skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for Natwest.

I believe the Channel 4 on Demand media player also does (did?) this.
"We want to allow app vendors to write their programs against very specific frameworks, under the knowledge that they will end up being executed with the exact same set of libraries chosen."

Do we? So if lazy vendor X doesn't get around to updating their application which "depends" on a version of zlib/openssl/libpng that turns out to be horribly insecure, we can't swap in a patched version?

I don't see how this is any better than the library bundling problem.
My first thought was this as well - we tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe, but it's almost always without in the States, no?
Now published at Chrome Web Store:
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Another point: a lot of developers have their favourite languages that happen to be not JS.

The so called "open web" proposes segregation via transpilation instead of enabling (some sort of) multilingual techniques and no major tech corporation is rushing to heavily invest into asm.js/Emscripten.

Let's just hope the whole thing goes down heavily and the future will hold a complete freedom of language choice both on mobile and web.
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Yeah I hate it when I have to pay more for a service as a European.

It might seem silly but that's the reason I cancelled my Spotify account, I didn't want to pay a 'European' premium. I hate it when they check from which country your creditcard number is - Netflix is nice that they allow you to register in a different country with a VPN & don't check the credit card country.
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Not strictly nonsense. 'Lorem' is the last part of 'dolōrem,' the accusative singular of 'dolor' which means 'pain' in Latin.
Interesting read. Thanks for sharing. This is the first time i see something similar online ;)
Yup. This is similar to what I do.

Following a pattern helps a lot.
Really? I get:

icant.co.uk has address 0.0.0.0
You can count on the iOS in-app purchase to include VAT. There is no way to bypass that without violating the apple ToS since you'd effectively be charging a different value than you're saying.
I think you are heavily underestimating the interference the consultant has on the essay. Believe me, it is not even close of an editor (of friends and family proof reading). It is not a "read over".

It is more like this: the consultant make the interview, just like the ghost writer, to know what to write about. Then the consultant tells the applicant to write about "this, this and that. In this way, and don't forget to mention this and this".

Then the aplicant write it. The consultant read it all and says: "this sentence is out of place, you don't need this one, you must include another one on this paragraph". And this go on and on, 5, 6 or even 10 times. Keep in mind that these are essays of one or two pages. The end result has nothing to do with any original writing from the applicant. It is more like a dictation.

I hope you can see the difference.
Deployment is not development. You can do a lightweight development process and a heavyweight deployment process. At my company we manage our development with a scrum-ish approach but getting anything into production requires an ITIL change.
As much as the move is annoying and alienating for the tech-savvy (the same market Barclays are trying to embrace), I can see some logic behind the decision.

The type of person who roots their phone is almost always going to be technologically experienced, or at least idea of dealing with money through technology.

On the other hand, though, Pingit is new technology and is actually scary for some people. When I enabled it in-branch, the advisor was surprised - even she said she'd never trust it!

I imagine that internally for Barclays it's a big move and a sensitive one. A security breach in the early stages would be catastrophic for the service and their brand. They need security, and for that they need stability.

A rooted phone is not a stable environment for Barclays to run their software - it could have been changed in any number of ways. It's a logical decision for them to increase stability by removing the wildcard platforms where they can't be sure what's going on.
The largest failing of the article is in the "Existing Approaches To Fix These Problems" where its ack'd that this is attempt number one zillion to fix some old problems, and here is a slightly different approach.... the problem specifically being lack of analysis of past failures to improve the new proposal. We're just going to end up with POSIX / LSB again, except maybe less successful because its obviously going to be immensely more complicated. Its possible that analysis was done but not documented.

The tone of the article is very strange, like someone who has no experience with distros or sysadmin work came in with a blank slate from an unrelated field, like perhaps sorting algo research. I simply can't identify with most of his postulates, so its no surprise I was all WTF at the proposed solution. Or rephrased, its an academically interesting idea in an abstract sense, but seems to be unrelated to, and not useful for, the existing real world. (edited to emphasize, that this is a particular instance of the general subject that new opinions from uninformed outsiders are often interesting to look at, sometimes even insightful to have a new pair of eyes, but are usually a truly awful source of advice)
America doesn't have a VAT. Internet services seldom have any tax requirement at all. Laws vary, but the onus is on the customer to pay local and state taxes. There is federal sales tax at all.
This is already a known fact. Read about the education system in Finland to see the solution in action.
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How far do you have data going back? It would be interesting to see whether user attitudes towards social logins have changed over the past 3-4 years.
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro

vs.

http://store.apple.com/de/buy-mac/macbook-pro

Same concept. You can't have the price of good fluctuating all the time in Europe because the relationship between the dollar and euro have changed. They fix the price, it accounts for VAT and sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.
Or it could just be a standard pricing trick where you let the customer think they're getting a great deal by "working the system" when it's actually what you intended them to do all along.

