skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to see the EU take form. With the recent finance reforms and articles like this, it looks to me like the EU is becoming more and more like the US with the countries taking the role of states. Moving between US states for the purpose of employment is extremely common. The EU countries have more border autonomy and language barriers that prevent people from moving between them, but it seems similar to the formation of the US and the subsequent 200 years of consolidating power at the federal level. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the next 20 years.
Nice article. But I wish it had gotten into an explanation of the actual bug in LLVM's code. Anyone have a bug number?
When Merkel tried to defend Obama (but not in a completely obvious way), I realized Germany must be up to no good, too. It reminded me of when Obama made a speech about Egypt, when the revolution was going on. It was pretty obvious he didn't want to criticize the leader (the one the people were creating a revolution against) too much, because they had huge ties with Egypt, and they supported him a lot in the past (like US does with Saudi Arabia, and other dictatorships around the world).

Hopefully Merkel loses her position over this at the next election, but I want her to lose it over this issue, so the ones coming after her know not to repeat her mistake.
I think it's telling when two of the larger Java IDE developers have independently created their own languages to fix problems with Java (kotlin and extend).

My own sense of things since Oracle took over is that Java the language is on the way out, but Java the platform is still strong, and I expect lots of people will be gradually moving across to Scala / Clojure / something else.
This is a question I have been wanting an answer myself for a while. Especially I am interested if Feedly, Newsblur, Inoreader, is using PUSH method
what do you mean 'we have gotten better at fixing financial storms'? The financial magnitude of swing in the recent financial crises has been as bad or worse than the great depression, and to me, it seems like the only reason we aren't starving in the streets like they were in the 30s is because the green revolution has made it so that feeding people is no longer largely a productive capacity problem.
If we learned anything from ActiveX, it's that "click to continue" is an ineffective defense against malware on the web-- at least for most people.

I don't think it's 100% impossible that there will be a WebGL exploit against some driver or other at some point, but I think the odds have been greatly exaggerated by Microsoft and others. The reality of modern graphics cards is that most of the action happens on the card, not on the host CPU. Combine that with Intel's recent IOMMU technology and you find that exploits usually aren't that interesting. Even if you can get control of the card, you can't do much with it.

Of course, there could be a flaw in the host driver, but it would have to be a really unusual flaw. WebGL itself stops almost all invalid input (and some unsupported valid input) from being sent to the driver, so you'd have to find a perfectly reasonable set of polygons that still triggered an exploit. It would be similar to finding an mp3 that, when played, hacked your sound card driver. It's not impossible, but it's getting into tinfoil hat territory.
Knock, knock.

who's there?

(long wait)

Java.
It may very well be neither of those.

For a long time, software written in Java was often painfully slow. Swing apps were particularly bad. This did leave a very negative impression on all sorts of people, from developers to managers to executives to the end users who had to use these applications written in Java.

Thanks to hardware, JVM and Java class library advances, it isn't as much of a problem as it once was. But there are still many people out there, especially in the corporate and small business world, who are forced to use Java apps on desktops that are a decade old, if not older in some cases. These systems often weren't very powerful to begin with, and due to budgetary constraints they may not be able to upgrade them. It's not a pleasant situation to be in.

So while Java may appear fast enough on a powerful server, or a modern development workstation, this isn't an experience that everyone using Java applications gets to share in. When people suggest that Java is "slow", I don't think it's appropriate to discount what they're saying. It very well could be an accurate description of their situation and experience.
Ah, good point. I hadn't considered that. It looks like you are correct! You might sandwich two Seebeck-Peltier devices and switch between them, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect
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There is also a project which was funded by National Institute of Justice which tried to allow all ALPR systems to insert data into a single repository. That's the present problem right now - two neighboring jurisdictions might have different systems.

source code http://gemini.gmu.edu/cebcp/LPR/for-police-leadership_LPRD.h...

well, the code used to be there. I wonder when they pulled the code?
Hang on, hang on, let me shed a tear while I contemplate the fact that EVERY French citizen without a job gets a monthly pay check.

It may be subsistence living, but unlike the States where unemployment means credit debt and eventual homelessness, it's living nonetheless, and the state foots the bill, incredible social safety net.

As an expat living part of the year in France it's always shocked me how unemployed seasonal workers get up to 80% of their salary for the 8 months of the year they don't work. Where I'm living (SW France), kids will work the summer season in a restaurant or similar, then come autumn, hey, time to go surfing in Indonesia, "pay" checks mailed to the bank.

Needless to say, the French live pretty well working or not.
No, this is a myth. Many manufacturers (including MB) put a tamper-proof sticker with the VIN (sometimes barcoded) on every body panel of the vehicle so that theft or replacement can be detected. One location is behind the rear license plate.

