skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Not taking so seriously my career.
- Practicing a sport, in my case swimming.
It's based on the number of Google search results.

The concept is that the more results something has -> more mentions by people -> more popular.
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Well we know how much your principles are worth.

Secondly, I've done the same move and it cost £16 to migrate (regrade was required as it was on LLU). I spend £55/month and for that I get the line rental, 300Gb. It's a tiny proportion of my income for a service. I pay way more for gas/electricity.

My house has 3 children, a wife, 3 iPads, an XBox 360, Three laptops, two wifi connected televisions, 2 servers and a NAS. I barely touch 100Gb.

It's fine.
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Altough strange, it might be because in Spain many of the developers work for consultancy firms with Up or Out policy, so once devs get experience jump to the management level.
wpa-psk where everyone shares one password and can sniff others' traffic.

Or wpa2 + radius where each user has user and password.

http://www.privacywonk.net/2010/10/security-how-to-wpa2-ente...
Edward Snowden, undoubtly
There's no way to geolocate bitcoin transactions. Blockchain itself doesn't store IP addressees. Well-connected nodes like blockchain.info can only detect the IP address of a node that was first to relay a transaction to their (blockchain.info's) node. That might be IP of the original sender, but most likely it's not. Most of the time it's either another well-connected node or some online wallet.

Explaination: http://millybitcoin.com/is-ip-address-associated-with-transa...
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Octave?
Yes they do. The internet isn't a simple star based network where every access point can be controlled. It's a dynamic system (powered by BGP). Router advertisments can fuck up any content filtering instantly if desired.

Also read their policy here:

http://aaisp.net/kb-broadband-realinternet.html

DPI is impossible on multiple tier 1 line level unless the laws of physics have suddenly changed.
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Has it occurred to anyone else that 23andMe is possibly playing a PR game here? I find it hard to believe that they and their lawyers thought they could ignore the FDA for months. I never heard of the company before yesterday and now I'm seeing them everywhere.
The worst thing about this award is that it gives them more money to launch even more patent lawsuits against more companies.
There is a problem with the Access-Control-Allow-Origin
I see this is being penalised already >:-D
I instinctively reached for the 'share' button. Glad I read TFA just before I shared this, because there is no way the source says that Cameron's Net Nanny is being used to block extremist sites. All it says is that extremist sites have been taken down. That's not good, nor is it necessarily better, but let's at least be accurate, rather than try to spin this.
No. Capitalism clearly won. But Capitalism is not Freedom, not democracy and is not the rule of the law. Capitalism is a way to conduct business by letting people posess the means of production, and the capital to produce as well.

It was not only rhetoric that in the fight between USA and UDSSR, there was a fight between freedom and authority. But mainly, it was a fight between different ways to regulate the means of production. Capitalism won, but that does not mean that freedom, democracy and the rule of the law will survive that victory.

China shows that you can have a capitalst economy in a (not a real one, but wanting to be) communist country.
What is this? The second post in short order making up stuff about Camerons statements about blocking.

I detest Cameron, but nobody is served by making up stuff like this - there's more than enough objectionable stuff in actual quotes from him.

The only mention of "extremist narrative" says this:

> The Prime Minister: We have put in place some of the toughest controls that one can possibly have within a democratic Government, and the TPIMs are obviously one part of that. We have had repeated meetings of the extremism task force—it met again yesterday—setting out a whole series of steps that we will take to counter the extremist narrative, including by blocking online sites. Now that I have the opportunity, let me praise Facebook for yesterday reversing the decision it took about the showing of beheading videos online. We will take all these steps and many more to keep our country safe.

It does not anywhere indicates that the much heralded (and vastly overdramatised) porn filter has any role in this.

It is possible Cameron is up to something. It is also possible he is talking about going to court and getting a court order to take down specific sites. And quite likely, that, much like his "porn filter", it is a bunch of hot air.
Ask HN Googlers: Why is Drive document sharing for Google Domains broken?
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/26800/google-drive-share-with-my-apps-workgroup-without-having-to-add-them-manually

If you share a document with "everyone in your organization" it is not visible to them by default. This has apparently been broken for something like 5 years.
Latest Chrome on Windows here.

I see the globe and hear the music but I don't see transactions.

