skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be exactly what Brazilian politicians need.

Right now Brazil is deeply divided, the people feel very let down and undervalued, there are mass protests and demonstrations of the streets. A sort of South American spring as it were. Now, the politicians may be able to divert attention on to a common enemy.

Of course, diverting attention to what could be seen as international concerns, might just annoy the population more.

Dunno, but I do see potential political use for this latest information.
No, because it comes with a proprietary GPU.
Yeah, I agree with their move here. If the EU really wants to start getting into issues that deal with fundamental sovereignty as opposed to the environment or labor and capital flows, I can think of a number of countries that would be out before the gavel even hit the block.
If we conduct ourselves accordingly, the NSA wins.
Add usually "national security" is used to trump everything.
How convenient for government agencies to hide behind this.
> he "compiled" the between function in his head

Really? How about "adequately understood the function and did not have to reread it". We are humans, not compilers. ;)
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Why, I can't say for sure. This NSA fiasco was just a wake-up call for me, personally.

But my theory is that if people are left comfortable enough, they won't question authority. Even when we hear of torture, corruption it's almost always happening to someone we don't know or have a hard time sympathizing with. The assumption is, if I am not doing anything wrong, why should I worry?

I am not a terrorist, I am not a criminal. But the real issue is that we don't live in a system governed by laws. We live in a system controlled by people and by all accounts, very greedy people. So the definition of "wrong" comes in to play.

What warrants "them" to take away your "freedom of speech" or "freedom to privacy"? Are you a drug smuggler, terrorist, child-pornographer, movie pirate or just someone who failed to account for a 5000 dollars on your last tax return?

Who gets to decide? It's not the people, that's for sure!
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Another alternative is blacklisting sites via your hosts file, which means it applies to all applications and not only the browser. Also, it works in any UNIX-based OS:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
I'm a Vim user as well, and when I tried Colemak for a few months some years back, Vim was what made me go back to QWERTY. It was just too awkward as I would like to be able to work with both layouts.

Creating new bindings didn't work for me at all (especially since I didn't want to lose the ability to use someone else's Vim, or a vanilla Vim). I think the key might be to focus on what shortcut key you're actually pressing instead of where it is on the keyboard. This turned out to be pretty difficult for me with the hjkl keys, which are, as you say, fairly odd.

Interestingly enough though, today I can still write Colemak fluently whenever I accidentally switch to it, and it's a lot of fun! So I might give this whole thing with Colemak a new try, knowing that someone went the same route as I (keeping the default Vim shortcut bindings).
Plenty of people are jealous of our actual friends sometimes. There's just still a difference between, "Damn, I wish I had a nice apartment like Miles does" and "Wow, fuck you Miles, posting pics of your snooty-ass new apartment".

You can be jealous of the good experience without letting it poison your liking for the person.
Oh man, this is easy. They denied his request because there was no confirmation that they did or did not have information.

send a "Hi how are you" letter to the NSA chief, naming him as a party, with an affidavit stating that the NSA does, in fact, have information on you. Give him 10 days to rebut it. Then give him a second letter, acknowledging his fault/acquiescence to the affidavit. then 10 days after that, send a third notice cementing his agreement to the affidavit's truth.

THEN you go do a FOIA request. Include your paperwork with the FOIA request. They can't refuse, because they'd have to contradict your private agreement with the NSA Chief first. if they do refuse, you now have legal recourse in (Secret) courts, because the NSA will now be proven to have obstructed process.
Can anyone provide links for information about FOIAs... I know I know I should RTFM and Google it--but if someone has some knowledge about this already, I'd really appreciate it.

I'm interested in the possibility of working to set this up. This seems like a very very good idea. Nothing would be more glaring to me personally than to receive a letter back from the government saying I can't know what they have on me. I think many people would feel similarly.

But I think it will only work if it really is as easy as filling out a form or a fairly easy PDF/etc.

If so, perhaps something as simple as a nice domain and a pretty WP theme with some well-written copy could turn this idea to reality...

Any other takers?
Great stat on the marijuana. Any other things you've quantified stoned vs not? There is so little research done on marijuana that usually people only think of it as Hollywood has showed it to us. It's like the muchies. I smoke all the time for the ailment my medical card was issued for, yet managed to lose 50 pounds last year. Ganja affects everyone differently and it has yet to be studied the way it needs to be. So good stuff on tracking those stats.
I would prefer some compiled JavaScript ECMAScript 6 that and could be compiled into compatible JS. So I can use all the goodness like classes and iterators. Without having to deal with polyfills.

Please somebody...
Hard to believe. The reason why search related ads work well is because the search engine knows about the intent... You just entered it.

