skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about that law, Private Eye [1] has done a great job in making the facts about property ownership in the UK more transparent, I find it particularly abhorrent that property is being used for money laundering and tax evasion draining money away from some of the most needy in the world and then as a secondary effect making life difficult for average people in London and SE England.

Actually buying to rent, while bad, isn't the biggest issue. Buying to speculate and drive up prices to flip for a cheap buck while driving others with less capital into penury is. The only good thing that Osbourne got through was the new taxes on property transactions, I think we need more - especially a tax on transactions done in quick succession. If there was a premium on a property being sold (say 5% of the transaction price) less than 24mths after it had previously been sold I think that would kill speculation stone dead.

[1] http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry
Or even money at all.
Facebook Shareholders Force a Vote on Ousting Mark Zuckerberg
My understanding is that Manning reported that if she could crack an NTLM password she could better conceal who obtained and leaked the documents. A party, apparently Assange, claimed to have rainbow tables and could try. Later Manning followed up and got a no-luck-so-far response. I have not heard any reports that Assange actually did so.

So the facts are that Assange is accused of helping a leaker cover their tracks-- something that a journalist would ordinarily do, at least in so far as if it came to covering their traces against normal physical detection (e.g. refill the copy machine after copying a big stack of documents...). One could have an interesting debate on how equivalent cracking a service account to cover tracks would be to something like finding a department generic code to redirect copying billing attention ... but there doesn't even to be any evidence that he successfully provided that help.
Perl 6 Nightly Docker Images – Patrick Spek
Honestly, that speaks more about the teacher's personal issues than it does about the similarities between logic and purely functional programming. I'm sorry that you had to experience that.
Fair enough, and you are correct.

As for leaving... uprooting a family is not something you do without a good plan forward.
> And this is a dismissal of the idea that words have effects on people.

No. Context is important. A manager, a human being with authority, is very different to a standard, unchanging message baked into a program. Your claim and comparison (to me right now, correct me if I'm wrong) seems to be that IDE error messages are just as effective on the programmers feelings as the manager coming up to look at your code and pointing a finger while bluntly saying "this is incorrect". I don't believe this at all.

> Are all software tools the same experience for you - you never find one frustrating and another pleasant, one neutral and another you curse at?

They are not. Ironically it is the ones that don't produce direct error messages (especially css) that anger me the most.

> Nothing is wrong. That's the point. Unfinished code doesn't work, that's normal, not erroneous. (Almost tautologically so - of course it doesn't work, it's unfinished).

There's more than one state code can be in while incomplete. It can be incomplete because it doesn't accomplish the task it is being written for yet, but all the same it will still compile. If it is syntactically incorrect, it doesn't even matter if the logic attempted to be expressed is correct, the program is broken. But these errors are easy for a computer to expose - so they should, so problems are fixed as early as possible.
It wasn’t broken, didn’t need fixing, and the config files existed before systemd did, so claiming they “belong to a tool” really just exemplifies the arrogance implicit in the whole project.

As for contributing, no, you don’t get to piss in the well and then demand everyone drinks from it.
Are you specifically referring to these laws in each state? Becase negligence can lead to criminal liability without intent depending on the statute.
You still need people to authenticate the leaks. Otherwise, propaganda's game will be to engineer fake leaks and spread them around.

Journalism is essential to democracy. Protection of sources is crucial.

Some intellectuals consider it should be protected like a fourth branch of government and be independently funded.
Here's the problem though: the money is there to push for strong contractual and property institutions, but there isn't much for adding the "caring for those in need" part. They should go in lockstep, but they don't. I agree with you wrt. how things should be, but I do empathize with people who use lax enforcement as a way to escape inhumane regulatory conditions.
Single-dose propranolol tied to ‘selective erasure’ of anxiety disorders
When a crazy sociopath manipulates my friends in order to achieve what he wants I’d blame the sociopath and not my friends. If you’re not tech-savvy and don’t know anything about Facebook it’s reasonable to think they will actually keep those contacts private and only use them for what they said they would (aka recommend you people that are in your contacts but you haven’t yet added on FB).

Also I don’t have a problem with one friend accidentally giving away my number to one bad guy. I have a problem with a toxic company using that phone number to build a graph of my relationships and my friends’.
The speech recognition is running remotely, only wakeword recognition is local on most of the devices.
Integration Mender to CusDeb
I don't think the black cabs have that.
Yes! Definitely a time for that as well! And it further validates the point - live the identity of the situation: businessy clothes for businessy work, relaxed clothes for creative work ... and regular clothes for being/acting recovered!
Evidence – StopCraigWright
Yes, to make it more accessible.
It doesn't matter how cute this story is, I still can't find myself empathising with the contention that GCHQ is anything other than a sinister, totalitarian organisation with the purpose of enslaving us all.

