skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Horses were shod and wheels were usually metal rimmed. Even muddy tracks have stones in them, and often roads were 'metalled' or cobble stoned.

I've done a lot of horse driving as a hobby and can attest to how loud it is, particularly metal rimmed wheels on cobble stones.
That's very interesting, thanks for posting the HMRC link, I didn't know the data was that readily available.

I tried plotting the difference 1999-2013 by percentile, first in absolute terms (£ difference):

http://imgur.com/d7WYyxP

Which support that the wealthiest part of the population (upper middle class) benefited the most from the past 15 years.

However if you do the same in relative terms:

http://imgur.com/JVH4rFB

it is the lowest part of the income distribution who benefited the most, seeing their wages doubling. The very much upper end too. But not the middle class.

Depending on how you look at it, it can be used as an argument both ways. Which is why I hate when people reduce something as complex as a distribution into one number. It's too easy to lie with statistics.
This is the imaginary database but Google knows a lot more than that.

There are also vectors for the roads, with a link between that data and streetview. You can click on the map and google will tell you that you're at 24 Burgess Street, and show you a photo, so it has a link between all that information.

I suspect they also fuse this with information from phones. Do the phones contribute to live traffic stats? Or the information about when a shop is busiest (it will show you a bar chart of when a gym or store is busy). Is that done based on knowing when android users are at that location? What about all the Wifi access points it knows the location of?

In some ways, this is much harder to deal with than the image data because although it's smaller in size, it's denser in information and the links between are more complex.
Hey! Since we're all waiting for the emails why don't we do something productive? Like maybe sharing our ideas so that we could give each other feedback?.. Oh and guys if I may give you an advice : "Plan for the worst and hope for the best!"
That's a big problem, because there are a ton of scenarios where many people are underrepresented and will fall through the cracks. The poor, elderly and migrant communities, which represent millions of people are often without good access to the types of proofing that will be required.

The end result is that you'll have business process driven by the national ID, and people will get cut off.
That is very true (and a valid concern) but it's hard to understand what the filesystem should do in this case. Seems to me that the best you can hope for is that the data is corrupted in a way that doesn't make "sense" and the filesystem has a check for that, and quits.

Other than duplicating the pages (which is certainly a valid approach) how else can you recover from a data stomp?
Regarding Panorama, I was and still am a huge Panorama user and the extension they replaced it with works just as well. Stuff like that is cleaner as an extension anyway (which of course begs the question of why the hell Pocket and Hello aren't extensions).
Unless his attorneys are going to go up against YouTube's attorneys and drag this through to the Supreme Court (that is, unless he has a few million dollars sitting around earmarked for his lawyer), it can and will be stopped by a cease and desist. If YouTube sued him, they'd probably get an injunction preventing him from distributing youtube-dl until the case was resolved.

Even if it were litigated all the way up to SCOTUS, there is no guarantee that the Supremes would see a video downloading device the same way they see a video recording device (and the ruling that stated home recording was fair use, Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc (colloquially, the "Betamax case"), was itself a controversial 5-4 ruling) instead of the way they see a peer-to-peer distribution network like Napster.

There are many spurious C&Ds sent to people for violations of the CFAA based upon a site's Terms of Use each year; big companies squashing competitors they dislike, or even non-competitors that embarrass the company by providing a service that they've as yet been unable to figure out, etc. The argument that violation of the Terms of Use constitutes unauthorized access under the CFAA has prevailed in court multiple times, and even if it hadn't, once a C&D is received, the authorization is at that point certainly revoked and thus, continued access equates to a violation of the CFAA.

There are copyright and trademark issues here too, even if you can prevail on the CFAA issues (not likely). Judges have ruled that downloading a webpage into RAM in order to extract non-copyrightable data is copyright infringement, because the momentary existence of the entire page in RAM is an unauthorized copy.

Various counterarguments that shift the blame to the consumer, e.g., "we don't actually talk to YouTube's server, we just take a URL that the customer submits via the extension and convert it to another URL, and that doesn't involve accessing YouTube's servers", usually fail (though logically extension developers shouldn't be any more liable than browser developers for their customers' use). One could be considered a conspirator or an accessory to CFAA violations.

So, yes, it could and would be stopped by a C&D unless Richard Branson or some other megamillionaire is secretly bankrolling youtube-dl, and even then, its chances of surviving the legal battle unscathed are pretty slim.

Similar considerations apply to something like PriceZombie, which Amazon just shut down because it doesn't like what the data reveals. The legal situation here is a seriously understated social problem.

You may read this and say it sounds like web crawlers like Google are illegal. Well, yes, they are. The difference is that Google was able to hit critical mass before such a devastating lawsuit was brought, and now they're effectively too big to sue out of existence. If you are making an internet company or product, you have to hope this happens to you before you make someone mad and get sued to death.
This will of course depend on your existing privacy settings.
In Canada we used to have something called the "Per Vote Subsidy".

