skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the UK is IIRC the last European country and one of the few globally to not have a formal identity card. Partly due to some dedicated campaigners and partly due to history. The mostly unarmed police are another historical accident to be defended.

The UK certainly does look too readily across the Atlantic for bad ideas. But most of the home grown ones come out of a sort of domestic colonialism and shrinking empire. British police and (para)military forces were quite capable of street violence in Kenya in the 50s & Northern Ireland in the 70s & 80s. The frontier shrinks slowly; Scottish independence comes slowly closer, seemingly with almost no violence. Newspapers dispatch foreign correspondents from London to cover Manchester and Birmingham. People in the coastal towns complain of distant government that's only an hour away by train. It's more inattentional blindness that's the problem than physical distance.

The Met's antiterrorist role has let it take on the hard edge. But there is also a public demand for aggression against those percieved as "bad". People demand that "something must be done" while being vague about what that involves and who might suffer.
Actually, what it says is that the results (which are themselves not raw data but a conclusion inferred from a wide mass of raw data) that ESR is saying weren't consistent with the IPCC projections have since, themselves, been reevaluated, adjusted to correct for biases introduced by changes in measuring methods, and corrected, and no longer present the problem he is pointing to.
Agreed.

We had a developer here that used 'val' from lombok all over the place and it was irritating. The team made a collective decision to go through and eliminate this from the code base after he left.

I don't want any of this in our code.
Am at the SLEEP conference in Seattle. Two exhibitors in this space:
http://www.clevelandclinicwellness.com/Programs/Pages/Sleep....
http://sleepio.com
Wow, this sounds exactly like offering anyone anything in Minnesota.
Well, that was a short date.
Instead of quitting the tech industry, why not move to an existing smaller company, whose size gives you more freedom?

Wait and sit for a profitable idea doesn't look like a very good idea.

I'd go to AngelList and join an existing startup, rather than going on my own.
Coding Boot Camps Are on the Rise
The new SharedArrayBuffer should solve that particular problem. Once videos are online, you should check out @naveedi's talk from JSConf 2 weeks ago.
That's cool. I once made a Common Lisp macro that iterated and gave you the pred and succ of each list element, but it was a lot more work than this. Although I think implementing each_cons was most of the work.
“Be kind. Soon we’ll all be dead.”
Spotify to Apple: You want a music war? You've got one
It's great that you at least tried it. Takes guts to do so.

It's something I've always wanted to do, but been waiting for that next level of financial security before I do so. Problem is, every time I reach the target, I'm not satisfied with it and want to make a bit more money before I can back off. It's a vicious circle into an ever looming burn out.
"Do I dare to say this somehow shows the relative unimportance of design?"

When design is about cramming some animation in just about everything you can show on the screen, and about how fancy your colors are going to be – yes, I agree, it's relatively unimportant.

But real design is not about that at all. In fact, functionality has been part of the core debate in design, for at least a century now. Ask any designer – not only the ones dealing with UI, and they'll tell you.
They provide official language exams right on your mobile device for $20.
"progressive" is very much the wrong term to use here. Many of the worst measures have been pushed by parties that position themselves as "conservatives".
From ‘war on terror’ to ‘cyber war’, and why you need a VPN
I face it A LOT with US people. I'm a Pole, and this additional layer of "politness" presented by US is quite difficult and strange. Especially that I observed that such short lived enthusiasm shown on meetings is not followed by long term behaviour (and does not represent real feeling of US person, but is hard to get at start).

IT's nice at start, and while it last, yet it's quite a difference I observe. I wonder if they find us cold and impolite during such encounters.

p.s. I for one don't agree that US 'thank you' equals the very word presented in many europeans language dictionaries. My theory is that it underwent substantial inflation and lose a lot of value underway. It's given everywhere and for things it should not (as they're normal). Yet another cultural difference nice to be aware :)
ADP Sues Zenefits for Defamation
TL;DR: Stress is defined in modern society as horrible, detrimental to physical and mental health, and to be avoided at all costs (see "mindfulness", "yoga", etc). However, Kelly uses science to show that simply by changing your mindset towards stress, you can change its long term implications for your health.

This video changed my life, because I live a stressful life, and while I don't endorse stress by itself, coping with it in this way is of huge importance to me.
This article felt very weak and empty. The biggest complaint seemed to be that other people noticed she had it, and started small talk about it. Oh the horror. It's an article in search of minor reasons to not like the watch. I don't care if it wasn't life changing to you. Not newsworthy.
It is pretty poor form for a New York Times article to not bother to define what "cognitive behavioral therapy" is in an article touting it, or even give any examples of what specifically CBT might entail in the context of treating sleep problems.
> I was actually going to pay close to triple the sale price of the house if I waited the full 30 years.

