skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mean to be pedantic, but it's basic geography and history.

Russia has been part of Europe ever since it was founded in the middle ages. It only built an Asian empire from the 17th century onward. Russia is European in just the same way as the UK and France were before they lost their empires.

Turkey became part of Europe when the Ottomans started expanding into Europe, in the 14th century. Even today, the largest city in Europe is Istanbul, Turkey. Fun fact: Istanbul has more inhabitants than most EU member states.

I was responding to that 'paulgraham' article, and he consistently talks about 'Europe' (not the EU) like it's this one homogeneous blob.
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"The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras."
Yes, but at least they are all still associative. (Original comment edited to deal with that).

And non-commutivity is important. You can put on your socks then shoes, but get a different result if you put on your shoes then socks. In general you get different results in rotations if you change the order you do them. Similarly permutations.

Non-commutivity is important, it's just that most people don't expect addition to exhibit it. (And by definition, addition is still commutative in non-commutative rings)
I think the argument is "HTTP is edge cached (by your ISP, etc) and so a request need not imply a connection received at the remote end. HTTPS is not subject to caching or other benign man-in-the-middle operations so knowledge of who clicked what is centrally available." This feels like a weak objection to me, since the government will just snoop at the ISP level.
humble indie bundle sell a lot of steam keys lately. Lately being last couple of years. Only at the very beginning did they actually care about DRM (or Linux support).
GOG are the only people who do it right.
I watched that series and can highly recommend it.
yeah, that's also bullshit.

just off the top of my head, i can name: hawaii, the caribbean, brazil, parts of europe (italy comes to mind), east asia (especially places with large overseas diaspora like china and taiwan) all have identical cultural concepts, especially those with large populations living in america.
When a foundation needs 300 yards, you don't want all fifty mixers arriving at 7am Monday morning. I guess that's why I'm having trouble seeing the paraphrased idea as adding business value to the client. As with concrete, current professional programming practice for projects where the client doesn't hand over a requirements document when it's time to start banging out code is based on JIT'ing the casting into stone. Having something clever to say, isn't a way of listening to the client.

Good luck.
That's message confidentiality, not privacy. The win to privacy is that instead of telling the intended party and every third party in the middle about you accessing some resource, you only tell the subset of third parties between you and the cache.

Since it's more difficult to intercept access to all possible caches than to a centralised server, that's a win for privacy. At a cost of message confidentiality, of course, but if your message content doesn't need to be confidential (i.e. you're just GETing a resource), it's not a big loss.
Well internet infrastructures should be made secure and be considered as sensitive. That way it would be shielded from many small criminals.

> impossible to prevent

Well putting good encryption standards would mitigate this by a lot. And isn't the sector of mobile antennas a walled garden ?

Of course if nothing is regulated to give the government a chance to tap it, then consumers will always try to conceal their behaviors and criminals will never be caught.

On the other hand, if the government properly regulates how data infrastructures are kept safe from private interests and if it's properly audited and made public, it will gain the trust of consumers and it will make the FBI's job much easier.

I honestly doubt the government will really want to let everyone have the opportunity to get away with the law because the technology allows it. There are strategies to protect citizens from private interests while doing investigations.

The problem with tor is that the government can end up systematically crack if they want, so using stealth tools isn't the road that makes sense.

It boils down to trust. If trust goes down, it makes things much easier from criminals, since the FBI's job will be so much harder, since everyone effectively doesn't trust government.

Anyway, I'm not so knowledgeable about all that, but it's true that the law must evolve on technology. Guilty until proven otherwise should be the norm, and privacy matters, but if everybody is paranoiac like a criminal would and protects their data because nothing is regulated and because private companies always take a peek, then nothing will change.
If you read "but 40 years of x86 evolution have left a labyrinth of forgotten backdoors into the ultra-privileged modes" then I'm more inclined to agree, though also wondering about V86 monitor after looking at http://www.scs.stanford.edu/05au-cs240c/lab/i386/s15_03.htm
It's well over 1600 people funded.

I'd find it surprising if we didn't see a skewed normal distribution (skewed because of the lower bound).
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Why does it have to be a choice between "awful DRM" and "more awful DRM". Why not "no DRM"? GOG has proven over the years that it's a viable business model.
Could you provide an example of a country with a >10% black population that has a social system we should emulate?
See that's the problem, I don't even have enough knowledge to explain my questions properly :-(

I guess what is the formula for pulling the plates apart? Does it depend on voltage? And at some point say they're miles away wouldn't you be losing energy by moving them further apart?

