skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It was unclear what "smart city" meant to them"

Maximize tax/fee revenue while minimizing operating expenses to reduce the standard of living of all residents as low as possible in an individualized detailed manner just barely above rebellion or property abandonment, at least in practice. Then sell it to the rubes as being a social or cultural change where you can ignore all the tech its going to be the first city on the planet where human nature took a day off and we'll all live together in perfect peace and harmony. Sell the financial benefits "rich get richer" and all that to the leaders, sell a line of BS about human nature changing to the rubes. Its basically an atheist cult in the sense that it operates as a traditional cult WRT somewhat extreme exploitation of the participants, but subtract the higher metaphysical beings marketing message that cults have, or insert big data / big government itself as the higher metaphysical being.

Its like the dichotomy of internet of things. What you ship is a fridge where corporate sends a special packet to make the compressor burn out when quarterly sales are below their target while selling all formerly private personal data gathered to every corporation on the planet for whatever you can get. What you sell to the rubes is fuzzy bunnies of the corporation caring about your organic nutritional needs by ordering orange juice from peapod automatically when it detects a low level or monitoring for expired food or the "wrong" beverages stored inside.

The similarity is the message has nothing to do with the purpose or operation, at a level of dissonance never before seen on the consumer markets.
Ian Banks. Culture series.

Vernor Vinge. Zones of Thought series.

Alastair Reynolds. The Revelation Space series.

I would recommend this list of sci-fi book series. All of the series belong to the space opera genre (though not the pulp fiction kind) with some hard sci-fi elements.

All authors incorporate many computer science and physics concepts and it's quite a rewarding experience to run into computational complexity used as a plot device without any glaring errors.

My first choice would be the Culture series. I've burned through 10 Culture books in one month and stopped only when there were no more books left. So good.
The graph is titled age, sex and region, while the axis labels are region and age, so the colors must represent gender.... But the importance of the gradients are beyond me.
Reminds me of old versions of Xen with RHEL6 guests. That's a combination that teaches you very quickly about clocksources, ntp and adjtimex.
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Probably not terrorist but maybe extremist? If you haven't heard that's David Cameron and Theresa May's current choice of undefined term for people they want to attack but that haven't broken any terror laws (or any other actually).
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I always thought TODO and such were a huge anti-pattern. Let's be real, these are never fixed. I always thought that you should be logging this as cards in your backlog rather than littering the codebase.
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>He does however have to be elected to parliament via a democratic vote. Unlike the European Commission, where commissioners have no democratic mandate to speak of and yet they hold immense power.

You are incorrect. Since the Lisbon treaty at least, the commission is proposed by the council and then has to be voted on by the parliament.

If anything that gives it even more democratic legitimacy than Cameron, as in his case only he himself, not his cabinet is voted on by parliament.

You are of course within your right to criticize the parliamentary democratic system within it self. However a claim that the processes by which the commission is put in place are less democratic than the processes by which Cameron or Merkel came to power are just outright false.
I should have qualified my statements a lot more. I'm just reading up on research in deterministic multithreading, and I've only seen American universities on the papers I'm reading for a long time and I was being hyperbolic. Yes, there is lots of interesting research and development in Europe. For example, static analysis of actor systems is a mostly European thing.
That's correct. There are very skilled/talented individuals in EU, I have no doubts in that.

My point is that on company/organization level the EU companies are more ... how to say it... conservative and full of bureaucracy that their US counterparts. They pay for an employee and it they don't see him at his desk - there is a problem. The "communication" habits are also quite different IMHO.
I'm mildly optimistic. I'm recently back from Saigon which went through a similar thing - new builds were stupid expensive against GDP per capita and peaked around 2008 or so. Then:

"house prices can drop as quickly as they rise. Vietnam's did with a vengeance in late 2010 as the economy slipped. Prices are down by 50 per cent in some parts of the country, and no one is predicting a rebound. Banks are weighed down with bad debt, much of it secured against property..."

