skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia agrees with you:

On the "appointed day", 5 July 1948, having overcome political opposition from both the Conservative Party and from within his own party, and after a dramatic showdown with the British Medical Association, which had threatened to derail the National Health Service scheme before it had even begun, as medical practitioners continued to withhold their support just months before the launch of the service, Bevan's National Health Service Act of 1946 came into force. After 18 months of ongoing dispute between the Ministry of Health and the BMA, Bevan finally managed to win over the support of the vast majority of the medical profession by offering a couple of minor concessions, but without compromising on the fundamental principles of his NHS proposals. Bevan later gave the famous quote that, in order to broker the deal, he had "stuffed their mouths with gold".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
>Androids is a Linux computer.
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>Learning linux is vital - because Linux runs everywhere, and almost everything!

Is using Android really your idea of learning Linux? iOS is a Unix variant too. Do you really think those facts are in any way relevant to the learning experience of children using them? That's pure technological partisanship, based on an agenda that has nothing whatever to do with education.
> Yes it probably is an overkill to understand how a db parses an actual SQL

Yes, I've thought that, too, but it turns out that, beyond a certain relatively low level of complexity, that's a great way to produce SQL queries which take a half hour to complete.

> but helpful to understand how an ORM converts to a SQL query.

Certainly, because there's a degree of complexity beyond which your ORM's going to start getting pathological and you're going to have to fall back on querying the database directly, which see point one.
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> Well, there are some ground rules--you can't just walk around naked all of the time [...]

That "all of the time" part is interesting. Are there many places where it is OK to walk around naked some of the time?
Consider Clement Attlee, possibly the most influential PM of the 20th century (yes, even more so than Churchill or Thatcher) was fabulously uncharismatic being described by Thatcher as "all substance and no show":

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1194059/A-giant-ma...
Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing.
Bitcoin or Gold?
Exactly. I claim that someone's personal opinion on the author's coding skills IS irrelevant. We should concentrate on his _arguments_, not dismiss his arguments based on here-say about what he has or hasn't done.

He doesn't argue that HE writes good code, he discusses general topics.
There are thousands of applications that abstract normal people from the "HTTP". Knowing stuff is a great thing, but forcing people to learn stuff is something totally different.

Show kids how to build a webpage with HTTP and CSS and they will run for their lives. Maybe you can teach them how to configure any content manager making an effort in explain them how having a webpage can affect their lives and how can they prevent them (security, privacy...).

It is school guys, teach kids useful tools for their lives, don't bore them with hypes (I am purposely obviating the "brain" development thing).
http://www.thechocolatelabapps.com/flappy-bird-developer-say... Actual link.
When I said shallow, I exactly meant comments like this. What was the circumstances? How about 1974 Cypriot coup d'état by EOKA-B by the support of Greek military Junta? Nikos Samson's nice words about joining homeland? Death of hundreds of civilians? Sorry but nothing is as simple as it seems.
> Imagine where humanity could be today if we had used that approach right from the start and for every single product out there.

That is exactly the model Linux has offered for over two decades now. If it was such a good model, systems like Windows and MacOS should now be history.

But those proprietary systems still dominate.
From the website:

> Uses natural language processing based algorithm to find leads from the deep public web

How good's this? Y'all need to get your hands on a bloomberg terminal.
I hope you're making use of all the not-wasteful-for-your-area topics you learned in school: covalent bonds, subordinate clauses, electromagnetic induction, anatomy of reptiles...

There's plenty more people using HTTP than there are biologists in the world, you still get fed up all those subjects that don't suit your area. Why single out the ones that are mostly likely to be useful to anyone?
Broomberg and Chanarin's best photograph: Pussy Riot in 3D
Andaman sea - Thailand, Similans, Surins, Andaman & Nicobar isles.

One thing I forgot to mention are the jellies. Driving everyone mad, as a) they clog pumps and filters like you wouldn't believe and b) stinger suits are boring.
Nowadays in-browser Javascript is able to execute algorithms in under 1 second that would have taken tens of minutes or hours to compute in the late eighties. Back then, even a dumb spell-checker like that one implemented by Peter Norvig in Python, would have been problematic and was considered a major feat. If a software engineer from the eighties would travel forward in time, he'd be amazed that we are carrying super-computers in our pockets.
"...when an interviewer asked if he had any thoughts about the coming general election, replied simply: 'No.'"

I need to have a beer with this guy.
Tesla expands Supercharger Network in Europe
Yes. Lego, computers, electronic bits and kits to make, chemistry set, things to take apart, piles of technical books plus my father was a major clone PC importer and manufacturer for over a decade and our house was literally up to the ceiling with PC parts and software.

