skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The D is "durable", not "will survive the apocalypse along with the cockroaches". I've got plenty of things I'd describe as durable while being capable of breaking.
Bangalore / India ≈ 6 USD
Interesting, in what ways is Kotlin more elegant that Scala?
Bravo. That's some incredible self control not to just tell them to fuck off and walk out. I feel angry for him just watching it.
Ljubljana-SI: 8 EUR ~ 11 USD
Groningen, The Netherlands: 5 euros (6 dollar 78).
portugal

pizza hut -- supreme

BNY: Ind. € 9,90 $13.42 / Média € 17,05 $23.11 / Familiar € 23,40 $ 31,72
PAN: Ind. € 10,35 $14,03 / Média € 17,65 $23,93 / Familiar € 24,15 $ 32,74 /
ROLLING: € 26,15 $35,45
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I, too, have high hopes for Kotlin. It seems to achieve what I'd hoped Scala would but ended up failing miserably.

There's a lot of merit to the "Java philosophy": a gradual progression of what most programmers expect in a language. Google, for one, seems to have adopted the Java philosophy wholeheartedly in its new languages Go and Dart.

Kotlin is certainly in that camp: a gradual progression that will make programmers happier yet won't turn their world upside down. It's simply a better Java. So while Scala unfortunately evolved from being a better Java into the mother of all kitchen sink languages (assuming, of course, that your kitchen feeds a whole military base and has sinks the size of hot tubs), trying to cram Java, Haskell, Lisp and Javascript into a single compiler (I find it hard calling Scala "a language"; it's more like a compiler that compiles code written in any of several languages), Kotlin takes a few steps back and comes up with a coherent philosophy.

I think 99% of Scala users will find Kotlin to provide 100% of their requirements, and at a much reduced complexity and mental load. So Kotlin, I think, is not only a better Java, but a better Scala.

Yet, I think Java 8 will be the game to beat, for Kotlin as well as Scala. Java is hugely popular, and those that haven't migrated to other JVM languages so far, might be less likely to do so when Java 8 comes out. With lambda expressions and traits – the two killer features that attract many to Scala when it first came out – it gives Java a nice boost. Sure, Kotlin feels more like a fresh start, and has some other necessary features (properties), but will those be enough to switch people away from Java?

I think that one of the great achievements of Kotlin's design, though, is that the transition could be very gradual. Kotlin places a very strong emphasis on Java interoperability (leaps and bounds better than Scala's) and unlike Scala, Kotlin code is easily read by Java programmers. So teams would be able to easily replace individual Java classes with Kotlin code.
Every few years the idea of a natural language / semantic / question answering search engine crops up again.

Natural language understanding is quite relevant for the crawling and indexing part of information retrieval systems and Google is very good at that. Just look at their quite formidable automatic translation software, which is a by-product of their ability to correctly map natural language concepts to strings.

The thing is: People just don't want to converse with a search engine as if it was a human being. Some library / scientific information retrieval systems tried to go in that direction, which resulted in retrieval systems that were just cumbersome to use.

Google nailed the search engine user interface quite some time ago and Peter Norvig is absolutely right when he says that users simply don't want to ask questions when searching. They're much faster at entering keywords relevant to their search intent because they've learned how to efficiently converse with search engines in their 'native' keyword language.

Hence, passing the Turing test is completely irrelevant for search and information retrieval in general. Even in mobile environments where due to the device's constraints a natural language user interface makes a lot more sense than on the desktop, software like Siri more or less is just some gimmick that in most cases is easily outperformed by more traditional input methods. Sure, asking Siri to 'Show me the way to the next whisky bar' might be fun at first but simply entering 'pub' and
the name of the town you're in right now is still a lot more efficient. Again, I think Google nailed the user interface part with Google Now for mobile information retrieval as well. I don't want intelligent machines to pretend they're human. I want them to take a back seat and present me with the right information once it becomes relevant.
Just a comment here. I visit India at fairly large intervals. The prices of items there SHOCKED me! I guess if I was living there continuously I would be more used to things, so Rs 340 for a Pizza just floors me. I would have said - because its a 'novelty' food it would cost something like Rs 30, but I guess you can't even get a packet of biscuits (US: Cookies) for that.
I hope we can all at least agree that it isn't about being a shil for political power.

