skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't eat Lurpak butter if you paid me.
I agree that more competition would be good but not at the expense of destroying the Norwegian policy on agricultural self sufficiency.

Anyway Lurpak is from Arla which occupies the pretty much same sort of position in Denmark as Tine in Norway.

The crisis was not really a great disaster and at the time there really were not a lot of people calling for deregulation.

And as for the complaints about food being expensive, well to some extent this is a national sport just like Brits complaining about the weather, that is, not to be taken seriously. I'm English and have lived here in Norway for 30 years, almost half my life now so I well acquainted with both.

If food were too expensive it would be impossible to sell. Even the cheap supermarkets here carry half a dozen brands of extra virgin olive oil for example; and the variety of bread available here in even the smallest supermarket outstrips most British hypermarkets, etc.
Those random identity checks are only legal if they are performed under particular circumstances establishing the risk of breach of the public order (for example around a protest or in such situations). Theoretically they cannot be based on the appearance of the person being controlled.

This means it is not legal for a police officer to control your identity unless they have established this risk of public disorder.

Of course, as a white person living in mostly affluent neighborhoods, I have not even been controlled once in my life. The experience of my friends of "north african descent" on the other hand, has been quite different.
Google patents a way to win a text message argument
Well to be fair, I grant you that certain people would find those awful conditions worth it for the sake of the mission. I just think the novelty will wear off and there won't be a stream of people heading off to colonise Mars.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to jump out of this deep gravity well just to be stuck on another one at our current technology levels. Instead asteroids will be much more inviting and the technology to harvest them will combat the large existential risk from rogue asteroids that is one of main arguments for the colonisation of other planets in the first place.
I work with a lot of bioinformaticians (many of whom come from the biology side, and are self taught programmers) and sadly I see a similar pattern. Not all of them are bad, but a large number of them don't seem to give a shit about code quality, even when its production related work that has to be run day after day.
And then that time will be neither UTC not TAI. Either we'll have to call it something different (like GPS time: always offset from TAI by certain number of seconds), or a different name will have to be made for what used to be called UTC (time tied to earth rotations, from which zoned wall time is to be delivered). Great. That's exactly what https://xkcd.com/927/ is about.
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Similar concept but for youtube:
http://www.petittube.com/
> According to Norwegian customs it's illegal to import diary products into Norway

How is that allowed, when Norway is a member of the EEA?
According to the Debian link it was introduced in 4.0.2 and fixed in 4.0.3

> d2dc317d564a46dfc683978a2e5a4f91434e9711 ("ext4: fix data corruption caused by unwritten and delayed extents")

So there is some confusion going around.
That's not practical advice.

Especially in the workplace, you have plenty to say. It may not progress humankind, but you definitely need to say it. You may be discussing a design decision, announcing a promotion, negotiating a contract, etc. In these cases, one might get better at writing and say the same thing more effectively.

This is where a person would need practical advice to improve his writing style. I've run into plenty of people in professional settings who would be more effective in their jobs if they could write better. They often don't realize it themselves until a colleague suggests revisions.

I read Strunk & White at some point. It has its contradictions, sure, but much of its advice is good if you treat it as advice, and not a rulebook. For example, you might occasionally need the use the passive voice, but it's very good advice to strongly prefer the active voice and to use the passive only when you really need to. Some people really do have a problem using way too many passive verbs, but few realize it until they try writing with active verbs.
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I find it disturbing how those two tiny stats "sum" it all up for you, yet you make no mention of the third and elusive stat that makes the biggest difference of all:

"The percentage of criminals in the United States"

Like I said, drawing and inference from the two stats you posted is disturbing because both of those stats say nothing of the actual amount of valid criminals/lawbreakers.
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As others have pointed out, the author is confusing a few ideas.

First of all, Kolmogorov complexity talks about the output from programs at a "higher-level". For example, to define the Kolmogorov complexity of plain text, we must talk about programs which output text. To define Kolmogorov complexity of, say, Ruby code, we must talk about programs which output Ruby code. And so on. The author mixes up the complexity of the text (eg. in the 3 line example) with the complexity of the code. These are two different things: the complexity of the text depends on the shortest program which outputs that text; the complexity of the code depends on the shortest program which outputs that code.

Secondly, writing different programs with the same output doesn't change the Kolmogorov complexity; it merely improves an approximation (since Kolmogorov complexity is undecidable, we must approximate it). The author also uses the word "count" when talking about these approximate numbers, which I think is better than calling them "complexity".