Every political party got $2 of taxpayer money per-vote, per year.

It was, sadly, killed by the Conservative government (along with corporate donors) to prioritize an individual-fundraising-oriented system like you have in the USA.
Talk about burying the lead. My first question was "why on Earth"? Thanks for answering it.

And I'd hardly call pointing this out "stirring the pot" or "pointless". This has serious security, openness, and privacy implications that definitely deserve to be mentioned in the discussion for what amounts to a press release.
My question was implicitly framed in the context of the "Error Handling" section of the paper. I agree that Option is an ideal choice for 0/1 cardinality situations and use if frequently for that purpose.

Sorry for any confusion I may have introduced when re-stating the question originally posed by "Joe Clueless" in the comments section.
While I appreciate the general thrust of the Occupy emphasis on "the 1%", as an old school socialist I believe the real issue with the distribution of wealth is on who controls the institutions of wealth generation and power, not who happens to be holding large amounts of units of currency. That some people are 1% and others are in the 99% is a product of unequal distribution of power.

By some calculations, I am briefly in "the 1%" in my country but I own know corporations, factories, large quantities of stock, and am in that tier only on account of a set of temporary circumstances, and I've paid over half of it out in income taxes. And I have no more power than any other average voter.

Whereas there are people who have far more influence, and it isn't necessarily due to how much wealth they have, but more to do with the kind of control they have over wealth generation itself.
Private Data in JavaScript
Libs ? quicklisp seemed fully featured. The problem seemed like a community / branding problem. People are used to python libs and word of mouth so lisp is a vacuum.

The condition system looks very nice, but I rarely see people talking about it. Not saying it is not useful, just that I'd love to know more about usage. Maybe at one point people leave conditions to go into typed programming too.

The 'no value' was a bit strong, I meant it relatively to trendy and stable languages.
> “It’s the only sport where every kid can turn pro”

This is a pretty incredible quote.
I lost a bunch of weight doing Low Carb High Fat, but later on switched to a vegan diet (of High Carb, Low Fat) for ethical reasons. I've been keeping the weight off with the High Carb diet and I'm actually eating more than before. Please note that high carb does not mean highly processed food. I eat mostly whole foods, little processing or refining, but ultimately it is treated as 'sugar' for the body: rice, potatoes, bread, etc. I also took blood analysis after LCHF and some months after the HCLF, and pretty much all indicators either stayed the same or improved. Colesterol levels were way high during the High Fat phase, and are now back to normal levels.
Purpose of Different HTTP Methods in RESTful Web Service
Being advanced stock is literally being given a loan of that stock, and the primary motivation of credit scoring is to be able to judge whether someone will default on their loan.

Admittedly, that only defers the question to, "Does credit scoring accomplish its primary motivation?" But you could become a loanshark millionaire if it turned out that people with low credit score were equal or better borrowers than people with high credit score, since the existing financial industry isn't serving them as well.
Or in the Bay Area, where you can earn a combined income of over $400k and still be living in an apartment because you can't afford to buy a house. I find it silly that folks like these will be offshoring funds and doing other shenanigans. Some places are just expensive to live in.
It not a big deal. Calling something a political cartoon isn't an insult. Political cartoons are meant to illustrate a position, not support one. An infographic is a visual presentation of data that supports an argument. Political cartoons aren't bad, but they don't substitute for supporting evidence.
Believe it all comes down to insurance and having someone else to blame. Think about why most jobs use urine instead of hair for drug testing. Hell of a lot cheaper, don't care about accuracy, and just want to be able to say that they did it.
Do you still beat your wife?
Do they really maintain ~>50% approval ratings? Or is it just the case that people are basically forced to choose between candidates that have <~10% individual approval rating? Given voter turnout for congressional races I tend towards the latter.
Imagine it quickly being turned off due to abuse.
Who exactly is confused by this term? Can you point out the group that's railing against mid-career doctors and their offshore tax havens?
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I don't claim to understand SCOTUS - but they are extremely conservative institution. I mean dictionary definition of conservative - upholding the status quo. And they prefer to not get involved in the day to day affairs of the country.

So even a bad SCOTUS decision could stay on the books for a long time - just to save face and uphold the credibility of the institution.

They look to rock the boat the least. Even in their current hyperpartisan state.
I guess they just see every extra interface between kernel and userland as another attack surface and therefore to be avoided.
> You must live in a different Portugal than the one I know.

Everybody does, right? It's my perception, as you have yours.

