skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Human Rights Act 1998 guarantees freedom of speech."

Guarantees so weak, they lay out at least seven censorship categories under which the Guardian could be anti-freedom-of-speech'd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_10_of_the_European_Con...

"The exercise of these freedoms [of expression], since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary."

There's so little freedom-guaranteeing here, I'm having a hard time imagining a censorship law that this conventional actually disallows. I can't immediately think of a reason anyone would censor, that's not covered under one of the "necessary in a democratic society" reasons; or think of any historic example of odious censorship that can't be reasonably described as, e.g. "protection of... morals". I'm not sure what the purpose of this declaration of non-rights is, beyond making a show of pretending to have them.
On Dying After Your Time - an 83 yr old reflects
According to Wikipedia he literally describes himself as a theocrat.
> You can never rely on your compiler's implementation of undefined behavior.

I wish I could somehow get my coworker to understand this. He's mostly "Yeah, well, I know it's undefined, but there's really no way this could be anything else than <foo>. I know what the CPU does there."
> I don't think you can create a github repo over ssh.

Oops, docs say you're right, i didn't think of that.
> "IT people have a bad reputation in the world of socially adjusted adults."

They do, but so do those who are constantly offended.
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People who may know them have more context and might recognise them, yes. If I'm on a flight from Amsterdam to London and I'm complaining to a friend about my boss, someone livetweeting my hilarious rant might keep me pretty unidentifiable by just using my first name.

But my boss probably knows I was on a flight from Amsterdam to London that day (as I asked him for permission to take the time off) and based on the rant will probably know it's me, talking about him. That could have some pretty serious consequences. Of course, maybe I shouldn't complain about work in public, but would you honestly want to live in a world where you couldn't?
I believe it runs at 9AM PST but it could also be 8 AM PST.

That said, I recall people petitioning pg to run it on the first Monday of the month if the 1st fell on a weekend so it's possible if you don't see it to reflect some people's wishes
Please do not buy the Kindle fire
Confirmations are just a measure of computing power essentially. By saying a transaction needs 3 confirmations you are saying that you require 30 minutes of network hashing time before you call a transaction secure. For the same 30 minutes you'd need 12 Litecoin confirmations.

The chance of me solving 4 litecoim blocks is the same as me solving 1 bit coin block, assuming the same hash power and difficulty. In reality Litecoin is quite low in both, so is substantially easier to abuse in the real world.
What (Really) Powers Innovation?
Since when are academics becoming hugely rich? They feed on a regulated supply of taxpayer money, if they make money it will be usually from non-academic activities. There is also very low risk and only predictable returns, not like drug business at all.
Not so much different than in some periods of old USSR - depending on time and place/sub-SSR, at times it was much more liberal, at times it was exactly like that.
So if I were to identify your family's address or your ssn online you wouldn't care? What about just your mothers phone number?
The pattern of the mans publicly disclosed ideas really paint a picture of who he is...in this case a right wing reactionary ideologue.
> late 18th and early 19th century

The first underground lines were in 1863. That's the mid 19th century. The first deep level train (what's actually the Tube) was the City & South London Railway, opened in 1890 (late 19th century). Check yo fax.

> it’s difficult to stand in most of its trains

Not unless you're like 6' 6" (and thus taller than 99.5% of males).
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62018000/jpg/_62018161...
I still don't understand why they should.
Bitcoin: Beyond the bubble
Alternatively just think a moment longer and realize that the lower limit of each value (10) already produces 60 and thus each must must be 10.
So if you value flow, if you think that getting away from noise and distraction is valuable and lets you write good code, that inevitably means a totalizing removal of oneself from the customer?

Perhaps the author needs to discover nuance. There is a time for coding and a time for working with your team and with customers. Unfortunately he posits two positions: "always" or "never" and every approach must fit into one of those two. He has a brief flirtation with nuance, comparing a couple of weeks to a couple of days, but quickly abandons it by declaring an inevitable outcome.

Yes we do "win when everyone comes together, with the customer at the center", but I don't see why one bad extreme means we need to throw out every valuable learning about flow.

TL;DR Flow isn't bad, hiding away is. Don't confuse the two. (And put away the hammer.)
Are you saying that you don't believe that people can buy, sell, or trade with each other unless government is involved?
> It solves 2% credit card fee.

Are you sure? There were a lot of Bitcoin wallet servers compromised lately. I guess that for a really well secured wallet server you have to pay something. In case of thefts, people will want some kind of insurance and so on.

