skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have one of only a small subset of programmers talented in ABCD, and you charge $2000/day for them, are you gouging your customers?

If you want to build slack into the system, allow people to make profit off of extra inventory. You want the hardware store to carry a couple crates of batteries in the back in case of emergency? Let them charge enough money in the once-in-a-lifetime storm to make it worth their while.

Taxis take risks riding in storms, if you want them to be available, let them make money.
Yeah, this looks pretty cool.

I currently use RStudio server to do analysis from the RStudio IDE in my browser- while all the client-sensitive data and computation happens in a remote box. Allows me to play with graphs on my browser as well,.

It looks like Plotly's advantage is in sharing the plots easily.
I would expect the gzipped CSV file to be smaller.

When you add in indexes or B-trees or whatever else database engines use to retrieve data quickly, database files can get quite big indeed.
RFS #5 has nothing to do with the essay linked. See http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html for all the "Request for Startups" bullet points.

Personally, I think it's a dumb RFS to begin with. From a professional standpoint, I couldn't handle developing on anything else but two 24+ inch monitors (if not three) and a mechanical keyboard.

Not that I couldn't do it on a laptop or tablet, it just makes me about 300x more productive -- and that's what matters.
That might well be true, but maybe there should be a limit to how far the change goes. Code can be an asshole too, along with the guy who wrote it.
I like RFS #7.
> Snowden is definitely not the one lying about this, since at worst his interpretation was very sensible, and at best it is the very interpretation intended by the author.

"His interpretation"?

Snowden is the one who actually has experience within the Intelligence Community. I managed to figure out what it meant with a little background in computer and networks knowledge and no background with IC work. Snowden has superior qualifications in both, and you're saying that Snowden might have made an honest mistake?

He knew what NSA jargon meant; he knew what the slide meant. The only thing you can say for him 'at best' is that he allowed journalists to come to a sensible conclusion based on what they knew, but that is still manipulative.

And in the actual event he even claimed that they could see the very thoughts form in your head, which is something beyond even mere manipulation.
1 & 2 are true for handguns (as checked luggage, they have to be in a hardsided locked case for example.)

but 3 & 4 I think would practically be the best route, despite some risks.
Average speed for the front runners in the Tour de France on an average stage is usually around 25mph, and that's with some gruesome hill climbs. On the faster stages, average speeds can reach 35mph.
Sprints often hit 40mph, and on downhill stretches are known to exceed 60mph.
I commute 7.5 miles into central London daily where the roads really were originally built around the horse and cart and usually manage ~22mph average if the traffic isn't so bad and I catch the lights right.
Many smaller Midwestern cities (speaking as someone who grew up in one and went to college in another) were founded and to a significant degree built out in the streetcar era, and have a physical form in the central city that reflects that. In architecture and urban form, the neighborhood I grew up in quite resembles the walk/bike/transit hotspot inner neighborhoods of Portland, Oregon, for example.

In many of those cities, the older, walkable neighborhoods have been left to decay, with gutted transit service, failing schools, and many fine old structures demolished to build parking lots or simply let to collapse., while many residents and jobs have decamped to auto-oriented exurban areas. But that is to a large degree a policy choice designed to maintain residential segregation, and something which can and must be reversed by different policy choices.

It is more the Sunbelt than the Midwest where a vast majority of the infrastructure was built in the postwar automobile era, and most neigborhoods (if you can even call them that) are nearly inaccessible to the pedestrian, cyclist, and mass transit user.
I think it's reasonable to designate certain very-high-speed roads as "car only" when there are reasonable alternative routes for bikes. If there's a destination you can only get to by interstate I'd say "allow bikes." I'm a biker and strongly pro bike-rights but I recognize that certain exceptions are reasonable for safety & expediency. :)
Several states have permissive open carry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OpenCarryUnited_States.png

Even if they were concealed carrying it without a license, the statistic would be "10% of those caught not in Vermont did not have a license to carry the gun in the manner that they were carrying it".
No, the UI of public Redmine servers I've seen has put me off as not being fit for purpose - especially with clients seeing it. Definitely a project which could benefit from a UX team!
Interesting perspective on startups in Africa
Thought provoking article on the merits of business sense in a startup.
Do you think it's reasonable that bicyclists are free to travel on most roads without any education or licensing? Why is it that pedestrians are banned from traveling on roads, bicyclists are free to do so with no licensing whatsoever, and automobile drivers require a license?
Driving is legally defined as a privilege, just check your state's MVC guide.
Yes and?

