skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That clause simply adds "make use of" to the beginning of the existing paragraph in the existing legislation[0]:

(a)to monitor or interfere with electromagnetic, acoustic and other emissions and any equipment producing such emissions and to obtain and provide information derived from or related to such emissions or equipment and from encrypted material; and

They're still bound by the second clause in it:

(2)The functions referred to in subsection (1)(a) above shall be exercisable only—
(a)in the interests of national security, with particular reference to the defence and foreign policies of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom; or
(b)in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom in relation to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands; or
(c)in support of the prevention or detection of serious crime.

[0] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/13/crossheading/gch...
These these videos feel like they're following a script. Even the titles of all the videos are the same. "MMM Global Pays <amount>!"
I wonder if Google Trends is confusing 'basic income' with people searching for 'basic income tax'. There tend to be mini-spikes always in February and March; when most people file their taxes.
It's worth remembering that a pension is not an asset you own but rather a liability on the company's balance sheet and can be discharged in any one of a number of ways. I vastly prefer 401(k)s, IRAs or even taxable investment accounts because you not only actually own them, but they allow employees to decide for themselves how much they want to save for the future.
Right, what we will see is financial institutions creating their own branded crypto-currencies and fixing their values in USD. For most people, the main benefit for crypto-currencies is the ability to transfer just like cash. For financial institutions, the primary driver is fraud reduction.

Bitcoin was always just an experiment to work out the kinks and get people to accept the notion of crypto-currencies. It has no long-term viability as an exchange medium, since it will be quickly superseded by institutional competitors which can provide the stability that businesses need to operate.
The channel debuted with Fox as an equity partner. The transaction last month was the magazine and the rest of the TV channel.
104 Days with a $100 Android Smartphone
reminds me of the Secret Life of Walter Mitty where traditional film and paper were being replaced by digital media
There's probably a startup for that
I agree that this was my worst talk up to date and I would rather not have it submitted.

Hint: Giving an ill-prepared talk is even worse than listening to one :).
They do have a travel agency. http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com
SSC: MEAT Your DOOM
Speech of a depressed mind
I had tried Effexor, Proxac and Wellbutrin over the years with modest success. About five years ago, when I was going through a super-bad depression, my sister mentioned that she had tried and liked Zoloft. So I asked for that and have been off and on with it (currently on) since then.

It makes a huge difference. My mind doesn't wander into dark places as much, and when it does I'm able to redirect my thoughts somewhere else.

Also, with Zoloft I don't feel like I'm "on" something. I just feel normal.

The downside is it pretty much makes orgasm impossible, though I can temporarily get that back if I go off it for a couple days. This year I resolved to stay on it for all of 2015, because in the past I would often do it for 7-8 months, think "I feel great!" and wean myself off. I'll re-evaluate next spring.

Also, some supplements I take make a significant difference in energy levels. I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue around the same time I started Zoloft. I did a saliva test and it turns out my cortisol is very low in the morning, making it hard to get out of bed and get going. The biggest impacts there seem to be from Rhodiola Rosea and DHEA, but I also take fish oil, B vitamins (see below) and a couple other things.

I also got a genetic test and found that I have the [heterozygous MTHFR mutation[(http://doccarnahan.blogspot.com/2013/05/mthfr-gene-mutation-...), and I take Deplin for that, though I believe non-prescription forms are available. That also seems to help with energy levels.

And I also do an annual-ish [SpectraCell](http://www.spectracell.com/) test through a local practitioner. From that we discovered that my B vitamins and testosterone were low (I'm in my late 40s so the testosterone change is not a surprise). I actually just completed another test and will get the results next week.

Finally, in the last three weeks I cut out all sugar and simple carbs. I've done that in the past but allowed a weekly "cheat day" that inevitably led me to fall off the wagon. This time I am very strict and I feel as energetic as I ever have in my life.