I'd recommend disabling the music load for now while HN hits it. It will save on some unnecessary traffic. You can always re-enable it again in a few days.
Note that the linked text does not actually support the claim in the title as of writing.
The charges in Sweden sound rather politically motivated, especially given the revelations about Sweden's place in the whole international NSA spying scandal...

http://www.thelocal.se/20130906/50102
That's not a sufficient reason for making up unsupported titles.
Ask HN: Should Communications Laundering be a crime?
Should constitutionally 'free' speech include a provision or carve-out for anonymous communication? If communication can never be anonymous can it ever truly be private? If its never truly private can it ever be free? Shoud the 4th amendment be read to protect a right to private speech?
It is an approximation. The IP addresses are taken from the nearest relays of each of the transactions. See : https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions.
Then one of your guests brings bedbugs and the nightmare begins.
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Nuclear power + desalination. It's expensive, but a whole lot less expensive than war.
...the population the most docile.

If that is true, then surely we need protection from 'extremism' because we are so easily lead. ;)
There's also a couple of countries such as France where you have to pay for the life assurance, retirement and so on. (which is deduced from your salary)

I don't think these stats consider that for countries like USA where you have to pay your own assurance, save for your retirement... (which is not deduced from your salary)
Cameron was answering in response to the following question

> Paul Goggins (Wythenshawe and Sale East) (Lab): Two weeks ago, the head of the Security Service warned about the extent of Islamist extremism. This week, two individuals have been charged with serious terrorist offences. What is the Prime Minister going to do in January when, as a result of his Government’s legislation, some of those whom the Home Secretary has judged to pose the greatest threat to our security are released from the provisions of their terrorism prevention and investigation measures?

> The Prime Minister: We have put in place some of the toughest controls that one can possibly have within a democratic Government, and the TPIMs are obviously one part of that. We have had repeated meetings of the extremism task force—it met again yesterday—setting out a whole series of steps that we will take to counter the extremist narrative, including by blocking online sites. Now that I have the opportunity, let me praise Facebook for yesterday reversing the decision it took about the showing of beheading videos online. We will take all these steps and many more to keep our country safe.

Because of the nature of Prime Minister's Questions, it can't be concluded that this is going to become legislation. It shouldn't be a surprise that the government wants to do, or is talking about doing this.
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Indeed. There's no evidence I've seen which shows the UK is subject to more surveillance than the US. Grainy, mostly privately-owned CCTV is a complete irrelevance in comparison to the digital/online monitoring which has recently come to light.
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The class divide is indeed huge, but I'm having trouble following some of the article's logic. The article seems to be saying that the upper class are the capitalists that have founded successful companies, and the middle class are all the engineers, and the lower class are the rest of society. A lot of the class divide seems to be most evident in housing costs.

Where do these $1 million tract house valuations come from, if the middle class engineers can't afford to buy them? It would appear that they're mostly owned by people that have been living in the area for the past 20 years? And because people have not moved, even though they are apparently no longer in the middle class, the supply has been constrained and the few houses that do go on the market go for extremely large amounts of money.

Anyway, I'm not sure what to make of the article. There are troubling comparisons, and glimpses at incredible wealth, but the parts of the article don't seem to fit together very well into a picture of what's going on.
Octave is close enough to Matlab to have inherited most of its flaws, yet not close enough to be a complete drop-in replacement. Julia, while obviously inspired by Matlab, is not attempting any sort of comparability, and thus can fix flaws and be a better language.

Octave, in my opinion, should be relegated to (trying to) run legacy Matlab code, while Julia or Numpy should be the first choice for any new code.
Cowen bluntly predicted what he called “wage polarization.” The increasing ability of computers to perform ordinary tasks will inexorably transform America into an income oligarchy in which the top 15 percent of people—with skills “that are a complement to the computer”—will enjoy “cheery” labor-market prospects and soaring incomes, while the bottom 85 percent, that is to say, 267 million out of America’s 315 million people, will be lucky to find Walmart-level jobs or scrape together marginal “freelance” livings running $25-a-pop errands for their betters via TaskRabbit (say, picking up and delivering a pair of designer shoes from Nordstrom) or renting out their spare bedrooms (if they have any) to overnight lodgers via Airbnb. That is, if they’ll be working at all. “There are many other historical periods, including medieval times, where inequality is high, upward mobility is fairly low, and the social order is fairly stable, even if we as moderns find some aspects of that order objectionable,” Cowen writes in his new book.

In other words, what is coming is the “new feudalism,” a phrase coined by Chapman University urban studies professor Joel Kotkin, a prolific media presence whose New Geography website is an outlet for the trend’s most vocal critics. “It’s a weird Upstairs, Downstairs world in which there’s the gentry, and the role for everybody else is to be their servants,” Kotkin said in a telephone interview. “The agenda of the gentry is to force the working class to live in apartments for the rest of their lives and be serfs. But there’s a weird cognitive dissonance. Everyone who says people ought to be living in apartments actually lives in gigantic houses or has multiple houses.”

