skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a grad student (in America) a couple of decades ago, I was involved in two seminars/roundtable discussions that stayed with me. One was on sexual harassment- I'll save that for another thread. The other was a cultural awareness 'sharing.' For context, this was around the time of the Anita Hill testimony regarding Clarence Thomas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill

and the Tianaman Square protest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_19...

So sexual harassment and multicultural diversity were on the country's mind.

The department had a cultural awareness discussion centered on an exchange between the American graduate students and the recently arrived Chinese graduate students.

To my astonishment, the Chinese saw us American students as unfriendly, always retreating and 'sticking to our own kind.' They found it very hard to connect with us, much as they wanted to. It was because of the way we worked. When American students got their homework or assignment, we went to our desk and worked on it. We did the readings alone, we turned in the problems that we worked alone, and had very little discussion about the matter. We approached the courses individually, and this put the Chinese students off.

It put them off because they were very much about community. They discussed the lectures and reading until every single one of them understood it. They lived and died together. If homework was supposed to be individual work, then they did it individually- but they collaborated heavily on everything up until the point of homework- and they made sure everybody knew the concepts, math, etc. for doing the homework.

This is a very efficient way of learning new material. In fact, I've read in TIMS studies (or, books about the studies like 'The Teaching Gap' and 'The Learning Gap') that this is the asian way of teaching and learning in lower grades as well. There was less of an emphasis on (or, perhaps better, less of a recognition of) individual talent as being the basis of success in school, and more of a culture of "we can all get this together, if you can't it's because you are unwilling to work."

So I am not at all surprised that you observed heavy collaboration- I would be disappointed, however, if you saw deliberate 'cheating.' I can sympathise that people who don't fathom the concept of individuality in learning may struggle to understand the line between what we accept as cheating and not cheating. But that is not to say that they don't, and cheat anyway.
> Is collusion more commonly accepted in some Asian cultures?

What do you think is the basis for the pervasive government corruption in asian countries? Do you think it's just a matter of coincidence?
Being relegated to php lately, I've been using Silex/Twigg/composer for most of my projects. Silex is built on Symfony2 Components, Twigg is a php port of Jango Templats, and composer is a nice Bundler like dependency manager for PHP.
I like my FAM stack;

Flask - run on Pypy for extra speed and great for rapid development of APIs;
AngularJS - client side Javascript templating for great single page app;
MongoDB - Fast. Schemaless. Returns almost straight JSON to Angular from Flask.

Nginx sits in front, initially serving the HTML page to load the Angular page which pulls its data from the backend API.

Easy to drop in a Memcache/Varnish caching layer and everything can scale effectively.

The isolated nature of VirtualEnvs allows this to be installed on almost any Linux server and to have many different websites running on the same machine.
If you are really interested in learning why some people think universal health care is not a "right" I encourage you to read this article:

http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?id=13873
I'd prefer reform that removed the current structural inefficiencies instead of piling more on. Reform doesn't necessarily mean more government involvement.
I've not had that option - it was either "take the insurance or don't".
The Pirate Bay sets sail for the Caribbean - now at .sx
There was an old ruby framework called camping. I don't think you can get any more lightweight than that. But it's probably obsolete by now.

Meteor (meteor.com) may not be that lightweight, but it's a really neat model (inherently realtime, no glue code from template to database).

MongoDB (and to some extent CouchDB) are much simpler databases to get started with than MySQL. (No need to write migrations most of the time.) You will need to learn the various ways around the "read-modify-write" race condition nightmare.

For anyone doing any kind of development, I would recommend Vagrant (vagrantup.com). On the surface, it's just a VM where you run your code. But it makes it easy/simple to document your development(/production) environment assumptions, and check them into your VCS.

There are several benefits: All developers will have the same dev environment that mirrors production. New developers (even on different OSes) don't waste any time setting up an environment.
I visited Amasterdam (from Chicago) in November of last year, and fell in love with the cycling-centric environment in Hollad. How difficult is it to pick up and move to Holland from the US?
I think I've lost count of the number of time on Hacker News (and else where) that I read about a founder that got sick and didn't have health insurance. So on top of a life threatening illness one has to worry about paying for it all. And as one who does pay for health insurance it now costs me the sum of a very good used used car every year.

Given this situation I'm frankly amazed that every business leader in this country isn't calling for socialized medicine at this point in time. At this point I see the insurance companies and the surrounding ecosystem as something that hurts us in a global economy.
The U.S. government also spends more on healthcare per capita than Canada [1]. Seems pretty socialized to me already. The U.S. government is a corrupt piece of shit. Passing laws mandating health insurance for everyone isn't going to fix things.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/23/chart_us_gove...

