages are very cheap here compared to the USA or even the South (England), and the talent is good.

- It's easy to market to and service the USA (no huge timezone difference or language barrier and Americans like the Scottish accent).

- there are already some incredible tax advantages (low capital gains) for startups, and more being pushed by the current government.

- most funding seems to be done by angel syndicates in a public / private hybrid where both the gov and the angels share risk and reward. I much prefer the syndicate model to individuals as you get more structure and less hassle.

- you don't need health insurance for employees, which removes a distraction and makes your job offer compete on a more level playing field when compared against a traditional large company

- the tech community like the author pointed out is really good, particularly for the size

- the quality of life here is AMAZING. Can't fully describe the benefits in a comment.

- office space is currently very cheap

- great public transport

- easy to travel (for business and pleasure) to either EU or USA
It is generally where the startups are, but only because it also just describes the area where ~90% of the people in Scotland live.
It seems very little. I'm sure Google paid many more millions of dollars to their lawyers in this lawsuit.
Exactly what I was thinking of.
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I work at www.metaforic.com -- we're based in Glasgow.
Now that's a nice way to get more Facebook likes
We use HTML5 prolifically. It's a calculated decision, precious few of the people who visit our site/use our apps use anything that doesn't support core HTML5.
You can't become independent, and remain using the UKs currency. Won't happen.

If they do become independent, they will have to create their own currency, or join the sinking Euro.
Well, we had a 100 CEO's at the CEO To CEO @ the Turing Festival in Edinburgh two weeks ago - so I think you are wrong on that.
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There's lots of startups. A good place to start would be the Scottish Lean Circle https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum...
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Seconded, I organise Techmeetup and regularly visit Edinburgh Coffee Morning, Edinburgh Hacklab, Edinburgh Refresh and many others. I've just been helping others get 3 new meetups going (PHP, Android & Open Rights Group) so it's looking great in Edinburgh.

Don't let ppl tell you there is a Edinburgh vs Glasgow divide btw; it's only 50mins via trains that run late at night so it's easy to nip across for the evening.

Also check out http://opentechcalendar.co.uk/index.php - that has more Edinburgh events at the moment but it's very early days for this site and more are being added all the time. (Disclaimer: That's my project.)
Microsoft Moves Further Into the Cloud
How's this different from wearing a balaclava?
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Chinese Knockoff Maker Reportedly Copies, Patents iPhone 5 Design
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Lots of people - (more in Edinburgh). There is Entrepreneurial Spark in Glasgow http://www.entrepreneurial-spark.com/ and Rookie Oven of course. Scottish Lean Circle in Edinburgh https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum...
Only on products that can be exported or are otherwise fungible, primarily grains. But you'd also have to calculate the costs of shipping excess grain to the comparison of global grain prices, because it's a tad bit expensive to ship tons of grain around the world.

And then you'd also have to calculate the effects of a smaller market on the produce sellers of the world. I'm sure that farmers who export food to the US do so because the prices they get are better; otherwise, they'd be selling it locally. So, if they sold less to America, they wouldn't be making as much money, which wouldn't be feeding into their local economies. And that will hurt people as well.

It isn't as simple of a problem as what you're trying to make it. True, Americans - in general - should probably eat less. But the reason isn't to help global food prices. But, if you're talking about trying to feed under-nourished Americans, that's a different argument.

If you really want to help lower global food prices, the first step would be to stop turning corn into ethanol fuel (ethanol for human consumption is fine). Linking the prices of a cereal grain to the cost of energy is a dumb move.
Please do. I'm fighting with the columns too, can't get it right
some areas of Scotland are long term grindingly poor and recieive lots of start up credits (they are called enterprise zones)

I grew up near Greenock, which fits that description fairly well and found that the Scottish Enterprise system round there was not at all geared for anything remotely ambitious. Although I found that the people on the front line were great, as I delved further into the depths of the monster I just got circulated between stuffy box tickers, who seem immune to novelty as it is never their department. The whole experience was just depressing and completely unrewarding.
Also, I'd like to try and point this out again:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/103158031/Google-Shill-List

I don't think an article mentioning the google bloggers ever reached >10 points, at least by my googling.
Brilliant. I wonder if it was inspired by Brett Victor's fantastic talk 'Inventing on Principle' (http://vimeo.com/36579366) - it seems there have been many such efforts to break the barrier between writing code and seeing the effects since that talk appeared. Maybe it's just that the talk made an impression on me and hence I've been noticing this sort of thing more. Either way, bravo Mr Doob.
Is it really "lower pay" after you total up the benefits? Do you get paid vacation, etc? I agree that the new arrangement probably costs them less, but check the math to be sure.
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Can Ubisoft shed its DRM bad guy image?
Navigation, live traffic updates come to Google Maps in India
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It was a charity donation (by Oracle) of hardware and services, and the service contract wasn't part of the donation. The initial donation was laudable, but the hardware was weak. Needless to say, the 3 dead servers were not replaced.
Postgres Backend Flowchart
Problem is, I think that in vim, the set columns only dictates the limit to the right, and we want the left side too, or else we get a left-sided column vim.

I think the solution would be to open two vertical panels, at the sides, to shorten the middle. Not the best solution though :S.
JSON Patch, a proposed standard for synchronizing JSON structures
"Scotland has a much smaller talent pool of developers than many other countries and that's a fundamental bottleneck for any startup"

It wasn't clear but I was meaning talent to staff the startups, I don't think there would be a bottleneck! It would would stop the drain.
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I may be wrong here.

But every time the topic of food wastage comes up. People really talk about hungry people across the world and how it can be delivered to them instead of being wasted here. The reason why most people don't get food is because they can't afford it, not because food is in short supply.

The solution to these problems really is to improve their living conditions by giving them jobs by which they can buy food.
These seem to be support groups or clubs rather than places to look for funding, I was thinking more Angel investors or crowd sourcing.
There are already some implementations:
- https://github.com/dharmafly/jsonpatch.js
- https://github.com/stefankoegl/python-json-patch
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I think it would be great if we could somehow keep track of food that was about to expire and decide to donate it before it goes to waste. Things like eggs and old cans of soup (not half chewed slices of pizza).

Of course, the amount of resources expended to handle the logistics would probably be a huge waste of your time. Its probably cheaper to donate some cash to a food bank.

I'm sure it will be cheaper to do when robots start doing everything. But since robots will be growing food on the side of every building, food is probably going to be a lot cheaper too.
FBI denies link to leak of 12 million Apple codes
Nope, didn't check that,
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I wish there was something like this for Stylus.. It's by far my favourite CSS Pre-Processor