skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New York, Kansas and California have more in common from the point of view of the citizens than the countries that you've lived in. You only need to look at how the EU elections are managed versus how the elections for the US Presidency and congress are seen by the US citizens.

The sovereign 'countries' are imaginary constructs made real by physical, cultural and psychological factors, 'power' is such a psychological factor and I think it is far less of an item absent 'nationalism' and we're seeing a very strong resurgence of this in Europe right now. There isn't a country that does not have a far-right or far-left ultra nationalist political party that manages to get a substantial part of the vote. If anything happened at all during the last decade then it is that Europe's window for unity is slowly closing and that in some parts we're already regressing.

This gets expressed in an 'us versus them' mentality not seen since the 80's, the latest nice example of that is Germany deciding to start levying toll on foreigners for the use of the German roads. (Which given the location of Germany is for many people the equivalent of an in-escapable tax.)

So if you feel the Union is converging then that's great, I'm seeing the opposite, more and more nationalist sentiments, Greece possibly departing the Euro and maybe even departing the EU, the UK and possibly others no longer being a part of the union and more and more limitations placed on the original 'free travel of goods and people' mandate that enabled a lot of the EU to get closer.

So, no, it's not there yet and the way things are going we're not ever going to get there either.

The EU did a number of things very wrong, they tried to force the issue on a number of occasions and in fact succeeded in several of those but while they won those particular battles they lost the war in that the 'locals' are not Europe minded because they see downsides to it as well. And that's fine, but ramming unification down their throats definitely is one of the reasons all these backlashes found ground to sprout in and take hold.

Wilders, Le-Pen, the UK euro-skeptics, Greek nationalists and so on all have one thing in common: they use the anti-EU sentiment as their main driving force (and in the case of Wilders, also anti-Islam, but then again, he's simply a nutcase that has found some fear buttons that he can push, like all the other demagogues in history, which doesn't make him any less dangerous).
you cant play it on mobile ?
> * Writing systems that never reboot[1] and are efficient is very hard. Dynamic variables usually require inserting checks at runtime that can't be optimized away by an AOT compiler. This is where a speculatively-optimizing JIT comes in handy, but JITs aren't appropriate for all uses, and even where they are, good optimizing JITs are notoriously hard to write.

But special case JITs that essentially build a version of a function out of predefined blocks, are not that hard to implement. That's enough to remove current (constant) state dependant branches and do constant folding.

Useful for parsing, some generic data structures and graphics. Anything that is executed very many times, has configurable (but constant) state that controls conditional branching or a part of computation that could be constant folded.
I was hoping upon seeing the title that it would select restaurants from Google Maps near your location and choose one at random. That would actually be a really good idea.
Don't get me wrong, but how does your problem-adapted version of DBSCAN constitue a form of machine learning?
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I find it anachronistic that I'm invited to make an appointment to listen to the tapes in New York.

Why wouldn't the museum simply publish them online ?
You could be right. But if that is the case then why doesn't the outside pane fog up?
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the goal isn't too treat autism, but instead to treat anxiety in individuals with autism.
They won't ban it, they'll have to hire more people to form Second Penis Prevention Brigade to monitor and censor all the messages in real-time.
Interesting! I suppose there's a perverse incentive for the system not to track the falsely imprisoned down. They have a right to sue for false imprisonment.
I can't parse all that you're writing, but to answer those parts that I understand:

Organized crime steps in to supply a market simply because there is a lot of money to be made, that's all that it takes. Making a substance illegal drives up the price. If you made milk illegal tomorrow morning there would be illegal milk available at a substantial mark-up the day after and an underground distribution network would spring up overnight. It's simply economics.

Laundered criminal money is still a problem.

The 'drug problem' would definitely be less if all drugs were legal because it would allow those that are in need of help to apply for that help on a medical basis rather than to have to deal with these issues either on their own or through the justice system if and when they get caught.

The 'law is always right' is a funny one, no, the law isn't always right, it simply defines what is legal and what is not, emphatically NOT what is and isn't right, for that we have morals and ethics, not laws.

For example: slavery was never right, even though it was legal at some point.
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Is it a parody of trashday.co ?
Google has a lot of data but proportionally fewer people. If you pursue your venture, you can put more attention to specific areas than Google will ever care to do. Find a niche and start digging a trench.
> Each self-tuning app would have to have logic more complex than the business logic itself to understand how it will interact in the environment it's running in

That's absolutely false. You can have a rather simple program that compares your app performance with different system settings and tries to find the optimum. It can even use random search, or maybe something more complex like an evolutionary algorithm. Such a program isn't aware about the complexity of your app, it just needs a way to measure its performance, whatever it is.

