skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The insurance company is well aware that few people will seek such an exam unless they have reason to suspect they have a problem. It is similar to the idea that you don't want to sell insurance specifically and only to cover pregnancy. Any woman looking to sign up for such coverage is extremely likely to be planning on getting pregnant.

Insurance is about risk management. In order to have "risk" there has to be chance. A lot of human behaviors are a choice, not a random roll of the dice. The insurance company is well acquainted with that fact.

I understand your framing, but, no, it doesn't really work that way. You just aren't going to have enough people who are sure they do not have autism decide to get tested for it for it to be a serious risk for the company. Their current policy covers their ass: if you get tested to confirm your diagnosis, you get to pay for the test and, apparently, volunteer to pay out of pocket for any further treatment related to your new diagnosis. They can merrily claim to cover the test if you do not need it because, in practice, the odds are really poor you won't get it if you do not need it.

I hope that is a little clearer from my end.
You are absolutely correct. Indeed, it is rather trivial to do so.

Pushing onto a stack is equivalent to `s = append(s, obj)`.
Checking if the stack is empty is equivalent to `len(s) == 0`.
Peeking at the top (assuming its non-empty) is equivalent to `top := s[len(s)-1]`.
Popping from the top (assuming its non-empty) is equivalent to `s = s[:len(s)-1]`
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That's pretty cool. I built a backend with titles list etc. It seems in vain now. Hehe :). Any suggestions to make stumbling Wikipedia more meaningful?
It is a common practice to hire anyone promising and see how it works out. It is a fools errand to think that you understand what a person will deliver from a job interview process. I recently put an ad on craigslist for a personal assistant for me. I was looking for a college student, times were flexible, and my office is within one mile of University of Arizona and Pima College - 60,000 students.

The ad asked for a cover letter, resume, and to come in person to the office for a typing test. I have a chronic condition that prevents me from typing much more than an hour a day. Simple, right? I received over a hundred responses of mostly low quality, people blindly firing in poorly written resumes or worse (one simply stated "I need a job and will work for money") and 5 people that actually followed instructions. I hired all five of them. One didn't like the job and left on good terms, another was great but ended up needing to work on school more, two were fired for being incompetent and the remainder is left but I promoted her and made her full time.

I know that this is not a typical hacker job, merely a personal assistant job. The point is that even in a small 10 person non-tech company like mine you can take a risk of over-hiring to try and find the good ones, the people that fit and like your business culture. Microsoft, Google, Apple et al can certainly afford to hire every reasonably competent programmer they can find that seems to fit their hiring profile. Time will tell if their potential gets realized at BigCorp. Just remember that this is a learning experience for both sides of the table.
All of the psychiatric professionals (nurses, consulting pschiatrists, academics) I have met with socially over the past few months (5 from 3 countries, within a leisure/travelling context) agreed heartily with the fundamental point I always put forward to them that mental illness (as defined as the set of all mental states apparently differing from some abstract "norm") is a flawed one.

My take is that if a person can 'function' (ie. not get nabbed by police, jailed and/or extradited) in modern society, with reasonable personal comfort and fulfilment and without relying overwhelmingly on others, then it is incorrect to describe them as "ill".

PS. It's normal feel unhappy or unfulfilled with nine-to-five (or nine) modern lifestyles; they're not natural. My advice to others is to never consider yourself depressed (and NEVER begin an antidepressant habit); instead consider yourself poorly matched to society's defaults, and try to change pace or place.
You use computers very differently than I do! What a lot of workarounds just to get a normal laptop experience.
There is also the view they are trading in cash for the convenience and social-acceptance of a gift card.
Thanks guys. I wonder how many people look at stuff mainly for conversation reasons, as mburst was saying. Like, would you rather have stuff recommended based on popularity so you know what to talk about with people, or based on personalization tailored specifically to you?
I was interested in Go because of its brevity, speed, and because Rob Pike wrote it.

Reading this I see a lot of the reasons I like Ruby: no worrying about different constructors or needing to worry excessively about types. If only Ruby treated everything, even the little bit that is syntax, as mutable objects, it would be near-perfect (and it would basically be Lisp). But, it's close enough.