Did you adjust for inflation? Even at today's inflation rates, the dollars you pay in 30 years will be worth considerably less than the dollars you pay today. There's also an opportunity cost issue. Paying off your mortgage means not putting the money somewhere else.

> you're really just throwing away money.

No... you're paying for access to a resource that you don't have yourself. There's more utility in that than in literally throwing the money in the garbage.
Also, instead of "Desktop environment" you mean GUI widget toolkit.

By desktop environment I meant e.g. Gnome or KDE. Aren't they separate from the widget toolkits?
It's a minor aside in the second last paragraph of the piece. The rest of the article is written in a way the presents insomnia as a psychological matter.
CCTV cameras are mandated with new licences for pubs, bars and clubs. The police often force you to have X cameras or your licence will be denied. So the private/public distinction is fairly meaningless.

In my home city, Nottingham, because it's very hard to get a new licence at the moment, the police have such clout I heard of ridiculous scenarios where they started asking for 7 or 8 cameras in small restaurants in quiet areas of town.
Stingray phone surveillance comes to UK
today is not equal tomorrow if you do something
One that is recommended is "mood gym" - an Australian site.

https://moodgym.anu.edu.au/welcome

A book that is recommended is "Mind Over Mood".

There's probably space in the market for more and better apps and websites.

The English body that assesses efficacy and cost-effectiveness (NICE) have reviews of computer guided CBT here: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta97
It's almost guaranteed that whenever something privacy-invading gets uncovered in the US, it shortly is found in the UK too.

If I didn't know better, I'd think the UK government have an 'anything you can do, we can do better' attitude about their orwellian antics.
Of course, ObjC was very heavily influenced by smalltalk, but wanting to create something compatible with C led to some basic divergence, with C's "closer to the metal" level than smalltalk.

Of languages still in use, I think ruby is probably the most influenced by smalltalk. I don't know if I've read Matz actually revealing this (maybe I just haven't googled hard enough, or maybe it's there in Japanese somewhere), but the influence is pretty evident from the outcome.
On the contrary, they've got too good at it. Crime rates are through the floor. A lot of the time the police have nothing to do.

Idle hands and all that...
Similar to the three-times rule, a two-times rule did exist at one point in polite Western society. It exists in the scenario

[Adam offers something]
"No, no thank you," says Barry.
"I insist."

At which point Barry is expected to accept (unless he really doesn't want it, at the risk of it becoming "a thing").
Thanks for mentioning Kitematic – I'd forgotten the name but this was my first reaction when I saw their product announcement. It's a nice way to make their product even smoother.
Do the deal with BigCorp... it's a smart play and the transition will no doubt give you valuable insider operations experience.

But counter with a 2 year contract term; and be prepared to settle for 3 years. It's a small incremental concession they can afford to give.

BTW, recommend reading Stuart Diamond on negotiations > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZo6Lx70ok
I took the train all the way to China.

Pyongyang to Dandong? I did that. Did you stay in Dandong? The contrast was a real mind screw. I sat in my hotel room in Dandong, overlooking the bridge; beneath me, Chinese boom town. Lights, cars, noise, street-hawkers, adverts. The bridge extending over the river, and half way across the coloured lights on it just stop. After that, darkness. No lights on the bridge, no lights on the land, nothing. I went to the True Love nightclub in Dandong, with the lights and the bouncing floor and the kids with tall hair and a floor show that was translated for me by a Singaporean accountant and a Canadian (both of whom I'd met in the DPRK), and self-medicated.
The benefits are pretty obvious to me - uniformity. I don't think you need any links for it.
I think there's some substance here. My impression from reading it was that the watch was purchased as a fashion device, but it's still too much of a gadget to really be one.
That would be a nice business but it has a high entry point and a short life overall. Also, doing the same thing, the same way, that competitors have done is foolish. Maybe if there was a model where people could submit their drives with a gopro or something. Then the model would be a middleman for the data.
Actually I think it got Self's JIT, at least that the story that the Self people tell. Squeak and Pharo's Morphic UI also came from Self.

http://www.selflanguage.org
boo friken hoo!
"The greatest gift you can give your children is to love one another."
Even if you have enough cash to pay off a mortgage, if you can invest it with better returns than the mortgage interest rate (not hard these days), then it makes better sense to do that.

Even Mark Zuckerberg has a mortgage...
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Nah, they definitely provide value. Have you used it before? For someone who only took a few years of a foreign language in high school, it's a great refresher. If they could also structure the lessons to teach in a similar way to the classroom (e.g., actively showing different conjugations instead of just assuming you'll remember or pick up on it yourself) then they'll be golden.
"In truth, the man was an oathbreaker, a deserter from the Night’s Watch. No man is more dangerous. The deserter knows his life is forfeit if he is taken, so he will not flinch from any crime, no matter how vile."

~ Ned Stark, A Game of Thrones.

