skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In one of the court’s most important decisions, the judges have expanded the use in terrorism cases of a legal principle known as the “special needs” doctrine and carved out an exception to the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of a warrant for searches and seizures, the officials said.

This is political kabuki designed to make us think we have a representative government. We don't. We have an oligarchy composed of financial/industrial/military interests (as all oligarchies are) that runs the intelligence agencies of the government it owns.

The fact of the matter is that the NSA has always considered itself exempt from the law and the Constitution:

> "NSA does not have a statutory charter; its operational responsibilities are set forth exclusively in executive directives first issued in the 1950s. One of the questions which the Senate asked the Committee to consider was the "need for specific legislative authority to govern the operations of...the National Security Agency."

> According to NSA's General Counsel, no existing statutes control, limit, or define the signals intelligence activities of NSA. Further, the General Counsel asserts that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to NSA's interception of Americans' international communications for foreign intelligence purposes."

> http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book3/pdf/C...
> It's pretty heavily tied to Win32 and COM.

Ah, I did not know that. So, is WinRT a peer to Win32/Win64, or is it built atop Win32/Win64? I have heard that COM is bread and butter to the way Microsoft teams compose their systems, I should have known they would have based it on that. Maintaining the legacy through COM seems to encourage coupling in the design that would make it impossible to change out the OS underpinnings.

> I'd say NT especially is mostly on the right track in terms of being a modern kernel.

In the abstract, yes, NT is a vision of pure loveliness. NT 3.5 was super exciting when it came out, such a rock solid business OS (at the time)! Not sure what we got now in the concrete sense though - it's a real hodgepodge, new and old. I sense all the wise greybeards who could provide the vision have long since moved on.

I'm not suggesting Unix-like is a panacea, but it's on a better path than Windows as far as file systems go. There are surely optimizations and streamlining that a new design could showcase to blow away Unix/Linux/BSD. A new design from Microsoft would be refreshing, mainly because they have the cash and power to do it right and still offer their all-important backwards compatibility.
By "almost no one" you mean "probably most people, but some people who make lots of money from the current system are using part of that money to bribe politicians not to fix it, and we live under a government where that is tolerated."
If you think Twitter is bad, you clearly have never used Instagram.
This would also be cool if instead of search terms you could see stock prices.
They should show that as the pre-flight video.
Most of the West has free healthcare - and it works pretty darn well, considering. I would imagine many people are still shocked that healthcare is not free in the US. This is yet another reminder of how lucky we are ... those of us who are covered by free health (eg. in Commonwealth countries).
That's crazy-interesting and seems like a very good rule of thumb. I've been using Python for a very long time and had never heard this. Why is it not in the PEP?!
> If I read a story and cry for some character in it, that's not subconscious.

Isn't it? If you know the story is fiction, you know that the character is not real and that there is no reason to cry. But yet, you cry.

Either your conscious mind contradicts itself or something other than your conscious mind must be at work.
In Haskell you can use do blocks like:

Monads in Haskell were exactly the example I had in mind when I wrote my previous post. As you say, you can use ‘do’ notation in simple cases, but it’s just syntactic sugar and the unsugared version quickly becomes unwieldy if you need more flexibility.

Edit: A good case study is the not-quicksort quicksort that gets used all over the place as a demonstration of Haskell’s elegance. Something closer to a real quicksort is rather less tidy: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction/Direct_Trans...

The big difficult in going from imperative to functional languages is thinking about data structures as immutable.

That’s certainly one of the big jumps, but I don’t think it’s the whole story. You can do a lot with purely functional data structures, given a bit of time to get your head around them, but sometimes you might still have good reasons to work with mutable data instead. That can be very clumsy when shoehorned into a primarily functional programming language.

I’m hoping that one of the next big steps forward in programming language design will be providing much better control of externally observable behaviour, but without forcing a purely functional style or requiring prohibitive amounts of boilerplate code. I’d like to program in a style that is declarative by default and provides powerful tools for working with functions, but also with the ability to break out of that immutable world in controlled ways as easily as writing imperative code and as safely as writing code with a good type system today.
Working with LVDS lines only makes sense...

