skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in both situations (currently in the US) and I would say universal healthcare is absolutely essential for a first world nation to have. Tying it to your employment is most certainly a form of keeping people dependent.

The biggest concern I have is that there are many people in the US like you who simply cannot see this. It's a disgrace that a country as large and dominant as the US cannot take care of it's own. I honestly believe that the healthcare situation adds a strong undercurrent of stress to everyone's lives here in the US. It detracts from personal flexibility and makes things like extended travel or entrepreneurship even more risky.

Unless you've had the fortune of living with universal healthcare, it's difficult to understand the feeling of security knowing that no matter what happens to your health, you will be looked after without needing to go bankrupt in the process.
Google Admits Blocking Windows Phone 8 Users From Google Maps
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I'm doing Java at work, but I use delegation a lot in all OO languages. For instance, today I wrote some code in a managed bean that handles access control. My requirements have stipulated that users fall into three categories and they have different sets of rights. So I made an enum for the three categories which provides methods for each of the rights, and my access control bean delegates to the enum. This way when management decides to relax the restrictions around these users I can delete the enum for these categories and change the delegate methods to just return true or false and none of the callers will be the wiser. I'm protecting the user's-category information from leaking into the rest of the system while allowing the ramifications of the choice in through the appropriate gateway.
That's right. So like, show me the problem.

I think if you are working at a scale where this is even ridiculously relevant then you will prefer to manually specify required libraries and maintain a closer understanding of control flow at all times.

If not, then you would at least start measuring performance characteristics. When you do that, you will find that if you are pre-loading these things on your last query they will just live in OS filesystem cache (ie. already in memory). (Note: If your load time is disk-affected, a half decent sysadmin could just hard cache your code in memory anyway...)

Sure, you will have slightly longer interpreting time (again, not likely to matter, except at huge scale), but that will be offset by things like: (1) Any number of potential caching layers - OS filesystem, APC, etc. - which should maintain these cached either in memory or both in memory as PHP bytecode, thus largely effacing this concern (2) enhanced simplicity for everyone.

While I'm all for low-hanging performance fruit, this particular approach ('autoload') costs too much and delivers too little to be generally praiseworthy, whilst harming simplcity. It's justifying itself as optimization, and on many levels it just isn't. It's going backwards.
I guess you are right. :)
"How is installing a JVM better than installing any other interpreter or runtime?"

Maybe, just maybe, the fact that Clojure isn't exactly the only program on earth running on the JVM and that, hence, there's a probability p far from zero that the JVM is already installed on your system / on your users' systems!?
When there are six of them it doesn't matter how long they are.
Let your frustration out in a polite manner. They haven't hit you in the face or anything. Ideally you can use some appropriate humor, too. Make them feel a little bad, so they avoid doing it next time.

> they smile warmly at the waiting group, as they unwrap their bacon sandwich

"Wow, John, you should recommend this sandwich place to the rest of us... we were missing out on it while waiting on you"

> At 8.20, I was into my second glass of Pinot and at half-past I got a text saying ‘on the way’. We finally were all seated at 8.45.

"Guys, you'd better have a few shots. I've been working on this bottle since 8, when we were supposed to meet, and you have a lot of catching up to do."
A "Butler's Friend" is a device that allows you to remove the cork without drilling into it: (http://www.cheftools.com/images/03-0579.jpg)

The idea is that the butler could discreetly pull out the cork & sneak a few pulls from the owner's wine collection- day to day it's very handy for fixing botched cork openings
U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens: Report
If his wine ended up at 70deg, does it mean that his entire collection went up in smoke?

I'm not a wine drinker so I do not have much idea at what temperature wine starts breaking down or what the ideal temperature it should be stored at. Anyone?

EDIT: http://www.bettertastingwine.com/temperature.html
There are at least as many on broadcast and cable. I still fail to see how the commercials on Hulu+ aren't the lesser of the two evils...
My company has developed a similar product. The philosophy is to combine productivity with fun-factor.

Instead of lists-in-lists it is based on a customizable grid (spreadsheet) with sticky notes.

https://www.symphonical.com/all-you-need-to-know/
Innovative and nice. I think currently they are using a subset of quotes with the word "page"(or something similar like webpage) in it. It showed up only 4-5 quotes for me and then kept on repeating themselves. It looks like a hard code as of now.
It's In The Books: 2012 Was Warmest Year On Record For Lower 48 States
I specifically asked them to elaborate on what could be made better.
Why wait for driverless cars when there's public transport which lets you enjoy the same benefits?