Well, everyone except this one reporter apparently.
This is the flip side of the puff piece story.

Read the last line of the bizjournal story "Michael handles our Web coverage, social media accounts and videos."

If after getting out of .mil you got a job handling web coverage, social media, and video, then having better PR reach than their own people, the CEO might care. Otherwise, let you rot.
I don't get the alarmist tone of that piece: it's very preliminary, they are consulting with interested parties, building an opt out mechanism.

Oh and Apple already deployed an identical ad id a while ago.
Montreal, Canada - 12.61 USD (Dominos)
That dog isn't gonna hunt. You have no evidence that Italian and Asian immigrants espoused violence the way many Muslim immigrants do.
In Europe the limit doesn't exist anymore.
So the term FRB is somewhat misleading.
I suspect the same holds for the USA.
Nantes-FR: 15.6 € ≈ 21 USD (local pizzeria)
No Dominos here but here are the prices from Finland (Helsinki).

Local pizzeria: 7€ (~9.5 USD)
Pizza Hut (Large): 25.8€ (~35 USD)
Moscow, Allo Pizza chain, delivery: 395 roubles or around $12.
I live in the same city but I can't find a pizza near me that's cheaper than ~90 SEK - 14.01 USD
When the original Eee came out (and started the concept of netbooks) it was pre-installed with Linux. XP was being discontinued and the Windows tax was a big deal at that pricepoint. Vista was a disaster and couldn't really run well on the Eee's basic specs.

People where bringing the things back.
Your comment would be much more insightful if you gave the dollar amounts, as well. Is the rupee closer to a peso or a pound?
Argentina, Buenos Aires:

About 55 ARS delivered in the suburbs (Gran Buenos Aires) and 80 ARS in a middle range restaurant. That's about 9,50 USD and 13,7 USD respectively using official exchange rates and 5,75 USD and 8,35 USD using the blue market rates. We don't really have chain pizza restaurants with international presence.

Also, things tend to raise at about 20% per year, so take that into account.

This country is fun, crazy and cheap, come visit. :)
I wouldn't say it's more elegant than Scala, because, unlike, say, Clojure or Haskell, elegance doesn't seem to be a central design requirement of Kotlin's, but it is far easier to understand, learn and master. I think Scala pays a tremendous cost in complexity for its features. Kotlin gives you all of those features that would interest all but avid Haskellers (and those would be better off with Haskell than with Scala) for a tiny fraction of the cost.
Tokyo

¥2800 = $28.74 from Domino's

Japan's protectionist policies on farm products pushes up the price of all of pizza's ingredients. You'll get much better value for money with a gyuudon (rice topped with beef) set meal.
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Does anyone have an archive, or know where one exists, of the now defunct online comic BadTech? For those that don't know, it was about a small games company and the developers there, and it was hilarious.
That's just not true. http://poverty.org.uk/06/index.shtml

Look at the low income rates for Pakistanis and Bengalis. Immigration of those people to the UK is not recent.
It took me 50 hours to do 6" mirror with lambda 1/6, I was 14 and totally left handed.
Show me that the majority of psychology (and sociology) papers published in reputable journals are unscientific, then publish that in a reputable journal (then just post the link to that article as a response to this comment). As that is what you are claiming. Anything less and you are being hypocritical.

You are making a very big claim, so go and do the work to back it up.
Patricia (not the boat) - Östgötagatan - Södermalm - 60 SEK (to go)!
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You can get various flash types with read only switches, though whether these can actually stop writes I dont know. Optical drives are harder to get now, but old computers are widely available I suppose, and less traceable.
> Journalism's role is to get at the truth and to distribute it as widely as possible.

