skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're making a libertarian argument that basically says everyone should have to sing for their supper, irrespective of danger, and that's, frankly, a draconian view of the world.

That's been my big complaint with what I understand to be libertarian ideology. It comes down, in the end, to "f--- you, I already got mine" and a pyramid of people stepping on the throats of those unlucky souls below them. It's like a guy hitting a home run off a tee and thinking he's Babe Ruth.
> What happened to FTP anyway?

It's too hard to set-up for casual file sharing (backup, docs, photos etc.), and it's less efficient and scalable than BitTorrent for wide file distribution (piracy).

Perhaps with HTTP 2.0 and IPv6 looming though, we will see some progress on an FTP 2.0 that resolves the issues you mentioned.
It's hardly "another datapoint" when it's armchair speculation by a tabloid journalist from an infamous scandal rag. Admittedly it's actually not that badly written, but for context his other article published that day features nightmarish visions of San Francisco under 25 feet of water...

The initial conclusions from the US National Transportation Safety Board is that the engines were functioning normally; i.e. a totally different issue while landing. I doubt a Seoul-San Francisco flight in mid-July was likely to have experienced the same unusually cold temperatures that resulted in the BA038 fuel droplets freezing (over Siberia in January) either
The worst is bike lanes painted such that you can only be in them by riding in the door-zone. Fortunately, those seem to be going away.
"Give me all your money AND you die" is also a popular scheme.

I'm glad to see another chip in the the foundation of these business models.
If you sell batteries at 50 usd/pack after an earthquake you aren't going to run out because, at the extreme, that is a high enough price that you can pay a guy to fill up a backpack with batteries and walk them to you, even if that would require him to walk 20 miles and he would have to be hired on a short notice.
Got any tinfoil?

Cliff was found dead on July 1st, the same day that the SF Chronicle ran an article "Interview with NSA expert James Bamford".

A comment on the article suggests - without evidence - that Cliff and James might be brothers.

http://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2013/07/01/interview-with-n...
I like prices before the service, even health. I think the not knowing the price aspect keeps many people from services they need and makes people do services they might not need based on not knowing the price.

To live in a capitalist society and accept a service without knowing the cost is a bit scary and stressful. Yes it is your health and must be paid attention but so is maintenance on your house and vehicles and you'd never agree to some service on your house or vehicle for its health without knowing the price. You want at least an estimate before going through with it with that provider.

Contractors for repairs around the house as an example, they vary in quality and price, it is better to make a smart decision than one that is brash and payment is determined after the fact. Granted health costs are harder to predict and extremely important but the added stress of not knowing the cost I think is actually bad for health.
Great story but

"OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City surgery center is offering a new kind of price transparency, posting guaranteed all-inclusive surgery prices online. The move is revolutionizing medical billing in Oklahoma and around the world."

Around the world? Really?
What is the alternative to cookies? What does he mean by session/identity facility?
Is that a special case for firearms, or do you think the same of pocket knives?
Or Mathematica?
Of course they are commodities, and of course it would increase demand, I don't know why you would suggest otherwise. It might not be like pricing blenders and there are other considerations but there's no reason to think that this wouldn't affect the market positively for buyers. You're ignoring the largest single market which would benefit from public pricing and lowered rates, the uninsured. It doesn't matter to you because you throw your insurance card up there and someone else pays the bill but if someone knew a colonoscopy was $X then they could budget for that and pursue competitive options.

Plus, the things you mentioned have little to nothing to do with pricing. There's plenty of shit hospitals that charge outrageous fees. Just look at Texas. It doesn't take more money to engage in proper sanitation, it takes good management. These are two separate issues entirely.
>Mobile web apps are slow because they're secure, precisely for the reason that they cannot examine or manipulate underlying system memory.

