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I don't really understand why it needs an explanation. I presume the organizers are Polish, but the international language of tech is still English in Europe. It's very normal to have international events in English, here.
I am not sure to understand your comment. If I understood it well, the answer is likely to be because the organizers are from Poland.
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> Who else thinks bitbucket is better than github?

Each service has it's pros/cons. Github charges you for private repositories while bitbucket offers them for free. But with bitbucket you are limited to only 5 collaborators - so it's not really useful for anything but personal repo hosting. I teach classes on occasion (obviously more than 5 students) and I pre-provision repos on my own source code hosting service but I also allow the students to get a free private repo from github (they are free if you say you are using it for a class).

> And that even if its not, we should host a copy of repos on bitbucket too, because competition is good?

It's very unlikely and rare that github would go down or be shutdown but due to google code shutting down I've learned that - it's not a good idea to keep your project (code) in a central location. You can mirror it - but if you aren't running the service yourself be ready to jump ship to either shutdown or changing of features. Github did remove downloads at one point but reintroduced them as releases.

More and more employers are (incorrectly) using github as a CV for developers. So I think github will be the primary source code hosting service for awhile until people realize that a user's github profile is not a proper CV.
> You provided a conjecture based on incomplete data as fact,

No, I never said it is a fact, it is, as you pointed, a conjecture, and I provided a source (ok, wikipedia) for the amount of water in the universe

If you or him knows of a reason for why the most common elements in the universe that combine easily wouldn't result in an abundance of their combination I'm all ears.

(Which doesn't mean the amount of water is going to be near the amount of H2 or just the amount of Hydrogen present in the stars)
'The CPUs are hardware threads on a single core.' hyper-thread is not optimal in CPU intensive application. In this particular case, it affects the variance and mean of your latency.

I would recommend to disable it when benchmarking latency between threads/processes.
Interesting. So where did our sun come from? Are you saying it started from a multilight year wide cloud?

Why is it 4+ light years from any other stars? Did our sun pull everything out of that radius when it was forming leaving a whole bunch of empty interstellar space?
this is true but i dont remember the price disparity being quite so high, there was always ~$10 difference, perhaps the $100 figure was at the peak of $1200
I had the same confusion in the beginning. The BSI is responsible to fix the infrastructure, to report on the problem, etc. You might not be aware of the discussion regarding the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitutions involvement.

Remeber that this is not about the BSI.

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/cyberattacke-auf-bundesta...
I don't think morality has anything to do with this, unless you want to bring a marketing issue onto a high-ground that it frankly doesn't deserve. What body of ethics has anything to say about this?

I think part of the issue is that most of these services that base themselves on ads are inessential.

I don't care if reddit or gmail or last.fm goes down, I can always get another service that will step up and fill the niche. Grooveshark funded their service by ads, then it got taken down by a lawyer army, now I pay for a Spotify subscription.

When ads are present, they're part of the experience. And that means the experience, for some people, is shitty. People will prefer not to have shitty experiences. Some people decide to start out with the premise that they will make money off of ads, good luck to them. But it's not my moral obligation to accept it.
This has to be a false flag. Surely?

"But if I could flip a switch and make every man feel the persistent, gnawing fear that a woman has of men, I would in a heartbeat."

If that's intentional parody, it's brilliant. If not, I guess there's always therapy.
I spoke at a Ruby conference in Poland some years ago. All the talks were in English, and there were attendees from a number of different countries, including two busloads from Germany. Same thing for conferences in Norway, Sweden, and Spain. It seems that English is the default language for tech conferences in Europe.

That may not always be so, and one day I might be giving my talks in Mandarin. But for now, this does not seem unusual.
For me, gaming was about variety. I always hated games like CS, which all my friends played when I was young, because they always played the same maps. Same with StarCraft and later with DOTA or LoL. Which ended up being about skills and not about variety anymore.
Because within half an hour of being cleaned those toilets will be unusable again.
I belive you are the only one talking about the BSI, it's about a German secret service.

Ironically you repeated it under every post I made. ..while claiming I repeat mistakes you assume.

We Germans love the "conspiracy"-hammer even for minor contextual differences in our debate.
Are they incompetent or is this a result of unforeseeable circumstances?
You hardly need to be a genius to get through a CS degree without 'working your ass off'
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All in due time. This is a first public beta; I'd like it to get some testing from the community (including feedback on use cases) before I promote it too much to new users.
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.in/2013/10/going-beyond...
But according to the fed model [1] stock prices decline when interest rates rise. How do you account for that?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fed_model
A million upvotes for this.

It's mind pollution and the world would be better without it.
Your comment is even better set up. I can imagine in future articles will have "(bots ignore)" in the articles ;)
Uhm? There is another way to do ML.