An ad on a news feed on the other hand is almost always something you don't want. The same goes for most ads on websites, they're likely something you do not want or something that does not align with your intend.
It's just simply not true that it would be considered an act of war - quite the opposite it was known that everyone was up to it.

The UK had a intelligence asset in the German finance ministry during the 90s according to Richard Tomlinson. When he was going around Europe after his falling out with the SIS (the real MI6) Germany offered him residence if he gave up the person. France was perfectly willing to give him a home in return for information.

Now what there has been a long tradition of is bad things happening to those engaged in espionage. There's a reason conventions on conflict exempt spies, agents provocateurs and franc-tireurs from decent treatment.

The more modern examples would be the downing of the US EP-3E on Hainan Island, the USS Pueblo, the USSR trying to sink NATO submarines in their territorial waters.

You were never living in a free world if you term it to be being immune to the actions of a power if it decided to turns its attentions to you. The question is will any foreign power ever actually care about you? And if it did what would it do?

Because this is where the cassus belli part comes it - your safety is pretty guaranteed. Britain has after all gone to war over a ship captain's ear historically. Italy more recently stood up the USA over the rendition of its suspects. Foreign governments spy to collect information to their own advantage, not to affect your life individually.
no, default parameter should not be evaluated every time the function gets called.

current behavior is totally fine. it is well defined that somelist.append(x) appends x to somelist inplace.
>> x and= y - Same as if x then x := y

I'm having trouble imagining when you'd need to do this. But oh well..

>> There is also a short syntax for single-word strings that also convert dashed-names to camelCase just as normal identifiers do.

I'd like to see an example of this. I don't think I quite understand what it's meant to do.

>> Binding access

I would have preferred:
f@obj (arg1, arg2, arg3)
for function application over:
f@ (obj, arg1, arg2, arg3)

Other that that, I can certainly appreciate the huge amount of work involved in creating this and I wish them success.
I meant that we should secure our communications, not that we should kneel to our dark overlords.
As someone living under a "socialist" system, let me tell you : "practice" is codified, yes. Best practice is not, unless some politician's kid or granddad has the disease/condition in question.

Someone I know needed a root canal treatment, and I found out that ... it's not covered - at all - under the national system. Nor is it covered under normal insurance except for a small token amount (< $250 equivalent, and yes it will cost $2k+ here too). And there is no way to get it done quickly, which makes no sense. We're talking about a root canal here. Delaying it at the point where it hurts will make things worse FAST. WTF ?
If it's so easy, we can do it ourselves. And then show it off to HN and rally pg's network ;)

No need to be depressed yet--though I do understand your sentiments.
Thats what I was thinking too. I would like to simply see Ruby/Python compile into JS instead. It has been done actually (not sure about Ruby) - don't know how well it performs though.
Does anyone have any idea what the overall plan for Scheme is?

From what I understand R7RS small is aimed at being closer to R5RS while avoiding the controversial things introduced by R6RS.

But what about R7RS large? What are the overall aims of that? Has that been decided yet?
Negativity is easier than sending FOIA requests. QED.
Ask HN: SUPERMAN - Man of Steel and what should be the real story of JESUS
Do you guys find any similarities ? Or any hidden truth...
Yep, I actually submitted the Perfect Dark wiki article to HN after reading about Isamu's passing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(P2P)‎

You dedicate some space on your hard drive to the program, which then stores chunks of unidentified files there and constantly uploads to other clients - it's true decentralized file storage. It was a cool setup when I tried in back in '08 or so, very cyberpunk with its anonymity and plain-text-on-black UI, and I enjoyed reading the Japanese comments (often with SJIS text art) posted by others on the internal chatstream. In the end I didn't actually use it for anything, but it felt like a futuristic BBS.

It would be interesting to see a global equivalent emerge, maybe built upon bittorent DHTs/magnet links.
I have a Macbook Air and when it first arrived, I thought I'd give Mac OS X a try. One day I lasted! I missed dear XMonad so, so much. Made me appreciate it a whole lot more.

I originally switched because I was so sick of using the mouse to arrange my windows all the god. damn. time.
Which is perfectly acceptable. However, we're computer experts. Most of us know how to encrypt. The common man doesn't. If we (the experts) go on the digital lam, the NSA still wins, because they get the common man.

We need to make crypto easier, we need to provide tools everyone can use. It's our responsibility to educate the masses. Otherwise we're just as antisocial as the governments.
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Complicated stuff is complicated.
I think what you're saying is correct, but one of them is inflation and one of them is just moving money around without making any more of it; if you print more paper money, and give it out, there is now more paper money chasing the same amount of stuff. Prices rise - inflation. The people who had no money do now have some, so they can buy more stuff - they are richer. The people who had paper money now find that they can't buy quite as much stuff with it - they are poorer.

