skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The care.data program was also the subject of an editorial in this week's issue of Nature [0]

Ross Anderson has a blog post with links to more details [1], including a PDF of how the patient information leaflet 'should really have been drafted' [2] (quite different to how it was - [3]).

[0] http://www.nature.com/news/power-to-the-people-1.14505

[1] http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/01/08/opting-out-of-...

[2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/caredata_trifold.pdf

[3] http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/records/healthrecords/Do...
There are some Muslim leaders that express disturbing things as well. Once again, this does not make them the voice of mainstream Islam. If you actually visit a large men's rights community, like http://reddit.com/r/mensrights, you'll find that some women participate in discussion as well and the men are not the rape-happy bugaboos that many paint MRAs in general to be.
Regarding social construction, no I haven't heard of it yet. I will take a look at that. Thank you.

I think we have reached a good discussion here. I do agree with you on "getting every help" they need, except, I just don't think it's a good idea to call for "hire more women" (some people literally turn having more women in tech into hiring more women). We are all for a better world.
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Security in Europe? We've had groups taking over unmanned gas stations and cash machines with our 'secure' pin. Their latest method of attack: Stand in line and spot the pin-code (just 4 numbers). Distract the person when the machine is about to give back their card and swap it for another card (a dummy that looks like it's theirs, nobody reads the card anyway). They now have your PIN and your card. With the card and the PIN they access your bank- and savings accounts. The target doesn't know it until they check their account (usually after some days). The bank will not block large transfers of money and won't notify you.

What could the bank do? Well they already have my cellphone number. A SMS with you're about to transfer XXX to bank account YYYY would be nice. Or a MAC-adress savety? Allow me to add machines the way Apple does with their iPhone. Instantly block all other machines.

Edit: Solutions
I think a lot of these things get idolized far more outside their native culture. In Vienna schnitzel is just a food; likewise sushi in Japan.
OK, I'll bite. Please tell me what exactly your problem was.
To be honest I haven't noticed it being sluggish, except when loading a 10 tabs when waking from hibernate. These days Chrome chokes with same amount of tabs that FF deals with easily.

Chrome does sometimes win with the JS demos (mainly that 3D period table demo).
cssmania.com features heaps of site designs.
I'm amazed that someone signed up for HN to make this comment.
Sure, with a title "I'm a Female who codes" people have certain expectations. What's so strange about a female who codes?
Are you kidding? Nicotine is extremely addictive. What are you comparing it to as 'mild'?
The difference is we don't see Snowden complaining about Russia even though he lives here.
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Except several people have shown how to de-anonomyse the data.
I love my country in spite of what our government has done to it in recent decades. I do not support the majority of dollars the US government spends, but feel powerless to effect change.

I resent paying for foreign wars I don't agree with, for secretive government agencies that unnecessarily pry into our private lives, and for ridiculous departments like the DHS which are largely ineffective and throw money away.

I would love to pay more for public education and a public healthcare system. I would love to pay more for innovative, effective solutions to poverty and homelessness. I'm happy to pay for the maintenance of our roads and for services like police and fire departments and public libraries.

Unfortunately, there's no good way for me to express this preference. All viable political candidates at the national level want to spend money on too many things I do not want for the voting apparatus to be of any help here.

So I sit back and grudgingly pay my taxes, hoping that people of like mind but with more political acumen and drive than I have will be able to make sense of the mess eventually.
Thermodynamics was never my favourite subject, but I suspect what happens is that the water boiling at the lower temperature created a higher pressure within the kettle (hence the screaming noise as pressure escapes the small nozzle), allowing the water to heat up to 100degC, and also the bimetallic strip.
Earlier a HN front page post about a startup entrepreneur who's a woman, and now a post about entrepreneur who are French. Can't wait for the posts about entrepreneurs who are blonde, or muslims, or wearing green shirts.

Bottom line: I don't get why "I am xxxxx and I'm an entrepreneur" is relevant at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
I appreciate it! For your app idea, if there's anything that fits into hike.io's domain and you want to discuss it, feel free to shoot me an email.
maybe he doesn't want anyone else to have physical access (for security.
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Oh hey look the top story is someone "cherry-picking" a paragraph from an article one person wrote, about rape. Glad I took the time to visit
It's not exactly a tax deduction though... In the UK, for example, charitable donations are 'tax free' effectively, since the recipient will recieve an extra amount based on the marginal income tax rate you are paying. The only beneficiary here is the charity, and only if you make an explicit donation from your after-tax income. It's not like the government is allowing you to choose to redirect the tax you're due to charity. In the US, I believe the situation is similar.
>>I however think that the schooling system needs to start including computer science subjects

No amount of teaching CS subjects to kids will ever get them hooked to programming. Because in their case, most kids think programming is synonymous with math and they hate it with a passion.

