skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enough voters are so easily led by fear and minsinformation that I'm starting to think that there is nothing at all we can do.

I am a member of the Open Rights Group. I make monthly donations and attend their conferences. I petition and write to MPs and MEPs and nothing works. I don't even get replies.

Which is why I am now considering moving out of the country. I'm currently weighing up my options.

There is very little about Britain, its politics and the majority of the voterbase that I have anything in common with, apart from being born on the same patch of dirt.
EFF is the US focused why would donating to them do anything for us?
The gas station is probably actually an elaborate listening station with... nah, they just pocketed the cash.

The sad thing is this is where about 90% of your taxes generally go - corruption, nepotism, bribery, private hands.
If you're in the UK, you should donate to the Open Rights Group (UK equivalent to the EFF).

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
Looks like a problem that can be "slightly" easier to fix here on earth, doesn't it? :-)

On a related note, dust cleaning is one of the most difficult technical challenges for the high speed train currently being built to Mecca.
By their (lack of) logic, they should also have an officer following every citizen and logging where people go, so that they can know John left his house at 9:17 and checked in at local grocery shop at 9:28. With a warrant they could then obtain information that he has bought a large cucumber - let's arrest him, because he is probably cheating on the government with cucumber. He told the grocer, that how government fucks him is not making him satisfied, so he has to finish the job with a cucumber.
Very interesting. I've been following this in the news for some time, hoping to learn the results of the latest research.

In previous tests it seemed like the significance of the effect was diminishing on each iteration, suggesting it might be experimental error. Anyone have a handle on how the latest results have changed? I don't get a good sense from the article.
This is behind the belief that so called 'black boxes' will be mandatory. i.e. state required man in the middle attacks on all your https content.
I guess no one remembers MTGOX and the Willy bot.

I'll take my down-votes in stride.

Only the future will reveal the truth.
Flagged because 404. Correct link:

Surveillance bill to include internet records storage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34715872
Check the live page - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-34719194

8:40 'Security risk' of storing communications data
"A new law to govern how police and intelligence agencies and the state can access communications and data will be published today.

Preston Byrne from Eris Industries, a cryptographic communications company which is withdrawing from the UK because of the proposed law, says the government is going to be tracking metadata which is essentially "a map of what you're thinking".

He warns the data could be compromised - citing the recent TalkTalk hack - and says this could lead to blackmail. And he argues that
criminals and terrorists" don't use normal communication channels" so only the law-abiding people will be affected by the bill."

Preston Byrne has a point.. even common people are using VPNs and TORs. How come the terrorists bare their communications for surveillance?
One of them is a strong solid workhorse, the other is a magical unicorn.
There are basically no neutral papers in the UK. The Independent sort of tries, and the FT/Economist tend to be accurate with the facts but reflexively probusiness/neoliberal.
The barren abyssal seafloors are life rich with a complex ecosystem for what we know of it and in matters of ocean we know pretty much nothing.

Also the cost to get there is quite high and there's no reason to think radioactivity would stay there.
From Wilson's blog you'd conclude the opposite though, that the speed of the journey across the Gartner trough of disillusionment had been much slower and dragged much deeper into the trough than he'd been expecting at the time.

Wilson thought it was "well into" the trough phase by Sep 2014, with the price around ~$400 after one mini-recovery proved illusory. It then halved again, and has taken more than a year for this latest mini recovery to take it up to the heady heights of the bottom of Wilson's "trough"...

That trough sure looks long compared with that brief late 2013 spike....
http://www.coindesk.com/price/#2010-07-18,2015-11-03,close,b...
Perhaps join the Open Rights Group:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
They're more UK-focused than the EFF.
The solution may be simple, but the reasoning to justify that it is the most effective is probably not.
I don't want to have a conversation with you. You don't know the first thing about the subject. Why would I want to talk to you about it?
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Agree this is unnatural. Mmm is one theory, gold commodity price isn't doing too well very little reason for Bitcoin to bull at this time

Still an impressive gain looking at 30 days trend
https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/bitcoin/usd
You need to stop stigmatising large numbers of people based on your own limited experiences.

Your comments are revolting and you should feel shame.
it is rational to dump money into NASA, ask Neil Degrasse Tyson for an explanation of the economic repercussion.
See also an early paper on "mergeable persistent data structures" that shows how to do this for Irmin-based Rope and Queue data structures. http://anil.recoil.org/papers/2015-jfla-irmin.pdf
It might be time to switch to a package management paradigm that doesn't require SAT solvers.

For example, one in which packages do not conflict because they are installed in a directory for each package, and there is an "alternatives" mechanism for any global choice.
No, not really. If you can manipulate the price on one exchange, it will drag the prices in the other exchanges along with it.

