skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
edit: I'd like to see the people downvoting my facts, counter how this doesn't amount to a wave or big surge of crime, these numbers are huge increases in a short amount of time.

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Crime has seen a huge increase in Britain and it appears set to keep getting worse. Crime in London has increased dramatically. I'm not going to claim that's due to gun laws, however it is factually correct that crime is surging big time.

Acid attacks alone have skyrocketed in the last three years in London, tripling in that time to around 500 annually.

Jul 2017

"Police record 10% rise in crime in England and Wales, with 18% increase in violent crime and significant rise in murder rate"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/20/official-fig...

April 2017

"Gun crime offences in London surged by 42% in the last year, according to official statistics. The Met Police's figures showed there were 2,544 gun crime offences from April 2016 to April 2017 compared to 1,793 offences from 2015 until 2016."

"Knife crime also increased by 24% with 12,074 recorded offences from 2016 to 2017."

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-39578500

Oct 2017

"Violent crime soars by fifth as total offences recorded by police push past five million. ... The data, published by the Office for National Statistics, showed the number of violence against the person crimes logged by police went up by a fifth (19 per cent) to 1.2 million."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/20/london-now-danger...
These days EDNS0 allows bigger UDP responses in many cases, which may mean some fragment re-assembly. Unfortunately there are a staggering number of networks and firewalls that don't open TCP 53, and also ones that don't permit UDP fragments. So if you want DNS to work reliably /everywhere/, sadly it's wise to stay below the 512 limit.
yes. no idea why I'm being downvoted so heavily. you can't write your own containers today.
One could argue that the universe of avail bitcoins (those with known passwords) will asymptotically approach zero.

Ie, there's a small chance of a user screwing up. And since there's no recourse, always a perpetual small chance of someone losing their bitcoins.

Maybe Poissonian?
But why not come up with a way to be fully independent with surpluses, like some universities?
This would make bitcoin even more deflationary. Inflation is when a currency loses value. Less and less of something would mean it would gain value creating deflation.
I think perhaps you may be conflating "non-controversial" opinions with "objective" opinions. As the author writes:

> The Hidden and Prevailing Ideology

> I believe that just about every technical book comes with a body of politics, an ideology that governs and usually restricts its example set. We don't notice the political slant because it reflects the dominant viewpoint in our society and is thus invisible.

Or more generally -- the status quo is highly political. If you choose to follow a mainstream or establishment viewpoint, it does not logically follow that this mainstream viewpoint is objective or true or correct or laudable, although in some cases it may be. It gets more worrying when you don't consciously realise you've made a choice.

But yes, perhaps accidentally absorbing and signalling non-mainstream subjective political opinions could be hazardous to your career / participation in society / life , but that has nothing to do with the truth or otherwise of those political opinions.
No. That is incorrect. Errors are to be handled by the programmer and every book I read says "We are ignoring errors here for the sake of simplicity, you are strongly advised not to ignore them".

I have said so in the intro textbook I wrote.
In our moral crusade against impending environmental disaster, it astounds me that packaging is still given little thought beyond what we should do with it once we already have it. I think it would be a good idea to place some kind of rating on packaging to encourage purchasers to be more cognisant of what they are actually taking responsibility for beyond just the contents.

I can't help but feel like we are going backwards here - especially when I see things like individual bananas being sold on trays[1].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/WPaVBTv.jpg
> This was confirmed by the Russian foreign ministry. BuzzFeed updated its story, but did not take it down.

Is that why Trump fans call this kind media "Fake News". It could have been a mistake (an unnamed government official said...), but refusing to take it down, after they knew it was untrue probably goes into PR and "fake" territory.

> But the investigation of Russian intervention is not just a disgrace, it’s a collective eclipse of reason, it’s lunacy.”

Interesting perspective. I never quite thought about it, but now wonder what do other countries think about "the Russians" PR campaign. Russians make fun of it, do West Europeans, Indians, Chinese, Australians, Africans, South Americans believe it?

