skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of reasons for competition to not exist in capitalist systems other than force. Things like high cost barriers to entry, monopolistic practices, or oligarchic systems all can lead to situations where competition will not bring down prices.

Most of the first world believes that health care is also a proper government function, because you disagree doesn't mean that the justice system is not an industry. Lots and lots of profit driven companies exist purely based on the justice system, just like lots and lots of profit driven companies exist to provide health care.

We've tried to have private emergency service providers. For most of the history of our continent basic services like fire fighting, property security & education were provided as free market enterprise. Early 19th century New York city has lots of examples of how very very bad the results from those practices can be.

As far as your empirical evidence for free market health services, I'd love to see it. By nearly every standard I've seen the best health care in the world is provided by governmental, or quasi-governmental heavily regulated single payer systems.

The fact that the US medical system is bad is neither an indictment of free market libertarian principles, nor leftist socialist ones, because the system we have currently is a mix of the worst aspects of all possible options. Like most other things, partisan rhetoric is neither correct nor helpful in sussing out the proper solution to complex problems.
My company set it up this way, at my request. I enjoy RStudio over using R over ssh (in a CLI).

The advantage of using it in a browser: it's not on my local machine! So if I run some godawful super-intensive script, my machine doesn't slow to a crawl. Also, I work with client sensitive data and we try not to hold any on our local laptops. It's really a nice solution. Now if only they supported multiple monitors...
Yeah, internet connectivity definitely complicates the embedded system project. A plotly-serial bridge (@RaphiePS) is a good idea to remove some of the pain in the data-vis workflow of embedded systems.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback and definitely get in touch if you think of other ways plotly could interface with projects that your working on! chris[at]plot.ly
Justify rulings of the FISA court
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but that doesn't seem super innovative. others in government have used akamai as origin servers--TSA then DHS did this in 06 and got rid of a bunch of servers.
It is vastly different from country to country. Check your country's laws first! check sites like http://www.longecity.org/forum/ or reddit's /r/nootropics for reliable suppliers.
You are acting as if there is some positive value here.

There's isn't. It's a completely unnecessary word.

Argue about self filtering for things that are actually meaningful.
wow, pretty terrible.
As the original author of those 7 performance tips, I suggest you ignore them. :)
Spending 10 minutes with the DevTools timeline (or network waterfall) will give you way better insight on your perf issues than following these microptimizations.
Snowden never claimed to be an idealistic saint. He's only human.

I agree, but I think a lot of people (a lot of HN's contributers included) are nonetheless beatifying him, and also taking the logical leap from "this country is willing to provide refuge for Edward Snowden" to "this country has a better stance on privacy issues than the United States."

Besides, if this whole ordeal can even partially force the US to return to being the shining beacon of human rights it pretends to be, it'll be harder for countries like Venezuela to point to them and say "see? Look they're doing it too."

I agree that I hope this entire thing puts pressure on the US, but I think comparing the situation in the US and the situation in Venezuela is difficult. The level of overt corruption in Venezuela (and Mexico, and many other countries, both those allied with the US and not) is still impossible to comprehend in the US.
He's not facing the same treatment as Bradley Manning initially received, unless he has some military background none of us are aware of.
No it doesn't. I thought it meant that someone got reprimanded or criticized because he made a website. Or perhaps paid poorly.

The actual meaning used here never even occurred to me.
DC seems to be one of the worst cities for this. I suspect it's the general demographic in many of the areas (lots of students, recent ex-students, interns, short-term residents with minimal social circles) coupled with miserable weather.

I haven't seen it be as great a problem in SF or Manhattan, but that could be due to the relative distance of universities from the "interesting" parts of these cities. Berkeley does have this problem near Cal but that's to be expected.
All these rulings should be public. The judge should have to sign their name to each one. The court should be an adversarial court like every other.
It is completely arbitrary in the US too. Most parents will berate their children for getting a B- or C in grade school, even if that translates into 77 - 82% of some complicated problems done correctly. There were some courses I had in college where showing up and doing the homework guaranteed a 90% and the last 10% was just test grades. They might have been low 100 level courses, but someone gaming the college system can get a 4.0 GPA taking all low level courses except the bare minimums to get their choice degree, have less knowledge than someone with a 3.5, but get hired easier because the GPA is high.
I'm glad I don't live in your world.