MtGox's high BTC rates were too close to arbitrage until it was clear you wouldn't get your money out.
Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?
I would say that it would depend. I'm primarily thinking of big picture political questions, and in that general area I feel that simple answers are mostly flawed answers.

However, in engineering, I apply the *nix philosophy of less is more. But this post isn't very technical.
I'd agree. Buying BTC based on public interest would be too late.

I believe the public interest is sparked by the price - which is perhaps later adding additional additional price hikes sure - but the correlation is not public interest to price; I think it's the opposite, price to public interest.

Price drops - so will public interest.
Potentially, yes? Especially if it's a long-standing complex problem. History is full of oversold simple solutions. Hearing "just do .." should immediately alert you to the possibility that the speaker hasn't understood your situation.
A perfect storm of incompetence and ill-intentions.
Banking without encryption?
So does number 2 (although I don't know how big the seasonal variation is?)
I'd like to also add:

- There is no "Federal Reserve" type entity attempting to influence BitCoin (whether that's a good thing or not, is complicated...)

- Privacy (with the help of Zerocoin)
I can't believe this is just Volkswagen, how long before we find out other manufacturers have been doing the same.
The term "communications provider" is defined under UK law, though the practical meaning of the term is less clear:
http://aa.net.uk/legal-cp.html
There is a LOT of talk about "blockchain technology" going around these days. It seems like another "cloud", i.e. some vague concept that consultants can sell to CTOs who are afraid of appearing behind the technology curve. New clothes for the emperor.

Since bitcoin is the reference implementation of "blockchain technology" obviously all this interest rubs off. And since bitcoin at this point is all promise without much reality behind it (like a "pre-monetization" startup), it is a great vehicle for hype driven speculation, meaning that any price increase drives further speculation, until the next hard crash.
This is very much Kubernetes's opinion, based on the production experience the engineers who built it.

Brian Grant has explained it recently here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/wh...

"The technical definition of "orchestration" is execution of a defined workflow: do A, then B, then C. In contrast, Kubernetes is comprised of a set of control processes that continuously drive current state towards the provided desired state. It shouldn't matter how you get from A to C: make it so. This results in a system that is easier to use and more powerful, robust, and resilient."

Look into PaaSes that are built on top of K8s, like Red Hat's OpenShift v3 or Deis.
my guess is that guards turn a half blind eye, something to do with being more easier to control a prison where inmates are allowed some degree of freedom and self organizing. I'll research this later, it's an interesting subject.

some interesting stuff that came up while looking trough research material:

http://www.garysturt.free-online.co.uk/zimbardo.htm simulated prison experiment going downhilll

this one is about cigarettes and seem to support the point:
http://tpj.sagepub.com/content/81/2/142.short

"This study describes how bans can transform largely benign cigarette “gray markets,” where cigarettes are used as a currency, into more problematic black markets, where cigarettes are a highly priced commodity."
They didn't confirm anything. It was merely a rerun of tests with more of the potential background causes mitigated. It is going to require a lot more tests before someone like NASA unequivocally states that this works. Especially given that this device relies on physics we don't yet know about.

Worth reading here:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=38577.940
I hope you don't forget about doing security updates to Debian LTS installs.

Also, LTS probably has Linux kernels that are far too old.
> whether the listener needs the piece, already has the piece, or just plain lacks the socket that the piece is supposed to snap into.

This is very relevant to how we think about education, communication, information design and propagation.

The combination of this SSC and the linked David Chapman piece are very good. They explained and formalized quite a few concepts that have seemed like weird nebulous glitches in the matrix to me. And not only did it make some things click into place, it expanded the amount of places things could click into.
It's not really how it works. You need to actually write them, not post something here.
I won't go into any detail to reply to you further, other than that your points are simply inaccurate.

I think your conclusion sums it up:

"But christianity doesn't need to be verified by historical documents anyway - isn't that the point? Faith and whatnot."

Since you understand Paul to be "slightly insane", let him answer your question:

"And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that he raised Christ from the dead." - 1 Corinthians 15:14-15
I totally agree with you and that's why I started https://github.com/slicebuild

The project is only month and a half long so if you want I can talk you through privately
Wanted to make the point that you don't have to have grid-scale projects if you distribute it. One windmill at a time, each with its own financement, investors and profitability. I admit that was not clear.
A newspaper cannot be neutral. The real problem with the BBC is that it is officially proud to be neutral but it is not. I way prefer a lot of non neutral papers, where I know before hand their base political/economic/social views. This way I can go and read both sides of the story or if not that important, read just one side knowing that it is a partial view.
One of my favorite ways to collect news sources still is RSS, and now that Reader's gone, I've moved on to Feedly.
There is nothing that can guarantee that this ride is real, but here are a few things:

1. However big is MMM, it's probably too small for the size of the bitcoin economy right now. Remember that if you are transacting in bitcoin, there is one party buying and the other one selling. So you are not rising the price to the moon.

