skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a difference in practice: first France will become a digital police state by law, judges will be out of the loop, it may help to dodge the current prosecutions by the human rights league and international federation of human rights and lastly it will introduce a global and permanent surveillance with dpi of the like that France has sold to Myanman, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kazakhstan and other places. Additionally part of the IT industry will relocate itself outside of France to continue to exist.

I am under the impression that the law is about legalizing what the state is already doing. Did I miss something?
As France is in the middle of a multi year process of replacing the copper network with optical fiber, it means that France is on the path for a 50 years additional delay before the digital world changes its society right when France was catching up.

I am not sure what you mean by this.

> Lastly the practical difference is that this law may push the country to the far right extremist nationalist and racist party Front National at the next elections, which would inherit of those tools and have everything to turn France in a totalitarian state.

Don't they already have that?

> On a side note, this law has spawned a reboot France movement which aims at leveraging the Internet and crowndfunding to get change the whole political system to an actual democracy based on the internet: http://rebootlafrance.fr

They certainly have good intentions, but they sound like a small band of young geeks with little knowledge of politics and no funding. I am not convinced the issue will be solved by yet one more tiny political party.
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It has happened with major pieces of legislation a few times at least; another high-profile comedian well-acknowledged to have turned the tide of public discourse is Jon Stewart. His work on the daily show single-handedly ensured that the Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act was passed a few years back.
Energy consumption != electricity consumption.

Regarding France, that argument works both ways.

And whatever advantages nuclear may or may not have, that doesn't matter if it's too expensive.
What I really don't want to do is lose a month implementing something and then realize that there was already something fairly popular out there that solved it.

I would rather not get too attached to my own ideas and tunnel vision implement them and ignore the reality that if there's already a good app for that I shouldn't bother.
CRIU, checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux in userspace
They actually already exist. Google "solar panel cleaner robot" or similar.
Neat little game.

I played some Sokoban back in the day. This game reminded me of that :)
Finland is at least attempting to remain a country without any (official) spying.

Combine that with ample free space for server farms in the form of closed army bases inside mountains and old factories and you have a nice home for a bunch of servers even on a large scale.

But we won't know for sure until this years' elections how the political environment changes wrt to internet spying.
> Surveillance being illegal protects us from it being used against us in legal proceedings. Even if we can't prevent spies from spying, at least we don't have to worry about the evidence they collect being used in court.

That is an argument to make surveillance legal. If the illegal surveillance is indeed useful in court proceedings to prosecute other illegal actions, then it makes sense to make the surveillance legal so that the true criminals can be brought to justice. The legal principles of appropriate measures should still apply - surveillance should not be used to prove jaywalking but rather be used to combat more serious crimes.

Appropriate use of surveillance should be legal. The problem with illegal surveillance is when it is used to record legal behaviour and control citizens behaving legally but perhaps indecent. Such as recording amoral behaviour of political dissidents or political opposition and later releasing it to the press to gain politically. Gathering evidence of homosexuality of a priest or union leader could be another example, and use this surveillance to stop the union leader from becoming a problem for the political power.

Also, surveillance used today can be used by a future power for nefarious purposes. Imagine that Hitler would have been able to access 10 years of video recordings of synagogues, which may have been originally recorded for the purpose of protecting the synagogues from attacks. The recordings can be used for something else entirely in the future.

Surveillance in general is a very powerful weapon and should be treated like all powerful weapons - with respect and very carefully.
Push API and Notifications API
I wonder what Google will do with this two.
It's not because there is "socialist" in the name that you should think the PS is left-wing.
Ah, I missed the electricity part, sorry!
"solar panels cost more in energy to produce than they give back during exploitation for example)"

is not correct (maybe your information is from e.g. 20+ years ago). There are many sources, here is one of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalline_silicon#Energy_pay...

About: ".. they can lose more than half the energy between the power plant and the client's house." - this seems extremely unlikely to be a representative case. Maybe your friends were telling you about some extreme case (they are always the best stories :)
Segway is now a Chinese company thanks to Ninebot and Xiaomi
This explanation is garbled. The opcodes are not fundamentally different (although more are added from ARMv6 to ARMv7 e.g. the Pi 1 to Pi 2 transition), and there isn't the X86 different set of "real mode" opcodes.

What is different is the boot sequence and system register layout. On a PC you can write one bootloader that works across multiple systems because either the peripherals are at the same place or BIOS/UEFI code is provided to sort it out for you. This is not the case on ARM; uboot and devicetree are attempts to fix it.
I don't think it's a particularly good fit if what one really wants is the equivalent of a "PC" (ie: n cores of ~broadwell cpu with x gigs of ram) -- I tried to highlight that it is an entirely different system, and one which allows for some interesting streaming, straight forward, approaches to solving many problems. You won't be running python on this thing, but that doesn't mean that you can't do some interesting signal processing -- at extremely low power.

