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at least the british press still cares enough about the average british worker to write an article like this.

The american press would only write an article like this if such conditions disparately impacted minority race workers.

Pretty soon the british press will do the same.

It just gets worse and worse. I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

The citizens of america do not even ask the right questions.
There is a full documentary on youtube about "heavensgate". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBTLThA0wOw
The play API is far less clear and doesn't seem to add any value. It's like they've created a bunch of special classes to do things that could have just been written in scala. Formatting the message is a good example, with socket.io it's just a plain old function call. With play you have to create an "adaptor", which appears to be a function but is wrapped in some special case wrapper called an Enumeratee. As for the names, if you have to explain what every class is actually for you've done a pretty poor job in choosing the names. The socket.io API seems vastly superior, it allows you to do exactly the same thing is smaller and clearer whilst having all the power and perhaps, less restrictions. Sorry for the rant but with so many good examples of APIs (particularly for web interactions) the play API really should be better.
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The next paradigm shift in social networks is the distribution of the social graph. Ten years ago, this would seem unacceptable because of privacy issues. Today, we know people have learned to embrace the fact that once you publish it, it's public, so they do not care about privacy online.

A truly open social graph, distributed so it isn't controlled by a single entity, is a game changer. It lowers the barriers to vertical oriented social networks, which wouldn't have the barrier of reconstructing every user's social graph.

The trick is the transition. It's like we are stuck in a local maximum. Once we move to distributed social graphs we are obviously better, but I can't imagine how this transition would occur, other than Facebook itself having an amazingly long term vision and going all in with this vision. There's a lot to be gained from being the industry leader for 50 years instead of monopolist for 10...
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Technically NTFS allows those too. The filesystem, being a very low-level tool, hardly thinks of the upper layers and what pain it might inflict there. Its purpose is to store blobs under a name and retrieve them upon request. Since a char[] (or wchar_t[]) looks enough like a name that's what it uses.

That being said, enforcing such restrictions in upper layers brings pain as well, because suddenly you can have files that you cannot delete anymore (happens sometimes on Windows).
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Require in the contract that you are not their only client, but lawyer it well. "We only work with contractors with a diverse set of clients as we believe that diversity promotes excellence."

In some countries (I think UK is like this), they will actually look at the amount of work a "contracter" does for a client. Do too much (i.e. only work for them) and they (the taxman) treat you as an employee. Doesn't matter what you put in the contract.

It's not nearly that simple.
It depends what you're after. (I have memberships on both)

Bear in mind that chess.com regularly has 10 times the number of players online at any one time, so it's much easier to find a game of your desired time controls and ability level.

Also, chess.com has much better material and functions to improve your rating for lower and intermediate rated players. For this reason alone I would recommend chess.com to lower ability players (although these features require a premium membership).

chessclub.com (ICC) has a greater number of GM's, etc. There are GM's and IM's on chess.com, but not as many as far as I can tell.

Finally, chess.com has outstanding "social" features, like teams and forums, etc, trolls notwithstanding.

So, I would without hesitation recommend chess.com for learners and intermediate players, and ICC for those who want to play against higher-rated players. I spend most of my time on chess.com and don't intend to extend my ICC membership.

UPDATE:

chessclub.com: 897 players currently online.

chess.com: 22,235 players currently online.

There was a time when chess.com didn't exist, and chessclub.com was the place to go. ICC's website now is a dog's breakfast and has been lacking in development for a long time. IMO, ICC had relied too much on the number of GM members at attract players. Chess.com, although more expensive, is a much more vibrant and educational place to be.
It didn't feel right naming it `optimus.core` :)
Being topless is normal on regular beaches. On nude beaches, people tend to be bottomless as well.

Still, nobody anywhere in the world would appreciate complete strangers spreading those (or any other) pictures of them.
I didn't assert that he or she didn't make an argument. I'm just saying the argument has no evidence or logical reasoning for it. Otherwise it's just speculation.
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Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?
Could be anything you stopped or started. How has it improved your (day to day) life.
Brings back a lot of memories of assembly programming on the Acorn Archimedes[1] (ARM2 core) back in the early 90s.

It certainly was a revelation (all those registers!) after years of messing around with Z80/6502/80[123]?86.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
Quitting smoking. Best habit I ever had. It improves my life every time I pick it up.
Because then politicians would be considerably more likely to accept bribes, and only the uber rich, upper class, indenpendently wealthy people would be able to be politicians.

The UK used to not pay MPs. In the 19th century there were working class movements for politicians to be paid ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartists ), so that working class people would be able to stand in parliament.,
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Salvation is always just around the corner, but we are walking around a rotating platform struggling to even just keep the corner in sight.
I'd make a reasonable bet that those motions were to one of the early exchanges, — based on the timing, maybe Britcoin. I'd consider it doubtful that the later owner of those funds was the same as the earlier one.

