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It is interesting they are using some context for each bit of knowledge, though it is rather too simple.

In my view, this is one of the under-appreciated areas of knowledge engineering. The exact context underpins the truth of every fact. "The iPhone is the best selling smartphone." is only true for certain places, and certain times. It is definitely not true before 2007, because iPhones didn't exist for sale yet. It may not be true is some country where it isn't even available.

Other facts like "Using marijuana is illegal." are also dependent on context. In some places in the United States, for example, that may be true and false simultaneously (true in the federal law context, false in the state law context).

And that's just in the real world. We will also want general reasoning systems to be able to operate in hypothetical, historical, or even fictional contexts.
Bullshit. The bulk connection was not found unconstitutional, it was found illegal because the Patriot act didn't authorise it.
A shame. They did a lot of good during their time in government as well as the bad.
can we conclude that it's basically become a game at this point? place your bets, manipulate where you can, and hope you sell before the other guy does?
Are there any guidelines/docs on running Nix in an existing distro? I'd love to play around with it without having to switch the whole world.
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Allow me to take a shot.

- In the election 5 years ago there was no clear winner, the Lib Dems chose to go into a coalition government with the party who received the largest proportion of the vote.

- This coalition meant compromising on several key issues, for example tuition fees for university, in exchange for getting through other policies (raising the free tax allowance for the lower paid).

- The lib dems failed to properly communicate their achievements as a liberal/progressive force within government, and spent their time apologising for every compromise.

- Scotland moved strongly to a nationalist party, hurting a traditional source of seats.

- The polls looked as though there would be another coalition, and the people who previously voted lib dem were damned if they were going to vote effectively for another coalition in which they felt the party betrayed its values

tl;dr they got burned for doing the "right thing".

As I've said before on HN, people here seem to think that security is a huge issue. Surveillance, police state etc. In all of the election content I saw, it was mentioned maybe once or twice and barely scrutinised. The people of the UK did not care about it, and the politicians left it in the manifestos.

As for the GP comment suggesting something about dictatorship, it's probably the most ridiculous thing I've read in some time.
I think I was slow coming up with this, but basically I wrote a lot of tables out and came up with...SPOILER...

Alice always guessing the same as what she flips and Bob always guessing different.

But - my question is this: Are there any other possible solutions to this puzzle?

Either way, I'm pretty sure this is just an Illuminati code plot from the White House to find the world's top coders and recruit them into some CIA program.
Coal mines cause earthquakes as well [1]. Not sure if anyone has ever used that as a reason to stop doing it.

[1] http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070103-mine-...
IMO, freedom of speech refers to content, not necessarily delivery. There really seems to be three types of speech. Private (home), subscribed (church, book, TV show), broadcast (commercial, billboard sign, office cooler, email inbox)). The difference being how wide the audience, and how much freedom they have in listening to you.

The problem IMO is ‘the internet’ mixes the three basic types of speech. Things that feel private often don't end up that way.

PS: A mortician making a book based on autopsy photos seems reasonable. But, sending those same photos to a parole officer or someone else you know less likely to be acceptable. Though in book form it is once again probably ok, same content different context.
"If you sold every share of every company in the U.S. and used the money to buy up all the factories, machines and inventory, you’d have some cash left over."

So by this theory the value of a tech startup is the developer's laptops and the value of a yoga studio is the loaner mats.
Pictures of people being harmed (child abuse images are not porn) are not speech they are evidence of a crime.

EDIT
To make things clear.

I used the words child abuse images.

This may have been a hint that I was talking about images of actual child abuse rather than selfies taken by teenagers.

We are in a discussion about an ideal world. Let's imagine that if we were really in a position that governments were legislating about absolute freedom of speech they could also draw up some non stupid laws to protect victims of child abuse?
It will be impossible to really discuss free speech issues on a venue that is predominantly American.

America has a very idiosyncratic view of free speech, embodied in their constitution. Good for them.

Unfortunately they usually categorically deny that any other variant of free speech, other than their own specific formulation, can ever be free speech at all.

That ties in with the general feeling in America that the US constitution is the best constitution there is and could ever be, to the point where the Founding Fathers are venerated beyond belief, and changes to the constitution are next to impossible.

To make a tangential point: America often criticizes Germany for not having the right flavor of free speech. While having more than just influenced our constitution.

So basically they approved our constitution (after demanding a few changes), especially the parts that were designed to counter Nazism. Understandable, after World War II. Unsurprisingly that ran counter to the American view of free speech, but that was intended at the time.