Google search for "tsa never caught a terrorist":

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20... (Slate pointing out that the TSA doesn't catch terrorists, making special note of the fact that they have not bragged about doing so.)

http://disinfo.com/2012/03/has-the-tsa-ever-foiled-a-terrori... (blogspam about an economist article written by Bruce Schneier about the TSA never catching terrorists. Bruce Schneier is likely the most prominent person that points out that the TSA never brags about bagging one. I would wager that he popularized the point.)

http://tsanewsblog.com/3160/news/tsa-executive-admits-not-a-... (TSA official asked directly if they have ever caught a terrorist.)

Google search for "tsa never found a gun":

(Fuck all.)

The popular question is "if the TSA has caught a terrorist, why haven't we heard".

"If the TSA has never found a gun, why haven't we heard?" is foolish and as far as I can tell almost never asked.
It's not easy to say whether it's a bad practice or not. I think more than any other platform, how your application is going to be used, and who it's going to be used by are vital points of information that you need to answer before you approach the issue:

1) Are your visual flourishes vital to the quality of your product?

2) How concerned are you with baseline performance?

3) How big is your application? Do you need disparate components to be reusable, or do you need a philosophy or underlying framework to guide development?

4) Is your application going to be used on mobile?

The answer to 1 dictates how you should approach things like animating elements. Much of the time, the animation is really just a visual flourish, and can be handled with graceful degredation through CSS. Plus you can learn a few tricks using just CSS that don't trigger unnecessary redraws that might happen using JS.

The answer to 2 dictates whether or not you should adopt an existing framework or library vs. rolling your own. Libraries have gotten better about making themselves available piecemeal, but if you know how to write quick code, you'll often find almost everything is not quite what you absolutely need. See Canvas game dev.

Question 3 will determine what sort of framework you'll want. Something that is extendable and object-oriented, vs. something that has more self-contained reusable components. The drawback of the former is that classing in JS brings in a considerable performance hit, whereas reusable components make for much more unmaintainable code.

Question 4 will play a roll in all the aforementioned questions, namely where matters of performance and DOM redraws are concerned, as that's where mobile tends to fall flat when it comes to web apps.
Seems like the other way around to me - if roads are made for bicycles then there is no reason to invest in infrastructure like dedicated bike-paths, bike-lanes or even wider shoulders.
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> Yet on TV you see many many more ads for the local hospital or medication for condition X that you see for tyres. How come?

Tires are a simple, well-known product, whereas medicine is not. Drug discovery happens to be a billion dollar process that often results in failure. All of the low-hanging fruit have been taken, and the remaining solutions all require intense research. Though a compound or antibody or whatever might be cheap to replicate once elucidated, you still have to pay the price for the process.

Marketing then directs dollars to product. Drugs often target a very specific healthcare niche, which requires massive education campaigns. Everybody knows that they need tires. Not everybody knows about the existence of a novel drug that solves a medical problem that only a subset of the population encounters.
In my view, HTTP/2.0 should kill Cookies as a concept,
and replace it with a session/identity facility, which makes
it easier to do things right with HTTP/2.0 than with HTTP/1.1.

count me in. Cookies are a huge waste of bandwidth and freaking annoying here in Europe as you cannot visit a site anymore without being warned you are about to receive yet even more cookies.
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Upcoming meetups for hackers in Germany.
This is the kind of wording the medical industry has set. The reasoning goes like this: clear prices => competition => iron law of wages for specialised professionals => corners being cut.

Crony capitalism only believes in competition for others. Competition in their own sector suddenly brings doom and the Iron Law of Wages.

The US is one of the countries with the highest expenditure per capita in healthcare and the results simply don't match that. See the graph here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhixon/2012/03/01/why-are-u-s...
Count you in on the openness alone? Who are you, RMS? There's already an extremely open OS out there. In fact Firefox OS is based off of it. You can download the source code, build it yourself, and submit patches. You can even change the default app store. It comes with a rich app ecosystem and a beautifully designed and responsive UI. The latter two are what people in the real world care about when choosing a smartphone.
I agree that 25mph is unreasonable for the average cyclist, but to be fair, aren't the Tour de France speeds averaged over a much greater distance?
25 mph up a hill is fast, but the tour de France is a silly comparison, they sustain those speeds for 4 hours at a time, commuters aren't going to do that. Commuters also rarely face anything resembling the climbs in the tour.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Given what's come out about the NSA, it's much more plausible to assume that Google is cooperating with them.
We're focussing on the scientific-computation languages since those users are probably doing the most plotting on the day-to-day and are in most need of a better data collaboration tool. That being said, we'll add interfaces to other languages over time. Do you do a lot of plotting in Perl?
Why not increase RAM x5?
It obey's HTTP caching controls. Checkout the end of the docs: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/saver
"Fuck the police", in addition to being a famous quote[1], is a well-reasoned and long considered personal policy.

It's about as far from an emotional outburst as one can get.