I'm not sure why they'd hypothesize that someone who apparently used Bitcoin only some time after it was widely made public, and then used it in a rather poor manner anonymity wise (the aggregation), was the founder— other than to make headlines like this one. :(

In any case, the address in question (https://blockchain.info/address/12higDjoCCNXSA95xZMWUdPvXNmk...) doesn't belong to Satoshi, it belongs to Dustin Trammell: http://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=I}ruid ... who was actually my first guess, and could have easily been discovered by anyone with 20 minutes and access to google. :(

I really can't understand why such a respected name is attached to work of such low quality.
> That is the very premise of the WWW. There was nothing new in that.

Yet their competitors insisted on treating each document as standalone until after Google popularised this idea.

At the time it very much was seen as a new idea, and the idea that this was good enough to deprecate lots of advanced search operators was so alien that it took a lot of us a long time to stop trying to construct complicated searches of the type encouraged by e.g. Altavista.
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I don't think Switzerland has many "labour intensive industries" :P
No mention of cross-currency payments/settlement which, given how Bitcoin is currently being used, is more relevant than bank transfers within the same country.

An overview of CLS is a good starting point: http://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/reference/continuous_linked_settlem...
Nothing new - it sounds like the german schuelerVZ (facebook for pupils).

I always wonder what happens to a user base of such a website once it gets older and crosses the magic line - in this example, if maximum of the user distribution gets older than 30.
I hadn't heard of it either, although I have played with Twisted's FilePath[1] class previously.

I didn't really understand the attraction of an OO filesystem API until I actually used it in anger and realised how handy it was that all the relevant functions were on the object I was messing with, instead of arbitrarily divided between the "os" and "os.path" modules.

Some (hopefully constructive) suggestions for the pathlib API:

- Python 3 dicts ditched .iterkeys(), .itervalues() and .iteritems(); why does pathlib use the clumsy .iterdir() when it could just be called .children?

- Like many Python programmers (I assume), I'm more familiar with POSIX command-line tools than I am with POSIX APIs. Command-line tools generally have an option to control whether they dereference symlinks (cp -L, find -L, etc) rather than having a separate. parallel tool that does the same thing. I think it would be neater if .lstat() and .lchmod() were removed in favour of a "follow_symlinks" parameter to .stat() and .chmod() (and .is_dir() and .touch() and .owner(), and, and, and..)

- If you're going to have convenience functions that pick out interesting bits from the .stat() return value, I would find .size() far more practical than .is_socket()

[1]: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.pytho...
I have talked with many of the devs from Ripple that post on BitcoinTalk often, they are so adamant that the XRP is required I feel that it's a stealth currency.

One developer was paid, instead of stock a billion ripples. The first thing Opencoin/Ripplelabs did was giveaway very small amounts to create artificial scarcity and then open an exchange (through Bitstamp) to sell off as many as possible for Bitcoins. At the peak Ripples were worth more than all the Bitcoins in the world.

I remember Joel (I think) was adamant that Ripple was not a currency at all, except we ended getting him to admit it was meant to be a competing currency to Bitcoin.

I do not trust them at all, especially now Google are involved in backing them.
Welcome to the general level of internet discourse about China. Pretty much any internet debate about the Middle Kingdom tends to dissolve into:

* But look at the US
* err... and that's it.
>This article surprisingly misses the fact that I want to communicate with my grandparents. Sure, I don't want them in the same circle as my friends, but communication there is important too.

Which is beside the point he makes.

You can always communicate with your grantparents on FB.

Plus, on the scheme he presents, you can just make a personal profile for communication with your extended family and grandparents.
Did you try the wasavi extension?
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> Don’t be silly Jake. Where else are you going to put functions if you don’t have classes?

I'm seeing where this is going: GoLang.
Umm. 'My system' is worth reading but only so you have an understanding of what you are unlearning as you get stronger. In this day and age it is a long way from all you need to know, chess is much less dogmatic and more objective. The demands of the position trumps nimzowitsch's rules.
Stopped playing video games and stopped regularly watching TV or TV shows (though I still enjoy movies and TV shows, I don't make it part of my schedule). Biggest waste of time during my teenage years.
Why would they sign the transaction that way?
Yes, the best kind of argument, where you get to think for yourself if it holds.
Well, that's going to depend on how much detail you expected: Japan has several thousand years of history and a dozen years to teach it all to each child, with 50+ approved textbooks to choose from.
I hope everyone filled out and submitted detailed crash reports?
"Also, keep in mind that even though the construction of decision trees may be expensive, the classification of a new sample is just a walk down the tree, and so, is very fast."

