skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm probably in the minority, but I've always found that anything other than constant-coloured text on a constant-coloured background with a high contrast to be more distracting than helpful.

It appears I'm not the only one:

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/
The A-10 can take an enormous amount of punishment. Rumour has it that the F-35 can be shot down with an AK-47. There are a lot of AK-47s in the world.

And the great thing of the A-10 is that it can give close air support. It doesn't have to stay out of reach, it can get right up close so the pilot can see what's going on and shoot the right thing and not the other thing right next to it. The F-35 will have to stay out of reach and pepper the battlefield with long range weaponry.
I love Java's behaviour. It gives a few false positives as you've noticed, but you can fix that just by doing

Object a = null;

and go on your way. You do run the risk of a null pointer exception if you don't assign it a valid object reference, though.
There will be plenty of people at the conference worried about the same exact thing you are. So by coming and talking to them, you will likely be doing them a favor. Now they can talk to you and not have to pretend to check email.

Once at the conference, people will ask you what it is you do, where do you come from, and other ice-breaking questions. Think of a longer answer to these questions that give the other party a chance to keep the conversation going. For example, instead of saying, "I am a software developer" you may say, "I work as a software developer in this small agency in Chicago, and in my spare time I am working on a pet project that's going to help developers keep track of bugs." Now people can tell you that they've been to Chicago or how much they hate/love bug tracking tools. And you take it from there.

What I found easiest is try to be a part of group conversations. This way the weight is not entirely on you to keep the conversation going, and you may instead jump in here and there as you feel comfortable.

Good luck!
Scaled across millions of people the difference will be next to nothing. They're inflating the prices exponentially because "everyone else is doing it".
The article is a bit hyperbole but truthfully folks do think like this. My other half has bought into the private school and insanly priced brands mantra. Everyone successful and older than us is saying you _need_ to send your kids to private school pretty much from the start, but I can't really do the Math and see anything but a life of struggling for money it requires.

Combine this with property prices and I'm actually willing to believe the £500,000 figure isn't far off to have the same life as their parents generation have been able to achieve, but alas I grew up poor and I don't subscribe to needing any of this sillyness.
web designer != marketer

Some companies will cash in with great (good is not enough) and distinct design, others will not - they just need a marketer and a $10 bootstrap theme. Some need both.

Everywhere we read comments like: "Ugly converts better". This really means that marketing strategies convert better than good design separately, not necessarily that ugly is better. By the other hand - normally - ugly design decreases your desirability and trustability/credibility. Imagine Stripe launching with the old Paypal design or Apple without their design.

A big (huge) problem for designers is that in all artistic careers the barriers to enter the market are very low. Give a design assignment to a random person. Most people would make it, probably with low quality but the work would be done. This lowers the value of average to good professional designers as their work is not very distinct from the hobbyist work. Only great or "lucky" designers will make a confortable living. By the other side an average technical worker will make a confortable living from it.

Another problem is that artistic work is easy to copy: very soon your great design will not be distinct anymore. Time to start from zero again..

Pursuing an artistic career is great for your soul but terrible for your pockets. Along the line most give up, the "stubborn" survive and only few "hit a lottery ticket" and make a confortable living from it.
What a wonderful blank white page. It really tells the story of secret code breaking. It is still so secret that nobody can know anything about it.
Regrettably, this is one of those posts that are extremely hard to read because of the eye-unfriendly color scheme. Light content on dark background is obviously hard to do well, so _please_ stick with what you're good at?

This is meant as sincere constructive critique, so feel free to downvote ad libitum.
Even though I was firmly in the Andre-camp as a kid, I can’t but help the words of a genius. Witnessing the Sampras-Agassi rivaly is one of my best memories growing up. I remember how much of an effect it had on me and my desire to get out on the court and whack a ball.

More than that though, it think Sampras’ words ring true regardless of your occupation. Don’t sweat the small stuff, celebrate every success, appreciate the people you have in your life.

Great way to start the day.
Using a more modern terminal won't make vim magically change it's color scheme.
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Google hacked account
Despite Google boasting of hiring the best engineers. Their system give us mortals hope that our applications are not so bad after all.
Let me explain the pain I am going through to recover my hacked gmail account.
First, there is no way to talk to someone, their responses are canned, and to top it off, they send you to a link to submit a password request.

So far not a problem, but the email you get back after sending the password reset request contains a link to a page that allows you to cancel the request (not sure the genius who had this idea).
Now that the email is hacked, the hacker can read the emails and click to cancel the recovery process. And the vicious cycle continues.