I'm pretty sure I've read about a system like that.
I think bugs have to be on a central place. That's the only way you can track them reliably. What if someone record a bug, commit his/her own repo, but can't/don't push? Bugs might "lost" this way.
There is rail connection between Azerbaijan and Ukraine and it crosses two borders.
I should perhaps point out that this series is based on somewhat outdated elliptic curve techniques. It's a little easier to explain these operations over, say, Edwards curves, and I believe djb's done a couple of talks at hacker conferences explaining exactly that.

In particular, djb et al has eviscerated the argument that curves generated through seeds (for example via the X9.62 method) are in some way provably safe. Anyone can perform a partial second-preimage attack on even a perfect hash, and if they know an attack that affects one-in-a-million curves, they can easily bake a seed to match it: http://safecurves.cr.yp.to/bada55.html - I suppose this will be covered in the next post?

More interestingly, especially in light of if you know that, the most commonly-used elliptic curve for ECDSA/ECDH right now, secp256r1 (otherwise known as NIST P-256 or prime256v1), claims to be verifiably random but deliberately doesn't say where the seed came from. Public questions about this haven't met with particularly enlightening answers.

What I was able to find out wasn't as enlightening as I hoped: the seed for P-256 was computed by Certicom's engineers, working with the NSA. To what end? I don't know exactly, but I gather the precomputation actually had to do with picking parameters amenable to efficient implementation via (at-the-time) optimal, but Certicom-patented, techniques. The NSA use it (and P-384) themselves extensively and seem to trust it - and they haven't backdoored every crypto scheme they've ever had a hand in (their hash algorithms still seem to be fine) - but of course, there's always going to be that modicum of doubt, and unfortunately, whether it was cooked for anything else is beyond my knowledge.

(That's apparently part of why Satoshi Nakamoto chose secp256k1 for Bitcoin instead.)

This is also part of why CFRG were asked to recommend non-NIST curves, and have been focusing on recommending "rigid" curves, based on parameters which are obvious choices which are justifiable by themselves (and have settled on djb's Curve25519 at a ~256-bit strength and Hamburg's Ed448-Goldilocks at a >384-bit strength). They're simpler and faster to implement, too. The ECDH using Montgomery form is incredibly easy by comparison; and currently we're discussing specifics of the signature scheme, which I hope is probably going to look somewhat like EdDSA if it isn't EdDSA exactly.
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Can I just say that it is not a problem for Germany because they figured out they need to let immigrants in, unlike Japan. Germany has a very high number of immigrants, including (actually, mostly!) young adults who are eager to work.

By all means, the country is more than safe in this regard, in stark contrast to Japan, which is trying to turn to robots for future workers (which is fine for the rest of the world, imo).
The Dutch low-tech but ugly equivalent:

http://www.citi.io/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/483-3.jpg
It's not diminishing for Germany thanks to immigration...
I have a few problems with this essay. The fundamental one is that it is purely an invention. The author regards specific social/cultural clustering patterns for a specific historical period as "subcultures"; this is part of a grand chart of world-historic social and cultural change.

Nothing that comes before that or after that is properly examined in terms of whether it might be a 'neotribal system of meaning' (from author's 2nd ibid link: the crux of his definition of a subculture is neotribalism and rejection of universalist [sic] systems of meaning).

No substantiation seems to be given for his assertion that subcultures "reached the limit of fragmentation and died" beyond the observation that the subcultures with which he was familiar from the preceding decades seem to have died about then.

It's curious, because in North America, rock music ceased to be subcultural at some time in the 1980s -- if it even had a clear subculture --- but metal continues to have strong subcultural connotations. Death Metal has not ceased to be a active genre of music, as far as I know.

So I am not sure what he means by subcultures "dying" even for those specific subcultures. He has a pseudo-physical model that suggest that this would basically be the point where the subculture ceased to generate a quantifiable essence called "cool" and became "uncool." But this is purely a metaphor.

Combined with his implicitly denigrating use of language -- "muggles," "mops" --- to describe those who aren't really part of the real "scene," what this suggests to me is that his analysis is entirely based on his own value judgements and tastes, and that what he is really bemoaning is the death of the scenes in which he felt included, energized, and involved.

This isn't an author who has done any research or rigorous work whatsoever. His portrayal of the social dynamics of music/coolness subcultures participated in by people in their 20s is interesting, and would certainly ring true to anyone who has ever tried to put on a show or keep a scene alive. But the end of those music scenes with which he was familiar was not a world-historic death of subcultures.