Maybe "really, really smart dsp" is a way to look at it...
some extra memory corresponding to some multiple of that number would be used

Depends. If I have 7 instances of my terminal emulator loaded (say I hadn't discovered tmux yet or something), the loader can share their .rodata and .text segments, and in many cases it does (YMMV; heuristics apply; void where prohibited; etc.). So a lot of things that are in shared libraries right now might still be only loaded into memory once if their binaries are segmented correctly.

The Plan9 people (Plan9 doesn't do dynamic linking) claim that the memory savings they get from skipping the relocation overhead are greater than the memory hit from the times that the same stuff does get loaded multiple times, though obviously always take self-promotion with a grain of salt.

Use case probably matters -- my servers run few processes to begin with, and it's often a lot of versions of the same process, whereas my laptop runs a ton of very different processes. Same sort of argument that makes me happy with udev on my laptop while also very happy with a static /dev tree on my servers.
exceptions are actually the most important thing for me in practice, even though almost no one ever mentions that. guess only my code ever throws exceptions. /s
If this is CSS, why isn't it working in my browser?
Same here. I got Practical Vim and then moved to emacs+evil because I liked some of the vim concepts but wasn't willing to trade the usefulness of emacs. Never bought an emacs book either, after all "emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor."

C-h (+ k or m) is probably one of the first key chords you are to learn when starting emacs, from there everything is downhill.
Why the Probability That You Are Living in a Matrix Is Quite High
Valued less than WhatsApp!
Migration is a critical issue for python 3 adoption. I think python 3 should have done something similar to Protocol Buffers v3 (proto3) by introducing syntax = "python3" statement and let runtime support both v2 and v3. This allows people migrate one file at a time. In any large scale production environment, this is pretty much the only practical way for migration.

Another critical mistake python 3 made was unicode support. For people who work deeply in i18n support, UTF-8 encoding is the only practical solution. Python 3 string should use UTF-8 much like Go. Just for reference, Google stores almost all data as protobuf, which only support UTF-8. That proves the story.
That's what I was going to point out

"We should respect correlation but it is a clue to a deeper truth, not the end of our investigations."

It is a clue. It might mean nothing but it might lead onto something.

But of course a lot of people think they're smarter by quoting a phrase.

"Anecdote is not data" but it was anecdotes about people getting cowpox not getting smallpox that led to the development of immunization.
>Yeah, I don't like the busywork that Pep8 makes me do it, and it's a lot, and some of it is stupid, but it has to be done

Actually no, it hasn't. PEP8 is just a formatting standard, your code will work with your own standard too.
Perhaps, but does he have cash enough to have said island moved to somewhere off the Florida coastline?
Nokia Agrees to $16.6B Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent
The Robotics Inventors Who Are Trying to Take the ‘Hard’ Out of Hardware
Report Questions Whether Health Apps Benefit Healthy People
I don't really understand how this works. Microsoft bought Nokia for about $7B[1] and now Nokia pays more than twice that amount for Alcatel? Where is this money coming from and why is Alcatel worth so much more?

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-closes-nokia-acquis...
Or that they're looking to get into the patent trolling business.
Yeah, perhaps your experience in your office is not generally representative?

In PIP, Python 3 has like 5% uptake...
If anyone's wondering, the GPLv2 is slightly less explicit: it doesn't directly state that it's strictly a copyright license rather than involving trademarks, but it's strongly implied, and has been treated as such in court, e.g. this from Germany:

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5b0c0785-3eac-...
I don't think this has any positive implications for a potential new Nokia handset business. It is, however, possibly bad news for Ericsson and Huawei.
> Doing any non-ASCII string-processing in Python 2 with any regularity is a more than regular-enough beating for me.

Can you elaborate on this? Unicode processing is the same on 2.x and 3.x for the most part. There are some differences in interpreter internals, how string literals are represented and the internal representation was changed (and obviously the literal defaults and bytestrings were removed), but other than that the unicode support is more or less equivalent.
> Interestingly I see a lot of comments saying we need more women in tech, but none saying we need more black people in tech.

Let's assume California needs more black people in tech. Does China need more white people in tech?
Italian Home Design Startup Lovethesign Pulls in $4M Series A
We don't need more women, black, latino, white, red, green people in tech, we need talented people, regardless of how they look like. We need less bullshit, people who produce sane code and go home early to work on what matters about us, our communities, our families, our education!