> [from the comments] The Democrats got their noses bent so out of shape over losing the election, that they've wasted a year chasing Russian shadows instead of organizing a credible opposition to Trump. As a result, their opposition has been ineffective.

I've been saying the same for a while. There have been plenty of anti-Trump marches, lots "Russia" articles. Google, Facebook and Twitter are bent out of shape trying to filter out fake news. (Wonder if they bumped BuzzFeed down a few notches since deliberately spread misinformation, I am not betting on it). Certainly a lot of energy and time spent. But why isn't there something more constructive, like say take back "the jobs" narrative or any attempt to bring back the people from the Rust belt states which were key for the election. Well I take that back, they tried something, but it's kind of a lame attempt and it hasn't really been noticed by anyone: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/3/16084132/de... and they sound like Trump (Well because Trump really took the best part of Democrat's message right under their noses and ran with it).
Ya, that's a good point. As a taxpayer and a parent, I do want students to dabble. So maybe cover the first two years, no questions, no qualifications. Thereafter, I'd want any effort I'm paying for to be made in earnest.
Thanks. I do my best. I'm glad you approve.
God forbid we should be distracted with Real Life when reading a book about databases.
> basically all the symbols you can find on a keyboard

C++ doesn't even use @ and $, yet ;)
Could work, but it hasn't been widely demonstrated yet. I really hope we can tackle such games/RL tasks.
Startup idea: application that automatically syndicates comment threads in your email inbox back to your website.
Combinations appear in Sicilian often. If you're playing black, that's a good thing depending on your rating.
The birthday party example makes database look pointless. I can imagine company big enough to need database for employees, birthday party is more practical inside a text file.

I strongly prefer those democratic controversies not affecting my work. One reason for keeping it out is so that people who think each others opinions are horrible/unnatural can still produce work together.
Isn't "Follow-the-workload" something that is naturally achieved when Mencius is used iso Raft?
What recourse is there for bitcoin provider services that screw up?

Ie, if one day Coinbase says something like, "sorry, we lost the password to one of our internal coin wallets due to technical error, and your 5.1 bitcoins are lost."

I bet there's some clause in their terms that tries to shield them from this, but wonder how enforceable it would be.

Ie, a regular bank presumably couldn't just say, "sorry we lost your $50k deposit due to technical error". They'd be liable.
Take it down another decade. Or two. There are versions of Old/Super/Hyper in libraries and frameworks for Java, Perl, Python... Once you get the Internet, the hype cycle keeps speeding up
FastMail Response to Account Recovery
Old? Well it certainly still exists; http://scene.org
>was supposed to be slightly deflationary
>it will end up being inflationary

I think you got your terms mixed up.
I really liked this article.

More and more I feel as though my life and the lives of so many people around me is cheapened as we are treated as tools to generate growth and consumption.

I long for a world where I and those around me are working to make a world that has moved far beyond the consumerism and the competition attitude. I want to collaborate with my fellow people, not compete with them. This is possible for all digitizable value, but it takes work to build a library of wealth not held down by intellectual property restrictions.

It is possible though.
I agree that Searn is rather prophetic in retrospective.
I'm working on a site that collects newsletters and sorts them by categories and there's a few I've added already that might be what you're looking for

http://inboxreads.co/tags/management
And NOT having to maintain little rules like this is one of the reasons I fell in love with Go initially. Between gofmt and gofix, the go tooling just works(tm) so danm well.
This kind of behavior is why I recently steered a friend to a Roku. With any of the streaming devices (Amazon, Google, Apple) you risk losing out due to dueling between the major tech companies.. The major players tend to leave Roku alone since it's a 3rd party service that doesn't compete with them.

So I'm throwing my bet towards Roku since it's the only device that can survive a pissing match between all the tech companies.
Off-Main-Thread painting
Which is why I'd prefer it if such decisions can be made very locally. It's easier to see the effect of a change if five counties in New Jersey make it and infant mortality soars compared to the rest of the state than if the entire country makes the change at once.

