skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Won't they look pretty stupid if this turns out to be real :)

I know, I know, it's not real, it's not how science should be done, blah blah. I'm sure you're right.
Full draft bill: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The home secretary revealed for the first time in her
statement that successive governments since 1994 have
issued secret directions to internet and phone companies
to hand over the communications data of British citizens
in bulk to the security services.

She said these secret “directions” had allowed the
security services to thwart a number of attacks in
Britain, including the plot to attack the London Stock
Exchange in 2010.

May said the use of these powers – which show that GCHQ
was also engaged in mass surveillance programmes on
British citizens using their communications data – under
the 1984 Telecommunications Act will be put on a more
explicit footing in the new legislation and be subject to
the same safeguards as other bulk powers.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2015/nov/04/su...
The convoluted way they tie this to DAH is somewhat hilarious.
If I recall correctly, the two teams got different results. Although they both found very small amounts of thrust that they couldn't explain, the actual amount of unexplained thrust was different by something like an order of magnitude.
That some conspiracies happened in the past doesn't imply that all future conspiracies are true.

Personally I think the governments of the world are run by giant inflatable pink pigs and the media covers it all up.
Lawyers for District of Columbia in 2014 - Really?
And how exactly does criminalisation help us treat the victims of drug addiction? Lock 'em up, that'll help right.
Having two jobs is not expected, unless by two jobs you mean one job for you and one job for your partner. We had women flood into the workforce at the same time jobs were being outsourced to developing nations, so yeah, we get paid less for the same work because the labor pool has increased dramatically. The caveat is that goods are now far cheaper to manufacture than they used to be, which is passed onto us as consumers. I think we Americans work as hard as we do because we are in heavy denial that our standard of living is slowly being brought into alignment with the rest of the world.
>It also doesn't count the fact that thousands of people lost their homes and businesses and had their lives totally upended by Fukushima. There's impacts of nuclear that solar and wind don't have that are not captured by simply looking at deaths per TWh.

I would also add that until now we have been lucky because nuclear accidents happened in areas with a relatively low population density. Japan has high coastal population density but at Fukushima, half the exclusion zone is on the sea with no one living there.

Now imagine a similar nuclear accident in Belgium or Netherlands requiring a 80 km exclusion zone. That would be a substantial part of the country impacted. For example, check the location of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tihange_Nuclear_Power_Station
spoonacular is a meal planning app with nutritional information and an automatic shopping list. You can add both recipes and store bought food and get the daily macro- and micronutrients. Our web app has been online for a couple years (https://spoonacular.com/meal-planner) but the link is to our Android open beta test. Please help us figure out what's not intuitive/user friendly. We hope we are beyond anything disastrous now (crashes), but you never know with Android! Our next goal is to add fast food/restaurant data for a complete, real person meal planner.
IANA scientist so I meant theory in layman's term i.e. an explanation.

The point is that there are explanations for what this could be that don't involve violating the CoM concept.

Nobody knows what it is going on here. Hence why it is premature to say whether it works or not.
Using the previous version write on C++. Like all compilers of other languages did when change to be write on his own language. Or do you think that the first version of C compiler was write on C ?
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It's possible to disable tracking on all of those though.
I'm assuming you've read http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceSt... and http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo...

Which APIs do you refer to that are not documented as an stable interface, but should be?
Cannot view this link.

"App not available

A testing version of this app hasn't been published yet or isn't available for this account.
If you've been invited to become a tester, make sure you're signed in to the account that was invited to the testing program. If you've been invited to a Google Group or Google+ Community as part of the program, make sure you've joined the Group or Community."
double digits, but barely (10.8%). And there are some safety nets, like basic income, housing aids, and gracious help if you have children, that make underemployment slightly less awful.

I bet a hell of a lot less people go hungry in France compared to the US.
If we can't get privacy using crypto, we could always use chaffing to make their database useless. We just need a list of sensitive websites that want to hide their true users, and an ad-serving network that randomly serves up links to those sensitive websites on other web pages (but doesn't display them). In this way, everyone's browsing history will look suspicious, so the data won't be of any use.
> So unless MMM turns out to be a billion-dollar ponzi scheme

While I don't know much about this incarnation of MMM, the original MMM ponzi scheme in the early 90s is thought to have taken in about $10bn (not adjusted for inflation).
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True, I only crossed a little of the mountains. Nice but nothing on Yunnan.