Decades later everyone is surprised...
On the list of annoying places to work - places that have custom versions of standard libraries like JQuery.
Yes you can start a VM back up via gcloud:

gcloud compute instances start instance-name

Note of course that if you got preempted because we needed the capacity back for regular VMs (as opposed to say a maintenance event) you may not be able to start a new Preemptible VM in that zone.
If this were meant to improve the directions they offer in their apps, I would be super happy. uber drivers with androids are given consistent and seemingly correct routes, but the iPhone directions have sometimes sent us in the opposite direction from my destination. it's frustrating.
The flip side of the coin is a voting public who refuse to accept terrorism as part of life. Demanding that politicians do something when a terrorist act happens, and blaming them for not stopping it.

Here in Australia we've been ridiculously safe from terrorism. If we get a serious terrorist event, people here are going to lose their marbles, rather than accept that 'one got through' the net. You see a similar thing in the US, where the public quite happily throw hundreds of thousands of US soldiers at muslim countries, but then complain that they die, and that they aren't supplied with enough armour and equipment. There's a very weird disconnect going on there. In general, the voting public want this surveillance, to protect them from the 'bad guys'.
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Cameron is on a rampage. I've never feared rapid descent into dictatorship until now. I'm well and truly afraid of what the UK will look like in 4 years.

A lot of people said that about Bush in 2004. People are alarmist. Status quo is generally maintained with only minor changes in course - that's what our political systems are designed to do.
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CC0 wasn't always deemed suitable for software, which led to the creation of the Unlicense initiative. The history is recounted at: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.githu...
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I have no idea what this is but I bet it's about Dr.Who
Uh, this feature has been available for years, hardly "news".
What about it? It is certainly detestable, and we should prosecute whoever produces it, but censoring is censoring. There are some good articles by Rick Falkvinge[0] that has been discussed here a couple of times[1].

0: http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/11/child-porn-laws-arent-as-bad...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4495914
Thanks for posting that. SDRs are a basket of currencies, including the US dollar.

The thing that will change, if I am correct in my prediction, is that all countries whose currencies are part of SDRs (including the USA) will have a difficult time printing money out of thin air.
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Posted it here precisely because I wanted to hear what the opinions were. For what it's worth, I found this through cleancoders twitter feed. Their recommendation
I made the transition from callbacks to generators/iterators recently, and I'm really enjoying the yield/next foo. Promises just never really spoke to me. Not certain why I always felt reticent to use them.
> Gold and silver sure as hell did, and that's what I was referring to

No, they didn't. I was referring to gold and silver being used as tradeable goods, not as currency. There's a difference.

Bertrand Russell wrote an essay on getting rid of the gold standard called "The Modern Midas". You'll find it in the collection "In Praise of Idleness". You might find it interesting. In fact, you might find the whole collection interesting, though I doubt you'd agree with any of them.

> Surely you understand that other people very much would, even if you personally wouldn't?

Oh, please. How many people would give up a job to live on $30 a week? You can live on welfare better than that. Would you give up your job for that? Do you know anyone who would?
You know it's time to go outside when unbounded force graphs flying all over the place is hysterically funny.
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I wasn't talking in context of the UK. I was talking in context of the GP's all-or-nothing-free-speech position. In an all or nothing system, there's no such thing as taking someone to court over defamation, because any restriction on speech is verboten.
I think your arguments against HSR are valid. That's not to say that I think HSR couldn't be effective in the US, but I do see there is a bigger hurdle compared to Europe/Japan, which either means you have to make it cheaper per mile of railway or the ROI will be further out. What I still don't see is how this all applies to local transport. If I understand you correctly, you claim that local transport options in Europe and the US cannot be compared. Why is that? And if so, how is it not an urban planning policy problem that was mostly produced in the post war era? Isn't it worth it to think about what could be improved?
The biggest problem with earth building, which I looked in to quite a bit a couple of years ago, seems to be the lack of ventilation and drainage options relative to other types of building. You still need foundations. Yes, you can make it work. No, it's not always suitable - right tool for the job.

Much like other alternate building techniques (straw bale, etc.) it faces significant regulatory challenges in many jurisdictions due to a lack of familiarity with structural properties and the variable nature of the inputs (what type of clay, straw, etc.). Usually it's cost prohibitive to try in cities, because the labour costs are higher. In those situations, prefabbing concrete/other types of slabs and dragging them on site can be a really fast and cheapish way (though environmentally questionable) to get a house up. In general architects and engineers are also far less familiar with the alternate techniques.

