skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not australian so I can't say for sure what's happening down there, but the situation seems very much like France.

In Europe, and especially in France, many people share the belief that immigration is causing problems to the healthcare system. Whether they are economists or fringe racists does not matter if they manage to get enough votes.

I don't know how frequent racism is in Australia when compared to France - after reading about the riots in the press, along with this recent article which featured a poll, showing 83% thought racism was prevalent I thought it was "very much alive". http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/racism-very-much-a...

Maybe the press and the polls are inventing things, and my comparison with France is not valid- but since we were talking about Australia, it seemed quite apropos.

EDIT: Volpe, please reread the parent comment. The problem is that western countries with diversity and immigration programs are also the ones with universal healthcare, and that there's a trend of resentment against other groups in these countries (quite related !!) that apparently conflict with the basic idea of social spending, and thus universal healthcare.

I've made my prediction - that countries with low (or no) growth will either reduce (or maintain low) their diversity and increase social spending, or increase diversity while decreasing social spending.

I'll be watching the situation in Europe and North America to see if these predictions happen - using universal healthcare as a proxy to see how social spending evolves.

Australia and Canada could give interesting example since they run active immigration programs and enjoy a decent growth - while still harbouring this kind of resentment. I'd be curious to know if growth can be helpful against this trend, or if the trend is stronger than the benefits of growth and will keep developing.
This is why I will not buy proprietary readers like Kindle, nor access to any digital media for which I do not get my very own copy of a file I can back up on my very own hard-drives. The story doesn't particularly make me hate Amazon- it's just one anecdote, and I've had great experiences with Amazon customer service myself- but it shows what can be done. No matter how much I might like Amazon's other services, I will never trust any company not to do anything that they are technically capable of doing. To keep them from screwing you over, don't give them the power to do so.
Did you read those?

Your third link says:
"The results of this meta-analysis suggest that marijuana use by drivers is associated with a significantly increased risk of being involved in motor vehicle crashes."
One difference between marijuana and, for instance, alcohol is fat solubility.

Marijuana is fat soluble. Therefore if you smoke it regularly, it is always in your fat, and therefore always detectible in your body. Alcohol is not fat-soluble, so you get drunk, and not too much later it is out of your system.

However, as anyone who has tried it knows, marijuana does not keep you impaired for a month or so as it passes through your system.
The government can not "compete" with the free market - because it foots the bill with tax money.

One or more non-profits OTOH? For sure I would agree - and if they can get leverage and get preferential rates, good for them.
Very cool. The sounds made my dog freak out like I've never seen her before.

Good work!
I have one. It's pretty good. Well, it's what it says on the tin, anyway. I never use it.
I would love the 1st one!
Most studies find that marijuana use doesn't actually significantly impair driving ability.

I've conducted such studies, albeit in less than scientific environments. Truth be told, even without the bias of wanting to see the day where the vox populi regarding recreational use has swung the other way, driving after a few puffs of marijuana has always made me a more considerate driver.

This isn't the same as "I drive better when drunk" but instead "I tend to care less about some guy going before me at a four way stop when it's not his turn" et al

There isn't a scientific explanation, again but it's purely anecdotal; I become more relaxed and forgiving behind the wheel and honestly? Less angry drivers the better.
Interesting Organizational charts
I genuinely don't know much about this question. What makes them more capricious than DUI limits for alcohol for example? People vary in their metabolism and intoxication levels there - is there much greater or less predictable variance with marijuana?

I also have to admit that trying to in effect argue that people should not be prevented from "driving stoned" (yes, I know that's not really what they're saying - I hope!) is a peculiar strategy to get the majority of people onside. I rather like a drink. But I wouldn't argue in favour of drink driving.
I'd call that 'maintenance cost'. It is not an investment - in the sense of bringing more money in the future.
On point #2, I don't see how the initiative makes the situation worse than it is today. Is Washington different from where I live in CA? Here if the cops find any amount in your blood they're 90% of the way to a DUI conviction.
You're also just not doing it right. Icebreaker clothing + www.evaser.com. 40L bag + 25L daypack.
Old school colo/dedicated servers/etc. There's something delightfully simple about only having to deal with "standard" hardware failures.
I believe the problem he's referring to is not simply making it a crime to smoke and drive, but rather the difficulty in determining if someone is actually stoned since there is not currently a BAC test equivalent.
Not at all. Cortex units lack a MMU, ARMv7 instructions (they're limited to THUMB/THUMB2), and don't have nearly enough RAM for even a bootloader capable of LOADING Linux, much less for Linux itself.

