skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also "Project Cybersyn" for another attempt at making a computerised command economy work. It's referenced in the article.

While this looks like an fascinating read, it's worth remembering that the thing that makes the Internet the Internet, distinguishing it from other Western systems like X25, Minitel, and telecoms in general is its peer-to-peer nature with minimal central arbitration(+).

The Soviet Union rationed access to photocopiers. There was no way it would ever build a network that was not entirely subject to central control, and this must inevitably handicap its usage and development.

(+) Minimal, not zero. The central point for a long time was Jon Postel.
seems like the github repo got hit with a dmca take down?

Well one of the repo's
The problem with bugs is not the bugs. It's what the bugs do. Bork up your database and the bug fix is not "minutes". (Especially if you don't notice for a while.) Piss off your customers and the bug fix is not "minutes". Screw up your money handling and the fix is not "minutes". (Well, your part of the fix may be just one minute, though that minute will be "you're fired".)

If you've only ever encountered bugs that can be fixed in "minutes", you're either very lucky, or not working on anything all that important. Or possibly, not very perceptive and you've actually got a mess on your hands and you haven't realized it yet. I've inherited systems run by such people; they think everything's hunky dory but it turns out you can hardly figure out how to connect two records in the database together correctly because they were too smart for academic bullshit like referential integrity, and, lo, their database was low on the integrity. Tends to work, except the amount of elbow grease required increases without bound until it exceeds the capabilities of the developer in question, and suddenly, one day, they wake up and their job is in serious jeopardy because of what's going down and what they can't get back up.

You assert that this is the "older" style of thinking, which shows a lack of understanding of your computer programming history. What you advocate is "cowboy" thinking, and it predates what I'm discussing by quite a bit. The entire 1970s was basically run this way, and it shows in those handful of remaining technologies that are still with us, and their tendency to just pound through problems as if errors are an admission of failure.
Left wing? I don't bother with Reddit because they strike me as a herd of authoritarian neo-liberal drones. Left-wing definitely not.
And thus you may say that every Euro using nation effectively gave up sovereignty when they adopted said currency...
The first thing I found on duckduckgo: http://www.webmd.com/depression/news/20111019/use-of-antidep...

"About 11% of Americans aged 12 or older take antidepressants" (2011)

"the rate of antidepressant use in the U.S. has increased nearly 400% since 1988."

Many people that are on anti-depressants won't tell you about it.

edit: Really? Downvote me just because I provided a source to the claim that more people are on antidepressants today?
Because, survival. Muscle is expensive - your body wants only enough to survive. Fat is life - your body wants all the stores it can afford.
Looking at the source code, it's purposefully written in a monospaced font, so I assume it's on purpose.
I agree that some property is left empty, but this is extremely rare. There are just not enough lazy Billionaires that can afford this. In most cases empty means unable to sell or rent out. You'll notice that most developments in London these days (e.g. [1]) are mostly small studios, 1 or 2 bedrooms. That's because large luxury penthouses are hard to sell, there is little demand.

Most buyers of such property (whether private or investment funds like Deka-Immobilien or BlackRock Global Property or Brookfield Property Partner or one of the many others) do this as an investment vehicle with a particular risk/reward structure. They will absolutely have to rent out these properties, and indeed, when they fund property construction projects, as they have been on a massive scale in London in the last decade, they do so to cash in on rent.

[1] http://www.themadison.co.uk
CoD Facebook bot is fiercely on task for today’s launch event
since you are atypical, maybe yours is the one thats malfunctioning
It's worth noting that the amounts by which their metabolism was lowered are not as shocking as they seem at first.

The 300 calories a day difference in calories burned is very limiting if your BMR is 1800. But for some of these contestants their BMR, even at the lower weights, might be 2000 calories per day. And if they do moderate exercise, they can burn up to 1000 calories more than this. If you are expending 3000 calories per day then a 300 calorie difference is minimal.
Hm, I still think we don't have the full picture.

For example online tangible product sales is not covered, as it's not a service. (If I understand the explanatory notes correctly.) But selling software is covered, because you can electronically deliver it. Bah.

Yes, the crossword or sudoku provider has to fiddle with VAT, just as an app store. But if the crosswords are made by humans, then it's not an electronic service. The necessity of the human element seems to be the deciding factor.

Furthermore, the point is that this is a step in the right direction, a unified legal requirement, because before this providers were simply ignoring the VAT, and Member States' tax authorities were not really enforcing it.

Regarding the inclusiveness. This is a problem of legal harmonization, eventually one law/statue/directive will come out on top.

So, I'd just go with the IP based approach, the important thing is good faith. Not a 100% correct solution. And you can always display a warning next to the price that you are not sure of the taxes to apply, so please dear end-user select where you are established.