What to do?
This should be an error and you should be required to write

int i = 0; // or some other default value
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Drivers not knowing the area, getting lost, etc are not restricted to Uber/Lyft - I've had many taxi rides in the US where the driver has no idea how to get places - in SF/NYC/LA/BOS/DC -- so not even restricted to 1 city.
Sure, you can minimise the relevance of the "discrepancy" and claim that the author isn't entitled, but the entire enterprise of this article is based on the premise of discovering whether these really are the "minimum" living costs. Is it a "discrepancy" or is it the way the author sees the world?

The end of the article even asks: "Frugalists: With such a cost structure, where would you start saving first?"

Not "lower earners", but "frugalists". That's people who earn £500k but don't necessarily want to spend it all. The author isn't even addressing the paupers who only earn £250k, or the near-beggars who only earn £100k.
Only skimmed the article but it looks like it's, "F-35 can't dogfight" followed by a lot of author opinions and rants. My question is, was the F-35 created to ever be put into a situation where it would be in a dogfight? B-1 bombers can't dogfight either.

It seems like he's pretending that we have, or will have, no other fighter jets remaining.
So why don't ground-to-air missiles make all fighters obsolete?

(If the answer is that they lack "mid-course updates from it's firing aircraft," that sounds like something that could be jammed.)
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I could never work at a dump like these places again.

My day would consist of:

Alright lets get some work done. Oh, crap, Kevin is here and he is getting his coffee. Yep, slurp slurp slurp burp slurp slurp. Thank god that is over. Oh wait, he is eating one of those huge carrots again. Where the hell does he buy those? I doubt a horse could bite through one.
EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH! EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH! EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH! EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH! EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH!
EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH!
EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH!
EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH!
Even noise cancelling headphones can't dampen this noise.
EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH!
EARTH SHATTERING CRUNCH!

Finally, he is done. Oh, wait, another cup of coffee. SLuuuuuuuuURP! And now he is on the phone talking to his cousin about sportsball again at loud levels and laughing every 10 seconds.

Well, I now have a massive headache, no way I will be able to concentrate hard enough to do anything.
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I wrote a program like this which is still in development... albeit a bit slow atm. https://etopian.com/software/automatic-screenshots-windows-m...
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To a group of suitably trained engineers operating in the confined solution space of high manoeuvrability turbojet aircraft with human pilots, could enough information be gleaned from what is freely available knowledge and understanding? Is theft necessary?
Why is something limited in highlighting because it's a text editor and not an IDE? Highlighting is about text so it's quite a core feature of an editor.
That looks really interesting, though I wonder about the energy losses in the pumping mechanism. Are pistons particularly efficient?

As an added bonus, they're based just down the road from me!
This is the part that I don't understand. The original aim of the EU was to create a single domestic market. A year ago when the canceling of roaming charges was first proposed, no such safeguard was mentioned. So indirectly this would have really created a single domestic market with far-reaching consequences. Apparently the big telcoms managed to get their boy, Oettinger, to safeguard their small country markets from competition. Pisses me off.
Net neutrality becomes law in the EU
The UK had 113 Typhoons in 2013 and Germany had 112. When they're all delivered, the UK will have 160 and Germany 140. France has 95 Rafales and will eventually have 180. Sweden is not NATO, but has around 130 Gripens. Norway and Denmark have around 90 F16s between them, though you probably wouldn't call them modern. Not sure what the US has deployed in Europe.

Edit: not really modern, but Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland have another 150 F16s between them. Poland also has 30 or so MIG 29s.
> A lot of problems—economic, environmental, war, poverty, food and water availability, bad side effects of globalization, etc.—are deeply related to the energy problem.

It's worth pointing out that the problems enumerated above are partly the consequence of energy becoming cheap and available during the last century (coal, oil, etc) not lack of it.
But the main reasons are the dominating philosophical and ethical standards of humanity during the energy boom.
Cheap energy + wrong philosophy = bad application of energy = problems enumerated above.

So if you want to tackle any of those problems, you have to work on both variables in that equation, just increasing the availability of energy without raising awareness of how to apply it, will lead to unsatisfactory results in the long term.
Real estate is the biggest struggle.