[1] http://pictures.dealer.com/m/mercedesbenzoftampa/1069/537b8d... [2]
http://bimmerboard.com/members/q/original/VIN%20located%20be... [3] http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showpost.php?p=3856500&postco...
That looks very good actually. The best benefit is it looks like I can also store files and whatnot. Perhaps I can move several services to ownCloud. I'll take a look.
In every language?
Another vote for Inoreader, its the closest usable interface to Google Reader IMHO, and I am satisfied at this point for image feed viewing and text/blog feeds etc. Really user friendly interface.
I hope you are not joking! Lists are serious business on the internet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
Ironically Ghostery blocked 21 items on that page.
Open source style checker for Objective C
Frameworks are foundations, not straitjackets
My goal here is not to try to convince people to build in 20k lines of JS what they could've done with a simpler Rails implementation or something of the sort, but to take a moment to self-examine whenever starting a new project if there's not a minimal approach to doing what one wants.

For many people, sites which will ultimately be static or very simple, people insist on installing a CMS like Drupal or Wordpress and end up bogging down the user experience and their own usage experience. The idea here is: look at all the tools that you can use to make great content that could still fit these seemingly harsh limitations. Instead of Wordpress, maybe a static blog-generator a la Jekyll (though, again, currently there's the limitation in Neocities of subdirectories).
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I also moved to tt-rss and it works well a few niggles aside.

About the worst thing I can say about it is that the main developer is rather abrasive.
I'm a big believer in automating process where possible - instead of trying to remember style rules or dealing with inconsistent code across a codebase, just write a script to deal with it!

This one was particularly fun to write because it was an excuse to use the awesome parcon library (http://www.opengroove.org/parcon/parcon-tutorial.html)
Shocked that the top comment is not just another one criticizing or trying to diminish something about the article/story.
I'm pretty sure we'll know in time that the US and Britain were behind some Euro manipulation too. The EU is right now like a big blob of countries. Some of the sovereignty was handed over to it, but its a lame duck when needs protecting itself. But then, when it does act, it acts against its members countries, and not to protect it form outside.
I currently live in São Paulo, Brazil...

That infamously is on several lists of one of the worst place to do business in the world (because it is first place in red tape and associated costs, also very high in corruption, tax rate, and so on...)

Yet, I've seen with my own eyes a ever bigger community of french business people here, there are LOTS of rich french, or young french, coming here and doing business here, and some of them I talked, absolutely hate Brazil (regarding business aspects, violence, and some other stuff), but imply (they never reply directly when I ask, and some get offended) that yet Brazil is still better to live than France...

This makes me believe something VERY WRONG is going on there... Usually it was the dream of Brazillians to move to France, not the opposite!
Unfortunately this may not be sustainable in the long run unless more people create new businesses in France, and starting a business here seems daunting due to the expense for the social and welfare system. The more I learn about the welfare system in France though the more I believe that building a profitable business here is possible, but it takes an understanding on how to work within the system. The problem is that there will continue to be cheaper options by setting up shop outside of France and that will continue to be an attractive option to low-margin businesses.
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Other questions include how content providers behave. I've subscribed to the Dilbert Daily Strip feed for several years. About a week ago they decided they no longer want readers via RSS: http://feed.dilbert.com/dilbert/daily_strip
That's the Tasman Sea I think - not that this is any better. The Tasman side of NZ is the wild side, and it gets pretty damn wild.
I'm looking at ways of hacking the system. And doing so in a way that might balance interests one way or the other.

Sometimes life is just a game.
Most people that move to the US do it because it is a very prosperous country, not because it is considered particularly free.

People that flee oppression go to Europe, if nothing else because they have a much higher chance of getting to stay there than in the US.
I don't understand this. "Supposed to be us" is a meaningless propaganda thing in any country. Much like "for your protection". What they are supposed to be has nothing to do with what they really are. You can't change the system by telling it what it's supposed to be and complaining. The system will listen and ignore.
never underestimate the power of duct tape
Hmm, I'm having trouble finding any evidence for the public figure exemption, so it sounds like you're right. They certainly don't seem to advertise it on the DMV site, at least.
Well I was asked to parallelize a loop where it was totally unobvious in one interview something like a sum of elements in an array where elements are replaced by the sum of elements from the previous elements(they didnt even shake my hand they just showed me the door silently), in another I had 30 minutes to design an algo that outputs from a matrix it's spiral in C(I think I know how to do this now but I couldn't solve it and program it there under pressure in 30 minutes and my solution is ugly), in another I had to use a semaphore to make a loop that increments up to some number and I didn't know what a semaphore was, I had to find if a linked list was looping, I had to write a code that deletes duplicate elements from a linked list and puts them in to a new sorted list in 30 minutes, the financial engineering jobs required the transcript so they didn't work out. I think I like CS and blame a lack of attention or preparedness for the grades. Maybe I am deluding myself though and need to move on.
unemployed seasonal workers get up to 80% of their salary for the 8 months of the year they don't work.