Isn't it sad how pefectly fine we're with hauling 2000+ lbs of hardware just to get 150 lbs of flesh from point A to point B in the morning and back in the afternoon.
Many other companies are able to implement web services without the reliability issues GitHub has experienced. As your parent poster explained, some unreliability is always tolerable, but GitHub is starting to cross that threshold. Your list of fallacies does nothing to address that very real complaint.
I am sorry to say this, but I don't see any "fail" here my friend. The only "fail" thing is that you cracked the screen of your iPad. You can't do that and expect any good out of it..
NYPD's "Stop and Frisk" Policy Ruled Unconstitutional
Are we sure they aren't complying with the GPL? After all, it only requires distribution of source to those who receive the compiled code. Which is to say, unless you have a Tesla in your garage, you have no claim to the source.
Valve's Gabe Newell on Steam Box, biometrics, and the future of gaming
I liked this one, too:

http://www.htmlfivewow.com/
Would it be possible to build a github mirror with only the repos and nothing of the web candies? Then maybe the reliability would be increased.
I'm sure some Core developers would love your sponsorship to give even more time to devote to Rails development.

Even without the money, this issue was dealt with swiftly. See the comments below about 'the Rails security team is the best vendor I've worked with.'
I disagree. The first half explains the situation, the second half gives you options as far as dealing with it.
You're not alone.

It's a symptom of people trying to solve everything with one toolset ("Me know hammer, me use hammer!").

In practice, most OO projects regardless of language have classes like 'LatestThingOtherThingIKindaRememberSomethingSomeoneElseWroteDontTouchIt', combined with a non-negotiable and often intrinsically (looking directly at any given piece of code) inexplicit set of dependency assumptions around the global object model.

In general we need less OO, and more immediately apparent, procedural, loosely coupled code. Programs that "do one thing and do it well".
i've downgraded to free
Do you mind if I ask?

Are you rich? Did you just contribute $1? Did you really "buy the thing?" How many big, crazy perks have you bought?

I really want to know more about those 452 people that funded 100 or more.
Yeah I think locking a door seems like a more practical form of theft prevention
Why do you care? The GPL doesn't alleviate the obligations of its users based on what jspthrowaway2 finds to be a valuable pursuit. (Presuming the GP is a customer eligible to receive the modifications under the GPL terms)
The problem with any such site is that if it became sufficiently popular it would result in feedback effects that might destroy its predictions.
Motivation is irrelevant. If you accept a license you comply with its terms period.
Why do I need flash to look at fonts?

http://www.imgur.com/mup4T.png

You really need a better fallback than NOPE these days when it comes to flash.
"I think universal healthcare may actually make people even more dependent on the system the author is writing against"

Please explain why you think that is, and why you think that universal healthcare is of lower quality. It sounds very much like an assumption fuelled by the sort of people (and "propaganda") the article speaks of.
Map of the best and worst countries to be born in (based on 11 indicators)
MakerBot Announces More Advanced Replicator 2X 3-D Printer
Because "for curiosity" isn't a term stated in any GPL license. You can be offended as much as you want for them not releasing it but unless you own a Tesla they don't have to share their modifications with you. If you are unhappy with that, I suggest sharing your work under a different license.
This approach really depends on the brevity of the programming books you are reading. I can't see someone leafing through CLRS, then again, then once more shortly afterwards. Or other algorithm books like Algorithms in C, or e.g. SICP or How To Design Programs. I read programming books at a glacial pace, and sometimes I find it very tough going. So tough that I would not be in a hurry to repeat the process, so I take notes. Also I find the desire to read another different book much greater than the desire to retread the same material.
Kickstarter is a great organization and I think that this page, for the most part, nicely showcases its impact in 2012. That said, they might some lose viewers' attention by opening with several pages of stats.

As a public relations student specializing in social cause-related campaigns, I learned that it's usually most effective to choose a "killer fact" (or 1-3 facts) and to tether those facts to a memorable short story with visuals.

To be fair, the stats interest me and I'm sure that they appeal to other HN readers, who probably have an above-average ability to appreciate data. Just saying that all this info, when presented to a broader (non-technical) audience, is probably too much of a good thing.
The top licenses used on (the top projects on) Github
Cool tool. The down-arrow seems to jump every-other font on the list. It'd also be good if it automatically loaded the font as you pressed that key to go down the list so you could quickly pan through them all without a lot of clicking.
Only array literals were implemented though, not objects. That was long overdue, but in the age of JSON we live in it's not enough. For instance, the following in Javascript:

var myObject = {
memberOne: 'some string value',
memberTwo: {
subMemberOne: 42,
subMemberTwo: 48
},
memberThree: false
};

Has this as the closest equivalent in PHP right now:

$myObject = (object) [
"memberOne" => 'some string value',
"memberTwo" => (object) [
"subMemberOne": 42,
"subMemberTwo": 48
],
"memberThree" => false
];

It's verbose, really, I would very much prefer a native solution that doesn't enforce casting from array and quotation around property names.
My father, in grad school, worked in a lab with a guy who pioneered a lot of this research. He showed the coil like action of these waves and how they created wrecks. Here are some other things I thought were cool:

He calculated the risk of changing lanes on a highway and estimated how much people valued their lives in dollars (usually fractions thereof) based on this one criteria.