Economic growth dropped from about 7% nationally to about 5% and maybe 0% in Saigon but is now back to growing 7%. Property in the overpriced new builds is still down 50% or so but showing signs of recovery - life goes on indeed it's kind of booming just now after being pretty quite a couple of years back. I imagine China will be similar.
Digital communication still has a long way to go. If I'm in a room with two people, I can tell what they're looking at. If I'm in a video conference, I can only tell that they're looking at something on their screen. Humans are one of the few animals with a visible sclera, and I don't think that this is some kind of coincidence.
I think the methodology to show "how much people care about privacy post-Snowden" is flawed in that regard.

I'll just give the most powerful example for this. So this study shows that there's basically little difference between people searching for privacy tools now and before Snowden, right?

Okay, except pre-Snowden there's no way something like the Patriot Act wouldn't have been renewed again. Why has it failed to be renewed now then? Because many people do care about privacy and have called their Congressmen to act accordingly.

I'm also seeing much more interest in end-to-end encrypted apps. Pre-Snowden few knew about "end-to-end encryption" and what that means. I'm seeing many more comments online with people asking about it.

I think the biggest issue is that people feel "overpowered", so the solution usually becomes inaction. In other words it's not "I don't care about privacy" - it's "I don't care about privacy enough to learn to use complicated new tools or radically change my behavior online...but if you give me easy to use strong encryption, especially in the apps I'm already using, I'm happy to use it."

Let's assume sending (snail) mail wasn't secure, but pigeon messaging was. People wouldn't refuse to use pigeon messaging because "they don't care about privacy". They wouldn't do it because it's too complicated and too much of a hassle.

This is why convincing platforms and service providers to use strong encryption by default is so important.
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A quick google says 18.6 million for the US, so I think you're right on to question this.
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Taxation is not the only legal hurdle, though: Which social deductions apply? Which labor laws apply to you if you work in your country but are employed in another country? Which rules will apply to you if you become ill or get pregnant? Who has to pay your retirement benefits and where do they go? At what age will you be allowed to retire? Will hiring you mean that the company might inadvertently establish a permanent establishment abroad at your home for legal and tax purposes? etc. pp.

There are answers to most (if not all) of these questions out there, but finding the right answer can be tricky and takes a lot of time (which, for a company, translates to a lot of money being spent on lawyers). So, as a company, do you spend all that time and money and take the risk that you made a mistake somewhere and the employment contract will be governed by rules you did not expect - or do you rather hire someone who will move to your place?
Is there even a sharp divide between EU and US corporations anymore? I get the impression that the really large ones operate in both, and those tend to be the ones that will profit most from such an agreement.
And the best way to do that is to eliminate the crutch.

Many of the more data-centric fields did away with p-values long ago in favor of far more robust approaches to establishing the value of a paper. Look at papers in the data science field. Using p-values in a paper there would get you laughed out of the industry fast.

Only problem that p-values ever solved was allowing journal reviewers to be lazier, helping scientists to be lazier, and making writing more sensational press releases easier.
This library is also doing regex matching, so that you don't have to worry about matches that exist outside of comments...

But like you said...you could always use fgrep (and most of us probably don't have "TODO" outside of comments anyways).
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There are plenty of ways to have trade barriers that aren't tariffs. Differing regulatory standards, for one.
Am I missing something? Wasn't this covered by Rachel in the following:

S5: your clock ticks fast, slow, normally, and everything else in-between, and changes constantly. Sometimes it gets more than 1 second per second, other times it gets less. Even then, the degree by which it runs too quickly or too slowly changes unpredictably.
OP, have you looked into Robo Browser? I think it does same thing as your project

https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser
But be aware that many European countries know laws against quasi-self-employment ("Scheinselbständigkeit" in German) to avoid people becoming self-employed to avoid social security taxes. So, even if you set-up your own company but this company only serves one client (your de-facto "employer"), you and/or your employer might be liable for social security payments neither of you did expect. So even such a set-up might be too risky for some companies to consider.
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I was speaking in an hypothetical future where talent wouldn't be a discriminating concept. In that future, objective concepts like electricity would still matter, and have a very concrete effect on people and society. Compared to nowadays where people are seeking "talents" for instant profit.
The solution is to incorporate in the member state where you live (and perform the services), and invoice your clients for your services as a company.