Freedom of speech is something I am quite skeptical about in many so-called democracies given the very centralized state of media ownership how many people can stand on the street protesting and still be profoundly ignored by the government. It seems that while you nominally have the right to say almost anything, reaching any size of audience is virtually impossible, and influencing politicans is nigh-on rainbow pony territory.

Good luck with your hacking space! You are very welcome to come visit us next year once we're set up. Email in profile.
As a fellow shared hosting engineer I pretty much agree with [1] and [2], and for [3] I also feel your pain, but we don't mess about any more arguing the toss.

We now scan for egregiously out of date WordPress installs and warn customers that their site will be at risk of being disabled if they don't upgrade to the latest version. If after a couple of days we see no action then we pull the site.

If we detect sites serving dodgy links then they're instantly shut down until the customer can prove they've secured the site.

In 99.9% of cases our customers are happy we do this because they're mostly businesses and serving malware damages their brand and reputation. We do get the occasional user who refuses to co-operate, and if they do we serve them notice to take their business elsewhere.
The article suggests hat there are no people of color remaining at Twitter in leadership in engineering or product, now that the person in question has departed. Are there no Asian directors+ in Twitter engineering or product management? Or do Asians not count in this regard?
> Your argument is the same as those made around relativity

Of that we can be sure

The good thing is that "Of course it doesn't work" has not gotten anyone a Nobel price

And it may even not violate conservation of momentum
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I use winman software for the same purpose.
These days you do not need to have any digital signature, you can verify your return via email or SMS
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You summed up three budgets and then say that it's 3x bigger than another budget. Really now.
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Got some links to the 802.3a/d bonding issues?
Having the govt require ISPs to collect this data about us will result in ISPs "aggregating" the data and selling it to advertising / marketing firms, insurers or anyone willing to cough up a few £ for your private data.
>The draft bill also places a legal duty on British companies to help law enforcement agencies hack devices to acquire information if it is reasonably practical to do so.

WTF!
Also the existing official site is good enough
As interesting and insightful as this is, I'm very curious about how much the chosen level of categorisation affects the final result. For example, I notice that "registered nurse" and "nursing aide" are considered separate professions. That may well be valid (I assume it's to do with level of training and responsibility? I just picked the example because the jobs sound like they're similar, I'm not picking on nursing in particular.) but if you were to combine them, would they suddenly become the most common job in additional states? And presumably every job could be further subdivided (There are few "secretaries" remaining in part because of technological advances but also because that job has been somewhat rebranded into a bunch of more specific titles.), so where you draw that line might have a big impact on the ranking. Without visualising actual percentages (and/or maybe showing multiple jobs that rank highly), they're really limiting how much this map is telling us.
Only they can afford to actually live in the district? Everyone else lives in VA, MD, etc.
I still build my machines even though I'm no longer a gamer.

Mostly because I still find it cheaper than a pre-built and I know that all the components are quality (good PSU) and that I won't run into any vendor specific bios issues, locked out stuff etc.

That and I can fully stack out the RAM on whatever I build a lot cheaper.
A lot of skepticism and negativity here, and I get that. But it's exciting to watch science play out. This could be a huge discovery, or it could be crap. I love seeing the methodology in making each test more and more definitive by reducing variables and outside influences.
Every time these EM Drive people release another unconvincing result, oodles of people enthusiastically jump onto their bandwagon. Those of us who are experts in the subject matter (tenured physics professor with PhD from UChicago, here) try to make it clear why there's nothing worth getting excited about (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9473209), and the crowd evidently doesn't care.