I don't thing cutting out sugar all by itself is the answer. Rather it's a combination of all these things that helps me develop the discipline and willpower around diet and exercise. Cutting out sugar does seem to prevent afternoon fatigue and general mood swings.
Why YC companies? There are lots of other startups out there (some of which even using .NET).
Show HN: Jupyter a11y – an infant nbextension for better screen reading
1) Where is Greetings defined ?

2) Spanish ?
Pavimentos industriales
Pex: library for generating executable Python environments
ESR: FEMALE ADVOCACY ARE TRYING TO FRAME LINUS TORVALDS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT
Good to know that I'm not the only one who's noticed this. It used to be my favorite paper, but I'm disappointed with the direction it's taken lately.
It seems to me if you're caught doing that you risk quite a bit of your future chances at an office job in a growing economy. I guess everyone has to make their own choices.
What this translates to for the casual weed smoker: only take 1 or 2 drags of a joint. And only a joint (no pipes or bongs or whatever).
I wonder how many usernames are filling up the landfills?
Here's an interesting brief-read: http://lifeprocessprogram.com/lp-blog/library/the-persistent...

Here's a paper about treating opiate addicts with pure heroin and it having positive effects: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008....

If you read up pretty much any information about the dangers of heroin, you will see that they are overdose (which you can prevent by using the right amounts), risk when mixed with other drugs (including alcohol), and risk surrounding it (e.g. sharing needles, committing crimes to afford it, etc.) You're still as likely to get addicted, but if you know the dose you're putting into your body you'll probably be fine.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Adverse_effects) cites "Merck Manual of Home Health Handbook – 2nd edition, 2003, p. 2097" for the following statement: "Like most opioids, unadulterated heroin does not cause many long-term complications other than dependence and constipation." Followed by "...purity levels between 40% and 60%; this variation has led to people suffering from overdoses as a result"

Pure Heroin is actually prescribed as a legal drug in some countries, e.g. the UK: http://patient.info/medicine/diamorphine and once inside your body is almost exactly the same as morphine that is prescribed as a painkiller in most countries. These drugs, when prescribed (and therefore completely pure and dosage known), very rarely cause problems for their users other than tolerance build-up and potential for users to use recreationally without knowing what dose to use.

So stop being rude and go do some Googling yourself, or ask any doctor the next time you go see one / are in a hospital, and they'll tell you the same thing.
I'm curious what you mean by "victim of speculation".

Speculative market participants smooth price imbalances in most markets.
Microsoft announces OneDrive storage plan downgrades
Because those terms are the propaganda of the machine, reused again and again by major media. They build up enthusiasm for the current startup culture in the general culture until part of your aunt's retirement fund has been invested in sketchy tech ventures. These terms need to be called out.
So what? Just because you have sentimental feelings towards NatGeo doesn't mean they have to adhere to what you seem suitable to be their business model. If they leave a void of unfulfilled demand, it will be filled and quickly, don't fret about it.
Right - I should have been clearer when I wrote 'more software' which, to me, means more complex software.

So our needs change over time towards better and better software but there might be a ceiling to software needs for the majority of applications.
It sadly means unwashed masses, including your administration and your bosses, are hostile to rationality, and to their own peril. But we all know that.
JavaScript quiz, ES6 edition
> We have orders of magnitude faster hardware as you say but the software is still slow as molasses.

Modern Lisps, at least, are fast enough, albeit not often as fast as or faster than C.
If truck driver is a most common job then the future looks pretty bleak. There are billions of dollars behind making driving any and all vehicles obsolete.

I wonder if people know that Google, Amazon, Tesla and even Apple are hard at work at killing their jobs!

Don't get me wrong, driver-less future is a nice future! But a lot of people may get caught off guard.
Unfortunately this results in constant annoying prompts.

I don't know what OSX does, but it seems like I'm prompted to escalate far less often than I would be on a high UAC system. How do the requirements compare?
Kubernetes itself doesn't have a steep learning curve.