I'm using a very simple (but I often find quite effective) definition of inflation - more money chasing the same amount of stuff. Note that this definition means that if the government prints a shedload of money but it goes straight into some kind of scheme where it's locked away and not dumped into the general economy, it's not inflation.

If you take money from rich and give it to the poor, there is now the same amount of money chasing the same amount of stuff. Prices do not rise (well, actually, I suspect they will, because rich people were not spending their money and poor people do spend money, so the marketplace does see more money chasing the goods at that level, but this is prices rising because more people want to buy the stuff, not because there is more money chasing the same amount of stuff). The people who had no money do now have some, so they can buy more stuff - they are richer. The people who had paper money now find that they can't buy quite as much stuff with it - they are poorer.

So in both cases the rich become a bit poorer, the poor become a bit richer. If you do this by printing money on a massive scale (Zimbabwe, Weimar Germany, etc.) people spot it happening (not least because they use wheelbarrow to carry the bus fare), inflation becomes entrenched, people stop trusting their own money, all sorts of fun stuff. Argentina's inflation rate is something around 20% to 30% depending on who you ask (don't ask the government - they have a history of not being very honest about it!) and they've seen capital flight, illegal currency trading (mostly illegal as the government has declared illegal currency trading activities that are completely legal in most of the rest of the world - for example, if you're going abroad, you need approval by the government to get some foreign currency and you must get an amount they approve), all that sort of thing, and Argentinian citizens do not trust their own currency to hold value.
I don't know whether it makes a big difference, but you also should (and, frankly, I should. I tend to use bzip2 or 7z, without much testing) try and get data for your representative load. How often do you compress 100 megabyte or even one gigabyte XML files?

Also, if you are compressing lots of small files, and won't need to extract them individually often, you could use what rar and 7z call solid archives: all files concatenated, and then compressed (equivalent to .tar.gz or .tar.bzip2)
How does this relate to the suspension of disbelief?
UK launches Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence Research Network
Well said, well said indeed.
Using Travis CI for Racket projects
> Completely ignore the credit collection agencies. They are utterly impotent, especially when it comes to medical debt which has no effect on your credit score.

Source? Googling for medical debt and credit score seems to indicate that it will in fact impact your credit score once they hand the bill over to a third party collections agency.
> To what extent crowdfunding platforms will displace commercial banks in the retail and small business segments remains to be seen.

If crowdfunding gives banks too much trouble, they will simply complain to governments that they are "too big to fail" and that crowdfunding websites need to be regulated to their death.
As it seems, all the NSA revelations are only that for general public. The allies knew about them and to some extent participated. Which explains how readily helpful the EU is in catching Snowden. Critical commentary from Europe is just to save face. When it settles down, they'll get back to business as usual.
This looks like CoffeeScript had a baby with Rust, and I'm seriously tempted to switch from the former for my latest project. It has all features for which I am still considering adding specialist libraries to CS (promises, macros, and a bunch of ES6 stuff.) Insanely great work! The latter parts of the slides where one slide == one feature helped me have a feel for the language better than the text docs.
Afaik Amazon gets everything, including app and file searches.
Again, this is not surprising. European politicians have just been caught with their pants down: on the one hand drumming up populist support by pandering to anti-American sentiments when the opportunity presents itself, and on the other being party to the alleged crime, or in France's case having its own de Gaulle-style internet-based signals intelligence network, which we can presume it shares with no one, unless asked nicely.
Excellent, true.
"Some studies have estimated [sociopaths in government] to be as high as 20%. About 8% of the general population fall into this category and they make up 40% of prison population." Jef Nance, CFE, Conquiring Deception, p.86.

So the NSA recruitment pool is probably full of sociopaths. Not a problem.
Apparently the internet was (comparatively) less funny between 2006 and 2012: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AO6yJxan...
I guess people also are making purchases and signing up by mistake after clicking on ads. Just because you ignore ads, doesn't mean others do same. FB is already making profit on ads.
Benefits of Data-Driven Marketing: Scaling your Team
Installing and testing Ubuntu's Mir server
When a country abuses their own rules, the heads of state must be tried in an international (criminal) court. But no non-lawyer knows how to do it, so it never gets done.

You're right about it being the norm. The only way to stop it is to sue them. it's literally the only thing they understand.
Thanks for your kind comment.
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Can't we like something just because it's awesome? For both cases.
<title> ends with #satire with a point
How I have lost over 100 pounds and don’t know how
MetaModel – Providing Uniform Data Access Across Various Data Stores
Makes sense. Now I would understand why they intercept my mom's mail, but, then, why every friend of hers? I'm, sure there are people more than one degree away from anyone of interest.
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> The current version of QCL is 0.6.3 (Dec 14 2006):

In reality, programming quantum computers is still complicated by the changing hardware. Think about it, if your goal is to do something cool with 1 or 2 bits, it doesn't make sense to build a grand architecture which will let you factor 2^25-1. In fact, when I see grad students / postdocs / professors talking about this, it's a big warning sign.