[1] http://youtu.be/1M8vei3L0L8
One thing to keep in mind is that there's more to good medical care than a fair price:

Post-op infection rate - do all clinical employees regularly wash their hands before and after each patient encounter?

Re-admission rate - does the institution or surgeon do enough cases of a particular procedure to be proficient?

Error Rate - Are pre-op checklists ALWAYS used?

Post-op care - Are supportive therapies like Physiotherapy available?

It bugs me to see medical interventions treated like a commodity, these "products" don't always follow generally accepted market principles - a price cut in colonoscopies will not significantly increase demand.
This is probably true, but this story just proves that Hailo responded more quickly to the situation. Allowing machines to dictate pricing in a situation like this and not immediately offer refunds and an apology will only serve to alienate your customer base from your brand. Uber won't make that mistake twice I'm sure. Halio now has customers for life
This could use a retitle. For me, denormalize has a very specific meaning -- take multiple DB tables and collapse them.

This article is describing something very different. and a good read.
Yes, it would be helpful both for the customers (users, that is) and themselves too, as the potential number of users (and usages!) will grow.
So, you're in favor of lowering the speed limit to like 15 mph?
Totally superficial but why do I have to type http every time? Why can't it be h and hs (for https). Quicker to type.
You'll need to ask your favorite philosopher for that. If you end up getting a good answer for it you could acquire fame throughout the world, I would imagine.
I posted a more in depth response in this thread, but the short of it is this.

1. I'd tried finding new people to help with the increased workload of new customers. Everyone I found failed, causing me months of setbacks while I did 2x the workload, and then tried to train a new person on the stack.

2. I've been funding this completely out of my own pocket. No VC money, or even buddy money. After the most recent co-founder being arrested, I had to make a decision. Either my customers suffer, or my family suffers. Since I was unwilling to have either of those out comes, the only logical (yet painful) solution was to have a company with the proper resources and expertise take over.
> Cookies are...freaking annoying here in Europe as you cannot visit a site anymore without being warned you are about to receive yet even more cookies.

Seems like the blame for that lies not with cookies themselves, but with the EU's cookie law.
Oh, it's actually the case that the roots change smoothly as you smoothly change coefficients, as long as you avoid hitting double roots -- this is an exercise in using the implicit function theorem. It's just as you say: the "delta" from the definition of continuity may be much, much smaller in general then the "epsilon".

Another thing that might be going on here is that while the roots vary continuously as function of coefficients, the continuity is probably not uniform. There's a whole notion of uniform continuity, which basically says in this case that, regardless of the starting point, if you change coefficients by some delta, the roots won't move further then some global constant time delta. In general, depending on the starting point, when you change the coefficients by delta, the roots may move by 10delta or 100000delta, but uniform continuity would say that this is not the case.
What part of "ignoring the off by one error" in the parent don't you get ? Edit: Sorry, unnecessarily snarky, and I could have made my (now uneditable) post clearer by saying ">=250" rather than ">250".
So are they inadvertently showing that they only need x-ray machines and metal detectors and don't have to feel us up anymore?
Why the world needs Haskell
Ah—my misunderstanding/miscommunication. In Alaska, for example, it wouldn't be against the law to normally carry a firearm, and thus it would be entirely believable that someone left a firearm in their backpack. In California, it wouldn't be: if the guy doesn't have a concealed handgun license, he wasn't able to legally carry the gun outside of his house, much less into the airport. The "I got careless" argument makes way less sense.
I'm not sure how closely you actually read his post because he doesn't say anything you attribute to him about software written for VMs being stupid--in fact he explicitly states that it makes a lot of sense in desktop environments because it improves programmer productivity. He's got a heading, in all caps, saying "GC ON MOBILE IS NOT THE SAME ANIMAL AS GC ON THE DESKTOP", and he quotes, while indicating agreement with, guys like Herb Sutter and Miguel de Icaza explicitly stating that managed languages make tradeoffs for developer productivity. Which they do, and those tradeoffs don't really work on mobile (and won't until we see significantly improved memory density, among other things).

Disagree with him if you want to--I'd like to, because I like the JVM and the CLR, but he has the weight of evidence on his side--but can we not make stuff up?
Because machines aren't perfect either. Airports already have those transmitters and can autoland, but pilots always have to be ready to take over, and sometimes have to. There are just too many things that can go wrong technically to not have trained, proficient pilots in the cockpit.
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Lasik and Cosmetic surgeries are minimally invasive elective procedures that can be researched months ahead of time, it doesn't make much sense to compare them to major surgeries or even severe infections.
... and it's here and delicious.
Aside: in some circumstances, JIT can be faster than compiled, by recompiling based on run-time usage, and so choosing optimizations appropriate to execution flow.
Yeah, that's a great idea. We'll definitely check that out.
Medicare and Medicaid pay less than the private insurers (usually), and far less than the (wholly insane) charges to the uninsured. Generally the government pays a standardized cost plus some set profit margin, which is usually less profitable per procudure

It's very easy to do the accounting to make the government look very efficient and reasonable, or look like it requires a bankruptcy-inducing level of loss, depending on your politics and the field of medicine.