However, with none of that I think I'd have done the same thing.
This is why your smartphone battery has the life span of a fruit fly
Most of what she said was obvious, but there was one point that she got badly wrong: You can't really learn to code in a day. You can learn a few bits and pieces, what a variable is, what basic flow control is, displaying something on a screen. But that doesn't make you a coder. By implying that coding is something that can be done with an hour here and there, she's setting children up for failure.

If she wants to really have an effect on education and the digital skills we'll need children to grow up with she should be treating the subject of coding as a serious topic that deserves respect, time and a great deal of support from government and industry alike.
I've lived in three metro areas, and only one had significant choices in provider, and that was a decade ago, 2004. I had the choice of three cable providers, and I was just on the edge of a local ISP's service area so I was able to get a decent price and great service.

I lived in northern Bothell, in Seattle, and I had one ADSL provider (not even 'fast' DSL) and one cable provider to choose from. In the metro area I live in currently, I've had exactly one DSL and one cable provider, and I've moved across the city and the variety didn't change.
"The European Parliament is elected every five years by EU citizens."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
Money transferred on December 2013 took 22 days to reach my bank. Patience.
Erm no. Most movies are still filmed in 2D, and plenty of people still go to see 2D versions of "3D films" because they don't see the point in the 3D for that particular film, or in paying $20 to go and see it instead of the usual $10-11.

I go to the cinema, on average, about once a month. I don't even remember the last time I even noticed, or had to consider, whether to see a film in 3D.
Why can't they just appoint SPJ to lead this? He's already part of the Computing At Schools (CAS) organization. See: http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/index.php?id=about-us
Well, I'm glad about that. I guess I was the 'lost generation' - sure, it was BBC Micros and Acorns at primary, but we basically used them for Chuckie Egg and Lander respectively - no code. By the time I got to secondary, it was the 'Office Studies' era.

If it hadn't have been, I might have skipped the 7 year continental philosophy grad school detour. Ah well...

As for Linux in schools, my feeling would be that there should be a room or two of Linux boxes, and the rest should be Windows - simply because 90% of computer usage in schools, according to some statistics I just made up, consists of doing your homework double quick at breaktime or other mundane uses where it would be better if kids were working with an OS they recognise from home. People who want to do CS/code type subjects should be taught Linux, and it should be available to 'computer clubs' etc.
Scala Tutorial Through Katas: Tennis Game (Easy)
I'm not sure that the "business" category means what you or I expected it to mean. It's certainly nothing to do with being an entrepreneur - as I write this there are four articles:

DEA redacts tactic that's more secret than parallel construction

Jamaican Bobsledders Ride Dogecoin Into Olympics

Swiss police: Screen in Tesla cars is too large

Ask HN: What will you pay for?

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I guess maybe that last one could be somehow related but IDK. Seems that important things are missing from the categories (like entrepreneurship or running a business, which are not the same thing). In another comment on this thread, it was mentioned that these are auto-tagged - maybe they can train it a bit better. Those are, to me, off-topic for 2008 HN but right in the wheelhouse for 2014 HN.
Which EX is it (particularly the second last digit that indicates the model generation)? The first ones to get iPlayer actually use the MHEG system to deliver it so it is possibly less well supported by the BBC as that version of iPlayer only used on that year's Sony TVs and for Freesat and Freeview. I have a KDL-yyxXz23 which is used the next version of iPlayer which seems to work pretty well to me. The Amazon/Lovefilm service also works pretty well. Even newer Sony's get Netflix too I believe.

The Sony will wake up/turn on to the input it was turned off on so you could always supplement it with a recent internet TV box of some sort (Apple TV/Roku/Recent Sony Blu-ray/Recent Samsung Blu-ray...) whichever appeals to you.

I haven't evaluated recent models or competitors recently although I did buy an LG Blu-ray player/Freeview HD HDD recorder with internet features that not only probably had privacy leaks but also the usability was pretty catestrophic.

Disclaimer: I used to work in Sony TV Product Planning in Europe and did some of the business development for the internet services in Europe.
> This is essentialy the same as: Minister of health is not a surgeon.

Its more that she doesn't even know what a surgeon does but thinks you can train a surgeon up in a day.
Not sure if serious. First of all, 'professional'? In bitcoin?

Anyway, how does the pool know the address you gave it is a mtgox deposit address rather than a personal address of yours?
My suggestion is instead of chasing UA sniffing (which is a losing proposition), just give up on blocking "mobile" or any kind of browser.

FWIW my mobile browser is just as capable as my desktop and as long as you don't block zooming I can deal with an "unoptimized" layout.
This free app lets you go home early
If you schedule a lot of meetings, you already know how painful and time consuming it is to have to trade several emails to find a time that works for you and the person. Calendly cuts all those painful emails out so that meetings are scheduled in just one email.

