skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"After all, what's offensive to one person may not be so to another, and they may end up offending you by mistake."

Including that sentence doesn't make the fact that it is undisputably a two-ways street go away.

If it's an honest mistake, sure, don't get offended. But if the person does it on purpose, then we're talking about something else altogether and there's no reason to simply "don't get offended". In the later case I'm not offended by what I'm hearing (the person who's going to make me feel inferior ain't born yet) but I'm offended by the fact that the person is trying to be offending on purpose.

There's a very easy way to be sure, you simply gently ask something like: "Are you trying to be offending?"
You mean a race to the top :)
You mean like this? http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
Citation needed.

Either way, some/many of the things you cite have to do with access to care, diet, smoking (yes, more than europeans), etc, not quality. Things like heart surgery mortality rates are tough to compare since the USA is well-known for performing more procedurs at the end of life.

Not my favorite source but little reason to think it's way off: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/15/facts-about-americ...
> Researchers say they have created fiber cables that can move data at 99.7 percent of the speed of light, all but eliminating the latency plaguing standard fiber technology.

If by "all but eliminating" they mean "reducing by 31%".

There's a hard limit to how low latency can go. We've been close to it for years. So a hop takes 100 ms instead of 150 ms? They're still in the same ballpark. To have a revolutionary impact, it would have to drop the latency an order of magnitude, which, as far as we understand our universe, is impossible.

I guess the real application is over short distances. I'd love to hear the ideal usecase that benefits from this improvement.
>It also looks like they're making this free as in beer:

I have no interest in free beer. I prefer free speech.
By what measure? Not outcomes. I suggest you check your sources as the US falls behind most of the developed world on outcomes - which really should be what you measure for healthcare stats.
My guess is that the first customers for this cable will be in the finance industry. A 30% improvement in latency doesn't matter much for the layman, but in finance, it can mean significant amounts of money. Already, an enterprising trader constructed a more direct line from Chicago -> NYC [1]. Going from 16ms -> 13ms was apparently worth $300 million. This fiber could bring a very large profit if you had exclusive rights to it via a patent. You could execute guaranteed-to-profit arbitrage strategies between any two markets if you were willing to build out the network. And no one could compete with you for a whole 15 years!

[1] http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/outfront-netscape-jim...
Ah I may have had epel enabled already, I think Centos6 even comes with the repo file, you just have to edit to enable it. If not, they run their own mirror so you don't even need to specify one.

rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
From my experience incorporating can cost about half a grand.
Why wouldn't you want to ride in on the coattails of affirmative action?
Of course you pay for it. Don't be silly.
Don't underestimate the desire of Wall Street for lower network latency. A 33% reduction in latency is a BIG DEAL when you do high-frequency trading.
she (we?) got pregnant

Off-topic, but I hate the abuse of the English language which is "we are pregnant" (except when the speaker and another are both pregnant women). Pregnancy is a physiological state, not a psychological or sociological state.

You are expecting; but she is pregnant.
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Despite the enormous cost, is MIT a ideal school to get a Computer Science degree from?
Let me know what you think.
I'd leave the military as a last resort, just above stealing. Not unless serving your country is your undeniable calling. And if you've got any doubt, then it isn't.

I say that, having joined the military after high school because I had no clue what to do with myself. And for me, at that time, it turned out well.

However, the US hasn't used its military for anything good or honorable since World War II, except possibly the first six to nine months of Afghanistan. If you join the military you'll likely have to kill someone for no worthy reason, or you'll have to order someone to do it. For fucking Wall Street, and so whoever's President at the time doesn't have to take Viagra.

Fuck. That. Shit.

Don't waste your soul.

(Apologies to any veterans or family.)
When the government offered tax benefits for corporate plans, it shifted the dynamics from individual plans to said corporate plans. When employers started offering plans, it shifted the way people think about health insurance. The way it existed, pre-tax-benefits, was much more like life insurance: you paid your way for daily expenses but had catastrophic coverage. After the tax benefits, people began treating it more like "nearly free healthcare". Due to the change of insurance type, instead of knowing how much a doctor's visit costs, the insurance "takes care of it".

Finally, by having the company hide 60-80% of the cost of the premiums and averaging the costs out across the entire company, people don't know how much things are really changing on a year-to-year basis, even though they are, in all actuality, paying the entire cost of the premium through lower salaries.
Persona is nice, because it is simple. It is still important to note
that it is an alternative mostly to: "Trust that a user being able to
read an email address is proof authenticating said user" -- in other
words sites using it have no expectation that the user need any form of
authentication before being issued a persona (Similar to eg: shared mail
accounts -- where having access to the email does not identify you as a
single person/user -- rather as a group of users -- which is subtly
different).