Bitcoin, compared to credit cards, functions as a decentralized system. Is it really cheaper than centralized system in terms of transaction costs? I mean computing power, required hardware and software.
No. What this is, is a chance to pick a fight.

A chance to feel powerful, without actually accomplishing anything.

Nothing more.
Maybe I'm being overly optimistic. Where I work we rarely output code that is beautiful and lovely at the expense of creating deliverables on time. I blame our process. I think that we could do both if we adjusted a few of our assumptions. But then maybe I'm just a daydreamer.
It serves as evidence that he is an uneducated idiot who lacks common sense.
While oil usage is globally still growing [0], so contrary to some replies, we are not already in a phase-out situation, some countries have taken steps to do just that, and I doubt they are reverting back to 19th century lifestyle.

Sweden aims to drastically reduce its dependency to oil by 2020 [1], replacing it with renewable energies. Of course the "how" part of the phase-out will vary depending on the region of the world. But this is doable, not science fiction.

I guess my point is that positions like "face it, we need oil so let's build more pipelines" are the ones that are holding us back from a better world.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consum...
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Sweden_an_Oil-Free_Socie...
So I should do exactly the opposite of whatever Gary North says. Done!
The more people who use BitCoin the less volatile it will be, the more BitCoin tokens will be spread across a large number of individual actors, the less a single actor can dictate price fluctuations.
http://www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret5.htm#data-centres

^^ start here. I'm sure there are maps somewhere.
>This is why IT people have a bad reputation in the world of socially adjusted adults.

No, it's not. This isn't true, it's not even an argument for why the terminology should be changed.
What makes Bitcoin so disruptive?
You can! Just hit "continue without timer" and le poof!
I wonder why they don't just mirror the content on the uk site without the ads.
Not really - their government takes all the aid and money, while also punishing defectors (just people escaping to China or SK) by death or imprisonment of their families. Embargoes do little for most of the population.
A series for creative technologists
Unfortunately even that's not enough. Vagrant has a lot of dependencies for designers on OS X, and if you bring in NFS (instead of the nearly unusable folder sharing), becomes insanely complicated to explain. Prebuilt Vagrant package with reasonable OOTB folder sharing speed would be perfect IMO.
My guess is that people who are now 5-10 years old will never find this sort of thing creepy. Eventually, our society will finish internalizing that there is no such thing as a private conversation in a public space.
Someone who speaks the language or is there could please give us some context?
But in the western (roman catholic) parts of europe, the latin vulgata was about the only relevant version of the bible during most of the middle ages. So for practical purposes, the argument is correct.
> If you don't want something to be exposed to the greater world and for perpetuity

So the alternative is for me to hide in the basement for the rest of my life? That's a terrible argument. Public spaces are for everyone, new technology is no excuse for bad manners and offensive behavior.
From the BitCoin FAQ (http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_Bitcoin_a_Ponzi_scheme.3F):

Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme?

In a Ponzi Scheme, the founders persuade investors that they’ll profit. Bitcoin does not make such a guarantee. There is no central entity, just individuals building an economy.

A ponzi scheme is a zero sum game. Early adopters can only profit at the expense of late adopters. Bitcoin has possible win-win outcomes. Early adopters profit from the rise in value. Late adopters, and indeed, society as a whole, benefit from the usefulness of a stable, fast, inexpensive, and widely accepted p2p currency.

The fact that early adopters benefit more doesn't alone make anything a Ponzi scheme. All good investments in successful companies have this quality.
Absolute. Someone mentions his name today and Wikipedia was the place where i got this news.
The author makes great points and I totally agree with her. People who publish private conversations are little Hunter Moores. It's pure voyeurism and bullying. It's about exploiting others for a little internet fame.
>Basically, people in North Korea do not have the freedom to choose their occupations. Once you’re assigned a job from the government, it is your lifelong job.

The tour guide I had described in some detail the previous job he'd had - just weeks before becoming a tour guide. He worked at the zoo and was tasked with coordinating the exchange of animals with other countries.

He gave me the impression that he requested to become a tour guide too, in order to improve his English.
Can I ask what type MBTI labels you? I'm INTJ as an example and often see similar things
We have these kind of riots in Hungary (pretty close to Ukraine) as well. They are not really revolutions, but they are a good indicator that the people are extremely fed up with current government policies, which may lead to a revolution.

Exciting times to live in, hopefully the people will be able to get rid of the corrupt ruling class.

EDIT:

Just to give you bit of context on corruption... in the UK where I currently live, politicians are going into prisons for faking a couple of thousands of pounds as expense and profiting from that... A couple of thousands...

