skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a heavy Rubyist these days, and Moose is one of the very few things I miss from the realm of Perl.

Here's a fun game: the next time someone asks you what technologies you work with or languages you prefer, somehow work in that you like Perl, at least Modern Perl with Moose. Count which one occurs most frequently: people backing away like you've begun frothing at the mouth, people asking if you've ever heard of ANOTHER_TECHNOLOGY (usually Ruby, sometimes Python), and people who assume you're a sysadmin who occasionally scripts something (they'll ask if you've ever used Puppet or Chef).
Nick Bostrom has talked about some of the issues around attempting to control super intelligent AIs, and the closely related issue of how to determine if we are AIs inside a virtual environment (closely related because containment is one approach to controlling AIs that we don't understand)

http://www.techthefuture.com/technology/can-we-control-super...

http://www.nickbostrom.com/
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http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=disk.disc
>The riot in Little India was almost unique in this country's history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_race_riots_in_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_race_riots_of_Singapore

You do realize that one of the core reasons the country EXISTS as a separate entity (kicked out of Malaysia) was because of race riots, don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_singapore#Racial_te...

I don't even know of any other countries where race riots have played a greater role in the country's history.

Unique indeed.

>it's important to note, happened after someone was run over by a bus, was predominantly not involving singaporeans (mostly foreign workers), and involved a lot of alcohol.

It's important to note that the itinerant foreign workers are treated like shit and the reason they rioted was because the ambulance took forever and the guy who was ran over was dead by the time it came.

Alcohol was simply the fuel for the anger created by that.

But yea, racial harmony and all that.
In this scenario, would it be realistic to damn the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal?

It seems that that would save most of southern and eastern Europe, as well as northern Africa.
I don't think the world works the way you think. You might want to seek out some facts on which country blocked the latest Copenhagen agreement, for example. And how large their current carbon emissions are.

The price for a Prius is completely irrelevant. Global warming is not helped by every family buying a new car.

A relevant price is the price of a mass transit system. You cannot have whole cities where people drive to work. It is not sustainable.

Another relevant thing to do is stop burning coal on a large scale. There are many investments that the US for example should do that most countries with a comparable standard of living did long ago.

These are investments that can be done today, and should have been done long ago. And before you say it's too expensive you should ask yourself how public acceptance for an order of magnitude larger military spending was jusitifed.

The ozone layer problem was solved with international agreements and investments, and although the naysayers kept parroting how our standard of living would plummet, it didn't.
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Changi Airport, both on arrival, and departure, is amazing. If you have a work permit, then the arrival process is 15 seconds to clear immigration - I kid you not. You swipe your passport, and entry gate pops open (quickly), you walk ahead five steps, punch down your thumb, and then a message appears, "Welcome to Singapore, ghshephard" - and then the second gate opens.

I thought YVR (Vancouver) was fast - (You submit your entry form, answer a couple questions on a kiosk, and then present it to an immigration person who makes sure you match the passport - about 2-3 minutes) - but Changi beats it hands down.

Departure is just as good - no long lines at security or worry about missing your flight - everything is done at the departure gate (which also makes a helluva lot more sense from a security perspective as well).

Makes SFO feel like a miserable cast-off of an Airport after spending time in Changi.
If you're reasonably intelligent, you can come up with reasons not to believe anything. It's easy to discredit things. It's hard to build things.

This comment is remarkably troubling to me. There is intrinsic value in replication studies. Showing that an effect does not exist or is far weaker than (or, alternatively, exists and is just as strong as) initially reported is just as much "building" our understanding of scientific truth.

No, scratch that, it is far more important than the original study. The original is more like a sketch, and as the results are confirmed or disconfirmed over the course of many subsequent studies the solid building takes its true form.

These discussions about replication always sadden me, because far too many researchers miss the point of the scientific method.
Elon Musk is over rated. He's just repeating what we already know.
Thanks guys.

I was familiar with Project Sanguine, but had hoped there were less ambitious public projects I had overlooked (perhaps closer to VLF which operates <30m seawater depths).

After reading about the Navy E-6B aircraft, which trails a 5km antenna behind it to communicate with subs, I had presumed modern 'submarine -> other underwater radios' were akin to large commercial fishing trawling nets - or the really long antennas were packed into hilbert curves and epoxied to the hulls or something.

Anyhow, it seems 'acoustic modems' using 'CSMA' [1] are the norm for commercial underwater ROVs (such as James Gosling's 'wavegliders' [2]).

[1] http://www.mit.edu/~millitsa/resources/pdfs/royal.pdf

[2] http://liquidr.com/prodserv/wg/gateway.html
Read something that will be still relevant in 10 years.

Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup notes essays: http://meetingdelleidee.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/cs183-st...