And yes, national (member state) tax offices act rather dumb and macho when it comes to collecting money.
Survey of open source code and data in Computer Science
Man this is so frustrating because I have a family member who is like this. I would really like to help them, but they just don't seem to get it.

I think the problem is that these people want instant results. That's not how the body works. If you want to become a runner, you start running often and because you love it. You don't force yourself to start doing intense, one-and-done sessions in an attempt to get to your goal and then go back to your old lifestyle once you achieve it. You have to learn to play the long game and be patient.

I really believe that if these folks worked on a farm for several years, it would do much more to help them with their weight problems than these TV shows do.
I was meaning in a general sense of the jurisdiction they are in; this new thing only adds to that ability.
That's the real problem. The term "economy" has been captured by big corporations. When I grew up in Germany the economy was supposed to be a benefit to all participants and a balance had to be achieved. Now the economy is supposed to be fine as long as big business is happy. The regular citizen doesn't count anymore.

TTIP is just the final expression of this. Whatever I hear only lobbyists have been involved. No other citizen organizations like unions, environmental organizations, politicians or wherever. Only big business.
This is factually incorrect. If you didn't authorize the transfer, the bank is legally required to make you whole.

This only applies to personal accounts, not business accounts.

There is a reason why scammers work so hard to find someone to "cash checks" or "withdraw funds" or do that kind of nonsense. Electronically stealing funds is easy. Keeping those funds is hard.
I have a coworker with a problem maintaining insulin hormone levels. He needs to work harder, pull himself up by his bootstraps like the rest of us, and stop blaming his body. He needs to recognize the need to change, IV insulin addiction is no joke. I can just wave my hand and say he needs to change his diet or lifestyle or something and it'll all go away and he won't need those nasty needles anymore.

Its pretty much the same isituation with people having leptin level problems, or dopamine and serotonin level problems for that matter. Or epinephrine levels. Or testosterone/estrogen balance level problems. Or cholesterol problems. In fact this is quite a long list...
"Never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself".
Oh, well, then I hate to disappoint you, but no, these were not primarily web apps.
I would love a copy of that!
Since I have diaries here: http://k5.semantic-db.org/diary-slurp/161942--archive-diarie...

I regret not scraping the stories too.
You actually can't. Lefty types show up in pretty much all the otherwise good topical sub-reddits and signal and get their upvotes. There will be some utterly irrelevant aside with Trump bashing, or whatever, on thread about single cylinder engines. There are some guys upthread here arguably doing it, for example.

Ask the lefty signaler to shut up and stay on topic and you get downvoted or even deleted.

Reddit is dominated by entry-ist lefties to the point it's too annoying to read.
Title: King's Day Speech
With the exception of Chicago, I agree. St. Louis, Indianapolis, KC, and many other airports have direct flights to most parts of the US (or connect through Chicago almost anywhere in the world), and I've never waited more than 20 minutes in the TSA lines.

Due to the frequency of travel, I do have Pre-Check, but I hate that I had to pay extra money to get what I think should be the normal experience for all domestic travelers.
One repo and old blog was closed because I posted modified (patched, for reversing issues) skype binaries. Which is no-no stuff in any case.

And I move all my source files (except forbidden to publish skype patched binaries) to repo named Epycs (skype word in reversed letters).
That seems incompleat. Could you continue?
Seems like it'll be a non-starter for most sane businesses given the insane reporting requirements.

we started to ask companies to give us more data. The reason is we wanted to get rid of fraud. Currently, all the companies in Estonia are declaring their B2B deals. If I’m a company and you’re a company and I buy something off you and it’s more than €1,000, we both have to declare it
It would be interesting to see what Agglomerative Clustering the author is using here. I suspect for this two dimensional, density based cluster dataset, single-link agglomerative would perform much better than what is shown (likely average link).
Yet all I remember is the times that third party code has failed me. It is a strange quirk of human memory.

It's not just me, either - one example was a failure in STL map that was as old as the product. It was a known defect but nobody had the heart to face it. When I showed them the defect, people got rather angry with me.
The browser can still access your disk though, so any vulnerability in your browser means arbitrary access. An example from last year https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit.... That's the reason that I decided to use firejail myself.
My "favourite" part of the TSA line is how business and premier customers often have access to a shorter regular TSA line (not precheck, just a separate entrance to the normal TSA line). My understanding is that the TSA is partly funded by a FIXED fee on every ticket so I can't see any logical reason as to why they get sent to the front of the line.
Actually, study after study found that overfeeding resulted in an enhanced metabolism, leading to much less weight gain than predicted, and even that weight gain disappears very soon with return to a non-forced diet.
Yep, the whole point for why pre-check exists is to allow frequent travelers who will always pass screening to get through the security clusterfuck faster. pre-check is for people that know how to travel and are willing to observe the rules.