Additionally without any form of single sign out/invalidation of private
keys/session certificates other than expiration (please correct me if
I've missed something wrt sign-out/invalidation) -- persona is in some
ways less secure than "trust the mailbox": Even if you change your
password/secret key -- any (stolen) signed session certificate (aka
token/ticket in most other systems) will remain valid as far as the
authorizing site is concerned.

This is similar to a stolen cookie -- except the site cannot decide
how long the certificate is valid -- the identity provider does. So if
somedomain.net signs certificates valid for a year, the only thing you
can do as a site allowing persona logins, is mark said domain as "not
trustworthy enough" -- and disallow logins.

This is "fine" as long as Persona isn't used for anything "serious" --
however with social engineering attacks, anything that to the end users
appears to be proof of identity can be used to escalate privileges ("He
sent me a hipsterchat-message on kewlchat.net -- so I reset the
RDP-password like he requested").

I do think moving identity management "closer" to the user is good --
let the ISP, the various organizations the user is identified with vet
and administer the user database -- but for the general use case -- we
also need some form of trust between the sites, and the iDPs.
Shibboleth[1] is one approach to this -- but it is more complicated that
Persona, and has more overhead.

Personally I'd like to see a solution based around x509 certs and
organizations like https://cacert.org -- but for that to work we need
browsers to get better at handling cerificates. That is -- we need a
user friendly way to manage identities based around x509 -- and we need
browsers and servers to expect to validate both server and client
certificates. Unfortunately such validation will entail a lot of
problems with expired certs etc... it's not a trivial problem to solve
in practice.

[1] http://shibboleth.net/
Life expectancy is not really related to health care.
Through taxes only and AFAIK my taxes aren't significantly different than they would be if I lived in the US.
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There seems to be some domain names that your tool indicates to be available, but they can't actually be registered (eg. ao.io).
Just thinking this would be a fun website project for someone to build.
I'd love to hear any feedback from people who've attempted this.
OK, say it does. But give it a few years for the technology to propagate, and all traders will have the same latency, eliminating any advantage it once had. So not really revolutionary in the big picture for that case.
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Ah yes, I struggle with this every day. Day in and day out I am surrounded by people who have formed their ideals and opinions by constantly being fed those opinions via media. People who are quick to release their tongue on an issue, but far from directly doing anything to influence that issue.

It's a funny situation. You get people who are so vehemently for their cause, but when challenged are the first to act like victims.
An upvote simply for a cooking/food related article on HN. Most of us are involved in tech on a regular basis and sometimes we need a break. For me, one outlet is my garden, cooking, exploring food.
It's already decently popular.
I assume YC S13 will be around the same size due to the success W13 seems to already have among the media and, more importantly, investors.
"Start moving large compressed files (gigabytes) and you'll find that out the bad way."

Not if you do that over SCP / SSL / TLS that said... (and the bottleneck is the network, not the symmetric encryption used once the public/private symmetric key exchange has been made).

So, yeah, everytime I copy big files I'm using scp (small files too actually but it's just out of convenience).
Couldn't you initially microwave the turkey to bring it's internal temperature up to oven temperature and only then put it into the regular oven?
The efficiency of Medicare is often overstated. Medicare spends a lot per patient, which makes administrative costs a smaller percentage of total spending. And some administrative tasks are handled by other government agencies, but many calculations of Medicare efficiency don't include those.
I always thought the chips on the RAM stick would do one-bit error correction transparently and just fail to correct two-bit errors. But, it appears that the motherboard has to support it and you might need to enable it. There's an overview at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory#Pros_and_cons_of_ECC

Thank you for the question, I think I learned something today. I hope someone who knows better comes along, I'd be interested in knowing more.
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Given that Smith created capitalism in order to argue against cronyism (NOT socialism), it seems odd to criticize capitalism for cronyism.
Actually, jQuery animate includes a built-in animation queueing system for this exact purpose, so callbacks really aren't necessary at all! For example:

function animate_opacity_to(opacity) {
$('[id^=row]').forEach(function(el) {
$(el).animate({opacity: opacity}, {duration: 100, queue: true});
});
}

(haven't tested this but I think it should work.) In general, I've found that using a queue or queue-like structure can often help alleviate the dreaded "callback waterfall". Instead of saying "do this, then when you're done, do this, then when you're done, do this", you're saying "here are a list of the things I want done, do them in order and don't start the next thing in the list before the previous one is done". If you have some things in the queue that can be run simultaneously, you can combine them with a Deferred (see http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.Deferred/ )

In any case, great article - I definitely remember many similar scenarios that came up while I was learning to code. Sometimes you just gotta go with the crappy implementation you know will work rather than the efficient implementation that is beyond your current understanding :)
How would it compare with the amount of practice required to smoothly open a balisong?
The US has a monopoly on paying for medical innovation.
It was specifically an IE7 tax by a company called Kogan: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/. And here's the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4109137
That depends.