Setting up and configuring a Kubernetes cluster by hand does have a steep learning curve. I had spent more time trying to get Kubernetes up and running than I have actually using it.

Actually using Kubernetes is fairly straight-forward (once you get it up and running). It solves many of the pain points with seriously using containers in a development workflow. Though, I ended up writing a Ruby framework to bridge the gap -- but that's the point. Kubernetes exposes a set of primitives onto which I can build on top of. So I'm not entirely sure where the "opinionated" bit comes from.
>-Don't trust any model that implies X is too low unless it's also capable of detecting when X would be too high

I think that's a fairly flaky heuristic. There's no point at which a nation's GDP could be considered "too high", although some of the tradeoffs necessary to increase economic growth beyond a certain point may diminish net utility.

I prefer a heuristic along the lines of "Don't trust any argument that doesn't explicitly state the other side of the cost/benefit tradeoff".
depends what exactly "ISP" is defined as. Could be email, or cloud providers as well as connectivity providers.
Amsterdam has high (for Europe) violent crime rates.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/30/new-yor...

> Amsterdam tops the list of homicide rates in Western Europe with 4.4 murders per 100,000 people, followed by Glasgow (3.3 per 100,000), Brussels (3 per 100,000) and Prague (2.7 per 100,000). With 0.0016% of people in London being murdered, the city ranks just ahead of Canada and Serbia's largest cities.

It's still a lovely place to be, but some people see the crime.
Maybe I worded it unclearly. The original version of Oberon ran on a popular, embedded chip. Those don't exist any more despite that people at the time thought they'd be around forever. The risk exists with ARM but less.

Oberon-related tech is also training for ETH students. They get plenty of experience trying to extend the OS, port the compilers, etc. They have little in hardware by comparison, though. FPGA's have gotten cheap and their nature means they'll stay around in some form forever. Verilog also goes back decades. So, there's the added benefit of teaching students to build a processor which could also run the system.

So, combining future-proofing, simplicity, OS education, and HW education requirements all into one meant a custom, Wirth-style processor on FPGA was best option. It also creates opportunities for things like TCP/IP, graphics, or security engines he probably didn't think about at the time. His students or FOSS volunteers might pick that up given how simple the HW is.

So, ARM is a bad idea. Those SOC's are too complex. Extending or re-implementing it needs a ridiculously-expensive license. They also sue people over even using the ISA, which makes me boycott them where possible. The FPGA doesn't have these problems plus allowed he and his students to attempt an ideal replacement that could last decades. So, that was his choice and one of the better options.

Note: I'd have used it as an excuse to get some grant money to do a full, low-cost, RISC-V implementation to put A2 Bluebottle on. More practical. That's just me, though. ;)
Came here for your comment. Cannabis, like most drugs, make socializing fun for people who already want to socialize.

I've never seen cannabis make socializing fun for a tired introvert who does not want to socialize. It in fact can make things worse.
Finland to launch national emojis
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
People assume regulation is responsible for the death of nuclear programs all the time. More likely, it's technical feasibility or cost issues. Which gets back to the "Why isn't China doing this?" Building a lab reactor that implements a theoretical reaction chain, and building a production reactor that puts out terawatt-range power safely and cost-effectively for decades are two entirely different things. Lab reactors are the Hello World apps of nuclear power.
Alter Ego: A Reactive AI Library in Clojure
Slightly off topic, but I'm really frustrated with the state of software packaging these days. Every solution tries to solve the same problems (reliable dependancy resolution, reliable installation and removal) but they all try and solve it in different incompatible and flawed ways.

Consider the following: I need a reliable way to deploy my app to clients.