A grown man carrying a "throwing-star" toy through pre-check SHOULD BE banned from this privilege and feel the scorn of other pre-check folks who just want to go through smoothly.
Could you please stop spamming with the same content over and over again?
I'm in Seattle.
You go to one store and try to swipe..."No, you have to use the chip".
Next place you try to use the chip..."No, that doesn't work yet. You need to swipe it".

Seems like no one is on the same page
His statement sounds fishy:

"I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement)."

But also from reddit: "Evidence that Craig Wright is not Satoshi: he doesn't understand selfish mining"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hfyoo/evidence_th...
Why would I Google GlusterFS encryption? You think a casual researcher should type every feature of importance into Google with an apps name to confirm if it has that feature? That's ridiculous. It's features or benefits should be easy to find on the homepage. Documentation, esp "What This Does," is critical to OSS success.

Here's what Gluster doc menu said: one that goes to instsllation page; more detailed installation; admin guide; developer guide; upgrade guide. Geez, I don't need any of that. Just want to know what the hell it does with what features.

They need to fix it.
Mostly from men. It's hard to argue that women set the cultural agenda when most almost all of our business and political leaders are male boomers.
For one, suicide rates in the developed world are on the rise: http://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
Additionally, they'd be vilified by the people who de facto support things like the TSA as "soft on security".
Heroine.
Then we probably have to agree to disagree.

Air travel is in that sense special that you and up to 500 of your fellow passengers are in a metal tube in 12'000 metres height, which makes it conceptually a bit different from a bus, or even a train.

Cockpit doors are already re-inforced, but the cockpit is not the only sensitive part of a plane when a passenger wants to cause mayhem with a high powered rifle, or a - pistol.

In addition I, for one, prefer to take a flight without a bunch of open carry zealots believing that they have a god given rigth to take their guns everywhere and which would surely wind up armed on commercial flights.

But again, we seem to have a completely different opinion here and I have no urge to try to convince you why I don't think it's a good idea to abolish security checks for flights.
Greeks didn't lose money in the bank. There were temporary losses of ATM availability due to bank runs, but the account protection was maintained. Even in Cyprus the "bail-in" applied to over €150k only.
I'm sure its high. I'm also sure we use more vaccines, bone marrow transplants and leukemia cures than before. Its not always a bad thing that folks aren't suffering as they used to historically.
As nuclear weapons get larger the radius at which the fire and concussion is deadly grows faster than the radius at which their radiation is deadly. For relatively small bombs a lot of the deaths from the initial explosion are going to be from radiation and the two bombs dropped on Japan were small compared to the ones standing by in the cold war.

Of course, unlike the bombs dropped on Japan modern thermonuclear weapons burn large amount of U328 with the fast neutrons created from fusion, resulting in large amounts of fallout. They may not cause many radiation deaths from their explosion but the fallout they create will endanger people downwind for a long time after the initial explosion.

I don't have words to convey how much I hope we never see those weapons used in anger.
Short background: in today's Rust, the lifetime of a reference is bound to a lexical scope. Sometimes this forces one to create temporary variables solely to change the lexical scope of a reference, which is an annoyance. Take the following example:

let mut nums = Vec::new();
nums.push(nums.len());

The above code would compile if we had non-lexical lifetimes, but today it doesn't. This is because method calls are effectively desugared to something like this:

let mut nums = Vec::new();
Vec::push(&mut nums, nums.len());

The arguments are evaluated left-to-right, and the mutable borrow prevents the immutable borrow later. Once non-lexical lifetimes arrives this will be possible thanks to control-flow analysis, but today we have to make a temporary:

let mut nums = Vec::new();
let length = nums.len();
nums.push(length);

It doesn't involve any new user-facing features to the language and is fully backward-compatible, so it's basically just a straight quality-of-life improvement for Rust programmers.
Feminists:
"Men are working too hard and making money. Jerks!"

encounters man who doesn't work hard and make money

"You make less money than me? Ew. Get away you loser! Where's all the real men?"
Indeed. A basic understanding of the science is all you need. However, the main narrative is that the body is a simply a black box that obeys solely the laws of thermodynamics.
It's very common in the US. Present to a medical professional with a bit of lethargy and doubt or confusion over the general direction of your life and these medications seem to be prescribed almost immediately. It's almost like they don't want people to analyze their lives and address their issues such that their life is bearable without the aid of pharmaceuticals.
I don't know how you got that from this article.
Not a chance
Wow, that ecosystem grows fast.

There is often a quite negative response to Github's decision to base Atom on a HTML/Javascript/CSS stack, due to the performance hit.