From where I stand, laws are ignored as if they didn't exist, people care only about themselves and the quid pro quo is the currency to achieve anything in a timely manner. The rot is everywhere, from the guy which slows down traffic because he parked in the middle of the road to get broad, to municipal services and e.g. construction licenses.
Apologies - I manage to misread your comment to be the opposite of what it actually is!

[Edit: have an upvote]
You don't need that many millions to live comfortably for the rest of your life.
1M is 10 years of 100,000 worth of net income which is more than you would get if you just reach the 1% mark in the UK.
10M say a modest lottery payout would give you a 100 years worth of 100,000 net yearly income and that's before you count in any potential ROI on that money if you decide to invest it rather than just stash it under the mattress.

One of the other issues with money is that most of the people even those who are just in the 1% have to work to live, if you have access to sufficient finance to not worry about needing a job for the rest of your life one could argue that it's a problem.
Even if you take out 100% of the money out of politics it's not going to be enough, because those who do not need to work to survive can invest 100% of their time into politics and driving their agenda forward while the rest lags behind.

Now I'm not arguing that there is a solution for it, but what people tend to focus too much is on flat sums and income inequality which is almost futile. You might dislike some one who's making 160K a year but in most cases they are just like you if they do not work they'll find them selves on the street just as fast (and sometimes even faster than you).
So for the most part I discount those who work directly for their compensation from the so called "1%" while you might think that some CEO getting payed 700,000 is some wallstreet arsehole, the oil worker in Nebraska might think the same about a developer in NYC earning 300K a year.

True wealth allows people to focus on building dynasties and true power and if you want to focus on anything you might focus on that, that said we are 65 there's a good chance that we'll be considerably less supportive of things like inheritance tax when I'll have children and grandchildren to worry about.
>Brennan makes his position clear: "Absolutely, I would not agree to having any CIA officer carrying out waterboarding again."

Sure. We outsource our torture after rendition to 'black sites' in places like Romania, Thailand, wherever.

This article and these official statements mean nothing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/05...
Do swedes get to opt out of this?
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From my experiences, I can distinguish pheromones (or their absence) and any artificial add-ons (like perfume). For example, in my personal preferences' beauty scale, all asian girls are capped to 5/10, no matter how beautiful they are. I studied with many of them and was friends with few and smell-wise, all were incompatible. There is no "negative" body smell, it is just very subtle; weak and strange. Like, imagine vegetables you never ate but they smell strange so you don't want to try them. From other side of spectrum, in my preference scale, black girls, specifically from Caribbean area (Cuba, Brasil, not Africa) are also capped, to 5-6/10. However, all "specimens" I encountered have strange "pull" in the smell and it makes me forget about the cap and flirt and hang with them. I once nearly fell in love with a girl from Brasil who was 6-ish but radiated pheromones like geyser. Smell-wise it was probably a mix of body oil, perspiration and pheromones. Practically, for me, enticing pheromones are as strong as perfumes, but by magnitude more richer. "Negative" body smell/pheromones is weak, strange, yet not off-putting, just strange. That's how smell (in)compatibility manifests to me.
Re: ad hominem critiques. I thought they were duly deserved. Your comment came across, to me, as condescending and arrogant, both qualities of the person putting forth the argument, rather than the argument. So, the critique will by necessity be "to the man" (or woman).

As to, you not being able to make sense out of my other comments. That's not necessarily my fault.
I think he means that anyone who knows even a smidgen about cars would say v8 and not explain it like the audience didn't know what a v8 was.
The sugar in fruits is processed the same in our body as any other type of "refined" sugar. Whether that's table sugar, high fructose corn syrup, sucrose, fructose, whatever other names it wants to go by.

Eating an actual fruit though is healthier, because that sugar is packaged up in a wonderful fiber, nutrient-filled vessel.

Basically, the delivery mechanism of the sugar is what really counts.
Nice for whom? You're not the customer.
Don't underestimate javascript bloat.
I've troubled imagining how you can abuse this though.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/25/uk-incomes-how-...
Travel planning is so time consuming, this seems the right way to search for a trip. I've been using http://www.tripaya.com for a while, and love their user experience, it's like I'm already traveling. Good luck guys, travel industry real needs disruptive solutions!
I definitely observed this phenomenon while I was out of work for a little while, and even directly asked the recruiter when looking at two roles on their career portal: "Why does the lower wage, lower responsibility, and lower risk job come with higher barriers for employment eligibility than its managerial counterpart?"

She asked what I meant so I spelled it out more directly "Why does a file clerk role require a background check, credit check and drug screen but this role here, a Senior accounting role asks only for relevant job history?" She admitted she didn't know.

I wish I could say this was limited to that company, but I saw it so much over the course of about 3 months that I started to really wonder what the hell is going on..
But capital can move away from taxation much more quickly than labour because the political institutions that capital controls _have made it that way_.

