skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not prevent it. But around half the purchases in housing being for investment seems a bit distorted. As far as regulation I would start by encouraging lending to productive parts of the economy (business, innovation, startup, infrastructure, etc.) and limit lending for rent-seeking activities like market speculation.
The linked abstract is somewhat clearer:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7537/full/nature1...

The specific tensile strength and ductility of the developed steel improve on those of the lightest and strongest metallic materials known, titanium alloys

So presumably it is stronger and somewhat more workable than titanium.
Depends on whether you measure earning potential in pounds or houses. Someone earning £50k in an area of £250k houses is being paid 0.2 houses per annum. If they can get £40k in an area of £100k houses their spending power has gone up not down.

If only it weren't so necessary to be physically present for the work.
Negative gearing is not a banking regulation, it's a tax subsidy.
Works for me in Firefox 34.0.5, default settings. Would be great if you could post instructions on how to reproduce at https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/SqueakJS/issues
Isn't this a pretty good argument against shell scripts? I feel like we've advanced far enough in PL research to think of something a bit safer
3 reasons why the C# type system is broken, and how F# improves the situation
@ https://zeckul.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/3-reasons-why-the-c-...
Firefox Nightly. Oddly enough, the page loads fine on my laptop with the same browser. I'll diff my configs and see if anything interesting shows up.
I like the experiment it proposes, although I wish someone else tried it first.
I didn't mis-quote you. I quoted verbatim two linked and adjacent sentences from your comment. What you claim to be the "actual quote" was the second sentence (which I quoted) and the one that followed it (which I didn't). I didn't misrepresent what you wrote.

I'll say it again: "...genetically gifted individuals having children together" and "The fit only mate with other fit individuals" is not what evolution is. Forms of life (including humans) have sometimes evolved strategies that try to allow them to select mates based on fitness, but the emergence of these strategies also allows those that use bluff and deception to gain an advantage by deceiving fitter mates into mating with them. "Fitness" here isn't some linear value, its multi-dimensional.

Also, the very idea of individuals being "genetically gifted" is fairly meaningless. In a sense, every living human is genetically gifted because we possess genes that allowed every one of our ancestors over the last 2.4 million years to survive long enough to successfully reproduce. Most of the ones that tried didn't manage that.

Survival of genes (not individuals) is what counts. Evolution doesn't have a purpose and it doesn't result in progress ("accelerating the spread of traits which make them fit", as you put it). I just tried to point that out.
That's not what doxxing is. This is a privacy breach. Doxxing is taking an anonymous user account and turning it in to a real person.

A pertinent example of doxxing is what the FBI did to linking DPR to Ross Ulbricht due to the mistake he made on a bulletin board.
I'm enrolled in that class. In the introductory lecture Professor Klein shows a flowchart of the course†. This is the best course overview I've ever seen in any math class! I've spent /semesters/ in math sequences thinking "how the #@%! does this all fit together?!?!"

He says: "Don't try to read it all. It's a map... It's there to help you keep track of where you are and where we're going." Every professor should do that for their course. And every department should put up a big poster with something similar: these are the subject areas you will study, how they relate to each other, and the courses that cover those areas; if you choose this specialization these are the areas you'll focus on. Put-out a mind-map of the subject area that relates to the available courses—help students start building Elon Musks' mental-hyperloop / semantic-tree.

†: http://picpaste.com/Screen_Shot_2015-02-05_at_1.58.47_AM-AnX...
available on the course website: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs053/current/graphical-outline....
††: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2rgsan/i_am_elon_musk...
I thought the Palm was a great little PDA. I had a Palm Tx tethered to a (yellow cased-forgot brand) GPS. The setup relly worked well for me. I remember being at a Goodguy's
closing sale at 9 p.m., and debating on buying 300 units of
Halo 2 for $5 each. Drove to library, got a signal, found a price and happily went back and bought the games. At the time, I couldn't figure out why more people didn't carry around a wifi PDA? I wasen't a tech guy back at that time.
I guess it's all in the marketing? It's funny--at that time--I felt for the first time I had a tool I could use to
hedge the competition. Jump to a few years later, everyone
is on the same playing field.
Well, picking a shorter commute is a reasonable choice to make. Longer commutes don't take time from work, they take time from family, and are associated with higher divorce rates, at least amongst Swedes.

In a city like Melbourne, where I live, there's a lot of development which could still be done to reach a reasonable medium-density of 3-4 story apartment buildings in the suburbs immediately circling the CBD. It is being done, but not to such an extent that housing prices will stop rising. I really wonder what this city will look like in another 20 years, as people are pushed further and further out but the work is still centralised.
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Of course they had to bring Sarkeesian into it, again.