It sounds horrible.
Am waiting for the day when it shows up!
If you are UK based, send me an email and I'll give you a link. Otherwise check out http://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/wiki/faq#wiki_where_is_a_...
be sure to read up on it first.
we paid the cafe 10x what the coffee/laptoppers did

There's probably some price where the cafe would force people to move, but you haven't spent enough yet. I can't tell if you're mad at the cafe for not honoring you for spending money, or if you're mad at the people with laptops for existing.
Ask HN: Found a new job, bad fit
Found a new job, but I don't think I'm the greatest fit. I think the blame can go both ways, but I should have been more diligent. What is the best course of action in terms of seeking a new gig (it's been less than three months)? How can I represent this, is there any way for this not to look bad? I'm awfully embarrassed by the whole situation.
Try thinking more than one step at a time.

What will be the very next thing that happens if you actually succeed in doing this?
That's exactly what I have been talking about and I was voted down to hell for claiming that out loud.
too soon.
e^(-x) right? Concave up(positive), negative deriavative.
The article uses "hobo," which is perhaps less offensive :)

I tend to camp out, or "squat," at coffee shops early in the mornings when they have very few customers anyways (true here at least, not in the states of course with more of a morning coffee shop culture). It's never really a problem because I'm gone before it gets busy, but I can see why there would be resentment.

Basically, if you are going to squat, don't go when its busy. Sometimes at night, for example, SBUX might be actually busy, but usually due to other squatters, so no guilt there.
For that matter, the U.S. even allows the Venezuelan-owned oil company Citgo to operate gas stations in the U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citgo

Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo) is a United States–incorporated, Venezuela-owned refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of Venezuela.
Yes.

"He originally worried his decision would kill business, but he found his revenue went up about 30%."
-TFA
> But I just don't see how a nation can withstand US power in the long run without dirty tactics or becoming some outpost of another superpower.

Robespierre also defended the Reign of Terror as being required to defeat the enemies of the Revolution.

And either way, you can see in Egypt the reaction that occurs when people perceive the U.S. to be backing whoever is in power. So at least in nations that are already predisposed to oppose the U.S. it doesn't seem like there's really that much to fear of U.S. involvement.

Maduro got elected, after all. So did Morsi before him, and Correa before him. If the U.S. is really omnipotent then they are a piss-poor excuse for an omnipotent superpower.
Those are all important things...and they should be publish on the internet as well. The only way to bring prices in healthcare down is to allow the customers to be able to compare price and quality. When my wife was pregnant our number one priorty was to find a doctor with a low C-section rate and I was incredibly frustrated to find no public means of finding this out. If patients are given the tools to research price an quality, I believe it will have a huge impact on the healthcare system.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6013520
It certainly does not look like plane failure.
They have adopted the idea of the "third place" for years. This is why you find comfy chairs, fireplaces, tables, etc.

Yes, it is a capitalist mechanism to justify $4-5 cups of coffee.

http://www.starbucks.com/about-us/our-heritage
Hey, don't ignore those security updates
> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience:

Google asked me for my grades when I was fresh out of school; after that, they never have.
Most likely due to stress
Can't read it on the iPhone, content doesn't fit the screen width regardless of the orientation.

http://s13.postimg.org/78ntat2fr/image.jpg

http://s12.postimg.org/3k9u1a2l9/image.jpg
When I'm in the states, I bring a jacket in the summer to starbucks.

I actually had a problem with certain starbucks in Beijing that don't have adequate heating in the winter...my feet are just hurting after 30 or so minutes. I've mapped out all the stores with decent AC and heat now, though I switch stores seasonally.
The same can/should be said for "unpublished opinions"[1] of any court. I do not understand how in a common law system a judge can make a ruling and say "I don't want to be held accountable for this rash decision I just filed. Let's mark it unpublished and make sure it never has to undergo much scrutiny."

[1] This is a different unpublished than FISC decisions. Instead of "unpublished" read as "non-precedential opinions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-publication_of_legal_opinio...
I am skeptical. Seems more in the implementation of the CMS. Not a fan of percussion, but I have seen drupal implementations that tied content to presentation also take an stunningly long amount of time for a navigation change. Bad design. Bad implementation.
"For advertisers this is a non-starter, because it prevents you from knowing the size of your audience. All sites would immediately begin requiring some form of "login" in your scenario in order to enable tracking again."

If this is really a non-starter for advertisers, then mandating it will effectively ban advertising, non?

Remember: your business model is not sacrosanct! Disruption!
The great thing is, health care has been such a study in what can go wrong with free-market capitalism that it's nice to see a counter-example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

Was just reading about this the other night... During Britain's worst nuclear accident, reactor manager Tom Tuohy climbed on top of the burning reactor to examine it several times during the incident.

"Tom Tuohy then ordered everyone out of the reactor building except himself and the Fire Chief in order to shut off all cooling and ventilating air entering the reactor. Tuohy then climbed up several times and reported watching the flames leaping from the discharge face slowly dying away."