If you want to hire a French employee, you can incorporate a French subsidiary, and you invoice his wages (+ some operating expenses) from your main company to the subsidiary. Doesn't cost much. Clean and simple.

How is this a problem at all?
The model for all these companies are flawed.
I think both consumers and musicians would gain from having it like the radio where non-profit organizations (ASCAP?) handle all of this. That way all music could be distributed through all apps and the copyright owners would get reasonable pay for it.
It is also interesting to read the discussion on reddit http://redd.it/376bi1
Parasites seem to also have a significant impact on IQ and poverty as well.

http://www.economist.com/node/16479286/print
My guess is that he's a psychopath and just making things up for his own enjoyment. Maybe he's a Narc and just wanted more attention?

But either way, think about what I said about the article. If you're being intellectually honest, you'll have to admit it doesn't make sense.
I don't know a lot of "he"s named Ellen.
Can we do away with those s-t ligatures please? They're visually disturbing and serve no purpose. In a font for reproducing ancient text, okay. But not in any modern text please.
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>There was a guy (can't remember his name) who said that US is the only place where you can put US guys, Mexican, Chinese and ... (whoever) and make them work together.

As someone working in a company in London with about 25 engineers from 15 different countries I have to disagree with this statement.
> on a societal level a bank that loans $100M of mortgages cannot loan that $100M to build infrastructure or a new manufacturing plant or a (large) school

As a technicality, the whole point of modern banking is that banks can loan out the same money over, and over, and over again.

So in fact you can eat your cake and have it too.
I still rather live in Berlin than anywhere else - money isn't everything.
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Neither option is really optimal for either party though.

The correct solution would be for him to work half days and continue with job rewards to be identical: he gets more free time and a better life, while the company gets a more loyal employee who is more relaxed and would be more willing to go that extra mile on projects which actually are important.

It's really just one of those cases where human nature and the desire for him not to get 'paid for doing nothing' is actually hurting everyone involved. Humorous and very sad.
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Thanks for reading, everyone. I'm hoping to gain some insight from other IT folks out there as to where I can go from here. I'm really burning out and could use some solid advice.

Cheers!
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> So what is the problem?

People.
The last one I noticed was http://www.Growthtalk.co - which you already know..
The idea of generational namespacing is pretty inspiring.
We're not consumers we're people. Please stop calling people consumers as if the only value we bring is the consumption of mass produced goods.
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Reminded me of [0]. Whatever aspect of time you're concerned with, it's always a thorny issue, however easy it may look like at first. And we're not even talking about fleet of relativistically affected nodes such as with GPS!

[0]: http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...
Yes, that's exactly what I said. Let's have a debate about the merits of drug laws here, that seems on topic.

Or not.
I'm going to get down voted for this, but in this case I don't care. Those who want their ice non-cloudy because of their perceived social status are arseholes. They use finite resources for something that doesn't actually matter to them.
Can I really use Slack to build an actual community? How can that be done?
Not sure what you meant by that. Please explain, thanks!
Didn't the 911 conspiracy theory video link make you think that maybe it's not worth speaking to silly goose?
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I still have a nexus 5, but my business partner has an iphone. We use both to test what we develop. I feel like Android offers you more geek options if you like to hack on things. It has a bigger market share, but if you want something polished go with the iphone. That is how I see the two camps.
The only copy I could find was a PDF that contained images of the original paper, literally printed on paper. It seemed worth redoing and putting online properly.

I've tried not to change anything beyond the typography, but it's tricky to get perfect. It's on GitHub, so feel free to chip in.
Ask type professionals: what are good typefaces for spreadsheets (tabular numeric data), onscreen and in print?

