skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These ideas have been around for a long time. I remember using the ideas a quarter of a century ago! See DEC SRC Report 24, "A simple and efficient implementation for small databases", by Birrell, et al. 1988. http://web.archive.org/web/20051215194340/http://gatekeeper....

I used to read these reports as they came out, very interesting.
Perhaps but I imagine people would not willingly produce something for free if it was the private sector. The fact it is government and taxes pay for it, therefore you and me pay for it, there should be no problem in getting it done for free(essentially).

Would it be better to pay a company $500, of which $150 goes to the dev and $350 to company coffers?
Americans do care more about Paris than Lebanon – here’s why
The scientific workshop ADAPT is using Reddit as its primary peer review system
Coca Cola is a luxury item. If they raise the price too much, no one will buy it, and that puts an upper limit to the price (and makes consolidation less profitable). And it still may happen if not for antitrust - I'm sure a combined RCPepsiCoca Cola company will be more profitable than three independent ones.

The only reason DataPrim price could be hiked was that the people who need it will actually pay for it. Same with ACTH. A captive audience is a wonderful thing -- something Coca Cola would love but doesn't have.

There were ~100 car manufacturers 100 years ago, how many are there now? (And cars are not as essential as ACTH)

There were tens to hundreds of media companies up until the 1980's. Now, there are essentially six[0]. And if antitrust didn't matter, there would probably be less.

Similar things are happening in pharma[0].

It is one aspect of capitalism that's to blame: "free market". If you monopolies are legal (and in a totally free market, they are), then you will get monopolies because they are more effective at extracting rent than competition. we've just seen this happen twice in the pharma market.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership_in_the_U...

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6aad8ebe-e9c0-11e4-b863-00144feab7...
Do type providers provide you with semantics difference when type errors occur? If not (e.g. they don't tell you about arity mismatch citing relevant part of awl query), then they are inferior to the method of expression of queries in type level.
That depends - since you listen mostly to full albums perhaps you could by an album a month and put them on a private streaming server a la groovebasin/sandstorm.io?
The "crap" is primarily from geoclue which supports numerous methods of getting your location. Some of them such as geoip require making network connections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoClue

It would be absurd for Redshift to include its own networking (don't forget proxies and SSL), GPS, and other code. On Linux (Ubuntu especially), all those dependencies are installed by default and used by many other components. "crap" is the last thing to describe it.

OpenBSD doesn't have them by default which is why they show up. Redshift does support specifying your location on the command line or config file. gentoo has use flags where you can explicitly include (eg +geoclue) or exclude (eg -geoclue) components. I suspect OpenBSD doesn't, so it came down to whoever authored their port deciding to use geoclue by default.

It is an entirely reasonable decision. You use this software on personal machines (ie not servers), and people move around. Defaulting to something that usually works right is fine.

You are of course welcome to do a competitor, and show us all how much better it could be :-)
Being overweight has been shown to cause insulin resistance, which is what they were comparing.
Look, I grew up in a mixed SDA/Catholic household and I'm a bit sick of this crap every time we talk about Mormons, SDA, or Catholics. Its spreading FUD, and of course the establishment Republicans are going to throw a damn fit since Jeb is their candidate.
As an Rdio shareholder I was told that the labels did have equity, but certainly not a majority stake. I'm not sure exactly how much they had.
I don't understand this paper yet, but Marzouk is an awesome fella--a great explainer, a brilliant researcher, etc. I almost took a job with him a few years ago.

If I get through this paper quick enough, I'll post back any significant thoughts I may have (if any).
Inside the article there's a link to another article on the same page about the "Elk Cloner" Virus [1] with the title "1st computer virus is written, January 30, 1982". Which is only a little bit weird considering the linked article's title is "The computer virus is born, November 10, 1983".

[1]: http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4406021/1st...
If someone were forking my project to even fix a single tiny whitespace issue or typo, I'd be happy! They generally do nothing though. It seems like 90% or more of forks result in absolutely no changes whatsoever.