And those counties can also revert to the old policy in less time than it takes to convince an entire country to repeal bad policy.

We've made big changes in the past that turned out to be the wrong thing and it takes many years to correct. Prohibition, for example.

Or deciding the entire country is going to allow leaded gasoline, instead of allowing cities like Philadelphia to ban it. It took another SEVENTY TWO YEARS to finally get it banned.
I'm curious to see if "San Gatsu no Lion" (the Lion of March) will spark interest. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in more slice-of-life/drama kinds of things. It's quite a beautiful anime/manga, even if the shogi isn't quite centre stage.
Will to life can be hand programmed into AI, but it could also emerge on its own, if we train the agent with evolutionary techniques in the real world.
Because you can ask questions and make observations without taking a side.
Owning both a Chromecast and a FireTv, I feel knowledgeable enough to say just buy a third party device to stream on.

While Amazon and Google Duke it out, they both want to gain market share, so the only way you can see everything is to go to someone else.

Know anyone who wants a used Chromecast or FireTv? :)
In that regard then Stratego would share some aspects with Starcraft, another incomplete information game.

Deepmind is actively working in a StarCraft bot. It would be interesting to see if they can be put together a supraintelligent StarCraft bot and then translate those results to Stratego.
Now I'm really intrigued.

SF plays really odd moves when left to its own devices for a time. As does this AI. So maybe chess looks really weird with play significantly better than the best humans.

It's actually really disturbing.
Lean Design Thinking • Michael McKay
To cut waste, U.K. grocery chain will sell products past 'best before' dates
here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.avo...
Apple Is Rotting and Google’s Got BIG Problems
Back when bitcoin was CPU mineable I had a couple in a wallet. I've lost the key and the wallet id despite being sure I saved them somewhere. I'm sure I'm far from the only one who has done this.

Ah well, 20 grand lost in limbo.
That's an awesome idea, thanks!
I dunno, I don't feel a need for flow when learning, and tone-heavy works are oftenjoying my favorite. For example, Learn You A Haskell For Great Good is one of my favorite language introductions, and also very heavy on random colorful tidbits that might distract fom pure technical information.
Which markets confuse tethers with USD? They are clearly two different assets. The former is a private currency, issued by a company and redeemable in USD, while the latter is the USD that the former IOU is denominated in.

I see how this would affect the price of bitcoins in tethers, but not how it would affect the price of bitcoins in USD (unless the market, as a whole, conflates the two).

Also, where do these alleged arbitrageurs redeem their tethers? As I understand it, the corporation that issues tethers was cut off from doing international wire transfers, thus rendering tethers irredeemable.
The word sacrilege is particularly apt in this context.
Webpack is anything but future proof when you start importing css or any non js resource. If you do that you are effectively stuck with webpack and it becomes a framework rather than a tool.
Exactly. Its dog whistle politics, portraying Hispanic and African American people as the major source of drug crime.
Power9 to the People
The problem with maximizing efficiency is that it kills diversity and creativity. In my home country, Austria, everyone can study anything for free, and I think it has not had that negative impact either. Most people are reasonable and will study something they can make a living off.
EVEOnline? Are you kidding?

Denmark is the home of BlueTooth, ZenDesk, Skype, and a company called Danfoss which you've certainly never heard of but provided microchips and motherboards for a large percentage of the world's tractors, district heating plants, refrigeration centers, and industrial greenhouses. Denmark is a technology powerhouse with manufacturing capabilities that outrank countries a dozen times their size.
Google should just partner heavily with walmart.
aka the yahoo effect
Invision is Hiring in Australia
Indeed. Welcome to capitalism.
That's your adblocker blocking the ad but failing to remove the surrounding frame.
You might want to look up the colloquial meaning behind "red rocket" before using it in branding exercises... :P
There are 6 ISPs that control the majority of the market for the entire US. Most Americans have only one ISP to choose from.