Compared to that, a couple of years ago, a guy called Bajnai Gordon was the prime minister in Hungary, who is well known by everyone for his act of destroying the whole agricultural economy of eastern Hungary. He did stole all the money from one of the largest companies at the time. Multiple farmers committed suicide, etc.

Years after that, he became a prime minister. Truly mind blowing. Those people are evil, and have cheeks, they deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prisons.

If you are interested about (the politically correct version of) the story, search for "Hajdu-Bet" here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bajnai
There are no riots. It's sad that this word is used to label what's happening here. No one is burning cars, smashing up stores etc.
Looks great. I made a mutlilanguage version a while ago: http://codepen.io/FWeinb/pen/oyACz
Why do you arrest people for YouTube videos? http://www.dailydot.com/news/cameron-dambrosio-boston-bomb-t...

Or gaming comments? http://www.popehat.com/2013/07/11/the-first-amendment-protec...
Please stop attempting to have "private" conversations in public at a volume level where others can easily overhear you.
At its time, KnowledgeTool. It's
a forward chaining expert system
language using the Forgy RETE algorithm
and is a pre-processor to PL/I. It
was marketed as for artificial intelligence
but, really, as it was created by
our group at Yorktown Heights,
was
mostly intended to automate monitoring
and system management for server farms
and networks.

One of my contributions was
architecture, algorithms, and code for
rule-subroutines. The core of the
work was to understand the PL/I stack
of dynamic descendancy and to exploit
it to keep the state of the user's
rule subroutine calls that had yet to
return while calling a run-time package
with the RETE algorithm and then return
to the user's code with it's state
intact. It was a fast idea one afternoon
and then a long night typing. When I
got some sleep and back to the office,
our programmer trying to finish the
implementation of rule subroutines was
done that day instead of some weeks,
and the result was much cleaner.

In addition, I cooked up some new ideas
for anomaly detection in data from
the envisioned server farms and networks.
It's an ambitious approach to
behavioral monitoring (try to
say what is normal and declare
anything else as an anomaly and
potential problem to be investigated --
as in the old Herve Debar post at
SANS, such monitoring has had
false alarm rate too high,
and I solved that problem)
where a user
gets a knob to turn to select false
alarm rate exactly in advance.

The work was ambitious when I did
it because it can use quite a lot
of data; now the cost of so much
data is so low that it is from
trivial down to no concern.

As applied probability, it's
a statistical hypothesis test
that is both multivariate (use
more information and, thus,
get higher detection rate of real
problems) and distribution-free
(make no assumptions about probability
distributions) -- maybe still the
only example of a test with these
two properties.

The paper was published
in Information Sciences. I had some
data from a cluster at Allstate
and showed with that data that the
false alarm rate calculation was
correct. And with some additional
simulated data, showed that the detector
was darned sensitive (intuitively)
to anything different. Basically
could have a checkerboard with normal
performance on the white squares
and anomalies on the black squares,
and the detector will figure this out,
including if the checkerboard is in
20 dimensions. Due to such checkerboard
examples, data in fewer dimensions
would be useless; so, in this case,
the multidimensional aspect was crucial.
While such a checkerboard is unlikely
in practice, the practical point is that
the detector is adaptive to quite
bizarre normal performance. Indeed,
we should expect that the multidimensional
geometric region of normal performance
will, often in practice, be essentially
a fractal -- my work does well approximating
fractals. Now that there is so much
data on real-time performance from
high end server farms and networks,
my work should be deployed, but I doubt
that it has been.
There's crowd of people who wants to enter president's administration building and 'berkut' police protects the building. Some fights were going on. I don't actually understand what exactly do those people want.
Uh, sorry. Why does anything require you to have to "hide in the basement for the rest of [your] life?" I walk into the supermarket knowing fully that a surveillance camera is at the front door, yet my distaste of that kind of surveillance does not force me to die of hunger (as all markets near me have cameras near by)

I'm not arguing that the situation is good or bad but that it simply is, particularly because of today's communication technology. Are you really going to argue from a stance of "But I don't wanna!"?
Hi Joel, because i discovered the article from TechCrunch's newsletter on Followletter.
"There is no way I could fix C++ for her"
> I don't want to use the word "fascist" but this discussion has clearly shown that the people who are truly ignorant are those who fail to consider dissenting viewpoints.

