skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not just about tracking funds - there is also the implication that Bitcoins are actively traded.

Australia has a capital gains tax - for example, you get taxed if you make a profit on shares (with a bunch of rules around it). Similarly, a loss is deductable.

FX gains are exempt if they are of a "private and domestic nature". So if you change some money to travel overseas, then make a profit on it -- that's usually not considered in scope. However, if you're actively trading, then it is taxable.

Mr Tee heralded Bitcoin as a “green” tender, compared to “the energy costs of manufacturing, transporting, storing and maintaining the infrastructure behind fiat currencies and banking systems”.

Isn't there an energy cost with mining? That is presumably increasing? Maybe it's a lot less, but I'd shy away from calling it "green".
I thought it unlikely he'd fly via Cuba: the great circle route from Moscow flies much too close to US or Canadian airspace for my comfort, if I knew there was an Espionage Act warrant out for my arrest and the establishment wanted to make an example of me. ("Diversion due to technical issues" and an unscheduled stop at Gander in Newfoundland would totally ruin my day, even short of an intercept and diversion by F-15s over the Caribbean.)

Just guessing here, but the real route (if Ecuador is in fact his destination) may be something like bizjet to Iceland, refuel, continue to somewhere in North Africa, refuel, then over the south Atlantic. And that's assuming he was ever in Moscow in the first place.
What often happens is the first version of a proof is long and arduous, but the new ideas that it spawns slowly circle back so that someone else can come up with a much neater proof, it just takes a while.

(Proving theorems is hard work!)
> Income redistribution is just a fancy name for stealing.

And many of world's greatest fortunes were and are created by stealing and other equally immoral practices. Your apparent ideology that government taxation is inherently evil, and capitalist markets are inherently good is incredibly naïve.
Because it's unconditional (at least in the variant I support), there are no marginal disincentive effects.

If you believe in diminishing marginal utility, there certainly are.

Compare foodstamps and Medicaid to a program that's available to all income classes, such as, say, Medicare or Social Security.

These programs are not universal - no one under 65 receives them. Those programs are popular because the beneficiaries of redistribution vote for them at high rates, while the people being redistributed from vote at lower rates.

It's nothing but a standard "pay some people to vote for us" scheme.
I am from Poland and I've seen that Job Guarantee policy in action when our country was ruled by communists. It ends in disaster: companies are forced to hire more people than they need to do the job, employees come to their workplace and have nothing to do so they spend a whole day chatting, doing nothing, sometimes even drinking alcohol as a way to fight boredom. At the end of the month they all receive a paycheck, which quickly leads company to bankruptcy but since goverment promised everyone Job Guarantee it has to support bankrupting company with some money to continue operating. This leads to a huge debt and eventualy bankruptcy of a whole country, as it was the case of Poland in 1980s
I think the first they heard he was going to Moscow he was already on the flight. Then he was in the secure area of the airport so probably difficult to get to and find. Considering the number of journalists involved they definitely failed but I don't think as badly as it looks. Not to mention WikiLeaks 'confirmation' he was in Russia.
How about this one?
http://goo.gl/RmY8w
Australian government shelves controversial data retention scheme
"The seat he was meant to be sitting in"

Did he actually have a ticket for this flight in his name? If not this is just a seat on a plane that a lot of incorrect people thought he would be on.
> Then you should abstain from voting in the present US system because that's not how it works nor how it was designed to work. It's a combative system where compromise is achieved by basically averaging the desires of the interested parties.

Well, I'm not an american, so I don't vote in the US, but if I could I would vote for Libertarian Party candidates.

> Fine, consider what ever you like. But when you vote you should vote for what directly helps you personally. Giving billionaires tax breaks can't possibly help you in any manner.

No, but it's not about helping myself, it's about having a system which I consider ethical.

> I look forward to the day when the US reaches the level of political enlightenment that having an uncle who is a libertarian is as embarrassing a revelation as having an uncle in the KKK is today. There is a reason that this party exists only inside the US and probably couldn't even be sensibly articulated to anyone from another country.

I'm from Sweden. I understand very well why the Libertarian
Party exists. We do have (very small) parties in Sweden which correspond quite well to the libertarian party.
One rumor is that he flew to Iceland via Oslo: http://www.tnp.no/norway/panorama/3802-pirate-party-norway-s...
Apple only expose the OpenGL bindings via Cocoa. There are many libraries that will expose OpenGL for you. [SDL](http://www.libsdl.org/) and [GLFW](http://www.glfw.org/) are the two most prominent.
> ... I find it unsatisfying that the solution to such a
> simply stated theorem requires 100s of pages of mathematics.

