skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cannot disagree more. The fact she made it to the top of a male dominated fields cannot and should not in any way be tied to a notion of respect.

Take a trip to North Lanarkshire and you can still see the impact that the closing of Ravenscraig has had on the area. No-one says the name Thatcher in Scotland, it has to be whispered. After having a successful independence referendum scrapped by a labour government she went back on the promise she made to the Scottish people about increased devolution for Scotland, instead turning her into a testing ground for some of the most unpopular Tory policies of all time.

This is in no way a personal attack on a woman who is now no longer with us. She was someone's mother and sister and my heart goes out to her family at what most people would agree is a terrible time for a family. However the words "respect" and "inspiration" when describing Margaret Thatcher is not a position that will be shared by many people in Scotland.
I never had a problem doing things manually either. However, as soon as I can automate them, I do. If I can automate extract method to, in effect, a single keystroke, why not?

It's the difference between using hjkl for movement, and ignoring all the other commands vim as to offer. Why wouldn't want you to automate patterns in your work?
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True at project start, but the further you progress the more realistic the estimates will be. Half-way through, you can do much, much better than being caught with a 20% effort turning into 50% effort situation. However, if you start by doing an off the cuff estimate and expect that to hold throughout the project, well yes, then reality will be very different. That's the situation where you end up with a 20% or even 10% estimated effort ballooning into a 50% or more effort.

But as the author suggests, just getting into it and working hard from the beginning won't make a difference. That will just ensure a project-long crunch which will be highly detrimental to team performance.
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I warmly recommend spectacle.
Spectacle along with Alfred radically improved the way I interact with the Finder. Being able to summon files/applications/webpages/... and move the corresponding windows trough keyboard shortcuts alone is quite liberating.
Well, when you give pilots the unilateral power to remove someone from a flight and there are 75,000 flights every day there are bound to be some abuses. Not sure this is surprisingly or that it necessarily even indicates that the system isn't working.
It's an artifact of how the server tracks pagination state in the HN Arc source. If you idle too long your id gets flushed and you hit that error.

It's been discussed many times before, and for various reasons it doesn't look like it's going to be "repaired" (that word itself being subjective).
APT attackers getting more evasive, even more persistent
I'm no economist, but isn't this blurring the lines between what an asset is and what a currency is? Isn't a currency fundamentally a perfectly liquid asset?

As for previous commenters, the fact that the value of a Bitcoin might be worth ten times more (or less) what it is now in a few weeks has more to do with its volatility than its depreciative nature.

Why would you ever risk money by lending it when you could just "hide it under your mattress" and make money? It's appealing to those who have the option to do that, but I believe it's highly suboptimal from an economics point of view.

The funny thing is that even though it's bad economically, its deflationary nature is good for the uptake of the currency, because, provided more people start using it, those who are already using it become richer (which is why some accuse it of being a pyramid scheme).

On the other hand, its mid-term value depends on why people are buying into it now. At the moment, I see four groups of people: 1) the idealists who believe it's simply a more perfect form of currency that can't be corrupted by governments et al; 2) the technologists who think it's a neat idea; 3) the speculators who think it's going to go up because it's going up; 4) the users who find it more useful than regular currency (like those on Silk Road). I can't help but think that the speculators are the biggest group at the moment. But I might be wrong.
There are variants of the written Chinese languages and they are used in different regions. E.g. Simplified Chinese characters are used in Mainland China, while Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are still using Traditional Chinese Characters. Also, different Chinese speaking regions have subtly different vocabularies. E.g. Software is translated as 軟體 in Taiwan, while in Hong Kong it is 軟件.

I guess there are similar issues for Spanish in Spain and Spanish in Mexico.
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Because you broke other pre-existing laws (trespassing, possibly breaking & entering, other violations of private property)?
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The disagreement is typically around whether the plan was really about necessary economic restructuring or just the latest assault in Britain's 1000 year-old class war.

The actions taken towards the communities she "restructured" since her premiership seem to show evidence in favor of the latter. If thatcher and the tories were really concerned with improving the country as a whole, they would have taken action on the long-term systemic problems with our workforce (education etc) and given the communities they destroyed something to do between then and now. Instead what they did was simply replace the industry with foreign financial wizardry, while leaving the workers to rot. 30 years later, they use the gap in achievement between these two groups as a stick with which to beat the poor even harder.

And that's the last I'm saying on this subject today.
OK, I'll bite. How exactly is the state in fault here? Private businesses and farms in the agriculture and livestock industry cheap out on labor and labor practices on purposes to make extra profit. I am aware of federal and state subsidies for such businesses, but even without such subsidies you will see this kind of skimping on labor costs and facilities that encourage this kind of cruelty.
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I'll probably get down voted for this but I'll say it nonetheless.

