skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for an online advertising company for 3 months. I left when discovered that they were using servers in China to send spam email, and they were using bots to inflate click counts so they could overcharge clients.
I don't think you're going to get much participation unless you explain more about the project on your website.
Pretty good. Can't really complain and I have upgraded both my old laptop (HP, ~5 years old) and new one (Dell, ~2 months). Both have been running smoothly. Main complaint is the new touch features on the mouse since they remind me of the Mac version and was never a fan of that but you can disable those. Other than that it was smooth sailing for the most part.

Biggest issue I have heard is a small learning curve using Cortana. It's useful but disable her unless you have a surface or a computer built for Windows 10. If you run a Google-based system you should be okay without her.

Overall, not bad. It runs pretty fast and before I was using a Gen 2 AMD quad core. It has a slight learning curve to the new features but otherwise no issues. I've used it with the HDMI port, VGA output to a dual screen, LAN, etc and so far have not had any issues on both computers.
This is going in the wrong direction. "Grey" doesn't indicate anything to the user. Instead, they should make HTTP sites show up with a yellow triangle, because they aren't secure.

It's also a little silly to claim that it's hard to move to HTTPS all at once. Most sites are served up with web server such as Apache/nginx/etc. that wraps everything served up: it's easy implement HTTPS at that level. The other common option is a cloud service provider, and that's only a bit harder.

So no, this is not hard. I venture I could move most sites to 100% HTTPS in an afternoon if I had knowledge of the site, but even if you haven't done this before, there's no reason you can't do this in a week.
> People moan about XML readability somehow forget that it uses approximately the same syntax as HTML

No, they don't.

> Imagine HTML in JSON.

Yes, sure, JSON is a crappy text markup language, and would be much less readable than HTML for that purpose.

OTOH, readability when used as a markup language for content consisting largely of prose text and readability when used as a structured serialization format for data that doesn't mostly consist of large blocks of annotated prose isn't necessarily the same thing.
It's way more conspicuous than those sneakers with the wheels on the bottom and those sneakers really took off in some parts of the US. Did they cause a lot of problems for people?

I don't know, but these hoverboards probably won't be as popular as those sneakers.
Otherwise bikes get an extra hill :). And then you get extra speed when you don't need it. Down and then up is easy. Although for typical intersections I'm not sure either is a particularly good idea most of the time. Other options are separate signals or giving priority to cyclists (Hembrow has a bunch of pictures of this stuff), or, as someone else mentioned, for high density areas having a separate fully elevated bike path could work too.
And on Android use Tinfoil. It's FB for those of us who just look at it occasionally and don't want it tied into everything we do on the device.
GCHQ can spy on MPs, tribunal rules
Downloaded the app. Sounds cool. Now I can do private messaging in WhatsApp.
I haven't used a single GUI framework that doesn't have the concept of User Controls. It's not a big idea, it's the obvious thing to do.
I think it is pretty irrefutable that Jefferson would be against "but on a computer..." patents like slide to unlock based on the copious amount of writing he did on the subject of patents in his time. see, for example:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letter...

Is slide to unlock a clever UI mechanism to put on a phone? Sure. Should that entitle it to a 20-ish year monopoly as an idea irrespective of implementation? I don't see how a reasonable person comes up with an answer other than "of course not".

The entire patent system is so far twisted from what it was intended for, it is really quite a shame.
I think the new packages from Hadley Wickham are beautiful and straight forward.

https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/dplyr/vignettes/introd...

End example from a airplane arrival and departure dataset:

flights %>%

group_by(year, month, day) %>%

select(arr_delay, dep_delay) %>%

summarise(

arr = mean(arr_delay, na.rm = TRUE),

dep = mean(dep_delay, na.rm = TRUE)

) %>%

filter(arr > 30 | dep > 30)
To echo the other comment, free markets have nothing to do with fairness. Free markets use price as an information signal to allocate resources. Fairness is about ethics and justice. The is-ought problem quickly follows.
What is your basis for the claim they've not evaluated the tradeoffs or tried to design an efficient implementation?

The patent seems to be based on this paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=264189. It has an extensive experimental evaluation. Another thing to keep in mind is that Sohi, Vijaykumar and Moshovos are all respected computer architecture researchers, and this paper was published in ISCA, which is the best and most competitive forum for computer architecture research.
+1 for MSYS2 because of pacman package manager. also Git for Windows is using MSYS2

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/Package-manageme...
Ask HN: Did working at a large company, help you become a better entrepreneur?
ON Semiconductor Unveils 1080p Video Development Kit for IoT
I've used python for years, decided to teach myself R for a masters class I'm taking.