========================================

So? Hypocrisy is hardly a new phenomenon. People really are ought to be living in apartments, even if it is suggested as part of some supposed agenda. I really don't understand all the anxiety that pops up on HN every once in a while with regard to some imaginary utopia that is decades away if it will ever come at all - Inequality is entirely secondary to the Median, the article describes a high quality of life all around with the upper echelons of society a sort of step-function above "everybody else". That's supposed to be horrible?

What about the inequality between the US and the rest of the world? I guess hypocrisy is not exclusive to any one tax bracket either.
What an utterly daft mix of hate-backed nonsense and false statements.

"all they want is TV and quite often dole money."

Please, take your small mind elsewhere.
If someone wants a 'weekend project': an interesting browser plugin would be one that undoes the effect of the penalties and reorders the page accordingly, it could even allow the user to choose the level of penalties enforced against stories in their view in case they did want some to disappear off the front page.
I'm willing to bet the wording was picked very carefully to split this exact hair.

Automated systems get their block lists from investigations.
Using your non-dominant hand challenges the brain to coordinate a new movement. The brain is not an expert in this new movement. It has to work hard to get it right and does a bad job initially. Since it's bad at it, you have to stick with it to complete the movement. It takes longer, and during the process you have an urge to drop it and continue with the dominant hand.

Fighting off this urge and continuing to use the non-dominand hand at something you are bad at improves self-control. You put yourself in a position where you don't quit when something works poorly for you. You make a habit of sticking with things to get better. It's worth cultivating habits that get you exploring things you're bad at.

I admit shaving with the non-dominand hand gets dangerous. But you can witness this effect by trying something simpler like stirring a glass of milk or brushing your teeth.
That doesn't make it any better.
it's surprisingly good. it feels much more like a general language than matlab does. i have been using it privately as a "faster python" and have been very happy with it (but for work that is arguably still mathematical in nature - generating procedural art and looking at block ciphers).

in fact, i didn't realise it was intended to be a matlab replacement at first. i just looked at the specs and thought it looked interesting (i still haven't used the interactive dohickey (ijulia)). if you come to it from that pov, the only thing that seems odd is the 1-based indexing (and if you're old enough to have used fortran then even that doesn't feel so strange).
"Our first priority is to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism." There's the problem. Even by those protesting sweeping NSA collection, we're obsessed with this.

When the axis powers threatened to plunge the world into 1000 years of darkness, the only thing we had to fear is fear itself, now - that's not good enough - we must fear the unending threat of terrorism. Letting the NSA run wild is a logical result from this mentality.
Thanks so much for your thoughts - this is extremely helpful as I'm trying to find balance with remote work.
It's no so much that AAISP are expensive, rather that's the going rate for a true Internet connection these days.

I'm with Goscomb.net, native IPv6, proper unhampered Internet connectivity and clueful admins ( they did an rDNS for me in five minutes ) but unlike AAISP they don't use metered billing, but capped throughput. Might be worth checking if that works better for you.

How much extra is your VPS costing per month? Be sure to add that onto your Sky cost assessment.
Despite being individual countries with different characteristics, they are all equally docile. Coming originally from Scotland, I can tell you the primary interest is in events affecting Rangers or Celtic football [soccer to North Americans] clubs. Surveillance ? Only of interest if it gives more details on what the favoured football club is doing. Politics is, by definition, saying how much you hate Margaret Thatcher - her death did nothing to diminish the constant blame attached to her despite it being more than 20 years since she was UK Prime Minister. The monotonous regularity would be a source of humour if it were not for the fact these are supposed to be serious people leading a country forward to independence on the world stage.

Any spying on citizens in the UK is universal - the component countries do not make a difference to that in any way. CCTV, number plate cameras etc. are all present and operate universal surveillance throughout the UK. Nowhere is there any sizeable objection to it - especially since "only people with something to hide would object to the monitoring".

UK residents would do well to heed the words of Benjamin Franklin :

"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"

Perhaps we would all benefit from remembering the US Founding Fathers who had railed against the rot of the UK by 1776 - it is amazing how much resonance their words have today and how much their meaning has been lost even to Americans who should know better.
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Default url doesn't function properly here as well, but I did find a cat. Can you find it too?

craftfortress link works fine
I know, as a child I was always chasing magazines blowing in the wind just in case they were pornographic. You just don't see kids doing that these days.
This seems like a strange choice to me, the only reason for choosing Julia seems to be for speed but when doing any of these courses I can't see speed being much of an issue but rather the ability to leverage existing code and help available online and offline to learn the core mechanics of numerical programming.