This person gets way more exposure than she deserves.
There are pockets outside London where demand for developers is very high. Don't be fooled into thinking it's London or nothing for the UK workforce. I'm in Central Scotland, and there's a thriving tech thing going on here.
Property isn't quite a zero sum game; as the last few years have show the overall losses from a crash outweigh the benefits of lower prices and greater liquidity to people without houses (especially if the result is that people without houses can't get mortgages even after the prices have fallen)

That's not to say there shouldn't be more pressure put on property price appreciation, not to mention confiscatory levels of capital gains tax on property speculators that aren't tax-resident in the UK. But inducing a property price crash (as opposed to slowing property price inflation) would be a bad move for the economy as a whole, as well as electoral suicide in a country where the majority of the population have a mortgage or own their house outright.
> Losing weight is also dead simple, just as quitting smoking or getting off drugs, but many can't do it. Learning is no different, it takes certain minimal level of power of will to be able to make it.

You say that losing weight is dead simple, and that you need minimal level of will power to achieve it, but then you say that many people can't achieve it.

Can you see there's some disonance there?
I don't find QoS at odds with Net Neutrality. High Netflix usage on an ISP's network shouldn't kill voice calls or interactive applications.

Deciding what goes into the 'video' 'voice' 'p2p' QoS buckets is (and will always be) fuzzy... The litmus test is 1) is payment involved? and 2) what are the offerings of the company who owns the pipes?

You don't get to charge YouTube for higher QoS over Netflix, nor can 'TimeWarner Telepresence' work fine during peak periods but FaceTime and Skype do not.
The "relentless" part is critical for whether insults (or even just continued asking of questions or repeating points) are harassment. Especially if the insult isn't profane - e.g. "idiot". To what extent is it OK to tell someone they are being an "idiot" or "are an idiot" when they say something idiotic. Some people have even taken to being insulted by being called "sexist" or "racist".

The difficulty comes when someone is relentlessly harassed by a large group such that each individual's insults on their own wouldn't be harassment. The recipient is being harassed but I'm not sure what the correct response is in this case. Also it is difficult to see the size of the group and who is actually involved if there are many throwaway anonymous accounts. There is also a hard to make distinction between a large group responding to something and calling it out following it being retweeted (which might briefly feel like harrassment) and a group organising and deliberately trolling people or jumping into every conversation they have.

These are tricky questions and I don't have answers to everything. Threats of violence while horrible are at least a simple and clear cut case that can be responded to (ideally with at least a police visit/warning rather than just a ban from the service). That does not make them the only sort of real harassment but it is in a way easy to deal with.
Once they can get it to fit in a contact or use BCI with a phone...
.NET!

C# - Project Orleans -> http://vimeo.com/113730934

F# - Path to relaxation -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_iMgFAY0lk

Xamarin - iOS/Android/Windows Phone apps using F#/C# -> http://xamarin.com/
Large data (file contents) is stored in IndexedDB, only settings and file meta data in localStorage.
That would be a bit of an overkill now, 1 parity bit for every 8 bits of information? Also, text is a representation format, not a transfer/storage format, so I reckon it's not really the job of the character encoding to do error detection.

Yes, I know, I'm taking this way too seriously. :)
I bought that book and was kind of disappointed - the stories are pretty hit and miss. I did like that particular story though.
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Show HN: Evolving the parking UX
Depletion of the social housing stock was an explicit objective of the policy. It was part of a transfer of power from the labour-controlled ""collectivist"" councils. That's why they were prevented from spending the revenue on new housebuilding.

It gives people ownership of their houses, not their communities. It's a micro version of the general privatisation problem of selling public assets at a discount for the benefit of private interests; it's just a variant that everyone's allowed a crack at, like the royal mail shares.
Informally, a dram is usually just a regular (perhaps smallish) serving of scotch. Usually between 1 and 2 fingers high in a regular scotch glass.
Is it gone? My English is not the best but I would interpret the google plus status they are reffering to not as closing down but as "Hey we move to our own offices, beta is over, no new beta devices. We tell you when the final release will be available for purchase."

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleGlass/posts/9uiwXY42tvc
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Why do you repost that over and over again?
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While it's undoubtedly very cool to build something very, very ... very, very tall, what would such a tower be used for?
I'd love to see a proper study on this, but my experience with almost all of these homeschooled individuals (including myself) is that we are definitely 'weird', but in spite of that, or I suspect because of that, we somehow all do very well in our own unique ways. Many of us are freelancers, consultants, or creative workers, where fitting in is not so important, and being a bit odd is sometimes even celebrated. We often find similarly-weird partners and friends.

Weirdness, in my opinion, is a very good trait, provided you can be 'normal' enough when you have to be. Most homeschooled kids I know spent part of their lives in the normal system, or had extra-curricular activities in more normal social settings, though.

Furthermore, I know many more people who were seriously damaged because of the social interactions in school.

