skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This demographic picture of the wild rural savages out breeding the cultured urbanites is one possible explanation of why we have fundamentalism now, but I don't find this very compelling. Secular Arabs and Persians were not outbred, they were deposed and shot. The same kids who a generation ago would have been good Marxist PLO members are screaming "Takbir!" and wearing Hamas armbands. I watched this happen in the US around 2003. Culture moves much faster than selection.
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But ... Why? What's the point?
For working for NASA? The line will go around the block.
At drchrono (#1 iPad EHR on the Market, YC W'2011) we are building a very open API that has an open door policy to our customers and other digital health startups.

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Well, I am not so sure.

I think "wrote software for a space probe while at NASA" is going to look pretty eye-catching on a resume.
If we're taking into account growing food using bio-industry in bioreactors,etc - we might even be able to do so at 10x-100x larger densities.
Canada changed their DST hours to coordinate with the US a few years later. Is there any data of this type from Canada?
Pretty sure it will be "rm -rf /"'d by trolls before that.
PR nightmare... can you imagine the legal fallout? E911 operators are trained to treat every call as an emergency because that's what E911 is for. I don't think they can prioritize them either correctly, for example, how do you treat a domestic abuse call where the victim is talking in very abstract or nonsensical terms, for example, "I'd like to order a pizza?" in order to avoid alerting the abuser who might be a few feet away. Assign it a low priority and you risk getting someone seriously hurt or killed.
Ctrl-z by itself doesn't actually switch the process to run in the background, it stops the process. Running 'bg' is what starts the process back up running in the background, 'fg', like you said, resumes the process in the foreground and 'jobs' is the command you can run to see a list of processes that are running.
If you read the linked article there is a meaningful difference due to the fact that the sunlight later in the day discourages crime due to more visibility during evening commutes.
Something feels "off" about a methodology that basically ranks all of the "top" state schools as poor values.

Take the top-3 state schools in Virginia (by most other rankings, that's UVA, W&M, and VT). All three are nationally recognized. And all three are competitive that you need very good grades and a solid set of extra-curricular activities to be accepted.

UVA ranks the lowest of the three, yet has the highest actual earnings. VT is ranked significantly higher with the middle earnings value.

What does a student do with this? Cost of attendance at the three is similar. Should they attend VT with it's higher ranking, despite lower average earnings?

Similar comments can be made about UNC-CH, UW-Seattle, UT-Austin.

Also lacking from this analysis seems to be the loan burden borne by students. Georgetown and Villanova both rank very high in this list. But, both are insanely expensive to attend. Even with high actual earnings, it could take a decade or more for many students to pay off a potential six-figure loan.
Do you have info or can you point to anything where I can learn about MarkLogic without all the marketing speak on the site? It's really hard to get any info about how the software actually looks like and works and compares to other options out there...
Thanks, we are a late application ;)
TSA at Boston airport tried to take my Yubikeys
It's hard to look at what other countries do in response to drug addiction because the United States pushes very hard for them to join in on its drug war and maintain its status quo. This should be surprising to no one. Only in the past decade or so have people in other countries (Switzerland for example) really begun to push back and say, "this doesn't work, we have the data to show what does, we are going to do that instead."
They are largely one and the same; because as soon as you start claiming your product or service can improve a user's health, you're subject to the regulatory scope of the FDA.

I mean, you can claim that things like MyFitnessPal are health apps, but it's still a fine line you have to walk where you can't give any advice, all you can do is observe and report. Try to go any further than that and you're providing diagnostic services, which makes you subject to all sorts of laws. The FDA and DHHS are very aggressive in protecting their regulatory scope.
Linux Poetry is relevant:
http://linuxpoetry.com/
You could use Chrome which bundles Flash. The RPM is linked on the download page

https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/browser/desktop/
> although that privilege would be monitored and revoked

Monitoring video-chat would require more guards, not fewer.

Delivering food to each cell would take more staff, not fewer.

> it would certainly be more pleasant for first-time offenders who don't fit into key prison demographics like the senator or probably you or I.

Are you proposing "enhanced solitary" for all inmates, or just the ex-senators?
> were they on Facebook, or a banking site, or an illegal child-abuse image-sharing website?

well, that escalated quickly
I'm not so sure. My generally-highly-regarded college in California (bay area, no less!) is almost bang-on average ($-33) despite being in a very high cost of living area.
Timberwolf is based on Firefox 4.0 from 2012:

http://www.amigabounty.net/?function=viewproject&projectid=4...

As far as I know there where only two updates since this initial release back in 2012.
> You might have to drop support for one version or the other or you add in some hacks to try and figure out which APIs you can and cannot use.

