skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One aspect in stories of this kind always seems to be somebody trying to artificially inflating the value of some stock (or currency) by buying lots and lots of it. In this case, the bank of England. (I've read the same thing about Indonesia, and the Barings Bank incident).

That seems so silly - I mean here are these supposedly highly trained financial experts, and all they can do is try the most primitive stock manipulation imaginable?

What would have happened if the Bank of England wouldn't have tried to artificially inflate the pound by buying lots of it? Would it have had the same cost to the tax payer? Obviously there would have been a cost because of the devalued pound (less buying power for foreign goods), so perhaps the question is did it even make any difference? Either they lose because of the diminished buying power, or they lose directly because of the buying spree of the Bank of England?
Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer
"It shouldn't be any surprise to us that when we promote an 'everyone goes to college!' culture a la 'everyone's a home owner!', [snip] we'll have a mass of college-educated individuals who can't find gainful employment."

The quoted portion should be a surprise. Several generations ago, we decided to promote an "everyone goes to grade school" culture, and it led to a vast expansion of our economy and middle class in the western world. Our current situation sounds predictable, but it was not. It was reasonable to predict that an educated workforce would provide more capable brains to fulfill new and existing needs with goods and services.

I think the core cause is the belief that college was the cause of success, when it was really more of a gatekeeper of success. Now that the gate is wide open to a large fraction of society, you need either connections or hard skills. I can forgive past policymakers for that oversight. I can't forgive current policymakers for perpetuating it.

The most popular major at my state's most popular university this year was psychology. Many—if not most—of those degrees will never be put to use.
> "... beyond GCSE level (I guess that's college in the US)"

I'd say that's high-school for the US.

Your attitude of go anywhere, do anything, may have worked very well for you but it's not actually possible for many people.
Tachymetric Anti-Aircraft systems in WW2
Thank you for pointing out cmd+?, I had no idea it would search through menu items. That will relieve the frustrations that I have with OSX menus a little.

Could you provide an example of what you use services and Automator for? I've seen the services menu and I think I read somewhere that it works with the clipboard, but I have no idea what I can use it for.
I used to be really frustrated by the inconsistent + button, but recently I realized something interesting: especially for text-heavy applications such as browsers, you often don't want to maximize them to the full width of the screen. This is because the optimal reading width is actually relatively narrow compared to our widescreen monitors, and going past that makes documents frustrating to read. As a result, whenever I hit + and the application expands to the full width of the screen, I very often have to grab an edge and drag it back to the center a little bit. There's definitely some things Apple got right with the design.

Additionally, I think the need for maximization and edge-snapping in Windows is something that OSX handles very elegantly with Spaces.
Yeah, your concerns seems clear to me. Though, permissions that this app is requesting are pretty minimal and are requiring just an access to the bitcoin network and to the 8.8.8.8 DNS server.

Anyway, I'll probably make it more user-friendlier soon. Thanks for checking out the store page anyway.
More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrison_Predictor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachymetric_anti-aircraft_fire_...
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It's interesting that you say this and I guess many people believe it as well.

And yet there are so many problems in the world and people don't feel they can make a difference. The analogy that jumps to mind is that society is similar to a car. In the 70's cars could be fixed by someone with a manual and common sense. Now they are so complicated you need special equipment, knowledge and money to even start figuring out what's wrong.

Regardless of my bad analogy young people seem feel powerless to change anything at any level in their lives.
Also, can I suggest an alternative headline?

"Pampered youth refuse to get hands dirty faced with lack of high paying jobs-on-a-platter matching poorly thought out career choices"
I know my Dad got the GCC manual on his Kindle, he never registered the thing. As he is not a big fan of DRM.

Although the tool he uses isn't the most usable thing.
There were programs in my uni that got dissolved before people had matriculated. Students who had several semesters of courses under their belts were left out in the cold and had to try to rig their courses into other programs as electives or transfer. It was awful.
Who said that we have a monopoloy on vision? I didn't. Please don't put words in to my mouth.

Even further, had you read what I was responding to, which is

> If you use Docker, you have to accept and follow it's philosophy and model.

It's actually precisely against the very idea that you're suggesting. Very frustrating.

Maybe putting it a different way will help. What I said was that, we have an opinion. Through our marketing and documentation we promote the values of said vision.

It's pretty bold for the author to claim what Docker is and how to use it, what it's not, etc. when plenty of people are using it for those cases pretty successfully.
> Your attitude of go anywhere, do anything, may have worked very well for you but it's not actually possible for many people.

Why? I find it no less true today than a decade ago.
yep, that's quite sad we have so little anticapitalist software projects. Like helping workers to organize, run consumer cooperatives efficiently, construct parecon-style economic networks...
Meaning and origin of symbol "@" (commercial at)
Depends. I prefer email because it feels less intrusive. Moreover it's easier to tag a URL in email. If you're going to have a call, you would anyways have to send them an email later on, with the link.

