skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By all means write to your MP, call me a pessimist but I doubt it will do much good. This government has shown no interest in listening to what the public think. We as a nation are expending all peaceful means of discourse (letters, petitions, protests, marches) on a range of topics like the sell-off of the NHS, real-terms pay cuts for public sector workers, cuts to vital services and critical welfare; and the result is no change. Even in the face of incontrovertible evidence and testimony from legions of industry experts (from all political leanings) does not sway whatever agenda the current government have.

Personally I have written to my MP several times in several different constituencies only to receive back the same cookie cutter party line on the subject and addresses none of the valid concerns I raise, I hear this same from others about their MPs.
The Douglas Crockford videos were suggested to me when I was interning at Cisco and had never touched Javascript before. While it didn't exactly teach me how to program the solution for my particular problems in Javascript, it provided excellent context for why things are the way they are and gave me an overall familiarity with the language.
Nothing's opening for me :(
I'm not sure most MPs give a shit about this. From experience, having written to a few over similar issues going back to the original RIPA, a blanket "there there terrorism bad m'kay" reply is about all you'll get back.

The only chance for a resolution is to vote a minority party in with a decent privacy manifesto and hope the hell they stick to it.

Unfortunately any chance of a change to our ward based voting scam is at the mercy of the majority populous of moronic slop thoroughly invested in "anyone different is bad" and "support our boys in their imperialist rampage" driven by the community hate machines of the Sun and the Daily Mail[1], so we're fucked.

[1] I've tamed this down from some of the horrific things I've seen posted on Facebook which make me very embarrassed to be associated to this nation. The same people moaning about extremism, then within 2 minutes calling for the heads of everyone to be removed. Actually perhaps this is why we need surveillance. Should I support the bill because everyone has gone batshit? It's utterly sickening.
I generally append 'mdn' to any search that would normally result in w3schools.
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Travel and meet a girl in Thailand and stay there.
Show HN: COMBIN3 – a new logic puzzle each day to jog your brain
They are not out there to earn reputation, but traffic to convert in pageviews that they can sell.

With that said, there is nothing more to discuss I guess.
agentzh is a great and helpful guy! We're using openresty in a big enterprise setup (100.000+ employees) and it's great.

Sometimes you just want to get a simple json endpoint with some dynamic data, and you can do that in 4 lines in lua+openresty.
I agree that in the long term we must consider second-order effects; I'm not sure we can call them yet. I can also build a plausible case for the idea that as we all live in a global village, we will all find ourselves adopting village-like privacy policies, in particular including making it so you're always playing a persona in public.

Further second-order effects become interesting, too... for instance, this could be a long-term threat to the entire social network scene. If it simply becomes a place to play a persona, and correspondingly a place to consume other people's personas, rather than connect with people on a human level, it also becomes something much less compelling than it currently is.

I think we also have to consider that job applications aren't absolute, they're relative in many ways. If having drunken orgy pictures up on my Facebook isn't a disqualifying event for a job, I still have to consider that I'm going up against someone who doesn't, and that the other prospect may thus be more attractive (because, let's be honest, there is real information about personality in those pictures however much we may wish it was otherwise). So next time I apply, I purge my pictures and now I'm the guy with the squeaky clean social media presence, which pushes everybody that much further in that direction.

Openness and non-judgmental is fun to say, but hiring is fundamentally, irreducibly judgmental. A judgment is what it is. That has an effect on the process.

I'm just musing... I'm serious about my first paragraph, I think it's too early to call the second-order effects.
William Binney: 80% of audio calls are recorded and stored in the US
Pm2-interface: #1 Build your own logger
This is a great introductory video to some basic functional programming concepts. I highly recommend it.
Note the only candidates for eradication are those without a non-human reservoir. I.e. smallpox and polio yes, influenza no. See the link a_c_s provided for more.
Doesn't Adblock Plus permit google ads by default hence the need for Adblock Edge https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
Or are you suggesting that if someone was poor and then wins the lottery they'd be exactly as likely to take cabs vs a much slower/cheaper public transit route?

No, I'm saying their desire to take a cab wouldn't change. The fact that I can't afford to buy the Hope Diamond doesn't mean I value it at zero. Likewise, the fact that I can't afford to buy myself an extra ten minutes by getting a taxi doesn't mean that I place no value on those ten minutes.

> And you went beyond saying that the individual values their time more, you implied that society should also value it more to encourage productivity.
What....the hell? Where did I say anything like this?

I think it was this bit, where you say wealthy people's time is worth more because they're more productive and we should encourage such productivity:

"Their time is worth more because they create more value per unit time than others. We want productive people to become even more productive, that's how the world gets better."
Most of that 40kB is eaten up by three icons. The actual code is 13 lines long:

https://github.com/ChrisAntaki/visited-links-firefox/blob/ma...

