skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cockpit view is generating an error: "The Google Maps API key used on this web site was registered for a different web site. The developer of this web site can generate a new key here.

(here links to https://developers.google.com/maps/)
Your comment was in reply to one about the Republican candidate's inconsistent behavior when it comes to healthcare reform, defending it as an example of states' rights. But Republicans want government's hands off their Medicare at the state level as well.
Boats more your thing?
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/
This is beyond fantastic. Just wow!
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Pretty, though, just to nit-pick since I happen to be sitting on a plane, seems to be not quite live: http://cl.ly/image/002u2g152Y0T
Midas Green Tech, anyone? http://www.midasgreentech.com
I expect the continued growth of socialized medicine to continue the trend of less and less competence among medical professionals, and less and less medical professionals period (particularly doctors--which seem to be in acute shortage already). So, nothing will change overnight, but this certainly isn't going to allow things to get _better_, which would eventually happen in a more free-market medical system.

Americans are exceptionally good at everything the free market touches (consider the tech world). Medicine could, and should, be a lot like going to the vet. Extreme competence, speed, and low price. The difference? There honestly isn't that much of a difference, except veterinary practice is pretty much a free market.

By the way, I've personally been forced to undergo unreasonably waits at the ER (I was kicked out of the building by a security guard because I wouldn't take a seat or stand - I couldn't physically do either, and I went and laid down in a parking lot outside). I've also seen a loved one hurt--potentially very severely over what could have been the case, but who knows--by not getting competent attention during a stroke. And there is at least one other bad story I won't get into here.

By the way, I do think my stories are representative of a larger trend. The above-mentioned incidents occured in different hospitals mixed between the east and west coast. That still isn't enough to prove anything. But I'm hearing complaints from a lot of people. Also, if you talk to someone applying to med school, you'll see that the number of doctors is being artificially restricted.

The public discussion about healthcare is missing a huge component, which is: why is our healthcare so completely shoddy and incompetent today? What can we do to change that? And, why aren't there enough doctors? I'm talking totally independent of the _cost_, which admittedly is also a problem.
They don't necessarily force the developer to deal with the problem, unless you're talking about checked exceptions (which are a whole other controversial programming opinion). What they do accomplish, in my opinion, is more deterministic behavior and easier debugging.

If you rely solely on return codes to indicate an invalid state and the caller is free to ignore the error codes, it makes it much easier for the program to continue on doing invalid things - this is akin to wrapping everything with try/catch blocks and suppressing exceptions. Even more, when you do realize something is wrong, a system utilizing exceptions is generally much better at propagating information about the original problem.
Ogbu has been discussed on HN before. Here is one of my responses: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2046616
Ironically C is technically a high level language anyways.
Very impressive indeed. One of the coolest features of the site is the Cockpit view - a very creative use of Google Maps and graphics to give you a Flight Simulator like view from inside the cockpit of any of the thousands of aircraft in the air.
Is there a delay built in to marking drone strikes? I could see the US gov't not wanting a realtime feed of drone locations.
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This comment is silly. This essay was written by a 13 year old girl, who was writing about how she comes to terms with her experiences in education. Obviously, she's almost certainly wrong about the racial motivation for the lack of education she's receiving. But that doesn't invalidate her perspective. Those of us who have a larger view of the system owe it to her to take her perspective seriously, and hopefully place it in the proper context that she is incapable of doing. The fact that she sees a division based on race is completely legitimate. The fact that she knows she's receiving a poor education from white teachers who don't give a shit is legitimate. She drew a poor conclusion, because of a lack of perspective. That doesn't invalidate her experiences and thus warrant ignoring her.
I've visited that site for a while, but I think this is a little more exciting...planes tend to move faster than boats :)

Also, of course, the cockpit view is amazing.
Patterns of failure in traffic lights
There may be some truth to what she's saying.

I was living in Buffalo, and my neighbor was a young inner-city school teacher. One day we were chatting, and she mentioned that she had been giving talks to soon-to-be teaching graduates, trying to convince them to come to inner-city schools to teach (apparently not many graduates wanted to teach in inner-city schools).

That's pretty cool, I told her. So what's your secret? How does one become a good teacher in the inner-city schools?

Well, she replied, it's quite easy really. You must realize that these people (her words) aren't used to doing homeworks or working hard. So I just let them slide when they don't do their homeworks or their assignments. They have a different culture, and I've adapted to it.

My jaw hit the floor.
Is there any way you can see this several levels deep? I think it would be a cool way to keep visual context of navigation.
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It seems to stutter a lot. I'm continually amazed that 9.2 billion clock cycles per second + GPU isn't enough to render a webpage animation smoothly.