Contrary to what I said above if you have good convincing skills, you should have a call first.
I like our 10+ year old Pioneer DVD player that ignores the region. Unfortunately the the region-free devices have become a rarity these days.
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Fn + arrow keys = PgUp, PgDown, Home, End.
What you describe is a pretty good argument about why supply side economics alone can't describe our economy adequately. If nobody has the money to create the demand, the economy will shrink.

Can you imagine what it is like to live in a country where that friend of a friend of yours is the _average_ young person?

To answer that rethorical question, let me just point out that we won't have heared the last of the crisis in Southern Europe.
The article's title is quite link-baity. That being said, it is obvious that technology will displace more and more traditional human labor. Of course, unlike in the past, human labor becomes increasingly unnecessary to sustain said humans on a biological level. It's a trade-off, and the cognitive dissonance is the "traditional" (20th century, Agent Smith) model of human worth being rendered invalid by the realities of technological progress.
In university I did a summer job at my local municipality twice. Those people had extremely boring job and joked openly about how they had to learn to work less hard. A lot of them had hobbies where they derived their life satisfaction from, like being a coach for the local football team.
You don't need a crack for CC, just to block Adobe's activation servers in your hosts after installing. (AFAIK)
>Asinine trend of "you need to have a job to get a job" - basically some one already employed has 2-3 job offers but some one starting out has no one willing to take a risk on them

This one is particularly relevant. It's literally impossible to get your foot in the door these days. I've had three separate tech companies string me along through multiple rounds of interviews, simply to say that the position was axed due to them requiring someone with more "experience", or funding was cut for the position due to the abysmal state of the economy. To be clear I wasn't even properly rejected (that's much easier to deal with), the positions were literally withdrawn.

Among my group of friends I'm the lucky one to even land interviews. Most of them are severely underemployed, or unemployed.
An interesting read for someone interested in the performance characteristics of STM.

Atomic Quake: Using Transactional Memory
in an Interactive Multiplayer Game Server

(pdf warning)
http://www.bscmsrc.eu/sites/default/files/atomicquake-ppopp0...
HLL also has two nice real-world optimizations possible depending on use-case.

We're storing 100,000+ unique counters, but only around 1% have more than 100 unique objects counted. Some of those 1% have millions of records so HLL is very useful. As the HLL itself is a fixed size (~10kb for decent accuracy) regardless of #counted objects, in the small case you can replace the HLL with a pure set of counted values and produce a HLL when it grows beyond a bound. Because you're storing the raw values, the transition to HLL is seamless.

Once you've moved beyond raw storage of values there's a harder but still space-saving technique. If you look at the raw bytes of a ~10kb HLL structure with "only" 10's of thousands of counted values around 90% of them will be zero. Below a certain bound it can save a lot of space to have a map of locations and non-zero byte values rather than a raw array of bytes.
You've just told us a good-sized city fits in about 1/200th of my phone's storage. I'll take a dozen.

Actually, you could fit the entirety of the state of Washington in <50% of my phone's storage.

I'm not seeing a problem.
> But what would a world without work look like?

Its something we better start getting ready for because technology gets rid of far more jobs than it creates and will only continue to do so for the forseeable future.

Eventually only super highly skilled and creative jobs (writing, art etc) that can't be handled by robot/android/humanoids will be left to do and we'll have to figure out how to allot a basic living wage to people with increments to that coming based on ... specious things like their popularity ... maybe? (I shudder to imagine this)
If you don't mind me asking; are you one of those people who use the word "Millennial" unironically?
Yep! I was gobsmacked when I found out. Unfortunately, it's a little bit inconsistent at times, especially when moving files between different media.
Would you mind to name and shame that university? I've often heared of programs being dissolved, but always with a "we won't stop operation until the last matriculated person has been given enough time to graduate at average speed" grace period.
My brother has several friends in Ireland and he's described their outlook similarly. They have a sort of government stipend and some of them can find odd jobs (odd as in strange, one of them is a part time fire eater) but for the most part they simply can't find steady work. The demand for low-cost work vs. the demand for a living wage is definitely at work all around the world.
Why is it not possible? Not trying to disagree with you, just curious.
Undortunately, in my experience, this simply will not happen. Most designers I've worked with are wedded to Adobe so tightly that they won't even conceive of an alternative, and are utterly lost without it. Unfortunately, that perpetuates the monopoly, extortionate pricing, and allows poor service such as in this case.
I'm somewhat unsure about the significance of this stars, it seems too much like a PR checklist.
Good point. On the other hand, what do we know about the insurance that Homejoy provides its cleaners? There is a lot of grey areas for most of the collaborative consumption startups.
You will see the same behavior with the emacs shortcut Ctrl-D on most system text areas, as well as in the terminal. I even added it as a Vim mapping in my config.