Instead of teaching them sorting and Big-O, which are nothing but math in different forms what we need to teach kids is a taste for building. It can be as simple as a building complex models with lego, to encouraging them to take part in science exhibitions.

Here in India we had a subject called SUPW(Socially useful productive work). One of the projects I did was to build a mat with cigarette packets. Stuff like that help kids 'get into the zone' or 'get hooked' to productive/creative projects. They can slowly graduate to programming as they start dealing with complex projects.
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I disagree, not just on this issue, but in general. I think academic education should be more the learning and less training - teach creativity, abstract thinking, curiosity, thinking out-of-the-box, ... The student's then become faster learners of the more mundane things, because they have a better mental abstraction framework, and can learn the things that are required on the job starting to work on the job!
It's almost as if movements in general - feminism and the men's rights movement included - are prone to partisan sensationalism.
The data gets held in N3 which is an entirely separate system/network, and has a much higher set of standards than UKDS would largely be used to using. HSCIC are well used to doing this as well.
Thanks Woz for taking the time to comment!
A dictionary definition can get to the heart of cunning, especially the core of deceit.

On the other hand, I think it's nearly impossible to define intelligence. "Smarter than" as a working definition at least focuses the discussion on the metrics and implicit assumptions. There's Jobs' famous line, "Computers are like a bicycle for the mind," which implies that intelligence has a deterministic component to it. At the same time intelligence seems to describe the indescribable breakthrough moments as well.

Intelligence is sometimes the best part of cunning (or rather execution, without the deceit).

Cunning is limited by its own constructions. Mendacem memorem esse oportet [1] A liar should have a good memory – it requires carefulness that I think is wasteful in a lot of situations. But if you're good at it, chances are you are successful in a lot of other ways too.

[1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quintilian
"The "smoke" from e-cigarettes is just vapour"

No it's not. "The levels of the toxicants were 9–450 times lower than in cigarette smoke"

http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/03/05/tobac...
What's your point? That someone can get his/her card stolen? And that a PIN might be seen by an observer?

That's still orders of magnitude better than 'No PIN'. And frankly, if you allow others to see your PIN you are not properly educated by your bank (I sometimes see elderly people do that and they get a pass from me) or reckless/careless (in which case I have no sympathy).

Of course attack vectors exist. They always do. This very site talked about card skimmers a couple of times for example, which copy the magnetic stripe and record the PIN at the same time. As soon as you mix social engineering/clever people in the mix you have boundless opportunities. But that's a different terrain, attacking the person in front of the ATM and not the technology.

In reply to your potential solutions: That 'Send SMS to phone' is implemented over here - I get my transaction codes for my mobile banking site via SMS and the message specifically restates amount and target before the TAN itself.
Probably. Certainly my employer encourages us to run our own ads (up to a certain monthly budget) so that we're using the product and can see what needs to be improved.
I didn't. Your logic is built on the fallacy that the following are independent:

> An OS kernel, drivers, a browser (with a JavaScript compiler), a Java VM, all the applications (each one developed independently).

They aren't. The kernel and the drivers can't be built in parallel. You can only build the browser after you build the kernel and the driver (best-case scenario you can make the OS POSIX-compliant and begin to develop some of the userspace along, on another POSIX-compliant OS, but it's not trivial and there will be additional porting effort no matter what). Ditto for JVM, and you will have additional integration effort between the JVM and the browser.
A really good kettle as used by the British Army costs around £4.2 million - even comes with the ability to move around and shoot things:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2#Crew_and_accommoda...
This should be solved by now. It broke under "so many" visits and during some seconds i accidentally some javascript.
It is reactionary, i.e. its MO is to paint "feminism" as monolithic and dangerous. If these men really cared about gender inequality and the problems they face as men, they would see that many branches of feminism, like radical feminism, offers solutions where everyone comes out the winner. But that's not what "men's rights" is for.

This is coming from a man who has learned a lot by listening to women instead of constructing male echo chambers.
Great > more electrics > less demand for petrol > lower petrol prices for us non-hipsters
Ask HN: What tools are out there for working with Tumblr more efficiently?
I'm a heavy Tumblr user, running a number of sites on the platform - one of which continues to be quite popular. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has similar problems to me and if they've found or created any tools for making the job of managing and running these sites easier.

In particular, I'm looking for assistance with managing submissions and drafts (of which I now have close to 2,000) in a multi-user environment. Sadly, Tumblr isn't quite as flexible as WordPress (for example) when it comes to collaborating on a blog (e.g. non-admins can't see submissions, no way to search submissions etc etc).
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I know correlation is not causation, but one has to put side by side the NAFTA treaty and Mexico City's transformation since the 1980s. And on a more anecdotal note, and also as a +1 for international free trade and a freer job market, there's the story of my brother who was raised by my paternal grand-parents in a mountainous village in the Carpathians.