He lived to the age of 90...
Every time I come across these projects I think an easy to use web fronted for Docker would be amazingly useful.

Anyone could install it once and from then you just switch Docker containers in and out to try different projects, etc... and don't have to do the bulk of the server preparation that 99% of people don't know how to do properly or just can't bother with.

It will bring this amazing wealth of self-hosted projects to the every day user.

If it becomes popular projects will start providing Docker containers.

A registry can also be made so that you can search and install them without hassle right from the UI.

Or the command line, "docker-get install tree.io"

Take my idea and run with it! Run!
> While this might be useful ammunition for the US administration to smear Snowden by association

The U.S. won't even have to hardly mention all this. All they need to say is that Snowden fled to Hugo Chavez's native land, on purpose, and public opinion will be sealed in the U.S.
Which shareholders are you referring to?
Where? In what country are you in?
Just curious, for what reasons would you like to run it on your own infrastructure (computational reasons, data privacy reasons, etc)? Thanks for the feedback!
Yes, and there is this notion of control points which allow you to extract sets of nodes in graphs as hierarchies. For instance this research:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...

I would argue that well designed organisations or networks should have enough connections to route around/detect minor damage/corruption and quickly isolate the problem. For instance small world networks have this property http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network .

Not all nodes in flat human networks are likely to be equal in information flow, but a plurality of high degree nodes does somewhat mitigate cascading failure due to disconnection but may increase cascading failure due to interconnection such as viruses.
> He left to escape a lifetime in prison.

Like, Obama could just order the jury to convict him and order the judge to sentence him to prison? Neat system, that.
But it can tell me if the problem with typical data is with the constant, or with n. It may be that the O(log(n)) algorithm will be slower for typical input.

But yeah, I wouldn't be insistent about that on a job interview.
That happened to me before I went into business for myself. I ignored it (at my peril). A year later, a lot of stress and tension came to a head, and I ended up leaving on bad terms. HR offered me severance because of how poorly treated I was by my direct supervisor.

Looking back, I should have sought a new job and told my new prospective employers what I learned from the situation.

Fortunately, the whole thing changed my life and I became a successful entrepreneur because of it.

You never know what life has in store. Just keep moving forward on the journey.
The obvious answer (to me) is for libraries to sell coffee.
I think consulting.
If you use Chrome 28 then packaged apps are still not listed or searchable on Chrome Web Store. I don't think there were many changes since Chrome 27 in this field (especially on Linux).
The raw notifications themselves are already in the latest Safari, though you're right, the "rich" ones will never ever be.
Indeed, the Roman Republic turned into an Empire as it gained more territory, and having a representative system with most people being non-citizens became an untenable contradiction.
To me it's uncomfortable how much Google's tactics with Chrome resemble Microsoft's "embrace and extend" from the late 90s.

I'm pretty sure Emacs came up with this idea: "embrace and extend" TECO.

They seem to want everyone to make Chrome apps, not web apps. If that happens, ultimately we all suffer from the loss of an open web.

Stallman seemed to want everyone to make Emacs apps, not TECO macros. If that happens, ultimately we all suffer from the loss of an open TECO community. (How is a Chrome/Chromium App different from a Gtk3 app or a Tk app? Those aren't open standards. They're just libraries the authors wanted to write and to share with the world. Not everything needs to be a standards process, sometimes you just do something and see if anyone likes it.)

More seriously, there are quite a few differences between adding a feature to an open-source project and adding a feature to a web browser shipped as an inseparable component of the operating system installed on 99% of personal computers. As a thought experiment, imagine you want to use some dongle you just bought. There is a driver that comes with Windows, but you use Linux. Do you think you'll be using your dongle anytime soon? Probably not. But imagine the driver comes with FreeBSD instead. While you probably can't use the driver code verbatim (different APIs), you can probably port it in significantly less time than it would take to reverse engineer. So while FreeBSD may have bypassed the standards process for supporting that dongle, it still works for you with very little effort.

I think if you're going to get outraged, it should be about how much memory Chrome uses, not that websites can now have prettier notifications when running under Chrome.
Never understood why lecturers/professors take so much offense. Well if people are throwing paper air planes in the air you should be convinced that either everyone in the class is totally disinterested in math(which is impossible) or something is wrong in the way you teach.
Crass.