2. The number of transactions has been growing again as of late. It's heating at the blockchain right now ( https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions ). With 1MB, bitcoin can support less than 300k transactions a day.

3. The total output volume is jumping to crazy levels ( https://blockchain.info/charts/output-volume?timespan=all&sh... ) only seen in bubbles.

4. I have a localbitcoins post. I usually get 1-2 requests per week. In the last few days, well, I really lost count.

5. Google trends is spiking: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin But maybe this is happening because bitcoin price is rising, not the other way around?

6. If the price is rising fast, the supply will dry because nobody wants to sell an appreciating asset. If an asset is appreciating, it'll drive demand. Which will drive the price higher.

7. Media will start talking about it. It'll drive more people. It'll drive the price more.

8. We'll see if the new fancy infrastructure that bitcoin got is rock-solid.

9. If you don't own the keys, you don't own the bitcoins.

10. It's nice, but only if you bought the dip and sold before the crash.
It's been a while since I knew people who did heroin, but the people I knew who did it bought it in packs and bundles not grams. One dose (pack) was ~10$ and a bundle which, I think was, 12 doses was ~100$. And if memory serves me correctly Oxycontin was like ~30$ a pill. Too many of the people I used to know died from it, and I frequently think about how things could have been different for the people who overdosed and the people around them were afraid to call for help because it would have put them in criminal jeopardy.
that's so '30s. better barcode them on the neck and front, cctv cameras are already in enough place to track everyone.
There are some good ideas in here. But, the discussion of "primitive cultures" is so problematic that it undermines my ability to take him seriously.
The land level in that part of the world has been rising for the past 100 years, counteracting most changes in sea levels:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
but it wouldn't be "unpatriotic" or "weak on defence" for said political opponents to criticise it...
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On technical debt
stretch is the current testing and elasticsearch is going to be removed from it.

elasticsearch will continue to remain in unstable
There are also physical limitations with load following. In a fission reactor you're dealing with a steady state of influx of fission products (by the primary nuclear reaction) and the delayed decay of those products. In fact a large portion of the heat generated by a fission reactor comes from the delayed decay of the fission products. Furthermore some of the fission products are very efficient neutron catchers; notably Xe135 which is so efficient in catching neutrons, that its buildup in a reactor is called "xenon poisoning"; the accumulation of neutron catchers in a fission reaction is called "neutron poisoning".

What this comes down to is, when you ramp down a fission reactor, there's some internal inertia in its internal workings, that will actively prevent it for some time from being able to ramped up in a safely manner. The quicker the shutdown, the larger the amount of neutron poisoning and the longer you have to wait before ramping it up again. This leaves you with a nice second order differential equation coupling the power output modulation factor with the period of that power modulation.

The period of the power modulation is 24h, following the daily load swings, so for a given reactor that gives you only so much load following capacity to stay within safe margins.
> You cannot be denied one.

Also, in many jurisdictions, you have to fill out a financial form for them to "determine" if you could afford an attorney on your on. If they decide that you can, regardless of your true finances, they can decline to provide a court-appointed attorney to you.
Every (afaik) country currently classifies distribution as that word is defined - giving drugs to a friend for free is just as illegal as selling them to a stranger for profit. Possibly treated more leniently, I don't know, but not legally different.
> But, the discussion of "primitive cultures" is so problematic that it undermines my ability to take him seriously.

Consider then that maybe it's a flaw in your ability to #1 - "to distinguish “the things my brain tells me” from “reality”". Especially that there's little "discussion" of "primitive cultures" there, just a list of factual observations about them made by various people.
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The purpose was to reduce the Lorentz force interactions:

1) Built and installed a 2nd generation, closed face magnetic damper that reduced the stray magnetic fields in the vacuum chamber by at least an order of magnitude and any Lorentz force interactions it could produce.

2) Changed up the torque pendulum's grounding wire scheme and single point ground location to minimize ground loop current interactions with the remaining stray magnetic fields and unbalanced dc currents from the RF amplifier when its turned on. This reduced the Lorentz force interaction to less than 2 micro-Newton (uN) for the dummy load test.