I have to disagree. Its main model is generic function method dispatching. It can feel odd at first to someone coming from the C++ style of OO where objects own methods, not methods owning objects. But it's a legitimate OO style with its own advantages. [1]

I've found the more I use R, the more intuitive a lot of its operations are. It's relatively easy to "guess" what you ought to do to accomplish what you want. More so then other languages I've learned.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dispatch
Having just experimented with Babun over the weekend... the package manager is a pretty big deal. It used to be that you had to re-run the Cygwin installer whenever you wanted to add a package. That's just silly.

Outside of that, the biggest difference is it avoids Cygwin's complicated setup process. You run the installer script, it creates a ~/.babun directory, and then it just works. No need to commit to a list of packages at install time. It gives you a very reasonable set of defaults, and if you need more, you just "pact install" it.

Supposedly it has a self-update mechanism that will take care of Cygwin updates. I haven't had it installed long enough to see it in action.

And no, they don't explain what BLOADA is. :) It's also a little tricky to run rebaseall, since the rebaseall tool doesn't like zsh running. (The workaround, btw: "cygstart dash", then proceed with rebaseall.)
But that's not how you get the contract.
A better way to keep up with tweets you wanted to see while you were away
On the manifestos killers leave behind
the whole show is on the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles
This might work. I have a high deductible plan and the only rational way to reduce costs is to not go to the doctor.

Otherwise it's all guesswork since you don't have any information. You can't get any prices and no quality numbers are available.

A website with binding/fixed prices, some kind of quality number or reviews and whether the doctor will take your insurance would help.
Google App Engine: Lock in, what lock in?
The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language
No. Currently to call Swift from C (or any other language that supports C-like things) you either have to use the mangled names or write an obj-c wrapper.
The Oregon Medicaid experiment was very interesting but clearly wasn't the definitive word on emergency use and outcomes, and as to whether Kliff had heard of it, here's one of many articles she's written on the subject;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/03/ne...
I'm actually a big fan of scrum, mostly for the "shield" it gives developers. When a client absolutely needs something done in a sprint, I'd much rather be able to say "Yea we can do that, but we'll need to remove so so and so from the sprint to make room" rather than force our team to work extra hours.
What I find interesting is that Uber doesn't seem to be having an effect on private car use.

From the article, in the busiest part of New York, "Uber gained 3.10 million pickups, while taxis lost 3.09 million."

I read this to say that almost every Uber ride would have been a taxi ride if Uber did not exist. It doesn't seem to be replacing private car use at all. If it were, we'd see Uber rides increasing faster than taxis ride are decreasing.
I think the word "earning" is what the author meant.
Musk, Masten, Blue Origin, Firefly, XCOR. There's really quite a lot of innovative rocket companies out there now. A lot of them are working on similar or complementary problems, and innovating while they do it. I'm excited to see not only what they produce but what fruits are born from follow-on innovators.
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I'm just not entirely convinced of the premise that energy consumption on that scale would be necessary for an advanced civilization. Particle accelerators would be a reasonable possibility though.
Good point. A taser could also be a viable non-lethal alternative. Although personally, if I thought I was a target for ISIS, being "non lethal" would be the last concern on my mind. But mace or a taser may be more practical than a gun for other reasons anyway, depending on the circumstances.

Another thought, as obvious as it may seem, is to suggest simply trying to not be alone as much as possible. "There's safety in numbers" as they say. Maybe try to arrange to be in a (known friendly) crowd as much as possible.
I haven't for any real projects, I've only played around with it. But it seems like there's a decent number of people using it today, so my guess would be that waiting isn't necessary. If I were working on a cross platform mobile/web app today, I'd probably choose Kotlin.
You are fine with a commercial US company storing all your communications? I am not.
This is pretty awesome. I used to write processing software for airborne SAR and often wondered what it would take to just strap some stuff to my car and do it. Unfortunately blasting EM radiation in almost any useful frequency is a pretty big no-no without going out to the middle of nowhere.
I know that, but it links to an app, not the WebGL browser version that the page I linked, and numerous articles all over the web, all are referring to. The words "WebGL" don't even appear on the page.
That's quite a generalization.

Assuming you mean where it is an offence to ride on the sidewalk, I'll always choose angry peds or a penalty over getting killed by a coffee-drinking, cell-phone talking urbanite in their range rover. Or non observant lorry driver. Or bus running a red light. Etc.

Cycle a bit in a city and you'll change your view.
Even where there is at least gross-level of price transparency. Like in the case where you have to choose between an Urgent Care Center and an Emergency Department.

The former is much cheaper than the later in most cases. But how do you self-triage? There are 4 possible outcomes:

1. You go to an UCC and they treat you. You made the right choice and saved the most.

2. You go to an ED and they treat you but an UCC would've been enough. You made a mistake and pay more than you should.

3. You go to an ED and it was the right choice. Congratulations you saved money and got prompt care.

4. You go to an UCC, they can't treat you and refer you to an ED, you need need to pay both and quite possibly an ambulance ride for the transfer.