The mathematics involved is getting easier and easier to understand as more and more work is being put into it. Although Wiles originally only proved the underlying result for semi-stable elliptic curves (which was enough for FLT), the full modularity theorem (formerly called the Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture) is now proven, and the field continues to grow. I have little doubt that in 100 years or so this will be within the scope of later stage undergraduate work, just as many results in number theory (and other areas) become more and more accessible as we come to understand them properly.

Wiles' proof is still comparatively new, it's still messy, it needs to be enhanced, clarified, expanded, and then "re-factored" to find the cleanest path to the result. The underlying arc of the proof is relatively easy to understand, it's the details that need the long, tedious, and careful arguments that take 100s of pages. One day it will be an obvious consequence of the full Modularity Theorem, discussed in honors projects of undergraduates.

> Would have been cooler if the proof was extremely simple to
> write out, but required outside-the-box thought process that
> evaded thousands of humans for centuries.

In some sense, perhaps. That's what happened with the proof that primality testing is in P. Three undergrads produced an elementary argument that had eluded people for centuries. And yet it's provided no really new insights into anything, and seems to be effectively a dead end. In that sense it's much more exciting to have genuinely new work that wasn't just a simple argument overlooked for centuries.
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What I find interesting is that these proofs aren't one liners. To me, I intuitively presume that mathematical proofs should be one liners because they are explaining fundamental truths of nature; this universe and beyond.

Having said that, it's quite possible that a more "elegant" proof will be discovered in the future. Maybe it requires further thinking outside the box -- it will more likely require new mathematics.

If you want really non-elegant proofs, take a look at computer-assisted proofs (e.g. proof of the four color theorem). These make the subject of this thread seem extremely elegant!
How old are you? You seem extremely young from everything you're writing. Probably still in school getting actively brain washed by the school system about how the US works.

>The US is somehow a naive country (for no good reason) with more money than wisdom about 'foreign adventures'.

They are not, not even a little. They simply do not care about anyone or anything other than american interests. They don't do the things they do because they didn't realize it might cause an international incident. They simply don't care. They have the biggest military and biggest market, what is anyone going to do to them?

>As Churchill observed long ago, the US always does the right thing after trying everything else.

This quote points out that this is nothing new for the US. It will do the right thing if there is literally no other choice. But they are constantly working to make sure there will be other choices.

>If the US gets itself all bent out of shape over lives such as that of that young mother, then we will be chasing absurd 'foreign adventures' until we are white from loss of blood. To avoid this, we have to wise up.

This whole story is just common media manipulation. Make the enemy seem like barbarians so no one will look too deeply if we go to war with them.
You tried to infuse more meaning to that term by trying to add to its definition a-thing-that-it-isn't.

>'Reasonable doubt' does not mean 'no matter how improbable,'

You're right. "Reasonable doubt" also does not mean "Ice Cream Sunday", but that doesn't make it "Pudding" instead. The term means exactly what it says, so I say again, "Reasonable doubt means there is reasonable doubt".

It's times like this I genuinely wish HN had an "ignore" feature since I don't believe in down votes.
In other cases, a very complex problem can be stated very simply, especially to a lay person.

A good example is the Jordan curve theorem[1], which at first sight seems like a trivial problem but in effect requires a good deal of topology and analysis to even understand why it is so complicated in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%27s_theorem
>> "For example it's generally horrific, for a person with a scientific background, to read the "scientific" section of the mainstream newspapers"

Because it's a mainstream newspaper. That section is made so that ordinary people can understand the content and get value from it. Specialist magazines etc. go into the detail someone with prior knowledge in the subject would need.

'Good' newspapers go into subjects in detail, providing the most important information, but also make it understandable to everyone.
As far as I know they do. See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

But I see it everywhere and probably far more pronounced than what is described in the article.
Indeed. It comes with built-in incentives to add more and more power to the network, and the only thing that added power does is protect against other actors who might come along with significant computational power (the 51% attack).