My goodness, who pays for this?
If you think this hasn't been cheaply implemented before then you're behind research in wave propagation brother. Search on IEEE if you're interested.
I think its interesting to compare how law enforcement movies differ in various countries:

- French is imho the most realistic: Police is corrupt and lazy, and they solve crime because they participate in crime.

- Western Germany (Tatort): The police is your friend and helper. Police officers are always acting correct, and they solve crimes mostly because the criminal does an error.

- Eastern Germany (Polizeiruf): The police is a working class hero, but most crimes are solved by denunciation. It was fairly common in communist German Polizeiruf that mothers and wifes denunciate their own child or man.

imho, TV is a propaganda machine, invented in WW2. Watching TV, should only be done in a reflecting context, regardless if you watch a Nazi movie like Jud-Suess, or an US crime movie.
!gi is shorter :)
Well that's obviously not sustainable and part of the reason they can't get full time jobs in the first place.
Great, now the NSA not only can snoop on my emails but use my wifi hotspot to watch me too.
This is even funnier, considering that post-2008 bailouts, the Big 3 Car companies (GM, Ford, Chrysler) all moved their factories/jobs to St. Petersburg, Russia. I'd say "ironic", but it seems to have been planned.

Either way, we're now the USSR, and all the capitalism is on the other side of the ocean.
Another vote for tt-rss here, too. I use my own 2006 vintate fork (I decided I couldn't handle trying to contribute patches back to the developer) and haven't kept current with the mainline code, but it has served me very well.
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How does this version compare to the one from 2008? The chapters look similar, but then again there could be a lot of advancements and updates. Is this the case, or is it just small revisions?
I don't think they were in the Southern Ocean - at least that isn't where they are searching (when they find a non-broken plane to fly). We have had near record breaking bad weather, so so calling it rough out there is a serious understatement. We have a very nice break at the moment, so I hope the search goes A bit better. http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=...
Finally, EU citizens might get some justice now that our leaders have been spied on.
Huh, that's simply not true. On unemplyment, you get 57% of your salary for as long as you've worked with a maximum of 2 years. You have to be actively looking for a job, including monthly meetings with the administration and the more you wait, the lower the bar becomes for the job they will force you to take.

This system is far from perfect, and this country is definitely not the best place to create a company. But let's not spread crazy rumors like this.
Ah perfect. For some people that would be the opposite of what they want, but this is just the kind of thing that I need.
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Taxpayers. And that, people, is socialism.

That's the cycle ---> rich country with strong middle class --> right-wing politicians get less and less popular/elected --> socialists/communists come --> poor country --> right-wing politicians are elected again
Should have been pasted in the URL text field.

http://www.kendoui.com/blogs/teamblog/posts/13-06-24/announc...
Or the fourth possibility: the reason Germany was the target of so many signal's intelligence requests is because the BND(The Federal Intelligence Service) outsourced surveillance of islamic extremism (or anything else) to avoid legal complications arising for whatever prohibitions Germany has on domestic surveillance. In which case, at least some politicians will keep quiet because they were likely complicit.
The figures for youth unemployment in Europe are shocking.

The percentage of people under the age of 25 who are unemployed:

- Greece: 62.5%
- Spain: 56.4%
- Portugal: 42.5%
- Italy: 40.5%
- Cyprus: 32.7%
- Rep of Ireland: 26.6%
- France: 26.5%
- UK: 20.2%
- Germany: 7.5%
- EU average: 23.5%

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23095198
It's not so easy in the corporate world because you need Administrator access to install Java.
Joe Biden requested Ecuador not grant Snowden asylum
Time for non-US software, services, and Internet?
I live in the US. Scott McNealy said it first: I have no privacy. But I wonder whether recent revelations will spur non-US countries to build their own, proprietary, alternatives to OS X, Windows, Android, Facebook, gmail, the Internet, etc. Is this the end of standardization on US-based technologies?
If you have tremendous productivity in a small portion of your society, it is absolutely sustainable to subsidize the rest of the population on monthly checks. If someone is making 10,000% profit (and completely automated production drives costs to just upfront purchase and maintenance) that profit can provide for millions without them having to work.