Many a time, that goal is directly related to what you're objecting to, namely:

>> interrogating the centres of power and holding them to account

Those with power most often have the highest motivation & ability to hide/obfuscate the truth, which is why journalists need to interrogate and confront them to get at the truth.

George Orwell summed it up best: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations"
<useless>

"Personalization

Users are given control over the desktop background that gives personality to the user experience."

--

What the fuck???!

If they advertise like that then why don't they just sell Windows 95 again?

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Or it is simply just that WordPress is expected to work like light-weight static sites.
Ahh, the argumentum ad communistum (or perhaps rather contra).
Frankfurt, Germany: 7-9 € / $ 9-12 including delivery for medium sizes, Joey's Pizza chain or local restaurants
Zagreb-HR:
35 HRK - 6.25 USD
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I see that you're using straight-up Netty as the http server. Why did you choose to take this path rather than use a servlet container (Jetty, Tomcat)? Are there performance advantages?
> How so? To me the callout to Rust diminished the entire article because it made it almost anti-Go for no particular reason

It might seem that way if Go and Rust were competitors, but given that they seem to have pretty different philosophies and goals, that doesn't seem to be the case.
CPU microcode is volatile. BIOS flash used to be jumper protected on old PCs, and many NICS you could remove the flash if you didnt want them to be bootable.

Used to have some machines with zip flash sockets you could remove while the machine was running (useful for flashing linuxbios aka coreboot in the old days).

Not really your modern laptop though.
I'm also continually surprised at how good google is at queries of the type "what was that that movie where the guy did that thing" and "what was that music group that has that gimmick".
340 rupees are about $6, that sounds reasonable to me. Where in the world do you live?

Btw, normal Margherita in Germany (Pizza Hut) 4,9 € / $7.64, large Margherita in Germany (Pizza Hut) 7,9 € / $10.71
Local pizza ~130 NOK - 22 USD. Chain (Dolly Dimple's) 179 NOK / 30 USD)

Bergen, Norway

Not including delivery.
it's 5.35 USD, 3.54 Pounds, or 72.4 pesos.
Though it should be noted that the best pizza in London comes from Franco Mancas in the south and west and costs more like £7 or $11.20. Or Due Sardi in the east, margarita being £6.45 or $10.40.

Dominoes is horrible.

Edit: Neither do variable sizes, both are for a ~12 inch. I have no idea what size a Dominoes "large" is, but I can imagine it's terrifying...
For your survey to be remotely useful, you have to pin down the requirements better.

Major pizza chain or gourmet pub?

You say "largest" pizza, but why not just specify large? Some places have enormous sized pizzas (well above 20 inches) others don't go above 18 inches.
I don't think Greenwald really understands much about crypto, judging from some of his answers. I am glad the Guardian have real crypto experts looking at the stuff and writing articles now.
Dubai, UAE: $10-15 including delivery, from Pizza Hut
Dubai : AED 45 ~ 12.5 USD (Dominos)
Brno, Czech Republic: 55cm\21in Margherita, 239 CZK ($12.65) - http://www.pizza-taxi.cz/jidelni-listek.html
Moenchengladbach, Germany, 7.50 Euro = $10.20 (for a 40cm diameter cheese/tomato pizza)

But you usually go for a medium sized pizza for ~4.5 Euro = $6.10
Istanbul (dominos): 23TL $13.5

Although there is a 2-for-1 promotion, which is always available. (extra 5tl for second one), then it would cost 14TL $7.

ref: http://www.dominos.com.tr
Or pizza pilgrims in Soho, and there are a few other places. Anywhere but dominoes.
...yet another Wired article where the author can't be bothered to use synonymous nouns for the sake of intelligible readability:

"they could still resort to a simple PageRank-like algorithm as a last resort"
Big Mac Index for comparison:

http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index

(May have been mentioned in the thread noted by OP, but I cannot find the thread at the moment. Link anyone?)
Bangkok, Thailand: 329 THB / $10

But this is relatively expensive for Thailand, since pizza is considered a luxury food here :)
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Wow. "Don't be evil" is really dead and buried isn't it?
except that in Cocoon you are not forced to use XML/XSLT.