Meetings scheduled with 70% less effort = go home early (or stick around and read Hacker News/Techcrunch. Your choice)

Isn't this the same as XYZ app?!? No! Calendly is super simple and beautiful. You won't be embarrassed to send it out to people.

Yes, it connects to Gmail. Yes, short urls like calendly.com/brad and calendly.com/jim are still available. Grab yours at calendly.com.
Nope, my parents did nothing at all to make me interested in computers or electronics. It was a fully self made decision. My father even lightly discouraged me from computers, telling me that long hours in front of the computer is something very unhealthy.

When I was a kid I spent more time outdoors socializing and playing sports, which I think turned out to be better for me than had I sat in front of the computer for 14 hours every day.
Needs someone leading who can code, gets the skills issue and also sees the impact of technology.

Would be more than happy to put myself forward. (@AdamJBall)

- Computer Science grad
- Launching a tech startup to help connect businesses and student coders (@CodingCupboard)
- Passionate about solving youth unemployment
- No political affiliation
- All round nice guy
I'm never convinced when I see the words "may", "could", "hope(d)", "encouraging", "expected" or "might" in an article about vaccines or alternative power. This one has most of these words.
Not really.

They were fine having video games around, so I guess gaming got me more into computers (navigating a dos interface always made me feel special). We had a major traffic accident that gave my cat a tumor and made me want to be a vet, so that might also count.
No. Because when this system is hacked, protections will be afforded to us.

Can you even imagine the media storm in the EU or some other similarly consumer-friendly location if the evil American corporations don't compensate consumers for fraud of no fault of their own like they used to? Millions of people would mail in their cards. This is simply not going to happen.

I'm in Canada and a colleague had her wallet stolen from a locked car, PIN changed over the phone (that's a whole another subject) and purchases made. Faced with a police report confirming the story and possibility of bad press, you think the processor, the issuer, and the merchant won't budge? They budged.
Can you embed code that allows you to buy books, music or movies via PayPal in the App Store? No.

The difference between bit coin and the paypal app is that bit coin is cash. If I embed bit coin code in say, the Kindle App, I can make purchases that Apple wants a 30% cut of.
Not the OP, but once upon a time, when you think of a programmer, you'd think of an underpaid, overworked slob hacking away in some dark corner of the office while the cool kids were out having fun.
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Then all BTC exchanges are scammers. Every single exchange had issues or has issues. More at bitcointalk->service discussions
A freshly mined coin is not valid for 120 generations. That's to avoid transactions being voided if the very end of the blockchain switches (if the chain is A->B->C, and you spend coins mined in B in C, but then the chain is overtaken by A->D->E->F, your transaction is invalid (coins genrated in B won't appear in the new chain))
My dad was an accountant, and never said so explicitly, but he made it clear through the books on his shelves, his investment in technology like PCs and portable computers, and racks and racks of floppies, that a serious person should educate themself in programming.

I tried, hard, to emulate him, and though I went on an entirely different path (theatre, design, etc.) I've found myself, 15 years later, as a front end web dev learning as much backend as I have time for. I feel like I've only now started to fulfill some of what I aspired to as a child, watching my father learn to code.
I was just searching this morning for a good resource to read on functional programming in Javascript. I guess I was just lazily searching because that title is spot on. Thanks.

Any good functional reactive programming books?
Oh, I thought the transactions were already broadcasted, just weren't being confirmed?

edit: not on a blockchain means not confirmed. A transaction that's been broadcast but not confirmed yet is probably still in the transaction pool of some miners - as soon as it becomes valid, it might get confirmed even without the original sender rebroadcasting.
I can recommend "Live from Downing Street" by Nick Robinson - it contrasts the media styles of all of the PMs (at least since there has been a "media" reporting on Parliament):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Downing-Street-Nick-Robinson/dp...

Personally, I think this country is long overdue a Attlee, Bevan or even a Thatcher - leaders who actually believed in something.
There have probably been small-scale compromised of chip-and-PIN in the UK already due to a design flaw allowing purchases to be made without knowing the PIN. (We don't know for sure since the banks involved erased the logs that would confirm it.) The customers wound up liable for the transactions.
Why did you sign on a package with a hole in it? Its not Neweggs fault someone stole from inside the box, its Courier service.
>> The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people...

Or how it would 'only take a day' to learn how to operate on people, for that matter.

I'm not so much surprised that someone in her position doesn't know how to code (she doesnt't have to, really), but at the very least I expect you to have a basic understanding of the depth and breadth of the topic, and not make sweeping, distracting and confusing statements like this.

A little preparation, just a few hours of talking to people who are knowledgeable on the topic, would go a long way not making a fool out of yourself.
> I can't wait until they start producing TV shows

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5379520/amazon-studios-the-...