I believe the idea he was getting at was "you need to be able to tell how much memory is available to your (web) application, how much of that memory you've already used, and you need to be able to accurately predict how much memory will be allocated in the course of performing an action, in order to achieve acceptable performance on mobile," not "you need to be able to directly bang the address space." You can certainly have those features in a safe language.
"Serialism, as practiced by the big three, represented in part a rejection of harmonic variation and a renewed focus on counterpoint instead of harmony"

This is true, specially in Webern's compositions. The canonical (pun intended) example is Webern's Symphony op. 21, which is a four voice cannon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKD_tZr-ZpY

Webern was greatly influenced by Renaissance composers such as Heinrich Isaac:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqpXLTJDsWg

On the other hand, Schoenberg and specifically Berg have a more harmonic approach to their compositions as we can see in Berg's violin concerto:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSSHwFEn_8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Concerto_(Berg)
Actually this is usually because of local anti-price gouging laws pushed by ignorant people such as the author of the above piece. You can thank these people for mile-long gas lines, and general shortages all around, because to them MORALITY has nothing to do with the consequences of disrupting supply in an environment of sudden excess demand. Its all about feeling good and punishing people for following market incentives to alleviate shortages.
For archive only. Write-only? Sounds like the reader is still very expensive.
> Wonder how Mr. Lloyd felt when that happened.

Why do you assume this was his policy? There weren't a whole lot of women in engineering at that time. It took a while after WW2 for women to go into science.

Do you have a specific timestamp in mind for the video? Or just in general looking at the launch crew?
On top of all that, Perfect Dark's author is an anonymous figure known as The Chairman.
Interview with a Cyber Warrior
I see, thanks for the feedback. You could do that now by storing the data on your SD card and then dumping that data all at once whenever you want to connect. What kind of example do you have in mind when you say that your device can't "phone home"?
Ever shot a gun? Done so a lot? Licensed to carry concealed? Carry a lot?

I carry on my hip at between 4-5 o'clock, and it is not a small or light gun (4" aluminum frame M1911 + spare magazine on other side), so I don't exactly forget that I'm carrying it, but on the other hand the fact that I'm carrying doesn't register strongly---mostly, it's about keeping my pants on ^_^. I notice that the TSA's Instagram page shows small guns (smaller than mine) with one possible exception, and states all but the derringers were found in carry on bags.

Carrying is something you get accustomed to, and a lot of people get complacent. Massad Ayoob in his safety video talks about it becoming like "Fluffy", your pet dog or whatever.

With 43 states as of today (Illinois) having de jure or de facto shall issue regimes (plus much upstate New York, rural California and Massachusetts (!), and Rhode Island is confused), well more than 2/3rds of the population can legally carry concealed. As of last summer Clayton Cramer and the GAO independently estimated 7.5 and 8 million people have concealed carry licenses. That number is skyrocketing based on all reports, Vermont, Alaska, Arizona, Wyoming and as of this month Arkansas don't even require a license, and Illinois will be adding upwards of 10 million citizens eligible.

Yow, now 8 out of the top 10 states by population, all but California (1) and New York (3), all but 5 out of the top 20.

So, yeah, that many people, I can believe that much forgetfulness. Also, a lot of people forget spare magazines (with or without ammo), which are also in the same category.
المرصد الفلسطيني: حازم الببلاوي رئيسا للوزراء والبرادعي نائبا للرئيس
On Uber's Toronto's website [1], it says "• At times of intense demand, our rates change over time to keep vehicles available. "

It looks Uber is invoking this clause to increase their pricing during a really bad storm over Toronto. If this is true, please, Uber, have some decency and help out the community.

[1] https://www.uber.com/cities/toronto
"Political parties fared worse in the United States, where the 1,000 respondents surveyed gave them a corruption score of 4.1 out of 5".

That seems surprising to me considering there is little 'apparent' corruption exposed to common man in the US versus most 3rd world countries.
Can you call desegregation revolutionary since it was just "doing the right thing?"