The Totalitarian Surveillance State, of which GCHQ is a lynchpin, is not cute, fuzzy, or endearing - in any way. Fluff pieces like this serve to promote the idea of GCHQ as an honourable organisation, when the truth is it is factually a tool of oppression used by the ruling elite to prevent their own usurpation by a revolution of the people.

GCHQ is a tool of the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex. Do not glorify its mission, which is to ensure we cannot, as a people, communicate freely without government intrusion.
From the Reuters story: "Google also plans to expand its existing property at Chelsea Market by about 300,000 square feet, WSJ said citing people briefed with the matter."
Off-topic: The Chelsea Market location is where I had to go to pick up my Google Glass in June 2013. Early adopters ("Explorers":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass) had to go to Google offices in LA, SF, or NYC to get them and have them fitted and calibrated. Later, when Google expanded their availability to the general public, they simply shipped them to your home or office like any other electronic device. "... either a benefit or a hazard":https://youtu.be/o_AXOjlPF0Y
> It's hard for me to think of interjecting "Alexa!", or whatever it is you have to say, as anything but explicit consent to be recorded,

There is a certain spectrum of possibilities for how Alexa can handle this audio, all plausible and not equally worthy of consent: from immediate offline processing after explicit activation (never even record a whole command, just as much as is needed and never start processing unless a trigger word was said) to uploading everything to Amazon (including things that may or may not have been trigger words) and having employees listen in on private conversations.

Non-IT-people won't be able to know exactly what they're supposedly consenting to, nor whether what Amazon and Google are doing is actually necessary for their gadget to function.
But virgin rents that train from a company that was directed by the state to buy it and given a grant to do so. They had some influence over the design styling, but the decision to run 10 coaches at 140mph between London and Glasgow at specific times was not made by them anyway because they have to fit in with all the other services which have to connect to allow efficient transfers. Also, if BR hadn’t been privatised those trains might have been in service 15 years earlier because the technology was developed by their R&D department which was privatised and asset stripped in the 1980s. The tilting technology was sold to the Italian company that makes Pendolino trains.
Where are you headed to with less traffic?
To add to triska's excellent explanation, the thing to understand about the
syntax of logic programming languages is that it's not something arbitrary
that someone thought up, like the syntax of most other programming languages.
Their syntax is in fact that of First Order Logic.

In Prolog and similar languages, everything you see in a source file is a Horn
clause, a clause (a disjunction of literals) with at most one positive
literal. The following are Horn clauses:

¬p ∨ ¬q ∨ ¬t ∨ u
¬p ∨ ¬q ∨ ¬t
u

Horn clauses are typically written as implications, with the positive literal
at the start of the clause, followed by the left-facing implication arrow:

u ← p ∧ q ∧ t
← p ∧ q ∧ t
u ←

In Prolog, Mercury etc languages the left-arrow is rendered as ":-" and the
comma, ",", is used as the conjunction operator. The full-stop is used to
terminate a clause:

u :- p, q, t. (1)
:- p, q, t. (2)
u. (3)

Horn clauses with exactly one positive literal, like (1) above, are called
definite clauses, or "rules"; clauses with no positive literals (2) are called
goal clauses, or directives; and clauses with no negative literals (3) are
called unit clauses, or facts. The literal before the :- is called the head
literal and the rest are the body literals.

The structure of a clause denotes its semantics. To simplify (and avoid a
lengthy exposition of Prolog's refutation theorem proving) a rule can be
proved true or false, a fact is always true and a goal is executed when it's
encountered. The queries entered at the REPL to execute a program are also
goals (that match a rule's head, and are proved by refutation).

This is all part of the appeal of Prolog, Mercury, etc: that everything is the
same kind of object (a Horn clause). It's like having the most general LEGO®
brick possible, general enough to build anything that can be built.

In Erlang, the syntax remains, but the FOL semantics are gone, and perhaps
that's what drives you to think that some of the syntax above is unnecessary
or odd. In truth, the syntax is the semantics of the program (which is,
itself, a proof). You could, of course, change the syntax to make the language
look more familiar- but then you'd lose the benefit of having a programming
language that has the syntax and semantics of FOL, which would be a shame.
It's quite amusing how many Australians don't even know of it's existence, nor of the leeway it buys us in international relations.

Even more obscure is the Harold Holt Naval Communication Station and it's immense value to US Submarines in the Indian ocean. Darkly(Hilariously?) named after an Australian PM who drowned at sea.
Pre-crime: https://youtu.be/lG7DGMgfOb8
Chaos Engineering to an Organization
Something like this is usually not done out of economic incentives, but because of ethical and emotional incentives. In the end people do it to feel good, but might do more harm, just in another way.
This isn't about Assange.