If you're interested in what could be done in the field, I would start by taking a look at QuTIP (https://code.google.com/p/qutip/), learning LabVIEW (It's effective, useful, and everywhere), or maybe becoming a topnotch Verilog coder. FPGA's are the future of QC.
What an embarrassing waste of taxpayer money. Perhaps they should study how much pointless studies cost the economy.
What a great way to visualize data from many sources at once. (Is it only me or does the number of public toilets seem way too low for the population?)
A good place to start is http://www.foia.gov/

The specific information required for a request varies by agency, as do any fees. Most of them now provide online forms on their sites.

While I was the FOIA/Privacy Act coordinator/liaison for one of the commands I was attached to while in the Navy, we generally accepted any form of written request, provided the person included their full name, postal address, phone number and a detailed enough description of the information they were requesting.
Are Men Less Into Sex Than They Think?
Amazing visualization. I just checked my area near Shoreditch High Street and I learned things I never knew. The CCTV is especially interesting.

It would be great to mix in average rental prices, hashtag clouds, or crimes from the police site as they are happening.
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That's a good point. There was a study back in 2006[1] that showed that people who drank made more money (about 10-14%) at their jobs than non-drinkers and social drinkers. So, it can me argued that drinking may actually help the economy as a whole, even if hangovers themselves cause a short term loss in productivity.

[1]: http://reason.org/news/show/127594.html
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Coinbase you're so fucked
So i have been using coinbase for a couple of weeks now. Yes getting money in and out of an exchange in the US is difficult pre coinbase, and no one wants to pay the fees of BitInstant (fees+bitcoin = evil in all its glory, but thats a different post) so i started using coinbase. What does coinbase do? They let you use ACH for getting money in and out of the exchange. It is the reason they are successful, it is also the reason they will fail.

How does it work? You create a coinbase account, you then link this unverified account with your bank account using these 2 options: 1.you can hand over your online banking u/p for instant verification or 2. you give them your account # + routing number for them to make 2 small deposits to verify that it is in fact your account. You can see it here: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/34357253898/you-can-now-buy-and-sell-bitcoin-by-connecting-any-u-s

So far so good right? Wrong. Exchanges can't use ACH its plain and simple - anyone can do a chargeback at anytime.

Now lets just imagine that they make $200k or so in transaction fees a month which i estimate they should have hit by now, i'm going to show you how one scammer can take that all away in a bit instant... (pun intended)

6 steps:
1. Open a shell company
2. Open a bank account and deposit 25k in seed money
3. Open a coinbase account transfer your money in and buy some coins
4. send your coins out to MtGox or another exchange and cash out
5. Deposit the money back in your account and repeat second part of step 3 + 4
6. Walk over to your bank's local branch and file for a chargeback claiming you dont recognize the transaction.

Now you're left with both your cash and your coins, which technically are liquid enough (unless MtGox goes rogue but then everyone is fuck'd as well..)

Coinbase, i wish you gents luck and i think you should not rely on ACH.
What matters most when programming is all the non alpha numeric symbols.

You likely type symbols such as ', ", (, and ) more often than all numbers, and more often than half the letters.

If these symbols are accessible only by using the shift or alt gr keys, your keyboard layout sucks for programing.

Colemak sucks as a programing layout (just like virtually all keyboard layours actually).
“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”
Don't underestimate mass market consumers' readiness and ability to use a search engine. The small effort to find the answer online will not deter anyone who comes along
wanting a laptop.

What I have seen called cheating by hackers are things like exceedingly clever shortcuts. Cheating by using someone else's answer in a qualification test is not in any sort of spirit of hacking that I'm familiar with.
How ethnocentrics rule: a simulation of evolutionary dynamics
Hmm, I just get a black screen (Chrome, Ubuntu). Any idea what might be missing?
Ah, destructuring is so sweet!

You're right, it's no real need for it and it's unfeasible because you need to either (a) fully static type analyze everything or (b) what anonymous just explained... and they're both out of the question.

The refinements thing was a joke, in the spirit of what else can one add: it's a controlled form of monkeypatching / classboxing about which a lot of fuss was made in the Ruby community after Matz decided to add it to the language (http://timelessrepo.com/refinements-in-ruby), mainly because it's very hard to implement without creating more problems, even if you have your own interpreter to hack on (short answer: don't bother looking about it and even if you're smart enough to figure out a way to add it to a compile-to-JS language, don't waste your effort on it - they're not an anti-feature and they could make sense in languages that allow monkeypatching, like JS and Ruby, but they're too much work for too little benefit and too much possibility for bad use and unneeded complexity).
Music training boosts IQ