skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, no searches. I've used drain cleaner since... well, before the Internet as we now know it, at least. No need to search.

The supermarket I shopped at got rid of its longstanding loyalty card, a couple of years ago. They still have some coupon thing I refuse to use, and a card for a gas price break, that I also don't use.

As far as I know, credit card companies are not prohibited from sharing/selling your detailed history. Not in the U.S., at least.

I have speculated that the supermarket got rid of its loyalty card in part because, with so many people shopping with credit/debit cards these days, they could still identify most customers by the card they paid with.

It might then in turn be possible that they sold my activity to whatever ad network and/or Facebook.

But, I'm betting on the bank.

Regardless, I've never before received an ad for drain cleaner on FB. And this is not the only case where FB ads have followed shortly upon some unique experience that those ads then in turn related to.
Are there any lock-free in-memory spatial databases?
It was a logically deductive assertion, although I'm sure there are studies out there. Homelessness is defined as not having a home, and all else equal, a relatively higher cost of having a home will result in relatively more people not having a home. The extent that other city-specific factors contribute to the problem may change absolute numbers in either direction, but relative homelessness should always be higher given higher housing costs.
I thought that all sorts of skilled labor was done by slaves in Ancient Rome?
" That isn't even close to how cons, car and cdr are actually built in Scheme. "
I know that, I have read SICP and some others, it's not my question.

" {lambda {:outer} {lambda {:inner :x} :outer :inner}} "
Yes it could be an interesting way. Following Peter Norvig, I have written my small lisp here http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/?view=lambdalisp coming with nested environments, closures, lexical scoping. But not partial application.

" Don't denounce lexical scope just because you don't have it working yet. "
I denounce nothing, I do respect the way Lisp and its dialects have been implemented! But I think it's not forbidden to explore another implementation where partial application (with memoization) could replace closure, lexical scoping, nested environments. Before this exploration I thought such a language couldn't have any interest. Today I changed my point of vue.
Along with DEC Ultrix, and (kind of OSF/1, Tru64, etc).

There were lots of other proprietary BSD based systems in the 80s as well.
Costs People Often Forget When Setting Up Their Own Business
It is a bit of a shame that Heroku couldn't come to the table and provide something. I'm currently torn between using them or AWS for a project
Good game :) I played this about a year ago. Brought back good memories. I remember thinking sod it and laid a track straight across the map. The huge risk paid off. I love these types of games.

Capitalism II is also an interesting one with a stock market component.
Do you happen to know why, according to that wikipedia page, "According to the U.S Census Bureau 'The per capita income for the overall population in 2008 was $26,964'", whereas according to the source of your charts (which suggest that citations should credit the Census Bureau!), it was $38,376? ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAPAINUSA646N ). One of those is being seriously adjusted. I tend to suspect it's the Fed chart, which notes that its population base is those aged 15 years and over.

I'm still struggling to understand why you responded to my original comment in the first place. What point are you trying to make? The median income value tells you absolutely nothing about the relative numbers of people making incomes other than the median value.
Calculate prime numbers. Sieve of Eratosthenes Algorithm explanation with animat
After the years, I've arrived at the conclusion that everything can be scrapped. What you have to do is try to put as many walls as you can. But if someone really wants to crawl your site, with the right knowledgement he will able to do it despite of all your walls.
If you’re just not a morning person, science says you may never be
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> Government should definitely look at park fees

Speaking as someone who grew up in New Zealand - and like most kiwis, spent a great deal of time tramping, camping, and otherwise enjoying the public parks - any tpye of entrance fee to those places would be a huge shift in culture.

Easy and free access (notwithstanding taxpayer funding) to publicly owned parks is something I regard as a birthright. User-pays might sound sensible and fair but I can guarantee you that a large part of NZ's population will choose not to visit the parks instead of paying a fee (even if it is very small). Many of them wouldn't be making that choice themselves (e.g. the children of poor families). For them to miss out on what is an essential part of growing up and living in NZ would be a very bad thing.

Besides, when this was last suggested a month or two ago t was touted as a solution to the Department of Conservation's funding shortfall for maintaining the most popular 'great walks'. That shortfall was said to be around $1.5m - less than the cost of many tourism campaigns.

The solution doesn't have to be user-pays.
I've meant to read through and, depending on what it says and my reaction, reply to this. Just been fairly distracted, the last few days. Hopefully, this weekend.

I didn't want to leave thinking I was just ignoring it -- my apology.

Basically, I'd prefer Medicare for all or at least a "public option", as well.

I was mostly saying that, imperfect as it is, most of the ACA bashing I've been hearing isn't even accurate, nor does it take into account the larger perspective, e.g. preventive care keeping people healthier and thereby having a large downward influence on costs, over the long term.
> Now, an AAMC-accredited education, on the other hand, provides a lot more parity out of the gate when it comes to opportunity.

The medical guild used The Flexner Report (1910) [1] to eliminate opportunities for people to train as doctors:

The Report (also called Carnegie Foundation
Bulletin Number Four) called on American medical
schools to enact higher admission and graduation
standards, and to adhere strictly to the
protocols of mainstream science in their teaching
and research. Many American medical schools fell
short of the standard advocated in the Flexner
Report and, subsequent to its publication, nearly
half of such schools merged or were closed
outright. Colleges in electrotherapy were closed.

The Report also concluded that there were too
many medical schools in the USA, and that too
many doctors were being trained. A repercussion
of the Flexner Report, resulting from the closure
or consolidation of university training, was
reversion of American universities to male-only
admittance programs to accommodate a smaller
admission pool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexner_Report

The Guild has been fairly successful at keeping the number of doctors educated just below the number of needed. Foreign-educated doctors are imported to fill the gap.
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Strange, perhaps you should tell that to the Census Bureau.

PER CAPITA INCOME[4] Table 1:
2007 Estimate is $27,834, but they use the Median not the Mean as you assert...

https://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf

Edit Neither of you understand there is a difference between what the Census Bureau Considers the Mean and Median Income. Failing to understand that Median Income is not simply half on this side and half on the other is your problem, feel free to read

http://mcdc.missouri.edu/allabout/measures_of_income/
Welcome to graphics programming! Enjoy your stay!

(Yes. To everything. Except "Could certain parts of WebGL2 work and others not be supported?" -- The point of having a spec is that if your graphics driver advertises support for WebGL XX, then you can be sure the host is capable of running all the features of XX, short of bugs in the driver.)
The difference in the quality of the microphones make it quiet impractical in phone, but very easy in a google home device.
> 2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

I think you misread the results of that study. It's countering your point, and demonstrating that the structure and initial success of the diet affects the long-term success of the weight loss.
(sorry for english mistakes)

Before start to search for a job in europe you must decide WHERE you want go.
Europe is a bit different from America...we're a union but every country has his own immigration rules and culture.

You are ok with the cold and snow of denmark ? or you prefer the sun ? you know spanish(this could help a bit to learn portuguese quickly)

Btw isn't very diffucult for an american that has lived and workex in silicon valley find a job here(see the HN job offers thread)

Wish you the best.
Heh. Between NetBSD 1.4 and Darwin/Mac OS X there's an entry that just says "(?)".

It's probably pretty well-known that question mark is NeXTSTEP, which was built at NeXT, the company that Steve Jobs founded after he left Apple the first time around. NeXTSTEP was built around BSD mostly because of Avie Tevanian's involvement in CMU's Mach kernel project.
I mean, are they bad instructions? They work for most people, and they're what most people are familliar with. If I ask a random *ix user what's wrong with my shell command, they're more likely to know about dd.
Absolutely. The Java ecosystem deserves a huge amount of credit for putting lock-free programming on a theoretically sound basis, and it's informative how long it took to get it right.

But none of that had a serious effect on C and C++ practice until C++ started formalizing the memory model. Even today, we still have to deal with a lot of legacy code that uses pre-memory model primitives such as __sync_synchronize, __atomic_cmpxchg, InterlockedCompareExchange, etc. I'd like to see all that stuff go sooner rather than later. In my opinion, the original article is not helping, as it shows C code that does reads and writes through pointers, expecting them to behave as atomic operations.
You can do a https proxy like cloudflare
Hawaii state parks are free -- for residents. Tourists usually have to pay. That seems like a good strategy.
I think what we had is a failure of interpretation based on some ambiguity in the wording. To my eyes, it appeared not that you were trying to avoid that conversation, but starting it (see my other recent comment on this topic, in which I almost added the gist of this comment). This was, to use again an overused and currently debated term, me projecting. That said, I see this as a somewhat unavoidable part of communication, and I didn't necessarily meanit in a pejorative manner when I originally used it.

My original comment could have been paraphrased as "hey, please don't bring that stuff up without real cause or evidence if it's not the current topic. It's makes things toxic fairly quickly."
Railroad Tycoon was amazing because as a kid I had access to higher quality, more timely metrics of my simulated company than many real life companies do.
Hey Justin, just wanted to say good on you.