Let me be emphatically clear: if your mental model of the scientific community doesn't include "There exist a whole lot of crackpots out there", your mental model of science is wrong. The odds of bold new ideas being crackpottery are far greater than the odds that some unappreciated genius has upended the well-tested laws of physics. (Believe me. I get their emails.)
Fedora 22 also has a wayland preview mode.
COBOL isn't sexy, but the stuff it's powering is designed for reliability and stability. It's common in anything that needs to be rock solid; I came across it in the telecom industry, where it still powers billing systems.
Please start with the iphone. Damn thing shatters if I look at it funny.
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Left-leaning? So privacy is a left-wing thing?
If they cannot figure out a business model that lets them make a profit without them re-licensing and selling code the that I wrote, then perhaps they should be doing something else. As I said, I'm 100% on-board with them making money, just not by selling my code under a closed source license.
If you were using the non-scientific definition, then your previous two arguments aren't valid.
Thanks for the book tip will have a look at it.

Having worked in news for some years and seen how (esp. online) news are produced and weighted for priority, it is to say, that it is quite a sad state of affairs.

I stopped reading the news, following any news at all. If news do reach me and my interest exceeds a internal threshold, I start investigating the topic further.

So having a view from outside my home country might be interesting.
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Clampdown on greedy hotels who block your wi-fi for extra cash
Now all we need is some E to celebrate!
It will not include powers to force UK companies to capture
and retain third party internet traffic from companies based
overseas. It will not compel overseas communications service
providers to meet our domestic retention obligations for
communications data. And it will not ban encryption or do
anything to undermine the security of people’s data. And the
substance of all of the recommendations by the Joint Scrutiny
Committee which examined that draft Bill have been accepted.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/home-secretary-public...

Granted though, that is the single mention of encryption in the entire speech.

Draft bill is here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The draft Bill will not impose any additional requirements
in relation to encryption over and above the existing
obligations in RIPA.

However, under "EQUIPMENT INTERFERENCE" it discusses the following:

What is it?
27. Equipment interference allows the security and intelligence
agencies, law enforcement and the armed forces to interfere with
electronic equipment such as computers and smartphones in order to
obtain data, such as communications from a device.

Equipment interference encompasses a wide range of activity from
remote access to computers to downloading covertly the contents of
a mobile phone during a search.

Why do we need it?
28. Where necessary and proportionate, law enforcement agencies and the
security and intelligence agencies need to be able to access
communications or other private information held on computers, in
order to gain valuable intelligence in national security and
serious crime investigations and to help gather evidence for use in
criminal prosecutions.

Equipment interference plays an important role in mitigating the
loss of intelligence that may no longer be obtained through other
techniques, such as interception, as a result of sophisticated
encryption. It can sometimes be the only method by which to acquire
the data. The armed forces use this technique in some situations to
gather data in support of military operations.

In other words, if you use "sophisticated encryption" then we'll just hack you, and that is about to be perfectly legal. Previously, "we" just used to do it anyway. Now we are going to make it legal, and have a FISA style "yes whatever officer" court in the UK, like you have in the US.

This is really the bottom line here. The UK is moving towards a secret court, with secret decisions, copying the US style FISA. So long and thanks for all the cups of tea.
If it is MMM driven then at some point the organisers will want to cash out, a huge dump/sell of coins across multiple exchanges would kill the price, however they are unlikely to be able to sell all of their coins so it would hurt their remaining assets. A slow sell off would make more sense but given the illegal nature of the scheme they may not have a choice in the matter.
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> it's not the intention of this bill to change the legal status quo.

If they didn't mean to change the status quo, they wouldn't have introduced a bill.

As it happens, they do want to change the status quo, by making clearly acceptable for authorities to eavesdrop, something that was, er, technically illegal before, despite them doing it anyway.

So instead of punishing spooks for breaking the law, they're changing the law. Easy, innit?
Rich people pay a disproportionate amount of taxes, and that doesn't even account for taxes paid by corporations they own.

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/no-country-leans-upper-income-...

http://taxfoundation.org/article/new-data-top-1-pay-greater-...