(I Don't even know where to start clarifying the van degraff question)
What would be the impact on the Euro currency if Greece left the Euro-zone?

I would guess the Euro would take a small hit, but bear (speculation) wouldn't have much too feed upon.

This due to the fact that (1) Greece is a small part in the Eurozone and (2) the other countries that were having problems (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland) seem to have things stabilized.
Speciation and evolution are not directly connected, but this is a minor point. For a population to be in equilibrium the population size has to be approximately constant. The human population (and our domestic species) have expanded so much in recent times that we are not in equilibrium. This means that there are lots of genes of great selective value that have yet to spread through the human population. My favourite is the ApoA-1 Milano gene which basic stops you from getting heart disease [1]. This only arose a couple of hundred years ago and unfortunately most of us don't have it.

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ApoA-1_Milano
I really like "Ethical Me". Many small decisions we make throughout the day are supporting causes and trends that we could be greatly opposed to. A site that showed this would be very powerful. Seems like it'd be really hard to build though, since building a database of which companies support which trends/causes would be hard (near impossible) to automate.
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In the US, the main number that everyone is concerned with is the FICO score, and the algorithm is a secret. Most lenders do not generate their own measures of creditworthiness but rather just use FICO

Also even if you don't want to borrow money here is a list of things in the US that are increasingly based off of FICO:

1) car insurance
2) employment
3) wireless phone contracts
4) copper phone lines

I'm sure there are more... but you get the point I hope
Safe from what ? Outside of the US then ? Because I don't understand why US internet lines would not be made secure from private interests.
At least one of the Chunnel TBMs was also driven in to its own grave.
It seems that the circle line is missing. I guess that all its stations are shared with other lines, so the network is not missing much, but still it would be nice for the sake of completeness...
And agree with the previous comment, it would be awesome if the map was truly "live".
"In part that is because this is still such an extraordinarily homogenous society. Immigrants make up just one per cent of Japan's population" - Compare that to Brazil. So again, I don't think she's saying it in a literal sense.
If you're looking for interview experience, a recruiting firm may be the best bet. While they don't want you wasting their time either (they want to place you so they can get their commission), there will be times when they'll simply want additional candidates to give the illusion of choice for a company. It's not necessarily jobs you wouldn't take, but rather jobs you'd prefer not to take.
Copy DB from live [blue] to staging [green], then run migrations and test. Do this several times. This should give you confidence that the migrations behave as intended before you flip from blue to green for production & run the migrations for real. If you have "big data" you can use schemaless migrations, for example never rename a column, instead add a new column, update the app to deal with both columns, then in a subsequent update remove the old column. You can also avoid migrations [use mongo instead of relational DB, for example]. I recommend Fowler's "DB Refactoring" book for further reading. http://martinfowler.com/books/refactoringDatabases.html
Something tells me that photo makes it look worse than it is because it was taken with a long lens.
Well, hiccup seems to be more than 5 years old, and I don't know many more SXML reinventions in the ecosystem :-)
I stand corrected.

*edit, does this include interest payments?
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http://tracker.geops.ch/ got submitted to HN a quite a few times but never got traction.

It's only 2d and missing parts of the Transport for London infrastructure, but it's truly global otherwise.

http://tracker.geops.ch/?z=2&s=1&x=-3057.5011&y=5968203.1664...
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But the EPO user gets to draft too. So this is not an answer to the question about how can a clean cyclist compete against a doping one.
To be honest, if I have a great idea and somebody else makes it happen, I would be glad. All I care about is somebody executing it well. That's why I'd prefer to execute it, since I think I understand my idea better.

I would not really care about the money. It's pretty hard to execute an idea and make sure you are credited for it. I would gladly have a platform when people would just post idea for free and see how they're executed.

It's just a matter of making the world a better place, and I would be happy enough to just use a product that did not exist before, even if I don't get the profits.

The patent system is overrated. Are there really so many single inventors who benefited so much from patents ?
These guys run AsianFoodGrocer.com and an actual brick and mortar store, they already had the supplychain in place
>He also disputed the "back door" term used by experts to describe such built-in access points. "We're not looking at going through a back door or being nefarious," he argued, saying that the agency wants to be able to access content after going through a judicial process.

"Back door" does not imply nefariousness, it just implies a way around normal protections, which is exactly what they want. Tim Cook used the term "a key under the doormat". I like that description.

Anyone can see that if you leave a key under the door mat for a friend, an enemy may find it. It's inherently unsafe.