(plus a 14 line manifest file, 12 lines of test boilerplate and a 10 line readme)
I think there's a big difference between a large enterprise's access points and those that cover a city.

First off if your employer is spying on you, you at least have a chance to quit and get another job. Further that new job might not require that you move to avoid surveillance. Also many/most employers don't care enough about specifically where all their employees are to do such a thing. Finally a lot of the employers who do care enough have implemented ID badges. ID badges don't necessarily give you a happy feeling inside since they make it obvious that management doesn't trust everyone equally. But at least the tracking that they do is explicit: you know you're getting logged every time you badge through a door.

Imagine the outcry if a city implemented a badge ID system that you needed just to travel anywhere. That literally conjures images of "Papers, please" and the like.

The problem is that they have -- without any real, widespread public knowledge or approval -- implemented a small portion of a fairly draconian we-track-you-everywhere kind of system.
"I guess, in time, the website is surely going to loose it's credibility (if any)."

Going to? First thing I learned a LOOONG time ago was w3s is subpar, although occasionally good for atleast some basic examples of syntax.

(also, to be pedantic: Lose vs Loose: http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/blog/english-mistakes/l...)
I was just about to suggest looking at projects like Mirage/Irmin et al but since you mention Nymote, I assume you've already found your way to them.

If it helps, we have a series of blog posts about some of the recent library releases on the Mirage blog [1], some of which go into the design of those libraries. Perhaps they'd be useful?

[1] e.g. http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-ocaml-tls
Doodles with Meaning – The Art of Sketchnoting
It's not even for paedophiles or serious organised crime either. As with all other new police capabilities, 90% of this will be used for the drug war and the remainder is split between a bunch of lowlevel crimes such as theft or harassment .

There is data from Austrias data retention laws here:

http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXV/AB/AB_01179/imfname_...

Summing up, in 2013, data was used for investigations concercing the following offenses:

- theft (35%)
- drugs (18%)
- robbery (16%)
- stalking (14%)
- fraud (12%)
- threats (5%)
Crooks Seek Revival of ‘Gameover Zeus’ Botnet
It looks like a typical case of idiotic extrapolation to me. http://xkcd.com/605/
Trends in the Information Security Industry
I disagree.
After I finished university, I worked as a raft guide and travelled with the seasons. Started here in Europe as that was an easy way to get in to it. It scared the shit out of me when I got a job offer in Chile, but I had told everyone about it so I had to go. I was in it for the rafting / whitewater, but the travelling came bundled with it.

I went and had the best time of my life. It really opens your eyes when you see how different cultures live. Made me a lot less shy as well.

If you really don't like it you can always come home early.
Happiness vs. meaning – which one is more important?
It makes me very happy to hear this. I've always been sad that the initial promise of Pachube being an open place to store and exchange data was subsumed by corporate overlords.

This is as close to the mindset of the original Pachube as I've seen in a long while.

Nice work!
I recommend family counseling. Both Mom and Dad should be able to spend time with their children without supervision from each other...
What i ended up doing about w3schools is install, on computers that i regularly use, an addon to block certain google results:

https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/google-search...
The infographic mentions that "Corporate lobbyists have spent $605 million to get this legislation passed".

These pages show which corporations are supporting this (links towards the bottom):

http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/113-hr-624/1202831/tota...

http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/113-hr-624/1202831/tota...
Machine Learning Summer School 2014 videos and live streams
Not to mention search toolbar (bundled with downloaded software) vendors who buy ads on Google in order to ... show ads from Google:

http://www.benedelman.org/news/012213-1.html
The Art of Computational Science
Realistically, MACs were invented for one purpose (which they still serve) but many other purposes piggy-backed over the years. This is typical for many technical artifacts. Now that we have realized what we want, that we were getting from MACs, albeit poorly, we can build exactly that. Or Apple can, anyway.

This is how our network systems evolve!
This is an ongoing complaint I have with X: remote desktop on Windows systems is still far superior to Linux systems.
That said, I am deeply cynical toward Apple's motivations.
I’d be more interested in something that ensured that visited links were marked differently. Many, many sites go shushing up :visited when I would rather not have it shushed.
I'm cynical about the "timing" in another way. that if an AP captures a sequence of the "random" addresses an institution can subpena whatever unique seed was assigned to each iDevice to feed whatever PRNG is shuffling the MAC addresses
Yes-which is a shame. I think that Google has violated the acceptable ad policy and should be removed. Here's an article from when the change was made to Adblock Plus http://gizmodo.com/google-supposedly-paid-off-adblock-plus-t...
I did come home early. Still regret it.
Curated list of Scala frameworks, libraries and software
Wolf, corn, chicken, boat, farmer... usual shenanigans. The usual solution is to drown the wolf, eat the chicken, and get a damned bag for the corn. In this scenario, the correct solution is divorce and a viable criminal justice system that doesn't require prisoners to be kept in boats with families.
Related:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Nut_Sheller

I saw a documentary on this. The main breakthrough was flipping the sheller upside down, so that the area of the exit was larger than the area of the entrance, which prevented jamming.