3) Rebuilt the copper frustum test article so that it is now fully integrated with the RF VCO, PLL, 100W RF amp, dual directional coupler, 3-stub tuner and connecting coax cables, then mounted this integrated test article at the opposite end of the torque pendulum, as far away as possible from the 2nd generation magnetic damper where only the required counterbalance weights now reside.

Now since they were still seeing 100uN of force that means they have 98uN of force unaccounted for. And the next iteration of the test is trying to mitigate the effect of any thermal forces.
Luckily for us, they'll all be dead before they can do any serious damage to humanity.
It's not just china. MMM is popping up all over the place lately.
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Huh? We actually tend to have quite high fuel taxes here in Europe.

(or well, at least here in Sweden)
really interesting read.

the only thing that bugs me, with this text, and the whole rationalist world-view, is how human emotion sometimes becomes a thing to be ashamed of. something beneath a hypothesized "true", "correct" condition. like, the part about recognizing that other people have different minds, different motives, and thus reach different conclusions - on one hand i agree that it is a matter of personal development, and that many people are just plain jerks (sometimes, myself included). but on the other hand, the political examples given in the text seem like a normal emotional response. isn't it simply hard trying to think for everyone, understand everyone all the time? is it even possible? particularly when the issue is something that, for whatever reason, you feel personally. it is not automatically a sign of retarded cognitive development if you just simply got tired.

rationalism sometimes seems so, well, christian - we are all filthy sinners by default.
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Yep, akamod-wl is not available via 23 rpmfusion yet, so the wireless interface on my macbook took a dive after the upgrade.
Agreed. Having seen other try the statistical approach to making many of life's decisions I have concluded that it's somewhere between futile and or worse self deception.

It might work things that happen over and over again like deciding which route to take to work. You can accumulate enough useful data to do that.

Many new and large decisions by their nature do not have that data and then you're stuck looking for proxies for it based on other's data (experiences) and that rarely applies to your circumstances.

An example of this would be moving to SV, you prob don't have your own data points so you're relying on data of others (friends, people on the internets) but it's unlikley that that will have a bearing on how you feel about it once your there.
> However big is MMM, it's probably too small for the size of the bitcoin economy right now [...]

That's very hard to quantify, but there might well be a feedback loop involving the media which leads to a price increase caused by MMM Global.

The following Google Trends data for South Africa and the Philippines shows a nice correlation between searches for bitcoin and MMM Global: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US&geo=ZA&cmpt=q&...
The rise of see level can be seen pretty clearly in photo no. 6.
How well does it work on macbbooks?

I had a painful experience a while ago trying to install Arch on my mac. It kept freezing up, so I had to give up as I had a load of other things to do.

I would really like to have another bash at getting Linux going on it.
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A film (PiraMMMida) came out in 2011 depicting the rise and fall of MMM in early-90s Russia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JgGV8cH1I

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1606652/
I expect this movement to die off eventually.
Well, network is TCP/IP based last time I've checked, but yes, most people today tend to organize such communications over HTTP for simplicity (although it's not that good at all), I get your point.
Not sure if this is what you are looking for but https://getsentry.com/welcome/ is open source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Elaborate, please. What damage would that be? Less people on Earth? How is that damage to humanity?
From the text there is exception about banking - it is said as legitimate use of encryption. The explicit goal is to prevent the plebs from communicating in secret.
Peek Bitcoin interest on Google Trends happens _prior_ to the peek bitcoin price for each previous bubble.
Bitcoin was climbing steadily between Oct 19-30, and really accelerated on Oct 31. Google trends show an increase in interest from Oct 25-26. So the initial climb happened before anything showed up in google trends, but the acceleration happened after.
> the only thing that bugs me, with this text, and the whole rationalist world-view, is how human emotion sometimes becomes a thing to be ashamed of. something beneath a hypothesized "true", "correct" condition.

The "rationalist world-view" is just noticing that (per #1) what brain tells you and what the world really is are two different things, therefore your emotions may or may not be properly aligned with reality (btw. this is also the primary insight of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy). Emotions are just like opinions, but in different part of the brain - you want to have ones that correspond to reality.

"Contrary to the stereotype, rationality doesn't mean denying emotion. When emotion is appropriate to the reality of the situation, it should be embraced; only when emotion isn't appropriate should it be suppressed." - http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Emotion
I sense unwarranted criticism here – it's not like the ups and downs of BitCoin are going to affect a major economy any time soon (or ever).

It's more a good thing there's this new game speculators can play; even if someone games the system, it isn't going to affect anything of value (e.g. a company producing something of value).

It's not like BitCoin is ever going to be a major currency, or a real currency, really. The distribution of it is even more skewed, and artificially so, than that of any real currency. (And no, it isn't analogous to early investors in a business.)