But it seems that it attracted a lot of developers to work for the platform.
Reddit is absolutely a liberal dominated forum.
> it has immense potential to solve a lot of problems

Very debatable and yet to be proven in any real way. Lots of things have "potential" but bitcoin seems to consistently fail at actually doing anything. Doubtful it will ever solve any problems outside its current scope of use.
A) Depends on the school. But, it is commonly set up this way so people can satisfy general ED requirements without 'wasting' a class. If you read through this list there are logic class from several departments. (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy) http://logic.harvard.edu/courses.php

B) Randomly trying things for thousands of years is likely to produce some interesting results. That does not mean doing so is a good idea.
I don't think this is the case; Google Scholar does wonders.
At least in Europe, fraudulent direct debit withdrawals are a lot more damaging to the company performing them than to the person whose money was taken -- the latter can undo the transaction and the former might lose the right to do any (legit or not) direct debits plus bad press.
It's always harder to do something than to sit around watching the people doing it. So I give you that. This is hard.

However, every time someone has interacted with the Bitcoin community and dealt with the assholes telling them "you just don't get it! this is the new economy!", it makes that someone smile a little bit each time there's bad news.
Also really sketch when you make a point of claiming you don't want money.

>https://youtu.be/dZNtbAFnr-0?t=3m21s

Who says something like this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610858
TLS does not hide your IP address or that of the hosting server. If the powers that be want to know if you've visitied ttip-leaks.org, they will know regardless of whether TLS was employed.

As an aside, many web servers also log details of GET and POST requests - e.g. the visitor's IP address and the page they visited.
The big problem is the precedent it sets for data access.

What are the criteria for who gets access? What are the constraints of that access?

This story covers the latter being blown apart, the constraints were poorly defined and implemented and thus even if the criteria is well defined access to far more data was made possible.

I'm sure that few patients desire an end to research, or would argue that such access isn't a good thing... but what of the insurance industry? Should they have access? Would the NHS be able to define and enforce those constraints?

Perhaps that's an obvious no.

What then of an insurer partnering with a medical research company, from the viewpoint of "This costs insurance a lot of money, we'd like to fund a way to reduce that financial exposure".

The grey areas emerge immediately.

If we cannot control access to patient data, data that would be trivial to either strip anonymity or just to have in aggregate enough to still produce net-negatives (i.e. correlated by post code would reveal enough with little extra work)... and if we cannot define and enforce the constraints of access... then we really shouldn't be sharing what is highly sensitive and personal information that was originally only disclosed between a patient and a Doctor under the premise that what is shared is covered by the explicit and implicit confidentiality of that conversation.

It's always worth remembering:

Data was acquired under doctor patient confidentiality.

If we considered that data to have a licence, it is the most restrictive licence possible. One could consider what has happened here as a re-licensing without permission. Such an act could have a chilling effect on the relationship between the doctor and patient.
The default sub-reddit's turn into what happens when you have a site populated mostly by the lowest common denominator and posts that appeal to the same. Once it became mainstream the defaults just fell into an Eternal September cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) that most sites never recover from. However, reddit had a defense mechanism against this in that there are many, many subsections and almost hidden communities or "True*" sub-reddit's for the core/original users who prefer some semblance of thought provoking content or discussion, or at least pretend to.

I generally unsubscribe from all of those defaults (except maybe /r/WorldNews) and almost never look at them, have some lists of subject related sub-reddits I like (ex: tech). There are sub-reddits that have communities in them I haven't found a replacement for elsewhere aside from maybe some private FB groups. There is something to be said for exclusivity or staying obscure. For every /r/The_Donald there is a /r/Sweden, or for /r/SRS and /r/RedPill there is /r/TwoXChromosomes and /r/AskMen. You aren't going to read about the good communities in the news, as polite people having interesting level headed discussions rarely makes headlines.

To me Hacker News is just another sub-reddit like site. I usually see the same links posted in my sub-reddit's as I do HN, and I'd wager the discussion is sometimes better in the sub-reddit's than it is here, it's at least on par.
What is the programmer lifestyle? I work 40 hours a week and have time for whatever I want to do in my free time
"So this is really lots of big US companies negotiating with themselves on how to screw over Europe."

Let me change this for you to something more accurate:

So this is really lots of big multinational corporations negotiating with themselves on how to screw over working people throughout the world.

When you start tuning this into "US companies screwing over Europe", you play right into their hands. As if there aren't dozens of European corporations screwing us all over right now. Until recently, I owned a diesel VW that spewed poison into the air every time I drove it, thanks to a bunch of German executives who valued profit over air quality. This goes beyond borders.
It boggles me that there's no way to filter out specific subreddits on /r/all without using some custom viewer or plugin. Or am I missing something?
soft margin SVM would be useful here. And there are manifold aware topographical clustering algorithms, like Persistent Homology techniques, Gunnar Carlson is the man on this new clustering offshoot.