This is about ensuring that the leaks continue.

The leaks will continue, with or without Assange. The line in the sand has been drawn: the entrenched criminals in the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex are long overdue for a reckoning, and it is coming - Assange or no Assange.

The cat is out of the bag, and it is really, really pissed off. Treating Assange poorly is going to ensure that its claws come out. The US Gov't and its lackeys are not immune to the light of truth - and this light is well and truly headed their way...
> If I write some garbage and ask the computer to run it, what should happen?

You will be pushed. J

Seriously talking, if I need to wrote error checking code with user visible message, usually I'm trying to add a suggestion to user how to resolve problem. It's good UX.
And btw, Richard has said in an interview that he knows how many of his tracks sound nicer when slowed down to 33 rpm instead of 45, and that you could just listen to the “RDJ Album” on 33 so you get ‘an album of standard length’ instead of 30 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWqf17mUyoQ

Turns out, plenty of IDM, breakcore and other electronic music sounds excellent when slowed down, e.g. the entire genre of Belgian new beat is slowed down acid hardcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yBvP3616Wc

Hard house turns into pleasant groovy house with harder sound.

But you'll need speed adjustment that doesn't adjust the pitch (i.e. like vinyl but not like Youtube's speed control). VLC can do that if the time-stretching option is disabled in advanced settings under ‘audio’. The sox console program can do that in batch (ffmpeg botches the audio for some reason).
What's pharma's implication in gchq?
my question is not "what data does Google collect". My question is "what data can I buy from Google" as op said that data is for sale
Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Not, in a court of public opinion.

Keep this in mind, as we go down the bumpy road that is going to be Assange's trial...
Google:Your Location=Facebook:That+everything else
Thank you for your comment.

"I think the reason why our parents opinion is unpopular is because people usually account for diminishing marginal returns by acknowledging that the loss of utility one person experiences paying 1 is greater than the summed up loss of utility of two people paying 0.5 each, even if all three people are equal."
This sounds like an interesting comment, but I'm not sure I understand you 100% right. Could you please elaborate?

"Reputation, however, doesn't imply fault. Bad luck is evenly distributed and inability should be reflected in reputation to work as intended."
Totally agree.

"The idea that there's a central, state run individualized debt database does not sound like a particularly great idea (thinking of system resilience, surveillance and potential leakage)."
You certainly have a point there. Of course, then the question becomes how to better reconcile system resilience, protection from surveillance and leakage. Any suggestions?
I apologize for the offense, I know you care about this community, as I do, but it's not beyond criticism. I don't believe I've smeared it so much as described a part of it with more honesty than is civil, possibly some hyperbole, but not deceit. I've seen everything I mentioned in my comment, and noticed that such views seem to be gaining in prominence here, they just mask themselves behind politeness.

But I will stop, since I don't want to be banned, and if you can't see the rot as well then I suppose mentioning it is pointless and counterproductive.
Well, it is not that simple. You no longer have the liberty to stop reading if you find it boring. You have to provide a summary, even if you don't understand or if the book is not deserving. In other words, what you once loved becomes work. Net loss - one hobby you might have truly loved.
This. It’s not about learning language A and B because you need it but because learning language B makes you a better developer in language A.

If you have thousands of hours doing language A, you need several thousand more to meaningfully improve your competence. It’s basically just battle scars from experience at that point.

But if you spend just a few hundred hours on learning a completely different language, that gives you a completely different set of brain tools for working in your day to day language. It’s not a luxury for a js programmed to be able to spend a hundred hours on trying rust or Haskell. It’s a cheap way of becoming a better js programmer without having to spend a thousand hours more on js.
Big Pharma is another key tool in the oppression of the masses.

Big Pharma and Big Military work hand in hand to ensure there are Big Problems for both to solve, keeping us all engaged in a game that is only there so we don't overthrow our true oppressors: Big Industry.

Of course, this isn't a popular opinion - everyone loves their socially-approved drug addictions these days. But it wasn't always that way. People were free from such traps, once.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-pharmaceutical-industrial-...

EDIT: ask yourself these questions, before you forcibly downvote: Why does the wealthiest nation in the world have the worst health care system of any western nation? Why does the most prosperous nation in the world have a track record of engaging in endless, illegal war? Why is the nation that re-built Europe unable to repair its own infrastructure? Why is it that the people of the wealthiest nation of the world are unable to do anything effective about their own war criminals?