Now add to that analogy: 1) unlike in meatspace, the homeowner can't pick an unlikely hiding spot; instead, the authorities would mandate the exact same hiding spot for every house, 2) unlike in meatspace, the enemy has an automated swarm of invisible robots looking for house keys and committing theft and arson, 3) unlike the situation where you hide a key for a friend, the key would be there permanently, not just for a day or two.

All of these issues make it clear that this is a bad idea, even ASSUMING that the government is perfectly trustworthy.
> The left has had a disastrous response to this, which is to call anyone complaining about immigration a racist, rather than point to the misdirection and underlying problems of inequality.

(What I'm going to say is highly simplified, and possibly wrong. I'd love to be corrected if I'm wrong in my views. I'd also like to add that in my ideals on social policy I am rather left-wing. I am also aware that the simple left-right divide misses an important axis (social/economical). That said, most people still speak of 'the left' and 'the right', so I'll do that.)

I see this as one of the primary reasons why the right-wing parties have done so well in The Netherlands (including more extreme right-wing parties like that of Geert Wilders and Rita Verdonk), which started when Pim Fortuyn gained in popularity.

Fortuyn rose in popularity because he dared to attack the Left's sacred 'multi-culti' approach. Their reaction was to denounce him as a racist, despite the fact that for the most part he actually acknowledged that the underlying problem was economic inequality.

Of course, over time, their continued denial of problems and refusal to discuss them left space for actual racist and nationalist parties like that of Geert Wilders.

From my point of view, based in part on my dealings with left-wing students, the Left is making two big 'mistakes':
1. their particular brand of 'caring' for the common folk is often really of a rather elitist, condescending and paternal kind, and these 'common folk' notice.
2. they refuse to understand, or perhaps because of 1, acknowledge that their complicated, academic views on things, however correct they may be, need to be translated in a way that everyone understands. At least when it comes to votes and not policy. I think this is possible without devolving into soundbites or pure populism.

Concerning 1, it's sad and a bit ironic that the Left, in a scramble for votes, eventually started acknowledging the problems and now do engage with the (perceived) problems with minorities in a somewhat populist way.
>where mixed race is the norm ... brazil ...the largest japanese population outside of japan is there. i think they might have a concept of hafu there

Yes, but I'd bet that the connotations of "hafu" in a society where mixed race is the norm are very different from those where it is unusual.

So much so that you might consider it to be a different word, even if it happens to be spelled the same.
"makes sense given their cost."

OP indicates that the TBMs cost US$15MM each. I'm surprised they're so cheap. Those things are 50m long and full of complicated parts. It seems like the electronics and custom steel parts would cost that much and the actual design, construction, building, and testing the thing would cost several times as much.

At US$15MM, the labor to run them or even just to do maintenance would cost much more than the machines themselves.
Rights are expansive. There is no "precautionary principle" when it comes to rights. If a new thing is discovered, like strong encryption, I have a right to use it in conjunction with my other rights. If I can make a cheap personal rocket, I have a right to launch myself into orbit, as long as I'm not infringing on others' rights. The fact that such a rocket means anyone can build an ICBM doesn't put it outside of one's rights.

Governments have no inherent power to "inspect." You seem to think governments should have superior powers to individuals. While there is a philosophical argument for this, that doesn't mean it's always going to be true.

If code is speech, so is strong encryption.
Here is a genuinely live, but two dimensional map: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

You can click on the trains to get ETAs.
It's not live, this is (almost) live: http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
I remember 15-212 at CMU. That was a killer course...
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To what end? It's just a little more freak show and a little less sport, that's all. Plus the NFL, MLB track and field and cycling have pretty much done just that to varying degrees over the years.
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I believe (in practice if not theory) it is common to handle db schema updates separately and to run both systems off the same database. This way the data only lives in one location but you get to run two slightly different app servers/frontends on top of it. You are then more careful with database changes. This sounds like a pain in the arse but a lot of people seem to be able to run with it without it causing a lot of additional overhead having to schedule your db changes to go out before your dependant code changes.
I like the inclusion of the word "mistaken". You know, just in case anyone reading gets any ideas...
Programmers always spend too much time on studying which hammer is better, but they forget what they really want to do, right?
Amazon, Google race to get human DNA into the cloud
Yes, human evolution (and heart disease) is overtly very well-studied, to the extent that we can identify the likely patient zero for a gene mutation occurring in recent generations.

Our study of any other species comes nowhere close to that. To think that we can achieve that level of detail in another species is almost laughable. There are only a few species where we can guess what their equivalent to heart disease would be.