In my opinion Julia is great but still a bit immature.
If we are coming up with more and more elaborate theories what's to stop the NSA sending a nanobot into the embassy to kill Assange?
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One of the women was singing Assange's praise on Twitter the days before, and it seems she only got upset once she found out he'd slept with another woman during his stay. Even then, the question was initially just about getting him tested for STDs, as it was an overzealous prosecutor who turned it into a rape case.

So it seems like it wasn't an NSA plant, but rather, a case of a politicized investigation over a narcissist sleeping with two adoring fans, tinged by Swedish institutional feminism, which the US then ran with. We already know the US has wound Sweden around its fingers.
I was under the impression the statistics show that even negating private CCTV we have more cameras than every other nation and capital city.

Also when I was there only 5 years ago they started to build cameras that could speak to people on the street to issue fines on the spot for littering or being out of school, remotely.

Also road cameras were being deployed that issued automatic fines if the driver was eating or drinking in the car.

I have never seen that level of surveillance anywhere else in the world.
Someone with sufficient karma should take the results here and re-post this as a poll.
Elon Musk, in my opinion. He is my modern day hero.
I always thought of it as an OR, because my definition of each differs from the author's. My definitions:

Introverts are drained by social activity.
Extroverts are energized by social activity.

Your type then drives your behavior, if you are near one of the ends of the spectrum. Extroverts will tend to be more outgoing because it is what energizes them. Introverts will tend to be less so, because they are drained by social activity and need time to recharge with solitary activities.
You think there's no difference between "exists" and "planned to exist"?

Thank you very much for making me realise I am wasting my time reading Hacker News comments.
In my view, the enjoyment of human interaction is not inconsistent with the enjoyment of solitary activities, even if you can't do both at the same time. A programmer doesn't have to be an introvert. I know several good programmers, including myself, who are quite outgoing.

What's more, "forcing" me to choose sides, and then using it for some sort of employment decision, will result in a mistake.

Maybe there should be two scales, where it's more credible that there are actual opposites:

1. Enjoys group activity, or doesn't.

2. Enjoys activities involving concentration, or doesn't.
Exactly. Being so easy to get, it has lost its charm.
Well I'm glad you are so confident that HM government are going to protect your children with a concept of "extremism" that coincides with your own. And it's too bad you can't monitor or guide your own children's internet exposure, or settle for an optional filter from the ISP or software.

What about your neighbors, though? Adults have a legitimate interest in learning what is going on in the world, and reviewing the whole range of opinion. If A is entitled to block B's access to communications that A disapproves, is B then entitled to block A as well? Can you not imagine any harm from living in a mental bubble of only what the government wants you to think?
You could argue it was my location, however I did get around quite a bit. This is from observation and will never be assembled into statistics.

I admit it is from my own observations and I may have missed all the good apples.
Well, interesting data but the author should really give http://tabcloseddidntread.com a visit.
> ... if a person is predominantly shy and reticent in
> most social situations then we're justified in calling
> them an introvert.

Sure, just understand that you're using the colloquial definition of "introvert" (a synonym for "shy") and not the technical definition, as developed for the Meyers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator:

"People who prefer extraversion draw energy from
action: they tend to act, then reflect, then act
further. If they are inactive, their motivation
tends to decline. To rebuild their energy, extraverts
need breaks from time spent in reflection. Conversely,
those who prefer introversion "expend" energy through
action: they prefer to reflect, then act, then reflect
again. To rebuild their energy, introverts need quiet
time alone, away from activity."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Att...
Samsung already has a weapons manufacturing arm. Your dystopian nightmare of a future may not be so far off!
At some point over the past 2 years HN has stopped being my friend. The folks here? Great people. Very happy to have gotten to know many of them. But the system itself? Not so much.

People expect machines they interact with to behave in some kind of logical manner. After 2 or 3 times of submitting an article that HN has traditionally liked -- and watching it tank -- just not that motivated to submit more. After submitting my own articles, having people stop me in the hall and tell me they liked it and voted up for it on HN, only to see it have no votes? Not so motivated to submit more. After the tenth conversation about how people expect HN to act one way and instead it acts another? Not so crazy about it.

I think the problem here is that PG wants folks to participate, but only to a certain extent. People want to interact with the system, but on some kind of mutually-fair terms. I'm not sure PG's goals line up with the average user any more. There are good reasons for this, and I'm not trying to trash the entire effort. It's just that this is a tough problem. I don't think you can code your way out of dealing with messy human issues at scale. If you could, we'd all be managed by computers in 50 years, and that's not a future I would wish for my children.