When a company like Comcast or Verizon owns, or owns the rights to the existing infrastructure, they can refuse to sell or lease that infrastructure to other businesses, thereby stifling competition.

That is the current state of affairs.

For a competing business to be successful, it needs infrastructure, most of which is currently controlled by 6 large companies who do not want competition, so competing businesses fail.
Problem is there's no safe rail to exit a position.

You can sell to USD but can't withdraw overnight and deposit in the morning so you're exposed to counterparty risk which in the crypto sphere is enormous.

Only safe position is to be out of this market currently.
Politically charged examples is a great strategy.

I've wondered if there some kind of license that would prohibit trogs from using my tools. I hadn't thought of just offending the people I don't like, so they'd reject me and my efforts first. Kinda like judo.

Genius.
Cryptocurrencies consume a miniscule fraction of the energy that the legacy financial system wastes on office buildings, data centers, air travel and commuting employees.

Why doesn't anyone complain that JPMorgan will "cost us our clean-energy future"?

The great thing about a financial system defined by open-source software is that true innovation happens every day. Already we see testing with proof-of-stake, lightning network, etc. that are vastly more energy efficient.
In this case, you're probably just wrong. Consider for half a second how many programmers fail Fizz Buzz, and then think about how much work it takes to get from that to the frontier of computational science (i.e. not just installing another javascript library, but actually computation).

There's a lot of low hanging fruit out there, but you still have to actually know how to find it.
I did look at all the file options, and there was a 2.2Gb download, but the standard download was about 130Mb.
Bitcoin is not the first solution to Byzantine fault tolerance. It's not the best solution either.
Not a FB fanboy but I have to consider this paper horseshit. They equate censorship with an article not being posted within 10 min of its creation. Confession - did not read more once I found that but for me that's the core and invalid.

I don't know about you but for me converting thoughts into a post usually clarifies things and usually needs revision and takes time. Often way too much time.

Here the quite normal process of editing is being called self censorship and that's enough for the pitchfork mob to saddle up...
Cuda and cuDNN; good times :) Not cross platform, but nvidia does supply a bunch of packages now for different OS's to get that stuff installed.
Historically, not having a light version of Android often just encouraged crazy hardware vendors to choose an even worse form of fragmentation: sticking to an older version of Android.

If those are the two choices, I think it's better to have everyone on a different flavor of the current release. At least then users have a better shot at getting security updates and app developers don't have to target quite as wide a range of API levels.
How to Eat That Frog
To be fair, the 70% number is true but misleading due to a lot of the new smaller members in the East.

More than 80% of EU population is living in
a country where either gay marriage or civil unions (which are pretty close) are legal.
chromecast is fantastic though. i can just throw on any tab i'm browsing onto it and control it using google assistant.

firetv is kinda trash though yeah
I feel like any app with recurring fees that high should really be flagged for a manual review by Apple, even just a human opening the app to see what it is. It seems like so many bogus apps with subscriptions are appearing nowadays.
Google is just reciprocating Amazon's strategy.

I think it's a lose-lose situation, a scorched earth strategy you could say, but Amazon is forcing Google's hand.

Google and Apple do not go as far as this on each other.

The only other company known to compete in this manner is: Microsoft under Ballmer and Gates. Those two were ruthless CEOs and gained sworn enemies to their brand.
Finding Non-Unique Elements in JavaScript
DDG has a stronger commitment to privacy. That said, DDG will almost certainly be outbid by other companies, and DDG will probably face problems scaling to that many users.
Admittedly, that would be the kind of title that would make me want to pick up the book waaaay more.
Signal works with phone numbers, so you can talk to any contact that is also on the app. There is no parental control but how do you assume kids can't text random people. Blocking/banning makes users highly creative.
Related Slate Star Codex story: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/
Machine Learning with Scala – Linear Regression
Who controls the production of such a system?