The answer: the wealthiest nation in the world is the host to a set of parasites which uses its resources for their own needs: the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex doesn't care about Americans. It cares about world domination through endless war, endless drug addiction and endless possession and subsequent exploitation of other nations' natural resources, and that is precisely what America and its allies are executing.
Because its a scam to extract the maximum amount of wealth from people with no real choice options out.
And the ilusion, that in this stick-up of scenarios, the individual is to be able to engage in a free-market decision.
I was totally behind the premise until she referenced her Code of Conduct[0] and I saw this tucked-away in it: "I do reserve the right to boot anyone out for any reason"

That, to me, comes across as conducive to an authoritarian atmosphere and not a community atmosphere.

You can dress it however you wish but having a Code of Conduct and then saying it matters not, when you arbitrarily feel like it, is the antithesis of the entire premise of fostering a community atmosphere, in the first place, yeah?

Why not just be honest and have that single statement and be done with it? Afer all, you are the be-all and end-all of the group, it's code, the decision-making, and subsequent results, yeah?

[0] - https://pastebin.com/6kA93uPV
Machine learning effectively didn't exist a decade ago. A decade from now, it's likely to be where building HTML pages was in the nineties, or database-backed web applications in the 00's.

I understand it's a deeper skill set, but depth has little to do with supply-and-demand. Physics, biology, and similar have a lot of depth, and the fundamentals evolve much more slowly and take years to truly understand and be able to apply them effectively as well, but employment prospects are grim.

If blockchain had turned out to be the Next Big Thing, the important fundamentals would have been in cryptography. And so on. Someone young, without family, mortgage, etc. obligations, will be able to get into the current hot field much more quickly than a 40-year-old or 50-year-old with three kids in school and possibly starting medical problems.

It doesn't help that there is massive age discrimination.

If you want to be employed older, the trick seems to be to move into a cross-disciplinary role, such as management (people+tech). A lot of other cross-disciplinary roles will do, though (medicine+tech, bio+tech, chemistry+tech, EE+tech, etc.). Pure tech doesn't seem to cut it after thirty for career growth, after forty for job stability, or after fifty for having a job at all.
Not to mention being tied to closed source USA-made currency
Sure... a Watergate-level scandal has just emerged with the Interior Ministry using the police to spy on Podemos (the leftist party), including stealing mobile phones and hacking cameras, and to manufacture fake news. Some international coverage here (including from the Telegraph which is not precisely suspicious of being "pro-communist"):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/11/spains-election-...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/spain-s-waterga...

Most media in Spain are not saying a single word about this, with others relegating it to small mentions, but Spanish media is controlled by the right and is pro-"communist". Yeah, right.

It's totally respectable to have a right-wing ideology, and there is plenty to criticize in the left. But seriously, if you are educated enough to be posting in an international website like this, you shouldn't be falling for obvious propaganda and spewing our local media's brainwash. Regardless of ideology, no one with a shred of neutrality, critical spirit or care to check different sources can think that Spanish media are biased to the left, let alone towards Podemos and their allies whom are almost universally disliked by all media.
Which ones, though?

I can imagine a utopian city where everyone lives in dorms and uses public dining and bath facilities. In that thought experiment, it's hard to feel like anyone's rights are being trampled.

And it's not clear that sharing a flat with another person has to be a worse arrangement than that.

PS: Did you really feel that anyone would find that answer helpful? Or was it just a veiled rendition of "clearly, if you disagree with me then you are a priori too morally bankrupt to have this conversation"? The latter attitude is poor approach to dealing with people who might otherwise be persuaded to your way of thinking.
I regularly have to design complex systems and also do correctness proofs for isolated functions.

But I see the error in my ways and humbly realize that I'm just "skilled labor".

Really, if you compare the level of thinking of an average developer to an average academic, the academic often has nothing but his degree.

The level of parroting and complete lack of critical thinking is widespread among academics.
Yup.

The way I see it, we need to optimize our energy use and ecosystem damage output, until we can switch over completely to surplus clean energy. After that, a lot of ecology talk stops to matter. For instance, with surplus energy put to use in collecting, recycling & emission capture, we could use disposable plastics to our hearts' content.

Unfortunately, as you say, widespread deployment of clean & sustainable energy sources comes down to barriers in the economic and political domains. That's why I feel modern ecology needs to optimize for reducing energy use, even if it might mean preferring some locally suboptimal-looking solutions that turn out to be globally more efficient.
And why is that, that you think so?

Why should anyone have the right to their own place?

Asking from a point of genuine curiosity. Had not thought about that much until now.
Now I realise there are multiple people in this thread but the bookclub went from:

"My book club will not be a safe space, it is open to everyone who reads the book"

to:

"Behaving like a decent human being is an implicit, obvious rule."

to:

"a simple 'get lost' [..] you put in the effort to organize the bookclub, you have the prerogative to say who can participate "
That is not true

A where clause still searches the entire column, unless it is conditioned on the partition column.