The US taxes the poor / middle class much lower than the rest of the OECD, but the rich more. So if you're poor / middle class, then your taxes are much much higher than if you were in the US.
Anyone have it figured out what it is built in/on? Not sure I've ever seen a web app this responsive.
CloudFlare's report (6 days ago):

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-of...
Oracle has hole in address map at E0000000

I assume hole in address map is at F0000000

for 32-bit PCI devices. HD Audio is 64-bit but I map it at F0000000 and causeds problems.

I don't give a fuck -- I'll let God fight the CIA.

God says...
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Patriot act, at a guess - transfers of $10k or more are required to be accompanied per personal identifying information, and Amazon may also be required to collect PII to the extent that it's viewed as a broker, collecting money on behalf of others for distribution thereto. But I can't tell you for sure which law; most likely you're hearing about it now because either a new regulation has been promulgated or as a result of some holding in a recent court case.
I love these kind of interactions; both listening and explaining equally! I find I can elicit these kinds of explanations from others by being actively interested, reading how they react and what they emphasize, and asking the right questions to really get at their passion.

I exhort everyone to strike up these kinds of conversions especially with strangers as often as possible - I guarantee you will learn something interesting :) Ever since I got the hang of it, it has really enriched my life.
As an aside, if this is rolled out widely, can we finally come to terms with the genius of Senator Ted Stevens metaphor about the internet being a "Series of tubes." :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
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I've found this type of advice is easily misunderstood. Most people don't know how to not get offended. So either they try suppress their feelings (and feel depressed) or they defend themselves by lashing out at you. It takes an incredible amount of maturity and experience to learn how to let go. If you find it difficult living with people who can't let go, you're caught in the same trap they are.
You can only control yourself. As such, you will never be able to control whether somebody else gets offended by something you say. You certainly can (and ought) to try not to offend, but, ultimately, you have no control over it.

On the other hand, you always have control over whether you will be offended by what somebody else say, even if they are trolling to an extreme, trying to get a rise out of you. You can decide to let it roll off your shoulders or you can rise to the bait. And the other person may not even be intentionally baiting you.
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> There is a public healthcare system that is paid for by taxes.

I wouldn't call that "liberal" and "deregulated". At least no according to US political-speak. Providing a free alternative and thus competing with the health insurance companies is a pretty obvious involvement in the health care by the government.

That is a sane option and I like it. We have enough regulation and involvement but it just stops short of actually offering a viable free alternative. So the government sticks its fingers in the pie and makes a mess then the health insurance companies do the same and in the end the citizens get screwed.
This article very early makes the statement that "while getting offended by something sometimes feels good and can help you assert moral superiority, in most cases it doesn't help you figure out what the world looks like." Implicit in this statement is that "figur[ing] out what the world looks like" -- and then accepting that status quo -- is, or ought to be, the goal of all people.

However, assuming one has an understanding of the status quo, and a desire to change it, "getting offended" can be a useful, and rational, response. (I include the quotes because there is an amount of subjectivity in what various people label as "getting offended".) In particular, such responses can serve to educate other people about behaviors which perpetuate the aspects of the status quo which the expresser desires to change.

So, while this article presents itself as a highly rational and neutral argument, embedded within it is actually a deeply conservative point of view.
"all traders will have the same latency"

Still not the case. The state-of-the-art networking technologies are expensive (300K+/yr per data center plus inter-facility connectivity running into the 1-5M/yr range)
It's a bit of a pain to find ECC mobos for desktops.

I looked for some when I built my last workstation seen that I was putting 16 GB in but ended up using stupid normal RAM : (

Now between SSH, SCP, SSL / TLS, Git, diffs before commits, unit tests, etc. I'd be really unlikely to have a bit flip really "destroying my work" : )

So, yeah, 16 GB of non-ECC memory on a Linux workstation which regularly reaches 6 months of uptime: no need to enter in a paranoia either for a desktop/workstation.

For servers, ECC is great...
I tried something like your code, but it doesn't work. The queue parameter defaults to true, and it only applies to the set of elements in the jQuery object.

What will work is adding `delay` e.g.

$(el).delay(i*100).animate(...