And Paul Graham's Essays https://github.com/wcember/pg_complete_essays/blob/master/Pa...

I am not sure how fast you read and how fast your think but those should do it. If you have extra time, open a doc and for each essay, answer these questions: (1) What is relevant here for me that will help in 10 years from now? (2) What is relevant here for me that can help me right now? (3) What are 3 things that I can do right now to put what I read into practice.
> But can you use them? New Zealand power retailers install their own meters - you can't supply your own.

You can use you your own meters, but the last one facing the power grid is installed by the infrastructure provider. So you can mearsure with old refurbished meters your washing machine, swimming pool, etc. Ask your power infrastructure provider, they may sell you old analog and/or digital meters. And depending on the local law, you have the right to "say no" to the installation of a smart meter.

> Our local distributors have been spending lots of money installing new lines and upgrading the network

That's great. At my location the power infrastructure is the same since around 1960 (old wooden power poles on the country side, etc.) and the power line goes also from roof to roof, and if you want underground cable you have to pay it yourself. Almost every thunderstorm we have a short power-outage, because of the wooden poles. They only repair, and don't upgrade the infrastructure at all.

> the retailers are changing the meters because it means we get an accurate bill every month.

Where I live, central Europe, you have to read the traditional (analog or digital) meter yourself every month and send the data via email/postcard and someone controls your meter infrequently every few months/years at your location. If the device would be called digital meter (like the industrial ones) and send the data only once a week or month, it would be fine. On the other side the new smart meters send the data every 15 minutes over GPRS cell-phone technology.
This is irrelevant to cloning NFC-enabled cards. Neither Google Wallet nor ISIS broadcasts payment card NFC data when your phone is locked (or even when it's unlocked--usually you need to enter the app and then enter your PIN first).

What you really should be getting is an RF-shielded wallet for NFC-enabled cards. Your phone doesn't need anything shielding it, and most phones have sane permission models around how you permit apps to use your GPS.
> If I'm going to live in a surveillance state anyway

Well that's just it, isn't it. I view this kind of thing as absolutely inevitable, but it can happen covertly, with unknown motives, no transparency, no checks and balances - or overtly, for the good of society and with transparency.

To me, the surveillance state is kind of the flip side of the war on drugs. Drugs are impossible to fight and we may as well just bring it out into the open and regulate it. Well, this is the government version - it will happen, so let's bring it into the light. It's happening anyway, and is as unstoppable as the technology which enables it. We may as well accept that, and have a mature conversation about how to manage it for the good of all.
Perhaps they play it a lot more often at One-North. I'll see how often it's on this week. I was pretty sure it was non-stop.
Or as long as the government is not evil.
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I lived in Singapore for 5 years, and I still think it's a great place as long as you understand and follow the rules.
Or chew bubblegum (illegal here, fyi)
"Tokyo" replaced "Tokio" in about 1930:
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=tokyo.tokio
["Tokyo" is somewhat closer to the Japanese pronunciation]

"Muslim" replaced "moslem" in about 1988:
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=moslem.muslim
[Apparently for good reason: http://hnn.us/article/524 ]

"Peking" was replaced by "Peiping" in 1930, but it was back to "Peking" in 1962, and then finally changed to "Beijing" in 1985:
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=peking.beijing.peiping
WUWT is notorious for cherry picking data. Be very skeptical of their claims.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-19...
I doubt that any (non psychopathic) human can maintain that charade for very long. Even lying about your age will show inconsistencies and betray anchoring. You will give away far more than you think. Hence the advice to captured soldiers and arrests felons - name rank and serial number and shut up!
Xapo isn't the first to do this. ANXBTC[1] in Hong Kong has been doing this for a couple of months now.

And they ship the card to the US, among other countries.

[1]:http://debitcard.anxintl.com/
maybe its not the best idea to have a business model based on misclicks.
Read the link I posted. The quote comes from a 1919 decision against Charles Schenck's criticism of conscription. That is now clearly protected speech, and those writings from Holmes certainly do not form any "foundation of American attitudes towards free speech."

It's a lazy trick to try to appeal to authority, when all you are saying is that you think that "some speech should not be protected."
Kiasu is more like "fear of getting an A- when your peers got an A+". It's a fear of losing to other people, not a fear of loss.
Try www.breadnbeyond.com
Twitter's Users' Problem: Deliberately locking themselves into a monopoly waiting to be abused.
Schiphol is run the same way and is arguably more plush than changi, though both have nice outdoor areas behind security. Honestly, my layovers in changi seem like a drag, you run out of things to do waiting for that Mumbai or Bangalore connection.
That's a great idea but you really only need half of it. Design the experiments in enough detail that unrelated teams could conduct them, then publish the results no matter the outcome. That's probably enough to catch most of the loose research out there.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time...