If this happens, there will probably be compatibility modules like https://github.com/nodejs/readable-stream.
Hm, I don't know.

That sounds plausible, but I think there would /at least/ have to be some changes.

For example, some amount of checking on seems important for medical safety. Perhaps not much, but some.

The things I've heard about solitary seem to suggest that part of it is, as you suggest, lack of anything to do, and maybe that is most of it? I'm not sure. Would having information to study be enough to not alienate them from other people? I'm not sure it would be. How much human interaction is necessary?

Would providing a source of news be expensive, and would it cause any problems? Would it help anything?

So, I can see some advantages of your proposal, but I'm not sure whether it would be sufficiently safe . (Whether is is sufficiently unlikely to cause significant harm)
I watched the video for the first time full-screen, as if I was driving, and tried to stomp my foot when I would have applied the brakes. I would have been in an accident.
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Walmart scrubs “Made in the U.S.A.” logo after FTC inquiry – Fortune
While I do lament the loss of Media Center (it has some functions that while not commonly used, are still useful to some people) I've had luck with Plex for media stored on the local network to X360/Chromecast/etc. It works a lot better than the 360's alleged integration with WMC for certain.

This is without any ongoing fees but since it's a third party application, it does require the extra step of installing it. I never subscribed to their Plex Pass paid service but after installing the free Plex server and pointing it at my media directories on my desktop and NAS, it's worked great. The ability to transcode was particularly useful because the 360 wouldn't play some formats and it was easier to install Plex than to transcode them all.

Either way, this isn't meant to dismiss your legit complaint. Just hoping my experiences can be of use to you or others in the same situation. If you used WMC to handle OTA television viewing and recording, you may be better served by Kodi or some other application.
They probably started in NY because most of the founding team is living in/near NYC, according to a document filed with the NY DFS (http://www.dfs.ny.gov/insurance/exam_rpt/x9475o13.pdf). It also states that
"The Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mulberry Health Inc. (“Mulberry”), a Delaware Corporation."

Perhaps they thought that the administrative costs stemming from operating in NY wouldn't make/break the company - it's whether they can substantially reduce the claims costs that will really determine the outcome. And if they're from NYC, the founding team probably had preexisting contacts in the local medical institutions, which made it easier to form the partnerships that are key to making Oscar's business model work. One of the founders is Joshua Kushner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kushner), whose family is well-connected in NYC (for example, his brother's father-in-law is Donald Trump).
The author was also the subject of an episode of This American Life - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/463/m...
He helped them do their job, in the way they should do their job, but in a way which was efficient and directly led to better, and possibly life-saving, outcomes to residents of Seattle.

How did it determine call priority?

How did it order priority?

How was the ordering presented?

Was the computer system itself modified, or was it running on a parallel, out-of-band system?

Did the call system computer need to run new, untested and unverified processes?

Did the call system computer need new untested dependencies installed?

Was the deployment procedure for the new system worked through with IT? Could IT restore a system with the new call prioritization display on it?

What are the security boundaries for the new call system with the prioritization display? Is the threat model the same? Has he assembled a threat model? Does he care? Does he know what a threat model is?

But you are suggesting he should have been fired ?

On the spot.
You skipped this part:

“Five years ago, [a suspect] could have physically walked into a bank and carried out a transaction. We could have put a surveillance team on that but now, most of it is done online. We just want to know about the visit.”

Willie sutton robbed banks cause "That's where the money is". When bad guys use the internet to do bad things, you have to go 'where the money is' or suffer the consequences if you don't.
The concept sounds cool, but what sort of fixes could the Voyager probes possibly need? They were launched in 1977, that's almost 40 years ago. As far as I know they're waking up every once in a while and sending telemetry back.

It would be cool to have access to the source code and an emulator, but I really don't find it plausible that members of the general public could submit patches to something that's been running smoothly for 40 years, and where the risks of changes far outweigh the benefits of keeping the existing software running as-is.
To reply to myself, the comments include this mention from "DR" of The Economist:

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Geography (both city and state) are variables included in our model. Colleges in the Bay Area are not rewarded for the high salaries available there--they have to surpass a higher "bar" of expected earnings. That is why our eighth-ranked college is in West Virginia, and the ninth in Laredo, Texas.
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Now, I don't know how they compensate for this. Cost of living at the place where the student ends up? Or where they study?

If you study in a high cost of living area but move to Podunk, Iowa, your return will be far lower than expected, if they're only controlling for CoL at the college's geographical location.

If they control for CoL at the student's new home, then okay.
What.... this is so wrong, so disconnected, so cold.