I would say decision tree training is very fast compared to other methods. That's the main benefit of decision trees vs. neural nets (iterative back propagation), MCMC (sampling), SVM (O(n^3)).

I can't think of any mainstream technique that's faster to train. (k-nearest is fast in training but slow in prediction so that doesn't count).
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To send a message / gloat.
Just to reference some of the interesting bits to actual transactions/addresses:

Satoshi address - https://blockchain.info/address/12higDjoCCNXSA95xZMWUdPvXNmk...

Satoshi -> DPR transfer - https://blockchain.info/tx/cdcaaa0ff1446d41aae5d32c23da1ff33...
Interesting that one of the co-authors is the Adi Shamir.
My irony filter had been ironed over....

Irony now understood :-)
The amazing BlackBerry wizardry that created its 'better Android than Android'
What's wrong with childish? If someone is responding to an inherently childish concept ("I know, let's write all our websites with 150Mb of JavaScript rather than using HTML simply and straight-forwardly like it was designed to be used"), sometimes a childishly obscene response is the only appropriate response.
ATMs usually do not have a UPS.
> It legalised contraception sometime in the 80s, divorce in the 90s and will have gay marriage some time this decade. None of these things are compatible with Christianity as it has been understood for most of its existence.

"Incompatible"? No, those things are perfectly compatible. Don't believe everything the fundamentalists feed you. Christianity is not first and foremost about the sex stuff; it's about the love stuff. True, gay marriage is new and controversial, but contraception has not been much of a problem outside the Vatican.

Also, you make it sound like Ireland is somehow very progressive, but they're actually extremely conservative on these things. There are other countries that were Christian long before the 800s that have no problem with any of these things, nor with euthanasia or abortion (within reasonable limits).
There is a good reason for this though - to some extent Android treats every "app" as a separate unix user running in it's own account space, as I understand it.
To play devil's advocate, Ulbricht likely felt (perhaps even "knew") that the murders he ordered were successfully carried out. And intent is usually what matters most in American criminal law.

He probably did truly feel like he was an extremely powerful druglord, even if in reality he was a nerd with a laptop.
ICC pissed me off when I let my subscription lapse for 9 months and wouldn't reactivate my account that I had for 15 years. I had ~ 15000 blitz games under my handle and dozens of contacts. All gone and they couldn't care less.
Is WCF Redundant?
Check out any UFO nut site and you'll see hundred page threads of people over analysing jpeg and mpg compression marks.
You missed my point. You can't attack the cryptographic function or the keyspace, but you can attack the original passphrase that is hashed, via typical hash cracking methods (rainbow tables, bruteforcing, dictionary attacks, etc.). All you need to know is the hash function; most brainwallets use a single round of SHA256.
ASCII fluid dynamics - amazing IOCCC entry
China claims the same: it's a People's Republic, after all. Sure, there's a difference between a notionally meritocratic single-party system and a notionally democratic two-party system, but it's not quite as large as the average US history textbook would have you believe.
I've also noticed quite a few people who've posted threads on bitcointalk after having fallen victim to one of these brainwallet crackers. It really boggles the mind why someone would entrust significant amounts of money to an incredibly weak passphrase.
IIRC a few cult members stayed behind to look after the site and spread the message.
Even extending to a 1-second computation would make it completely infeasible to crack. 1 minute would be way overkill.
Dropbox is probably one of the more sustainable companies mentioned in the article, since they have a very large amount of actual paying users and revenue.
The point is that having the missed tactics pointed out to you by the computer doesn't do much to improve your chess. It won't help you find a tactic the next time an opportunity comes up. Whereas analyzing seriously and finding tactics yourself (albeit fewer than the computer will point out), _will_ improve your ability to find them over the board.
"in my expecience, almost nobody actually understands how payment systems work"

This was my experience as well. I can't understand why everybody fell for the hype. Loads of money are transfered every hour.

And we don't know anything about the $150m Bitcoin transaction. Maybe the owner just moved it to one of his other wallets.
If someone else tries to search for these in the Podcast app, "Bootstrapped.fm" is just "Bootstrapped" on there and the search fails to find it using the complete name/domain.
I don't get viruses! If I'm dealing with a virus, it's on some other bugger's machine.

And they probably haven't even created the drivers disk let alone a restore disk. And what sort of idiot downloads an ISO onto a virus riddled machine?
I now sleep more (> 7 hours a night). Amazing gains in what I notice - and how much easier it is to think. Like running downhill.
Here lies the benefits of handing your personal information over to a company like Google.