A couple more points about the author's argument:

1) When comparing different languages, like Ruby and Python, it might be nice to point out that the complexity can only change by a constant amount. This is because, in the worst possible scenario, we can write an interpreter for the other language. For example, if we use Python as our meta-language, we can denote the complexity of some text T as P(T); if we switch to using Ruby instead, the complexity R(T) <= P(T) + I, where I is the complexity of a Python interpreter written in Ruby. Since I doesn't depend on T, it is a constant, and therefore the choice of language becomes less important as the complexity of T increases.

2) Using Kolmogorov complexity as a benchmark doesn't seem like a great idea to me. It's true that repetition gets eliminated, eg. using loops, but it can also lead to really bizarre things, like crazy integer arithmetic which just-so-happens to produce the correct ASCII characters. Code becomes shorter, but after a certain point it can get unintelligible. In effect, pursuing Kolmogorov complexity means trying to compress your source code. Eventually you'll end up with something like this:

def decompress(str):
# Insert crazy, program-specific arithmetic here

eval(decompress('!"£$%^&*()"£$%^&*(!"£$%^&*'))

In particular, code which approaches the limit of Kolmogorov complexity becomes incredibly inter-dependent, lacks all modularity and loses the ability to make incremental changes (making small changes in a compressed encoding leads to large changes in the output).

Just look at http://codegolf.stackexchange.com for example ;)
Why nobody listens to these songs?
Either crappy songs or failed marketing. Or both.
Quite different from THE red book [1]

>>> Jung initially recorded his "visions", or "fantasies, or "imaginations"

Maybe not that different after all.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Book_(Jung)
Unable to read it with TorBrowserBundle, I get redirected to http://www.nytimes.com:8123/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyti...

Anyone else, any clue?
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I am convinced that the first stage of colonising Mars should be orbital space stations rather than land bases. The vacumn of space seems like a far less hostile environment than the surface and one that humans have experience of from the ISS.

Any long term base on Mars is going to require constant resupply from Earth. So why not leave as much as possible safely in orbit, and make short excursions to the surface when neccessary?
Out of interest, why do you think there are so many valid criminals and lawbreakers in the US?
will read - thanks
Would you mind breaking that up into paragraphs... It's easier to read that way
Curious. I never gave it a thought because I always assumed that the funeral is for the ones that keep on living, so it's on them to figure out which kind of mourning ritual would help them cope with the lose better.

To be fair, if I someone made me go through coffin designs for my own coffin, or any kind of arrangement, chances are it would end in a practical joke. I just don't give a damn.
There might have been fewer pioneers if it was a one way trip with rest of your short life spent locked up in the wagon car, and no prospects for personal (or family) material gains.
Yep, me too
I'd much rather visit an asteroid than Mars, so I agree with you there - but I think there are other ways that Mars may become attractive to settlers - especially those who want to escape tyranny on Earth. If a settlement starts and survives, then whoever gets there and participates is literally building a new civilization from scratch. I think you might be a little naive in thinking there aren't a large number of willing people who want to do that, no matter the personal cost. There's a lot of potential.
Taking huge risks and facing hardships in order to go where no man has ev... nevermind.
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>even with 1% hashing rate you would see a small efficiency improvement by mining alternate blocks.

Do you mean alternate difficulty periods, as opposed to alternate blocks (whch would mean switching on/off every 10 minutes and would not affect the difficulty significantly.
EcmaScript is backwards compatible so you don't need to adopt the entire list of new shiny features at once. You can still continue to develop in your usual ES5 syntax and add a few ES6/7 features as you learn them.

In my case, I started with let/const and arrow functions. Then I added classes and hit a few walls, mainly because I hadn't read/understood much about arrow functions and the context they get bound to. After you start to use those, I think everything comes naturally (e.g. realising that the feature that allows you to import {foo, bar} from 'baz' is the same one that allows you to do var {foo, bar} = baz; Deconstruction is very handy, especially when you pass around big config variables and you only need a few bits from it. Not needing to use a promise library for async code is also great. Mixing up async/await with it is something I hadn't thought of until I read this article.

You slowly begin to adopt language features as you find them useful. It's not an all in or all out situation so I think the barrier to adoption is very, very low.
Oh god... basic income... AGAIN in the HN comments. It becomes VERY difficult to believe this is not sponsored propaganda. It's in pretty much every thread now.
Jesus, I promised myself I would stop upvoting any NYT or BBC (usually propaganda) stories, but that's just ridiculous.
Every prisoner in the US is a convicted criminal under US law. The amount of criminals outside of US prisons could then be speculated to be much higher than in other countries because the US criminalizes more things than other countries. Determining the number of criminals outside of prison then becomes a hard task since you can't use the state supplied numbers if you want to do a fair comparison between countries. It could also be that an equal amount of things are criminalized in other countries, but not punishable by prison sentence.