Roger Ebert and now Margaret Thatcher. I respect them both but IMHO HN is hardly the place to mourn them. Just my 2c.

(FWIW I can't flag this article; I would have if I could)
Not really, I'm mixing a sci-fi meme with my observations of much of the "fk you elite".

I've had the opportunity to live alongside and work with. Many of them truly believe that their gaming of the system, luck and hard work is either divine or a product of "dog eat dog" evolution-style aka "hussle". I've got shocking stories of outrageous actions, but the long term economic trends/facts are sobering.
They still do that in Germany to every foreign language movie or series, to the point where it's impossible to get the original content legally. The sad truth is that although they usually do a good job synching the translation with facial movements, the finer nuances and sometimes the entire point of a scene are lost. On the other hand, they did probably manage to actually improve some very bad source material, but as a rule the quality goes dramatically downhill more often than not. There are also a lot of instances where the translation team didn't seem to completely understand the source material to begin with - it's all quite horrible.
I was building distance learning systems in 1997 and 1998 that included the ability to send faxes across a TCP/IP network. There were two devices (already on the market) that allowed you to push the send button on the fax machine, and forward it another similarly configured fax machine.

The intermediate format was to send a TIFF file to an e-mail server ... this sure sounds a lot like the patents being foisted upon small businesses today. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of either device, but I've got a picture of me hiking with my kids in one of these company's t-shirts. More to come!
For the same reason this law exists. Profits.

Everything else be damned.
> although not updated for so many years, is still relevant today.pparently searchlores.org and fravia.com have expired and are "parked" by sombody. But looks like http://search.lores.eu/ is the only remaining official mirror that remains from

Fravia died a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia

For people interested in reversing I recommend to engage on the new http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/ and the "classic" http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/

One issue with reverse engineering information/community is the lack of organization. There are a lot of web resources about it but are not well interlinked (yes, the <a> tag). So, it is possible that a great tool is hidden in a page with low page rank. OpenRCE was successful in the past but nowadays people don't use it.
You can only get to certain places with a press pass, like war zones and such, and it grants you diplomatic immunity and journalist protection from many things that could happen to you :P

You can't just run in yelling "I am a journalist!" and expecting everyone to accept it. Either you are accredited or you are not.
I doubt all the people signing on to this even know it's happening.

American Legislative Exchange Council:
http://www.alec.org/about-alec/

It might help to contact your representative and let them know about this article and that you associate them to it, and to protecting animal cruelty.
Now that's interesting; a brand in one country that's doing well (if I take your word for it, which I will - no reason not to :) ) is (presumably) being actively damaged by the incompetence of companies operating under that brand in other countries.

What happens in this sort of case? Can we expect to see T-Mobile US try to rebrand or rename itself?
I am in the midst of this right now. I have a 4 y.o chocolate lab and my wife surprised me with a chocolate puppy for Christmas. The 4 year old is amazing, one of the most calm dogs I've ever had - and the puppy is picking it up fast. Sure, she definitely wants to be up early, rough house more often, and is still learning - but she is unbelievably more calm than other 5 month old puppies I've experienced.
I suggest you look some of the many times this has been discussed before:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%2...

You will find explanations of why it is what it is, and perhaps dozens of suggestions for how to fix it, followed by explanations of why they won't work given the current way HN operates.
Parochial schools are cheap in California?
Not necessarily. Consider a society with two kinds of "Sneetches." One kind has stars, one does not. They begin with equal numbers on an island with equal opportunities, but socially they have network effects: They prefer to do business with "their own kind" and so forth.

Such a system could be unstable: A small, random increase in power by either group could accelerate over time the way tribes in survivor can create coïlitionsn and eliminate everyone else.

Now let's say we end up with all the positions of power held by the Sneetches with stars. A Sneetch without a star might make a similar comment. But perhaps, this Sneetch has the insight to see that what needs to be changed is the system, rather than merely shuffling the players around. Putting Sneetches without stars into positions of power in and of itself won't change the inherent problem of network effects. Perhaps things will realign around Sneetches from the West side of the Island, or Sneetches that like a particular sport, but still be discriminatory in a way.

This Sneetch might simply want to change the underlying mechanism of Sneetch society. Go for a cure, you might say, rather than relieve a symptom.
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I think it will just shift the goalposts.
That name was already used in 2010. I don't know who made it up.
There's no such thing as "polite disagreement" as far as airlines are concerned these days. If you disagree, you're taken off. That said, there are plenty of legitimate reasons for removing a passenger, and I'm grateful they do remove unruly ones when they need to.