> But those who quote Holmes might want to actually read the case where the phrase originated before using it as their main defense. If they did, they'd realize it was never binding law, and the underlying case, U.S. v. Schenck, is not only one of the most odious free speech decisions in the Court's history, but was overturned over 40 years ago.

> First, it's important to note U.S. v. Schenck had nothing to do with fires or theaters or false statements. Instead, the Court was deciding whether Charles Schenck, the Secretary of the Socialist Party of America, could be convicted under the Espionage Act for writing and distributing a pamphlet that expressed his opposition to the draft during World War I. As the ACLU's Gabe Rottman explains, "It did not call for violence. It did not even call for civil disobedience."

> In what would become his second most famous phrase, Holmes wrote in Abrams that the marketplace of ideas offered the best solution for tamping down offensive speech: "The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas -- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out."
I'm a native-born Singaporean, served the National Service, and what-nots. I'm also the developer of GOM Chrome extension (http://getgom.com/sg), a Web-VPN Chrome extension that bypasses MDA (Media authority of Singapore) filters with SPDY-SSL proxies.

I was going to write a long essay to lament how disgusting this article reads from the POV from a Singaporean , but well, I don't believe that the bulk of Singaporeans (who are largely in a blind pursuit of wealth via the rat's race) care enough, nor the government will get any better.
I don't understand how people can model epidemics like this. Isn't the infection and spread for something like ebola highly variable, and mostly a function of education and resources?

Unlike the Flu, which is easy to pass on, Ebola is hard to catch, and unlike HIV, has a fairly brief infectious period. The WHO could, with the assistance of local government, basically shut down this epidemic in a matter of months with field hospitals, education, and proper burial/isolation practices.

I'm not sure how you model that kind of response when trying to make future predictions.
William Gibson wrote a piece on Singapore for Wired in 1993, "Disneyland with the Death Penalty": http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html
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I agree that human brains co tinue to develop through the 20s.

In the UK CAMHS or CYPS (Child and adolescant mental health services or children and youn people services) have a hard cutoff at 18.

Someone who is 17 years 11 months old will be placed into a CYPS team and a CYPS in patient unit if needed, and someone who is 18 years and 1 day old will go to an adult team and adult inpatient units.

There are considerble problems at the moment with:

Transitioning from CYPS to adult services

Having enough inpatient beds for young people.

Young people either have to travel hundreds of miles to get a bed or they have to go into an adult unit. That's a serious breach of commissioning and regulators get involved.
Yup, not at the event but got to meet several of them. Very sharp folks all around.
I am guessing Twitter doesn't yet see 3rd party clients not showing ads as a big issue, because if it were, they would've shoveled them anyway through a simple T&C change. For larger client developers it'd be an offer they could not refuse, because they are as dependent on T for their revenue as it gets.
http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=germany.vietnam.iraq.r...
They promote harmony heavily in china (racial but mostly class-based), to the point that it has become somewhat of a joke: are you a harmonious river crab (和谐, 河鞋) or rebellious grass mud horse (...)?

Singapore is famous for the extreme of this, and the scary thing is it is China's main role model.
That's 10MCZ/day per account? What's to stop a person from opening multiple accounts?
I'm not clear from your comment whether HCE means I could in fact use it for PayWave (rather than just PayPass), despite the title? Would it work with Opal too for instance?
Well, if Instagram is making money from Twitter users, why is Twitter not asking Instagram for a share? It's a quite straight forward idea and I don't see why there should be a problem. If so many people share from Instagram to Twitter then certainly Instagram wouldn't have a problem paying for the API, right?
For me that's actually cheaper than what my bank charges for international transactions and transfers. I need this often enough that it would save me quite a bit of cash. Also there's no fee if you have existing bitcoins by the looks of things, so the 1% is just a convenience tax, afaik there are cheaper ways to buy bitcoins that circumnavigate this. I admit to not knowing much about bitcoin, but this product has piqued my interest as it might solve a few of my banking woes
>>> Ah, that's not totally fair. There's places to go that aren't shopping malls - I miss the hawker centres and food streets, and there's some great walking to be had.
Those usually get old after a few months/years..
There's definitely counterfeiting of cigarettes too, and obviously the safety of unregulated, falsely-labelled black-market counterfeits is not assured.
It is not just you. As a native Singaporean, I had to turn on my VPN to read this article and post this comment. I don't feel free here. It's not a nice feeling, despite the "superficial goodness" foreigners love to talk about.
I have PayWave too - can you explain why reading would work, but not actually using it to pay for things with your phone?
It is unique because it is caused by cheap labour who are not integrated, imported by the big G.
Ah, forgot the important part! Please email nathan at searchtempest.com to apply.
There's no real point - methane doesn't last long in the atmosphere.
Correct me please if I am wrong, but doesn't the Five Eyes agreement prevent members from spying on each other in exchange for better exchange of intelligence? Being in a Five Eyes country would likely reduce the amount of surveillance by other Five Eyes countries, not increase it.
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Even if you could (and you almost certainly couldn't) Rain would eventually fill the Mediterranean if you did.
He basically said there hasn't been enough time since the prohibition ended to see what its effects will be.