In a corrupt market or system, doing the right thing is in and of itself a revolutionary act. Doctors standing up for what's right instead of their pocketbook and pharma reps is a revolutionary act.
Agreed, but the better capitalism makes our society, the more people hate it.
Can you cite this? Because it's certainly legal for pedestrians to use the roads in my state, sidewalk or no.

There's no massive inefficiency, the cars pass the pedestrians, the cyclists, the skateboarders and all the other road users, when safe to do so, just like the law says they should.
Not right now, but in the past i've worked on applications for plotting health-related data, activity of financial markets and created visualizations for bio-engineering researchers. Perl is one of the go-to languages for converting raw data into manager-friendly representations, has many tools for that already, and i'm sure many would be interested in adding another tool to their repertoire.

Frankly, i find myself baffled that you'd think Perl is not a scientific-computation language, given the existence of BioPerl, PDL, GD::Graph and many other widely-used tools that relate to your field.

If you'd agree to putting it on your API page, i'll happily do the needful and make a release to CPAN and port the examples you have there.
If the whole point of the current healthcare system is to embrace a free market, why isn't this SOP already? Why did no one do this previously?
This question is one we're still answering with banks. The exact security model will likely differ slightly by bank, depending on their idiosyncratic wishes and standards. Also, the security model could be broken down in to (a) How do we talk to the banks (b) How is our system secured and (c) How do end-developers talk to our systems.

For the last one, which is what I think you're asking, it seems like our bank partners will settle on (1) a long, random, high-entropy API secret key (like Stripe) or SID/auth token combo (like Twilio) or (2) Both the secret key AND something like OAuth because banks really want multi-factor authorization. But again, nothing is set yet.
What's not useful about that? Experts commenting on their field of expertise don't count for anything, or what?

This specific item has been addressed by people who know this stuff. They didn't indicate it was abnormal. How is that not useful?
I had no idea this app existed, but I wish i knew. I've found linkedin to have very noisy notifications. For my contacts job changes are about 90% of what I'm interested in. However its mixed in with wall posts (all recruiters) network connections etc.

I've had experiences where I didn't find out about a change until over a year later. Its nice to know if a former coworker has moved, or if a contact at a vendor is no longer working at the place.
> No, you don't have to prove a negative.

That's equivalent to saying that a scientific claim doesn't have to be falsifiable. That's not true. A claim has to be falsifiable for a reason.

> If it has not been proven, then it does not exist.

So the Higgs Boson didn't exist six months ago? It wasn't proven, because there wasn't enough evidence for a statistically relevant result until March 2013. So does that mean that prior to March, you would have concluded that the Higgs Boson doesn't exist?

If I had to sum up my problem with your reasoning in one sentence, it would be "belief is scalar, not boolean." Evidence should adjust your belief state somewhere between 0 and 1, but it should almost never be exactly 0 or 1.

> Just as until unicorns are proven to exist, it is correct to state that unicorns do not exist.

That's a variant of the "existence of god" problem. It's a non-falsifiable hypothesis. That doesn't fall within the realm of science, because it's not subject to empirical evidence.

> My opinion is based on the evidence.

I still haven't seen the evidence to support your conclusion.

TDD's claimed benefits are falsifiable. Much like the Higgs Boson prior to March 2013, they have been neither proven nor falsified. But that doesn't mean we can't form a tentative belief based on the weight of the current evidence available.

The weight of the evidence I've seen leans toward indicating some real benefits beyond normal unit testing. It's inconclusive because the studies lack statistical power and procedural consistency, but that doesn't mean we should automatically jump to a hardline decision in either direction (positive or negative). (Again, belief isn't boolean.)
If pilots only hand flew 1% of landings, they wouldn't be sufficiently practised to do a good job. The simulator just can't recreate real world conditions accurately enough to be relied on totally.

Hence, pilots must fly a certain number of manual and auto landings in a quarter to stay legal.
Looks like an interesting halfway house between a text editor and a full-blown CAS like Mathematica (since I have a license, that's what I use as a scratchpad for this kind of thing). It also seems to overlap with Soulver, which is my go-to calculator on iOS.