However...

This level of power is why people just keep their head down and get through their lousy flight so they to their destination. Since air-travel, by its very nature, is monopolistic (until I get my damn flying car!) the airlines will do whatever they please until we all stop flying (won't happen) or other airlines gets started by entrepreneurs who're also sick and tired of this nonsense (won't say it can't happen, but highly unlikely).

At least if there were more choices, it would democratize air-travel. Alas, the recent merging of airlines just go to show, they have us at our weakest and will exercise any level of control they want in the name of safety. After all, nothing shows "Safety" like "Silence".
You can do this in most parts of the Western world. Make your own TV station and say "fuck". Nobody will stop you.

Freedom isn't the right to inject arbitrary programming into someone else's commercial enterprise.
This is what I like about other countries which have Constitutional Courts that check for the a bill's constitutionality before it's passed into law.

How many years does it have to pass in US before the Patriot Act, NSL's and FISA are verified by the Supreme Court? We're already into the second decade of their existence now.
Her condition is described as 'Satisfactory'.
If you invite me over to your house and I happen to see a dead body on the floor, the first amendment doesn't prevent me from reporting you to the police.
I don't have a firm view on this; however, history is littered with examples of areas devastated by changing economies and new technology.

Specifically with regards to the miners - that industry had been in substantial decline since the early 1900s and I'd suggest that whatever happened we'd still be looking at devastated areas today.

What happened, though, was as it all came to a head in the 80s, it also coincided with Thatcher's politics of forcing the trade unions to heel. Hence, clusterfuck.

(My interest/view here is academic; I've no real strong opinion on who was "good" or "bad", as I've no connection with what happened and so have no right to hold one)
I don't see the point of this being posted. This is likely to turn into a shit-storm of left-right fighting.
It would be interesting to see if these groups of small companies could band together and share resources to fight something like this. On their own, a small company has no shot but everyone that received the letter together might.
The browser connection limits per domain weren't baked into any standards, so it's something that has been dramatically improved over time. Most browsers maxed out at two connections five years ago, now six is the most common limit.

Edit: turns out the limit of two connections is in the RFC for http 1.1 but browsers starting with ie 8 have ignore that part of the spec.
Great post! When I interview I stick it to a simple chat about ones history and future. What he wants to do in the company tomorrow and next year and see how it fits my needs. I also pay special care to chemistry.
The other missing factor here is who is paying the sales tax on this $80,000 car. That's $6000 at a 7.5% rate, due on "purchase".
This is a great article & I'm a firm believer. But as some have commented, understand that this puppy will not come with a routine - you'll have to program it. He/she will be predisposed to certain times & activities, and you'll have to compromise on some & break others. I mentioned elsewhere in the comments that I have a new 5 month old chocolate lab... for the first 60 days, I rarely had quality sleep more than 3 hours, was constantly cleaning up messes, and was generally highly stressed/ borderline depressed due to my startup stress + the new puppy stress.

Be aware - I believe in all of the benefits & more, but they do come with some hefty initial costs.
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Wait, was this necessarily without their knowledge? It seems like the proposed legislation targets people who get jobs under the guise of normal employment but are really there to film.

This takes away the "trespassing" thing that's getting bandied about ... there are certainly whistleblower protections for regular employees, are those out the window?
What? Where's the "strong support"? Flagged.
This clip somehow made it to my FB feed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6TgaPJcR0

"Margaret Thatcher does the Dead Parrot Sketch"
Is it me or is there a slow emergence of an anti-libc movement brewing in development community? I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of "No-LibC" articles in the future.
We have plenty of channels using the word "fuck" on tv at any given moment. In fact, it's highly likely that you regularly watch a few of those shows.
Oh so fat.
Its a byproduct of the completed merger of corporation and state. If overall policy is to mix them together inseparably like coffee and creamer, you can't blame people for getting confused about the source of the bitter taste. (edited to add, and if they're perfectly merged, does it matter, after all, attacking one is by definition attacking the other?)
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You're welcome.
You do not "make" money, when you hide them under a mattress.

Assuming a stable money supply, when all is said and done, you own the same fraction of total purchasing power at the end that period as you had when it started.

You do not get richer, if that's what you mean by making money. You just keep what you had.

I know, how unfair!
Per her request, she won't be lying in state, so that should cut down on some of the problems.
I've recently changed my view on this. HN hasn't been "just about tech and startups" for some time - the community is simply too diverse.

