skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no fan of Margaret Thatcher, but the UK economy in the 1970's was a complete disaster - much, much worse than it is today.

For example a combination of very high inflation (above 15% pa for the 4 years between 1974 and 1977[1]) combined with huge strikes by unions led to incidents like the "three day week"[2] (where the conservative UK government rationed electricity to businesses: they could only use it 3 days per week) and the "Winter of Discontent"[3] (where the Labour government failed to reach a wage control agreement with unions, leading to more strikes and the Thatcher government).

Official unemployment figures throughout the 1970's look much better than today (eg, 5-6% unemployment rather than ~7.5% now), but that doesn't take into account the fact that many were not being paid because of strike action, and also that the high inflation meant people were chronically underpaid (hence the strikes).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6729683.stm is worth reading to get some idea of just how bad it was.

[1] http://safalra.com/other/historical-uk-inflation-price-conve...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent
Or just sit back and hope for a super cool Google dev tools update.
It can also happen when one can't keep up with the other and falls behind.
Mini-lives: how to see the world without taking a day of vacation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice_and_take_down

Notice and take down is a process operated by online hosts in response to court orders or allegations that content is illegal. Content is removed by the host following notice. Notice and take down is widely operated in relation to copyright infringement, as well as for libel and other illegal content. In US and European Union law, notice and takedown is mandated as part of limited liability, or safe harbour, provisions for online hosts (see the Digital Millennium Copyright Act 1998 and the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000). As a condition for limited liability online hosts must expeditiously remove or disable access to content they host when they are notified of the alleged illegality.[1]
25 Life Lessons from Albert Einstein
OP here. The differences between (and history of) these two extensions are a bit confusing :-):

The parts of Disconnect that 60 Minutes showed actually started as a Chrome (from Firefox) port of Collusion that I did for a hackathon (https://blog.disconnect.me/collusion-for-chrome). Later, we updated and integrated this code into Disconnect (there’s a “Visualize page” option in Disconnect that brings up the graphical UI).

Mozilla has since made major updates to Collusion in the form of Lightbeam (a Firefox add-on). The Disconnect graphs are now much more like to the original Collusion and the Lightbeam graphs are brand new. But other than the visual differences, Disconnect and Lightbeam are functionally alike (Disconnect is also available on platforms other than Firefox: Chrome, Safari, Opera, IE, iOS, and [sort of] Android).
I don't think, that such figures as economic growth and inflation rate are the only and best methods to evaluate the results of a specific politic.

What is the impact on the people and the state in general? Which factors are also important in this time.

The thing is, that economic bad times change with better times -- even with no change at all in politics. To consider every time a success of the leading party is often times just statistical brainwashing.

The Germans also had a bigger raise in economy with the opposite politics.

Also look how the long term results are, since the Thatcherian politics are still followed by the successors. The privatization of many areas like railway and water services resulted in worse quality of service. Also the UK today has nearly killed of all its industry base. Instead they have only left their banks, so they are largely susceptible now to blackmail of this sector, that is the reason why the banking sector can not be reorganized in Europe, since it is blocked by the veto of the British.

What is left is a poor leftover of capitalism.

Of course it is white-washed by statistical figures that always skip the negatives, since the advocates of unregulated capitalism want to prove their point.
I'd be curious to hear about how effective the ones that end up on the weekends are. I can imagine they are quite a bit less effective, but I could be wrong. Seems like it would be worth just delaying those to the next Monday, but that isn't exactly a new opinion.
Open is more trustworthy than closed but that doesn't imply open is truly trustable. Ultimately do we need to trust the hardware at all? Can't we eventually just trump everything with encryption?
Wouldn't it be amazing if Karl Marx's theory that wealth will always concentrate into fewer hands was actually true, just interupted by WWI-WWII era? Marxism is discredited now, it would be funny if that part of his thinking turned out to be true.
MMM says there isn't "much" merit to the claim. So there is some merit apparently. This isn't a blueprint for handling anything. He hasn't determined with any certainty if the post is libelous but is charging ahead full force to defend it? It doesn't make sense.
I see with my parents and their peer group I've been supporting for years why the numbers for market share may also be misleading.

I installed Firefox on all of their computers, taking favorites from IE. They all use Chrome today. You know why? They don't know. It was just there. Suddenly. Already set as preferred browser application. Every time I come by, I uninstall it. Every time I come back, it's there again. Installed with some regular update. (If someone has an idea how I could prevent it being installed at all, I would be very thankful)

After testing it for some months I saw absolutely no reason to switch. After some more months now, I see is as an annoying piece of crapware I started to hate.

So even if it may lead in marked share, it doesn't mean that people likes or wants it..