I kind of wish a fork wouldn't even trigger notifications or be listed on any pages until at least one commit is made to it.
>a foreign "nation" (entity?) attacking another nation's

IS would be properly categorized as a non-state actor.

>It seems a pertinent time to have the debate on what should be done in response, as well as what preventative measures should be taken in the future

This is basically one of the main functions of the UN. While people are free to discuss these things all they like, it would probably be worthwhile to come to the table having an understanding of international law and the use of armed force (i.e. the laws of war). Though the UN has only existed a brief time, there is plenty of precedent regarding: when a state may respond to the use of force (from state or non-state actors); what type of response is permitted (i.e. proportional); and what if any preventative measures are permitted.

Though there are dozens upon dozens of great case study style textbooks, start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_force_by_states
Canada does extremely well in this respect.
Ask HN: Is “Your Github profile is your resume” encouraging profile padding?
I think I've noticed an uptick in what I consider to be "padded" github profiles (in the sense of resume padding). That is, the activity graph is very green, and the projects contributed to are important, but when you look more closely, you see the contributions are largely inconsequential. For example, pull requests to reword a comment or to change formatting (which often go unaccepted), or in many cases, no pull requests at all; a project is just forked for no apparent reason.

Am I being paranoid, or are more and more people trying to game the Github profile system, because of its increasing use in hiring?
"I didn't say all 7DAs were YECs"

your exact phrase was:

"Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist, and hence a young-earth creationist."
> How do you think they are linked? I know ISIS rhetoric talks about re-establishing a caliphate, world domination etc, but do you think there is any material connection?

Pretty much this. ISIS' world-view is that Muslims (by "Muslim" I mean Wahhabi/fundamentalist Sunni, not those dirty Shias/Alawites/Kurds/etc...) should conquer the world, much as Mohammed did (or at least his corner of the world), and the Rashidun caliphate. I wouldn't say there's so much a material connection, however there's certainly a very direct philosophical connection.

Anyhow, ISIS is a symptom, the culprit is Wahhabism. Those who blame the west for the rise of ISIS and Al Qaeda are correct, partially, in that the west destroyed Arab nationalism and Baathism, which was the competing ideology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
The house of Saud first expanded when they allied themselves with the founder of Wahhabism. That's when they expanded into the Saudi state. Wahhabism itself seeks to be a restoration of Islam, free from idolatry and whatever they deem to be non-Islamic influences (the Saudis even went so far as to destroy Mohammed's grave/shrine). And of course the Saudis export this with oil money. You can see Saudi and Gulf sponsored madrassas all over the 3rd world, there's one in my wife's tiny community in a tiny 3rd world country (I've got some stories from there!). The Wahhabi (jihadist) world-view is what the Saudis export. The one thing Sunni terrorist groups have in common is that they've all grown out of Wahhabi ideology.

The connection to Islamic imperialism is partly historic, partly demographic. Historic in the sense that they want to recreate the 'real' caliphate. Demographic in the sense that, where there was Muslim conquest, there are Muslims today, and they have been courted by Wahhabi ideology. This is why IS terrorists come from diverse places, but all belong to one ideology. You won't find Shias or Alawites supporting IS.

Also, I never really addressed the initial post, but leaving the middle east alone won't work. Wahhabism as an ideology needs to be destroyed. It can come from within (I would say an Islamic 'enlightenment', although that came and went), or it can come from outside (military action against IS and eventual action against the Saudis would convince people that Wahhabism is simply a path to destruction). But pretending if we 'leave it alone' it'll go away is silly, because the ideology itself is pervasive, cultural in some places, and conquest is integral to the ideology. The actual solution - there needs to be another Arab nationalist/secular movement. Much like the 'west' became the 'west' after the enlightenment, and especially after the French revolution (the ideas of Liberté, égalité, fraternité and the French philosophers of that era could be considered the backbone of modern secular western culture).

