skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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).

If you were to 'speak' Perl verbatim, you probably would start frothing at the mouth (from exertion, not from a deadly disease).
I'm guessing that $7 isn't a big deal to you, and that you don't ever chose between legal drugs, or food and illegal drugs. The person you're quoting is specifically talking about poor people. Allowing those people to grow and sell cannabis, rather than forcing them to buy it from expensive state shops, would probably be a good thing all round. It might help reduce the amazing levels of violence in Mexico.

> How many adults buy their booze illegaly today? none.

What do you mean? "How many people make, sell or buy 'moonshine'?" - probably very very few people. (a quick search shows this: http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91768)

But if you mean "How many people are arrested for buying alcohol in one country (or state) and transporting it across a border?" - well, I don't know but searches turn up results to show that it does happen. http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/InTheNews/Etc/1077647092.htm... http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/InTheNews/Etc/20070112112826... etc etc

I'm guessing that more people are arrested for illegal spirits in Alabama ($18.23 tax per gallon) than in Colorado ($2.28 tax per gallon) http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-sales-gasoline-cigare...
Now that is just cute. Paying fee for them "storing" my deposits?? Seems wrong. I assume they themselves lend the bitcoins in their possession to others, this is where banks make most money after all. Unless of course Xapo actually has tunneled vaults deep in the mountains of Tai Mo Shan where they store shiny piles and piles of bitcoins...
hey everett, just because you are so ahead of the curve i used my "send 1000, receive 1000" new stellar account promo on you..well deserved, spend wisely...
Don't know about NZ, but in Australia the networks own the meters, and the law is clear: you connect to the grid, you must give them access to their network gear. And they send over their own meter readers.
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This is one I've been wondering about for awhile:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=cooperation.co-operati...

I thought the change happened somewhere around the 80-90's. Guess it depends on the country also.
> but doesn't the Five Eyes agreement prevent members from spying on each other in exchange for better exchange of intelligence

Quite the opposite: the Five Eyes countries circumvent their laws against using their espionage agencies for domestic spying by handing the domestic data over to an ally for analysis. So the GCHQ spy on US citizens with the tacit agreement of the NSA and vice versa.
Oh right, that makes sense; constant acceleration implies constant force, and work is force*distance. As the meters tick by more rapidly, the motor performs the same work in less time, and thus the required power increases.

Which means, "a reactionless drive is like a car in space" would be a nonsensical concept without a preferred reference frame.
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Close-to-zero crime rates happen in most places in most developed countries. Depending on the news, the few that do happen can be spun either way. On the other hand, this enforced harmony stuff sounds terrifying as hell, and a government without oversight is a disaster waiting to happen.
Conversations about Singapore in the Anglosphere have always been more about projection than the reality of Signapore.

It's fairly common to laud Singapore as a kind of libertarian paradise, for example, while gliding over the government's heavy control over land use, for example.
We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. Elon Musk is surely right in saying that AI could be more dangerous than nukes. With the advancement in Machine Learning techniques we are moving to that point.
Same for me with regular glasses but reading glasses for far-sightedness is another issue as you can't put them on temporarily while driving.
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And that's correct!
"One of the big deal about current strain is that it doesn't manifest symptoms until 1-3 weeks which gives plenty of time for virus to spread"

""The patients become contagious once they begin to show symptoms. They are not contagious during the incubation period.""

Source: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/faq-ebola/en/
Yes, the worst is mass extinction because the worst greenhouse-effect gas is water vapor. The risk with human-generated chemicals is that they bootstrap a transfer of ocean water into the atmosphere in a vicious circle: more heat => more evaporation => more heat. The Earth could become as hot as Venus. I don't think scientists have enough informations to tell if the Earth would have ways to stop this circle. Even if it did, the event would be bad for humans.
Probably not needed for VirtualBox, it's very easy to use.

I do all of my work and web browsing in a VM to keep my main OS as clean as possible.
"In 1961, Les Earnest, who headed the research on this budding technology, saw it necessary to include the first spell checker that accessed a list of 10,000 acceptable words."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker
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lol - you're aware that most web browsers are written in C++?
The 1% fee is separate from the debit-card, it's just a way to buy bitcoin which isn't super easy and frictionless everywhere in the world. Of coure this is improving rapidly globally.

So why buy bitcoin in the first place? Well, bitcoin itself represents a financial system with much more autonomy, as, if you'd like, you could store your money yourself (and not with Xapo, after buying bitcoin there) instead of e.g. at a bank.