I think it is a cultural scar that everyone is expected to spend 1/3 their week laboring for someone else (most of the time). If that labor doesn't produce real value (and a lot of the US jobs market is artificial middle men rendered obsolete by pervasive instantaneous international communication of information) you are just wasting peoples time having them drain their energy and time in a fruitless job, where they might (you never know) take their free time and initiative spent on petty labor and produce miraculous things like new inventions or art or community service.
Yep. If you have any feedback or want to contribute please join in. :) All our stuff is at http://github.com/owncloud
I think that P.K. Dick saw the future with his 'scramble suits': http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997

...the wearer of a scramble suit was Everyman and in every combination...
(French here)

Written by a guy who's never worked a day in his life, I find that article to be very funny.

French bashing is always done better by the french.

Guys, to give you a bit of context, when this guy wrote his first piece last september, the backlash was quite big (which might also explain why he never went anywhere with his campaign at the time).

To me this guy has zero credibility.
"With more and more people not showing up to theaters anymore because they have home theatre"

Have there been many studies about this? (purely wondering)

I know I read something recently that 3D fatigue is setting in, where people are purposefully seeing 2D showings of 3D-shot movies.

But also, on a personal level, I'm noticing those around me are slowing their movie-theatre visits, simply because they aren't interested in movies with poor stories (or another movie that's just about CGI).

Maybe it's rarer now to get movies that have nice budgets with A-list stars and amazing screenwriting? It's fun watching special effects and all, but with that crutch there is a lower bar in the story-telling department, it would seem.
Class act
Yes and no.

You seem to be assuming that a declaration of war plays only into military terminology, but that's not the case. The AUMF gives the President Congress's blessing to use the military to defeat terrorist groups and their supporters (especially those responsible for 9/11), without giving the President the keys to the other aspects of national government which might rightly be involved in a war effort. So the executive has special wartime powers relating to the prosecution of the military effort within the constraints of current military capabilities (e.g. he can now mobilize some types of Reservists), but not other special wartime powers (e.g. no authority to call a draft, impose food rationing, etc.).

> When do these powers expire?

Ask Congress.
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How much information can you convey with a 1 bit interface?
As a French citizen emigrated to Canada, that's a concern I can relate to. The best thing I found to explain what's wrong with France (to quote NYT and add a few of my own: distrust, negativism, elitism, "losing hope", "overcentralized gerontocracy") is this little book:

La société de défiance : Comment le modèle social français s'autodétruit (ISBN-10: 272880396X, ISBN-13: 978-2728803965)
English Translation: The distrust society: How the French social model self-destructs
http://www.amazon.fr/La-soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9-d%C3%A9fiance-fran...

Its "originality" is that, unlike articles like the one linked here, the authors support their argument with serious economical and statistical analysis.

Montréal-based HNers wanting to borrow my copy are welcome, feel free to contact me at @ronjouch

EDIT: ebook freely available here: http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/opus/OPUS09.pdf (PDF, 5MB)
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My dear father [...] you can come here boldly with my dear mother and all the other Acadian families. They will always be better off than in France. There are neither duties nor taxes to pay and the more one works, the more one earns without doing harm to anyone.
—Jean-Baptiste Semer, 1766[8]
> Note that this list is itself a list of lists, and thus in theory satisfies the normal criterion for inclusion here; however, it has not been included, since the purpose of the article is to serve as a directory to other lists of lists.

... Gödelgasm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_paradox
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Hello Ryan, this fourth edition has several new chapters and a fair amount of rework. Some chapters however are very similar to the 2008 edition: search, expert systems, and machine learning. You might want to just get the updated code examples from github.
You also get a grade A in snark! ;-)
Probably I'll open-source it at some moment in future. But just have no time to do it now.
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I'm also happy with tt-rss. I considered myself a heavy user of Reader with about 500 feeds. The only negative I'm currently experiencing is that the mobile web version has been phased out by trunk, and the very good looking alternate tends to crash my phone's browser every few articles. Since there are multiple native Android clients, I'm not all that concerned.
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I don't think this is intended for end users in the traditional sense. A good use case for this could be coworkers beta testing the company's app.
Can you tell me which of these ten planks [1] have not been implemented in the United States?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto#II._Pr...
No, I haven't. What happens?
In Germany,where i live, you get:

* 2/3 of your last wage for 1 year on unemployment, free health care

* After that expires you get your rent paid, free health care , and 400 euro per month for other expenses - indefinitely

On top of that everyone also gets free additional care when they are old / nursing home.

Also everyone gets a minimum pension once they reach 67 years of age.

Germany has the lowest youth unemployment in europe. it has one of the lowest overall unemployment rates in europe. it is one of the few countries that still had growth in the years past / is not deeply in recession.

Yeah, those are the perils of "socialism".
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