We have hundreds of algos for ml, and all of them are fiddly with dozens of variables and other details to tweak. One of the first areas when venturing into ml is "you have to put in lots of analysis work".

I disagree.

Instead, I propose the following. Identify the problem at hand, and then select ml algos that you believe will solve it ideally. Use ml to tweak the variables for each algorithm to give best settings, then compare the top for ideal.

Why should I choose the algorithm when discussing ml when the machine can do it for me?
In that case, if the conference is in, say, New York or Miami, shouldn't that then need an explanation as well?
Only if you think of programming languages as an individual golf-club.

Put it this way: Is there a conference for professional basketball, baseball AND ice hockey players? I'm not even aware of anyone who managed to go pro in two of those, not to mention all three.

Most programmers have a preferred domain and language. Once you scale past a pet project and have a decently sized team, specializations start to occur, especially as the code base grows beyond what one person can hold in memory.

I'm reminded of the saying "jack of all trades, master of none".
This is an attack on the Parliament, not the executive. Only very few parliamentarians actually work with sensitive data.
Forcing a tool to do something it was not designed to do adds complexity, maintenance overhead, and is bad engineering.
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They all look similar because they are all constructed from the same pre-fabricated panels, like this Chinese building. The interesting thing to me is seeing the slow change of the designs over time. In Puchov they have about four series of designs. Fifty buildings but all one of the four basic designs.
Interesting graphs, reaffirms for us that MongoDB was and remains the right choice. Performance as well as pragmatic.
Best of all? It always infuriates the hipper than thou muppets here on HN!
Excellent!
Indeed.

When tobacco advertising was banned in the UK, tobacco profits soared because they no longer had to take part in the arms race.
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I was referring to creation of hydrogen, helium and traces of some others like lithium.

Thinking about what you said I think necessary condition to get big bang hydrogen/helium ratio is that although there must be very high energy density we must not have too much of gravitational confinement because that would spark fusion and mess up the ratio bringing to closer to what we have currently in the universe.
What Javascript needs is a way to deterministically (re)run it, so that errors can be traced.
I remember, from the commentaries for The Lord Of The Rings, Peter Jackson saying that Cristopher Lee used his experience in the war to suggest how to make some death scenes more realistic. For sure he had a varied life.
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There's the story of filming the scene in Lord of the Rings where Saruman is stabbed in the back by Wormtongue.

From Peter Jackson's DVD commentary:

When I was shooting the stabbing shot with Christopher, as a director would I was explaining to him what he should do"... "And he says, 'Peter, have you ever heard the sound a man makes when he’s stabbed in the back?' And I said, 'Um, no.' And he says 'Well, I have, and I know what to do.'"
Yeah, to be honest it's a nice try but it didn't work out.

Maybe all it needs is more training time, lower temperature (and maybe some more disney songs or related ones)
A brief overview: bg is meant to be a simple interface for adding background audio while you work or relax.

I'm the dev. Let me know what you think :)
In my experience, Clojure performs rather well. I used to use Python for what I now use Clojure and it seems to outperform that.

Sure, Java and C++ perform better still. I don't feel like Clojure is trying to compete with them on performance, rather Clojure is competing with the dynamic languages and allows you to drop down to lower levels (type hints, Java interop) when you do need more performance. Developer productivity first, performance second.

If I need C++ performance, then I use C++ because few languages can compete with that, but for most of my work (web development), I don't need to.
To achieve pro-level in first place, you must already master most of the game.

This leaves the difference between pro-players being one or two specific things.

Faker in particular, what he meant in that phrase, in the game translates to: "I can see the future".

I used to play Dota (before LoL existed) with a guy with that particular hability, it was utterly annoying, the only way to win against him was to use all your other skills perfectly, because he was always several steps ahead of you and if you made a mistake, he would use it against you.

Example of a game against such players: he notices you are not on his minimap (MOBAs usually use standard RTS minimap), then he thinks a bit, and deduces where you went, suppose you are retreating after getting too damaged after a mistake, then he deduces that you are doing that, deduces where you will be, and deduces that he can get there before you, then he goes there, wait for you to pass while retreating, and kills you, then he helps his teammates that were fighting you to advance their position.

Compare that to a master player that DON'T do that: suppose the guy main skill is to always win 1vs1 fights. You are gone from the map.. the guy DOES notice, but he does not know where you went, so he waits until you return, he might still figure a way to draw you out and win a fight, but probably won't help his team much.

Yes, there are players that are really good at killing enemies, and rack very high individual scores, but that don't make their team win.
Eh, if you like you hand(s), you really want a fair amount of mass so it's just not your hand, arm, etc. providing the inertia resisting recoil. Also makes a difference for followup shots.