Note however that this is wild speculation, just things you have to take into account.
Overselling non-news into massive victories is basically what the bitcoin community does. I could list 25 things that were going to bring Bitcoin mainstream over the past 2-3 years without even trying that have all failed to pan out.

Since failures fade away silently most of the time they are left wondering why these 'victories' aren't leading to increased prices and repeating the phrase "how can we have all this good news and no increase in price?".
That was what I was thinking too!
Seriously. I enjoy every Show HN, but this one left me hanging. No demo, pictures, video or description. Just a button to log in to Twitter. I don't have a Twitter account and a good demo might have pushed me into getting one in order to become a pic feed user. Please op, do not take this as harsh criticism, but as feedback from someone who really wanted to try put what you built.
I think your conclusion of zero liquidity is wrong because there will still be people entering and exiting the market.
> "The percentage of criminals in the United States"

Not sure how this is really an additional fact. If you defined criminals in the sense of "criminals as defined in the US", you have almost by definition a direct correlation to the number of prisoners.

BTW, here in Germany we also have politicians who think that Europe's criminals concentrate in Germany. Probably every country has some people believing that all criminals come to them. The difference between countries is how much influence those voices have.
It's not illegal, but dairy products are generally taxed heavily to allow Norwegian products to compete on price. There may be some special permits required to import, I don't know the specifics.
I help out at our local CoderDojo. I don't know how I feel about saying everyone should learn to code, but the main thing I get out of it is that the kids really love it. They use Scratch, they mostly make games, it's all around awesome. This shouldn't be a surprise to me or most people here, I guess, since I also love programming. Why wouldn't I want to share something I love with kids?
It's not meta-stable because if there is a difficulty above which mining is not profitable then the oscillations will become larger and larger until eventually it is too expensive to complete the next difficult adjustment period. The easy adjustment periods will become shorter and shorter.

You are wrong as characterising this as negative-feedback, this is positive feedback because if you are presented with a situation where in even "weeks" (which now last 6 days) the difficulty is 10% less than odd weeks (which now last 8 days), then you will join mining only the easy weeks which further feedsback to more distortion.

edit to add: I realise the adjustment period is not aimed to be 7 days, this is for easier illustration.
Possibly. At the very least, this story proves that the people do value a stable supply of butter. Norway is not in the EU, so why would they make themselves economically dependent on Sweden for everyday commodities?
Yes, sorry I mean alternate adjustment periods. I'll edit that part.
Came here to say this. Don't reinvent the wheel.
Maybe you should have worked a bit on the landing page. Maybe the background - with a bit of a blur - to have a glimpse of how the app really looks like - or at least some description.
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I sometimes think that HN is pro-Snowden. Are there folks here who see him as less a hero more a villain?
Women in technology are paid 13% less than men, research reveals
The problem with your theoretical attack is, as per the Bitcoin protocol, the target (which determines the difficulty) cannot change by more than a factor of 4 between rounds.[0]

You can't rapidly jump between difficulties like that.

[0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Target
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My kids started with 'beebots' in their first year. This is simple logic - go forward 1 space, left 1 space, etc.

My oldest child is still in primary and they have a lego robotics club- they build simple robots and do simple programming. He does well at maths and is a lego wiz so has been allowed to join the club 3 years early.

I've been thinking about where to start and they love minecraft, so it makes sense to start there I think. I'll check out some of your other links as well.
The point I'm making is that it's implicit that they are "not" criminals by virtue of there being such a huge discrepancy. This needs to be addressed in a clear, and concise manner instead of making sweeping generalizations about the discrepancy.
The list of non-events like this that will be taking Bitcoin mainstream is long and full of non-starters and non-producers.

It's an index from a company that maintains over 2200 indices at the moment.
just so you know

when TLS was committed to openSSL, the code used the vars 'payload' for []byte... not 'msg' or 'data'....

i wrote about it and some other facts and was downvoted to oblivion

another guy from the w3c team wrote an article "TLS is not HTTPS" but they are selling it as HTTPS, same name logo icon etc, and shipping it to the whole world, his post was removed also..

were heading towards a global root.

found the article: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html

my take on the situation: http://8ch.net/g/res/2200.html#2363
My one rep maxes in squat, deadlift, bench and press. To be honest, it's only 4 days/week as that's how often I hit the gym but they are the closest things to your question.
That thought had crossed my mind. An individual data center? I don't know, probably a lot less than a mile. Apparently they vary: https://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-...

The whole lot put together, certainly larger than a mile.

Minimum size, in a few hundred years time? Definitely not larger than a mile.
> The crisis was not really a great disaster and at the time there really were not a lot of people calling for deregulation.