While we're here:

^A - Home (beginning of line, A is the first letter of the alphabet)
^D - Delete (the character to the right of the cursor, or the one underneath the block cursor)
^E - End (end of line, E for End)
^T - Transpose (switch the characters left and right of the cursor, for example "acbd" with the cursor between "c" and "b" would become "abcd")
Some people have to/want to care for/about people other than themselves.
Circle Brings Bitcoin to the Masses
Jeremy Allair and his brother invented the Coldfusion programming language, later bought by Adobe. Bright dudes!
Apple had 1 star last year. This year has 5/5
Overview of Motion Planning (2013)
You should read recent Level3 blogs showing that actually currently those companies don't have any incentive to improve their infrastructure, because keeping it in bad shape generates them more money. I know it is counter-intuitive but that's what it is.

Regional ISPs are natural monopolies and there's no other way but to regulate them. Same as you regulate electricity company, water, gas etc. You can't just let everyone dig holes around city to place new wires, pipes etc. There's no other way then regulating it.

BTW: If Comcast and Time Warner would move to a different methods of delivering access then it's all even better we will have more alternatives than just cable, or dsl. If instead they would decide to close down and sell, then I'm sure there would be plenty of other companies who would want to purchase their infrastructure with their subscribers to make money out of it.
I think that's what the EFF's going for.
It's different and great especially for actions that you don't use too frequently, but I still miss the Windows menus. I have a lot of "secondary" hotkeys memorized this way. In Photoshop for instance, there is no hotkey for crop but on Windows, pressing "alt+i, p" activates it which is very close to the same thing.
I had a modem that would disconnect if someone typed: ATH0++ in IRC.
Did you notice the key point? Property prices. They are out of reach.

A friend from my last office wants to buy a home. He has essentially a guarantee of lifelong employment, with a salary that today equates to something around 3000€/month pre-tax. He wants to own a small house in the neighborhood where he's renting now. But he's searching for a few years now, as he doesn't want to pay a million for it. Yup, 27.7 years of pre-tax salary for a small house. And mind you, this is not even a capital city.
It's not all "blame game". The boomers are also the generation that holds all power and makes the decisions. Younger generations feel like their problems are not heard.

Personally, for the generation Y living in the US, I feel it's worse than other Gen Y. Because of the dollar previous generations have had the benefit of exporting inflation and forcing everyone else to trade in dollars (most importantly the energy-markets). I feel the world is slowly learning to trade in it's own currency whenever they're not dealing with the US Euro/Yen/Roebel/Yuan).
Historically, young men would be sent to war and then, after being horribly traumatized, return to seek solace in family, community or alcoholism. Women were stuck with all the hard and mind-numbing household work, not allowed to take up a profession.

So I'd answer your question with no, they have not been defined by their work because life was too horrible. Needless to say that it doesn't follow that we _should_ let ourselves be definded by our work.
If I remember correctly, it used to be the case that if you could get the string +++ATH0 transmitted to somebody in the clear, you could hang up their dialup connection because it was a control code for Hayes modems that ended up being standardised on. Badly written firmware in modems meant that this was often interpreted even when it wasn't transmitted in a control code context.
it won't solve the problem, the joker can simply inject a string that becomes a virus signature after XOR.
Ok without getting defensive about the salient subtext, I see your point; but I think that argument is a non-starter unless you mean specifically in the context of physical care, which can't possibly apply to the cited number of young people.

After all without the financial means and independence how can you care and provide for anyone let alone yourself?

In my own context, sure - at least initially I had only myself to care about, so I won't argue that :)
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This street vendor in a crowded market in Delhi who sells puffed rice savoury called "Jhalmudi" a very popular street-food. Look at his knife skills with that onion. Just had to capture and share this...dont miss the end. ...INTENSE, #masterchef #knifeskills #Flash # Mr Edwardscissorhands
Specifically they put each movie on for a limited time every 7 years.
> but my productivity and general joy in programming shot through the roof when I started using Scala.