He drove vehicles into lakes to study the escape from such a vehicle.

He tracked the eyes of truckers and found that their eyes would fall to the front of the hood and dart up a few times about 30-45s before they fell asleep and wrecked.

Another guy tried to make a talking highway by varying the distance of groves and marks on the road.

Just thought some might find this stuff interesting or amusing.
Well i guess it only takes one owner then?
Do the producers of content have a right to monetize their audience via advertising?
Can someone dig that up and link it please
Installing Scala 2.10 on Eclipse Juno or Indigo
Amazing article. The most powerful method of marketing I've seen is that which blurs the line between "want" and "need", or between pain and discomfort. Then they put their product on the "need" side, or categorise your discomfort as real pain.

"You don't want a cell phone, you need it. Look, everyone around you has one, so it must be necessary!"

"Hey, that minor discomfort you have with [whatever]? You have every right to be in pain from it. Heck, you should go out right now and get diagnosed with a disorder we invented/coined last year. Oh by the way, we also have a drug that relieves the symptoms."
It's amazing to me how much expense comes out of fear.

For example, one of the reasons why Manhattan real estate is so expensive is that people feel a need to live here in order to keep up their professional status. Not to limit their commutes, but because the really evil law and financial firms stop promoting you as soon as you move off the island. So they spend $5 million on a house, as opposed to, for example, not working for douchebags.

Where this is worst in New York is in the private school industry. $40,000 per year is market now, and it starts in nursery school. On no data whatsoever, parents now spend half a million out of fear that if their kids go to public schools, they won't be able to get into the top colleges and get good jobs. New Yorkers, take note that people in the rest of the country think you're a giant douchebag if you spend $40,000 on a nursery school.

The Bush years were awful for political reasons-- curtailment of civil liberties, illegal wars, disastrous morale-- but, economically, this past decade would actually be a fairly good time for the U.S. if the Satanic Trinity-- healthcare, housing, and tuition-- of costs were better controlled.
I wanted an app to do this, and just let me know when it was going to take less than x minutes to get to work/home. The simplest workaround was to bookmark Google Maps directions, so a single click would tell me the expected time with traffic. I saved it as an Android bookmark as well, so I could single tap it from there, too.

This works ok if you're interested in waiting until after traffic, and not "beating" traffic. In my situation, under x minutes meant leaving at 5:30am or after 9;30am, and going home before 3:00pm or after 7:00pm, so that was fine. YMMV.

Google Now is somewhere close to this, but I've found it finnicky. Maybe because of my more flexible schedule was throwing off its ability to predict my commutes. I would have preferred something more explicit for work hours, than it guessing based on my GPS'd habits.
I get outages are a way of life with a widely used web application, but Github have really dropped the ball lately. This is one of many service outages lately and as a paying customer it's disheartening and worrying because I use Github in my day-to-day workflow, I and many others have come to rely on it. Don't get me wrong here, I love Github and couldn't live without it, but they really need to sort out these problems and it's not like they don't have the funds to address the issues anyway. My knowledge of distributed computing is somewhat limited, but I would have thought they'd just spin up a few extra virtual machines to handle the database spike (maybe it's not that simple with Github's setup, I'm not sure).
I'm not sure how anything Dustin did there would classify him as an asshole. Maybe I'm missing something.

He blogged about not liking the aesthetics of a website, sparked a discussion with on of the designers of that site and then AA fired the guy and Dustin said that he was "horrified" that it happened.

What's missing?
Without further information, your second paragraph sounds like a straightforward correlation/causation fallacy. Can you add context which might dispel that impression?
Where is the index file located in the s3 bucket?
Originally posted on the author's blog, about 2 years ago

http://www.raptitude.com/2011/01/how-to-make-trillions-of-do...
That's a false equivalency isn't it? Systematically removing all advertising from all webpages is not the same as getting up for a drink of water while watching TV.
Amazon AWS's Unknown Unknowns
Or it could do better -- dispense predictions/instructions so as to ensure an even distribution of traffic (e.g. by randomization).
Total agreement. Thank you for offsetting the large number of critical but unstimulating responses with this quality one. Maintenance of a codebase is perhaps the most important part of programming. Until someone's been forced to do it long term in an environment with viciously changing requirements, they will have problems designing new, maintainable software of nontrivial complexity, in my experience.