The popular options are:
1) Source code + Configuration system (automake for example)
2) Binaries built for popular platforms (debs, rpms, exes)
3) Docker Image

Source code means that the client needs the whole build tool chain, which might be quite + computationally expensive (especially on mobile)

packages have to be built and maintained, and don't fully solve the dependancy issues (IE I might expect Ubuntu 14.04 to have a specific version of libc, but the user might have upgraded it, and I can't install my own incompatible version)

and of course docker, ship my clients a operating system and require them to have and know how to configure the runtime so they can run my 1mb compiled binary. Also doesn't work on embedded devices.

Ideally, in the future most distributions will move to functional package managers, and at least for mobile will have binaries for every possible version of dependencies available, but at the moment that's just a pipe dream and things like snappy don't get us any closer to that
The only important innovation here on the part of the carders is the use of automated ordering programs.

In the same way that cartels use hundreds of drug mules to smuggle drugs across the border knowing that a certain percentage will be caught and a certain percentage will succeed, carders are now using this same pattern. Instead of placing a small number of orders for a high value, place a large number of orders for a medium-to-high value under the assumption that some will go through.

Looking at the e-commerce store mentioned in Brian's article, it seems they're simply new to the scene and haven't understood that credit card fraud using physical items follows 3 patterns:

1. Billing and shipping address are different.

2. IP address is geographically far from the billing address OR its a server/EC2/VPN.
Note: Yes, carders sometimes use proxies near the billing address BUT ask yourself, if they're shipping it to a separate address with (presumably not to attract suspicion) the same "ship to" name as the "bill to" name, why would they ship it elsewhere? I have seen carders that will use the same last name but with a different name, making it appear that its a relative or family member, but those are usually few and far between and still flagged for other reasons.

3. Credit card number was pasted instead of typed.
HN is not reddit. People downvote when you write useless comments. Get over it.
They have a travel wing. http://www.nationalgeographicexpeditions.com/ Including a partnership with a cruise line. They also have a fairly extensive travel publishing section http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/ngs/category/books/travel... . (They even have a very lightly branded travel insurance partnership http://www.travelinsure.com/custom/ngs/ )

Obviously discoverability, and advertising of these is less than ideal. A lot of it is actually verging on overextending to the brand, like "The Dog Lover's Guide to Travel" just doesn't seem a good brand expansion.
I suspect you might be taking about a different thing. The way I read that line is that if you assume each of those chances is correct (which you have to since they are obviously made up), then they are equivalent in economic sense.

It is not stating that chances themselves are correct.
"...Smartest way to shop and save on pretty much anything"

I think someone should explain to them what "smart" and "saving" mean. I just browsed some of their stuff and it seems that pretty much everything they list has a 20-40% markup over getting it at actual smart places, let alone just at a regular store. "Smart" for them if they can trick people? Is that the point I'm missing?
I don't think early investors dubbed themselves "Angels". If I recall correctly it came from the term used for similar people who used to finance Broadway shows. I like to think some ingenue in the 1920s called some rich guy "angel" and got him to fund a show and it went from there. I should Google it but I miss speculating on things...
New GTLD Registrations Pass 9M Mark
This is brilliant. The one thing it doesn't go into is the harm that will be done to healthy ventures when the bubble pops. Suddenly, everyone will have a bad taste and healthy ventures won't be able to get sane necessary resources and bridge loans, all thanks to the excesses of what's described in the piece. Not engaging in the insane startup culture described isn't just a healthy lifestyle choice, it's also taking a stand against a situation that will soon very much harm the tech industry as a whole. When the tide rushes away from the unicorn machine, it will carry away the innocent as well.
http://m.china-mmm.net/cn/news/rules_and_recommendations_on_...
There are a few MBAs doing the job of secretary in my office. "Senior Communications Analyst" sounds snarky, but its true
Show HN: Text grads from top schools working in tech for career help
FPGA 64 (Commodore 64 re-implemented in FPGA)
Farts blamed for emergency landing #NotTheOnion
> Worked out well for Xamarin

Only for them. Novell bet big on pivoting on Linux and then crashed.
If you just want to do it for a free will, ok.
So a reputable member of the open source community reports, an actual conspiracy against the founder of Linux. Why is this not a popular topic?
The idea is not to run .NET on Red Hat. Its to run anything on top of Red Hat on Azure. Azure is far bigger than just Microsoft's stack.
C# and .Net the framework is objectively 'good'.