Maybe if Go could become Ruby...
I think your extension could provide value if people could choose a field of interest. Like if I could stumble through articles about China or about animals or even about broad things like people or places, that would be neat.
To agree with the JDuMond:

1. If someone gives you good advice, surprise them by taking it.

2. Ask questions. Just not the same ones over and over again, and not ones easily answered by Google.

3. As a manager, remember that I can't tell if you are having a bad day because you are mad at your spouse or mad at me or ???. So just tell me your issue, I would like to help.
From the article:

> Complete and utter freedom doesn't work in America

Uhh, you wouldn't know. You've never had it.
Nothing against building Chrome extensions here either (hell, I started learning JavaScript with userscripts myself), but Wikipedia has indeed had a "Random article" feature for the longest time, and it's right there in the main navigation too: http://puu.sh/1BQ3O
highscalability.com

never ceases to have interesting, substantive content.
I'm pretty sure they self synchronize. I remember reading about how they grew some pacemaker cells in a dish, and the cells spontaneously organized themself and started firing together.
There is no call to blanket ban knives/blades because of their many basic and common uses.

However, many countries do have legislation knifes, sometimes outright banning certain blades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_legislation
>You don't see 26 dead in a single knife attack.

I suspect you could if they attacked 5 year olds in a kindergarten class room.

>"Crazy people" is a nebulous concept which while sometimes perfectly normal at other times people switch between sane and crazy depending on body chemistry, legal medication, infection, illegal drugs, life events and sometimes we just don't know. Is it conceivable that lower availability of guns immediately available whether directly to the person concerned or in their home or workplace the less likely large numbers of people are to get hurt (including the person themselves)?

I'm not referring to this person as crazy beforehand, or as something we could have somehow prevented. I'm suggesting that the behavior of killing 26 5 year olds is indeed crazy, and there is little we could do to stop this from happening. I'd start though, with armed security / principals etc in the schools (i know of schools in my area (rich white suburbs) that have guns in the schools and I think it's a great idea.

That being said, I think this person's access to guns should have been limited, by his mother. She knew he had a problem, she should have at the very least had them in a safe that he didn't have the combination to. I have no idea why people think they should restrict my access to guns because of this incident. This is a personal responsibility problem. There simply no way we (we as in America) could keep him from having a gun without restricting my freedom and liberty. On the other hand, his mom easily could have, and that wouldn't have effected me at all.

>Banned in the UK (if the shotgun holds more than 4 shells I think) so it is talked about in some places. I'm sure it is fun shooting the guns at targets, its also fun driving through the town centre at 70mph. Done properly in the right place by the right people it is also potentially safe but overall the risk is too high.

4 shotgun shells in a crowded area is going to do huge amounts of damage, so I think that's a bit silly. They also aren't terribly difficult to reload. I don't think the town center comparison holds though. Driving 70 through the middle of town very clearly endangers other people, whereas my owning guns does not make you less safe, and very arguably makes you more safe if you happen to be near me while someone tries to harm you. This person having a gun made these people less safe obviously, but he didn't own a gun. He stole them from his mother. He could have also stolen them from someone else, though maybe that's at least a bit less likely. I assume if he's willing to kill 26 people though, he's also willing to break into his neighbors house or the local gun shop.

His mother should have tried harder to prevent him from having access, but there is virtually no law that could have fixed this.
I am but an egg. Very new as a developer, not particularly good.

The smartest programmer in my workspace frequently looks for me when he's trying to solve something hard. There are a dozen people around us, at least, who are better able to _solve_ whatever problem he's working on. But they don't ask as many questions. I ask a lot of questions. Midway through explaining stuff he's solved his problem.

And meanwhile I've learned a ton.
Great idea. I will add broad categories selection.
Oh, that's my fault completely then. I misread it as the round itself being valued at $150m, not the company. That makes a lot more sense.
At this point, you've failed to read my post twice. Could you please read the whole thing before responding again? Thanks. It's only four sentences.
Age should definitely be taken into account. He was a kid when he did this. Do you really think he understood all the ramifications of his actions?
I'm pretty sure the code shown is the "hacker"'s code, for demo's sake. That said, the server address redacted out doesn't appear to be a Yahoo domain from what I can see. That tells me that it's a third-party that was broken into.
There is a massive difference between domain specification based on comparative advantage and economically irrational behavior, so let's not give too much validity to these decisions even if we are speaking about subjective decisions.

It could be claimed that the "effect" that they get from the purchase or the cachet that comes from owning this Veblen good outweighs the $50 in marginal cost. I would argue however that it remains irrational, but well within the range of irrational behaviors that humans exhibit more or less constantly.
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Maybe a Bayesian filter (or some analogous technique) that found "interesting" articles?
Source? I'm pretty sure the US abolished "people as property" a while back.
> "Have you ever actually used an iPhone before ?"

I have been an iPhone user since the iPhone 1, when I went through hell and back just to get one imported from the US. I've been writing iPhone apps since the day the SDK came out and now do it full-time, and have 4 apps currently in the store. I would like to think my opinion is not that of an uninformed outsider. I have either owned, or used, literally every iPhone and iPad model ever shipped.