As for the 'tattoine look' starwars reference, that was actually filmed in the underground houses of Matmata, Tunisia ... which I photographed during the Tunisian revolution for Wikipedia Commons over here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Matmata_Panorama.jpg
Crony Capitalism is great at privatizing profits and socializing losses (particularly those to the environment).
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> love how you had some downvotes here because people don't realize you're the blog post author

Not sure I get this criticism.

To my understanding, downvoting is a judgement of a specific comment. It is neither about the person who wrote it, nor about whatever else that person wrote.

In particular, I don't see how these donvotes diminished the author's work on that article in any way. The 50 upvotes (currently) on that article tell an entirely different story.
You can do OOP-like code on Haskell too... Just don't show your code for experienced Haskell developers.
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Check out the Internet Archive FAQ on how to remove a document from their archives. https://archive.org/about/exclude.php

It looks like they used robots.txt to do that.
I'd be curious to hear more about this.

You're saying that it's idiomatic in some languages to say something that translates to "dad's mother-in-law" to refer to one's maternal grandmother?

What is the semantic difference between saying that and simply saying "maternal grandmother" (or just "grandmother")? Does it indicate something along the lines of "my grandmother" while also communicating distance from one's mother, or that one's mother has died?

Do you know of any other interesting relationship semantics that are frequently expressed in other languages, but awkward to say in English?
Exactly this.

Things are never going to change because you'll never get enough people to willingly give up making so much money. Take bubbles, i.e.: When the numbers are so far askew that everyone knows there's a bubble, you are still not going to see anyone not play the game. There's just too much money to be made.
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I used to feel like this as well. Then I read http://lesswrong.com/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippery_slo... , and started thinking some restrictions may work.
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The problem with Q ratio is it relies on hard assets. The reality is, much of the US industry isn't dependent on hard assets and is instead based on the value of the software that runs on those assets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin%27s_q

This is an economic theory that was first published 1968/1969. It was a good model when Tech/IT wasn't a huge sector of the economy in its own right.
I'll add that anybody who actually believed in what the Lib Dems were offering in 2015 (a centrist party) knew that after the election the Lib Dems would probably revert to being a left-wing party anyway.

So they managed to alienate both their prior left-wing vote and their new centrist vote. Quite an achievement!
That's what we did in undergraduate. Practically every class I had required a research paper. We didn't always have to use statistics, but we were graded on methodology. Recall exams were rare, most exams involved interpretation and explanation. Of course I studied political science, things may be different in other fields.
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I'm fairly certain this has been a feature of S3 since its launch in 2006. Here's as far back as I could find on archive.org[0] it's May 24th 2006 and the URL indicates the documentation was published on March 2006.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20060421112025/http://docs.amazon...
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Do you know of any other way they could procreate and provide the best environment for their children to grow in, all the while keeping a high social status and level of respectability?
Original link without the tracking ( :( ) https://medium.com/@odedgolan/a-week-without-google-e1a6fe54...
I find it very sad this referendum was basically what the Lib Dems traded tuition fees for.
But evidence of a crime is not usually illegal to possess, is it?
There are two dimensions here: when is speech protected, and what is speech? If speech is just speech, it's easy to give it very broad protections. But we also consider physical actions to be speech (e.g. protesting). Clearly you can't allow people to engage in any action as long as they call it free expression. So it's a "nothing" proposition, where the government can ban any sort of protest activity.
What's so bad about using deferred? In one case I call the resolve or reject parameters and in the other I call a resolve or reject properties on the deferred object. Not much of a difference to me.

I learned about deferred a few years ago and kinda stuck with it. It's all over my code base and he didn't really justify why I should go about changing it. The only thing I can reason I can think of is using his recommendation follows the ES6 spec which doesn't matter to me that much for now.
I'd be interested in just about every algorithm explained this way! And as a side note some of these algorithms certainly are used in computer vision, k-means for example in clustering/segmentation.

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse576/12sp/notes/...
Still, the point is that the transportation systems in the US have co-evolved with the growth and spread of its population. So I suppose you could technically say it's a "chicken-egg" problem. But only in the sense that the "chicken-egg" actually does have a real answer and that answer is they evolved together. There were various major decisions made along the way along with millions of everyday choices made by individuals.
you might want to look up Constitutional avoidance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_avoidance to explain why they ruled the way they ruled.
Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...