I see the style and feature growth within FF as a problem. I liked the old school application I could modify with stuff I need. Less is more. Today I have the feeling using a tool that has features I'll never find or use at all with a look I don't like and need to style-down. But still: I can style it down. It has all the Add-Ons I need and it works more stable and less resource hungry then Chrome. If anything happens, there is ONE process. I kill it, restart, works again.

I stay where I am.

Thanks for the great job!
Google gives UK ‘super flagger’ status to raise YouTube concerns
> Rhotic versus non-rhotic is the only real big difference I'm aware of

There's always more out there than we're aware of. One famous difference is that in Australian english, the words can ("a can of tuna") and can ("I can do that") don't rhyme (I believe "can" is actually the wrong word in AE for "a can of tuna", but the example is just there to illustrate the word's meaning).

> such differences are primarily differences in accent

These obviously exist, but they're often so regular that they don't present much of an obstacle to communication. Vocabulary differences ("a tin of tuna" for "a can of tuna") and meaning differences (like the story where British politicians wanted a motion tabled immediately, because it was important, but American ones felt strongly that it shouldn't be tabled at all, because it was important) happen too.

Australian, British, and American english are nevertheless fairly close. How do you feel about Jamaican english (which is, in its vernacular, not mutually intelligible with the three I just mentioned)?
More likely they have different data for different time spans, so throw in what they have.
First-achievement-unlocked (VLC for WinRT)
Who decides if they are baseless? From the post MMM can't even decide: "From what I could tell, there wasn’t much merit to their complaint."
This is our first beta release of VLC on the WinRT platform and is now only for x86 (not Windows RT).
You get a job fixing the machines
Except that was a typo, Titanfall actually has 50 GB of assets.
What the Internet of 2025 Might Look Like
Hair, fur, and fabrics, while huge progress has been made, still don't look totally realistic.
Basic questions but what's the difference between this and putting it on github? Is there an option to make it public/private?
six hours slow? I'll have to fix that up, I'm basically just matching MIDNIGHT to America/Los_Angeles timezone and rotating based on the offset. I'll have to rethink that it looks like, thanks for pointing that out.
Looks like the comment-parent isn't a native english speaker; a lot probably got lost in translation.
Cut the cables. All of them. Leased, backbone, local loops.

Poison the routing tables.

Jam the wireless.

Take out root DNS.

I cringe slightly at quoting Firefly but it's similar in nature: "If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to."
How does this accomplish anything that Steam isn't already accomplishing, though?

Browser based distribution has the potential to have better security than Steam currently has. Of course, Steam could implement those things as well. It could well be that Steam or something like it will win over the browser.
* SketchDeck seems more upfront about their pricing. eSlide and VisualSpiders both ask for consultation to get a price. SketchDeck gives a rough estimate per slide, so at least I know what I'm getting into.

* SketchDeck has a nice and simple site. Presentation does matter.

Similar concept to homejoy and iamexec.
That's not really the problem, though. The issue comes when those loans can be rolled over, and when the borrower ends up with multiple stacked payday loans, and can't make any headway into the capital because an increasingly large proportion of their income is taken up by interest payments. It's literally usury, and close to loan-sharking.
In order for Walmart to do business within a jurisdiction and/or with a certain party, it would have to agree a priori to certain requirements: to use certain courts or arbitrators, and for the rulings reached by said parties to be enforceable by certain armed groups.

Thus the private army which fights to free him would be agreed to beforehand.

And presumably Walmart would lose access to some of their markets as a result, and be fined, and/or and/or etc.
Sick, thanks!
New Facebook Hacking tool for digital marketers
I was about to give up on Facebook ads because the CTR and ROI was so low but I found FanHarvest because of a previous post on. Facebook ads have become my most profitable channel. If anyone has been struggling with FB ads try this out, well worth it...www.fanharvest.com
There are two noticeable mistakes is your prior comment. One is a simple mistake of fact; kin is not related to ken. The other is the etymological fallacy, which says that the meaning of a word is or should be controlled by what it meant in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy
Ah, hadn't looked at inflation. That does seem to have shaped up around that time period.

"unemployment rose, then fell"

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=uk+unemployment+1984+to...

1970-1979, unemployment was mostly below 5%. It was about 7% after it "fell" post-Thatcher, when it started rising again in 1991. It then fell again, finally getting back to pre-Thatcher levels only sometime post 2000 - where it stayed until the 2009 crash.

"[T]he economy had a run of growth from '81 to '90 that peaked near 5%.

"Not too shabby when you look at the 10 years prior when inflation was 25% and the economy shrank from '74-76."

That's pretty cherrypicky. Let's get a slightly broader view:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=uk+real+gdp+per+capita+...