Finally, I thought about it, could have probably made a more insightful first post, but the point stands. Islamic terror is about expansion and ideology, not disenfranchisement, even if the latter indirectly led to an acceptance of the former.
>Their other products seem to be well-regarded, do they not?

Not entirely, no. There's a history of Zenefits customers and their employees suffering from serious technical and support failures.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/zenefits-hr-rocket-ship...

>in late February this year, with coverage supposed to start days later, Zenefits informed Hawkins that it had made a significant mistake, attempting to enroll his employees with an insurance provider that didn’t cover the company’s region. The insurance wouldn’t come through as planned. [...] In several cases employees like Harris, who had put their trust in Zenefits, were left without health insurance for a month or more after they had expected it.
Healthcare and pharmaceuticals are not even in the ball park of a normal free market.

1. Monopolies - We give monopolies to pharmaceutical companies to incentivize R&D.

2. Principal-Agent problem - Doctors guide, and make decisions about care for consumers. But However consumers of health care have different incentives than doctors.

3. Insurance - Most individuals are relatively shielded from the costs of their healthcare.

4. Public Good - Many people want to live in a society where people do not die from easily treatable conditions.

So yes a free markets is always the optimal solution given a certain set of assumptions. Unfortunately very few of these assumptions are true in healthcare.
As little as I actually count on the service, and have yet to update my files with tracks since about 2013, Radio Reddit is one of the few I know of that legitimately side-steps the licensing issue. It's more of a discovery service than streaming service, so to speak. Niche market.

Heck, if ReverbNation or BandCamp wanted to get into the 'stand-alone, broadcast/streaming, exposure and small payment per play' market, they could have a distinct advantage in that their content sources are, predominately, unsigned and able to negotiate in good faith (in theory). Could be a great way for new bands to get noticed...could also be an unlistenable mess of garbage without human curation. Sort of a counter-community to SoundCloud, which I see as more of dealing with label pressures in ways ReverbNation/BandCamp would avoid.
Award Winning, Managing Editor of WPMU Dev Is Probably Copy-Pasting Articles
WPMUdev blog article has a couple links that actually belong to WPExplorer ( that look like http://wpexlorer.com/go/referal-site-slug and are redirecred to WPExlorer referal link), which made me WPMUdev is copy-pasting at least some of their content from around the web.

So I decided to let WPExplorer know, and tweeted @WPExplorer. Soon after, I discovered, that WPExplorer is actually following me, so I deleted the tweet and sent a DM on Twitter instead.

The next day, suddenly @WPMUdev on Twitter wakes up and starts asking me to provide the link of the article to "further investigate the accusation". To which I politely declined a couple of times. At the time I didn't realize that the link has been long cached in archive.org and I wanted to give WPExplorer time to decide on his own what to do about that before WPMU "inspects" the issue.

I'm very disappointed seeing such behavior from a huge site like WPMUdev. I was under the assumption that copy pasting articles was what low level "SEO hacking" sites do, not the "big guys".

Isn't this shameful amongst blogs and websites ? Is it okay to publish "inspired" ( or copied ) content without mentioning the original author ?

As @TimothyBowers said, I could have emailed them directly, but instead I started a public conversation ( https://twitter.com/TimothyKBowers/status/666362562666172417 ). Because of it I guess I am obligated to provide WPMUdev with all the details that they require or they won't leave me be on Twitter. Well - You wanted it public, you got it.

Twitter conversation: https://twitter.com/justnorris/status/666363207557189632
Link to the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20150421051207/https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-drag-and-drop-page-builders-wordpress/

p.s. I am by no means a writer, so excuse my writing style and form. Thank you for reading through my public rant :)
The bug that almost killed Google's Pac-Man doodle
Goldman MDs and Tracking Stocks
So basically what you're saying is that swaps under these new rules are good as they go south quicker and more obviously in changing market conditions, which forces the hand of the holder to plan ahead and actively hedge their bets elsewhere in real time rather than relying on the long term false security of something that might be rotten underneath?
> The claim of losing money is almost certainly a lie. The marginal cost of a drug like this is usually almost nothing.

Spoken like someone who has never worked on low-volume production before. Fixed costs that amortize to trivial amounts when producing a few million or billion doses a year get significant when amortized across a few thousand.

I don't buy the article's unsourced assertion that the medication only costs $230/dose to make. Assuming 4,000 doses/year (800 patients * 5 doses/patient [$23,000/dose / "over $100,000 per infant"]), that's a production cost of only $920,000. The cost of regulatory compliance alone is probably greater than that.
Since there's no bulk export or migration tool, I pulled everything out of the .artists_list element from /favorites/albums/ so I can rebuild my collection elsewhere.
looks like your hell banned hockeybias - truth of the world on the name though
I don't think essays discussing "why X" are limited to only talking about what the author believes the main reason to be.

Even if PG believes that the broader societal problem is not at all relevant here, I think it would have been a stronger essay if he'd said that and said why. Since he didn't, I'm left to wonder whether he is even aware of the problem. A lot of guys aren't, so a reasonable reading of this essay is that he may have written about a tree without noticing the forest.
There already is Spotify -> Rdio tools like http://resp.in/ Now we just need the reverse.
The kernel does have access to more information than your app, but your app has a specific job to do, while the kernel must provide reasonable service to all possible applications and may not be optimized for your specific case.
>>Maven will be $20 at Best Buy next Friday.

Is this just the bare phone without SIM? But how do you know it though?

>>However you'd have to be insane to go into a store

Why?

>>However you will never get third party roms for it.

Again, Why?
Google AOSP Email App HTML Injection
You'd certainly know better than I would.

It seemed strange to me as well (esp after seeing how much outside funding they had raised), but the people I heard it from seemed both credible and adamant. It's also possible that the cap table has changed since I heard this (years ago) and now.
That's what I was on about. My fault for being so terse
Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future
I have a lot of faith in the EFF but in this case I think they are confused. Our DNA is one of the least private aspects of ourselves. We share the vast majority of it with our family and even neighbors. The idea of hiding it is absurdly impossible. We leave it everywhere we go in quantities that are more than sufficient to completely reconstruct our genome. We would literally need to wear full body latex suits with filtered respirators to keep it private. In the medium term, the idea of having private DNA while living in a public environment is as incredible as desiring to have a public social experience while keeping your face completely hidden. DNA sampling arrestees is no more invasive than taking their photo. It is only our current technical capacity that makes us see the two as different.
Disproven by privatisation of the UK rail industry. I think it's the most expensive in Europe, certainly close. Oh, and the European healthcare systems.
I'm curious why you think that the price of the phone affects environmental impact per unit. Or why labor is more exploited per unit.

Chips are cheap on the margin; the big expensives are chip design, testing, and constructing fabs at evershrinking scales.
How Microsoft's Minecraft Will Teach Kids How to Code
I agree with you about Google Music. For those lucky enough to sign up early and get the $7.99 price, it is easily the best pay for streaming service out there.
Yes, I've noticed a lot of do-nothing forks too.
It's not cult-like, but it does seem arbitrary. What if Jessica gets a "bad vibe" from someone who happens to genuinely be a good, smart, honest person? All forms of radar have false positives and false negatives. Even if she does happen to have a very high success rate, she or anyone else can't always be right.