EDIT::

Furthermore, diseconomies of scale are not just Austrian Economics voodoo.[2]

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale
Imagine this scenario ,It is round 1C . A talented programmer started competing there are only 20 minutes to go. He solves the Small and Large test cases for Problem A ,and only the small for problem C. But Alas ! his rank is 1002 , he doesn't qualify even though on topcoder he is in the top 200's.
News Flash: This has been going on for a long time. I remember while working at the Palo Alto Whole Foods (2008-last year), that almost no one in my department worked 40 hours, except the supervisors. Of course the article is a bit biased to begin with-its like reading an indictment of unions from a manager who doesn't want the wealth to trickle down to the peons.
You make it sound permanent.
Scalable streaming analytics using a single-server
I've been lucky to work in areas where theft isn't a huge issue. My biggest problem is the weather.

In the hot, humid summers, I wish my building had a shower, or at least some area to change clothes larger and less smelly than a bathroom stall. When it rains, there isn't always an appropriate place to hang dripping, often muddy clothes (and I hope they dry off before the ride home). I'm also lucky to not need to wear a suit, but I don't envy those whose responsibilities include being more presentable.

If the roads aren't covered with snow and ice, the worst part about winter is the darkness, but that isn't something an office building can solve.
I think I am a bit face-blind too, and it seems to be mostly with women as well. I'm almost completely thrown off when a woman does a complete makeover. I find myself flustered by actresses quite often, having almost no idea if I should know who this person in the film is or not.

I can usually tell the difference between the various actresses in the same film, but across films I definitely have trouble.

But I have had trouble with some films that have multiple young brunette male actors (in their 20s to early 30s). There's been more than one movie where I didn't realize two different characters were two characters until it was almost over (or one of them died and the other kept on kicking). A second watching usually gets me sorted out.

I frequently weirded out by people who can look at a random candid photo of a famous person in a disguise and know who it is. The folks who work at TMZ blow me away.
To clarify: it is an excise tax and applies to the _gross sale price_, not the profits (so even if the division runs at a loss, they still have to pay). http://www.irs.gov/uac/Medical-Device-Excise-Tax:-Frequently... I'd agree with your skepticism if it were affecting net (after employee salaries etc).

> And besides, it doesn't invalidate the ethical point that it is right to privide medical insurance, even if true.

Your original point was "There are no good reasons to be against the Act", so my response was pointing to a reason why someone would be against the act: I'm pretty sure that being laid off due to a regulation is a pretty good reason to be unhappy
"The govt declared that health insurance wasn't wages"

And at some point they likely will reverse that, and premiums will be counted as wages (or at least taxable), and we'll be stuck with an even worse situation.
Are there any concepts where you can pave down the center and on the sides of tracks? To keep the track useful for later use, but to still allow cyclists to use them?
He took a huge risk by starting with only 20 minutes to go. I would say his failure there lies more with himself than with the 3 cheaters.
>Auto insurance is mandatory if you want to drive.

No, it isn't. Unlike almost every other state, New Hampshire does not automatically require motorists to carry an auto liability insurance policy or provide some of financial backing in order to drive a vehicle within its boundaries.

http://www.dmv.org/nh-new-hampshire/car-insurance.php

Further more, you can avoid auto insurance by not driving in most places. You cannot leave your body at home.
Fellow Chicagoan. Could not imagine doing that. Happy to know there are still places like that in the world though.
I really don't get this attitude some Americans have that any kind of public service designed to make the lives of your less fortunate peers just that little bit easier is some how a bad thing. It's as if 70 years of brainwashing that all "commies" are evil has irreparably warped their brains and now any piece of legislation that doesn't propose proverbially kicking struggling families in the "nuts" is seen as socialism and, by extension, wrong.

Capitalism is all well and good so long as peoples lives are not put in danger; and I'm not talking about luxuries here, I'm talking about whether people live or die. But what we have happening instead is a closed market dominated by a small number of monopolistic drug companies who abuse patent systems and extort their customers just because they can. Surely at some point, even the right-wings have to appreciate that neither closed markets nor putting peoples lives put in danger because of the greed of the few is neither in the spirit of capitalism nor the Christian thing to do (and I only reference the last part because of the emphasis that many right-wings place on religion).
Completely agree. Im using Go a lot an its just a very nice language for the web (wonder why). I also use web.go. Which for me is very like flask/bottle. Ive found that a web app in go is very simple, fast and downright easy to build. Note that i currenly use webfaction to deploy Go apps. It works very well. If anyone wants to knkw more, just shoot me an email. Ill introducd you
That's what I used for my Debian unstable + Mint "Steam box", it works perfectly.