Onscreen I've been switching Excel's default to Consolas, which is more compact yet more readable. Other programs have unchangeable defaults (but they rely more on fix-width, too).
It was only about 1600 years ago. Plus the region where the Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Frisians lived was quite a lot bigger. From the north of the Netherlands up to northern Denmark. You can still see the similarities when you compare High German, Low German, Frisian and English words.
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Hmm. Your points seem promising and I can't disagree anymore. Why this corporate world is so difficult to understand?
I know that was my point :) SF is MORE expensive than the most expensive cities (London, Paris) in Europe. So looking at the high salaries in SF and comparing them to salaries in London/Paris isn't a fair comparison.
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"forgetting to add brackets when expanding a single-line if clause (and Eclipse will nag me about unnecessary brackets if I try to play it safe)" - I believe that putting every if clause's body (even one-liners) inside brackets in Java is a good practice and I have never seen Eclipse telling it's bad.
"Remote work is strange in the same way that"

Don't forget non-strange remote business relationships like remote retail (buy from amazon), remote entertainment (Hollywood movie not a stage show or play, or recorded music not a live band), or remote manufacturing (imported from China not the now abandoned factory down the road), or remote software (believe it or not, companies used to write their own OS 50 years ago instead of buying a microsoft/apple product) or remote senior management (for a long time, its pretty unusual for most megacorporation employees to work at the same office as their CEO, even if they work at the same office as their boss). With increased specialization on a very long term all business has trended toward ever more remote "business interaction"... the only part that's new, is the very long term trend is starting to finally impact the lowest organizational levels of white collar general office labor.

Another hidden assumption is that physical presence or um, excessive face to face communication is necessarily a productive useful activity, combined with a heavy dose of "its popular and/or traditional therefore that means its inherently better" and/or "cultural shift is bad or unnecessary". I'm unconvinced that "mind work" is best done with enormous amounts of interpersonal coordination. That means the architecture is a poor match. By analogy its possible for a very bad general contractor to try to make the painter, plumber, electrican, and carpenter all work at the same time in the same corner of a little closet, and maybe, by heroic levels of effort and incredible professionalism and cooperation it can somehow be accomplished, but its a kind of dumb non-profitable goal. Also if you design for scalability you've just lost the game when you tightly coupled, what do you intend to do next year when "it" goes viral and the database is a department of 50 people on the other side of the country, not one dude at a conference table with the other one dude departments?
I've been using this for about 2 years at work, and am pretty happy to have a program that provides ssh access and an X Windows servers "out of the box." It's nice that I can recommend this to my colleagues and then not have them come back to me with a lot of questions about how to get it working.

For me, MobaXTerm is a well-working substitute for PuTTy + MinGW.

The GUI does a few things differently from how I'd prefer. I think the SFTP client doesn't work with the style of password authentication I work with, and I wasn't able to get the "master control port" functionality working successfully. But mostly, it Just Works, and that's a good thing to be able to say of a piece of software.

I don't use the GUI to run Unix-y programs, though. I've installed some assortment of MinGW-based Unix utilities that will mostly run from my command line or (preferrably, for me) from ConEmu. For when I really need industrial-strength CygWin, I use the command line built into Git - or maybe CygWin itself.
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I use them primarily when developing something large from scratch. All sorts of edge cases / things that can go wrong will pop into my mind when coding a method but I don't want to get out of the flow of whatever I'm doing. In this case a simple "TODO: fix for leap years" or whatever is helpful. When I get closer to completion I will search for these and attend to them.

In a production codebase, you are absolutely correct, you should standardize these items into a ticket manager.
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The events that are important to me are about technology, UX, design, business and entrepreneurship. There are plenty events happening covering these topics. Usually, I am attending two to four meetups per week.

Also, people tend to forget that Zurich has 320.000 inhabitants and one should account for this when comparing it to mega-cities like Berlin, which is literally ten times bigger.
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To be honest, I didn't even click through to the video.

Your point has been noted.
No. If your ice is cold enough (way below freezing), it's possible to chill the drink with no dilution at all.