My point in mentioning this (little discussed, IMHO) property of web development in general was that many people's experience in PHP is limited to such projects, and therefore their notional understanding of software design from a maintenance perspective is limited; most of the community are not experienced programmers. IMHO this limit has been further amplified by a reliance on frameworks which are themselves often based upon fairly questionable design decisions, and are blindly worshipped as some kind of gospel.
I'm not aware of the observer pattern. I'm using CoffeeScript and my implementation of pub/sub is here https://gist.github.com/4489352

Sample usage:

button =
toggleOn: ->
@trigger 'toggled', 'on'

window =
init: ->
button.listen 'toggled', (buttonState) =>
@showWindow if buttonState is 'on'
I guess you could consider this the "non-programmer opinion". Otherwise known as bullshit.
But the "explaining the situation" is a striking exposition of a relatively original perspective, whereas the "options for dealing with it" are the same shtick we read every week here on HN.
Isn't this a strong argument for better buses?

I guess that's not really the thing if one works in the valley with a huge salary...

Surely the geek bus would be a cool place to be though?
I assumed that in this context 'successful' just meant 'met their funding targets', as opposed to 'successfully delivered the promised product/service in a timely manner'.
Oh Grow Up: Inside The 4chan Hashtag Hoax #cutforbieber
It's like a more customiseable version of impress.js
Good thing you don't have a tin foil hat, because you are way too stupid to own one responsibly.
I'm perfectly fine with that, but you seem confused about the argument here. GPL code distributors don't have the right to say curiosity, or any other reason, is invalid cause to enforce the GPL.

And while I do not have standing to request GPL licensed code from Tesla, they have a legal obligation to either distribute that code directly, or a provide a transferable offer to distribute that code, to their customers. Code properly distributed as such inevitably would make it back out into the wider open source community; this is the design of the GPL. If Tesla currently does not meet this obligation under the GPL, that is a problem.
Sync is not just for integration. With large files it is good to have everything local before you try to open. Of course it takes up a lot more space.
Sure, I understand why they don't automatically give newer models away. I think it's bad service (and very unlike the Apple of old), though, when they don't have a replacement available to withhold the newer (and equivalently priced) iPad and make you wait or run around town.

I also think the newer iPads are more vulnerable than the first generation iPads. I still have that one and it seems pretty sturdy. The iPad 3 cracked after a 3 ft fall.
Just run your own shit, people.
A chocolate company in Cleveland ran a promotion where the company would pay you $150 per month for three years if you bought a specially wrapped and painted Volkswagon Beetle with their colors and logos plastered on it.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2012/08/would_yo...
Sure. The more we talk about it, the more he notices the differences when an employer has to actually compete for employees, not the other way around.

People in that country get the same level of care if they have been employed full time for 10 years, or have never had a job, or whatever. Because of this, people are free to move between jobs, or even outright quit if they want, because they know their health will not suffer.

Nobody in that country discusses health or healthcare like it's an issue, because it's something they take for granted. It's a given.

With that in mind, imagine how differently the conversation goes when someone says something like "I'm thinking about working for a non-profit" or "I'm thinking about taking 2 years off to explore my creative talents", etc.
Unicorns and strong typing
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For couple days, 70F shouldn't be a problem at all. Remember that most wine shops aren't refrigerated, and who knows what the wine might have experienced between the winery and the retailer.
What exactly is an ACH deposit btw? (sorry, German reader here)

Can one only send money with an ACH deposit or also pull money from an account?
There's plenty of C++ opportunities in the financial industry, including non-US financial hubs.
I do both.

At first I open the ToC and go read the few stuff I do absolutely want to read about and "can't wait" to read.

Then I force myself to read the entire book like a novel at least once.

One of the great thing about reading it at least once is that once a while you'll read something you don't really think you'd need right away or that won't necessarily "click through" but, later on, you'll remember "seeing it somewhere in the book". And bam, you take the book's ToC or index and find back what you're after.

I've done it countless time with "Java Concurrency in Practice" for example. At first I read what I wanted to read the most. Then I read like a novel. Then now I use it as a "reference".

(most of the book, just like most Java books, can be dumped to trash now that I'm working with a language using lockless concurrency but that is another topic ; )
> (high level marketers created the world we live in...ect)

But... they did. That's the entire idea behind marketing and consumerism. They're paid to make us need a certain product or service. It's not paranoia.