As an example: we got a "North American Free Trade Agreement" which allowed mostly free movement of capital between borders, but at no time was it even considered that labour would be able to freely move. Even for people like myself who are skilled in software, etc. it is quite difficult.

All of this is to reiterate what another poster said above: the people who control large amounts of capital have an outsized influence on the way tax _and trade_ laws are written.
Are there any closed source block chains?
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From what I can gather from the FAQ, it's entirely opt-in. Swedes sign up to be cultural ambassadors.
Boeing Has a Plan to Compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX Rockets
You have to actually opt in, as an ambassador.
We've already hit a snag with Moore's law. And storage is not progressing that fast either, for quite longer than that.

The thing is, we've lived through the "low hanging fruit" era of the progress curve in IT, and now we're in the diminishing returns stage (increasingly more difficult effort -- e.g. cpu smaller process size issues -- to get ever less interesting improvements).

Of course anybody having lived the best and rapidly increasing part of the curve (roughly 1950 to 2005 or so) would think this will go on forever, or that it's some "inevitable" "natural" characteristic of technology to always improve rapidly (which mostly means they're either too optimistic or bad at math).

For some areas of tech it's even worse: not only we've reached increasing difficulty in creating machines, factories etc to churn it out, but we've also reached the limits of physical laws involved. So we either need to find totally different processes, or prove Einstein and/or Heisenberg wrong to overcome this (and sure, the first if easier than the latter, but still nowhere as easy as simply creating a new generation of the same process).
The mafia and a very special flower arrangement
it is definitely something to consider. When I was trying to come up with a name i kept thinking I wanted something that would stick in peoples mind and reflect the nature of the app but at the same time I kept finding articles on how you should thinking of random things eg.) tinder, reddit, bing
I ended up going with my gut.
They don't arm insurgents either.
There is something similar to your idea: Apple Research Kit http://www.apple.com/ca/researchkit/, that allowd medical researchers to organize studies and track participants. How is your platform different from it?
https://love2d.org

> Hi there! LÖVE is an awesome framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.
(1) Fruit juice is still sugar water. The fact that it's fructose instead of sucrose doesn't make it healthy. Maybe it's better for you than soda, but still not healthy.

(2) Who is having a glucose spike from broccoli? I don't believe this is a real thing. A glucose spike implies a significant amount of absorption in a short period of time. I doubt that broccoli digests quickly enough or suddenly enough in anyone's GI tract to cause a blood sugar spike.
I think it might be quite hard to do those studies for ethical reasons.

From what I remember, the consensus among professional interrogators is that torture is largely useless, because people go more or less instantly from not saying anything at all to making up any old nonsense that sounds vaguely plausible just to make the pain and confusion stop.

Psychological torture is even less useful, because people simply stop making any sense at all after a while.

The most reliable methods were based on extended conversations, with the interrogator pretending to be an equal and gradually persuading a prisoner to open up and/or reveal possible gaps in their story.

This kind of interrogation isn't fast, but the ticking timebomb excuse for torture has never been very convincing anyway.

Pain on its own is very unlikely to change the mind of anyone who's so indoctrinated they volunteer to take part in a mass terrorist attack.
Travel planning is so time consuming, this seems the right way to search for a trip. I've been using www.tripaya.com for a while, and love their user experience, it's like I'm already traveling. Good luck guys, travel industry real needs disruptive solutions!
For anyone missing the lede here: the book is typeset in troff. This is astonishing because troff is 40+ years old and AFAIK hasn't gotten significant development in ~10 years. If it ain't broke don't fix it. http://www.troff.org/history.html
"Is your refrigerator running?"
"How much are you willing to accept to purge this from my credit?"

Note that settling debt for less than what was borrowed can also result in additional tax burden because the difference between the loan amount and the amount paid is income.[0][1]

[0] - https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1099c.pdf

[1] - http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/tax-consequences-sett...
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>...George Soros, who's donated far more money and influenced far more country's politics...

Prior to 2012, that was probably true:

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-k...

But since then, the Koch brothers really ramped it up. The Koch brothers spent an estimated $412MM in the 2012 election alone, about an order of magnitude more than the amount Soros spent in the entire previous decade:

http://www.thenation.com/article/koch-brothers-spent-twice-m...

Combine the $412MM they spent in 2012 with the $900MM they want to spend in 2016, and that's ~$1.3 billion this decade, compared to Soros's ~$40 million in the last. That's not even close to the same level. And I haven't found any evidence that Soros is spending at the same level as the Koch brothers this decade.
Never heard of a prank call?
A blockchain can be used for more stuff than currency. See ethereum for example.
Levy a tax of 1% on political advertising, distributed to residents in the reception area.
A new view of the tree of life