That was exactly my experience. Maintaining Java code from time to time makes me realise just how big the difference is.
Apologies for the lack of empathy here, but it really isn't that hard. Just be prepared to go anywhere and do anything

It's not hard at the individual level, but it is hard at the demographic level, if the jobs en masse aren't there. More people can start businesses, sure, but it's a complex picture that's not so easy to explain away.
I agree with you; especially your last statement. I believe that the arguing between generations spawns from the differences in the challenges each has faced. Those challenges may be nearly equal in difficulty, but the difference is great enough that each generation has a difficult time empathizing with the others. We should restore hope in those (of any generation) who are struggling against terrible adversity rather than assure them that everyone else had it just as hard.
Mozilla breaks our hearts, adds DRM to Firefox
I'm very loyal to my department because they were awesome and extremely supportive (luckily we survived the axe), so I don't want to shame the whole university. But it's a medium-sized school in the South East of the US and it's run by an alarmingly incompetent chancellor.
They should avoid such gimmicks and I hope they remove them. It will be exciting if they can really focus on acquiring users and worry about revenues later and become consumer tech successes like Facebook, YouTube...
And there's synthread[1] for more complex cases:

(-> {:a 1 :b 2}
(->/assoc :a inc)
(->/as {:keys [b]}
(->/when (> b 10)
(->/assoc :large-b true))))

1: https://github.com/LonoCloud/synthread
"By offering employers wage incentives worth up to £2,275 we are helping businesses to take them on. "

I've seen this in action. The jobs these kids got were from people who got fired in order to make room for them. As a company getting paid to have someone perform work for you is real nice. But it does not CREATE jobs.

In order to pay for all these things our sales-tax rate was pumped up to an all new high 21%...
Same here, we have multiple large Scala systems, never had issues editing files in IntelliJ.
That's why I wonder why some European countries have voted more right-wing parties. [1] (Most of the voters being employees, too.) More capitalism and less welfare cannot be the solution, because aside from the moral obligations [2] there's a real danger of social and economical instability.

Sure, you can throw lots of police at demonstrators, but for one there will be more and more people who no longer can afford to buy your iPhones, and secondly, at some point it might get really ugly.

I am blessed to live in a safe place and earn a lot of money. But I do feel we need to put a part of it aside for direct help of the unemployed folks, especially the young, and for programs to tackle these problems.

And if we don't it will could turn out to be a bad century. For all of us.

[1] I speculate they are exploiting the egoism that's in all of us for their campaigns.

[2] If you don't think there are any, think about how much about your own life is the result of chance, and how it easily might be the other way round. For example you being a poor immigrant in a foreign country.
I consider this quote tounge in cheek. A properly distributed system will keep your system functioning even when remote components are down.
Every time I read an headline about "bringing bitcoin to the masses" I'm reminded of the saying that you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

> "We don’t think consumers should be charged for using their own money."

Where I live (UK), I can't think of anything bitcoin services like Circle offer that is definitively better than my existing bank setup.

I'm not charged for using my own money. I don't pay a monthly fee for my bank account. I don't pay anything to send money to other people in the UK, which covers 98% of all the people I send money to. If I do send money to people in the UK, it's usually virtually instant, because of Faster Payments. I can withdraw money from nearly all ATMs in the UK free of charge -- the only exception are rare independent ones in places like nightclubs and out-of-the-way convenience stores, and I honestly can't ever remember using one. I can check my bank balance on my phone -- by app or by SMS. In lots of outlets I can pay for small value transactions, anything up to £20, just by waving my bank card.

I understand the banking system in the USA is ... different. (Some would say behind the times.) But in the UK at least, promoting a bitcoin-based service based around the concept of better retail banking is a hard sell.
SMT solvers sound interesting and this Python example looks very approachable.

Anyone know if there are other cookbook-type "here's how you solve practical problem x with SMT" recipes that might serve as a cargo cult-type (theory-oblivious) dive into SMT?
Interesting topic, would love to see more answers here.

I am currently building a web based database management tool in Scala and Backbone.js. Our initial prototype was built in Python, but Scala proved to be multiple times better fit for this kind of project.

Also we now offer both self-hosted and in cloud versions mainly thanks to JVM.
I'm not sure I'd refer to psychostimulants as nootropics, although I'm aware many people do. The neurological tradeoffs involved in catecholamine reuptake inhibition are relatively well-known and uncontroversial; to me, much more interesting are the implications of long-term racetam use. History (and homostasis) seems to indicate that there are probably tradeoffs involved, and the fact that we have no idea what they are makes me more than a little nervous.
It's even more than that. You can get great results from A* on any graph search problem where you can find a good heuristic for the distance to the goal from some node, which may not be related to position at all. For example, I once did this with nodes that represented sets of database attributes and arcs that represented table joins.
Adobe CC outage status update page is suffering an outage
Getting:
Error establishing a database connection
Since I have a Nokia phone, which permits me to download maps for specific countries and regions, I'm not dependent on Google - (or any other on-line) maps.

I'd wager that Nokia provides equal, if not - arguably - better quality than Google maps and I don't need to incur insane roaming charges when using a map abroad.

Granted, there are a few functions, that require a net connection, but basic map functionality and navigation works very well without being on-line.

Maps are only one example. I can't think of many applications, which I would prefer as a "cloud" based service as opposed to native.
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