Of course, that's what all job interviews are like. If they get a bad vibe from you or think you're not a "culture fit", they can quickly reject you based on a short impression. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

What bothers me is the reptition of the idea that any one person can be some kind of magical oracle of character judgment, bordering on having psychic properties. Especially without strong scientific evidence. I'd rather PG use less black-and-white language.
41 Percent of Fliers are correct!
If I'm not mistaken in detecting hostility from the scare quotes, I'd like to say that I don't believe it is unreasonable to expect that the journalist who wrote this article to provide that information before making appeals to emotion, rather than depending on commenters on news aggregators to disseminate it.
Typesystem is not the same as syntax? I dont believe raising ugliness in syntax as an issue. Of course, I do mention the ugliness in Haskell and that is in special cases where the overhead of boxing is significant. So, yeah, we could move on, but I think that is a specious argument. I guess one could really move on, till we start seeing Scala embrace Uniform Access Principle or Java embrace lambdas (implicitly or explicitly) to support generics. So, what it seems to me is that you are ok with a bad language design and accept the weakness of the language because it was delivered and also accept that like any working document there could be amendments and that is part of working in a programming language. Moreover, the principles of language design that I list were available as prior art, so it is not clear as to why Java language designers decided to at least not refer to it during design. Anyway, my intention was not to start a flame war?
Note:
Regarding : "why create ugliness in Java?"
Any reason for an ad homenim attack? or was it a general rant? Since we are on hacker news I would like to give you the benefit of doubt :).
Apple has an Apple Music app [1] on the Play Store for Android, and is accessible through iTunes (ugh...) on the desktop on both Windows and Mac. (No Linux support unless you can coax iTunes into running on Wine, and no web UI.)

Apple Music's reasonably viable as long as you're only using it on mobile; its viability on the desktop really depends on your ability to tolerate iTunes. Suffice it to say that I remained a Spotify user after my Apple Music trial was up, and I'm otherwise heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...
App Developers – Is there anyway to track iOS8+ notification center widgets
App Developers - Is there anyway to track iOS8+ notification center widgets actions/engagements??

Any help would be appreciated!
I was taking acting lessons around the time I got involved with this startup. I would recommend them - such things would be very useful for the stereotypical IT person. Essentially, you (at least I did) start to get a conscious, thought oriented / theoretical understanding of people and their behavior - and how to link that to a better understanding of their 'character' and conscious/unconscious drives, etc. Self-obsessed, neurotic introvert me never got socialized properly in high school..

All very nebulous, I know, but part of acting is learning to listen to your intuition or impulses and not immediately discount them or ignore them (something left brained me is very prone to doing)

I could tell something was wrong with this 'founder' but I rationalized as 'anal-retentive'. Then I got sucked into my OCDness, and stopped taking acting classes while trying to get this startup running. 4 years of hell later, I finally realized I was dealing with a full blown psychopath (i.e. failed to do any background checks on the guy in my rush of enthusiasm at the start of any project). The guy who introduced me to him finally decided to tell me some stories...

Just an example of the hazards of not listening to one's gut. The books about acting tend to be "flaky", from an engineer's point of view, but once you understand the concepts they are trying to explain and the lingo, it is useful.
A-10 Warthog to Take on Oklahoma's Thunderstorms
I can only speak as a user of linear types, not as a type theorist. They are extremely useful in practice. In ATS they enable not just tracking memory but any form of resource that needs to be cleaned up. If you fail to do so you get a compile time error.

This removes much of the burden of wondering if you got the resource management right. Especially when maintaining existing applications. If you refactor things the compiler tells you when you got it wrong.

There is overhead since you are managing resource manually - both syntax-wise and mental though.

For concurrency they enable 'solving' shared state by making it difficult to share state. You really have to pass ownership of the resource to the other thread so it can no longer be accessed anywhere else.
The ODE solvers are, IIRC.
Eh, 1 character or 1,000 lines of code, contributions are contributions and should be acknowledged.
List of alleged violent plots in Europe involving Syria returnees
If you still have an existing CD or MP3 collection, then uploading it to Google Play Music is a great option. From there you can use the ad-supported radio and buy albums/songs, or subscribe and get ad-free radio, ad-free YouTube, and all-access to most of the store catalog.

Play Music's web interface is very good, but I can't say whether you'd like it more or less than Rdio and Spotify.