Other than that, looks really cool! I particularly like the background blur. We're starting to see some really cool effects with CSS3.
Hah, I guess my post could have used a sarcasm tag :)

I totally agree that exceptions are far superior than checking return values.
That seems like a pretty low bar for "almost impossible", as I would expect most HN readers are both 1) highly educated and 2) single, and so the two avenues you mention are amongst the most accessible to them.

There are far more difficult places to gain citizenship (e.g. Liechtenstein, China).
Wow. That's some comment. Hard to know where to start to unpack it. You must have been having a lousy day.

It's probably not cool to tag the result of the essay, and by extension, the girl, as "cruel", etc. You're just short of blaming the victim. And the discount is based on a technicality.

Analyzing the output of a black box delivering some awful result: If the same result could be delivered for some range of inputs, they're all effectively equal. And as the recipient of that result, a person is well-served to point out the equivalence. More to the point, it's eminently fair to make this observation in public. This I understand to be more than minimally in keeping with freedom of speech.

Saying that you believe that there are plenty of real issues in the country is not a pretext for dismissing, nor does it provide some kind of legitimacy to a dismissal of the case the child made.
I think it's slavery in the sense that as a child you're forced into this institution, and taught the same things as everyone else and at the same pace. It's not until after you've gone through the entire system (even college/uni) that you realise the entire point of the last ~20 years was to train you for "the workplace".

That is depressing.
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If I got a C growing up I was grounded for the entire semester. Only A's and B's were acceptable. Homework time was mandatory. Test scores were reviewed. I got exactly 1 C my entire school career and, true to my parents threat, I was subsequently grounded for the entire semester and it was enforced by my dad. Of course I hated it and even hated my parents for it. What I didn't know until I was an adult was that my parents were equally involved and demanding with my teachers. It may be no surprise that my parents are both teachers as well.

I would guess most parents of this school would have trouble with this level of investment in their kids education. Not because they don't care but perhaps because they have to work two jobs, or they are struggling as a single parent, or they were simply never taught that you don't get an education just by showing up to school. That's not because they're black either but because they're poor. (which unfortunately is often related to race)

The sad thing is that this girl is right, but the problem is so much bigger than she can imagine and she's only lashing out at people she knows, which are the teachers.
A few that I remember...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNwARaXB08I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnjMLqDxSRg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ZflDrvSZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuXvydmNRo0
This was a good blog post. I started wikiaudio believing the hype around "do something" and make a business out of it later. This assumption has turned out to be a complete crock of shit in my case. If you want to build a business online I would suggest you do your best to make sure "business" is integral to it's dna before you get started, and try and validate as ruthlessly as possible. I still enjoy the site and feel a sense of accomplishment, but I have no desire to continue writing hundreds of tutorials (and spend literally hundreds if not thousands of hours in development), just to have it all fall on def ears with no income from any of it. From a "founder" of a failed online project I really enjoyed your blog post. I do think after a certain point is reached you have to accept defeat and look at the project as
a means to another end (personal education, portfolio piece , etc)
Another excellent example of how NCLB is ruining our education system. Although racial problems are definitely an issue in US education, in this situation, race is minor player in a much larger issue.
Do you understand what "state's rights" means? It means that the states are free to make up their mind on a matter without the federal government interfering.

You are also confusing one person with a whole party. Just because he is running as a Republican, does not in fact mean that every Republican agrees with him on every issue. He is by all account a very moderate Republican.

Some Republicans might support have a state health care law similar to the one in Mass. Clearly Romney did. Many others would not in fact support that. That is their right. It is also somebody else's right to "want government's hands off their Medicare at the state level." That is a perfectly valid opinion, and it can be debated at the state level.
"Bullshit"?

YouTube has all the mindshare -- it is synonymous with short video hosting for most people. It's a free offering that's been improved with Google's deep pockets and infrastructure. Its gigantic existing 'back catalog' provides deep lock-in -- for both uploaders and fans of existing material/watchlists. Its video results even seem to be favored in Google search, and immune to the 'DMCA notification volume penalty' Google recently announced would be affecting other sites.

Any economist (like say the PhDs on Google's staff) could explain there are large returns to scale, lock-in effects, and cross-subsidization and product tie-ins affecting this market, and GooTube is way out in front. It doesn't reduce to a binary "either there's a market... or not" and it's absurd to claim "Google's incumbent position doesn't come into it at all". The existing offerings by incumbents with brand, scale, contractual agreements, Android integration, and specific preferred models they're defending absolutely matter.