I'm full stack dev living in London, I'm black, huge afro, piercings, english is not my first language, skateboarder, into punk music, etc.
Microsoft only bought the handset business from Nokia, they didn't purchase all of Nokia. In fact, as I recall, they only got the right to use some of the brand names for a limited period of time.
GamesGrabr Snags $665k to Level Up Its ‘Pinterest for Gamers’
PyPy is another implementation. Might as well be another planet. Extensions break or are slower. Different toolkits. DB Drivers not working, etc.
Beijing-Based Ninebot Acquires Segway, Raises $80M from Xiaomi and Sequoia
NEA Raises North of $3B for Its New Fund
I'm not missing anything, that's why I put "socialists" in quotes. These people aren't "socialists" of course they are a fraud.

Frankly I shouldn't even talk about french politics anymore, things are a bit desperate,it's a race to the bottom.But I guess it's happening everywhere. Or it has always been like this and it's just more obvious today, I don't know.
A shame he left. We need more smart techies staying here in Atlanta.
Characteristics of B2B unicorn ideas
"For another, conventional wisdom holds that reference counting and "pure garbage collection" (his term for mark and sweep) are roughly equivalent performance-wise, but the performance impact wouldn't be known until after the change was made, which might make it a hard sell."

AFAIK there exists RC GC's which are performance equivalent to MarkSweep, but these aren't super common out of academia? What is the state of GC performance in python currently?
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John Oliver also might be a rapist, or maybe a murderer, or both. The allegations against Cosby didn't come out until much later in his career, compared to Oliver today. Also, even if he hasn't raped anyone yet, that doesn't mean he doesn't want to and that he won't do it in the future, which would retroactively make him a rapist -- once you've committed a rape, it applies to everything you've done in the past and everything you'll do in the future.

What I'm saying is, if you want to discount everything Cosby has done based on a rape allegation, you ought to keep in mind, that the potential for it exists for Oliver too. The only conclusion that springs to mind, if you discount the possibility of Oliver being a rapist, is that you're subconsciously racist. Even if you're unaware of it, you're thinking something like "Oliver is a nice white man, so he'll never rape anyone, but that nigger definitely drugged and raped those women".
The wikipedia article makes it look like the design was inherently flawed. Entirely possible that venture capital was (at least subjectively) allocated badly AND this project shouldn't have received more funding anyway.
Ask HN: Mathematically demandig areas in IT
What are the most mathematically demanding areas in IT?
Answers can contain field description (SW devel - gis/graphics/radiocommunication), problem description (interpolation), key math abilities (convolution, impulse response), basic literature (wolberg - digital image warping; pharr & humphreys - physically based rendering), reference/notable (but preferably lightweight) implementations (anti-grain geometry), and so on.
Rumors typically only become public as the deal is closing, and more people are brought in to do the work on it. The fact that there were rumors was a strong indication that the deal was about to take place.
how exactly would you search for the specific feature I proposed? There's hundreds of image apps out there, I doubt there's one that specifically says it does that in the headline.
Europe is going to hammer Google with antitrust charges
Yes, that's why Rome does not have a proper subway system. Could you imagine London or Paris without a proper subway? That's Rome.
Even better, in the US why don't we see more native Americans in Tech ? In Australia why don't we see more aboriginal in Tech ? Why in America, police shoot black people all the time ? Why is there so many poor black people, homeless black people ? The same for aboriginal people in Australia. It's not hard to figure out where all this is coming from.
Ask HN: Who will get killed because of the PV Solar and Storage disruption?
rooftop mounted PV solar panels plus battery storage are costly today, but their cost are declining very fast, %8-%14 by some researches.
Which companies would be killed in the short term over this?
Your username is strangely creepy in this context.
The issue with autocomplete is that it makes writing a lot of code really easy but offers no help when reading the code. Syntax/semantic highlighting may help a little but the issue is still there.

Given that more time is spent reading than writing code, autocomplete is only a partial solution to this problem.
I think you're attributing cause where none exists. The writers for these shows know what bills are up before the legislature and they time their broadcast accordingly, in order to perpetuate the notion of their participation in the zeitgeist. While I don't doubt that Oliver brought attention to the issue - it was more than likely in the pipeline for months before hand, which is why his writers put it on the 'current issues' stack.
GIL is a bogeyman, particularly from folks who've never deployed large python codebases, so I was fully expecting downvotes. Unpopular opinions attract them. Though it would be more gratifying to see downvotes along with people's use cases for when GIL was a genuine issue for them.

I agree that Node has its single-threadedness baked in, and Python doesn't clearly have one way to do it. Still, I think that multithreaded programming isn't very scalable in the long-run. Learning Erlang and figuring out that message passing buys you much more headroom was important to me. I like that you can do simple things in Python simply, but it is important to have some understanding of why different languages solve the problem in different ways, and what approach is best for a problem domain. My sense is that Node's default approach is actually very good for a large range of situations, a larger range than multithreading, anyway. But that could be because my use-cases are often either UI or CPU bound.