A 3.5-bed family home in Clapham is around £1m, a 4% payment on which would consume their entire net income!

source - http://www.londonpropertywatch.co.uk/avg_prices.html
Nice to hear someone is having the same problem as me :). Your solution sounds nice, you still have to restart things but you kind of automated that part. Maybe I'll end up doing the same, for now I'll try to explore more possibilities. For example, `help remote.txt` could help.
Better yet, set a variable to Date.now since it's called twice.
Try PriceZombie - over 100 stores and it does price comparison between them.
off course if you can find someone nsa didn't spy on. ;)
There is imho very good exploration movie "Alone in the Zone"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2889518/

trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti8uwMDgBLU

creator's site:

http://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/?lg=en
Could this be implemented as a user-owned SSL mitm proxy and deep-packet inspection engine which is accessed by a VPN from all your interactive devices? Low-power home IoT devices would already be inside the VPN.
> why are our governments not doing it

They are.

http://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/agriculture-and-food-securit...

https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/hunger-and-malnutriti...
It's a small independent primary school founded 80 years ago and still located in the original founder's house (and out buildings). It's a non-profit so all fees go to the upkeep of the school. Classes are about 15 students. Those fees don't include any trips or uniforms I don't think, and it's about a mile from the house we're buying so it's definitely day :-)

The main thing that's attractive about it is the focus on the "person development" side of the child's education (in addition to excellent academics). Last time I went to my oldest daughter's parents evening the whole content was: "Well, she's at so-and-so percentile for this subject and such-and-such metric this and that". Nothing at all about how she is as a person, or anything beyond the metrics that Ofstead judges schools on. She's 7!
Zzzzzz
this has gone from one of the shocking news in the world to a regular occurrence that its not much a news anymore.
When the machine gun was invented, Europeans congratulated themselves that they were the only ones with machine guns. After all, such a nasty weapon of mass death wouldn't be something that Europeans would ethically use on other Europeans.

That didn't last long.
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Chernobyl exclusion zone right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxqkhojFiU
It's like they are trying to prevent competition within EU and maintain local monopolies.

That's exactly the purpose of EU; regulate commerce by creating a system of quotas, preventing free competition but reducing the need for tariffs. Milk, cheese, produce, fishing, etc. This is perfectly in line with that idea.

And I believe both the EU Commission and the majority of the EU Parliament is supposed to be "right-wing" this time around.

Right-wing in a good part of Europe means they don't actively oppose regulated markets, not that they're free-market supporters. That's center-right, of course; actual right-wing usually means "fascist" (and opposes the EU itself).

Actual free-market supporters can't even get the required signatures to form a party in most European countries, let alone get elected.
A few years ago I put a tiny game in a data uri in a QR code, unfortunately I lost the QR code, but I thought it was a neat concept.
£40,000 of salaried income is currently £30,287 net, after £5,880 income tax and £3,832 national insurance.
> A combination of MOND and dark matter matches most observations very well, far better than dark matter in isolation.

Isn't that unsurprising that a theory with more degrees of freedom can fit the data better? It's hard to say if this is interesting without knowing if it fits data significantly enough better to make up for the extra parameters. Dark matter (well, Lambda-CDM) is appealing for being able to fit a wide range of observations with a fairly simple model that's entirely compatible with GR.
The IDE idea is fantastic... Sort of like a real-time git. It would be absolutely invaluable as a learning tool.
It definitely is. If you can vote for the Mayor of London, then you live in London.
> Play hard, do it on your own terms and stay true to yourself. Do that, and you can’t go wrong.

So true in life..
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> This will probably lead to a TON of consolidation in the EU, and over the next 5 years you will end up with 4 to 5 big players.

The markets are mostly dominated by companies with coverage of most of the EU already, really. Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telenor, Telefónica, Orange…
My question is, was the F-35 created to ever be put into a situation where it would be in a dogfight?

Yes. It was created to be a multirole fighter - including air superiority.
Surely, "As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, it became part of the ABI and had to be maintained."
Belgium has 160 F-16s altogether.
Now please explain blurb/nth-blurb :)
Sure HN is global but mostly for english speaking people where your chinese clones are only for chinese people.

I wish your country would open more to people. The language and the writing system is just too difficult for foreigners to learn in any reasonable time.
Usually because the text editor is limited to regular expression and region matching, while the IDE parses the language into an AST so it knows what each bit actually means.
It's working just fine as a (barely) flying side of pork.

Not so much as a military aircraft.

It seems no one is wondering what happens now - which is unfortunate, because there are serious strategic implications.
If the purpose of the simulation is to simulate us, then it would make sense for it to not bother computing anything we don't measure.
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Have been using solarized since a long time. Just love it.
UPEI has digital library system called Islandora[1] that does this sort of thing. I worked for them for about 6 months. It's a set of Drupal modules that interact with the Fedora[2] Repository (not the OS). They're pretty successful, with hundreds of installations all over the world. They have been scanning hundreds, if not thousands of books, newspapers, and maps so that they can be stored digital and accessed freely.

One example I think is pretty interesting is Island Newspapers [3] where they have scanned every issue of a newspaper in PEI, Canada called the Guardian going back to 1890.