That's not necessarily a bad thing; I still always learn unique insights or new facts from threads one might consider off-topic. And that is the defining aspect of HN IMO (it's why I first joined years ago)
The two-connection limit is a guideline in the HTTP standard (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.1...):

>Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server. A single-user client SHOULD NOT maintain more than 2 connections with any server or proxy.
Genders in Polish are easy (but you can't say almost anything without also specyfying your gender, except in a very contrived, formal way). Numbers are even harder ;)

I have:
1 apple = "Mam 1 jabłko"
2-4 apples = "Mam 2-4 jabłka"
5-21 apples = "Mam 5-21 jabłek"
22-24 apples = "Mam 22-24 jabłka"
25-31 apples = "Mam 25-31 jabłek"
etc.

Also "one" = "jeden", "jedno", "jednego", "jednych", "jedni", ... there's different version for almost all combinantions of plurality, grammatical case, and gender.

"I have one apple" = "Mam jedno jabłko"
"I don't have apple" = "Nie mam jednego jabłka"

Nobody expects software to get it right.
I agree.. from the guidelines:

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Viewed from outside, it looks like Britain's gambit towards financial services was highly successful. True, Britain completely destroyed the industrial might it had in the first half of the XX century. It gained, in the process, European leadership in finance.

A number of questions arise, of course. Does finance employ the same people that worked in factory floors? No. Is finance sustainable in the long term? I doubt it, as it is much more mobile than manufacturing (Germany is attacking the British stronghold in finance). Would manufacturing decline anyway? Possibly; in the US it did, but in Germany it didn't. In the end, it is always a game of what-ifs.

Anyhow, I'm not in the position to have a sustained opinion on Thatcher's policies. I was way too young, and did not really study British history from the period. I have no idea if they were positive or negative overall.

She did have a plan, though. I wish current European leaders had one too, beyond "let's grab what we can while the Titanic is going down".
What do you think of this App warning you about Shit-Storms on your Page?
I was at a Evernote / Deutsche Telekom Hackathon in Berlin over the weekend and of the winners created this nice app where you can set that any of your facebook page will trigger an alarm if to many messages, potential spam or shit storms occur on your page.

I like the idea and I just wondered what you thought of it. The bloggers at the event liked it but believed that there needs to be some tweaks like on how problematic must the blog posts be before you get contacted for example.

Btw, I m not the creator, genuinely interest in your views.

The actual page:
https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/deutsche-telekom-and-evernote-berlin-hackathon/participations

Here is Video :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZAlaCy5Ww&feature=youtu.be

Demo:
http://shitstormcall.cloudcontrolled.com/#
I haven't used Spectacle, but I wanted to point out Better Touch Tool as another option to those investigating Window Mgmt apps/scripts:

http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=1619

BTT provides the same window controls as Spectacle, configurable to your custom keyboard or mouse or touchpad actions, plus a lot more that may be useful to you. I've been very happy with BTT.
How do you get all that data? I am super interested in knowing how something like this is built. How do you connect to the bitcoin network and serve the stats via this app. I am butchering my question but I hope it makes atleast some sense.
You don't get to be a politician without some charisma and the ability to tell believable lies. I'm not saying these aren't useful skills, but putting too much power in such people is generally a bad idea.
But like anything political there is the other side of the coin.

For many who simply wanted to continue their work as usual found themselves involved with the consequences of a dispute of miners. Ultimately people like to choose a side to blame for catastrophes such as the 3 day working week (due to power shortages because of the coal strike, electricity had to be rationed). How much hard did that do to other industries. My grandfather at the time an electrical engineer lost his job due rather directly to the 3 day week.

For people like them Thatcher was a good thing, ultimately it was not her fault that the unions did not want to compromise on closing mines. The reaction of unions towards a shift from being a publicly subsidised industry I don't think can be described in anyway as sustainable or even 'long term OK'.

I find it someone disingenuous of certain areas to blame the government for the result, when the unions often negotiated with such a simple all or nothing mentality. Ultimately blaming her after going all-in isn't right.
Twitters reaction to the death of Thatcher
One minor correction to an otherwise pretty good post:

Its more like if you talk about how a list exists, that makes you a conspiracy theorist, which means you go onto a list.
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He obviously lives in an area people care about. Where you can have job options and such.
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The question at hand is addressing loneliness: creating a computerized gaming method for the elderly may be a nice thing to do, but Tuesday Night Bingo creates a community event that can be looked forward to. So to add to your comment, I can see some kind of computerized gaming method being made quite interesting by adding in remote collaboration and guest MCs.