I think that pathetic blog post where they tried to justify their actions made one thing clear - SourceForge knows how dead they are. No amount of internet outrage is going to help, they don't think they've got anything to lose at this point.

The best thing to do at this point would be to speed up their demise. If you're a developer that still hosts with them, delete your project and move to Github or Bitbucket.

Also, start reporting these malicious pages to Google so they don't show up in search results. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/
I fail to see how this is quitting the tech industry. This is quitting Yelp, but the listing of the Patreon account is all "tech industry" work, just without having a boss or company to be accountable to. The post doesn't seem to insinuate that the author will quit writing software - "Eventually it would be nice to make a thing that actually makes money on its own." Someone who codes and makes money off that product is still in the industry, no?

The author isn't quitting the industry. He is basically going independent, with an undetermined business model.
Patrick McNaughton thought so too:

"I'm pretty sure that Java's 'interface' is a direct rip-off of Obj-C's 'protocol' which was largely designed by these ex-NeXT'ers"

http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
The only flight we see in Denmark are people fleeing the quiet rural areas and moving to the big university cities, primarily Copenhagen and to a lesser degree Århus.
> It could happen, if this had worldwide scientific consensus (Japan, China, Australia, US, Europe and Russia), and if agreed on in the UN.

Since we're allowing impossible situations, it could also happen if we had a magic wand.
A different approach I've seen is often referred to as "hairy arms".

It's not the same as a placebo or client button but it addresses the issue of people who would otherwise diminish a project through nitpicking and wanting to put their own touch on everything.

The idea came from animation (Disney, I believe) where the art directors were always asking the artists to make changes just to feel like they had some input and control. The animators started adding hair on the arms of the characters as an obvious thing the directors could latch onto and demand the artists modify. The artists didn't want the hairy arms to begin with but it was a way to keep the directors from screwing up something "important" just so they could feel special.
Bit Torrent might actually help as a tool to help distribute these large data sets.

The big issue is that so few people actually would need to download these large dataset.
How to Get Good Business Ideas – The Mental Alchemy of Ideation
Meh. History will judge them (and us.) Let's hope we win, else our history will be written by an off-earth entity.
CBT is also used in some patients who experience pain as a result of cancer.

Sometimes CBT is about fixing the problem; sometimes it's about helping someone cope better with a problem.
Totally agree. I am finally shoring up my Spanish and it is fairly painless.
Having a printer and COM port available by default seems just as silly as a virtual floppy drive :)

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0004.htm...
I empathize with the OP. I wanted to post a reply to probablyfiction explaining to him. Instead I will list the reasons why burnout could have happened to him.

Point 1 "unless X has a toxic work culture,it's likely the author brought it on themselves by pushing too hard."

An overstatement unless you know what he faced. You were hired for your problem-solving ability where pushing hard can be expected at times. In reality this could be he's not pushing too hard so much as the existing environment which leeches effort and adds burden to every step. Toxic culture is somewhat unlikely but what if he inherited a huge technical debt, this happens a lot.

Point 2 it's a terrible feeling to have to spend your most productive hours working on someone else's problems. He or she may find themselves drawn toward entrepreneurship

Wrong. IMO you can either work as a product engineer role building something new (hopefully) or as support role integrating products/fixing glaring bugs crappy code/migrating systems. The latter is not exciting. A developer MUST be capable of both and SHOULD be given at least an opportunity for both. It does not have to be in your own startup. I maybe a coder but I am not a horseshit shoveler.

Point 3 Office culture is draining. Some people aren't cut out for it.

Why ? It doesn't have to be. Even then why assume work culture is the culprit here and he is not cut for it.

Point 4 Additionally, programmers tend to push themselves too hard for too long out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the company. They don't see that the work they do is extremely valuable in and of itself.

Translation the coder has to see the fine line of enthusiasm between "working already" and overzealous. Seems like a hypothetical problem unless you tell why is it relevant here. About the "work" you say, you should tell what "work" is. It is not just the stationary lines of code lying on repository, but the amount of effort that went to write it, debug it and will go to maintain it. A badly written project demands higher effort to keep it running than what you could imagine.

Point 5 a coder doesn't owe the company anything more than their agreed-upon hours of work.

I know that is the agreement. But I don’t know if you have seen places where boss wants work in a deadline and not hours a coder spends and wants it done. You should remind him that then.
Like, perhaps, a car?
change the path separator to '/'

I believe that the Windows API supports '/' as a path separator and that it's user mode apps that tend not to. I can't find a good citation for that, though.
Not to knock on the industry at large but the day I gave up wanting to program "services" (for the lack of a better term -- things that work the data to produce an outcome that although convenient, is not a necessity of our lives) and apply my skills to tangible, real world problems I became immensely happier in my day to day. I went from loathing the next day of work and counting the clock hours until I ran out the door to happily thinking of the problems, looking forward to the next project. I think a lot of people in software could benefit from taking the time to take a hands-on hobby of sorts where you create physical output, a useful craft with purpose. There's a chunk of our lives that logic and algorithms cannot fulfill in the same way that a craft can.