But there is a niche for the single shot or so derringer, or quasi "zip guns" like the Defense Distributed or original Liberators. Just not my kind of thing, I carry a full albeit aluminium alloy frame, 4 inch barrel M1911 that weights 1.75 pounds empty, which is very much at the other end of the spectrum except for being narrow, which is important for concealablity.
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YAGNI revisited
Yes, I guess not even H2 is much stable in stars.

I would expect that in planet formation situations
What's stopping you from doing that, exactly?
Development projects stall for many reasons among them are modifications of the developer's pro forma that reduce the viability of a project - interest rates go up, the cost of construction goes up, rents go down, local occupancy rates dip, etc. etc. The technology has the potential for some small incremental change to the real-estate development process, but it doesn't alter the underlying market forces where a housing shortage of 3000 dwellings is identified and twelve developers each throw up a "coming in 2017" signboard on some piece of land for an 1800 dwelling project. It's not enough to be out front of the pack with construction, what really matters is business intelligence.

Which is a round about way of suggesting that despite bureaucracy and resistance from entrenched traditions, that real-estate development ideas are much like startups: most run out of money and are worth zero. Unlike startups, the upper bound on profit is low, but their potential persists owing to the real nature of real property - land doesn't go anywhere.
RIP.

IMDB lists 281 acting credits, from 1946 to 2016.
Looks interesting, especially in concert with the proposed bind syntax. Fortunately, that syntax is in Babel now, so we can play with these ideas straight away.

That being said, the readme did not address why Ramda uses the data as the last parameter and not as `this`: To facilitate partial application.
Again, it's not about the BSI.
I can imagine a shotgun shell using ceramic pellets (probably with non-spheroid polygonal shapes, for extra damage). The shell base could be a problem, I'm not familiar with what you could use similar to brass to withstand the gasses and form a seal at the breech. Primers are such a tiny amount of metal, I don't think they would get picked up - I have more metal in the screws from when I broke my foot.
Vim is my preferred editor, and I code Scala for a living, but I use IDEA for it. The main reasons are:

- The ability to safely rename identifiers.

- The confidence that the "Find usages" tool gives on a large code base (search just doesn't cut it).

- Immediate, contextual syntax error information.

- Excellent auto-complete.

- Quickly navigate to declaration.

- Syntax-aware indentation.

I usually have an sbt session open that is either running unit tests or running a Play Framework server (with auto-reload).
> Rising interest rates make it unattractive to hold long-term bonds. For example, when interest rates jump from 3% to 4%, the net present value of 10-year bond drops by 10%. So as soon as investors believe that the turning point has come, the rational reaction is to sell bonds, amplifying the raise in interest rates even more.

The rational reaction for a trader that believes they know more than the market and are looking to realize gain today. On the other hand, if an investor knows they have liabilities that match what a long term bond offers and are fully funded, and they don't care for second-guessing every other day, they're likely to not move out, or to move out a bit only.

> Then again, it is very hard to predict such things.

Indeed. Though as / when / if interest rates rise, how they do so at different points on the yield curve can suggest interesting things.

Just as long term bonds are at unnaturally high prices, I postulate that stocks are too, based on PEs over the past 10 decades or so (very Shiller). Might be worth looking elsewhere. Inexpensive (not cheap) real estate makes a huge amount of sense, especially in developed countries where a huge inflow of capital is flowing, and with easy visa deals, will continue to.
We're not talking about using a tool for something that it wasn't designed to do, rather using a tool for something it was designed to do, but which might still only be second or third best tool for your particular job.

Calling a Common Lisp function from your Rail project might not be the best solution to your problem all things considered even if the Ruby version of that function is both slower and less elegant than the CL version.
> selling to the highest bidder

Have they ever done this? Or even shown any interest to sell a business unit they own?
I've found that most English people have at least heard of Scottish notes but don't realise Northern Ireland also has its own notes, in several different designs issued by different banks, and so are even less likely to accept an NI note than a Scottish one. Whenever I go over I try to spend all my NI notes before I come home.

I don't think the way Northern Bank notes now say Danske Bank on them instead is going to help me convince shops around here (non-London England) to take them either...

Last time I was in Belfast I got an Isle of Man fiver in my change - I don't fancy my chances of spending it here but I'd never seen one before so I'm just going to keep it for novelty value.
I don't want to see any ads. Ever.

In the UK we have the BBC, with no ads.
I pay for Netflix and NowTv, so I can watch movies and tv with no ads.
I pay for spotify and get no ads.

For the web I run adblock on as many devices as I can because I hate them. I am perfectly happy to have this detected and my access blocked.