Now suppose you have sharp abdominal pain... Medically, the right thing to do is go to an ED (especially if you still have an appendix.) But will you gamble that the cheaper UCC is the right place? You have some chances of being right.
The point is, XML is quite good for unstructured, semi-structured and strongly-structured data and is more versatile from this point of view.
Anyone know what the font used in these screens was?

I googled but couldn't find it.
They can't do it.

They change less than cost for medicare and medicaid patients. The only way to make it up is charge more than cost for those with better health plans.

Forcing them to show prices would make that impossible.

They would have to charge cost for everyone - but that would cause the US government to pay probably double in health costs, no one would go for it.

So we are left with a sort of hidden tax on anyone with a private health plan.
This seems like a neat way to do message encryption. For the average user, this is probably too inconvenient as a long term solution though. Having to select the text every time, to explicitly tell it to decrypt, makes for a poor user experience.
They also seem to use a hosted JIRA, but restrict some of the tickets from being viewed, and you need an account to file Jira's.

There is also no mention of it in the "getting involved" section, just a link to github issues

This is not how you do open source.
that's because taxis are already really good relative to private car ownership in new york city. owning a car is a miserable experience and taking a taxi was already not that bad
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>seemed like an R port of the python implementation

End of the github for rvest:

Inspirations

Python: Robobrowser, beautiful soup.
I think the issue is that private car use is vastly dwarfed by the numbers for taxis so you would need an analysis of the private car use as well.

Private car usage could be accounted for in the 100,000 more uber has than taxis there.
It is the other way around. Using Rust on iOS is pain. Using Swift is not pain because it is supported by Apple. So it is easier to bring my Swift code and knowledge that I use on iOS to other platforms because other platforms (Linux) don't require sophisticated tooling and support. So I can create apps in Swift for iOS but also backend in Swift for Linux and it is the major benefit.
On the new iPhone 6S, it does not need to be plugged in.

> The integrated M9 works so eﬃciently and intelligently that Siri is always on and waiting for your voice commands. You can easily activate Siri by saying “Hey Siri” whenever your iPhone 6s is nearby.

(Taken from http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-6s/technology/)
how much private car usage is there, actually, in Manhattan?
In fact, the second and candela aren't choices aren't that fundamental, mostly reflecting how those are measured. All the others come from the speed of light, fundamental charge, Plank's constant, and gases constant; those are pretty fundamental to physics.

Avogadro's number is used to define the atomic units, what makes a lot more sense than pushing it into metric calculations.

The wikipedia page is great:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Future_developme...
> I was chatting with a friend of a friend the other day who mentioned she was thinking about taking Epicodus. Out loud, I said "Oh, that's awesome! I really hope you do it." But in my head, I was worried. What if she wasn't good at programming? What if she didn't do well in the class? What if she didn't get a job afterwards?

I have that feeling whenever I commend _anyone_ for planning to learn to code. I don't know the specifics of this case, and whether the author would have been unreservedly gung ho about a guy talking about his plans to learn to code, but under the impulse to have faith in my empathetic capabilities, I generally resist the author's thought process as a kind of self-indulgent false modesty, rather than true insight. This might sound like a kind of "I'm not racist, I'm xenophobic" reasoning, but as a lot of people on this forum believe: learning to code is really hard and we shouldn't be so hard on ourselves when we are skeptical of others' abilities to learn how to do it.
Elaborating on this somewhat.

Let say, for example, that the interfloor distance in your city residential building is 150". According to ADA codes, the maximum slope for a ramp is 1:12. The maximum rise for a ramp is 30", requiring a landing before and after at least 60" long.

So to climb one story in the ramped building, you need 5 ramps total, plus 6 landings. Each ramp is 360" long, and each landing 60" long. The total horizontal distance, per floor, is 2160", or 180', or 55m. The minimum width of a ramp is 36". Your ramp area is going to be at least 540ft^2 (51m^2). On each floor.

In contrast, each elevator takes up about 27ft^2 (2.5m^2) per floor. You could have 20 elevators operating in the same space as a ramp only wide enough for one person to use at a time.

And if you live on the 11th floor, are you really going to ride your bike around in tight circles for at least a third of a mile just to reach street level? Or are you going to ride to the bike-through elevator and have it move you that vertical distance instead?

So when I imply that the architect that puts bike ramps on the inside of high-rise buildings will eventually be homeless, it is only because that person suffers from a fundamental disconnect from reality that is so much worse than just a simple lack of common sense. New passenger elevators in urban high-rise buildings are probably the most efficient vehicles for moving people between locations that currently exist.
Could you please reread what I wrote and say if you disagree with any of it?
Does an amateur license allow you to operate a RADAR system? I doubt it. I had thought that amateur operators were somewhat limited in the sorts of hardware and operations they are permitted. (E.g., type acceptance of equipment when operating outside designated amateur bands.)