It seems like hokum re-reading that last paragraph. I wish I was better with words to portray what I'm trying to get across but its just something that's been on my mind in the last month or so. I feel into another slump similar to what our article's author describes. You get caught in a cycle of "I'm tired because tomorrow will suck" and don't use that time to regenerate and recover. When my car hit the tipping point last week and I was forced to get my hands dirty it broke that cycle. I came out from under with a true sense of accomplishment; beaming with pride for what I had done and suddenly Monday's problems were on the wayside.

To swing back to what I tried saying originally though; having a job where I produce factories, networks, systems that clients look, touch, and interact with just gives the same feeling of pride that I never achieved when building services for IPTV products, billing software features or other data applications. I'm certain there's a whole host of people that drool at some of those domains but if that's not your "thing" then you'll never be happy. I wasn't, the author likely wasn't but that's not to say she can't find happiness anywhere in tech. And to believe that leaving it all behind for a mystery won't solve those same problems that put her where she is now. "The Grass is Always Greener" will wane and she'll miss being among peers and those who she can share her problems with. A girlfriend in the medical industry just can't converse on the same level as other tech's can, its where I reach out to coworkers, peers, friends to blow off some steam. I wish her the best, I just hope she figures out where the true problems lie or where her true calling is before she regrets distancing herself from an industry that she has obvious passion for.
The second half of the article answers the question of how CBT addresses sleep problems.
>> but what in all that is holy do you get for your tax money??

Frankly, not much.
I was born and raised in Ireland, and left a few years ago from Scotland. In comparison to Scotland (and the UK in general), the quality of public services in Ireland is a joke.
As an admin, I really miss Net Send. I would love to have a simple way to send messages to users, especially in an emergency (like the office internet going out) so I don't get told 20 times.

It sucks that they depreciated it. I wish it were still around, maybe we could have it disabled by default, and just use a GPO to enable it.
> Java micro frameworks are an attempt to address the weaknesses of Java while maintaining its strengths

What about all those scripting language for java?

Jruby, Jython, Rhino, Nashorn....
Some UK schools monitoring pupils' web use with 'anti-radicalisation software'
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For what it's worth, I've been wearing an Apple Watch from the start and have never been "defined by a talking point on my wrist." Most people seem to either not notice it or not care.

Honestly, I've seen so few Apple Watches in the wild, despite owning one I'm more likely to ask people about their experiences if I see someone wearing one. Because it's led to some interesting conversations.

But, anyway. Many of the problems listed will be solved over time. Some won't. The Apple Watch as it stands is, in my mind, a beta-level product. It's very imperfect, but it's attractive if you're an early-adopter sort.

(Side note: For some reason the title of the article really bugs me. Like it's out to make a really dramatic moment out of the fairly mundane decision to stop using a gadget. When I replaced my old phone with a newer model, I didn't "divorce my old phone." When I rent a Zipcar I don't have a "torrid afternoon affair, after which we vow to never see each other again.")
Impressive to see most of the infections lived solely in memory. Along with the zerodays burned for this attack, you can tell this is a very professional team.
Not at all, because the free language tool is just half of what they do. The part that actually makes the money is crowdsourced translations, which are done by more advanced students as practice.
One of GigWalk's first big customers was a deal with Microsoft to capture images of storefronts for Bing Maps: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2011/07/gi...
Read the article more carefully and you see they do state a connection between birth month and disease risks. The connections that they haven't found are the specific risk factors caused by the birth month.

The connections that MAY be found might be things like:
- November babies getting exposed to extreme cold during the first month of development
- Spring babies exposed to high pollen
It was hard reading that article. I really didn't like the anthropomorphic structure of the article at all. So weird.

The potential of the tech is clear with WatchOS2. There will be interesting times ahead.
It literally is in the middle between fulltime and not having to work at all, so it's not just you.
"I hate dread. What a completely useless emotion."

Funny you should say that, since the sense of dread seemed to motivate this decision pretty heavily. Seems like the emotion was pretty useful as a sort of "burnout immune system".
For most people it is a psychological problem and for those people it was being unsuitably managed. Obviously that's not true for everyone.
Rosetta Stone, which seems to be the current leader in language training made $261 million last year.

The funny thing is Duolingo is now valued higher than Rosetta Stone: https://www.google.com/finance?q=RST
Why are you treating this as an issue to do with "complaining to doctors"?

I'm saying that there seems to be a near universal assumption that sleep problems are psychological. In my experience, a lot of people will basically refuse to believe that someone has sleep problems due to non-psychological factors.
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