And when you think about it, that kind of makes sense. It seems (relatively) more healthy to me for a kid to spend most of his time with a mix of adults and other kids, often within a strong community-setting, rather than stuck in a classroom with only other kids of their age and an often slightly disinterested teacher (or one going through the motions).
That's totally fair. However I feel that considering the current state of harrasment on Twitter, a simple definition is appropriate and will be more effective in practice than a more nuanced approach. I certainly hope Twitter and its trolls clean up their act to a state when we would have the luxury of using impartial judges.
Ross Ulbricht found guilty on all counts
Why should it be a month
The "relentless" part is critical for whether insults (or even just continued asking of questions or repeating points) are harassment. Especially if the insult isn't profane - e.g. "idiot". To what extent is it OK to tell someone they are being an "idiot" or "are an idiot" when they say something idiotic. Some people have even taken to being insulted by being called "sexist" or "racist".

This is another sort of claim that pops up a lot in freeze peach[1] debates, where we pretend that reasonable people do not exist, and treat all claims as somehow equal and thus intractable. This is complete nonsense, and something the sane society largely doesn't have as much of a problem with as the internet does, at least as argued by those still desperate to defend the right to an audience for invective.

[1]http://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2013/05/free-sp...
But Perl 5 is _not_ dead. The camel lives, and has two humps. The "lost decade" cannot be ascribed only to Perl 6. Developers were leaving in droves to newer dynamic languages of the same generation (Python, PHP, and eventually Ruby).

I can agree that it had an influence, but I'm sick of the Perl 5 perspectives that a) the language is flawless and only an idiot would choose something else, b) Perl 6 pointed to flaws which don't exist because hand-waving, Rule A, etc.

Perl 5 has fundamental problems. At first Perl 6 was an attempt to solve those problems without a complete compatability break. That proved impossible, so the scope expanded to be a new Perl.

"But it's painting a bad picture of Perl 5!"

Perl 5 painted it's own picture, I'm sorry to say. The toxicity of p5p, the constant "this language is fine why are you making a new one", the over-confidence that Perl 5 is a pinnacle of how you can design a Perl language... these are Perl 5 things, and they belong to Perl 5. Yet I rarely see Perl 5 programmers owning to these facts.

It's just tired. You yourself did a great job in breathing new life into Perl 5, as part of the Modern Perl movement, which takes as its starting point that Perl 5 allows some seriously flawed programming. Techniques and ideas borrowing from Perl 6 are used to make life easier in Perl 5, developed during the "lost decade".

So, I'm sticking to my position that this whole line of thinking is just tired. For outsiders, Perl 5 was a non-starter because of all the flaws with the language, not because another version was in the pipeline that promised to fix those flaws.

FWIW, I program in Perl 5 every day, and I really enjoy the language.
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Sorry, but I simply dont recognise the description of what it "used to be like"...

Prior to LinkedIn, agents were just as bad, in fact I now consider LinkedIn to be the source of high quality job leads.

For reference, I'm an contract embedded software engineer who uses and regularly gets both LinkedIn and regular agent traffic. I've also got 20 years experience of this job market.

This article is simply wrong.
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>The Economist article is written with the presumption that there are are problems that need non-neutrality in order to be solved and that there is thus a tradeoff of some sort to be made.

This is the absolute classic form of media psychic manipulation: present a false choice and allow endless debate within this window but never question what might lie outside it. Additionally, one side of the debate is accepted as the default and alternatives are only evaluated relative to this one viewpoint.

Another current example is the "work life balance" "debate" as it relates to social media. We are constantly told that we should "unplug" and "find time for ourselves," assuming that the majority of the time we are "plugged" and devoting our energies, via elaborate and exciting abstractions, to some distant venture capital fund.

One relevant term of art here is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
I think a lot of people here sympathise with him because geeks have a libertarian bent. We believe that we know what's best for ourselves, and assume that other people do as well.
Similar concerns are discussed frequently even here in Holland. For example, where in the past people would mingle 'across' class through religious affiliation, secularization changed that dynamic. Gentrification in the cities is pushing immigrants and the lower classes out to the periphery while yuppies and rich people concentrate in the desirable center. While our schools are still pretty mixed, there does seem to develop and increasing schism between different classes.

Increasingly homogenous 'family units', decrease in contact with extended family, neighbors, and via religious affiliation might have a much bigger effect on society than we are currently aware of.

EDIT: Not to mention a strong increase in freelancers and as a result a decrease in long-term work relationships (with 'the company' and with colleagues).
> I don't think anonymity is the real issue, although it makes trolling easier.