This doesn't provide evidence that humans are evolving more quickly: not at all.
That's the sort of thing I'm very interested in - thanks for the link. I'm particularly interested in doing this actually over git, so the mapping to git is great (as you can probably infer, I think there are big advantages to leveraging existing "devil you know" systems!)
Cassandra or most NoSQL databases seem to require a lot more internals knowledge than what a development or an ops team would have. Most sysops teams have a cadre of certified DBAs and administrators and they get on by without any surprises. The one thing Oracle got right was their certification program which ensures there are no gotchas -- most DBA can deliver smooth operations. I guess it is because these NOSQL products are relatively new, they require only ninja level experts to fiddle with the controls.

I would be interested in hearing more from someone who has use a third party managed cassandra service like Google' casandra product https://cloud.google.com/solutions/cassandra/. Did you still deep internal knowledge to use Cassandra ? This is important to know for me because my organization will not have the resources to manage Cassandra clusters but we need a Cassandra like store.
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I thought that sounded cheap too, especially for such a niche market where they can probably afford to mark up.
It's not just ideological reasons. If your pension gets cut, you suddenly can't make rent. If your currency inflates, you can still make rent, because your rent inflates just as much as your pension does.
The article mentioned £10 million per machine which, as a complete layman in these things, I found incredibly cheap, even assuming maintenance costs would likely out-weigh the cost of the machines.
Part of the reason ties into centralization. If Twitter was plumbing, i.e it formed the backbone of apps (which it does not, as their API is forever shifting and not 'open' in the truest sense), then sites like this could be tolerated. It would be perfectly okay to have an ecosystem of non-siloed data which originally resided on Twitter's servers, but Twitter exercise ownership for that data, and are using sites like this to make an example of people. A bit sad really
How will .WINE and .WIN new gTLDs coexist?
Is it? Suppose the entire population refused to pay taxes.
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I was thinking quaternions when I saw the title.
That's some ripe security state propaganda, there.
>To be both ideological and realistic, they could have set aside money as the liability accrued rather than promising that future generations would pay it without worrying about how.

Governments everywhere tend not to do this, so it becomes impossible to sort out a rational picture of the economy when economics is inevitably highly politicised.

>Also, I think if the Greek government could print money, devalue the pensions and get out of this mess they would.

This will happen if Greece leaves the Euro. I don't doubt plans are in place.

But the underlying problem is that Germany and the IMF are simply loan sharking. And you can't loan shark in the Eurozone, because if you call in a debt too aggressively the whole project falls apart, with potential to seriously damage the Euro area economy, and possibly unwind the entire world economy too.

The only justifications for austerity are political - specifically to put the Greek government and the people who voted for it in their place, and to show them how little political power they have.

Austerity is not an economic solution. There is no possible way imposing austerity can make debt repayment more likely. Even the IMF has accepted this.

Austerity is simply a punishment for taking a loan from someone who's now trying to do the state-player equivalent of breaking a debtor's limbs because they're trying to pay late. "Reform" is econo-Kremlin code for "We don't like it when public money is spent for the benefit of the public."

So this is purely about face now, not facts or futures.

The real question from a game theory point of view is how much damage a Grexit would do. Some people in the game realise that it has the potential to spread and become a major market meltdown.

Tsipras and Varoufakis are certainly aware of this, and are playing accordingly.

It's not obvious how well the other negotiators understand this.
While the vast majority of users upgrade to iOS 8, certainly not everybody does, so it's good to know that iOS 5 (I didn't check any earlier) also includes the "DST Root CA X3" certificate:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201388
Beauty contests are still a thing?
It would be fun to play, especially if it was online and anonymous.

To win, you need to destroy one player with the aid of a second and remain strong than your ally. Committing pieces to offence would leave you vulnerable, but successful attack could earn you queens.
Whoops, you just made an absolute statement.

Whoops, so did I.
The teeth need replacing often, even in the relatively soft gravel and clay below London.
But adding quaternions is both associative and commutative.
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Some say this has already happened.
Dialyzer is nice, no doubt! But to compare it to Haskell's typing is disingenuous at best. Success typing captures far less information and maintains far fewer invariants.
Oh yes, Turbo Pascal (and even Delphi / Object Pascal) had a really fast compiler. Sigh... those were the days...
That is a fantastic book, also 'ML for the working programmer' is really good [1]. I always wanted to use SML in anger, but the lack of third party libraries is a major hindrance. Today I think one is better served using OCaml, F#, or Clojure (this is not intended to be an exhaustive list) if a highly productive functional language is desired.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/ML-Working-Programmer-2nd-Edition/dp/0...