The economy shrank from '74-'76; it also shrank '79-'81 and '90-'91. The years '71-'80 peaked in '73 at over 7% growth (for which the '74-'76 slump may well have been a correction). I'm not sure I'd call it shabby, but I'm not sure it's great, especially with the high unemployment rate.

'Britain was regarded as a "sick man of Europe" before Thatcher took office.'

I'm aware of the perception, and the shifts therein. I was curious as to the accuracy of it.
Political action? How has voting worked for you? My hope is as the dollar starts to inflate away (like every other fiat currency that has ever existed) we all instead turn to a block chain currency. Something that can't be manipulated. Something that can't be stolen from us and used to fund three letter agencies.
I was aware of this effect but unaware that it had a name. Thanks for that!
Dear Mr. Graham,

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The plain language of the provision is starkly unconditional. 47 USC Sec. 230(c)(1) specifies: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
You can do this on Coinbase
If you knew how it all worked you would know that such information is just that, information, quarantiened information proxied tens of times until it gets to me or you, and no one in their right minds would care about that or deem it harmful.

And yeah, sure, the pirate bay knows it, I know it, it's facilitating illegal stuff. Is it immoral? I don't believe so.
Have a look at my answer to "refurb".

I also don't want to say that everything was good before Thatcher or that a socialistic approach is always better or even good. But what I wanted to say, that many of the long term results of Thatcherism are hurting the country till today, even when it was brought out of economic decline.

I think, that neither socialism nor pure thinking that capitalism and market will "just make it all right" work in the long run.

The results of "market makes it alright" are visible in the sweat shops of the 3rd world countries. In the western countries we have a long tradition of market regulation and that is our luck -- but it seems we are running out of luck.
The web has always had the best discovery mechanisms. The problem endemic to Steam and the App Stores has been poor discovery. Good discovery mechanisms mean better information flow in the market, which generally means more innovation and consumer benefit.

But if the walled gardens get really good discovery, they would win and deservedly so. As it is, they smell a bit too much like crony capitalism.
Then again, this just went up on Kickstarter recently https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/857935876/privus-fully-...
Just the other day I emailed the owner of a name I wanted. 17 years registered and it had never been used, the guy wanted 5 figures for it for no other reason than that's the price he paid for it. I countered with a more reasonable offer and didn't hear back from him, so the next day I bought the same name with a different TLD, for $35. I feel like at one point having that coveted .com was a priority for any business that wanted to be taken seriously, but today that just doesn't seem like the case anymore thanks to marketing mediums that use links instead of catchy names. Did I want the .com? Sure. Did I absolutely need it? Not at all. If my venture becomes successful down the road then maybe I'll inquire about the .com again and have more leverage to negotiate, but I'm not losing sleep over it until then.
Popcorn Time Deleted By Dotcom’s Mega, MPAA Lawsuit Pending?
> Its cover for the fact that there's just not much money in saving the world.

The question for me is why is this true? It seems like there should be.
I really like the way this works - much less disruptive to jump in and out.

Any reason you cap WPM at 666, and always default to 400wpm? I want to go fasterrrr :)

edit: I made my branch do this, are you interested in contributions?
The sweeping exemption in 47 USC 230 doesn't (unlike the DMCA safe harbor) have any notice and takedown provisions attached to it, so your link and text is, while accurate, irrelevant.
Drop out of university and tune in to yourselves
I owe my writing career to HN.

I have been writing my whole life (I probably put in my 10,000 hours before I left high school). But until recently, I'd never really considered it as a serious job option. Journalism rarely pays a living wage. Trying to sell book proposals is like trying to make a career out of buying lottery tickets. Unless you are confident you're the next J.K. Rowling [1], you should leave writing where it belongs: on nights and weekends, as a hobby. Or so I'd always imagined. And so I spent the last decade of my life resisting the call to foolishness and misadventure.

I've been lurking, arguing, and mucking about on HN for the last few years. I took awhile to realize that HN had become my primary outlet for writing. Once I figured it out, I committed more time to lurking here.

I responded to my first HN jobs post in mid-2013, for a writing job with Priceonomics (YC '12). They responded rapidly (same day, if memory serves), and I got to work right away. I have done some very fun, very interesting work with those guys. (And I hope to continue; in fact, I owe them beers when I get back into town!). That work went really well. In the span of three or four months, I landed an agent, a book deal, some NPR appearances, and some columns in national publications. I have yet to make Harry Potter money, let alone my previous salary. But in the meantime, I'm paying rent in San Francisco, doing something that doesn't feel like work to me. That's pretty cool.

Lately I've picked up a lot of freelance content marketing and writing jobs through HN Freelancer threads. I get a good response rate, and the people I work with have been awesome. I hope to keep landing these gigs every month or two.

And at some point, I'll get around to writing that book.