Cleverly, Calca appears to go a bit further than even MMA by back-filling changed definitions, almost like functional reactive programming. This is neat and something I've wanted to see for a long time.

I'll be buying once I get home to my iPad, but I really want to see the Mac OS version!
3D printing liquid metal could offer a new range of flexible electronics
Pretty much, but the largest factor was simply the sheer difference in scale between the A-bombs and the reactors at Chernobyl. With the A-bombs there was simply simply less fission fragments and other radioactive products to worry about due to there being far less nuclear fuel and surrounding material that could be irradiated and itself made radioactive.
In Calgary, during our recent flooding (which was far worse than yours, not that it matters), we crowdsourced information about which businesses were price gouging (for water, ice, etc) and they were called out very publicly.

The mayor stepped in to say that this kind of opportunism is illegal. Maybe the laws are different in Toronto.
No surprise here, especially after all of the NSA leaks.
Train Derailment and Fire, Lac Mégantic, Quebec
"racetams are not harmful. If you don't believe they work, give them a try for yourself"

I don't just want to downvote your post into invisibility, I even want it to be removed and you should have a temporary ban for this comment. You should feel ashame for promoting drugs like a dealer while you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about.
File bugs and we'll take a look! [1]

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/issues
>>As a pedestrian, you terrify and bully me.

I clearly said I slow down or dismount when I'm near pedestrians. If you still feel terrified or bullied, I think that's a personal problem.

>>As a driver managing turns, you're traveling at a very different speed than the people I'm expecting on the sidewalk which makes turning safely much more difficult.

Bikers who do this deserve absolutely no sympathy. The safe thing to do when biking on sidewalks is to dismount as you arrive at an intersection, even if the pedestrian light is green. Then you cross the intersection as a pedestrian, i.e. by walking.
I generally agree with your sentiment. However, here's something to consider
- medical practices mostly over-charge to avoid insurance fraud. Wait, what?? Yes, here's how it works: if they were to ask you, "what insurance do you have" and then charge you differently (i.e. one insurance pays them better than the other, so they'd charge more), they'd be committing a crime.

So, instead, they charge EVERYONE a crazy amount, and then they get X% of the amount billed from one insurance, Y% from another insurance, etc. Fair? Not really -- if you don't have insurance, you get hit with the FULL amount (since you don't have the negotiating power the insurance company has). So while company X paid $200 for an MRI, you'd pay out of pocket $2500 without insurance.

In reality, what happens? Normally, people without insurance are an underserved population. They send them letters, and they don't pay. At the end of the day, the hospital/private practice just ends up writing this amount off, and they call it a day. It ends up being a silly game where they bill knowing they won't get paid, and then spend more money on trying to collect rather than give more realistic prices.

I, therefore, welcome this transparency.

source: I work for one of the largest and prestigious medical/research institutions in the US, and I used to do Analytics for their financial data warehouse.
>A lot of current professionals started out as 11- and 12-year-olds dodging COPPA to host their first HTML web sites, not CS sophomores.

I would put those 11 and 12 year old down under "motivated independent learner"

If your concern is the a binary HTTP, too bad, it already here, its called HTTPS. It does seem to be holding anyone back.

If your concern is a binary HTML/compiler for it, I don't by that either. I was using a compiler when I was 8 years old and didn't have a problem with it conceptually.
Appengine lock in by design, not a strategy.
That is the standard in the Chicago, IL area as well and coincides from what I've heard of from friends around the states.
It's a good point I suppose. I've never had a need or urge to use a service like Dropbox to keep files in sync though. I prefer just to carry my working copies around, or use Google Docs. Maybe I'm missing out on seamless splendour, I don't know.
US government agency destroys hardware to clear malware
> "As I prepare to move out of my apartment, I received an itemized list (hidden among a contract and various other documentation) "

You yourself have trouble with our fine-print-society and yet you still write off the missteps of others who fall into similarly-shaped potholes as a result of their running on impulse or having weak mathematical logic?
CSS3 Man
There's some discussion in this thread: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep/...

in short,

the need for a Session header to replace the use of Cookies
for basic session management
Dropbox is incredibly easy and convenient to use. It's very simple, and that's what makes it great. It's simple enough for almost anyone to use. I've pointed tech-unsavvy friends and family at Dropbox with great success. It's just a folder on your computer that magically syncs to all your other computers too.