[1] http://islandora.ca/islandora-installations

[2] http://fedorarepository.org/

[3] http://islandnewspapers.ca/
20 years on and I still remember that 1995 Australian Open final, one of the most intense and beautiful sporting events I've ever watched on TV. I was in the Pete Sampras camp, if it matters :)
This still seems more limited than the Mathematica syntax, which includes postfix operators, for example. I also appreciate that parentheses are used only for grouping, not for function calling and such. I'm not saying this couldn't have been done with Macsyma or on top of Lisp more generally (indeed, that would be nice), or that Mathematica wasn't influenced by Macsyma; I'm saying that purely for syntax, I think Mathematica ended up with a better, more extensive, and easier-to-use system than pretty much any other language.
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Related or just a coincidence?

> An Obama Administration official tells Re/code that recent advances in using automated methods to analyze software code for vulnerabilities have spurred interest in government circles to see if there’s a way to standardize how software is tested for security and safety.

https://recode.net/2015/06/29/famed-security-researcher-mudg...

I just wonder what will happen to Google's Project Vault [1] now that Mudge is gone. Hopefully it will still be on track.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qrQzn8uBo
So the Solarized home page starts off with this paragraph:

> Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications. It has several unique properties. I designed this colorscheme with both precise CIELAB lightness relationships and a refined set of hues based on fixed color wheel relationships. It has been tested extensively in real world use on color calibrated displays (as well as uncalibrated/intentionally miscalibrated displays) and in a variety of lighting conditions.

I'm assuming this means it's giving a criterion to "measure" how good it is in a not-entirely-subjective-way. That always bothers me about selecting a theme. I have no idea if it's good or bad in any standard measurable way.

I look at these themes and can't really tell what it's "unique properties" or anything interesting about it just by looking at it.
I earn 1400euros of net income monthly. My mother earns around 500euros of net income monthly. Thank you for showing me my shitlife in Slovakia :)
My Danish phone company 3 (which does business in a lot of different countries as well) offers a service called 3LikeHome.

3LikeHome lets you roam in 18 different countries, the data used is taken from your allowance, and you can call home for normal price.

I am a dane living in London, and even though they say it isn't for longer stays abroad, I have been using my danish number in the UK for over a year without any issues.

I guess there is no reasons for alternative roaming provides when regular phone companies makes these changes themselves.
I think the main problem is that the prices telecom providers have to pay for roaming data will be higher, than the selling price to customers, resulting in losses for telecom providers. The only way to counter that is increasing domestic prices.

Brussels makes rules, but doesnt understand the market and industry.
So what about those on Android?
We need to talk about startups…
>The downside is that a majority will have to pay higher overall fees for the benefit of a minority (those travelling regularly aboard)

I am 99% sure that for most of the phone companies a call in a home country and outside of it costs the same. Especially, for companies with subsidiaries all over the world such as vodafone and tmobile
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Ahh yes, I keep forgetting about national insurance, the other income tax! ;^)
The UK already has taxes on vacant properties — they're just (obviously) not high enough to stop what's happening in London, where the growth in value far exceeds the taxes.
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That's a charge that applies equally well to the standard formulation and I made this comment just to say that it IS cool you can deeplink the Feynman lectures!
Of course. Yes I realise that my post might have seemed like that. There should clearly be a joint strategy.

However, as I understand it the US Army currently can't have fixed wing planes (although they can have helicopters) yet are the ones that need close air support and also understand what is needed from it best.
"""Luckily, you’ll be out of the game before these things called Twitter and Facebook come around. Be thankful for that. One day you’ll understand what I mean."""

NFL players listen to this man.
"Richmond is a great location. This property benefits from a spacious luxury bathroom, and a generously-proportioned outside courtyard."
I have colors switched off in most of my editors, but I have found that having a distinction between code and comments (particularly multi-line comments) helps to avoid confusion.
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So do "schemaless databases".
One reason they're retiring the A-10 is wiring. It's inadequate for all the electronics they want to upgrade and to expensive to replace because the design is so tight you'd have to gut the plane.

I imagine the option of having a microwaved Hot Pocket on a long mission without blowing the fuses would be nice.
We have some shiny new carriers due soon, of vast expense and questionable competence, so they're a perfect match for the F35.

It's almost as if everyone decided to plan for a war but no one was competent enough to bring weapons.

Maybe everyone involved can try boring and nickel-and-diming each other to death.
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Well, you can use this and not restart the terminal https://github.com/sos4nt/dynamic-colors
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These are total numbers not deployed numbers right? The UK certainly does not have 113 Typhoons ready to fly right now and defend UK airspace...