On a serious note, it's not likely more/better reflective clothing would have helped. It sounds like the driver was deliberately and abruptly deviating from the normal lane to bypass traffic. It was not a decision made with the safety of others in mind.
Chrome is tightly integrated with Google services and has a default search engine of Google. This seems plenty of, if not more, incentive.
I'm not really interested in whether the FISC is constitutional or not. My objection is that you appeared to discount the popular outrage over the FISC. This is actually one of the reasons I didn't go to law school, I'm much more concerned with whether something is good, sound policy than whether it is technically constitutional or not. Just as "legal" and "moral" or "right" are different beasts, so too are "constitutional" and "smart" or "justified".

edit: didn't realize you were the GP :)
I can read it just fine on an iphone. it looks good.
You mean the United Theocracies of America?

You think any other English-speaking populace gasps in shock whenever someone dares utter the word "shit"?
This is an interesting post. jQuery was fixed to use 13ms as the minimum animation interval a some time ago. This seems like a legit Crome bug to file as the interval should be more deterministic. Chrome shouldn't take a 1ms tick unless it really needs it.

I wonder how much javascript code uses setTimeout(x,0) to push code to the end of the run loop.
thanks very much for posting this, I appreciate learning about useful resources.
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Sounds like a great opportunity for someone to create a new coffee shop chain specifically centered around the idea of seating people with laptops for a long time. Actually I'm not sure why this hasn't happened yet.
>>after that, they never have.

How many times did you quit and rejoin Google?
From the cafe's perspective, it sounds like everything worked perfectly. Even though you couldn't get the seat you wanted, you still had brunch there. And the people working on laptops bought something there; if they couldn't use their laptops, they probably wouldn't have bought anything at all. That, I suppose, is the advantage of being the only convenient place that serves both cucumber and capers with their lox bagel.
Same with Scala - http://eranation.roughdraft.io/5962848
It's the rude people taking up the good seats. You can say I'm overreacting if you want, but it's really not a complicated story.
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Their history with Drupal is a key part of their value story in DC, where Drupal is cutting edge--it is rapidly replacing expensive proprietary CMS solutions for many federal agencies and nonprofits.

Although it might be hard to believe here on HN, saying something is "reminiscent of Bay Area start-ups" means jack squat to the folks in DC who spend a lot of money on web projects.
> I wonder how much javascript code uses setTimeout(x,0) to push code to the end of the run loop.

Probably heaps, but why would that cause the system-wide timer to run more frequently? Even if it does need to it should only be temporary.
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"I love playing the tumpet, but I grabbed a violin and it sounded like a cat dying. Enough said."
If I were to guess, I'd say operation based synchronisation is based on syncing user actions and then executing them on the other side to catch up. E.g., user deleted record 23. User added a record with this data. User changed this field to be this new value.
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I thought that this list was pretty great. I don't write much js, but http://adamschwartz.co/log/ looks awesome.
This seems to be something that the staff should resolve. Write an email to the owner/manager with your concerns. In the absence of a person's ability to determine appropriate behavior, it's the duty of the establishment to do so.

They may tell you that those people consistently buy enough to justify their discount-Regus space and they may tell you that those nerdlings are holding tables for the groups of coworkers who rotate in on an hourly basis.

They may also have no idea that it's causing a problem because they see acceptable revenues.

Be more aggressive in asserting change and you'll feel a lot better. Just asking the staff or the shift manager will let you know if it's an easy problem to solve or if you should probably find a different place to hang out.

Coffee shops have become workplace annexes since at least the mid-1990s. I like to take meetings in them because the risk of being overheard regarding internal politics is reduced, it gets interviewees a chance to refresh while you get to know them, and frankly, we all need the walk sometimes. A cup of coffee is also a good unit of time. You may need to wait five minutes for it to cool to a drinkable temperature (I'm a quaffer), you'll take sips from time to time, and you'll eventually finish and have an understanding that something is at an end and a change should be made. In this case, it's throwing away your trash and de-assing the place. :-)

(And if someone has the iron butt to sit in those chairs in your photo for 4+ hours, the muscle and nerve soreness should be motivation enough to go someplace else.)
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As with most professional dealings, being honest and upfront is the best way to handle it. Hopefully your employer appreciates that. If they don't, then they are definitely not a good fit for you.
I don't think you can bundle medical sciences and something like math/physics/engineering. To be a good doctor you need a good amount of analytical skills and intuition built on experience. But the most important of all is really, you need to have a lot of memory storing capacity.

Bulk of medicine is how much you can remember. There is nothing like, let me work this out on a paper or fire up a REPL, in fact in their case- Something like putting a patient on pause while you refer a book is totally unacceptable. So remembering stuff all around.

I realized this pretty early and decided not to be a doctor. I just can't imagine my self memorizing things at such detail.
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