He actually lived on raising cows and selling home-made palinka until a couple of years ago, he had never been abroad. But then he managed to get a job as a lorry driver and got to see half of Europe as a bonus, and he actually made decent money. He used part of that money to buy an American-branded car manufactured in Germany (his first ever car) and a Taiwanese-branded laptop manufactured God-knows-where (his first ever computer, and he's 35). But then I got to read a letter sent to the Financial Times a couple of weeks ago where some Swedish lorry-drivers' representative was complaining of an "unfair" jobs market in his field of work (meaning East-European transport companies like the one my brother is working for) which got me to worry that my brother's prospects will not be so bright anymore.
I'm confused; "feminism" isn't a singular movement at all
I think, for this particular exemple, this is due to the recent rise in French bashing in a lot of British and American medias.

That included some nuggets such as “The best thinkers in France have left the country. What is now left is mediocrity.”

So I guess, we, French, have decided to fight back all of this and prove them wrong.

Granted, this article is about expatriates, so one could think it is proving the quote right, but I still think this goes in the general direction of fighting back the partiality of all those articles.
Since this became such a public debate issue in Europe, I've actually more or less landed on the idea that maybe corporate taxes (taxing profits) are a lost battle. The only way to really combat it is for different countries to collude and perhaps sanction tax havens. Even then, I doubt they will be able to raise much tax.

Modern tax systems are diverse by design: sales tax/VAT. Excise/sin taxes, income taxes, CGT, employer taxes, etc. The mix is designed to reduce volatility. It's also designed to max out tax revenue while avoid damaging the economy by discouraging things like labour, savings, or other important activities too much. The effective maximum revenue for a country to collect in taxes appears to be somewhere in the 35%-45% of GDP range. After that diminishing returns on taxes kick in. Most euro countries are taxing (or rather spending) near that max. So, they can't afford to let corporate taxes.

Problem is that corporate tax is unavoidably problematic. Large multinationals can arrange their activities (not just their paperwork) depending on taxes. I doubt an single country want to create a tax the ensures large companies avoid setting up local subsidiaries within their borders. The end result is a different set of rules for the large and/or sophisticated that is more lenient than the rules on small companies.

Personally, I would rather see corporate tax abolished than see it applied in such a way that it discriminates against small companies.
Ask HN: What language should I develop in?
I'm currently working on an idea for a community management app and as I'm not technical. I was wondering what the pros and cons are of developing in a certain language. Languages that have been recommended so far include; Ruby, PHP and Python.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

If you're interested, here's the app I'm developing: http://getnudge.co/
> What "new features" exactly, and how do they have a "positive impact" on the end user?

You've got to be joking? Even if it's true that you mostly use websites that don't make use of new features, then you are extremely unrepresentative. Anyway, even simple content-driven sites like Wikipedia make use of a lot of HTML5 stuff now in ways that aren't necessarily obvious to users. And although much of that stuff could theoretically be made to work in older browsers, it's not viable to do that because it would be prohibitively expensive to maintain. So not as much good stuff could get built. That's how end users benefit.
The Conservatives are right leaning from a European perspective and compared to most of the UK governments since the war.

From an American perspective they are more akin to the Democrats: they support gay marriage, support legal abortion, don't support reintroducing the death penalty, support public health care (to some extent), generally support public education, do at least claim to accept that environmental issues are a concern (although we do have an environment secretary who denies climate changes science…). They support giving benefits to at least certain groups in society (pensioners, land owners) and accept the need to provide some level of support for the disabled, unemployed, single parents and so on. They made commitments to maintaining the level of foreign aid. For all their talk of pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights they have not actually done so. So they have a lot of policies that your typical Republican would be fairly disgusted by.

I wouldn't vote for them myself of course…
Actually depth perception is possible with only one view-port. Both my eyes work (for varying definitions of "work") but they don't work together very well (tests show I only tend to use one at a time, which one gets control depending on the location of the object(s) I'm trying to focus on and how tired I am) and I can perceive depth just not quite as well.

The main clue the brain uses for depth perception on top of the binocular input (of instead of the binocular input for those who don't have it) is parallax effects gleaned from moving objects within the view passing behind each other. On top of that comes knowledge of the world (how big things should be relative to each other) though that is very easily fooled.

On top of that the perception of parallax exploited further by moving your head. Ever seen a cat size up a jump is isn't entirely confident with? You seem them bob their heap up and down a bit giving them extra parallax clues effectively extended the effect of multi-eye vision into a second degree of freedom. This effect can be used by single ey eby moving the head more.