To me, it's always been a choice, no matter which service I use (paid or free) I am not going to naively believe that for one second my information won't be "abused." When someone says, "XYZ is collecting data on you" the obvious [and always correct] retort is "so is your XYZ provider; or at the very least the NSA is making them." The questions should rather be "who is going to do the least harm with your data?", "who will try to help you the most with the data that they have collected about you?" and "who will make a competent effort to fight for your privacy on your behalf?" From what I have been reading lately, Google gets the best scores - which is why they will continue to trusted with what I choose to share over the internet. Technology should get a job done and then get out of the way as quickly as possible - if "whoring" out my personal information to someone is the path to putting technology back into its rightful place, then so be it.
>Cheaper I understand, however, it doesn't seem very healthy work.

The short-term financial gain goes to Amazon (and to a smaller degree the pickers), but the long-term costs of an unhealthy job are paid for by the healthcare system. Therefore there is an incentive to create those jobs.
Sounds a lot like Share-Cropping.
Okay so ripple achieves consensus through network effects: biggest room wins. So far so good.

Now Mallory deploys ripple clients, which behave like ordinary ripple clients, but are under her control. After a while, 51% of the biggest consensus room are straw men for Mallory. She "flips the switch" introduces a transaction that places the entire network's balances into her accounts.

How does ripple prevent this?
Encapsulation is what you're missing. OO programming only makes sense once you're working on a codebase too big to understand. I mean, I guess you could think of each object as its own FSM, but that's not particularly enlightening - in part because well designed objects don't have multiple possible states (rather, the state is captured in what they are. It's a hard notion to accept, like learning to use infinitesimals in mathematics - you've spent so long convincing yourself that this intuitive notion is wrong, and then suddenly you discover there's a way to make that intuitive notion correct after all, but you resist it because it seems like it's a messy, bad intuition). Yes, technically there are states to the whole system - but you need some way to factorize it into smaller systems if you're going to make any sense of it.

There is a real enlightenment to be got from really understanding OO, and it's one that many supposedly good programmers seem never to reach. Keep seeking it.
To become good at chess you need to become good at concentration. That helps in other areas. But there's no specific reason that chess is a good way to train it, it's just a way.
Well worth watching the videos on http://www.positivemoney.org
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Interesting, I think the South Koreans did the same thing.

Installing South Korean games (this was middle school), I've always wondered why the paths were showing up as :

C:₩Program Files₩GRAVITY₩RO

And trying to type \ in the installation path input box results in ₩
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Blog spam is for generating ad revenue or gaining attention for a product. This guy isn't selling anything, and there aren't any ads on his site(at least none that I see on my iPad).

If you don't like what he has to say, that's your perogative, but that doesn't make his article blog spam. The guy's been on HN for a year and a half and that's the first time he ever posted anything from his site. He likely just found out that a lot of HN members are interested in chess, and so he did what normal people have done with their hobbies for centuries, try to grow the community.

Instead of complaining, wouldn't it be more productive to take your own advice and post some of the resources that you found useful?
Any HN readers interested in sharing a 2BR apartment in SoMa?
I'm working at a YC startup, but the rent in SoMa is insane, so my wife and I decided to try and split a 2BR place. We thought we found a roommate, but unfortunately, they pulled out. So we're moving in less than a week, and haven't been able to find someone else yet.

Anyway, if you're interested, please check out my post on /r/SFBayHousing: http://www.reddit.com/r/SFBayHousing/comments/1rer9s/offershare_looking_for_a_roommate_or_couple_to/

I'm sorry, I know this post is a bit unorthodox. Maybe it should have titled it "How I'm trying to pay less rent as a YC startup employee in San Francisco".
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A dark one, given that the maintainer in all likelihood was one of the people who committed suicide.
Agreed - if I had asked for the weather in Sao Paulo, and it gave me the weather for Sao Paulo on Sunday night, I would be frustrated rather than impressed.

The app is making the implicit assumption that I didn't know what I really wanted, and correcting me. Rather than desirable, I find this creepy, incorrect behaviour and potentially offensive.
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Indications are that it was Bitstamp shuffling money around.
Take it from someone who's tried making it work : grasping is too fucking hard. It looks so simple, a baby could do it. A hand grasping objects.

Many things that many people believe robots can do are in this category. The absolute state of the art is balancing (not walking) on 2 legs (which does allow you to move, but ...), and walking on 4 legs (it's not really walking like for example a cat does, but it's better than balancing)

But the control loop for grasping arbitrary 3d objects given a camera image of the object and the hand ... such a stupid thing is a completely unsolved problem, and it's we're not anywhere near solving it.

Here's how amazon sidesteps that problem : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KRjuuEVEZs&noredirect=1
Virus.DOS.Lichen
Not that big of a shocker. Wondering what are the stats at Google :)
So obvious, yet, easy to forget

This is a big gaping hole in using GPG for example

It either prints the content (if it's a text file this is ok), or you have to save it to be useful.

And then you erase it and think it's enough.