Try to make sample webapp using Maven 2:

http://cocoon.apache.org/2.2/1159_1_1.html

I bet you will fail thanks to some random maven quirk:)

Spring is just some Java library, XML/XSLT is too simple to break anything.
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seems like the internet is kind of a threat to China...
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Tel Aviv, Israel

₪39 = $10.99 from Domino's

But to be fair, its terrible pizza.
A few more resources here: http://www.telescopelab.com/index.php?page=testing

How to make blanks: http://www.mdpub.com/scopeworks/blanks/index.html
Pardon my ignorance, but is it $700 a month or a week? I'm used to Sydney prices where a 1-bedroom apartment could easily cost around $500 a week.
Apart from the Amazon search there are a couple of other services that may be worth investigating and turning off:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticConnections
> I have an algorithm that only takes 7 holes compared to your 12 which is seven bucks per sheep means make seven holes and shove 34 sheep into each money hole then count the total.

Good thing for the shaman's job security that there are more numbers that can be multiplied than 7 and 34, then. Try multiplying 34x34.

For large multiplications, using the method described uses a logarithmically smaller working space in a society where positional numbers didn't exist and paper was rare, expensive, or nonexistent.
Paris, FR

Local good pizza : 12€ - $16

Dominos : 15.90€ - $21.50
The designer of Kostlin answers this here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/breslav-1932...
Paris, France: 8-10€ (11-14$) take away.
Some people have an intense desire to be guardians/protectors, but it doesn't come from a place of experience, wisdom and empathy, but fear of change and the unknown.

Experienced and evil leaders keep these "panicked protectors" like Wark in their pocket and deploy them strategically to try to discredit and induce uncertainty to maintain control.

It's likely she doesn't perceive/assess her own wisdom, just her own loyalty. She is, in this sense, completely "domesticated." She actually laps up the fact she's a pet of her government's press.

Ugh, just typing that phrase "her government's press" makes me almost as ill as I felt listening to her desperate, hiccuping interruptions of Greenwald. I hope to hell more and more people learn to perceive interviews like this as the propaganda they are and to discredit those who employ such tactics. Minority/marginalize idealist leaders, here's your window of opportunity.
Without diminishing the props that need to be given to the team at IBM Research which developed Watson, the author of this article has significantly overestimated the general AI capabilities of Watson, while downplaying what is involved with Google Search.

On the Google Search side, its algorithms are a lot more than just "the PageRank algorithm". The knowledge graph and its ability to remember and take advantage of context from previous searches are examples of this.

On the Watson side, a huge amount of what it was doing involved identifying keywords and finding relevant information from the clue words. It did not really reason about questions or have a deep understanding of the semantic content of the query. It was hand optimized for the sort of questions that tend to be asked on Jeopardy, which was an impressive feat, but in terms of being able to create new knowledge, as the author suggests? The state of the art in AI is a long way away from that.
Well, up until now, it's only been the centers of power who have been breaking the law (not to mention the constitution), covering up, lying, and committing perjury - so yeah, they are the ones who journalists should be focusing on.

But sure, let's continue watching TV shows and cheap local news reports about brave police officers arresting drug addicts committing petty crime just to survive and call _that_ journalism.
> Rust has a great approach to safe regions. That's a hard problem, and Rust has had to expend a considerable amount of firepower on it (four kinds of pointers etc).
D does not offer safe regions; I believe the language design precludes that without at least an amount of discipline.
So Rust is better than D at safe regions. However, like in chess, good language design is to not sacrifice the whole for the beauty of the part. I think D is better than Rust at a lot of other things, because it has firepower it can afford to expend at problems that are also hard, and just as important.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_o...
Oakland, CA, USA: $18.75 for cheese pizza 18". USD 18.75 (http://www.amazonaspizza.com/)
We can take the widespread discrimination against children of IVF as precedent.