There have been massive changes in technology over the past century, and especially the past twenty years, that have greatly impacted the production of music. There was a time before the 4-track recorder. There was a time before the audio card. There was a time before the internet. All of these things have had a massive impact on not only the production of music, but also on our awareness of music. Information now comes in a glut, and perhaps this has somehow ended the era of the local youth music scene, and the youth music subculture. It would be worth discussing with some youths.

But subcultures still exist. Subcultures are not merely neo-tribal identity/socialization networks for young adults.

The truth is that subcultures are inward-looking, and they are not going to come find him and tell him they exist. They're not going to come ask him if they're cool enough for him to be interested.
Japanese debt is mostly to its own population, while that of Greece is foreign owned. That's a huge difference.
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If you do a really good job, then the first thing Google would try is to acquire you. Google cannot 'engineer away' the loyal user base that you would have by the time you hit 'roaring success'.
There are very few of the latter, so it's at best a drop in the statistical ocean.
"They could even do it to all (or some subset) of visitors via Google Analytics[1] to report the (x,y) position when click occurs. It wouldn't surprise me if an awful lot of the internal use of GA is for ad-fraud detection."

This is what I'd suspected, randomised sampling.
From Dec 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24608499

> Facebook is allowing videos showing people being decapitated to be posted and shared on its site once again.

> The social network had introduced a temporary ban in May following complaints that the clips could cause long-term psychological damage.

[...]

> Its terms and conditions now state that it will remove photos or videos that "glorify violence" in addition to other banned material, including a woman's "fully exposed breast".

So,(in 2013) they allow beheading videos so long as you're not glorifying violence.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/facebook-actually-sorry-for-bann...

And in 2013 breastfeeding mothers were banned from Facebook.

The breast feeding policy changed in 2014 http://huffpost.com/us/entry/5473467
This. Birth rate has a lot of uncontrollable factors like demographics. A slump in people in ages 20-40 will inevitably leas to falling birth rate at the same fertility. And that will repeat in 20-40 years.

The factor to focus on is the fertility and the fraction of working adults. Germany has a very traditional view of the labour market and women often have to stop working for years when having children. This means that a large group of women don't work, or (equally bad for the economy), a large group of women chose not to have kids.

The only proven solution is subsidized childcare, longer parental leave, individual taxation.
zatar.com talks of CoAP but I don't see AMQP mentioned.
Your friend's practice seems a bit excessive to me, though I can understand one adopting some good driving habits to reduce wear and increase mileage. It usually leads to more safe roads too, due to less aggressive driving behaviour.

A thing I can't understand are screen protectors used by people with an office job. The amount of R&D put into modern phones' screens and oleophobic coating is huge. Your phone's screen is designed to withstand both hits and dirt, to let your fingers slide with minimal friction and to allow you perceive every last pixel of your QHD panel (which has its own huge amount of R&D). Why would you miss all these by gluing a $5 piece of plastic on top of it?
I think in most areas of Tokyo these things really aren't necessary, despite the high popularity of bicycle transport, because bicycle parking is fairly simple to cram in various nooks and crannies (lots of bike parking underneath train viaducts), and bikes are more popular in more less dense (suburban, outlying) areas than in the densest parts of the city core, which means there's usually a bit more space available too.

When you're going to do major construction anyway, you may as well build a human-accessible bike-parking structure or underground bike-parking area, which can probably be equally dense, and are almost certainly less of a maintenance burden.

The main advantage of robo-parking seems to be that it lets them use a very vertical space, which wouldn't work so well with "manual" bike parking.
Actually this wouldn't be a COPPA issue. COPPA is about data privacy, not content.
It's wonderful to see the improvement on SourceCode Pro font. Can I have a request? Is there any possible to include font awesome (https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome) because of this under terminal? (https://github.com/arialdomartini/oh-my-git). Currently my setup on both OSX and Linux is using SourceCode Pro with Powerline Plus Awesome font from here (https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/tree/...). Honestly my setting is too complicated I think.
And your third option is the overnight (or daytime) ferry from Harwich. Tickets are sold that include a train connection from East Anglia (or London) to anywhere in the Netherlands.

It's very nice, though Harwich is a bit of a dump (not very welcoming).
VAT 20%, Social contributions 46%, income tax 10-15%, residence tax 5%. Mandatory accountant (2000€/year), corporate yearly registration fees, corporate local tax. Assuming no expense at the company level, the employees can buy 25€ of new products.

Total burden: 75€ out of 100€ sales (since some tax are compounded and others have an excess/floor system). Did I make my point? I know you'll keep arguing, but please reckon first that the 75% burden is a fact.
Use full drive encryption. Make backups and buy new drive when old one fails. Done.
Maybe the idea is that the first few years the youngsters spend in the killing trade, it should be without the influence of alcohol.
What could you possibly want to ask specifically of a black person? What difference does it make to what someone can tell you?