Personally I think it's a design flaw. But I'm not going to pretend I know how to do it better.
Network traffic graph currently showing what it is like to be HN'd:

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http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-day.png

http://pi.qcontinuum.com/rrd/pi-traffic-week.png
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Does racial diversity matter a great deal to you Americans? I find cultural diversity far more significant. Whether you can understand someone, or whether a thumbs up is a positive gesture or a grave insult to them. These things matter a great deal more than whether they have a pink face or a brown one.

When you look at a random central European city, and see Slovenes, Austrians, Turks, Albanians, Greeks, Serbs, Croats, Romanians, Germans, Russians, Poles, Italians, Macedonians, Bosnians, Ukranians, Moldovans, Estonians, Lithuanians, etc etc etc, do you think to yourself "Wow, there's no diversity at all here, is there? Everyone is white!"
Then how about any random western European city, where you'll find the same mix, plus immigrants from their former colonies in Africa and Asia, plus the usual North Africans, does that almost meet your standards?

There are some very diverse countries in the world such as India, the Russian Federation, Indonesia, South Africa and DR Congo, all large (former) colonial empires in the old world. Some might even count the European Union, depending whether you think of it as a confederation or not. There is nothing like that in the Americas.
Hahaha! That calls for another rum (or maybe a Cuba libre or Mojito). Cigar, anyone? Bottoms up!
Some objects are replaceable, some have personal value to me, and it is generally annoying to replace keys and documents, but it wont take you thousands of dollars and months of work to fix that.

An insurance here that covers burglary (among many other things like accidentally damaging something and so on) costs about 200€ per year. And it will replace anything that was destroyed or stolen.

You might lose some things that have personal value to you, but I hope you wouldn't kill or harm someone just to get your grandfathers watch back.
So does it fill in the cracks with something - or is it a complete screen replacement?
Used to use Omnigraffle, but these days I'm a Keynote kid.
I'm afraid not:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/edward-snowden-b...

36m ago Apparently those poor journalists on the plane to Cuba can't even drown their sorrows ...
It that it covers foreign persons who are believed to be outside of the US
Night coming unexpectedly early is just one thing that could cause the amount of starch stored to vary.

There's only factor changing here.
Yes, that's what everybody would like, I think. The article rightly points out that (in our present capitalist structure) this type of society exclusively benefits the robot-owners: why should my robot do heavy lifting for you?

The economically powerful see the benefit and the economically weak have no access to robots and no escape route from poverty.
Also as a side note you can't compare the US to third world countries and get meaningful results, normally all first world countries are better than third world countries. By comparing the US to other first world countries you will see it's strengths and weaknesses more easily.
> Whereas Apple would just pay the licensing fees.

More like Apple would be the one firing the lawsuits.

I find it troublesome to see so many otherwise talented hackers chop off their own feet by supporting the top company fuelling the patent-war and undermining the software-industry as a whole.
Coffee subscription, but not as you know it.
One of the most effective strategies I've found is to externalise as much of your process as possible. My personal take on burnout is that it's the result of prolonged mental stress (I spent the first half of last year doing at most a couple of hours per work day after getting burnt out). After my experience I started to look at how I work to see if I could reduce my stress levels. What I noticed was that my stress levels increase with the amount of information I need to retain in my head at any one time. In particular retaining information for multiple tasks is a real killer, the longer the worse.

Bearing this in mind I redesigned my process to externalise as much information as possible. For me this means using trello(I try to keep tasks/features sized at under 2 days), a written TODO list for today (in IA writer), git branches to manage multiple features and then an outside-in[1] process for the actual code. From this point of view writing cucumber scenarios and unit tests is done to externalise your current state of knowledge about a particular feature. My goal is to be able to drop what I'm doing and return without having to remember anything at all i.e. in theory someone else should be able to pick up where I left off without any input from me. If you're really doing TDD and not thinking about implementation too much before you've spec'd it out then this is possible (this isn't going to be 100% but it's the goal).

That's the dev workflow, for anything else that hasn't been pieced together enough to be in trello I have a separate section at the bottom of my TODO doc where I just keep random thoughts that I want to come back to later.

This setup is working well for me but something completely different might work for you, the important thing is to keep everything you're thinking about somewhere else.

Finally, if you're feeling overwhelmed a great exercise(which I read on HN somewhere) is to sit down and write everything that you're thinking about. If you sit there long enough you'll find that all your recurring thoughts end up written down. I find this incredibly relaxing, it allows you to take a step back and organise your thoughts.