I agree with you about regulatory complexities. But you seem to be going very counter to the narrative - greedy rich people pushing for more regulations to harm incumbents and consumers? So, yay for deregulation?
Humans have had an effect on the environment. On some scales, a big effect. But it's certainly wildly incorrect (and absurd) to say that all environmental damage is caused by humans. And I think it's also pretty unarguable that the vast majority of the damage (a concept that is I suppose anyway subjective) over the lifetime of the planet is not human-caused.
Looks neat! Nice design. Would be great to have an app for this.
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You are correct, not all CLAs are bad. That is why I said "that lets them relicense my work" to clarify that it's a specific type of CLA that I take issue with.
Interesting, I've never head of this phenomenon , do you have any sources? Quick googling reveals nothing.
> 4. I have a localbitcoins post. I usually get 1-2 requests per week. In the last few days, well, I really lost count.

Did you see a change in the type of customer?
No it hasn't: http://www.coindesk.com/
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Does anyone else remember the Gateway squishy cows? I think they were intended as stress toys but they became a cultural phenomenon, at least in my circles.
Stop making sense
Crackpots get jobs at NASA apparently. See point 3).
I suspect more likely would be some kind of security team to prevent the truck's cargo from being jacked? Unless, of course, the driverless savings assume some loss of contents.
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This comment stuck in my craw a bit, so thanks for provoking some thought. :) Your model isn't modeling Vitamin C consumption, right? It's modeling scurvy. I would guess the model could also tell you about when there are too few scurvy symptoms, which would be "never."

"If I'm going to be late, I should walk faster" isn't modeling velocity — it's modeling punctuality.
Wow, TIL I was ignorant to the amount of software jobs in Utah.
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I don't know if this is good outside of just pure speculation profit. Bitcoin seemed to hit a fairly decent stable point around $250 before this new bubble.
I like the attachment recommendation thing and it can be useful but what I find ridiculous is that they still have yet to recommend that you use the correct from address when sending an email to your work contacts. I have about 15 email address that I can send from. If any recipients are in the x.com domain and I am not sending it from my x.com account it should alert me. Better yet, it should just switch the from address for me. This feature has been requested for years now.
From the team that hounded out Brendan Eich...

May I quote the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression: this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
I don't understand why anyone would ever use this instead of a simple KV store like Redis or Memcached?

There are literally zero technical details about what the system runs on or how data is stored. In the time it took me to look around trying to find some technical details or source code to look at, I could have started a VM and installed Redis.
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According to this https://blog.twitter.com/2014/building-a-twitter-we-can-be-p... 34% in tech. It is left out because it doesn't fit the narrative.
If you've got Intel graphics, wireless, etc. the process is pretty straightforward. You can even install over wifi from the install media.

The software availability is the biggest reason I use it, pretty much everything that could be installed is available through the main repos or AUR.
Interesting point. I have some BTC at Coinbase. Not sure how I proceed to own the keys?
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D is a really amazing language that manages to correct the mistakes of c++ but still retain its good parts. it's a shame that it's not more popular.
From personal experience, language barrier wouldn't be an issue in Belgium for a tech job. Due to existent Flemish/French division, English often becomes the local esperanto, although it may depend on the company policy.
My source is a comment from a user on reddit who has cited their sources before, along with accurately correcting errors when found.

I'll look for the user, and ask of their source.

________________________________________

EDIT: Ok. It looks like the Satellite pushing story was just that: a story. That narrative came from the NASAspaceflight forums where Shawyer was misquoted and the "telephone game" ensued.

The correct way this phenomenon was founded was during missile guidance and testing during the cold war.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGTjy6atKMs
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Exactly! "Jason leaves Google for Tesla" is more accurate.
Cleartax has done an amazing job, really. I filed my last two returns using Cleartax and everything went without a hitch. Even when the system fails to parse the Form-16 correctly it is easy enough to just manually enter the data, save it, come back to it later and complete filing the returns. I have had a harder time filing tax returns with TurboTax, though that was a while back. Cleartax kept sending me repeated email reminders to complete the filing process even after it was already complete, so there's a bug somewhere :) but otherwise kudos to Archit and the rest of the team.

Hell, I am ready to join their efforts, if only they would have a grumpy old guy like me on the team :)
Why would you need more tax revenues from this economic activity? To fund addiction treatment programs?
Its especially sad because that's clearly more than enough knowledge and skill to make a more-than-decent living and be a productive member of society.
And when you exercise that right, other people have the right to point out when you are being a jerk.
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