You think you can take convicts, put them in a small box with nothing but "enriching material" and have a productive member of society pop out after a few years?

What about the exact opposite of what you proposed?

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/why...
The data used here does not come from the universities, but from the government. Specifically, from matching federal student loan applications (from the Department of Education) to tax returns (from the IRS).
sudo rm -rf /* is a shorter way to achieve the effect of --no-preserve-root. You're not deleting root, but all the files within it.
Evolution would be a change in the genetic foundation of that whole framework that makes an individual thrive in the environment. A change so big that it would ultimately lead to speciation.

Adaptation is done using existing mechanisms, with no new genetic changes besides the usual background noise. It never leads to speciation.
It sounds like you've put just as much thought into prisons as the people who've come up with our current prisons, and come up with a solution that is probably just as awful.
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It's a splash screen. It's acceptable for the same reason the CSS on your coffee cup doesn't have to parse without error.
At difference of complaining about people complaining, which I see is worth your time...

Take it easy people. The web site was not clear for me, the author was asking for input so I raised my point. I already apologized for using the wrong words.
Not knowing much of anything about 911 dispatch, this would be my short list of criteria for elevating call priority:

- Caller has indicated a situation wherein a delay in the arrival
of emergency responders may contribute to more serious harm
being done in the caller's vicinity
- Caller has indicated a situation wherein a delay in the arrival
of emergency responders may result in them being unable to
render any meaningful assistance
- Caller has described a situation that may require multiple
units of responders or multiple types of responder to bring
under control
- Caller is unable to respond to the dispatcher

I would also assume that the normal method for elevating call priority would be for the dispatcher connected to the call to click a button or use a keyboard shortcut. I further assume that this priority was usually indicated by something like an asterisk in a table column, or even something like appending "-PRIORITY-" to the end of a string. The idea to highlight the entire row in a GUI for a priority call would not be inherently risky, other than the possibility that an extremely incompetent person might set Visible="Collapsed" or something.

But I don't know any of the details. It may well be that the 911 dispatch software is so badly written that business logic is present in the view layer. I have seen it before in software used by government entities. The code is so brittle that everyone is deathly afraid of doing anything to it unless something is already clearly broken.
Top contributor decides which editor we write it in.
There's still time to get back on the horse for Rust 1.6. :)
I want one
And dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda & is probably faster than shred, but I could be wrong as it might be doing essentially that.
Understandable, but for a lot of people (me at least) a large part of why we use Windows on one machine or another is because of what it offers over those other OSes.

I personally tend to use Windows because I can run it on just about any brand or model of x86 PC, it supports pretty much every component or peripheral I own, and it will run software not available for Linux.

So yeah, when something you make heavy use of adopts policies that you don't like, it's pretty common to discuss and criticize them. If nothing else, Microsoft (or any other company) would be wise to consider these complaints from users because they can easily impact their bottom line over time.
> waving the turning driver on to "be nice"

I've seen pedestrians nearly killed by this multiple times. Outside lane traffic stops and waves someone on with no signals in sight, the pedestrian's visibility is blocked by the car doing the waving, they go anyway because someone is telling them to, and then the inside lane traffic nearly hits the pedestrian at 50mph.
You can have automatic updates without the Windows style problem you describe. The bigger problem is that Windows updates require taking the system offline for a significant amount of time; as apposed to configuring the updates while the unupdated system is running, then applying them with nothing more than a normal reboot.
What makes you say that? Clemans sounds like the aggressive one.
You're a loose canon! Hand in your badge and your gun!
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Immutability does reduce the problem by reducing the data footprint of stuff that needs to be synchronized.

So let me guess:

They're doing a distributed metadata store where the cloud is the tie-breaker combined with flexible caching of immutable content-addressable (identified with SHA512 or similar) objects.

In that case it sounds like cloud-hosted-only ipfs plus a nice client to access it from a host.

Cold? Warm? :)
If you don't get immediately excited by this idea, I unfortunately have no way to explain why it is fun.
And that's why I have no interest in surfing anywhere there is a lineup. Growing up in Australia spoiled me, no doubt.
But first, let this convolutional neural network take a selfie
Stream processing is pretty cool. Instead of doing batch jobs try to set up something real time using Spark.
But on most (probably all?) mobile carriers, you're NATted anyway, so your IP address doesn't really tell you much about who specifically you are compared to, say, your home address.
I'm not sure that the author of the post would understand enough to provide any evidence that Clemans deployed anything in an unsafe or inappropriate manner. Maybe he just deployed a webapp that the people in the communications center could access. The post is so light on details that I can't discern that he did anything wrong.
I remember reading an article in Archaeology magazine. Some researchers from some school automated the search for settlements. I can't remember if they were successful or not.