Dan Ariely has some good examples of this in his talks/books.
Guess I must be holding it wrong.
There's no details at all with regards to what the project is, how can one decide to join you if they have no idea what you're doing?

Web/desktop/mobile? Game? App? We've no idea. You should share something about it, otherwise I don't expect you'll see many responses.
Anger mounted .. in November 2013 it seems.
The article is that old, the petition from 09/2013.

Maybe it's relevant today, but I don't see any news here and I suggest adding a (2013) tag due to the linked article's age.
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If you go through the business sign up flow you can see they are charging 20% VAT.
So if, just to post hypotheticals, I actually wanted systemd but didn't want a crazily overcomplicated snapshot system forcing me into btrfs' less well-tested areas, would that be possible in this brave new world?
Opining about the negative convenience aspects of relying on a car service is hardly being closed-minded, IMO. There are very legitimate hurdles to Über et al displacing private cars. Talking about those hurdles (aside from the joking alpaca one) is normal, not evidence of closed-mindedness.
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the comment something like "180 hours ! no prototype! WHy should you guys get away with it!" indicates to me either ending current contract or whole project.
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You can't register an arbitrary account because it's tied to your employer's payroll system. They'd need to use the account we gave them and never have.
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You can even implement FizzBuzz without being aware of the modulo operator. It's not that hard to write your own test that does the same thing.
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I have very litle experience with TMUX... But you can try runnng the "reset" command. It resets the TTY, if TMUX does not use any crazy magic it should work.
The interviewer is not actually interested in challenges you faced. He is interested in how to handled them. So simply prepare a good story about how you overcame adversity and solved a huge problem with an extremely intelligent solution. Interviewers love that kind of stuff.
Apparently there's some influence:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/14/genes-influen...

But genes or not, I brought it up as an example of something that we're clearly NOT comfortable removing (even if we could), although there's still plenty of communities where not being gay "would for some reason improve the child's quality of life".
It's still a good test. I wouldn't hire you if you insist on making a problem out of something you understand perfectly well.
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> I guess we should thank apple for not allowing different pricing in different regions.

Apple lets me pay 699 Euro (http://store.apple.com/de/buy-iphone/iphone5s) in Germany vs 649$ (http://store.apple.com/us/buy-iphone/iphone5s) in the US.
If you haven't already, do enjoy The Case of the 500-mile Email (which I believe is factual)

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
What's the threat here? A bad impression because apps might crash on rooted phones? Because that's the only explanation I would buy.

Security? I highly doubt that this can be an issue here and I cannot follow that logic of yours, to be honest.
Sports would be a shadow of what they are today if they weren't so heavily subsidized. I remember a statistic that something like 80% of a basic cable TV subscription goes to pay for ESPN.
The paper was published under peer review.
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_14_2_sheldr...

If you look at the editorial board in http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/ there are PhDs from a lot of prestigious institutions (Princeton, Sorbone, John Hopkins, Cornell) which of course is no warranty or rigor, but it may be an indication. The submission conditions show that the papers are peer-reviewed (http://www.scientificexploration.org/documents/instructions_...).

> I don't feel qualified to judge his setup or analysis

then we should suspend our judgement about the validity of the results, not discredit them by principle.
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Not so fast. This can very well be the leak used to access the celebs nude pics.
Script kiddie gets access to the script. Tests it again some easily guessable celeb. emails (or emails he already knows somehow). Gets lucky. Gets access to many other celebrities' emails, gets even luckier. The whole thing snowballs from there.

What do you guys think?

Addendum: the way it went down on 4chan points towards someone that is not an expert on extortions. You don't go to the public for some pocket change when you can have publications or the celebs paying you hundreds of thousands of dollars for those pictures.
Anyway, I hope the FBI gets this freak and put him in the can for as long as they're able to.
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No its not. One does not include VAT, other does.

In Dropbox example both include VAT. You can see this tendency clearly in digital games. When I worked with games pricing for MacOS, I asked why such a huge difference? Boss replied: "It is the easiest to force Europeans into premium costs".