Maybe you can... wait a little longer?
Hey, thanks for that write up. It is an opportunity I can't resist to see someone who can give me a thorough and relatively objective opinion on a question that has been bugging me for some time.

Can you shed some light on the political movements in Turkey regarding its neighbors? How is the Ottoman period perceived. What are the population's general sentiment towards neighboring countries. What do they say about it in their HS History textbooks?

I'm born in the region and was always genuinely curious.
I don't think you really wrote anything I did not acknowledge. Yes, types are a form of complete test over the shape/type of data that they encode. If you can encode your data with the correct type, it will go a long way to making sure you don't have errors in the types.

However, I take issue with this statement: "For statically typed languages, the type check is a type of test that just so happens to be very succinct and easier to write than it is to skip. " For the simple cases, I agree with this. But when you see the type gymnastics that some programs go through to guarantee some traits, it is hard to agree with any claim of "easier to write." Consider a "true" quicksort in haskel[1].

My assertion was that the "hard part" of programming is often in the logic, not necessarily the shape/type of the data. When you see attempts at getting the logic of a program into the type system, things start to take a turn for the worse. Really worse when you find you have many types that all encode the same type of data. (Consider the metric system debate.)

My point about "having the right tests" is that sometimes you only care/have the knowledge to think about/whatever certain scenarios that are either likely or guaranteed to happen. Pushing everything in the type system implies that you had the energy to think of and consider everything. My assertion is often you don't have that time/energy.

So, sure, you will have the "right tests" in that scenario to an extent, since you will have all tests. However, I wonder if most programs couldn't work out with a much smaller subset of those tests.

A direct analogy for the point I am making is physics. Classical/Newtonian physics break down and don't work at a level. Worse, they rely on a lot of simplifications and actually describe what is happening moreso than how/why. Yet, for a large portion of calculations that people will do, they work. I grant that encoding all of the assumptions into the calculations will make them more accurate, but often you don't need that level of accuracy. And they definitely make them harder to understand.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction/Direct_Trans...
"coding" is becoming a marketing buzzword. It's a shame because there are so many facets to programming that children could learn that aren't being emphasised: computer science; web development; UX (I hope this is included somewhere); etc.

It's great to include it in the curriculum but I'm sure everyone on here realises that not every child will want to learn it or have the mental aptitude to learn it, but it should lead to more people understanding (it at least on some level).
People don't know the skill, experience and the wisdom of the designers. Every freaking detail in Go has been thought out over decades deeper than most people ever can...go ;-). And it is a language of Pike, Thompson, Griesemer & al. not Google. It is more Bell Labs than Google.
If it sucks so much, why not return it?
What Is NASA for?
this is very cool, I definitely plan on using it.

just curious, why only store the bug for 7 days?
Firstly there is NO other country to ban BTC as of yet so this would be the FIRST.

China stopped accepting it for a while then started again.

Secondly there is a quote that says.... "Overall, the Central Bank’s position is justified. They’re trying to protect the financial system. The main complaint regarding Bitcoin is that there is no backing from any central monetary authority, and they are underpinned only by user confidence that they can make purchases"

This is pretty much what a FIAT currency is. All FIAT currencies are regulated by "the market" which is exactly what BTC does in terms of mining and speculation. All "Power" currencies (dollar, gbp euro, etc) don't have any tangible object (like Gold) backing their value so in reality they're only worth what the "Market" - (you and I say they're worth).

BTC is no different. If my petrol station told me that petrol was 1 BTC per Gallon then that's what it's worth, to me I can use that Gallon of Petrol to go about my day. This is no different from 10 dollars for a Gallon - at some point I have traded my goods (skill, talent, labour, money or whatever) for 10 dollars or 1BTC - the medium (BTC / Dollar) is not relevant. This is a problem for central banks as they need their currency to be relevant in order to keep trade flowing and the corporations happy.
Desas is talking about the way the world should be, not the way the world is.
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Quite simply, they thought it would be too hard for me. I don't actually program for a living (yet?), although I do work in a related field where programming knowledge is useful.

So perhaps there was something to it, but I still enjoy programming so I'm going to continue with it as a hobby.
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You can extend the storage time by inviting others to discuss - 1day per invite. (If you already have sth like a bug tracker / pm in place - look at https://usersnap.com ).
You don't need the content length of what you are uploading for multipart uploads, see (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/mpUploadIniti...). For each part of a multipart upload that is sent, however, you do need to include the content-length header, so that may be what you are referring to. These have a minimum size set by amazon of 5 MB. With the https://github.com/rlmcpherson/s3gof3r the memory overhead of a streaming upload is approximately part size * concurrent uploads (plus a couple of buffers in the pool). So, for example, if you configure the part size to 20 MB and set concurrent uploads to 10, that would be about 220 MB of memory usage.
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