Anonymity isn't the real issue (though it's a compounding factor), the issue is how easy throwaway accounts are to create: for victims of abuse, it's not possible to "manage" abuse by blocking abuser accounts because within seconds they can be on a new yet-to-be-blocked account. In fact, I'd expect most serial abusers don't even bother waiting, they create an account, throw a salvo of abuse, create a new account, new salvo, and the account creation can be trivially automated.

If accounts are either cheap and unique (based on "real-world" identity) or relatively expensive (time-wise) but anonymous, the ability to block people becomes far more useful for the serially abused.
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She is clearly receiving harassment and is prepared to publish it, why the hell wouldn't they bring her into it? And if you think she gets too much exposure why did you mention her?

I'm only aware of her because of the harassment her and others have received. The people trying to silence her with abuse are amplifying their opponents and discrediting themselves and proving the need for change in these areas. There are clearly some people going out of their way to try to bully vocal women into silence and I'm glad it isn't working.
I would have thought game engines would require a strong grounding in maths across a lot of their "moving parts"? Not being dismissive, just curious how you found working in that environment without strong maths skills.
Well, there's plenty of legacy code laying around that may be easier to improve and fix than completely rewrite. In fact, I just presented this tool to my co-workers as a suggestion to clean over 150KLOC of shell scripts we have laying around.
There are plenty of people who are fine being vile human beings on their normal accounts under their real names.

http://www.salon.com/2014/12/10/whats_up_with_the_rag_head_w...

> “What terrorist group does this guy belong too?”

> “this is horrible, Facebook should be promoted by a different person, i have lost a lot of respect for Facebook because of there choice to use this person.”

> “Can I borrow your towel on your head I ran out of toilet paper please sir?”

> “What’s up with the rag head?”

> “Get that Isis terrorist off of your ad”

> “Get this camel jockey off my news feed pronto!”
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to cast a shadow over the rest of town :)
It's not easy when everything you can imagine is taken. All possible combinations of words that are in a dictionary are taken.
Coming from experiencing extreme verbal abuse offline, id counter by expressing how even just talking about and repeating forms of verbal abuse is dangerous.

Maturing moderation through systems such as Aether (http://www.getaether.com) is going to need free speech to evolve systems to filter freely.

Social media support group systems struggle with talking about trouble directly because we're waging war on words, when we still need to start addressing battles.
But "simple" doesn't necessarily mean "easy". The simplest way to get a boulder up a hill is to push it with enough force.
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My personal opinion is that the need to physically be at your job will only diminish in the future. I honestly believe that VR will eventually offer a lot of potential for virtual office spaces that give you the illusion of being there but let you sit comfortably at home.

Of course I may just be a dreamer and we'll continue to see housing prices skyrocket as we try to cram 10's of millions of people into small geographical areas- I'm certainly not dismissing that possibility.
Yeah, the UK skirted the UN for the Falklands, but Argentina didn't?
X technology destroyed Y job. This is not new, impossible to stop and a waste of time to whine about.

Instead our time is better used developing our skillset to be able to stay in the market probably focusing on the Z job that was created with the same new technology.
Errr... have you been following the Battersea Power Station development at all?
You read all that harassment and the only thing you can comment on is the one "Fuck Off" included there?
Ask HN: Does anybody know what 'searchbenny' is?
I installed Skype on a new mac and then bing hijacked my Chrome and Safari and now I can't get rid of it...And also when I search for something it goes to search.searchbenny.com, is this a virus? Anyone know how to remove?
Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour [pdf]
Just spent some time sending my scripts to this site for it to analyse and see what it does.
I can see that while it wasn't be able to tell me of more efficient code to achieve my goal (wasn't really hopping for that), it did spot 1) one liners where some commands are not needed, 2) variables which are not used, 3) where I should use double quotes to prevent word splitting and 4) lines where my ssh was eating up my stdin.

What a great sanity check for the days when I'm writing something on my own without a second pair of eyes to proof-read it.
This looks really cool but... Carbs, protein, fat and... cheese?
You're right, but so far information overload has been mitigating these issues. All that information may be out there but we can only look at it very selectively, which limits our ability to draw conclusions from it.

For instance, imagine an embarrassing picture that shows you doing something stupid in an obviously intoxicated state. OK, so you were very drunk one night in 2005. So what? Millions of others were too. But what if everything publicly known about you could be mined for clues as to whether or not you have an alcohol problem?

I think that is what we should think about every time some company tells us "we don't ever look at your data, only our algorithms do" while the same company is busy working on AI stuff that draws conclusions from data.
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Scala.js no longer experimental
>I can't stand the '.' syntax. Someone that doesn't know python would have no idea if those are method calls or what.

How is what someone who DOESN'T know Python would think relevant?

That said, after even the smallest familiarity with the language, he sees that it's obviously not method calls unless it ends in ().

Someone who doesn't know Lisp also doesn't know what (foo 4 2) or (quote foo 4 2) is.
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