P.S. Mint provides only Firefox.
I don't think that argument would stand with any of my previous teachers/professors. But, I would have loved to see someone use that line back at school.
125W vs 77W TDP (are these directly comparable between Intel and AMD cpus?) though.
I was more replying to the other post (as Google hasn't actually said anything yet), but if it is as presented, then yeah, there's no excuse for it.
I know it sounds insane, but the average American's idea of nationalized healthcare is something akin to waiting in Soviet Union breadlines just to get an aspirin. There's a whole cadre of talking heads employed full-time to make the rounds on Fox News et al promoting this sort of willfully ignorant line of thought.

Not at all. We've seen it first-hand and up-close with our neighbors to the north. Taxes through the roof, and the only way to get good care is to "go private."
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/wiki/Large-app-how-to

Please note, flask code is easy to read, and you can change anything you want. Flask will not limit you, you can be sure in that.
> If anything we'd get more economies of scale.

No, because there are also diseconomies of scale. Some services are best provided by smaller-scale organizations than an entire nation, much less one the size of the US. It is perfectly plausible that a service that worked well for the UK might not work at the scale of the US. Making an organization bigger means adding more layers of bureaucracy, which puts the ultimate decision makers farther away from the problems they are trying to solve. It also creates more room for resources to be absorbed by political infighting within the organization.
gives far too much power in the marketplace to employers

Having been on the employer side, it also puts distortions on their decision making. Some examples I had to deal with…

• You have an employee who is not working out, you aren't happy with his work, he has been unable to improve, and he isn't particularly happy failing day in and day out either, you'd like to terminate his employment, but you also know he has a dependent with mind bogglingly expensive health care issues that will take long term treatment and won't be eligible for coverage anywhere else because they are now pre-existing conditions. (Also know that whatever that dependent costs is going to get added to your next year's "insurance" premium in the negotiations.)

• You hire a guy that has been an independent consultant around town for many years. A few months later he needs expensive heart surgery, so you carry him for a while during recovery (and pay for all the health bills in next years "insurance" negotiation), after which time he stops producing work until you figure it out and fire him. He then goes back to his independent consulting work after using you for an expensive surgery and recovery. Now, remember that the next time you think about hiring a pudgy 40 year old man who currently does not have insurance.
> Auto insurance is mandatory if you want to drive. Everyone has it (well a very high percentage of drivers).

As is health insurance in the US. Or at least it will be soon.
Uh? Maybe you didn't read what i said?

The IHS nor the VA are representative of the US population, nor are the politics around Indian or veteran affairs representative of how politicians deal w/ the general public.

Nor is there necessarily a connection between small and large projects. What's the political will to get these small things done? What are the consequences when they fuck up? Does it threaten a politician's chances at getting reelected? Is it likely to hurt industry's bottom line? Is it going to generate a significant amount of negative press?

Small projects are not necessarily representative of the governments ability to get things done, and the IHS as i've pointed out is definitely not representative for a whole pile of reasons.

I also don't get why people are so concerned that it cut medicare money. Isn't the point to reduce how much medicare costs?
There are lot's of good reasons to be against the Act. How about it forcing the young and relatively poor to subsidize the old and relatively rich -- it's a giant intergenerational wealth transfer mechanism.

Young adults will pay higher premiums under Obamacare because of its age rating system. The law stipulates that the maximum variation allowed in adult premiums is a cost ratio of 3 to 1. But as Heritage research shows, “The natural variation by age in medical costs is about 5 to 1—meaning that the oldest group of (non-Medicare) adults normally consumes about five times as much medical care as the youngest group.” Obamacare’s “rate compression” causes insurers to charge artificially low premiums for older adults and higher premiums for younger adults. Moreover, “Actuaries estimate that the effect will be to increase premiums for those ages 18–24 by 45 percent and those ages 25–29 by 35 percent while decreasing premiums for those ages 55–59 by 12 percent and those ages 60–64 by 13 percent.”

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/21/obamacares-2nd-anniversa...
Running a startup I've gone through this exact same thought process. My high level bullet points are:
1) It's insane that any business should spend so many cycles on managing this. I would have thought Republicans (pro business) might be more open to a state role in healthcare precisely so business's don't have to manage this burden.
2) Somebody who is 35 or 40 with children fully burdened is around $1200 a month or $14,000 per year. Someone who is 25 and single is $200. You think that differential never goes through our minds when assessing candidate and how much we'll pay them? That totally sucks but is a reality.
3) The wealthiest and most likely to vote Americans get their health insurance via their company. So they're entirely immune to the dysfunctional system. If ALL Americans were procuring health insurance in the private marketplace there'd be a much better system. Much less abuse. If the government (like EU/AUS) was the sole customer there would be a much better system. It's this mixture of employers, too small in aggregate to manage the demand side, + smaller individuals buying it on their own, that drives the spiraling costs here.
4) Having a startup provide your health insurance is really dumb. Startups have a much higher % chance of closing their doors. So one day you get laid off because your startup doesn't make it. Guess what, now you have to go and find a new job AND work out what you're COBRA options are. In the broader context, most people who get laid off in the US lose their job AND now have a $1000 or more (if they're family provider) costs layered on as they now have to start paying for healthcare. Like losing a war you didn't start then being forced to pay repatriation costs when your economy is at its weakest.