Also it's made of concrete so once you have the molds, it can be cast cheaply anywhere in the world.

Previously people spent an alarming amount of time pealing peanuts by hand (especially in Africa, where the peanuts are often eaten raw/sun-dried due to a lack of fuel) and this freed them up for other tasks.

This combined with the rolling water carrier (a plastic barrel flipped on its side with a handle stuck on the ends) has saved countless hours of menial labor. If only we had low tech solutions for first world problems..
When I read the article it struck me that it is nearly the opposite of how people use the quote today. It appears the quote's context was about the liberty of government (Ben Franklin as a legislator in 1750's Pennsylvania colony) to tax the elite Penn family to pay for arming British troops, the government's army at the time. It had nothing to do with individual liberty or individual security.

It was about his liberty as a legislator to tax the property owners inside the colony to fund the government's army to defend itself during the French & Indian war. The colony governor was appointed by the Penn family and the Penn family didn't want to pay taxes.
I looked through the slides, i skimmed the text bits on the website; i still have no hint of an idea as to who this guy is and why i should bother to spend half an hour or so watching a video to find out. If you're gonna post content that is highly reliant on knowledge of a certain topic that is not widely spread, at least provide some meta info.
You've got to love Frankie Boyle for saying it how it is.

I suspect that the timing of this isn't coincidental as well on the basis that:

1. It was just after the allegations of these files being lost was made (5th July)

2. Everyone's going on holiday soon (22nd July) so apathy is at a high.

Not impressed!
Because they are the best "5 second reference" there is. I am not bombarded with technical gibberish or standard lingo or other stuff I was not looking for.

Compare https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a and http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_a_href.asp

I tried liking MDN after lots of hate about w3schools was at HN once. It just annoyed the &%$# out of me instead of proving useful. Sure, if you want to study something it seems useful, but if you just want to know how to use something, no, just no.
I hope the description is better in Japanese: there's a difference between 'stay' and 'be'.
"intensively discussed" would for the most part indicate that the item is of some interest or importance to the people discussing.

I think it would only indicate hype if it were also true that most of the discussion was disingenuous in some way. The distinction underlying this thought is that discussion is not (usually) promotion or deliberate publicizing of the thing discussed. Usually, it's just plain, honest discussion.
A lot of people have advised to do new activities, it can be difficult to discover the best activities, and be disciplined to do them without having other people to support you.

What about your solo living situation? I'm the same age as you, except living in San Francisco in a house of 60 people. I have a roommate who is 27. If you were in this house there'd be at least 15 activities a week you could join ranging from swing dancing, to making dinner for 20, to big rides around the city, to waking up at 545am to serve food in homeless shelters. You don't need to drag yourself out of your apartment alone, you just ride with the energy of the people you live with.

Suggest you join a share-house, or even fly over to San Francisco to join a larger community (I've flown over from Australia).
Probably worth reading the author's follow up article. It's a Brookings Institute piece focused on creating a disconnect between Liberty and Secuity, or rather decoupling the concepts as non-related. Interesting logic.

"We seldom stop and ask the question of whether and when our surveillance programs are really coming at the expense of liberty at all; or whether the relationship might be more complicated than that—indeed, whether some of these programs might even enhance liberty."

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/papers/2011/...
If Senators were commenting on it then it was real.
It depends a lot on who your MP is. If your MP is in a safe seat (a little under two thirds of them), they have no reason to do any more than post back the party response. If your MP is a government minister, they cannot do any more than this on any national issue which is outside their personal portfolio.

If you live in a contested constituency and your MP is not a minister, you are likely to receive a more substantive response. However you should not expect them to have access to a subject-matter expert; an MP is one person with a staff of around four or five office workers.
Travel. You are in exactly the position I'd like to be in when I graduate (I'll be 26). Use AirBnB or hostels and go anywhere you'd like, living in a country for a month or two before moving on. Work from coffee shops or wherever you can find internet. Get in positions where you'll meet people and keep up with them with facebook, snail mail, etc. You may meet the person you wind up marrying along the way.
To me, this reads like they're declaring their own ability to carry out acts of war in sovereign states at will, as their only recourse will be force.
I have mdn bookmarked. I go there and search directly to eliminate any "oops I clicked on W3schools" moments.