This and the Pi serve radically different purposes.
You are quite coherent and this is IMHO the only case where healthcare could be considered an investment - so that it doesn't prevent people from starting a business.

Not sure it is enough by itself to support a universal healthcare ideal, but this a very valid reason - along with easy to treat diseases when they are caught early on.
For those who would like to explore potential ramifications of legalization, consider http://the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1316
I have seen two of these in Germany and was disappointed. They have all the obvious things - bigger keys, bigger numbers on the display - but none of the perfection that is expected from a mainstream smartphone these days.
peculiar strategy to get the majority of people onside

I've seen stranger. Some people don't seem to grasp the concept of reasonable requests and gradual change; they want it all, and they want it now.
I am finding myself buying more and more remaindered hardbacks because they are cheaper than the kindle version.
Perhaps it's because it's not actually a breakthrough? I'm kinda surprised the BBC called it that.
The big problem with state-level marijuana-legalization is that the state can make it legal, but the federal DEA still aggressively prosecutes marijuana distributors.

http://www.westseattleherald.com/2012/08/27/news/dea-orders-...

Full legalization can only be done at the national level.
Why admins should know how to code
You don't have to refresh the page, you could make it so that your next page click loads the full page instead of using ajax/pjax.

quick pjax e.g.:

<html data-lastupdated="1234567890"...

$.getJSON('/lastupdated.json', function(lastupdated) {
if(lastupdated > $('html').data('lastupdated'))
{
$('a[data-pjax]').removeAttr('data-pjax');
}
});
If I could possibly offer an alternative to MonoGame, perhaps try libgdx game framework with MonoTouch. Libgdx is a very well developed framework for Java, but the creator has also put together guides on how to use it with Monotouch.

How to guides:

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2602

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2450

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2454

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2457

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2459

There was also a discussion about using J2objc (http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/) in order to port it to iOS: http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2593
EE announces UK 4G tariffs
> Okay, fair. "Without exception" is what a tyrant says.

wow. i'm speechless.

also, me saying that I think you're being rude is not a character attack. If we were talking about economics and then I suddenly declared you probably like to rape babies, that would be a character attack.

anyway, I'm done following up to your comments. I think we're fundamentally out of alignment communication-wise. good luck!
I tried to make a purchase with PayPal a month or so ago and forgot I was on Tor. They blocked my account until I can verify my location. To verify my location they need to call the landline at my address. Too bad I don't have a landline at my address. There's probably another way to get my account back but I've sort of lost interest now.
I am surprised you have not heard of Nginx. It was released in October 2004, 8 years ago!
The Ethics (and Legal Issues) of Automating Content
I checked, it wasn't.
So we seem to have a formula: something a lot of people use + dogs = popular thing. We have Facebook pet pages. We have dog/cat memes. So I've come up with the next multi-billion dollar project:

Ancestry.com for pets.

Gonna be HUGE.
They might have some obscure incoming url from somewhere else on the net.
Intelligence could be a question of proportion, like beauty.

Could you expand on that a little, please? How would a working scientist test the hypothesis you advance here?
Some States (Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin) have passed “per se” laws, in which it is illegal to operate a motor vehicle if there is any detectable level of a prohibited drug, or its metabolites, in the driver’s blood. Other State laws define “drugged driving” as driving when a drug “renders the driver incapable of driving safely” or “causes the driver to be impaired.”

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/drugged-driv...
Congratulations to antirez and all the other commiters! It's been a long awaited release and there are still a lot of good things to come!
The Arc process hosting HN blows up at least once an hour (I wouldn't be surprised if there was a cronjob restarting it) and much more frequently in peak usage periods.

You wouldn't notice if it weren't for the use of closures for every form and all pagination, every time the process dies all of them are invalid (except in the rare case that they lead to a random new place!).

There's no database, everything is in-memory loaded on-demand from flat files. That wouldn't be so bad except that it's all then addressed by the memory locations rather than the content identifiers! There can be only one server per app, and to keep it real interesting PG hosts all the apps on the same box, during YC application periods he regularly limits HN to keep the other apps more available.
They're pretty nice, but I'd like something thinner and more stylish (not the most critical attribute but it's a big plus).
You feel disheartened that people read and highlight quotes from religious books? What would you prefer religious people do instead?
I'm told it's gotten a lot better in Java land, but back in the early days invoking native code was quite a pain. There were whole books available on how to deal with this dark art.