I have little patience for the "explain this... oh... well, explain THIS! oh... well..." game vaccine doubters play.
I’m not sure if you are being ironic but just in case you aren’t:

Imagine you’re in a store, waiting at the checkout, having a conversation with your SO that has revealed some key difference of opinion on a topic that affects your relationship. You’re having the conversation in a public place not because the subject matter is public but because that’s where you happen to be at the time and the conversation is important to you and your SO. Now imagine the person who has been standing behind you in line doing something on their phone interrupts you and says "Your conversation is hilarious, I’m live tweeting it as you speak, please carry on" with a big grin on their face. How would you feel about that?
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
> the right to refer to things as slaves is not a right I mind losing

Actually, I see this as an opportunity to change the word “slave” to always refer to a thing, not a person.
There's lots of really lousy things happening in the UK. It doesn't seem to matter which party is in government - some of the stuff New Labour was doing was breath-takingly awful.

Having said that: This YouTube clip of Will Ferrel is just disturbing. How many of the audience get the irony? How many are oblivious to it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQzkMoEGDGE
I agree with the notion that the customer is extremely important.

I do not agree with the idea that me being amongst my team members will inherently make the product more like what the customer wants. There are logical fallacies riddling the whole article, but perhaps the most important point is that it's not black or white.

The truth is, I could be very close to the client AND experience plenty of flow state work sessions. It doesn't necessitate that I diminish the effectiveness of either solution. Flow state does not necessarily create sucky product.

For the most part, the analogy of the Ford Focus is entirely off base. How many people go directly in the opposite direction, even with a mild understanding of the end goals and a good sense of design? A better analogy would be that it's far better to get in the F1 and head as fast as you can in 90% the right direction than piddle along in the focus. You can course correct, or perhaps the client will end up changing their mind a bit when they see your solution.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but in a project discovery phase, unless the coder is completely out of the loop, it is much more effective to let software designers design solutions to well defined problems. If the failure is in that discovery phase, fix that instead of forcing your programmers to perform at less than their potential.
Really funny joke about a couple
This is a nice and funny joke about a couple that is really a true love!
Flow, in the cognitive sense, could very well be directed towards a customer-focused end. This article's central argument is a fallacy.
He's only keeping the first 2.26 bitcoins.

He's donating the rest (over 20 bitcoins) to Sean's Outpost, a bitcoin charity.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1rs2zf/on_college_g...
Interesting Object In Space has been Spotted during Comet ISON Exploration
Wow, what a poorly reasoned article.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2013)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.

Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2013) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827545
It should be noted that not
If you could work anywhere, what would you do?

- Wouldn't you want to work towards genuinely making the world a better place?

- Wouldn't you want to work in a close-knit team alongside some of the brightest engineers in the industry?

- Wouldn't you want to work on solving interesting problems that haven't been solved before?

---

At Khan Academy, I truly believe that you can find all of those things and more. We're a small, 50-person nonprofit tech startup making a big difference in the world. A few weeks ago, we found this great story through the fascinating blog "Humans of New York" – please take a moment to read it:

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/64412654576/i-struck-up-...

This is just one story, but every month we hear about hundreds of lives that we've transformed, and there are thousands more we don't hear about.

Lots of people know us for Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers and a huge library of math practice exercises. Our 100,000+ practice problems have been done over 1.5 billion times total. That's a huge number.

This gives us the ability to study learning in a way that no one has previously been able to do. We've run tests which show that students learn more when they're advanced quicker by a custom machine-learning algorithm [1]. As I write this we're running dozens of A/B tests to learn what we can do to make people learn more, from testing how review scheduling affects accuracy to simply testing different teaching styles.

Whether you're a machine learning guru or you take pride in perfecting UI details for a dropdown menu [2], we have something for you. You'll be working alongside a small team with the best in the business – though we have "celebrity" devs like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee (and former Director of Technology) Craig Silverstein, we have many more you haven't heard of but who are just as awesome.

---

I'm going to put in a special plug for mobile: Around 20% of our traffic comes from phones and tablets but we have only two people (me and one other person) working on our apps right now. Our iOS app is fairly basic, but it already has a few million downloads. We want to make it awesome. If you're a mobile developer we can build a great team around, please reach out. You can't find this sort of opportunity in very many places.

We're hiring engineers (web, mobile, data science), product designers, a community manager, and more. Oh, and if you want to have a great summer (or fall or spring) building real features for real users, we're hiring interns too.

Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers directly (say you saw us on HN!) or feel free to email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org with any questions.

[1]: http://derandomized.com/post/51729670543/khan-academy-machin...

[2]: http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...
Report: Florida CB Purifoy will enter NFL draft
Yes, 100% agreed, we had the same here in Brazil from June to November:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_protests_in_Brazil

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/brazil-protests-expand-to-over-o...