Heh... forget making sense, you can't even tackle some LVDS systems until you start thinking about your "observer effect" when you try to measure signals, i.e. the impedance of your probes...
I went from Qwerty to Colemak over a year ago and I'd say that my experience is similar to yours. I'm not sure if I type faster now, but I know that my hands no long hurt after long computer sessions. The movement keys in Vim do seem weird, but it's really just muscle memory. After a few days you don't even think about it.
I don't think most people apply conscious thought to the safety of a balcony. Actually that's the issue - people don't control their bad aliefs (like the racism mentioned) because they're not as aware of them as some of us are, and don't work on getting rid of them.
Why is brown particularly bad?
I have seen all of my doctors office swallowed up by hospitals in the last year. In Southwestern Ohio Mercy Health Systems and TriHealth are buying them up. They are following the lead of Christ Hospital who started this years ago at an alarming rate.

As far as my rates go, I did notice almost everything, even items done at the local office, was an outpatient procedure billed by the mother hospital, at least in part. Also something I have noticed in the increase in lab work.

I am a chronic patient, I have a heart implant, feeding tube and an infusion pump that puts baclofen directly in the spinal area.

With co-pays going out of this world under this new system, we have elected to do many things at home that used to be done at the office. Changing out my feeding tube used to cost a few hundred dollars and jumped to over $6000 last fall. My wife now changes it at home. I have my Baclofen pump refilled at home instead of the office by a third party. I elected to send my heart readings over the phone instead of going into the office, except twice a year. Finally, when I make all my appointments within days of each other when possible and make them share lab results. They don't like this but I can't afford all the extra charges out of pocket. Even the monthly b-12 shot had a significant rate increase. Once again, I choose a cheaper route. The local non-affiliated walk-in clinic for the b-12 shot.

It is nice to see this article. It explains alot. At 41 with a form of Parkinson's Plus, the nickle and diming has to stop. I don't know where the $$$ is going to come from.
What proportion of people browsing this thread would you say are here for professional reasons (say, commercial pilots), or personal reasons (say, might know some of the passengers and / or crew)?

My guess: the vast majority of people reading this thread on HN are here for entertainment. Given that, why bitch about someone hawking his wares?

It's not like he crashed a funeral or something.
This guy hits all the design concern bullets I can think of, and he writes well. Listen to him.

Also, get some PCB quotes before you try to jump feet-first into learning high-speed design via rapid prototyping. The cheapest boards I've ever ordered were 2 for $80; the last board I made with even the slightest eye to density/PDS/SI I think was 4 for $500. That was a dinky 2"x2" or 3"x3" 4-layer board too, none of the crazy 24 or 32 layers that laptops have.
Imagination?
I don't get how a cardiac stress test can cost 2000USD. You put someone on a home trainer, let them pedal for 20 minutes, and look at their EKG. It's usually performed by a nurse, and the doctor spends 30 seconds looking at the EKG (the analysis of the EKG is even partially automated).

If there was actual competition on the market, I'm sure a health service provider would find a way to perform the test for 75USD.
Thanks very much for dropping that name. I had looked once before but somehow missed Health One.

I was specifically looking for testosterone and thyroid previously (before starting a new training plan) and they seemed to be off limits with the providers I had located. Awesome to see those listed and a participating lab within 10 miles of my home.
Hmmm - but: military pilots are also known (especially in some cultures) for an over-strong respect for hierarchy, resulting in a willingness to go along with dangerous instructions. Also, at least some military pilots are trained to have a higher risk acceptance than civilian pilots.