There is even a chrome extension which shows how much a game costs in different countries on Steam website:

Buy Sid Meier's Civilization V

US: $29.99	(18.04 GBP)

RU: 249 pуб.	(4.01 GBP) (78% )

CIS: $14.99 USD	(9.02 GBP) (50% )

BR: R$ 44,99	(12.11 GBP) (33% )

UK: £19.99	(11% )

EU: 29,99€ (23.7 GBP) (31% )

AU: $69.99 USD	(42.11 GBP) (133% )

-----

Also not long time ago there was an article about Spotify pricing [1]. It simply is a many years ongoing Europe rip-off.

[1] - http://mts.io/projects/spotify-pricing/
All companies of a reasonable size deal with fluctuating exchange rates by hedging on the currency futures market. It's what those markets are for, and it works very well.
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That's a possibility, but it has to be weighed against the ill-will you generate among the customers who realize that they are given/have been paying a higher price.

This article is a perfect example. It certainly doesn't boost my opinion of dropbox.
Sure you could have two counters, one initialized to 3 and one to 5, that are decremented each time thru the loop. When they reach zero print Fizz or Buzz and reinitialize.

Or you could create a finite list, initialize each member to its index, then go through by 3's and 5's and replace a number with Fizz or Buzz, or if not a number just add it.

Or you could create a program that generates print statements that print the same, then run that.

Or you could write a scraper that searches the web for 'fizzbuzz solution' and print the text on that page.

Or...
This could be the Apple iCloud flaw that led to celebrity photos being leaked
Just a reminder in this case: EU prices include the VAT (near 20% in many cases), while in the US the state tax (often 10%) is not included in public prices.
My buddy that sold books online had to calculate our own state's sales tax (by county and city! yuck) because he has to report here. But if you were out of state he didn't charge the sales tax. Its a broken system, very weird.
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> Simply put, this means a scale model won't behave very much like the full-size craft.

This is a basic fact that is known for decades in the field of science and engineering. This isn't pose any problem in modelling.

Sometimes, it's far better to study scale models instead of CFD models because in spite of the scale differences, it's possible to reproduce fluid dynamics results in reducd models while computational models fail to even account for them.

See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis
Rent a car for the duration of the vacation.
> They fix the price, it accounts for VAT and sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.

Never seen less, always seen more. Significantly more. Take the top-of-the-line MBP without options, 2500€ is $3286, the german VAT is 19%. So a VAT-including US price would be $2975. There's a 10% ($311) surcharge for living in Germany.
NextBus also has text message interface.

http://www.nextbus.com/wirelessConfig/sms.jsp
cool idea, i recently decided to use tagspaces as my multiplatform semantic 'filesystem' solution - but this might be better. I also toyed with the idea to query across filetype tags which can be embedded in the files themselves (mp3, mp4, markdown, html support metadata) but I haven't come across a system that utilizes and caches this in a multiplatform way (DevonThink comes close but is OSX only).
Haven't you described a copy editor? That's their job. Its common everywhere (where people can afford one)
Except 1 EUR = 1.31 USD right now, so even with a 19% VAT, the EUR value should be lower than USD: $649 + 19% VAT is 588€ not 699. 19% european surcharge on top of the VAT.
Honestly I hadn't thought about it like that, but I would say you're mostly right. It is pretty bland and there's no surprises (or at least only a few), but isn't that a good feature in programming language?

I think it's better than say C og C++, because I have an easier time understand and writing Go, but that's very individual and may not apply to others. I don't like Java because of it's verbosity and overly complex ways of doing simple things, but I haven't looked at Java for years, so that may have changed.
> the relationship between the dollar and euro have changed

The Euro has never gone below $1.17, and has averaged at around $1.32 since Dropbox launched in 2008.

> it accounts for VAT

Dropbox don't pay VAT in the EU. https://www.dropbox.com/help/971
Tried 'reset'?
Be as cynical as you like. But its still possible to keep looking until you find something that fits your priorities instead of signing up for the first big bank that makes a big offer.
In general; a $2 cup of coffee in north america costs 2€ in Europe. A $300 Wii U in north america costs 300€ in Europe. The only time currency conversion matters is because you are converting between two currencies, when buying a product from another country.

GOG.com sells all their games in north american prices because it only has offices in north america. You are buying a product from north america when you buy from them. Dropbox, Steam, Nintendo, Sony all have offices in Europe. So you aren't buying a foreign product and you do not account for a currency conversion as there isn't one.

Taxes are an important consideration. For example if you buy a $500 cell phone from north america and have it shipped to Europe. You will pay less for the phone but when it crosses the border you pay considerable taxes such that the "deal" is no longer worth it.

If import taxes were applied to physical as well as digital goods, as they probably should be, you would actively want to buy from a European company within Europe. You currently do for most goods, because it actually saves you money.