Let's call the hypothetical ad-free subscription kid service 'KidTube'. I'm not saying it'd necessarily be impossible to launch, just made a lot harder by YouTube's dominance.

The KidTube strategy would have to assume Google's resistance to easy migration of YouTube videos, for example via a bulk side-loading facility, even if the original uploaders wanted them reused. KidTube would also have to assume that if they got scale and traction, they would face a free competitor subsidized by Google's other revenues and product/promotional tie-ins. (For example, does your Google+ profile indicate you have children? Here's a targeted ad for our own kid service, the only one with all the videos your child already loves! All they have to do is create a juvenile Google+ profile! Please be sure to enter their real full name and birthdate.)
They can't do that though. PHP is so successful and ubiquitous because it's been backwards compatible for a really long time. Most PHP apps run very well on 5.2 Which was released over 6 years ago.

I think the way PHP is evolving is how it has always evolved. No one's thinking 5 years into the future. But I argue that they don't have to. PHP doesn't win on it's big design advantage, it wins on all of the small parts that it haphazardly releases (I don't mean that in a bad way).
Slavery is not an enumerated right, to control or to tax, for federal powers listed in the Constitution. Therefore it should fall to the states, or their respective citizens. A war was fought over this very issue. States lost. Get over it.

Functionally, Massachusetts Health Care Insurance Reform Law is similar to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One is state law, and the other one federal law. Questions were abound if PPACA was constitutional. SCOTUS said YES 5-4.

Quote: "Alternately, I can hope for a future non-Democrat court to actually read the constitution and overturn this recent decision."

Oh, and I believe the swing vote was Chief Justice John Roberts. Wasn't he a conservative justice, nominated by George W. Bush, after William Rehnquist passed? Facts are pesky things, aren't they?
Who are y'all?
Great tips. For anyone who cares, here's a way to get around one of the fixed layout bugs with #6 (-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch): http://blog.joelambert.co.uk/2011/10/14/a-fix-for-ios5-overf...
As fair as I am concerned GNOME is dead and rotting but the major distros, seemingly blind to this, have left it sitting at the head of the table.

Among the linux users I know, there are two categories. Those who change their DE, and those who complain endlessly about it.
My current client is using PhoneGap to enable publishing to numerous device types without the need to hire developers for each platform. Particularly important due to their customers' global spread; supporting multiple platforms is a decided competitive advantage and finding devs is tough these days.
Wow! I just took a look at the original author's page and he's got some amazing stuff: http://hakim.se/experiments
Really neat. I think it would be better if it didn't do any sort of blurring on IE. Not sure if that's a side effect of zooming out the page or blur but the page content looks horrible when the modal is up.
It's fine on my machine.

It's a software problem, not a hardware problem. Probably just your browser.

Our frontend guy had a lot of issues with animation performance on the different browsers recently, he could probably speak to how big of a pain in the ass it is.
Relevant code for most of us without downloading a zip:

http://labs.voronianski.com/media/js/jquery.avgrund.js

http://labs.voronianski.com/jquery.avgrund.js/avgrund.css

Is it really too complicated to simply link to a repo somewhere?
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Wow.

I have on a few occasions floated the idea of making it illegal to insure more than 90% (say) of procedure costs -- there would always be a mandatory 10% copayment. No one I mentioned this to ever seemed to understand the point. I don't know that the proposal is actually workable, but I think you can see where I'm coming from. If patients had to know all the prices because they had to pay some fraction of them, the whole system would look very different.
Check out LiquidCool Solutions too. I think this type of technology could very well be the standard in the future. http://www.liquidcoolsolutions.com
A parallel thought to the sibling poster - maybe the OP wouldn't mind paying money directly to get rid of ads and Google+ integration. Just because he doesn't want to "pay" in the form of ads doesn't mean he's opposed to paying altogether. I for one would love to pay e.g. Facebook a few dollars per week if it would make the experience less shitty (for me, my sisters seem to be fine with digital crap).
> but most non-boutique antibiotics are dirt cheap

The whole problem with MRSA is that you need boutique antibiotics to treat it! You don't have to be a doctor to know that, by the way; Wikipedia will tell you that part.

Agreed with you on the baby delivery part. Though it only costs that much in a hospital. In states where alternate arrangements involving a midwife are legal (not Illinois!) the cost can be much more reasonable for a no-complications birth.
I have a really hard time believing these ideas weren't planted in her head

Why? Real life is often the best instructor (as kaonashi put it "kids have a really easy time seeing things that are self-evident").

I remember being just a little younger than this girl (I'm black) and learning about the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Civil Rights Movement and declaring to my parents "hey, racism is over!" Not long after, I was stopped by a security guard and accused of stealing the candy bar I had just paid for 30 seconds earlier. I'd bet dollars to donuts that girl has similar stories, and it should surprise no one that she might see a correlation between her skin color and the actions of others (even if those correlations aren't true).
Interesting...does JetBlue use two types of radar? I'm often seeing two icons for one flight: http://imgur.com/a/kENc0
Quick and dirty distributed locking using a database
Again, why the downvote? The problems in our system are far bigger than Obamacare can solve. Read these anecdotal comments lower in the thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465802 - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466161

note that obamacare isn't socialism by any stretch of the imagination, and that isn't good for those that want socialism. it also isn't good for people who want free-market. it's the worst of both worlds.

that being said...

I never remotely suggested that our current system is good, or working as it should. I think it sucks. I also take note of how bad a job our government does at running...pretty much anything they try to run (possible exception to NASA). I also note the stories from countries that have socialism. Everyone loves it because it pays for the doctor when they have a something minor or chronic. Then I see the stories of the people dying on waiting lists because they can't get the procedure done in time when it would have been done in America. Due to this, I've come to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that I don't want either our system or socialism. There is another option, and that is to actually fix some of the major problems in our system.
Yea, this might be the cooleset modal I have seen. Thought I'd share it.
Radar is really cool, and interesting to play with:

http://lab.hakim.se/radar/
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Well the complaint is that mainstream Linux desktop usage has not been adopted. I would say Google docs is a vastly better solution for most people than OpenOffice. OO tried to copy MS Office feature-to-feature. Docs tried to just make something fast and easy to use. Docs won.
Actually, that's pretty good! Can you estimate the lag time (for you)?
I gave it a shot in Safari (instead of Chrome). Worked better, but still not perfectly lucid. I'm on a RMBP with GPU active. Anyone else with this configuration having stuttering?
Show HN: Twincat, quickly set up two tomcats
I think probably the biggest hurdle for a lot of devs is really a fix on naming conventions and argument order. I think this could be accomplished with a large aliased namespace. maybe something like

use \stdlib as _;

_\array_walk(<array>,<callback>)
_\array_map(<array>,<callback>)
_\array_reduce(<array>,<callback>)
...
Works fine for me, Chrome Win7. I only have integrated graphics, too.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with contemporary doping scandals to offer programmatic advice on what can be done about them, except to say that in my view here too we are probably at the cusp of major shift in a massive historical trend. This trend I suspect will end with 'doping' being considered the norm not only among athletes but among the general population, and the chemicals used will be seen as an generally accepted life enhancement rather than an aberration -- much like vitamin supplements already are. What to do about it today, when doping is illegal, at least within the context of professional sports competitions? I don't know, especially since in this context it seems that the trend is a scientific one, perhaps mixed with a degradation in values (here I'm simply not informed enough to comment).

You want to "fix" the problem? It probably depends on the gravity of the specific offense and the pervasiveness of the offense. Pushing a few people harshly and publicly can send a statement that certain things are not acceptable, and curb abuses by others who are watching them. This is not a particularly bad tactic, but again it is context specific.

My own approach is always to fit the solution to the problem in such a way that the optimal outcome (i.e. reduction of abuses in the short and long-term) is achieved.
Does your university not provide Mathematica? If not, I highly recommend purchasing Mathematica for students. I love open source software and particularly Python (yet I haven't tried Sage yet...), but Mathematica just strikes me as one of the "great pieces of software" with the likes of emacs, the Linux kernel, and etc.
'ish.

C exists in the middle territory between high (colloquially right now) and "original" low-level programming.

By all accounts, virtually any language that operates relatively close to the semantics of the machine in terms of operations and memory (pointers are a standard abstraction in assembler) is a low-level language.

The only things that detract from C's low-level credentials are that it is more of a hybrid attempt at grafting a harvard machine onto von neumann machines and its functions. The functions/stack are a bit of an abstraction depending on which architecture you're using.

Calling C high level isn't accurate or descriptive, but I'd be willing to concede that it's not truly low-level either if you know enough C to explain why.

You don't, though.
There is a banner on the side to GitHub and a link in the demo to GitHub as well. So yea, not going to link it here. Click on it. The demo is more important.
Awesome but makes me dizzy
Indeed. According to the August, 2012 print edition of Popular Science, there are 500,000 people being transported in air at any given moment.