Yep, it just fit the opposition party line of EU good, independence bad. And the press jumped on it as a "look how shitty our nation is" story.

Never mind that the previous months had seen the very same press lauding a high fat diet...

In the end it was pretty much a media created tempest in a teapot.
There's also the shifting economics. In the youth of the boomers, working yourself through college was a thing, getting on the bottom rung of the property ladder with your entry level job was a thing.

Nowadays you'd get a bitter laugh suggesting a millennial do either. But boomers still think it.

"They don't have a work ethic" - no shit, they don't. They've made the entirely rational decision that hard work doesn't pay. Rather, work is a painful subsistence deathmarch promising no future other than more of the same.
man svn
[...]
For more information about the Subversion project, visit http://subversion.tigris.org.

Of course you would use a DVCS in space, but still.
How to save for W-9 contractor programmers
Can somebody explain how we can save as w9 contract programmers as we have to shell out around 33% out of our wages as tax. I don't have an option to go 1099 or Corp-Corp at this stage.

Valuable feedback will be awesome!
Why learn mathematics or science?

If kids are good at abstract problem solving, denying them access to computer programming is like denying them sports if they like to kick balls around.

Coding will be more and more the killer app that people have in their jobs. A person can crush many ordinary office jobs just with excel and word macro skills. I teach people simple excel forumulas like vlookup and their life changes forever.

We should also teach plumbing, electrical and financial skills, and cut back on the interpretative dance, music and drama for kids who hate that crap.
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It may be some 30 years old, but it still describes Norwegian media perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwegca0MhfQ
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this story proves that the people do value a stable supply of butter

Yes. It also proves that the import restrictions threaten that stability.

why would they make themselves economically dependent on Sweden for everyday commodities?

To keep the stable supply that they are unable to maintain on their own, as this story shows. And why would they be dependent on Sweden? Would other countries refuse to export to Norway?
I swear they have a "laugh" sign behind the camera that said "audience" has been trained to follow.
That is classic Michael J. Morell. I can't take anything he says seriously. Listening to Mr. Morell is like listening to some of the right wing republicans describe the administration as socialist. US public debate should be above this, nobody benefits from this nonsense.
I was 7 in 1993, and did some Logo programming. It was the final puzzle in the educational adventure/puzzle game "Crystal Rain Forest"[1] for the Acorn Archimedes.

The puzzles started out with very simple programming (so simple it doesn't look like programming). Just setting a single variable, or two. It progresses to programming a one-dimentional robot (forward/backwards), then finally using Logo with loops.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Rainforest
The site is weak but you should check the LWN link given in this thread. They have done some cool stuff actually.
they DO hire more call center agents than engineers
I don't think that is entireley true. While the Schengen-Zone (EU border agreements) has established that there are no physical borders, where you have to show an id, there is a 50km (maybe more maybe less I don't know exactly) zone around those borders, where Identity checks are permitted. Police is allowed to control your identity in those zones if they have a "reasonable cause" to think yo may be an illegal immigrant...

Of course "reasonable cause" can (and usually will) mean, that if you happen to have the "wrong" skin-tone, hair-color etc. you will be controlled. The Police justifies this racial profiling with "experience" and "statistics" (at least in Germany)
How would one await multiple coroutine/futures?

EDIT: await asyncio.gather(fut1, fut2)
It's the usual "put everything on terrorists" argument, Snowden is now responsible of the rise of ISIS ! (and also of the world hunger ?) The last decade of war in the middle-east is just a coincidence apparently.
IIRC, in Austria, police CAN ask you about your name and home address at any time, and they can even bring you to the police office if they don't believe you and you don't have an ID to prove it. Even though we don't have an "Ausweispflicht" like Germany, having an ID with you can be a good thing in this situation.

They are not allowed to search you without a reason (In theory. I heared that they might just say "I think I smelled cannabis" and then they have a reason.)

Disclaimer: IANAL, and maybe I got some details wrong.
Or some just didn't bother to insist on using butter.

First i heard of this "crisis" was when i walked past the TV...
Things must be bad if you go to Sweden to buy cheap alcohol...

When visiting friends in Sweden they always ask us to bring beer (from Denmark).
Thanks Charley, have just booked that course :)
Pretty cool idea, all we need is a JS OS and the entire stack can be JS.
WP is certainly not clean, but it's completely possible to make great sites with it, and it runs a huge number of great sites out there. It sounds like you messed up on a job and are trying to blame someone besides yourself.
Isn't it much simpler to use tmux for the vertical split? Or are there any advantages of "vertical buffers" in VIM I should know about?