Now, there's nothing in that which justifies having a developer conference. I definitely do not understand that. But the Dropbox service itself deserves the praise it gets.
Well, you might not be comfortable, but you are safe. For all the usual reasons, including of course the plaintiff's bar, all handguns of modern design (and most not so modern) are safe when dropped loaded. It is a bit too easy to drop something you're holding in your hands onto a hard surface....
Glad to see Soulver [1] has some competition.

[1] http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/
Isn't this a recent development, like two months ago?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/hospital-billing-...
I really like their footer section :)

"FREE MARKET-LOVING, PRICE-DISPLAYING, STATE-OF-THE-ART, AAAHC ACCREDITED, DOCTOR OWNED, MULTISPECIALTY SURGICAL FACILITY IN CENTRAL OK."

[Edit]: The footer of the hospital in the article: http://www.surgerycenterok.com/
This looks interesting, but I can't see myself using it on an ipad or phone. This is something I'd want to use on a desktop, with a keyboard, while multitasking with other programs.

Edit: I'll keep it in the back of my head, and I might try it later.
Also Siege (http://www.joedog.org/siege-home/).
Today unions act a deterrent, but at the same time, they sometimes go too far in an effort to justify themselves. At some point they have achieved what they set out to do, and they just need to exist to deter regression, but then people start to question why they exist in the first place, so they feel the need to take actions even if those actions are to the detriment of the businesses that the workers rely on for employment.
> You can even change the default app store. It comes with a rich app ecosystem and a beautifully designed and responsive UI.

Thought you were talking about Firefox OS there!
Oh yes, the regulation was rushed in by people not really sure what to do or what was happening.

Why it couldn't be a browser option, I have no idea.
Well, talk about moving the goal-posts, but you aren't the original poster so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

The right to freedom of movement is not really a right if it does not include by all available means.

For example, to say you have the right to walk from the east coast to the west coast but not the right to drive a car (or ride a train/bus/plane - all arguments that have been made post 9/11) means that you de facto do not have the right to travel from the east coast to the west coast because it is impractical for the vast majority of the population to walk it.

I'm sure there are motor vehicle codes that have adopted the language of privilege rather than right if for no other reason than it makes it easier for them to claim that moral authority later on, but that doesn't make it true in the sense of natural law. Government does not grant people privileges because everything the government does comes from the people to begin with.
> I managed to figure out what it meant with a little background in computer and networks knowledge and no background with IC work.

We still don't know what exactly is going on, or know if direct access really exists, so this is premature.

Secondly, your earlier example of using your web browser to collect directly has nothing to do with the actual slides, which talk about getting special access from the companies, and the document includes a timeline indicating when each company finally signed on to the Prism program.

He said "direct access" and the document says "collection directly from the servers of..".

> He knew what NSA jargon meant; he knew what the slide meant.

The NSA is a huge organization with a budget of tens of billions of dollars and employs tens of thousands of people. Snowden of course does not have complete understanding of everything, nor does Keith Alexander, nor does James Clapper, the DNI who blatantly lied to congress about collecting data on millions of Americans.

Placing any kind of blame on Snowden for directly paraphrasing a NSA document makes absolutely no sense.

Edit: 'paraphase' is far too kind. It's nearly the exact words, with the addition of 'access'. That NSA has special non-public access is something even the companies admit.
A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation