skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why cant we adopt an attitude that will make us better and work our butts off?

Because the point of a learning disability is that the person is working their butt off already but still struggling.

It's like having two people try to catch a pig, but one of those pigs is greased. If you tell both participants to use exactly the same effort to catch the pig, the person who has to get the greased pig will probably fail. The person with the greased pig may even try harder than the other person yet still fail to catch the pig.

There isn't an easy solution to mental illness or learning disorders. Again, I am not saying that we should tell people to not try hard, I am just saying that people shouldn't go around saying learning disabilities are an excuse for the lazy or those who don't like to work their butts off.
Ask HN: How are you replacing IndexTank?
We have a site that's based on IndexTank, which has since been acquired by LinkedIn, and their service is scheduled to end by April. They recently release their software as open source, but its documentation is thin. https://github.com/linkedin/indextank-engine
I'd like to hear what others who used IndexTank are doing about replacing it, or if anyone is thinking of offering a hosted version of IndexTank open source. If so, there would definitely be a base of past customers ready to sign up.
The commenter did not say kill the liberal arts, he said to stop funding them. Many of the best thinkers and artists I know are self taught. Liberal arts costs a lot less to learn and teach than most STEN subjects.

Liberal arts should be clearly defined as a leisure activity, one that everyone has a right to, but not something that we should subsidize at the expense of advances in human health.

You can enjoy the liberal arts if you're dead. It's just a matter of priorities.
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Windows Phone backers declare mobile war
I think you missed his real point, which was in the "Acknowledging Problems" section. Simply, what I got out of his post is that the individual features of the language interact in deep and complex ways. I don't use Scala, but that sounds like a fair and interesting point to make.
It depends on what you mean by "high deductible", but the Affordable Care Act specifically includes a circa-$6000 deductible option that would satisfy the individual mandate. See: http://www.kff.org/pullingittogether/What-Conservatives-Won-...
Far from. In Stockholm, for a child she would have paid 120 SEK (~17 USD) for an ER visit. That is assuming she was a resident or in possesion of an EU/EEC insurance card. Going price for an ER visit without EU insurance would be 1650 SEK (~240 USD). So not close even there.
First, kind Sir, describe me believeable scenario about how exactly you managed to live uninsured in EU and then we shall talk.
5. Code-hipsters on HN ;-)
Key word here is "wholesale". For the most part, it simply limits the amount of funny-money transactions between subsidiaries, as far as I can tell. Consumers, including the many people trying to do business in Europe, still get fleeced at Euros per MB.
Also, the directive above only applies to EU nations, not all of Europe.
Here's my somewhat novel perspective (may not apply to the reader).

I can enjoy most any kind of work. (I've done everything from programming to accounting to clerical work and manual labor, for private companies and for the "gubmint".)

What stops me from enjoying it are people and the settings they place me into, that don't let me get the work done. Noisy cubicles. Crap tools that I can't change nor improve upon -- "can't" meaning I'm not allowed to.

The other thing: Disrespect. Don't ask me to fix your crap, and then look down your nose at me while I'm doing it.

If you're unhappy, don't just look at your job, look at your environment. If you're being treated like crap and disrespected, move on. Don't waste another moment there.

And don't listen to those "you should be happy to have a job" people. If that's really the case, you'll already know it. Otherwise, it's manipulation -- whether direct or indirect, e.g. societal -- do get you to do something that someone else -- who created the situation -- doesn't want to take responsibility for.

P.S. By "don't waste another moment there", I generally mean an unnecessary moment. These days in particular (in the U.S., at least), it's best to find the next job before leaving the current one. (Income, and being a better prospect because your are "currently employed".)
Bitcasa Now Allows Beta Users to Invite Others
Thanks, I did come across earthclassmail.com during my research, I was looking for something a little cheaper. :-)

I found these guys ... http://www.virtualpostmail.com
Unless you specifically need a timer, I wouldn't use that and would simply return {ok, N} or {error, not_found}; that would avoid useless copying and message passing. Something like:

find_x(N) -> find_x (N, [1, 3, 5]).
find_x(N, []) -> {error, not_found};
find_x(N, [N|_T]) -> {ok, N};
find_x(N, [_H|T]) -> find_x(N, T).

If what you want is to get out of deep recursion and the above doesn't work especially well, that's what 'throw/1' is for:

Res = try find_x(N) of
Val -> {ok, Val}
catch
throw:not_found -> {error, not_found}
end.

This will allow to avoid the stack, special cases for returning values and give you the code result you need.

The spawning of a process for a simple use case like this is only worth it if you need a timer to give a maximum execution time for a given request. Otherwise, it's not very useful, clear or efficient. I'd mark it as 'concurrency for the sake of it'.
Clojure doesn't really implement tail calls - if you need tail calls for several mutually recursive functions it becomes nontrivial to express because the looping constructs just won't do that for you.
If SOPA passes, this demo will die a quick death... :-(
It is the heaviest naturally occurring element (source:http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/f/heaviest-elemen...)
Am I the only one who suspects this is an epic case of sour grapes?
comic sans. Comic sans. Why? WHY?
I actually agree. I prefer to see discussions take place across blogs or in actual communities.
I don't understand the problem. If you have a battery that typically lasts 1.5 days, you can still charge it every night. You don't have to run it down all the way before charging. You'll just have some spare capacity when you need it.
Will Motorola Spur a $12.5 Billion Loss for Google?
14 ideas to invent -- Business Insider
> Not being able to make a recursive call without potentially blowing the stack is a major drawback in any language. I'd venture to say it's a "bug."

Recursive calls can blow the stack even with TCO....

I like TCO, but it lends itself to "infinite loops" that aren't as easy to figure out because they're not "local".

> And TCO is so handy in so many instances that it's silly not to have it.

"So handy" is even more true of lisp macros but ....

> And you gain performance.

It depends. If you're not doing a lot of interprocedural analysis, you can easily lose performance by writing "TCO-style".
then what is your choice now? joomla ?
Congress to Vote on Another Technical Debt Ceiling Extension
WASHINGTON D.C. – Yet another fight over our nation’s technical debt in underway in Washington. Obama administration will soon request an increase of 1.2 trillion to a limit which currently stands at 15.194 trillion man hours.
So you give them your data (by using Gmail), but are opposed to them showing to you what you already gave them?
These are awesome too: http://www.derekwyatt.org/vim/vim-tutorial-videos/

More of a zero-to-hero approach for vim newbies.
Stuck with the bar at 2/3 of the way. Just says "AnswerJoy is loading" (chrome).
> Say you’re looking for a vacation destination. You can of course search the web, but what if you want to learn from the experiences your friends have had on their vacations? Just as in real life, your friends’ experiences are often so much more meaningful to you than impersonal content on the web.

No, they are not. What's meaningful to me are the experiences of people (anyone) who have been to where I'm thinking of going, and their average rating.

Imagine this on Amazon: when considering buying a book, would you want to see the reviews of "your friends", of which maybe one or two have read the book you're looking at and taken the time to comment on it, or would you rather have access to the collective knowledge of millions of Amazon customers...?
Regardless of whether or not Intel's hardware can run a DX11 game well, doesn't it seem to be in bad taste to pretend to be playing a game when in reality you are at best streaming from backstage and at worst playing back a precanned recording? I feel like it is as if I downloaded a tech demo from graphics engine people and it ended up being an EXE wrapping a movie. Sure it might look pretty, but is that what people are expecting to see?
Funny, I was thinking of developing the same kind of app just a few weeks ago. You did it first, it seems :) Congrats, I'll give it a try.
This seems apropos:
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
Very well done!

I'd love to see an analysis of how the different major browsers handle this emulator.
Google+ getting people to share tweets via Google Search
Maybe you could try a full reload? There are a few assets that have to be loaded before the page shows up...
Why is 'her' used here, if the author is male?
Google paying to have Android installed on TVs
Silicon Valley vs Hollywood: Inside the Fight Against SOPA
So, have you ever worked in a modern mixed workplace?

You bloody well treat women differently. Hands off matey, nothing "inappropriate". Like I said, they are a protected class, ignore this to your great sorrow.

I know I sound cynical in these comments, but I'm not really. I'm just pissed off at commentors like Mz, who want to have their cake and eat it too. Most (highly intelligent) female friends of mine are well aware of the balance of power in our society, and tweak their behaviour accordingly, as do I.
I think part of the problem is that "highly regulated" is an ill defined term. For certain definitions of "highly regulated", the NASDAQ is highly regulated, yet we don't see much price distortion there. The "problem", I think, is with the nature of the regulation, and the nature of the supply/demand equation for medical care.

One simple example, which I don't really have time to explain here, is the health insurance system which makes it so that people generally do not consider price when purchasing medical care. Of course that is going to lead to price distortions.

Another simple example is the inflexibility in the supply of doctors, which is ultimately due to government regulations (many would argue that this is a good thing)
Sure, I was only referring to the linked article which seems to dwell on a single undocumented field in the API.
Teaching your kids how to write computer programs
Apple CEO Tim Cook paid $378m for 2011
Of course there is a difference in QUALITY between boy-thoughts and girl-thoughts.

(Quality not as in better, but as in "different" [dict] character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing).

For example:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
If you're not expecting any real mail why not get a PO box that forwards to an actual box in a store? You can check it from time to time if something might come through. If you do move, just ask them to change the store it gets forwarded to.
It depends; my friends may not have so many reviews, but on the other hand, I know they aren't shills or idiots. Preferably, I want both, which is what Google seems to offer from now on.
Not Just Pretty: Balancing Emotion and Function
The problem is that you're making a decision about someone based on a single obviously visible facet of them, rather than based on _them_.

If you treat "men" one way and "women" a different way, then that is a problem, because you're treating them like a homogenous block, rather than individuals.
A more apt comparison would be Antarctica. But even in Antarctica you can go outside and feel the sunshine on your face in the summer. You can't really do that on a space station or on a Mars base.

I would personally probably miss the smells and the seasons the most.
I think it only delays the inevitable and ends up making things worse. If people don't have the money for surgery (and really how many of us can pull ou $5000, right no). They'll delay it. Delay it too long and that $4000 surgery becomes a $50000 intensive care, emergency operation.
It varies a lot by country. In Denmark, all hospital visits are free to anyone, whether a resident or visitor. In other countries, non-EU visitors to an ER might pay substantial amounts, though usually still quite a bit less than in the US. Also, some EU countries tie insurance to payroll-tax contributions, so the unemployed may not be covered.
Furthermore, even if the premise is right, the strategies suggested are wrong. 'Working more than is healthy' never makes sense (except in short, >healthy < doses) and hiring support staff only makes sense if you have the cashflow or the increased productivity is worth the increasd burn rate - you haven't made that money yet.
At the very least Nullable<T> is a lot friendlier to search than T? if you want to learn more on the subject.
Farm work is also horribly dangerous and uncomfortable.
TL;DR; woman frustrated by ex-spouse takes it out on the HN crowd.

Here. Now you can't complain that we didn't treat you aggressively enough because you're a woman!

;-)
IANA is only under (US-based) ICANN control because of the grudging agreement of the rest of the world. There have been arguments to remove control over the DNS root from US jurisdiction, but each time the US Government and ICANN have promised not to do something like SOPA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_zone_file#Root_server_sup...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Corporation_for_Assig...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Auth...
The process of adding channels and installing from them isn't too bad, but it's still additional friction. You can't do "pear search foo" and hope to find what you're looking for. Moving system-to-system you have to re-add all those remote channels you depend on.

Moving to Github is a good move. Opening up some sort of "PEAR commons" where the requirements aren't as arduous as PEAR proper would go a long way.

When package dependencies are tracked explicitly there's a very natural, Page-rank like effect that pushes the best, most reliable packages to the forefront because everyone depends on them. Just look at npm's "most depended on" list: http://search.npmjs.org/ You can look at any package and see what other packages depend on it.

PEAR's curation process feels a lot like Yahoo's of old's curated link database. npm's feels a lot like Google's "anyone can publish, we'll track dependencies, the good stuff will surface".
Radical. Just ordered the MEAP of this. Looks like great stuff, and I - for one - can't wait for the full book.

MEAP, btw, is a great program... for any of you guys who haven't ever bought a book this way, it's pretty cool. Getting updates as they're delivered and being able to provide feedback as the book is being developed, is pretty gnarly.
Interesting one - perhaps some cognitive dissonance WRT CEO bonuses?

Good discussion here: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/01/10/825201/the-ipay-p...
I disagree. Because the things I value are different from the things everyone else values in a vacation. Same reason I can look at the bestseller list in Amazon and be completely uninterested in most of the titles.

That's not to say that I have the same taste as all my friends, either. But it's true that their experiences are often much more meaningful, if only because I know them well and understand how they would come to the conclusions they came to regarding a specific review, and I can extract a lot of information from that.

More than that, though, I want Google to be able to learn from my preferences and my friends' preferences in order to point me to the most relevant content.

The collective knowledge of the internet as an aggregate, averaged out, is not useful to me. It doesn't become useful until it's filtered to suit my needs. Which has always been Google's value proposition.
I think it has more to do with the usual background of each language's programmers. Perl coders (especially Back In The Day) tended to disproportionately come to Perl from systems administration backgrounds; package management is something that sysadmins are used to worrying about, so they created a strong culture of package management in Perl early on. PHPers on the other hand tend disproportionally to come from web design/HTML+CSS backgrounds, which haven't exposed them to the problems that a good package manager is designed to solve. So package management in PHP has never been a priority.
That's pretty easy, at least in Germany: if you are self employed you are not automatically insured, you need to pick a plan from a private insurance company on your own (or go with one of the expensive "voluntary" plans of the public insurances). If you don't, you simply don't have insurance.

I don't know what happens when they find out that you're uninsured, however it's possible to have no health insurance.

At the doctors or at the hospital just say you have private insurance and you'll get a invoice after the treatment.

My whole point is, the invoice amount would be not quite close to what that Amarican hospital charged.

[Edited for clarification]
CES 2012, as seen by engineers who went to the dark side
I think WP is great and the platform has tons of neat plugins. However, even though people try to use WP as a general purpose CMS, it still has its roots in blogging.
How Braintree Interviews Exceptional Developers
Funniest Intel fake I ever saw this:
Intel had a demo booth at at computer covention where they ... ta da ... were demonstrating the latest whatever. I peered inside the computers and had a good chuckle. This was obviously run by the marketing guys on the cheap because the "intel inside" ... was actually and AMD chip.
Can someone please explain to me why it would be a bad idea to make it illegal for hospitals to negotiate rates?

It seems like the majority of the problem here is that we let the insurance companies bargain with hospitals, so everyone pays a different rate. Just make everyone pay the same rate and let insurance worry about how to drive the costs down across the board by encouraging people to get/stay healthier and reducing the burden on the hospital.
Every action we take affects lives of everyone around the globe, and it significantly affects lives of thousands, when You take into account that all society's visible pressure on your life is built upon small decisions of all people that form this society.

When i buy apple, i affect lives of all that stand ready to provide the apple to me. I affect lives of all that stand ready to provide me peaches, grapes, bananas. I affect the prices of all above and so i affect lives of all interested in buying any of the products.

One of the driving forces of market economy - competition - is because of third parties choosing either me or you, and thus affecting my life positively, and yours, conversely, negatively.

What's the problem with prejudice? We are all prejudiced in million ways. That is the essential of being efficient in achieving our goals. We make decisions based on optimal amount of knowledge and information, not more or less. When You are in a hurry in the morning, in winter, You take warm clothes, rather than checking the temperature prospects for all locations you are going to be this day. Why so much prejudice against light clothes, it just might be a warm day! Do You know exactly why is it going to be cold? No, but you reasonably expect it. That is what a prejudice can be - a reasonable, with amount of knowledge and information you posses, expectation.

So when not to be prejudiced? Well, one certainly ought not to be prejudiced when it's unreasonable. If one could really benefit, long-term, from getting information, he ought to do just that. It's reasonable to know some about things that affect your actions.

One then should not be prejudiced when it comes to other human beings, because it does not cost much to get information, and altough it does not much good to yourself, if you don't care, but it can be very important for people around you if you are not prejudiced against them, but get to know them before passing judgements.

But can we force people to first or second one? Not on my watch - unnecessary force is worse than unreasonable, yet peaceful, actions. The only situation when one MUST not be prejudiced is - when you use force. When you are a policeman, a judge, a tax collector. These people should only treat people different based upon difference in their actions, not any kind of traits that are only correlated.

Now back to the point. When I do nto give You a job, i do not affect your life forcible. Assuming you accept private property rights in their basic form, my business is mine, and as long as i keep it away from hypothetical Mr.X's life, it's only him that affect forcibly my life, when he gets a job I did not want to give him. It's actually a hidden ongoing robbery.
Might make me pause before I get into a needed argument with a loved one, too. Might make me reconsider going on vacation. Reading a book. Everything.
I work in a modern mixed IT department. I'd say about 25% developers/analysts, taking a quick look around me.

And are you saying that where you are it's ok to treat men "hands on" and "innappropriately"? Because frankly, if so I wouldn't want to work with you.
This looks great! I'm in the process of building an iphone app for my shopping site (http://giniji.com). It's a photo sharing app specifically for product photos.
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I reject your premise.

Further segregating the echo chamber of the internet is not a good thing.
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> But for anyone coming here in China, from Westerners to Indians to Africans, there is this stone-hard fact: it works, it is happening and it works.

I don't think that communism is responsible for China's success.

Yes, the Chinese that I know are not representative, but unless they're 2+ sigmas different, the relevant question is "why has China done so poorly?" After all the people are top-notch, and that's not something new.

The truth is closer to "the Chinese govt is not keeping the Chinese people from succeeding as much as it used to", but that's not much to be proud of.
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Roadmap for the Outlet language (and: why Lisp syntax?)
"common knowledge of models usually means they lose their profitability" what do you mean by that?
Seeking Female Founders In The Tech Startup Scene
> I wonder if this is a "don't compete with yourself" thing?

Nope. At least on iOS devices, they have a free edition which includes the same levels (except for the IE-only ones.) You get many more levels if you buy.
This kind of personalized integration is not new, though: Google has had Reader integration for quite some time now, so often searches bring up results from blogs I subscribe to (or at least they did - it doesn't seem to be working now).
References please
I tried it a couple of times (didn't help).
But now I tried it again and it worked.

Very nice game (came in second...) - liked the paper bag ;)

I believe I played a very similar game on Facebook a while ago. Still, was very enjoyable.
First dollar coverage of many things is mandated by the ACA. It's not clear yet which things (HHS and other agencies need to first "recommend" the required services), but first dollar coverage is mandated.

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/resources/regulations/preventi...

The fact that high deductible coverage may be possible for the non-"recommended" chunk of services is a good thing, however.

(I say "may be possible" since 3 actuarial firms couldn't read the law and come to an agreement on what it says.)