If there was a browser addon that would allow me to search from my address bar (like ! for DDG), it'd be great.
Haha, since I am not W3S, I've made amendments to my post!
What makes you think I don't know Lisp? You didn't even read my comments, did you?
You should probably spend some time browsing through Lambda the Ultimate [1], a discussion forum devoted to this kind of thing (it is very academic though).

There's a collectively authored set of guidelines "How to Design (Declarative) Programming Languages" [2] posted in comp.lang.lightweight, curated by Scott McKay that you might find useful.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org

[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lightweight/2547/foc...
How does phant compare to using Redis or RRDtool with node.js?
"Part of me would love to put all of my belongings in storage, take my laptop and freelance from around the world."

It looks like you already answered your own question. This part of you is your intuition.

You are in the perfect situation to do what many people yearn to do, but are unable to because of lack of time and money, both of which you seem to have.

Go backpacking in Asia or something. Meet people, drink casually, explore the culture, and work from your laptop on the side. There are so many possibilities, and it is up to you whether or not you capitalize on them while you still can.
> I personally loathe advertising.

I've always had issues with the constant brain-washing with trivial rubbish, stupid humour and idiotic themes so often used in TV commericals. I tend to download movies/television now, or buy them on DVD, and so I hardly ever watch television per se. When I do, I find it jarring to be taken out of a story to be told about lavatory cleaner or some novelty foodstuff. I have the same feeling when browsing without AdBlock. How am I supposed to read the article with so much stuff dancing around my peripheral vision? Oh, I'm not, it's the ads which are the important thing.

In terms of practical effects, I find I am far less materialistic than many people I know, and less likely to buy things for the sake of it. I think this is because constantly being told you want a new car or consumer electronics will inevitably cause you to believe it. I don't mean this to be rude, btw - it's just how advertising works. Constant repetition combined with all the tricks of the trade like social proof, limited offers, etc.
It is completely different to the CDB; this is a rewrite of a law that already existed and which was successfully challenged in the ECJ. The rewrite is supposed to fix the issues raised by the ECJ; whether it actually does is unclear, but it is likely to place the law beyond the jurisdiction of the ECJ.
Gonsole weeks: a git console for eclipse
Also https://github.com/softprops/ls and https://github.com/velvia/links
I've noticed the top rank for W3S pages since the start of time^.

And now that you have pointed out the benefits of ranking them #1 for Google, opens a new way of vision to the situation.

^ - Metaphorical
The Internet's Own Boy – New Movie About Aaron Swartz's Suicide
I'm not so fussed about ads I can ignore, but (along with analytics and stuff like social media buttons) - they all add latency to web browsing with extra DNS lookups and HTTP requests.

It's especially bad on mobile.

So no matter how nice, useful or relevant the advertising is, unless it's hosted on the site I'm visiting, it will probably be blocked.
I'm in the exact same position at the moment, have a fairly substantial amount of savings which I was planning on putting towards a deposit on my first house, but after looking there isn't much around within my price range which looks like something I'd enjoy improving (absolutely love DIY!) and living in (being self employed seems to be a huge red flag for lenders!).

I am fairly happy with my life, but its just a bit boring and I guess lonely at times. Sometimes finding myself trying to make small talk with people at the gym or in a supermarket as I haven't had any face to face interaction with another human for days at a time! I did go to university and lived in shared accommodation for a number of years and had the time of my life, but since living on my own I seem to have become a bit of a recluse and not as outgoing as I once was. Doesn't help that many of my friends are in relationships/permanently skint and are not willing to go out and do things.

Two of my main clients are located in London and I work remotely from home, both of which have said they would be fine with me travelling as long as I kept within a few hours time difference. Occasionally I am required to attend meetings in London at the cost of around £100-160 for a return train ticket, flights from a european country would probably cost me the same!

My biggest problems are pushing myself to do something new and out of my comfort zone and breaking the ice with new people as I am incredibly shy at first. Oh and not forgetting I have the worst hangovers of all time lasting anything from 2-4 days! haha
What is HSA? (from the link)

Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) driver
for radeon-family GPUs.

HSA allows different processor types (CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, etc..) to share system resources more effectively via HW features including shared pageable memory, userspace-accessible work queues, and platform-level atomics. In
addition to the memory protection mechanisms in GPUVM and IOMMUv2, the Sea Islands family of GPUs also performs HW-level validation of commands passed in through the queues (aka rings).
A performance comparison redux: Java, C, and Renderscript on the Nexus 5
July Trilogy, Part II: The Present – Neo900
Unless you fall for a Western Union scam, you generally meet Craigslist people in "real life" too. Still plenty of scams.
I have plans and some code for the next article, but I've been busy with actual real work. I promise you'll see it before the end of the year.
I am not saying they are the worst. This discussion is about:

1. Why are they not changing

2. Why are they still ranking #1

3. What is the answer to life the universe and everything

- Although I've found out the answer to the last one.