Personally, I'd be very happy having an ex-military pilot flying me around; I think the pros definitely outweigh the cons. But do be aware that the cons exist.
Seriously? Not even gonna back up your claim, just gonna troll?
Since GP was not arguing for that nuance I'm gonna call your distinction between homicide and capital-M Murder a legalism.
If you choose to artificially limit your scope of thought, then by all means go ahead. However, any conclusions based upon such thinking will be similarly limited. Personally I find more interest and utility in analyzing the potential interactions of things on a broader scale.

There is some parallel here in conventional computing wisdom: measure twice cut once dictates that, given limited time, you're better off thinking a course of action out before investing effort in creating something requiring an ongoing investment of effort.

Thus, if the scope for this type of invention is environmental quality, why not consider overall energy use and knock-on effects as part of your evaluation?
(didnt read the article, and knee-jerk response):

Via Orkut???
That doesn't stop people from panicking (e.g. "My stuff!") and attempting to break the lock. In the NTSB report, people were arguing with the flight crew over whether or not to leave their luggage during evacuation.

Edit: I'll add that I was in a retail store (employee) that was evacuated by police, due to an armed gunman. People were still worried about the office chair or shredder that they wanted to buy. An officer had to basically get up on a counter, and hold up his gun and badge and say, "Everyone out! Now!"

On the way out some guy was trying to ask me if we would be open later because he (apparently) really wanted to get this office chair he was looking at.
Can someone familiar with the process explain where this lies in the standardization process?

Does "final draft" mean this is the official R7RS-small standard, does it mean this is the final text being sent to the steering committee for endorsement, or does it mean something else entirely?
Https filtering and reporting transparently without a proxy server
One might argue that imagination is in the domain of the subconscious. (I probably would.)
Power rangers dino thunder apparently made some kind of comeback.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AFlLikxM...
I tried to switch to Colemak once, but it was too big of a change. I did, however, successfully switch to an alternative of the Carpalx QWKRFY layout: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?partial_optimization

Instead of 5 swaps, I only do the first three (K/E, J/O, F/T). According to their scoring function, it gets you most of the way there anyways. (Whatever that's worth).

Their rankings of popular layouts might also be of interest: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?popular_alternatives
When your heart betrays your mind.
Yeah, we are!
Chicken Invaders 3 christmas edition
Actually Indonesia, a country clawing its way out of third world status, is in the process of introducing universal health care, [1] so it's not only commonwealth countries. Hopefully, this 'socialised' system can be implemented in such a way as to flourish within the rapidly growing economy to come.

In the UK, after we've charged you nothing in the NHS, we'll give you the bus fare home.

1. http://www.marketplace.org/topics/world/health-care/indonesi...
Can they really detain people and refuse to let people pick up their luggage? It seems pretty clear that it was the pilot's fault, and most likely an accident.
I was visiting the US (from India) a couple of months back. In the hurry to get to the airport, I forgot to get Medical Insurance. Unfortunately, I got pink eyes while I was there.

I haven't found America all that much more expensive than urban India. In fact, compared to cities in India, a few things might even be cheaper. But not medicine. An eye doctor's visit costs $180, for Pink eyes! A comparable facility here would have charged me about $8.

I totally get the different standards of living and associated expenses. But medical treatment stands out so much that I can't imagine how an uninsured person could afford hospitalization or even moderately complex treatment in the US.
So I alieve that my data on the internet is private but I believe the NSA is reading every word.
Exactly!

Holy fark! its simply mind boggling that anyone can be ok with the level of spying we are seeing.

The thing is that they are simply too farking comfortable to see how bad this is.

I farking HATE the fact that there is an easy statement of " 'well, American Idol is on..' " -- and to see that it is true.

The war is on the minds of Man. There is and has been a centuries long war on your ability to discern.
Quantom computers aren't replacing classical ones in the foreseeable future. At best, they will be simmilar to GPUs (and even that is a stretch).
Truthfully -- I respect a company that doesn't even try to offer good customer service much more than one that tries to fake it
By the way, is there an anonymous P2P file sharing system that does not have a central point of failure?