How about "ask a blonde person"?
Yeah it felt like it was more about the guy trying to find some excuse to assert his dominance ('what you do is not magic to me'). Which I thought was clever because it's exactly what I imagine a 'geek' evil manager would do. Part of what makes management manageable to me is that what I do is voodoo to them, so it gives me some leverage.
I don't think home ownership is an issue. Lifelong renting is the norm, costs of renting homes are low, quality of rental property is high and relevant legislation is tenant-friendly.
I'm just guessing, but I think the breaking of the middle pane would damage the outer pane anyway, since the pressure is coming from inside. That would leave you with two broken panes.
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Yes, Japan has managed to brew the deadly mix of aging population, extremely traditional values leading to very low fertility, and an extremely low acceptance of immigration.
it feels almost dystopian to think about the demographics in a few decades: elderly and robots will far outnumber the rest.
linux + bash + ssh + nano. not necessarily in that order. puts me on any server environment with a swiss army spaceship in hand.
People said thing like this 20 years ago about Microsoft and look how that turned out. The bigger Google gets the slower it will become - it is only a matter of time before the next big thing comes along.
Single data point: I used to have very cold feet when walking in the snow and in the rain as a child enrolled in scouts (8-12 year-old) and it went away when I entered my teens (I think). Today I do not suffer from cold extremities and I am more likely to go for a walk outside when it's raining or snowing because why not.

Maybe I had bad shoes though.
Not to mention that in these highly-developed countries with solid education systems and modern career opportunities, the value-creating power of an individual is several times higher than that of an average individual in a developing country.

The fertility rate among founders in Silicon Valley is probably even lower, but that group of people is creating an immense amount of value for society in return for not creating as many kids.
>Within Europe you have cultures and mentalities as diverse as you can imagine.

Isn't it the same with US?

>... try to apply knowledge about something that 'worked' in one EU country to another invariably fail.

Have any source for that information?

> I've yet to hear someone call themselves a European first.

Well, your anecdotal evidence matches the study data[0]. Only three percent of EU citizens identify as "european first". However more people identify as "nationality and European" than "only my nationalty".

>Language is the least of the problem.

Common language for 90+ of citizens would go a long way to establish common culture.

>Europe is not a single entity and never will be.

We'll see :)

[0]http://www.debatingeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Euro...
As long as it isn't global it will just mean that German industry will have to move production elsewhere and/or it will be cost effective to employ ever more expensive robots to do the work.
I might be completely wrong here, but I get the feeling that thanks to the rising costs[0] of writing software in C and C++, alongside the availability of more approachable Ada compilers, its use has been raising.

At least it is a common presence at high integrity systems conferences, and being used in medical devices, avionics, robotics and train control systems.

From what I have been seeing at FOSDEM every year. AdaCore even had the opening keynote a few years back.

[0] bug fixing exploits, memory sanity tooling, research to improve the language, hardware changes (e.g. Intel MPX)
North Korea would tell you it can be pretty high. If you consider slavery as equivalent to current life sentences then history would suggest you can have the majority of the population in jail and still have a functioning society.
C++: Uniquely addressed
>Wilders, Le-Pen, the UK euro-skeptics, Greek nationalists and so on all have one thing in common.

Two things actually. A very significant share of euro-skeptics, far right parties and movements are funded by Moscow. When Putin's and his cronies regime falls, European political landscape might change in a very unpredictable way.
woah, you said no man is an island 4 times.

It must be extra extra profound and smart sounding now.
This. Almost half a million people immigrated to Germany in 2013 (net immigration) https://www.destatis.de/EN/FactsFigures/SocietyState/Populat...
Thank you both for this interesting discussion, helped me grasp a few things.
>Furthermore, a programming language is something with a strong personality attached to it.

Yes, and Ada's is somewhat like a drill sergeant yelling at you. Ada is Haskell for engineers who need to get things done.
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Somehow, I shudder when thinking about meta-programming and DSLs in Java.
> Why would you miss all these by gluing a $5 piece of plastic on top of it?

Some of us prefer matte, non-mirror screens.
From the changelog:

** The preference

do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation

is now enabled by default.

Yup, that put a grin on my face that is going to stay there at least for the rest of the day.
His dad is Berlusconi's doctor. He'd probably already been offered those.
Wait what?

What UK euro-sceptic party receives funding from Moscow?

http://www.ukpolitical.info/Donations.htm

http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/find-information-by-su...

http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Search?currentPage=...
Not really. In the end Japanese will have to pay, in one way or another, and that will be either with huge taxation, or dramatic inflation. Or Default. No good options out there, really.
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