For instance, you can't tell if increased drug use will harm high school graduation rates if no one has graduated yet during the term of legalization.
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This is an opinion: "However, a seven month time period is not enough to read the experiment on many the variables claimed in the article (blight, drop outs, etc.)"

For one, it's wrong. Ever been to Amsterdam? It doesn't sound like it!
Also: “Note that there is a fee to store your coins in Xapo's Vault of 0.12% per year. The storage fee is charged in bitcoins and is calculated based on the number of coins you are transferring into the Vault.”
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When someone shoves "False Facts" like "Seven months is not enought time for X", that is an opinion. Who gives anyone the right to say "X Number of Months" is required for something non-specific? What a bunch of malarkey!

Nice job trying to elevate his opinion to a fact... you must agree with his biased opinion. As do everyone who has down-voted me.
It's probably worth it to take a look at brackets (http://brackets.io) as well; it has a lot of potential for seamless js debugging.
Hi Jeff... yep, all affiliate based at the moment.

I hear you on the content marketing - I think that's a good idea. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if the theme searching / browsing component was at least as good as the incumbents.
The fact that you had to go back to the 60s to find a similar incident helps the GP's point, not yours.

And do you have any supporting evidence for your claim that migrant labourers are any worse off in SG than they would be elsewhere, including their home countries? I had believed they were pretty well treated.

> the ambulance took forever and the guy who was ran over was dead by the time it came

Wonder how long it would have taken in India.
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Strange. I can usually access it fine by mobile (android stock browser).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa

Also, apparently done in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
Absolutely, it did change the clock speed of the processor (back then measured lower double-digit MHz/Megahertz).
Roles seem conceptually similar to Traits in Hack/PHP, right? If so, yeah, they're one of my favourite features, being able to rip out some common code and just do

use Something\CoolTrait;

inside of a class is just great!
You're overstating : I'm sitting in Holland Village (Singapore) reading HN just fine.
Conspiracy theories are less explanatory than the fairly simple "The utility company makes millions of truck rolls every month to do something that an API would do better, faster, and for free. Truck rolls are insanely expensive."
I'm starting to wish Orwell had never written anything, given how often people name-drop him in, apparently, every single conversation about trying to run or build a more efficient society.

How, how is it Orwellian? Is the power company determining whether you can have air conditioning based on your party loyalty and commitment in the 5 minutes hate?

Or maybe, and I know this will sound crazy to the most vocal HN people on this, it's a line item on your bill which lets you have a lower rate in exchange for allowing load management on a large, dumb energy hungry appliance?
It's a fun hypothetical exercise, but of course there are other factors. Post-glacial rebound means that Finland (for example) is rising at around 1cm per year. That would keep pace with quite a lot of ice melting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
FTR - The explosion showed on the screens is from the Mumbai 2006 blasts.
Nope, it's neither loaded nor paranoid, it's simply a conclusion from your justification that "no one knows what it takes to keep people safe". Either you believe that noone knows, but those people who decide in secret, in which case a secret police killing citizens should also be fine with you if they decide that that's what's needed, or you don't actually believe that justification yourself and do think that the public does actually have something meaningful to say on the topic, in which case you would at least have to justify why that would not apply to mass surveillance.

Now, if your stance is that spying on my private life (not being a US citizen, and not being a public/political/military figure either) by your government is something you like to support, then you are an asshole, in particular if you are at the same time telling me we are "friends". I mean, I hope you do see the difference between keeping tabs on foreign military and mass-surveilling the population of allies?
> Android Wear seems still in the experimental stage, but this app is not labeled a beta.

This is the impression I get, after using one for about a week. Not only does it seem rather unfinished, it's also quite buggy (some notifications never disappear, the navigation integration is basically unusable, and there was a point where I was getting no notifications and had to clear data for the Google Play Services app to get them back).

However, when it does work, it works brilliantly and I'm kind of lucky that it doesn't look monstrously big on my wrist, so I think I'm going to stick with it for now.
Actually, no, the Mediterranean evaporates faster than rain fills it. In the past, when the Straits of Gibraltar have been closed, it has dried out completely, or nearly so [1], and it's 5 kilometres deep!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messinian_salinity_crisis
Rumania vs Romania http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=rumania.romania