It's the lag on charging tax for imported digital goods. Otherwise you are earning Euros you are spending Euros, there is no currency conversion.
25.2 miles in 25 minutes in average? it means 60.48 mph or 97.33 km/h. doesn't sound right to me. you can't have that overall average even you always travel intercity.
Enochian?

Also, I recall there being a reference to an Enochian Metagrammar at one point or another...
Well, my MP3 player is my phone. No, it's a 30piin (iPhone 4S)
Well VAT is usually levied on online services but sales tax isn't so it's normal for you to pay at least ~20% more.

The Internet doesn't make companies immune to taxes
> couldn't you build a heavier model to compensate? I mean most boats are hollow right?

Yes, it's possible. In fact, dimensional adjustments and compensations are standard practice in scale modeling.
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That was great thanks!

And also introduced me to the units command which seems very handy!
That statement bugged me too. After all, we can't predict earthquakes. But then hubris in ship designers is hardly new.
That's interesting - does printing (not earning!) a dollar cost as much in energy? Valid idea.

The 'human rights violation' part seems thrown in there. I imagine some Treasury sweatshop with rooms full of slave engravers covered in ink, working 20 hours a day.
A lot of us love bland. Personally working on Scala for my day job and I curse the authors every time I see some neato feature that's been abused by a bored dev or a dev on a deadline.

As far as Go over Java, in terms of differences:

1) Error codes instead of exceptions, big difference, puts Go more in the 'write a server' than 'write an application' category although those lines have been blurred

2) Duck typed interfaces, type inference, automatic delegation and whole bunch of useful little things that make Go, IMO, "Java done right". Regardless of the fact that most of the Go community would want to punch me for calling it that. Go's conventions encourage 2010s Java, Java can sometimes encourage 1990s java.

3) Goroutines being first class is quite different from always instantiating/passing-around an ExecutorService.

4) First class functions and lambdas, although lambdas are a little less useful for not having generics.
Sounds plausible. And if it’s not this particular bug it may very well be some other. I find it hard to believe that someone just hacked his way into 400+ phones without any kind of glitch in the system. And judging by the fact that he went only for pictures and videos it doesn’t sound like an elaborate scam that could use high profile hacks like a fake connection antenna or something equally sophisticated.
Even though this true with regards to Apple products in the EU, be aware that in Germany you also pay a copyright levy on computers:

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5a3c6bfb-8d58-...
I had a similar thought, but for begging meditation it is helpful to be "guided".
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just use VPN like hola.org to pay for dropbox and you're ok..
>GOG.com sells all their games in north american prices because it only has offices in north america.

They also price their stuff in EUR, have offices in Poland and the company is registered on Cyprus.
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Would like to learn about company that can pay better than adsense on regular basis. I am reading this first time.

Edit: I would suggest you to give one more try to adsense, it might perform better this time.
One of the neat things about this is that it sometimes produces arbitrage that people leverage if the game does not have geo-restrictions built in. People will purchase in bulk and then trade.
I think its more than just the words, it's the concepts themselves.

Eugenics is scary, morally complicated, exciting and possibly inevitable. It has some historical associations with fascism and 20th century modernism in general.

The whole thing make people uncomfortable. It's hard to criticize when people just get creeped out by the idea.

Perhaps this is best left to our grandchildren.
Thanks, that's the one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian
Easy answer: It is not.
Before the bug got public, I was thinking of some sort of Bluetooth honeypot attack at a big event, say the Oscars, or Grammys
It's the other way around: it's easier and cheaper to brute-force the output power by increasing the input power, than to minimize inefficiencies.

That said, 1600 W is over 2 horsepowers. Seriously? That's pretty much a decent boating outboard motor; what exactly is all that power needed for? (Note that water-using, commercial and stationary vacuuming systems, where such power consumption might be reasonable, are explicitly exempt from the directive.)
> A $300 Wii U in north america costs 300€ in Europe.

I don't get what you are saying. Do you think that the number will always be 300 everywhere. 300 Yen, 300 pounds?
Usually a little more, so those Macbooks are actually about 10% more expensive than in the US once you account for VAT, but it's not unusual for the exchange rate to vary by up to 10% in any given 12 month period.

Most goods are typically more expensive in Europe than in the US for all kinds of structural reasons. Transport costs are higher, labor costs are higher, power and real estate costs are higher. It just costs more to do business over here. The first time I went to the states I was shocked at how cheap _everything_ seemed to be.
The article doesn't do a great job explaining it, but this is the premiere testing facility. Carderock Naval Base is home to several facilities, including the David Taylor Model Basin. I toured the space for an interview once and it was very impressive.