I apologize if this post seems glib, humblebraggy, or even non-humble in its bragginess. That's not my intent. I just saw this topic and felt an overwhelming need to share my story here. My path is atypical and ill-advised. Especially if you like making money. But I know of no other path by which I could have reshaped my destiny so quickly.

[1] Or Robert Galbraith, or whoever.
I'm getting more and more fond of the "live feed" style of reporting that theguardian.com does so well.

Other than your tech release liveblog, does anyone else do this kind of news format? It's pretty awesome, as the timeliness of the reporting and sequence convey a story that goes beyond the individual facts.
How are those hyperinflation calls working out for you?
2048 with undo
We seem to be getting about 100K extra hits per day (and still going) since Sunday. (I have no idea if this is more or less traffic than one might expect.)
Care to elaborate?

As a linux user, and (very) amateur kernel hacker I've always bought Samsung phones because they've been pretty forecoming with releasing the source for their android devices: http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-kernel-sourc...

Obviously this is a GPL compliance thing, but it enables security minded people like myself to root the device, inspect the underlying source, and secure it pretty much like a regular box.

What alternative do you suggest?
I like the "add" is more inclusive by default. But does this mean that "add -p" also can add untracked files? (If not, it seems inconsistent to me.)
Going homeless at SXSW with an ostrich pillow
If they were taken Sunday wonder why it took 4 days for them to become public? Anyone familiar with satellite imaging? Are the images not sent instantly to earth where they can then review?
I used it to teach my son programming by creating a text adventure engine[1]

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[1]: http://shawndumas.github.io/adventure.lua/
Oh, thank goodness. I was worried it was some bizarre stylistic fad and not just an unclosed tag.
This series of games is an inspiration. I decide to take another look into phaser after seeing your stuff!
I guess when you get to a point where you have enough volume with specific retailers ( e.g., Amazon ) you can start negotiating a discounted price if you pay cash. So the savings could be sustainable at that point (potentially). I wonder how you get there though.
> 1) if the annotations are present in the shipped obfuscated code, it leaks information that people don't want. Many people do not want to leak the source filenames or directory structure of production apps.

You would be able to continue using the approach you describe for GMail. There is no reason to publicly serve the debugging information unless you want to.

> 2) it increases the download size for consumers who are not developers and don't need the maps

No, the debugging information would still be an auxiliary file like it is now.

3) if written out as a separate file that co-exists with a stripped binary, it increases memory requirements of the debugger.

Debuggers need to keep the source map around now, anyways; this is no different.

Regarding the scope identifiers: it would solve scoping for the most part, but it fails to handle the last three requirements I defined:

- It should provide a way for the JavaScript debugger to display values in a meaningful way.

- It should optionally provide an eval capability, for use from a REPL, watch expression, or conditional breakpoint.

- The format should be future-extensible. That is, when SourceMap.next v2 rolls out, any SourceMap.next v1 consumer should still be able to parse and use instances of SourceMap.next v2 (although without the new features, of course).

Inspecting values would still be a pain, and you wouldn't have watch expressions or conditional breakpoints, etc.

Also, much of the value in what I described in the blog post is the future-extensible format. It allows us to fix our mistakes post facto.
I think people are gradually switching over. There may be some porting involved, people may have lots of Lua code for older versions. Plus depending what you are doing the JIT may not speed things up (and you can't use it on many consoles); the 2.1 has a lot of string functions accelerated that would break jitting in 2.0. But someone has just paid for a PS4 port, so clearly many people are using it...
“We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram.”
No, not really. Also, no other key suffers from not being pressed from the center of the key.
In Horowitz's Silicon Valley Tell-All, a Woman's Place Is Strictly Hypothetical
Those are all hardware setups, whereas the browser is a very poorly designed portability layer (viewed in this way). It makes me physically angry how badly the browser vendors have dropped the ball here. It was obvious years ago that things were going this way, but instead of developing a proper application-development standard they just shoved everything into HTML. Every time I hear Mozilla talking about "innovation" I get upset because it is such a blatant lie. You have reinvented to past badly here. The best that can be said is you have been good at marketing the whole thing by constantly pretending that it's "just Javascript" etc, when the end result is completely static (i.e. not Javascript).
Has anyone looked into doing this? Meaning has anyone started building anything like this? I would be interested.
Snabb Switch[1] is a high performance userspace driver for 10Gb ethernet switches, written in LuaJIT.

[1] https://github.com/SnabbCo/snabbswitch
Yeah, it's hosted on github pages right now, and they don't do SSL. It's one many, many, many things I'd like to fix about Squirt.
Interesting, am checking iMedicor out.

It brings up an interesting question (at least to me): has there been any NSA-related breaches of HIPAA compliant software? Or any healthcare-data related breaches?