Well put ... and does not absolve anyone of the consequences of their speech. People keep forgetting that exercise of rights have consequences for which they may/must be held accountable for. Say what you like, but be aware that you are still accountable for how you obtained that content, or what happens as a result of what you say.
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> So by this theory the value of a tech startup is the developer's laptops and the value of a yoga studio is the loaner mats.

Indeed, I'm wondering why the quoted ratio is so low (1.10). Much of a company's value is in its customer and supplier relationships and these aren't tangible assets that can be sold.
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And yet it seems that MPs who kept this pledge were burned just as badly, if not worse, than those who didn't.

How they voted in 2010: 28 For, 21 Against tuition fee increases (as promised), 8 absent

Remaining MPs in 2015: 4 For, 4 Against.
Your attempt to pin the blame on the Americans is quite tortured. Absolving the governments who actually pass the laws leads to much worse laws.
More details on the Stalin, Orwell, Whitechapel connection. Jack London visited it as well.

Stalin "fetched up in London in 1907, living in a Jubilee Street tenement flat – the future home of Golda Berk."[0].

"Tower House was immortalised in 1933, when George Orwell, in Down and Out in Paris and London, praised it as the 'best of all common lodging houses with excellent bathrooms'."[1]

"Jack London, the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang was first in the line of anarchists, authors and lost souls to shelter here. He christened it The Great Monster Doss House in his seminal work of living among the East End poor, People of the Abyss, in 1902."[1]

[0]: http://eastlondonhistory.com/2011/06/16/stalin-in-londons-ea...

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/oct/24/housingpolicy...
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Huh, so the wild-card user-agent will block not just searchbots, but also archivebots. Wonder how OP managed to get screenshots of archive.org having archives available for those documents.
I think there is awesome explanations here, but put in very simple terms there is many startups that experiment, create some nice product but can't really market it. They might have good numbers but they don't have the muscle to raise fast enough.

e.g. a startup that converts an outstanding 10% of their user base into paid customers might look excellent on paper but if only has 1000 users and only grows 10% yearly it is dammed to failure. But that same startup for a corporation that has 10000000 similar users will definitely look like an amazing investment.
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If anyone's confused by the 4 "puzzles," I whipped up a JSBin to demonstrate: http://jsbin.com/tuqukakawo/1/edit?js,console,output
Getting into the habit of pulling someone into a meeting room any time you have a conversation that'll last more than a few minutes regardless of whether or not it needs to be private mitigates this and helps cut down on distractions.
I am stumbling over this:

> Just remember: any code that might throw synchronously is a good candidate for a nearly-impossible-to-debug swallowed error somewhere down the line.

Why would a synchronously thrown error be swallowed, and why would I not just `try { } catch` here?
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> Test code inherently protects you against this, by virtue of having 100% test coverage, itself.

Not necessarily. A false negative bug in one copy of a test will remain even when fixed in a different copy.
> Say what you like, but be aware that you are still accountable for how you obtained that content, or what happens as a result of what you say.

In other words, say what you like, but don't be surprised when they haul you off to a concentration camp for being a naughty little thought-criminal, huh? It's your fault for saying whatever you said! You should have been more careful!
From other posts I understand that at least some people do the same as I do: check the discussion first to decide if opening the link itself is worth it. Because the link title is often cryptic (by purpose or not - sometimes the context is completely different from my knowledge).

Loading a link, reading a few sentences, deciding if its useful to read more: it requires time.

A sort of standard short summarize to go with each link would make reading HN more efficient to me.
Since it sounds like sci-fi, try posting it to scifi.stackexchange.com , tag 'story-identification' (http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/story-identi...)
That's what I'm talking about being lazy. These companies provide public APIs and we all will have the same headaches of having to update our software to those APIs. By dogfooding your own APIs in the same way your customers eat them, you force yourself to have to communicate change correctly.
Sounded like Asimov to me but then again I don't know many other sci-fi authors.
> the employee has to sign away not just their rights to sue

You can't sign away your right to sue in the US. You can always sue.
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Sorry, I guess I'm just annoyed at all the armchair professional gamers on /r/games talking about what's supposedly best for everyone and whatnot.
Biggest problem is also its greatest benefit. If everything CAN access anything, everything WILL eventually access anything.

Without any barriers, it's way too easy for things to devolve into spaghetti code.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748291

Here is one of several you get when you search for 'Forward' button
Impose severe punishment for the process of creating/acquiring that content, and for subsequent actions inspired by it. (Presumably I need not elaborate on the details.) Like "life in prison" severe.
Six months of severance is no upside to the employee?