I didn't realize were having a credentialing debate, but there it is.

> "Because Apple doesn't have a skeumorphic bent on everything just a few apps e.g. Calendar, Podcasts."

Skeumorphism is not the same as "blatantly and completely copying a physical object" - though this does exist in iOS (Compass and Voice Notes for example are even more egregious than Calendar and Podcasts).

Take the music app on iPad for example - it's a dead ringer for Dieter Rams' SK4 record player, down to the wood trim along the sides and the off-white textured buttons. There is, of course, the recent settled lawsuit re: Swiss railroad clock on iPad too.

But less obvious skeumorphism is everywhere in the OS. The very basic and common "card flip" UI is skeumorphic and not seen on any other platform. Both the Weather and Stocks apps use this, as well as previous incarnations of the iPhone music app (where it simulated flipping over an album cover to read the track list). Apple actually highly encourages this design (well, maybe this will change now that Forstall is gone) for simple utility apps as a means to separating single-screen functionality from configuration. It's right there in the dev guidelines.

Ditto goes for the "page curl" UI that's used in Maps, and its even more obvious cousin the "page turn" used in iBooks. Apple even goes as far as to render the map in an almost-invisible way when you have it curled up - as if the map is partially see-through like it would be in real life.

Now that I think of it, the only major components of the core out of box experience that aren't noticeably skeumorphic are Mail, Safari, and Phone.

> "I at least give Microsoft for trying to push the industry forward."

Sure, and I do too. I for one hope Metro works out, because a single-platform world would be awfully boring (and dangerous).

Still, I'm going to give this one to Google. They didn't reinvent anything, but they sure as hell polished it to mirror-like shine. They accomplished MS's stated goals without a ground-up reinvention, and the end result is something that is both easy to learn for users (including skeumorphically addicted iOS users) and ditches old UI metaphors.
Something doesn't add up here, or at least there's pieces missing:

1) Source code show (presumably the attacker's?) shows MySQL usernames/passwords (as implied by variable names)

2) SQL injection attack screen shows errors in System.Data.SqlClient namespace - this is SQL Server:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclien...

Might mean nothing. Article says the attacker had access to 12 databases, so maybe it's a mix of different platforms. Still, the 2 screenshots really don't corroborate one another.
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> If Twitter was prepared to make a higher offer, why didn't they?

Why should they? They have a fiduciary duty to get Instagram for as low a price as possible; nothing about 'begging', they weren't even told about the higher time-sensitive offer (which are just two parts of the price to be negotiated...). They were told Instagram didn't want to sell at all, which is more than a little bit different from 'we think FB will pay more, do you disagree?'.

> The people familiar with the negotiations said Twitter executives were shocked that they had not been given an opportunity to present a counteroffer. They said Twitter was prepared to make higher offers.
And the there's https://priv.ly/
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We used to have something closer to it. Side effects included child labor, people burning to death in factories because the doors were locked, and Standard Oil, among other things.

Even the most hard-line Libertarians will admit that "complete freedom" is overrated.
This didn't crossed my mind at all. I wonder if extension should add an upvote button to Wiki page and use that for interesting?
I think wanting to write code is great. But I think doing so because everyone is jumping the bandwagon or because its the hyped thing of the moment is wrong. I am hoping people are choosing to do so because its something they really want to do or care to do than because its such a publicized/hyped up thing.
Junkfood ZSH/Bash Prompt
Highlight:

* 40 Kg less, will save the airline $ 160K a year in gasoline.
* No angry-birds or other apps/games allowed during the
flight - even during an auto-pilot mode.
> is rather telling evidence that our forebears
> found it to be the most effective way to bring
> children in line

Our forebears also felt that the best was to run a society included things like:

- Slavery / Indentured Service as a means of generating wealth.

- Punishing women for sexuality (because all women were temptresses, and a man couldn't be blamed for infidelity, rape, etc).

- Torture against criminals / political prisoners.

- Religious wars.

I don't think that "our forebears did it, so there must be something to it," is a generally effective argument.
I really like Go. My team has been working on a Go application at work for the last two months and I've had a great time of it.

That said, like all good languages, it's perfect until you run into the small list of warts that enrage you. In particular, as the author said, the fact that the make() types are different can get pretty annoying. What's really going on there are that make is really the only generic function in Go. That's why it's special -- unlike a lot of Go builtins, it's impossible to write make() in Go. I really do think this is the biggest single wart in the language (although there are others).

I don't really agree with the author's complaints about declaration syntax. I don't find it distracting: just figure out an idiomatic way to do things and move on.