What I _think_ this statement is really inferring is that they refuse to take medicare/aid and pay the government's lower rates, and thus raised their margins and bottom line, allowing for better care.

This is a pretty standard conservative view of health care provisioning, and I'm surprised that it was allowed into a news story. The whole piece here reeks of being a politically slanted press release, which is embarrassing since it's actually an interesting story, and an editor could've just changed a few sentences to keep a more neutral POV.
All the applicants get interviewed. Hard to believe the facilitators wouldn't say, "So hey, you quit programming for five years. What's up?" Also, I know that they're not necessarily looking for work experience--if someone loved programming but waited tables for five years, they'd still probably have some personal projects for fun they'd have worked on. If not, they probably wouldn't be a good fit for Hacker School anyway.

Plus, and I'm only going on my own experience and observations, the mentally-deranged fit right in at Hacker School.
The uninsured rate in Germany is so low (.2%) that it seems like most of the time that's not even a big deal. But it's generally billed to the patient from what I understand.

See:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany

* http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9196396...
Jira, Skype, Github, Jenkins are a few examples of tools that help bosses (smart ones at least) have direct visibility into your work & productivity. With these I can see exactly when/what/who/why my team is working on better than if they where right next to me.
Car drivers routinely ignore certain rules too: speed limits, full stops at stop signs, etc. They do this because doing so is mostly safe. It's the same with bicyclists: the rules they ignore are mostly safe too. The confusion is that, because cars and bikes are different, the rules that are safe to bend are different in each case.
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The morph happened, but it's got nothing to do with media format. It has to do with source and accuracy.

The big change is that we don't get our science from OMNI, our glimpses of new cars from popular mechanics or our poll forecasting from CNN. We get specific stories from subject matter experts who can communicate without oversimplifying into nonsense and who have a true need to deliver truth above advertising or team-affiliation concerns.

(As if they deliver nonsense, or are transparently-in-the-bag for a monied interest, they'll be quickly sidelined and ignored.)
Who gets to say when demand based pricing is gouging?

On New Year's Eve in NY I don't think there's anything in the world wrong with increasing the price to the maximum that customers are willing to pay.

The flood is different but I'm not sure where the line gets drawn? Uber already has rates that range from similar (for very specific trips) to drastically more expensive than taxi rates.

Something else not mentioned: incentivizing additional drivers to go out and work during a flood / the aftermath.
I hear this complaint often, but it's rather short-sighted. The majority of medical procedures are not 'critical' operations, as in dealing with unexpected and urgent medical conditions (car accident injury, broken bones, gunshot wounds). Most are scheduled operations planned days, or weeks in advance. These operations are the ones being targeted for shopping around for the best price. The unexpected, extreme injuries are why people need to have a high-deductible insurance policy, to cover such cases.
True but on the other side most commuters aren't going for speed, or using great bikes, or proper shoes so I think the expectation would be that the tour de france winner would still average a much faster time than a commuter.
I agree completely! However, in our particular instance, our customers are mostly developers themselves. Most developers are fully capable (and even prefer) to manage migrations themselves. Due to some features (pub/sub) that don't translate well with migrations on Redis, we wanted people to have the option. Which is why we are also migrating anyone who asks.
There would definitely be some pains going from huge monitors to a small tablet. The bigger side of our plan was that it wouldn't just be possible to develop from a tablet, but really, from anywhere. Develop iPhone apps on your Windows box, or Chromebook, for example.

I think that in the future it might be possible that developing on a tablet might just mean hooking your tablet or other sub $300 device up to two 24+ inch monitors. Think developing iPhone apps from a $25 Raspberry Pi, thanks to the cloud :-)
Related: http://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/costs_and_financi...
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Health care in Germany is socialized. Some small items are left to the patient but for the most part nothing is paid out of pocket.
If you're looking for some more information, you can see the pricing on their website here: http://www.surgerycenterok.com/pricing/

Reason also did a story and short video on the Surgery Center of Oklahoma last year that I think is worth watching:

http://reason.com/reasontv/2012/11/15/the-obamacare-revolt-o...

The center was started by Dr. Keith Smith, who is very much a free-market guy. Even if you don't agree with a lot of his libertarian stuff, you have to admit that he's very well read and knowledgeable of economics, especially for a physician. He runs an active blog at: http://surgerycenterofoklahoma.tumblr.com/