This may not sound like a big deal for people in OECD countries, but look at Cyprus where many lost funds in their banks after the government essentially seized them. Look at places like Argentina with high inflation rates, there are numerous places with rates beyond 15-25% for whom owning bitcoin may be a better solution.

And then there's the fact that bitcoin allows cheap transfer of value once you have it. Perhaps not great to buy some orange juice in the US, but if you're remitting money back home (global average of 9%), paying 1% is a bargain as crazy as that sounds.

And lastly there's the general idea of simply supporting a nascent bitcoin ecosystem. It's not much different from people spending 10% more on a fair-trade product, or a product that has harms animals less. It may be exactly the same quality, more expensive, yet attractive for more ideological supporting reasons.
on a different angle, "smartphone" first occurrence in 1998, which matches with wikipedia reporting it in 1997 from Ericsson
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True, although they did waive the $15 fee for these early-birds, and of course the product is completely optional. You can say no thanks whenever you want. I also wouldn't say THEY decided. You can't create your own debitcard, well you could but no merchant would accept it. You need a partnership with an existing network, they have one with VISA, which means they had to negotiate terms on a card and this is probably the best they could come up with given they're a relatively small unproven company in the debitcard space. Although it was naive and sloppy to not have communicated earlier that it'd be unlikely to be able to negotiate a completely free card with a partner like VISA, sure.
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I'd love to hear some examples, particularly recent.

I was personally impressed by how light handed the country was with its enemies; for example, communist agitators and Chinese agents were merely exiled from the country (and in some cases later allowed back in), rather than jailed or executed as is more common in the region and in other "right wing" flavored governments.
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Funny, how years get born and then forgotten over time:

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=2010.2000.1990.1980.19...

There is a little anticipation in the preceding years, then a big explosion in the year itself and then slow decline in the following years.
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The history of, and explanations for, the varieties of names for Beijing ('northern capital') is so complex and detailed that it gets its own wikipedia page:

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

See also [1]: Bosat Man, Backhill/Peking/Beijing (1990), which is not currently included as a reference in the above wikipedia article.

[1] http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp019_peking_beijing....
Actually some RFID card standards (Mifare for example) have card selection and anti collision built in, so it would still be possible to read the correct card without interference.
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It's not that bad. Firstly the account is rate-limited. a 4-digit pin has 1/10k chance of getting it right, you get a few chances. It's about the same chance of being killed by an airplane hitting you, or being killed by a grizzly bear.

Then there's the 2FA the account has. Meaning if you have $50 on your account, you can secure it with a quick pincode. If you have $50k on your account, you can add extra authentication.

In fact, 2FA can be set up not just for login or for entering what is called the 'vault' (which by the way, is an insured product), but it can also be configured specifically for daily payments above a threshold, of say $50 a day.

That vault, the insured product, has an additional password by the way. So you can have a pin, a password, 2FA and spending limits AND the bitcoins themselves are insured by them.

So it's not as bad as you might think :p
You shouldn't confuse the subconscious with the unconscious. The former is part of Freud's legacy and rejected by most mainstream psychology, while the latter is widely recognized as an important concept.
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If you're on a Mac and don't need to interact with the DOM, you always use Safari's SquirrelFish:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/18751978

I mention it in case someone finds it useful, I'm not implying that it provides the same feature set as this GitHub project.
No I don't think so. The currency conversion as I understand it is when e.g. a European customer gets a Xapo card linked to an EU issuer, when he or she makes purchases say in India with that card, there's a currency conversion. These are rare occurrences and no different from other cards (that tend to charge lower for fx conversion, like 2% though)

The currency conversion fee doesn't relate to regular payments which are completely free. (except of course, for merchants paying 1-3% on any card transaction from anyone pretty much)
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Often said by tourists. Singapore is a lot less online that similarly developed Western nations (in part because professional PR staff game all the ratings and reviews), so it's harder to source the nice places. But it has a thriving "hipster" (for lack of a better word) scene and if you're willing to dig a bit, you can have as much fun as in London or Sydney, without ever stepping into a mall. My advice would be to ask local friends for recommendations.

I also think that MacRitchie Reservoir Park is a lot more fun to walk around (with its giant lizards, multicolored parrots, flying squirrels, hordes of monkeys and general lack of crowds) than Hyde Park or Central Park.
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They use "internet" a more than either "www" or "world wide web". http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=internet.www.%22world%...

Comparing some of the social networks is interesting: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=twitter.facebook.myspa...

They didn't change connexion to connection: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=connexion.connection

No pedophile or paedophile before 1986? http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=paedophile.pedophile

I'm vaguely interested about why aluminium has peaks between 1955 and 1970 (although it's always much lower than aluminum) http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=aluminum.aluminium

A couple of words show small peaks from 2010:

metre http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=meter.metre

labour http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=labour.labor
Maybe it's just me, but I've never seen a use for traits. Any time I need to reuse logic across classes, I'll make it a proper class and compose it in as a member.

What sort of functionality do you use traits for?
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It's not the only security. In short there's a rate-limited pincode, 2FA, spending limits plus a password for your vault, and they offer insurance against lost bitcoins that you didn't cause.
Another committee of scientists -- another IRB board -- probably would have not allowed the study.

Therefore, the parent's appeal to the IRB process as the harbinger of ethics is misguided.

If any IRB would deem a study ethical, then there's probably consensus among the scientific community on the cost-benefit tradeoff of the study. If one IRB deemed the study ethical, and if there're probably a lot of other potential IRBs that would not, then appealing to some sort of scientific consensus on the matter is a misnomer.
It works perfectly with my cards. I can't open the office door if my paypass is too close. My city card (basically a fancy name for a long-term bus ticket) also interferes with both of these two.
>What singles out PAP is that throughout its existence, it has offered the citizen exactly what they want and has had overwhelming popular support as a result.

While it is undoubtedly popular among a certain portion of its citizens, this is not the whole story. PAP is highly UNpopular among a lot of its citizens as well. Elections usually go 60/40 by the popular vote even though at best the opposition wins one or two constituencies. There's a huge number of disaffected people out there.

The US embassy wikileaks memo on the opposition kind of explains why:

https://wikileaks.org/cable/2004/10/04SINGAPORE3001.html

tl;dr:

* They have no real ideology other than "stay in power" (so can and do co-opt some opposition policies like 'increase class sizes' with ease).

* PAP have become absolute masters of divide and conquer.
They pull a lot of tricks to prevent the opposition parties from uniting.

* They use legal means to quash the opposition - the most common being suing them into bankruptcy for libel.

* They have a stranglehold on the media with one or two exceptions (e.g. the notoriously crazy "The Real Singapore" website). The opposition has essentially no media presence on TV or in newspapers - only online.

Much as it irritates me the way that people describe the country as being a dictatorship, I find it equally irritating they deem many of the policies designed to cement the PAP's stranglehold on power as "pragmatic and necessary".

No, there's no real reason why Singaporeans couldn't enjoy equal rights similar to those of a Norwegian or an American (or at least, a pre-9/11 American). But, people are so used to the PAP and are kind of incapable of separating their fantastic policies (mercantilism / heavy investment in public infrastructure) from their corrupt ones (maintaining a stranglehold on the press/suing the opposition into oblivion).
Gent and Brussels had connections to the Scheldt, but never were on the coast.

As to the building of 75m high dikes: problem would be how one would get rid of the water of the Rhine and Meuse. Pump it up 75m into the sea?

The Dutch would make an economical assessment at some time, and will likely give up polders as a result. That has happened on small scale already.

I think the most likely mid term scenario would be to get to a state where sea defenses are built not to keep the sea away, but to keep waves caused by storms away, and to have floating municipalities (floating, say, the center of Amsterdam would be a nice technical challenge)

Alternatively, one could slowly move the population to Germany (if the area of livable land diminishes, this likely will happen naturally). 5000 years is a long time.
Twitter should really allow advertising to your existing following.

I have an account for one of my projects that I use to announce new releases and updates. This happens once every few weeks, so I would pay for an option to stick my tweet at the top of my followers' feeds for, say, a week. If Twitter would then also allow people to unstick a tweet after reading it (or opt out of sticked tweets altogether), I think it'd be a great and welcome feature to have for everyone involved - TWTR gets paid, I get more eyes on my tweet and others won't miss my updates, which is what they followed me for to begin with.
Or fear of missing out on a table at Kopitiam, booking 6 seats for your 2 friends with a couple tissue packets at rush hour whilst you spend half an hour choosing what stall to get lunch from. One of these days I'll muster the courage to sweep one of these aside...
The thing is, in the US it's a fairly recent development, whereas in Singapore it's intrinsic to how the government works.

Yes, the US have periodic bouts of widespread semi-fascist repression (McCarthy, GWB etc), but they traditionally subside after a few years. TIA eventually generated Snowden, for instance, and in 20 years time it's very much possible that we'll look back at early 2000's paranoia as a dark age of sort. There is no indication of this ever happening in Singapore.

It might be due to issues of scale (repressing 3m people is much easier than doing the same to 400m) or culture (the whole Constitution / Freedom mindset in the US is very different from the "community first" approach more typical of Asian countries), but that's how it is.
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Constantinople vs Istanbul shows a nice clean switch: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=constantinople.istanbu...

Burma vs Myanmar is messier http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=burma.myanmar
> "By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley"

That would be Lord Christopher Monckton, notorious climate quack.
Do you have a point, or are you just being pedantic? That is, is there some essence of your position which I haven't adequately addressed? If so, what is that essence?

FWIW Your original statement is referentially transparent wrt the meaning of 'writing' an algorithm ("I specifically referred..."). You were clarifying what you meant by this phrase. So the substitution of your intended meaning into your original statement is justified; in fact, is the entire purpose of your clarification. Otherwise you're just giving a definition with absolutely no context or purpose.
I understand what you are saying, and if this were the Flu, then I would totally agree with you. But this is a terrible disease that has a lot of people's attention. The WHO is about to invest $100 Million (http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/07/calling-ebola-outbrea...) in curtailing it.

I have to believe that this disease would spread completely differently, under the scenarios (A) No external intervention, (B) WHO invests $100 mm in stopping it, and (C) World community jumps on this immediately and invests $1B to immediately curtail it.

In each of those three different scenarios, the epidemic would progress differently. Perhaps it's being modeled under (A), and things will work out better than expected. We can only hope.
Compare that to Myanmar / Burma, who also ask people to use the Myanmar form. Since it's not a democratic government there is some resistance to the new name.

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=burma.myanmar
That just means your office doors aren't configured properly and don't know which card to talk to and choose to do nothing in this case. The reader could very well talk to one card (or both) without interference.
I think that many people here bristle (me included) at the notion of treating electricity as nonfungible. I think there are at least two reasons for that:

* There seems to be a slippery slope once power companies start to care what do you use your electricity for.
* People are possesive of stuff that is inside their home and do want to retain control over it.

I think most of those people (me included) would be happy to have a varying price of electricity instead.
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Hey

To make it very short and clear: recommend me online IDEs for (web) development. Browser-based, extension or not. Paid and free, both work.

I know of Cloud9 and Nitrous.IO. I'm planning to pick one for myself, and make a comparison website for the WWW.

To make an extensive list of the available possibilities.

Thanks a lot in advance.
> Android Wear seems still in the experimental stage, but this app is not labeled a beta.

That seems to be how Google is doing things now. Look at Google Glass. It's listed on the Play Store as 'explorer edition' and marketed on the page not as an experimental product but as something hikers, cyclists, photographers etc. should use. It's actually quite dishonest especially considering it costs £1,000.
Here's an interactive map, showing how it would look before and after as well as simulated floods for different level increases:

http://flood.firetree.net/
Having two cards next to each other may well make the illusion of preventing the cards from working as quite a lot of readers will refuse to communicate with a card if there is more than one in range (sensible for some applications). This does not mean, however, that they are not capable of doing so - the first thing a reader does is get all the cards in range to broadcast their UID - it then uses this UID to select a card to talk to.

When I was cracking mifare cards (used as authentication in many buildings) I found that it was significantly quicker to crack several cards at the same time than to crack them individually - this is because the attack that I was using required demagnetising the card hundreds of times which takes a lot longer than any communication with the card.

I could crack a single mifare card in 5 seconds, I could crack 5 in 6 seconds (and for most applications cracking one card is all you need - all cards use the same encryption key).
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Most of these things seem nice but are actually a bad idea. Many of the rest are already implemented or in the process of being implemented. A couple of them are good ideas which are awkward to implement due to politics (e.g. the licence) or backwards compatibility.

Still, I enjoyed reading the post, and it is good to see people looking to improve OCaml and make suggestions.
Water vapour has a very short life cycle in the atmosphere, so while it's theoretically the worst, it's not actually particularly bad in the long term, and it's not likely to change by much. There's also some question as to the cooling effect of clouds.

CO2 on the other hand, stays in the atmosphere for quite a few years (30-95 according to wikipedia), so it's far worse in the long term.