Currently tether is presumed to be manipulated by its maintainers.

https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/latest
Flask Mega-Tutorial (new and improved)
Hum Mar Jayenge – Whatsapp Status – Bollywood Songs – Songs at One Stop
I think being able to play tactically perfect chess over 20 or so moves will often look weird to human strategic sensibilities. The computer sees every tiny exception to the patterns and heuristics you've incorporated into your gut feel about positions. In a way these moves are right just because they're right, and that's what's jarring - there's no _principle_ behind them that can be learned and generalised, which is something humans struggle with in all walks of life.
You should feel ashamed for even considering posting this. Not only does the website not host any content, but it's equivalent to suggesting the government of Italy is not going to exist in 15 years. It's simply pure bullshit. As if billions and billions of dollars of infrastructure is simply going to vanish. You'd have to be crazy.
New businesses do not necessarily need to own the infrastructure. They just need bandwidth.

Competing businesses could even work together to improve existing infrastructure.

The problem is that existing monopolies do not dissipate without external pressure, because it is not to their benefit.

We have 6 monopolies now, and we need to actively break them up. Short of that, we need to regulate them.
I would naively assume that better healthcare means that people live longer and thusly the exposure to cancer risk runs for longer.

Effect: More people get cancer
Ugh, it all sounds so childish.

And because of this upper-management level spat, mind-numbing amounts of money are likely to fly around a courtroom, and consumers will lose out because they always do.
edit: the downvotes would be amusing if it weren't because I'm bringing up how regressive most European nations are about gay marriage. I understand it's an inconvenient fact and upsetting to some, I'll go ahead and retain my position however: 70% of European nations not allowing gay marriage, is a travesty.

Consider for a moment, that in the responses below, people are actually defending and rationalizing that 70% of European nations haven't legalized gay marriage. Let that sink in for a moment. Now imagine if ~35 states in the US didn't have gay marriage, and someone tried to rationalize that away (oh they're just small states; oh those are newer states), what would the response be? Yeah.

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> To be fair, the 70% number is true but misleading due to a lot of the new smaller members in the East.

It's not misleading in the least. It's an annoying fact to europhiles perhaps.

New smaller members in the East... what are you talking about? New members of what? Those are European nations, it's entirely fair to count them as European nations.

Civil unions are not gay marriage. If all the US had done is to implement civil unions, it would be roundly and properly mocked for doing so.
A list of openings in recent world champions: https://www.chess.com/blog/ih8sens/world-championship-openin...

Queen's gambit is there.
I wouldn't think so. Google got a $2.7B fine for showing shopping ads in search results, because it was an "illegal advantage". They would almost certainly say the same thing about deleting Amazon search results.

https://www.recode.net/2017/6/27/15878980/europe-fine-google...
Does the AppleTV 4K BBC iPlayer app support UHD yet?

The BBC doesn’t seem to prioritise it. The iPlayer seems to play 720p for the most part; perplexed as to why it’s not 1080p, an easy win.
Why Aren't More Professors Using Technology to Assess Student Learning
They support Net Neutrality but not Device Neutrality?

Hypocrisy to the max!
What? Am I insane? Why don't Google take legal action? What it's doing now is completely barbaric.

And Google supports Net Neutrality too. Isn't what it is doing exactly opposite to the spirit of Net Neutrality?

Just because your opponent did something bad, doesn't mean it's ok to sink to their level.
that's not excellent for india, that's standard. nearly every service over there gives out free money as standard SOP since indians love deals.
did i say love? i meant they will literally use your service even if it never delivers 75percent of the time as long as you give them a good deal. they'll complain but they'll use it.
however also demonstrated that indian users will jump shit asap to the competitor offering the better deal so retention is really really really hard in india
it appeared to be a typo, and as you suggest the compiler caught it

var foo *Foo
var err error
if foo, err = getFoo(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
//foo is usable now
Online calculator and form constructor
Yeah. I'm stunned.
And you have just had how bitcoin works explained to you, and yet you choose to remain ignorant.