ASP.Net MVC, is very subjective. It definitely is very 'weird' from the perspective of being on a static language platform but embracing 'magic' over standard type safety.

I will give you routing though, i dont really think it 'sucks' but i have lead development teams using MVC for years... whenever a new developer who isnt familiar comes on board, the most significant 'learning curve' is the routing... i am not really a fan myself but i understand what the value proposition is...
You all realize that this argument cuts both ways, and probably even cuts against Linus harder, right?

By the time Linus is ranting at someone at LKML, the person he's ranting at has --- statistically, at least --- already qualified themselves as especially competent. These people aren't arguing over Rails template languages.

I'm coming to realize that the sociology of Linus LKML rants is pretty fascinating.
Which means we have about another couple months left? The unicorn herds will ride for as long as the rainbows sprinkle glitter.
It can be useful to explicitly state error bars. "Delivery will take three to seven days" communicates uncertainty much more clearly than "delivery will take about five days".
Yup - its good for both - which is what is fantastic about Microsoft's new direction.
It's a fair point -- Kubernetes is a pain to install.

But I think the author then translated that to mean that Kubernetes is also difficult to use. It's much easier to use than it is to install.

On the flip side, when I had started seriously using Docker, I quickly ran into it's limitations. Docker is easy to use... as long as you stayed within the playground. When I started using Docker Compose seriously, I quickly ran into problems it couldn't handle. This was about 12 months ago. I think the current networking and docker swarm expanded that playground ... but it doesn't bridge the gap into getting this out as reliable and resilient infrastructure.
That was equal parts funny/disturbing.
Bioprinting
That's basically the role of the government. It's a solution to coordination problems, which are in themselves those local optimas you're thinking about.
Client: You styled my house 3 months ago it is still not sold! You said it would sell much more quickly!

Stylist: Your house was moved from the population of un-styled houses to the population of styled houses. This population has a different mean time-before-being-sold but it still has long tails, I'm sorry you are in that tail.

Btw: "a rational buyer ensures the seller has a good return policy rather than trying to use Baye's rule to analyse their past purchase experiences."
Sounds to me like one would first look for priors that confirm that good return policy, one does not pull trust out of thin air.
Thanks for this. One of the reasons I come to HN is to get good advice and see posts like this :) I'll be following your project, good luck!
I'm not sure I understand the whole selling at a loss thing. Their stuff's expensive unless I'm just doing it wrong.
How easy is it to call native javascript libraries with opal? Having to write wrapping code stinks.
As a tiny matter of terminology, "prime number theorem" is usually reserved for the theorem on the asymptotic number of primes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem). I would probably just say "by prime factorisation", or, if you want to be really precise, "by Euclid's lemma" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_lemma).
> ~0% Violation of conservation of momentum.

I don't think the chance of violation of the conservation of momentum would be 0%. Unlikely? Yes. Highly unlikely? Most definitely, but not zero. Why? Because we don't yet have a "theory of everything". For all we know, (not saying this is the case, just a thought experiment/hypothetical) the string theorists have it right, and there are extra dimensions, or brane universes (a multiverse) and maybe this effect is in some way related to that (pulling/utilizing an energy from a higher 4th dimension). Granted, it goes against everything we currently know about physics, but so did a lot of things at one point. And that usually happens when we don't know enough about the area we're researching.

And when it comes to quantum mechanics, we're only scratching the surface of what we know. There are plenty of things in quantum mechanics that are completely inexplicable. Things like the double slit experiment, quantum entanglement, quantum tunneling, etc.. We know those things occur, but very little or nothing at all as to the "how" and "why". They seem to defy known physics but there they are...