While the physical change is great, it's a byproduct of the changes in your mind. Keep it up.
Yeah, certainly Ultrix was one of the closest.
Many diverged heavily though - HP/UX etc.

I guess they're confining the history to non-commercial (albeit semi-closed source) versions.
>(well, I hope) that the stupid geo-restrictions are results of old-school licensing and not active business decisions made by Netflix.

Geo-restrictions have existed forever. What Netflix started was actively blocking entire ranges of IPs belonging to vpns and commercial ISPs (cloud providers like aws, dedicated servers like ovh etc.). This should fall under some corollary to net-neutrality where a service cannot discriminate between ISPs. Does such a corollary exist in countries that have some form of net neutrality (US, India, Netherlands etc.) ? Can someone with legal expertise comment ? From my standpoint, they can have geo-licensing, but should stick with some consistent way of showing content either based on billing info or IP. Blocking out vast portions of the internet because it doesn't suit them should clearly be some violation of laws like net neutrality.
Oh boy, this is a classic example of "science" hiding behind obvious facts:

I spent 18 mos. leading a section of a major study within the armed forces testing physical transformations, mainly focused on gender differences but the point still stands. At this point I have seen hundreds of first-hand examples (if not a thousand plus).

Step 1: Be any profile of relative fitness from normal to your average to slightly overweight 18-20 year old American male/female.

Step 2: Be inducted to the Marines or similar armed forces where you are required for 5 years to wake up and conduct a high level of physical exercise as a mater of daily life.

Result: You've lost 10%+ off your body weight and kept it off for the duration.

It's just so exceedingly simple. Set conditions for a lifestyle where you are burning more calories than consumed and weight loss will continue. It's not some crazy secret. Everything else is crap.
And I have seen shifts that ACOs have caused first hand! Unfortunately, the only insurer running ACOs is Medicare which is an example of a political solution to the problem. While we have yet to see what the financial implications of ACOs are, I can say that I've seen admins work hard to develop data-oriented preventative care. However, these advances are still only limited to the ACO population, which gets back to my point. Hospitals aren't going to fund patient risk analysis until the economic incentives are in place, and for that reason, I fear that the issue of bad interoperability will exist for as long as we live in a "fee-for-service" world.

As for Kaiser adopting Epic, remember I noted that hospitals can customize the EHR to their needs in detail--it does however require troves of cash. Since Kaiser heavily relies on data-driven preventative care as part of their business model, they pay to have a lot of data systems in place to facilitate their operations. Hell, Kaiser even had an Open API since 2013!![0] Good luck finding that anywhere else!

[0]: http://interchange.kp.org/
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And FarmStead (S16) for crop monitoring.
In these studies what kind of exercise did the participants do?
Hubble discovery of runaway star yields clues to breakup of multiple-star system
I cite the sources further down in response to a sibling comment. You're right, I didn't amortize the interest: fixing that brings the pay-off period to a bit under 25 years, not 37.
> We're all out here to survive (comfortably) and anyone who says otherwise is lying (although probably not intentionally.)

Well, that's your philosophy :-)
Don't analyze a book by its cover!
Can't speak for wikipedia or those who make the edits, frankly the only reason I responded to you is I know you're confused and so is dragonwriter.

Feel free to take a gander at the Census Bureaus reporting of Personal Income. Table 1 Page 7. https://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p60-236.pdf

Do they use Median or Mean? $27,834

Edit Dragonwriter, You don't understand the difference between Mean and Median Income, hint its not what you think it is
I wish they could be asked, though. Some people really do not like explicitly acknowledging their special status, and wish that everyone would just focus on their accomplishments instead of their traits.
> CAS is "lock free" only in the sense that it doesn't require the processor to stop the world in order to flip the mutex boolean. It's still a mutex, and it still gates access to a critical section, and you still need some kind of strategy to deal with waiting for the critical section to become available (e.g., spinlocking, signaling the OS to sleep thread execution).

CAS can/"must" be used to implement normal mutex locks, but this definitely isn't it's only use. The only way you could view CAS itself as locking something is at a low cache-coherency level, where it requires the processor to lock a cache line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESI_protocol ); however, this is at a level that isn't semantically observable: it is atomic with respect to things like OS thread scheduling, unlike mutexes. In some sense, this is the critical reason that CAS and lock-free programming is interesting, as it avoids problems like priority inversion, and gives the guarantee of at least one thread always making progress.

> That's just putting one giant mutex around all access to the object. Having finer granularity != "lockless".

Is this a comment about the article, or just a general statement? Because the article doesn't propose finer granularity locks as a lockless solution.
Soundtrack in RR Tycoon II and 3 was also amazing. I still have it in my go-to playlist.
I'm curious to hear the story too. Thank you!
> The network cost $330 million,[1] and has 71,000 subscribers.[2]

Both figures are inaccurate. The $330M includes $111.5M in federal grants which was used for EPB's smart grid. Thus only $220M can be attributed to the fiber network.

EPB fiber also had 83,000 subscribers at the end of FY2016, as per their annual report. 87,000 projected by end of FY2017.

Taken together this gives us $2650 per connected subscriber, almost half of what you claimed. Even with the smart grid grant, it would be less than $4000. Obviously this figure goes down with the number of subscribers.

> $122.6 million in fiber optic revenues, $78.5 million in fiber optic operating expenses). That is 64% of revenues going to operating expenses.

That's not correct. The annual report clearly states on page 11 that operating expenses were $41M, which is equal to 31% of revenues. Furthermore, it should be noted that operating expenses do not equal maintenance and customer service only.
The inconvenience of wearing a harness is subjective. Some people don't like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

EDIT: It's not that simple. Raising prices doesn't magically lower demand in every scenario.
I agree. The same could be said of gentrification.

Certainly a very nice "problem" for some people; a very real problem for others.
That's an interesting note to make. One could imagine that those who enter Weight Watchers are those that lack the fortitude to lose weight on their own, and that signing up to Weight Watchers isn't going to change their psyche in that regard.
(It's worth noting that those are the standard terms for each of those concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_algorithm )
When crop X comes in from the field / comes in on the ship, you only have so much time to get it cleaned, cooked, and canned.

The law seems archaic when applied to the year-round, forced-fertilization, industrialized dairy industry.
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after taking a quick look at the redux one, i feel that "an intro that features a few drawings to redux" is a much more realistic name.
> 5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.

Arguably not "average" people, but there is a club of "extreme calorie counters" who have maintained substantial weight loss over many years.

I wish I could find the link to the documentary, but the search signal-to-noise ratio is problematic. It feels like something I saw on an investigative journalism program e.g. The Fifth Estate. In any case from recollection, this is what I recall:

- There were something like 30,000 members worldwide
- Membership required maintained weight loss
- They generally counted and journaled every calorie, with remarkable rigour

This appears to be the one alternative to gastric bypass that has repeatable success. It's just not achievable by most.

Incidentally, only Roux-en-Y laparoscopic gastric bypass has been associated with long term successful weight loss; the "tube" mini-gastric bypass has not; I'm not sure about others, as some experimental alternatives are cropping up.
Here's the text of that [4] footnote, from the pdf you link:

> The data shown in this section are per capita incomes and their respective confidence intervals. Per capita income is the mean income computed for every man, woman, and child in a particular group. It is derived by dividing the total income of a particular group by the total population in that group (excluding patients or inmates in institutional quarters).

Please try to make arguments that aren't immediately falsified by the quotes you cite in "support".

> Edit Neither of you understand there is a difference between what the Census Bureau Considers the Mean and Median Income. Failing to understand that Median Income is not simply half on this side and half on the other is your problem, feel free to read http://mcdc.missouri.edu/allabout/measures_of_income/

Sure. From that link:

> The median of a distribution is the one that ranks in the middle; since there are 98,003 households in this county we can imply from the median that if you ranked all the households in this county by their income the one in the middle (ranking 49002) would have an income of $34,157.
Several universities and corporations have QC R&D projects (eg. Alibaba, Google, IBM, Microsoft); none have their QC machines in production for anything (in fact they don't even have customers). Something to think about.
Hi Will,

My wife and I moved from the US to London back in July for the sake of adventure and it has been great. In fact, I'm answering this from Sorrento next to my wife who has already fallen asleep from a day hiking around Pompeii. I highly recommend London as a city both to travel from and to explore in its is right.

I'd be happy to hop on a video chat to give you more in-depth advice, but the short answer to your question is that yes, there are a number of companies tho are hiring and willing to sponsor visas. GoCardless, the company I work for does and the engineering team there is pretty great.

There are also a couple recruiters I know who are ethical, knowledgeable, and communicative.

As far as your specific background, am I correct in thinking that you doing network/telecom programming right now and you are looking to do more web/mobile?
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The grass is always greener..