I mean, is this even possible in theory? An attacker would just need to join the cloud and record IP addresses of peers they download from. Then they could sue for copyright infringement or aiding in copyright infringement, even if the P2P network proxies requests between nodes to hide source IPs from the destinations.
I'm not sure how relevant this is to anyone, but this post is as good excuse as any to talk about my transition to Colemak.

In January I moved from Qwerty to Colemak, and also from a staggered to a columnar keyboard layout (on a Kinesis keyboard[1]). My Qwerty speed was only 75 wpm and my accuracy was terrible. Also I couldn't touch type - I never learnt to type properly with Qwerty; I just started typing when I was young and developed lots of bad habits. By the time someone tried to teach me how to type properly my habits were too ingrained to change. (Or maybe I was too stubborn -- I also have a strange way of holding a pen.)

Anyway, I decided to change to Colemak, and to learn to touch type properly. I also liked the idea of a columnar layout so I changed to a Kinesis. What's interesting is that because of the physically different keyboards, I actually cannot type in Qwerty on my Kinesis, and I also cannot type in Colemak on my laptop keyboard. This means I have maintained my Qwerty skills.

My current maximum speed is roughly 70 wpm in Colemak, so I am almost at my Qwerty speed after 6 months, although now I can touch type so it's more useful. When I type with Qwerty now, it feels like my hands are flying all over the place. I also feel like I have a lot of room to get faster than I currently am with Colemak.

So even though I have maintained my Qwerty skills, the only reason I need them is because I can't get a laptop with a columnar keyboard. I may end up just biting the bullet and switching to Colemak on that laptop keyboard anyway, though missing the thumb cluster is killer.

One other interesting thing I learnt is that using Colemak on a smartphone completely sucks. Having commonly used keys on the home row on a small touchscreen means that it's much more error prone, as you're hitting the same area on the screen consecutively.

[1]: http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm
U.S. political campaigns are conducted largely via tax-free contributions. Banning 1/3 of the advertisements and rallies most certainly is rigging an election.
I think this is a difficult case because the central purpose of a fictional story is to permit us to make believe that it is real. When I ask you, "What could you have done differently in that situation?" it's fictional and you're pretending that your decisions are meaningful.

Is that subconscious? I don't think that is. But I'm not sure that that is an alief, either? I'm not solid enough on that definition.

ETA: Apparently we disagree that the imagination is a domain of the subconscious. Eh.
You can get 7.4beta from homebrew if you just give it the --HEAD flag.

So, "brew install vim --HEAD"
Yeah, totally catastrophic. NOT. Get some historical perspective, Fool.

http://mortgage-x.com/general/historical_rates.asp
Prescription: Free Market Competition
I use vanilla vim only when I have to. I admire these guys who can do with vanilla vim. The plugin I cannot do without is NERDTree. That should be integrated into Vim itself.
When you say "learn Flash" I interpret it as "learn how to make animations in Adobe Flash Professional, the product with the timelines and keyframes."

If your bro wants to make fun animated cartoons, I think it's a great way to start. He can also learn little bits of scripting, using ActionScript 3.

The other interpretation of "should I learn Flash" is "should I learn ActionScript 3 & Flash Builder (Eclipse)?" You can use AS3 and Flash Builder to make web apps, along with really intricate animations or video games. This is a tougher question, because many people are moving toward HTML5 nowadays.

However, if he wants to make simple videogames, I still think of AS3 as a good way to learn programming! In syntax, AS3 is very similar to JS. However, AS3 also includes a static/strong type system, which is a nice way to ease into "scarier" languages like Java and C++ and Objective C.

AS3 has a nice method for loading & animate sprites. It also has many 3rd party libraries. AS3/Flash also handles sound effects for game audio pretty well. If he wants to distribute his game to his friends, he usually doesn't have to worry about cross-browser issues. :-)
I believe I just wasn't clear. In my first sentence I was clarifying the discussion - we agree that no concrete at all is best if possible. In my second sentence I was agreeing that it makes sense to consider energy use before rolling out the supposedly greener concrete.
Sure, but in this case the moderators were clearly wrong for closing the the question for being 'too localised':

"It is only relevant to a small geographic area". No, the question is just as relevant in Louisiana, Lithuania and Liberia.