[1] http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/10/05/outside-in-developme... (written for ruby but you shouldn't have any trouble generalising to other languages)
It's at least a good jumping off point to read more about how to use the materials to build the type of thing you want. I haven't even heard of many of them, but I work in the .NET world these days.
That Israeli tank isn't there for Google personnel (or is it?)
Just like they got Bobby Fischer?
Having quality content on your law firm website is important
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The whole history of computing is one of redefining words. Really, who cares if you call it a Unit Test or a Frisbee? You certainly don't have to know the name to come up with the concept and find it useful.

REST is an unfortunate name for a great movement - unfortunate because the original "REST" paper was the same kind of overengineered crap that REST-the-movement was a rebellion against. So now the highly paid consultants are peddling their overengineered crap and calling it "REST" and on a literal level they're right. But the solution isn't to argue about what is and isn't REST - it's to consider the actual behaviours (HTTP verbs, content types, HATEOAS) on their own merits.

I believe in using HTTP verbs to mean the things they say, but I think HATEOAS is actively harmful. Am I doing REST? Who cares!
Very neat!
Maybe you could even implement read using navigator.userGetMedia to provide two way communications ...
Lie to my claims?

My question is, what has Snowden released which confirms the idea that he had the type of broad-ranging access which you claim.

Nothing you just cited confirms that: the first is Verizon phone records. Again - public knowledge since 2007 if anyone was actually paying attention.

The second and third are a warrant of the type used to request surveillance (you know, due process and all that) and a document of procedures for minimizing data on US citizens.

Both documents, explicitly dealing with not collecting broad-ranging data on US citizens and demonstrating oversight and limitation to the process. So again, where is the smoking gun? Where is any proof that Edward Snowden has done more then simply make a copy of a library of guidelines and procedures for NSA employees? Because nothing you just linked proves that he has anything substantive which actually proves wrongdoing, overreach, or the NSA going beyond mission parameters.
>It is likely true that the court wants to maintain a lot of respect from the citizens, but their level of respect is fairly high now.

No it isn't likely true. It is likely true they want to make a lot of money. They don't care about the citizens, why would they? They have jobs for life.

>My reading is that at the present time, US citizens are heavily on the side of keeping their phone calls, e-mail contents, Internet usage, etc. private instead of trashing the Constitution so that the NSA can try to catch another Boston bomber.

And where on earth are you getting such a reading? By a large margin people are currently willing to let these breaches of privacy go on because they truly believe there is some global terrorist network out there bent on destroying them. I mean, even right here on HN the 4th amendment violations aren't globally seen as a bad thing.

This is one again a case of you imagining things to be how you wish they were as opposed to what actual evidence would tell you.

>The way I have tried to put the issue is to say that the Constitution is a big part of what is worth protecting in the US so that it is logically impossible both to protect the US and trash the Constitution and, instead, we need to protect both the Constitution and the rest of the US. For this goal, maybe we need some better police work.

The constitution has been shat on almost since before the ink dried. As soon as you have lawyers, you have people who are finding a way to interpret any law in a way favorable to their clients.

Outside of high school "American History" classes, the constitution isn't that big a deal. It's mostly just a handy extra piece of leverage for a branch of government to do something they wanted to do anyway. Had the constitution been in the way of their goals they would simply ignore it or try to interpret it in some more favorable way.
Doubtful on the latter: most employed people spend more than 80% of their income and most employers would not be willing to increase their rate of pay by 25% (especially now, with salaries increasing below inflation).

Although it's often claimed that trade unions were instrumental in reducing the work week to 5 days, I'm curious to know what their stance would be on this now.
TL;DR: TIOBE is a horrible way to decide if something is important.

TIOBE is a fun conversation generator, but hardly anything to be taken seriously. In 2004, when Google swapped an algorithm, a bunch of TIOBE "rankings" swung massively. Back then they only used Google (the rankings are generated from search engine results, more results == better). Now they use multiple engines, but the list of issues that make it crap persist.

- Older languages like perl, have years of postings and pages to draw from ... even if many of them are wrong with current perl.
- Better documented languages generate less noise in terms of pages
- Languages with a higher base engineer level (lisp) tend to generate less pages of noise
- The system is very easily gamed by anyone with the motivation (not sure if anyone cares)
- Communities that rally around good answers rather than repeat themselves generate less noise

Noise == Google Results == Rank
As opposed to common sense.
And anything that Zarf writes or recommends.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Plotkin
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/if.html