Oh, wait, people aren't forced to disclose that information and it is mostly unknown.

I suppose the hysteria statement at the end is revealing, most feed corn is GMO and the majority doesn't care a bit.
The Chinese space station portrayed in the film is about the size of ISS.
I'm curious about the $30B figure. How did you arrive at that?
I think the word you're looking for is "stalking".
I work for a IT government contractor right now. We don't do work even close to the size of these exchanges, but even in our work the amount of bureaucracy and overhead involved is mind-numbing. To put a simple form on our web page requires an FRS, SDS, binder of validation documents, review and approval from several managers. It could take months just to make a simple change. Lots and lots of wasted time and grant money.
When I first heard about Watson, I expected IBM put a version of it online for people to experiment with. If it's as good as they claim, it could be a useful tool and create good PR for them. I know the searches are much more resource intensive than Google's, so I wouldn't have minded if they needed to limit it something like 1 question/IP/hr.
I did a dual degree in Computer Science and Math. My recommendation is to take the classes in both areas that you find the most interesting, with no concern for your career. Your career will span decades and unlikely to involve a steady focus on a single area, as either the environment or you will change. Personally, I've been working for 11 years in a variety of roles (PM at Microsoft, Product Analyst at a SF startup, Quantitative Developer in finance).

You never know where the most valuable lessons will come from and how they will pay off. For example, my second Real Analysis class leveled up my ability to communicate clearly and precisely in a way that no writing class could have. Graph theory, automata theory, numerical methods, abstract algebra, and statistics have each made their way into my work, sometimes in ways that I never would have expected.

If you want to ignore this, Machine Learning.
Your ideal is a Unicorn, and if it existed, it probably wouldn't be able to find employment as a journalist.

Instead of evenly distributed journalists who are a perfect match for whatever yours or anyone's ideal happens to be, what we get is a group of media organizations with a range of social and political goals, who tend to be staffed with journalists whose ideals are approximately aligned, and also a bunch of schmucks.
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I'm not sure pizza is the greatest choice of measurement. In most European countries, there is no such thing as a large or small pizza, there is simply pizza, and it is intended for one person. The crust is very thin compared to American pizza and the toppings are quite sparse. In my current city (Geneva) a cheese pizza would cost around $20 and would feed one adult.
And "Jennifer Government".
> I don't think she was Alfonso Cuaron's first choice either

According to Wikipedia, Angelina Jolie was the first choice, but in my opinion that would have been a much, much worse choice. What's wrong with Bullock? To me she seems plausible as an astronaut at least as far as physique and appearance go.
the info in this piece about Mozilla following safari suit on third party cookies is out dated i think. https://brendaneich.com/2013/06/the-cookie-clearinghouse/
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Singapore: 16-22 SGD, 13-18 USD (tax is always included).

That's for a 12" thin-crust pizza--the sort of thing a moderately hungry person would eat alone.

The pizza is not bad, but don't bother with pepperoni (it isn't spicy, in a land where tons of things are spicy). Casual local meals are about one-quarter of those prices. And many Asian people are not really into cheese, so there's limited scope for a $1 slice place (probably the only place you can even order a single slice is at the airport).
According to a quick calculation I made, in Istanbul (or anywhere in Turkey really), Classic Large Pizza is 6.22USD.

One pizza is 19.90TL, which is 9.94USD with current currency. But with 2-for-1 promotion, like you said it's +5TL, it's 24.90TL total, 12.45TL each, which makes 6.22USD.

I've checked both Dominos's website and Yemeksepeti's (the largest online food ordering website here) website.

(I was logged-in to both, I don't think so but, maybe there is a discount?)