In your example, is your domain primarily internet servers (what I assume is Node's sweet spot for commercial deployment).
What Finland is attempting seems to depend on which ministry you ask.
Travelling around world in 16 months without taking a single plane
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Not quite, Apple was rumored to be buying Tesla, which would have made sense considering thier cash reserves, however the deal never happened.
Game of Thrones: How Well-Off Would You Be in Westeros?
NEA raised $3.1B, launching the largest tech VC fund of all time
What? And make another language breaking version down the line? Better to rip off the plaster in one fell swoop.
Don't forget that Microsoft('s lackey) took care of lowering their value as much as possible before buying the Devices and Services unit for some spare change.
Don't forget to install Signal on iOS and Redphone/Textsecure on Android: https://whispersystems.org/
Is there really a bias against schools south of the Mason-Dixon? I feel like most of NYC went to Duke. Tim Cook also seems to be doing alright.
Is it supposed to play? I'm just getting a single static image. (Firefox 37.0.1 on Ubuntu)

Edit: Plays on my Android phone.

How close was that !!! Unbelievable ...
Samsung is dedicating a team of 200 employees to making screens for Apple
If those graphs are supposed to show that Google Shopping is an unpopular also-ran that users don't like or use, you have to wonder why they keep putting it in a big box with pictures at the top of search listings, like http://imgur.com/N3aGIVy
Right, that makes sense! And the Alcatel that Nokia is buying here, is much more than a producer of phones.
Incredible indeed.
Here is a nice article written by Lütke himself about how he got into computers and how his then boss Jürgen was probably the most important thing that happened to him in his professional life.

http://tobi.lutke.com/blogs/news/11280301-the-apprentice-pro...

Really enjoyed reading this piece. I can partly see myself in his story except all the achievements. We'll see.
Interesting. Would you mind posting details? I would like to know more, if it's possible in Germany, expected ROI etc.
Microsoft bought Nokia's handset division (roughly half the company) and the right to use the Nokia name for a limited time. They didn't buy the whole company.
Your plug-in for Visual Studio looks amazing- such a good idea. I'm always lost dragging windows around and using (shift) F12.
Single-handedly is a bit much (and kind of an insult to every one else involved in passing the Zadroga Act). Stewart would be among the first people to tell you that, i think.
You could do that calculation in userspace with a stock kernel, by summing up the sizes of the non-writable mappings of the various library files in /proc/*/maps, then using mincore() to find out how much of the libraries are resident.
Open Classifieds New CEO Marco A. Sánchez Alfaro
Maybe it would have been great to just say "python3 will be based on pypy"..
Try clicking on the image.
Come on. Nokia was doing a fine job of lowering the value of their handset business on their own.
what's wrong with qt as a modern ui toolkit? python seems to be one the best supported languages as far as qt bindings go.
Woah. When I last (tried to) start reading Ulysees, almost a year ago, I thought about this: An online "book club", allowing users to join in reading classics and participate in discussions on top of the text. That would have certainly helped me continue reading the book. Eventually I put the book back on the shelf, and wrote down the idea in my ~/ideas.md.

Your 'read' page [1] is exactly as I pictured it. Looks like an interesting, important effort. Kudos!

[1] http://www.infiniteulysses.com/ulysses/3
Nokias handsets was a failing business, or at least seen as such, building networks is a growing business. There are still large parts of the world that does not yet have a mobile phone network, or where networks are still being upgrade.

The "new" Nokia is Nokia Networks (http://networks.nokia.com/), so it's the company that supplies the ISPs with their infrastructure.
I did - it doesn't.
Indication, but not guarantee. The point I was really trying to make, is that rumors typically don't leak at the very early stage, when there are limited people involved. The point at which rumors do start occurring, is at the very final, final stages - and so it's not surprising that a deal is closed soon after the rumors start leaking.
And how come this always seems to be the case with any (non-centric) socialist party? In the end, it always ends with scandal or disaster.
Thread: New Mexico outlaws civil asset forfeiture

Comment: "Oliver is a nice white man, so he'll never rape anyone, but that nigger definitely drugged and raped those women"

Me: Wow - that degenerated quickly. Also, if I saw that quote in isolation it would take me about a million years to guess the thread it came from.
The Apple Airport Express is reasonably cheap, has a great range, is easy to configure, and doesn't have a reputation for being insecure.
This movement reminds me of the French Pirate Party. They have a lot of goodwill but 1/ they do not agree on what shape to take in order to attain the goals they have defined 2/ they have no understanding of how organizations function in real life in regards to hierarchy, decision making or political action and 3/ they do not seem to get that their propositions are only appealing to a niche, meaning there is still a lot of groundwork to be done before acting at a party level.

I don't see it gaining much traction and I think it will go the way the French Pirate Party with its very high turnover rate and its legendary infighting.
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Is amadeus still there ?
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