"It is only relevant to a specific moment in time". No, the question is just as relevant now as it was 50 years ago and will be in 50 years.

"It is an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet". No, it an extraordinarily broad mathematical question that clearly has appeal to a very large, worldwide audience.

In western society there are almost always checks on the use of power. A policeman was too violent when making an arrest? He can be reprimanded or fired. Politician accepted a bribe? He could be locked up. Businessmen colluded to keep prices high? They could be fined heavily.

The 'justice' of our system is so pervasive that we take it for granted, which means it can be very frustrating to experience the unjust use of power without possibility of redress. This case is a minor example, but it must feel like a slap in the face to the person who posted this question on Stack Exchange.
It is a weird paradox, isn't it? Almost as if you don't feel as upset (depending on severity) if a dog bites you than if a squirrel did.

Well, dogs just bite; that's what they do. But squirrels pretend to be all cute and vulnerable and then bite you anyway if you get too close. In your head, you'd be "WTF SQUIRREL?! I TRUSTED YOU, YOU CUTE BASTARD! WHY CAN'T YOU ALWAYS SHOW YOUR TRUE COLORS?"

Man, I hate squirrels. I love squirrels too.
I don't think this exists. Using the keyboard layout analyzer [1], it looks like your perceived hand usage might not match up with actual usage. At least for typing out Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Qwerty slightly favors the right hand (52% vs 48%). Colemak is only slightly worse for a lefty (56% vs 44%). Dvorak greatly favors the right hand (65% vs 35%).

[1] http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/
dba7dba: you've been hellbanned and your comments are marked [dead]. I would contact the admins about it, since I can't see why, based on your comment history.
I think most people just don't go to the doctor for pink eye (including me and 3 other people I know that got it in the past year).
1) it would draw attention to their collection activities

2) it would draw attention to their data analysis abilities

3) they don't care if people get high

4) they would prefer to have the leverage against everyone involved for use on an individual basis should they ever need it in the future should the need/mission/assignment arise
NE Ohio is the same way. University Hospitals and Cleveland Clinic own everything. One of the last independant hospitals, Parma Regonal, was purchased by UH this past week.
Why does everyone love that minimap? It takes up space and you get the same result by clicking/dragging the scollbar. My co-worker uses it like a big fat scrollbar.
This is one of the reactions that always comes out on this kind of story. Yes, the department of killer zombies is just doing its job, eating peoples' brains. But I'm starting to think maybe we shouldn't have a department of killer zombies.
I use the standard Dvorak layout. It hasn't been that big a deal for me.

Things have gone something like this:

1) Learn Dvorak at a time when I only used my own machines. Stay that way for ~3 years.

During this time, after my typing speed and error rate had reached QWERTY levels, the occasional use of QWERTY on someone else's PC was highly annoying.

2) Spend 2-3 years in jobs involving near-daily use of machines I couldn't switch off QWERTY, but still did most of my work on Dvorak.

A few weeks into this, I was able to use QWERTY effectively again, still typing faster than most people ever can (though slower and more error-prone than I was with Dvorak).

3) Go back to exclusively using my own machines for ~2 years.

After a while, annoying to use QWERTY, but not nearly as bad as during period #1.

4) Spend ~9 months in similar situation as #2 again.

After a while, same as 2, a few weeks in things were pretty OK.

5) Now (for ~2 years), using only my own machines.

Occasional QWERTY is annoying, but even better than during #3.

I only speak English, but I suspect switching between Dvorak and QWERTY is kind of similar to switching between a language you use a lot and one you use a little. Degree of fluency in the little-used language goes up and down based on how much practice you're getting.
My thought was that belief is rational and alief is emotional.