And in the U.S. at least the bands around 5.5 GHz (the so-called U-NII-2 and U-NII-2 extended bands) are subject to lots of interesting rules for unlicensed operation, including the ability to detect and avoid incumbent RADAR signals. https://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/oet/ea/presentations/file...

Of course, I know literally nothing about the Finnish rules that actually apply here...except that, thanks to the ITU, they probably bear some resemblance to the U.S. rules.
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That is essentially how it works now actually. The patent has to be awarded to an inventor (or more than one) who is a natural person. But they initially assign it to a company, when it's done by someone working for that company.
I've never liked the comparison of Flux to functional reactive programming. It's really just good ol' object-oriented design. Actions are akin to the Command pattern and the Dispatcher feels like a Mediator. Passing callbacks instead of objects and making a mostly directed graph does not yield FRP.

In my latest project, I used React with rx-react (https://github.com/fdecampredon/rx-react) and RxJS. That combination definitely made for some FRP fun.
This is probably a case where limiting choice to a smallish set of identical (save for price) options[1] that can be compared apples-to-apples would actual improve market efficiency, since the education/information imbalance is so huge and unlikely to improve otherwise. It'd also provide a lot of the same administrative cost-cutting that e.g. single-payer would, since there'd be (say) a dozen plans to check against ("does this plan cover this procedure, and at what out-of-pocket expense?") rather than... hundreds? Thousands? Dispute resolution would be easier, too.

It's what I thought the categories on the Federal exchange were aimed at accomplishing, but it turns out the range of coverage in each category is way too large to be helpful. Two "silver, low-deductible" plans can be almost nothing alike once you dig in to the fine print.

If we must keep using something more-or-less like our current system, that'd be a big help.

[1] (EDIT) I mean health insurance plans, specifically
The comment I replied to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10379458) wasn't a question. The original Ask HN was, and of course was not a religious flamewar. So I think you may have misunderstood.

If you want to read the comment I replied to, set 'showdead' to 'yes' in your profile. That makes comments marked [dead] or [flagged] visible.
Yes, why "taking"? What Uber is doing is obviously working.

Pre-Uber days, getting a cab in NY was painful. You can't call them to come pick you up. More often than not, the cabbie will complain about taking a credit card or just say the machine is broken. Rides TO the airport are a mixed bag of using the fixed fare vs the cabbie encouraging you to go off of it.

Are there are legitimate complaints about Uber that don't come from the standpoint of defending the incumbent cab industry? I just don't get the constant hate they receive.
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Brilliant. But this thread got downvoted.
I was surprised that your comment got voted to the top of the pile, and that any chastisement on that got flagged and downvoted.

Unreal.
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I wouldn't be quite that harsh, but I agree with you overall. I don't understand why in the world they thought this would work.

Are they confusing deductibles with co-insurance? I know the field is confusing, and that sort of confusion is the only way this study makes any sense.

With a deductible ANY non-routine spending means you go over it. So why bother price shopping? It makes no difference.

With co-insurance you pay a portion of every bill, so in that case price matters.
Some interesting features but it would have been nice to see something like zigbee on there also... http://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=18570
Mattermost v1.1 (ships Oct 16) has incoming webhooks support with samples (www.mattermost.org/webhooks/), and we're planning outgoing webhooks v1.2 (Nov 16), which provides the ground work for XMPP

Community has asked this for a while, we want to build an effective, well documented API to let the community create what they want: http://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/sugges...
It helped me raise my tolerance of incompetent politicians.
You are forgetting to account for the other ride sharing services, which most likely have gained more than 10,000 pickups as a whole.
> The point is, XML is quite good for unstructured, semi-structured and strongly-structured data

That's a highly-subjective and controversial point.

(To me, XML is the Java of data languages -- its a lot worse than the best alternative considered on its own for almost any purpose -- though the best alternative will vary by purpose -- but it has a fairly wide range of uses for which its not intolerably bad, and its often a better choice than its inherent features would suggest because of the strength and maturity of the ecosystem around it.)
> American rapper Wiz Khalifa claimed on Twitter that he was handcuffed by customs and border patrol officers at LAX airport because he refused to disembark from his transporter.

I don't know whether the officers were justified in ordering him to get off the transporter (I tend to side with civilians), but this is kind of dumb. What was he expecting to happen? I can understand getting arrested intentionally to make a political point, but is this really the political stance he wants to take?

Either he was too dumb to know he was going to get arrested, or he's making a pretty irrelevant political point.