Politically, I think we're more likely to get universal healthcare via the state through than to ever get all employers to stop offering it and put everyone into the marketplace. So I support these efforts because the current blend is the worst.

(PS right now we're paying full costs because we lean toward hiring more mature people (read families) who understand what it would cost them in the marketplace to get it so they can balance it against their overall lowered financial compensation.)
Ok you just expanded my mind and gave description to a whole new vista - can you write this up as a book?
Ask HN: What do you think about designing/making toys for your kids?
I'm working on a project that may result in a software package that allows parents to digitally create toys for their kids, then create them in real life on a 3D printer - and I'd love to get your feedback.

If you could include if you're a parent, as well as the age(s) of your child(ren), that'd be very helpful.

Thanks!
Did you benchmark pypy + flask? Any numbers compared to cpython?

And whats your whole setup?
flask -> pypy -> ?? -> nginx ?
Towards the bottom I had to look back at the top to make sure you said Finland and not America.
Last time I checked, Germany is outside US.
Ask HN: Do you think your child(ren) would want to make their own toys?
I'm working on a project that may result in a software package that allows children to digitally create toys, then create them in real life on a 3D printer to play with - and I'd love to get your feedback.

If you could include if you're a parent, as well as the age(s) of your child(ren), that'd be very helpful.

Thanks!
Thanks, this is interesting. It seems to me there's an excellent middle ground that could help American students get a more social (and potentially effective) education, and also encourage some focus on individual achievement in Chinese and possibly other Asian cultures.
It's not set in stone.

I also prefer having packages with their own hierarchies under /opt, rather than /usr/local/<package> -- in general stuff under /usr/local should put their binaries in /usr/local/bin -- their manpages under /usr/local/share/man, headers and libraries in the corresponding places -- so that I don't have to mess with my PATH settings to be able to run a command, look up a man page or link against a library.

Sometimes software isn't packaged for use on a posix-like system -- and then I might have to do some dancing to get it to work -- I usually prefer having such programs under /opt/<program-version>.

I do have another folder under local: /usr/local/xstow -- so I can easily compile packages and manage different versions under /usr/local/xstow/package-x.y.z.

http://xstow.sourceforge.net/
The pricing for small teams with many repos is free at bitbucket...
Why is the EPA so bad at estimating hybrid fuel economy?
I don't. Pictures are very appealing and easy to digest, I'd rather they be more clear with visual media than with the article itself.
Dribbble - Hexabones2 by Kevin Granger
Funny how this is downvoted. Fact is that Debian has always been outdated. For some that is a strength, for most it is a frustration.
Foreign workers for U.S. jobs a rarity at Boeing
It's pretty easy to see how these "criticisms" may seem less obvious (and less valid) to someone who a) is not deeply invested in American party politics and b) comes from a state with a well-functioning universal health care system.

Or in other words, those work as reasons for a political enemy of health care to oppose the bill; they don't fly so well as reasons for a reasonable person to think everyone shouldn't have access to affordable health care.
It seems to me that modern web dev happens mostly in JavaScript. The driving reason for this is so apps can be wrapped to be like native apps, and have a level of state and data persistence. The trend in modern web apps is to send a lot of data down as JSON, and only do serverside rendering in cases where you need SEO or incredible rendering speed.

You make a choice between angular, ember, bootstrap+handlebars, roll your own, or a few others. On the back-end, there is a similar array of very reasonable non-real-time frameworks, mostly centered around Python (Django, Flask, etc.), Ruby on Rails, or the newish and sexy and real-timish node.js. Go is apparently pretty popular on HN, and imagine it's not the same academic trap that Haskell is, but I've never touched the stuff. I find Google programming tools to be very good usually (AppEngine, Angular, Chrome dev tools).

Your data store that underlies all of this depends heavily on your application. You can still get plenty of mileage out of MySQL, or Postgres for geo apps, but there is a large community building on top of NoSQL type data stores too.

These are my impressions from having done web dev 4-5 years ago, then focusing mostly on mobile, then having some web projects under my management again recently. The shift to JavaScript became apparent to me when our engineers looked at and chose technologies. I personally was doing a lot of client-rendered Javascript ("web app style") 5 years ago for TrailBehind.com, and it seems like the whole world works that way now, just more high-tech with HTML compilers and templating and more.