I'd go as far as setting a 'will not render' header in my http requests if that made it even easier.

I don't want to rip anyone off but neither do I want branded brain-pollution.
Without attacking Google, the consensus is that Google Launches {Project} is not anymore news than it is a long sigh and a jaded response of "Oh Google just launched another project, go Google. Now to work on my side project".
The Hydrogen-Helium ratio is very related to the details of the Big Bang. From http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/astro/hydhel.html

> Basically, the hydrogen-helium abundance helps us to model the expansion rate of the early universe. If it had been faster, there would be more neutrons and more helium. If it had been slower, more of the free neutrons would have decayed before the deuterium stability point and there would be less helium.
We did - hopefully you enjoyed it. We are talking with the maintainers of the sublime plugin to bring it into the ensime org and I'm trying to a vaguely working version out in the next few days.
The description of these buildings reminds me of the 'lifeboat city' eco-doom-meme that was floating around for a while seemingly inspired by Lovelock's idea of 'lifeboat islands' or geographic areas that will weather the coming catastrophe well enough to continue supporting a sustainable society.

While I don't agree with really any of the above doomsaying or wild speculation I am somewhat fond of the idea of packing up the modern anthropic world into self contained bubbles.

This shouldn't, however, be a license to run rampant across the newly freed land with industry or to simply stack these habitats as tightly as possible to increase density. The opposite should be true, provide a clean, comfortable, and efficient location for people to live and do business while freeing up the rest of the land for enjoyment and recreation or sustainable food production.
Great! Now the federal government is involved too :D I'm not sure this is a service I want the feds to provide.

All I mean is that your application (e-mail req for a ship) is processed by a human, and there's incentive to keep it that way (because there are objectively not enough 32-bit numbers for everyone to get their own.)

If you don't have one, you can still get on the network, you just have a 128-bit identity. It would be relatively easy to blacklist all of them if it becomes a case of abuse. At the scale of Reddit, you would probably need the help and intervention of the government (or at least some multiple of current staff devoted solely to new user onboarding) to prevent an impossibly large backlog from forming.

Maybe I'm overestimating the number of unique individual new users that sign up to reddit every day.
Not sure about your agenda and why you spill inaccuracies and distort what articles say with a tendency to promote Russian SWR goals.

1. The problem arose because the parliamentarians did not use experts from the BSI but have no clue but do it on their own with their own people. The BSI protected government network is not affected.

2. The German interior intelligence agency is not "involved" as you put it - what agenda do you have? - the article says parliamentarians need to decide if they want to ask the counterespionage department of the German interior intelligence agency, what some don't want.
Exponential time hypothesis implies P!=NP, but converse is not true. It is possible that SAT takes subexponential but superpolynomial time.
No company gets hiring right. Accepting that is step one to rethinking hiring.
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Yes, hire cleaners to staff the restrooms and charge a small amount to use them. Its not rocket science, it works (see European train stations), and it puts people to work. Its a shame we don't have more of that here in the USA.
People can read on their own that it is about the BSI, contrary to your propaganda. Go back to the Spiegel or Zeit forums, where Russian trolls usually spend their time.
For any nontrivial service that wants to build a large audience, something with the glacial performance of Laravel (and I use Laravel, so I'm not completely knocking it) has the downside that things you would normally do when much more mature crop up earlier. Like having to worry about horizontal scaling, or rewriting parts of your app in another language.

I'm not quite sure where L5's performance gets sunk so badly, but it really is a lot slower than earlier variants of the framework. About the only thing slower is Rails, really!

... and unlike Rails, Laravel hasn't had the stability and ecosystem to make those things really easy. Hopefully this LTS plan will change that a wee bit, but we'll see.
The only cast member of LOTR to meet Tolkien. Tolkien also gave him permission to play a role if they ever turned his books into a movie.

He gave him permission to play Gandalf, funnily enough.
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Will be interesting to see the 'alpha' test results, interested in seeing how the MongoDB 3.2 series would perform there
>Writing a package manager (been done before, a lot of times) is far different from writing machine learning algorithms (new field, blazing the trail for the industry). One requires an engineer, one requires a scientist.

I mean, a package manager is probably far more rooted in computer science than machine learning (which is basically just applied statistics: software engineering edition).
Looks cool.

Not sure I get why installing `babel-runtime` would be something you'd have as a separate install step though, since there is no guarantee that the user would install the right version.
A building is == at least in some dimensions == much simpler than contemporary IT. Guilding systems are much more amenable to static analysis than a flight of networked computers and the rate of dynamic change is on the order of tens of seconds even in the worst cases [barring explosion or brittle failure].