Edit #1 - That was the most useless comment that I've ever either written or read, so I did some digging. Here's the article that I remember:

http://archive.archaeology.org/1207/features/aster_satellite...

Jason Ur (one of the researchers) has a list of pubs available. Looks like a few of these would be of value to you:

http://scholar.harvard.edu/jasonur/node/93931
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I don't think the Economist's ranking can be used for choosing which school to attend. It tells you how good a job schools do at boosting the earnings of the people who attend there---conditioned on who attends. In other words, they tell you how much the school does for a typical member of its student body. But if you're not representative of that student body (and you certainly won't be representative at many of the schools, especially the outliers!), this will not tell you how much the school would do for you.
People do understand and use UTC.

Google calendar is even smart enough to "translate" an event to your timezone. If I get an email with an event in a different timezone and put it on your Google Calendar it actually goes on your calendar in your local time zone. This screwed me up once when I moved to the other side of the world and forgot to update my timezone in Google.
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Nukes flying all over the place.
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We make this classification, so we can adjust the rules until our model fits reality at an acceptable level. So let's define species as groups of individual of a similar genotype. We were not able to define and measure genetic distances in the past, but now with the ability to read whole genomes, we can do just that.

> sometimes hugely different species can interbreed and produce fertile offspring

Then they are obviously not hugely different. Were we just comparing phenotypes when we decided to classify them as different species? Let's improve on that.
That's a very accurate view of most police.

Fixed it for you.
Inspections and licensing of restaurants and grocery stores are typically handled by local and county health departments. (Not the FDA)

http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194244.ht...

Though, yeah, given that the FDA is the FOOD and Drug Administration, I am sure they impact grocery stores: https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2014/fda-proposes-rule-for...

That does not mean HIPAA impacts grocery stores, restaurants, etc.

Though if you search for "HIPAA and grocery stores" it does pull up Von's page on HIPAA related to the fact that stores can have a pharmacy window in them:

http://rss.vons.com/ShopStores/Pharmacy-HIPAA.page

So, yes, while anyone selling food will be regulated by existing food safety rules/organizations -- including the FDA -- that does not prevent someone from saying (to themselves) "I would like to make the world healthier. I don't think becoming a doctor is The Answer. I think The Answer is running an organic restaurant."

And please don't argue with me that how you conceptualize it does not matter. You cannot tell me that Chipotle, with its "Food with integrity" concept and supporting policies, is the same as any other fast food taco joint.

(I ate there consistently for a long time to get well after doctors wrote me off for dead. That did not cause Chipotle to suddenly have to comply with HIPAA.)
So basically the beginning of Old Boy?
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On what charge? There is no law against making a bad product in general, and I do not see an anti-trust angle to apply here.
By 'submissions' do you mean stories as opposed to comments? If so, then yes, it's rare for dead stories to get rescued by vouching. We see maybe one or two a day. We see more rescued comments, though not as many as I expected. We've also seen very few cases of users rescuing posts—either stories or comments—that ought not to be rescued, which is a testament to HN's community.

Notes for anyone wondering where the 'vouch' links are: (1) they only show up on [dead] posts, so you have to have 'showdead' on in your profile, and (2) for comments, you have to go to the item page (linked from the timestamp) to see them, just as you do for 'flag'.
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Got to toss that last one in so people toss their reasoning out and go with pure emotions. Sometimes I wonder if such material was made as offensive as it is currently viewed as a tool to spearhead attacks of this nature. It wouldn't be the oddest social engineering a group like the CIA has done (look at the abstract art discussion on HN from earlier this week).
Missing Joe.
Here's another option for building a lisp-descendant from Scheme.

http://t3x.org/s9book/index.html

"Scheme9 from Empty Space"

I've not tried any of these. I'd be interested in someone who's done the lot (Lisp in Small Pieces, the Haskell one, and these two C-created lisps) giving a take on each. Making a lisp or forth seems like a great way to learn [x] thing.
Are all of your questions rhetorical? Or would the answers to them change whether you think Clemans should have been fired on the spot? Would it matter that, as badly as Clemans may have behaved, he was significantly better than the other IT staff that worked in the center?

Just based on the post, I don't expect its author to even know enough to ask any of the questions you have. Why are you assuming the worst? Is there anything specific that makes you think Clemans was irresponsible?
Axlines were suspended some time ago, I think they are still proactive with need based aid but I think with their tuition skyrocketing they can't possibly be as gracious as they once were.