Binocular vision can help 3D perception a lot, which is why most creatures use it, but it is far from the be-all and end-all of it.
I think you need some kind of reputation/review system in place. I used to do 8-9 hrs hikes and in that case you need to know the new guy won't start screaming in pain after 4 hrs.

Also, most of the hikers are in a group, there should be a way to create a group tied to a specific area.

Finally, you should think of something better than donations to keep this going, because potentially it can go very far. The thing is you are hosting pictures, can't you use an external provider (flikr, picasa)? Otherwise, if you reach an important size (and for this site, you have to), even a supporter budge (a la couchsurfing) for $5 a year could bring you nice revenues.
I can't speak to the other posts, but as the author of this post, the intrigue for me is that the common thread, their country of Origin, makes a big statement about France's ability to educate and product entrepreneurs.

There is also a subtle undertone (I chose not to dive into it in the article, as it's been discussed in depth elsewhere) about the fact that many of France's most successful citizens found their success outside of France, suggesting that, while the French system produces a consistent flow of intelligent entrepreneurs (a keystone of a healthy startup ecosystem), it fails to create an environment in which those entrepreneurs feel they can succeed.
> Honestly, tea geeks, tea is just tea.

Bagged tea is shit tea. Good tea doesn't cost a large sum of money. Good tea tastes better if you don't burn it. Before you ask - yes I'm an Englishman ;)
> All I can find is that it promotes tumor growth if the tumor is already there but doesn't cause them by itself.

What's the carcinogen in chewing tobacco?

Also, the idea "it's only harmful if cancer is already present" can be weak; consider prostate cancer, which is present in all men.
Great response, Gmo!

Indeed, while it doesn't entirely combat the 'bashing' - some of the bashing is due, so we can't expect to entirely reject all criticism - it does put a stick in the bicycle wheel of the "France doesn't have a word for entrepreneur" banter.
if there are enough bids out there, you could do everything more or less instantaneously. I doublt there are 700kBTC worth of bids out there, but probably $20k
> (Oh I'm sorry, did I just libel Her Majesty's judicial system? How careless of me. I should watch what I write).

Look, this is getting old. We had a massive libel reform which, while not as revolutionary as many people wanted, still made significant changes, and you are doing the thousands of people that worked hard to make that happen a giant disservice. Please read up on the status quo before making cheap jabs.
So cool!
It's something similar to what we have built at Metwit:

http://weatherguru.metwit.com/
based on Foursquare API + Metwit weather API.

Any feedback? http://hiking.metwit.com/

Thanks!
Well, that really depends on what you consider a price: if a law prevents a landlord from renting to the tenant offering them the most money, they have to decide on the basis of some other criterion. In SF, you apparently had people showing up to open houses offering to pay the (legally stipulated) rent a year in advance. (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary NB: the author is apparently sympathetic to rent control) Moving a year's worth of future rent up to the present costs money in the form of interest rates, and is a cost. Landlords in rent-controlled units are notorious for dragging their feet on repairs, since the tenant is unlikely to look elsewhere and even if so, another occupant will always be ready to take over the lease. Just searching for a place in a rent-controlled district takes more time. All of these are costs, arising from the fundamental fact that if you make it illegal to allocate a resource on the basis of price, you still have to allocate it some other way.

You shouldn't be worried about rent control failing to function as a price ceiling-- you should be worried about it functioning exactly as a price ceiling.
Exactly. If you are trying to hide such information from insurance companies that would help them better understand your risks, that is unfair to insurance companies. That is Insurance fraud.
You can achieve any temperature with a mix of boiling and cold water. A $0.99 food thermometer will work just fine for that. After a while, you should know what the proper proportions are.

Really, this is an overengineered solution.
Will-to-power isn't ugly in of itself. It's what you do with it that counts. You can use it to support the weak and oppressed, you can use it to insure yourself and your loved ones (and more!) from damaging external stressors.

Everybody wants more power, nobody wants less. Also, power-over-yourself is the most fundamental thing about will-to-power (in an enlightened sense).

There's no point getting power over others if you have no power over yourself- then it's merely your appetites that have power over others, not you. As Da Vinci put, no man can have any dominion greater or lesser than over himself.
My life insurance quote raised from £15p/m to £45 due to previous depression and my BMI being too low. So yeah, they take it into consideration.
Include what you use (C++)
For we Brits, tea is generally the dust of what was once half-decent tea, bagged up and swaddled in obscene amounts of milk and sugar. Many of us don't know anything other than that!
With revenue that is below your spending needs, how do you decide if you should invest more work into the product or move to something else?
> In Germany the 2002 and 2003 tax raises have been used for funding the War on Terror

Citation please!