But that causes other problems because frantically clicking will cause the animations to get queued. Setting `queue` to false, breaks .delay().
Sure, Finance will be the first to adopt, but it actually has pretty big implications in larger internet use cases.

Lets say your application needs <50ms latency, low enough that your users can't notice. Today, you'll something around 10 datacenters in the USA/Canada to achieve this.

If cut that down by 31%, you might only need 6. (or less, this would take some real math to figure out).

But the impact is pretty large in the long run, if it can really cut long haul latencies by 31%.
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I think it's going to happen and actually launched a startup[1] in this space after seeing just how inefficiently things were being done. Cloud security polices probably need to mature a little in the defense space first though, even just an open API standard to access government owned storage would probably do it.

[1] http://www.requirementweaver.com/
> And I would wonder just why bothering to desalinate the water?

perhaps it sucks to have salt deposits due to the evaporation?
Financial field isn't the only one that cares about latency. I'm still waiting for it to become feasible to jam (play music together) remotely. This gives me hope, but the real solution is still far away. Interesting how despite all the tech progress this (deceivingly simple) problem is still unsolved.
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Yeah - the nurble method. It's really the Clojure that looks the worst.

Taking just the boolean query to figure out whether the word is in the noun list, I'd place them in this order from simplest to understand through to most obfuscated

Python: if word not in NOUNS
Java: if (!nouns.contains(word))
PHP: if(!in_array($word, $nouns))
Ruby: if not @@nouns.include? word
Clojure: if (not (some (partial = word) nouns))

The Python is pretty much just english

The Java is almost english except for the !

PHP is starting to get more obtuse - ! and $ and you have to know the order of the parameters

Ruby (from the article) has @@ and ? but isn't too bad - might go above the php

Clojure is just weird - looking at the others, I reckon a person could easily modify and write a similar program without knowing much of the language. With Clojure I think it requires deeper understanding.

I haven't included your Ruby in that list because it's doing a different (much neater :) ) thing.
"All of our sites (asp classic) on a single server went down at the same time"

Honest curiosity here (I'm not judging): you were running several sites on a single server that didn't have ECC RAM but regular RAM?

Did you then switch to ECC?

I like the thought about radiation from far away in space and time : )
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That's true of drugs costs, but it doesn't explain the expense of things like an office visit.
The problem with this technology is that at a 3.5dB/KM loss, it's only really good for about 10KM. At such short distances, the latency difference would only be about 0.0167ms. Given all the other latencies involved between two end-to-end hosts, that's hardly worth laying new fiber for. Unless they manage to reduce the loss to within a reasonably small multiple of more traditional fiber, this new technology isn't going to have much adoption.

At only 37 channels, compared to the 80 that more traditional fiber can carry using DWDM, it also carries less than half the capacity. And that's assuming that it's capable of the same bandwidth capacity per channel; the article states 40Gbps per channel, whereas you can already go as high as 100Gbps over a single wave using DWDM, which means it may only be able to carry 18.5% as much.
That sounds nice, but what about the actual military stuff, where you actually have to participate in war? Surely that is the biggest caveat of using the military as a self-improvement exercise.

That and being stuck in there for X years. Sounds like you lucked out with your military career but it seems like more the exception than the rule?
"figur[ing] out what the world looks like" -- and then accepting that status quo -- is, or ought to be, the goal of all people

I don't see where the article says that you have to accept what the world looks like once you figure it out. Figuring out that the world is f--ked up and deciding to try and change it based on that knowledge is, it seems to me, perfectly consistent with what the article is saying.

such responses can serve to educate other people about behaviors which perpetuate the aspects of the status quo which the expresser desires to change

The article talks about this, under the heading of using "getting offended" to manipulate people. It's different because you are choosing to act offended to accomplish a goal, rather than involuntarily responding to something by being offended, even if it hinders you from accomplishing a goal.
Not to sound cynical, but you live two hours from SEATTLE. If you have skills, you WILL find work here, particularly tech work. End of story!
Invite anyone you find successful to coffee or lunch for 30 minutes of their time. Seriously. Then have them share their story. The stories might inspire you, get you thinking, or surface something you might be interested in doing.

From what I've seen so far, you are most successful with the things you are passionate about. Passion helps you persist through obstacles, find creative solutions, etc.
Then why is it there at all if you don't expect your users to notice it?
Still feeling strange that someone remembers all files and pathes. (Or maybe the habbits in China is a bit different. Even I use Bash everyday, I still want to read file list every time I enter a directory.)
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Why is being a doctor harder than being a programmer? 100% troll here. Wow.