Not having nil-able strings is annoying though. There are plenty of functions both in the standard library and in my own code that return ("", error) simply because the first return type is a string -- in a similar function with a different return type, I'd just return (nil, error) and be done. Not a big deal but it is a wart.

There are also some definite problems with the standard library, but I expect these will get fixed by OSS packages in time.

Before we all dump on Go though, it's worth pointing out some of the really cool innovations in the language that work great:

* Dependency management in the code is awesome. I love that importing a package and not using it is a compilation error. This seems to be so successful that they went and made declaring unused variables an error as well, which also does wonders for readability.

* Once you understand how you're supposed to use it, the GOPATH story is pretty great. Package management can get tricky and it's cool to see a language attacking it head on from the beginning -- you don't want to end up like Ruby.

* The notion of a Go "package" for namespacing -- and the exporting of CapitalizedVariables but not uncapitalizedVariables makes for very readable code. I really like it.

* The multiple return types for error handling definitely makes for more verbose code than the try-catch-finally pattern, but it also feels a bit cleaner. It takes a while to fully see the benefits of it, but it works great in the end.

I'm really excited for the future of this language. I think with a few more years, a few better frameworks, etc, we'll be able to do some really cool stuff very very easily in Go.
Whilst it's important to admit that you don't understand, senior people can use "I don't understand" as a way to ensure that everybody understands.

If you're senior and you say that you don't understand then you're opening the gate for everyone to discuss the issue in more detail; no junior workmates will feel dumb - even the senior guy doesn't understand it!

And chances are that the deeper discussion will unearth something I didn't fuly appreciate, even if I wouldn't have called "I don't understand" for other people's benefit.
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Wow you're funny. here's a great place to let the wider public experience your humor, I'm sure after hearing a couple of your jokes they'll be begging for you to take over the tonight show
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However, at the same time a bootstrap lays the framework for a project and the stronger a framework is the easier it is to build off of it. Creating a new version of a bootstrap is to allow developing to be easier in the long run.
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We have developed a new, very innovative, approach to Business/Product Strategy. I often refer to it as the blueprint to the innovator's solution.

Our approach focuses on:
- enhancing communication
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Typically we claim that anyone using our approach would increase the speed at which they can formulate and execute their strategy by a factor of 10.

I'd be happy to send a free copy of our book to anyone who are interested in learning about our approach (let's say the first 50 people if there are too many requests).
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It was down to an exploit in LibTIFF though, which also effected devices like the PSP and software like Adobe Reader. Apple has done more bizarre things on their devices, like giving root access to the iTunes synching agent in iOS 1.x.
From the Wikipedia article I linked to in my comment:

Initial versions were developed from the same code base as Internet Explorer for Windows. Later versions diverged, particularly with the release of version 5 which included the Tasman layout engine.

Again, the difficulty of porting the browser code over to OS X is not the issue. If Microsoft still wanted to have a cross-platform browser, they would have one. The reason they don't is a business decision, not a technical obstacle.
Not much "hacking" involved in TFA. I'd call it more an overview of using the iOS-device camera via the standard SDK.
Yes. Like StumbleUpon I'd rather "stumble" across pages that are actually interesting.

When you use Wikipedia's own system you get some really inane pages with statistics about minor towns or the like.. but I'd rather hit a button and get something that's either curated and known to be good OR that other users of your extension have voted up in some way.
It makes senses that leaving "dog fight" Andriod mobile for good. Dell was never a winner in Andriod arena, while windows phone only having less than 3%. There is a obvious potential.
Plus, there isn't any good WP8 out there at all yet.
Government coverup! Definitely created by extraterrestrials who know trigonometry.
Thanks for the reasonable response. I took exception to the word "plenty" for knife massacres, as they are exceedingly rare. The truth is, gun massacres are also exceedingly rare, so I guess there's nothing wrong with that parallel, other than the obvious:

1. It's logistically easier to kill more people with a tool that's better at killing a lot of people.

and the less obvious:

2. It may be psychologically easier to commit mass murder with a somewhat detached and abstracted weapon like a gun than something more primal and physical. The same way that many people would become vegetarians if they had to slaughter their own meat.

Regardless, the earlier comment of "please don't take my guns away" serves to create a false dichotomy. It's perfectly possible to create meaningful firearm safeguards without going out and confiscating your personal weapons of watermelon destruction.
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Ah yes, didn't see this comment before I wrote my last one. But exactly, that would certainly be interesting if you got enough users to make the results meaningful (or perhaps curated a large bunch yourself initially).

Another thing that might be handy for something like this long term is making sure I don't see the same page more than once. But that would be a lot more data for you to store.
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