The main thing, though, was simply attitude. Sun's attitude was that Java was a separate platform. You write for Java. It is an inconvenient truth that any given instance of Java happens to be running on Windows, or Linux, or Mac, or whatever--don't worry about that and you just stick to the Java platform. If you wanted to have a native interface with Java computations code, you were thinking heretical thoughts. So, Java came with AWT and Swing. It would have been inconceivable for Sun to include a GUI meant just for Windows, and one meant just for Mac, and so on.

You want to do that in Mono. They are fine with that. They include a GUI interface for Mac that only works on Mac. They include a WinForms interface for developing Windows native stuff (although they do somewhat support it on non-Windows so people can use it to port Windows stuff).

The Mono developer's attitude seems to be more toward providing useful tools to programmers, so we can do what we want, rather than trying to provide a platform that we should leave our native platforms for.

To put it succinctly, if you said "I want to write a Windows program" or "I want to write a Mac program", Sun would have said "Write a Java program instead!". The Mono people say "Cool. We've got some neat tools you can use for that!".
Probably did it mostly as an excuse to learn HTML5 in depth. Cashing in is clearly not the goal, so how you deploy it matters little.
I like Mario a lot, and I use libgdx for some of my stuff (and am looking at contributing some gamepad stuff to it when I get around to writing it), but despite its quality--which is very good, and the primary developers are professionals who know what they're doing--it is not in the same conversation as MonoGame.

No Metro support (and I find it very unlikely Microsoft will allow Java apps in their Metro store, and almost definitely not on ARM devices) and a reliance on IKVM on one of the major mobile platforms makes it a poor choice for greenfield development if you care about those platforms.

It's really, really great for desktop and Android, though.
[temporary monopolies exist to preserve innovation - but let's leave that issue aside]

It might be possible that the overhead will vanish if universal healthcare is implemented. It seems unlikely to me, but a good part of the argument for universal healthcare depends on that.

Yet people just don't vanish or "lie down and die". Those who are making a living from the overheads will certainly want to go on doing that. Universal healthcare will just give them leverage and moral support (think of the patient!) to do it on a scale that will dwarf the gravy train of other government procurement contracts - at the taxpayer expense.

It's IMHO a risk not worth taking.
Are there any smart entrepreneurs who have tried non-stop for 25 years and have not achieved any success. Success being 10+ million dollars. It seems to me that because the world is changing so fast, we have become very sensitive to the span of time. 2+ years sounds like eternity to people if you have started a startup and hasn't hit a hockey stick yet.

What if we look at starting a startup from a different perspective in which success nor failures exists. Its a work you do everyday to solve some problem. At the end you might not solve the problem but you reconfigured the universe in which the problem you were trying to solve has been little bit more "digested" for you or others. Doing hard work for many years does matter, at least if you enjoyed doing it.

If you start a company just to make money in a very short time, working hard for many years and still failing sounds terribly scary.
It's the other way around :P (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1...)
Well, for one; the site is basically an engine for rendering out <table><tr><td><a> ..., without much in the way of complex and frequent client-side requests.

(this isn't to downplay the challenges faced by scaling a site with the amount of traffic HN gets)
More efficient techniques, such as?

It would be interesting for me and others here to learn from what you know rather than be left with what you wrote.
I'm sick of these bullshit arguments. You want to drive, drive sober or don't drive at all. I have to be on the road with you too, and I don't want to drive from your drunk or druggy ass.

I can't go to work and operate machinery drunk, high or doped up. I don't drive drunk, or high because it's irresponsible and should be a criminal act regardless of level of intoxication. DUI limits should be zero tolerance, and I can't wait for the day it is with alcohol.

All DUI limits are arbitrary. Alcoholics can drive competently well above the legal limit. People can drive competently buzzed off of weed, completely stoned. I know people who have made 5-hour drives whilst on acid.

Just because 1 person can drive drunk, doesn't mean you should allow thousands of others to as well. The limits are arbitrary because intoxication effects people differently. The only effective and rational way is to restrict driving to those who can do it competently: the sober.

I drink and I smoke weed. You won't find me driving until 12 hours after I've last consumed.

Edit: for the record, yes there is a DUI charge for opitates. It's called a DUI or DWI depending on the jargon. On top of that, they would just charge you with distracted driving or careless driving.
Joy to all! This means that the Lua scripting is now available in a stable release!

Want to use Redis as a very fast bloom filter server? A couple of short Lua scripts can make it happen. Want to do some operation which would require a lot of round-trips to Redis? Turn it into a Lua script and get rid of those network round-trips. Once you get used to having this capability, it starts to feel indespensible, an essential feature that Redis would be incomplete without.

Oh, and I guess there are a bunch of other improvements in 2.6 -- reduced memory usage, more convenient command-line options for redis-server, some handy new commands, and a lot more -- but really, the Lua scripting is so good that it outshines everything else.
This seems to be a smoothed signal. Could it be that the smoothing carries some of the winning candidate mentions 'back in time'?
"What makes them more capricious than DUI limits for alcohol for example?"

Because if you look at the NHTSA data, it's very clear that the risk for someone driving at .08 is about 5x the baseline risk. If there was similar research showing that driving at 5ng/ml of marijuana had the same 5x increased risk then it would make a lot of sense. But that is not in fact the case. What they are essentially saying is that it's ok to drink and drive until your risk of killing someone is 5x increased, but it's illegal to smoke and drive even if your risk factor is only 1.1x or whatever.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/AlcoholHighway/2... (See figure 2-6)
> the bill for its social system is footed by immigrants

Umm... except they are covered as well... so how does that work?
I don't think there is any state where these per se DUIs apply to prescribed drugs, though obviously correct me if I'm wrong.
Oh, it's a free market for those small companies - if they fail, so what? But all of a sudden, you start doing $10+ million dollars in sales, you figure you need some backing by politicians...

People love the upside of capitalism. But when it comes to the self-correcting measures it brings... not so much.
Building your own what?
Somewhere Steve Wozniak is saying "I told you so"
My (pretty exhaustive) notes from RedisConf today, in five parts:

https://gist.github.com/3932768

https://gist.github.com/3933451

https://gist.github.com/3934073

https://gist.github.com/3935007

https://gist.github.com/3935671
Googlebot also does some other crazy stuff. Like looking at url patterns and then trying out variations.. they're almost trying to sniff URLs!

For example if I have a page:
www.domain.com/xyz/123

Googlebot (without any links to other pages, will actually try URLs like)
www.domain.com/xyz/1234
www.domain.com/xyz/122
www.domain.com/xyz/121
and so on...

It's crazy how much 'looking around' they do these days!
A little "self" promo: evalsha.com, a F/OSS repo of public domain Lua scripts for redis scripting. Please contribute your own scripts and pull requests are accepted for the site itself.
Yes, they found a statistically significant increased risk, but the risk was lower (roughly half) than driving at .08, which suggests that it should not be illegal. Also, if you read the actual article including the discussion at the end they discuss why they think their combined risk is an overestimate. In fact the main reason I linked to that study is because of their arguments in the discussion, which are not only critical to understanding the paper at hand, but also for understanding the quality of the findings of other similar studies.
Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us
Just start the JVM with -XX:CompileThreshold=<some_number>

It only defaults to 10,000 when the JVM is running in server mode, its 1,500 when in client. Which mode a default install runs in is a bit wonky so I always explicitly set it (with -server as an argument to the JVM).
So I'll paraphrase what you just wrote:

France is having some problems that (i think) support my case, and I saw that Australia has some unrelated racism issue, so I concluded that France's healthcare system and Australia's healthcare system are the same.

Do you recall my earlier point about you being 'beyond reason' you are just making wild guesses at things, and cherry picking data to support your factually incorrect stance.
FYI the idea of a parliament traces back to the royal council that first appeared in the Magna Charta. So that has nothing to do with the Althing.

However the Althing is a natural outgrowth of the Germanic tradition of a þing (usually transliterated as "thing"), which appeared in England as the wapentake. The legal traditions that were established there survived as common practice, forming the roots behind common law. Thus the Althing is closely related to the legal tradition from which we derive contracts, torts, and so on.
ES6 is Nigh: A presentation on the future of the JavaScript language
Videos certainly deserve to be more tightly woven into the fabric of the Web but my first interaction with the Popcorn-produced video did not end well.

The article gave a link to a TED video remixed with Popcorn so I decided to see it in action. Shortly into the article a Wikipedia article popped out and having hesitated for a few seconds I decided to click on it ... just as it disappeared off the screen. Nevermind, right afterwards a link came up to some frog. Intrigued, I clicked on it and a new tab opened with an amusing Youtube video of a frog attacking an iPhone. The related video was about a bird playing dead, then a Chinese soldier failing to throw a grenade, an amazing goal being scored, a fight... What the original video that I'd set out to watch was about I've still no idea.
Do you mean QuickCheck? http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction_to_QuickChec...