skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks reasonable.

However you'll have to prize my HP 50g calculator out of my cold dead hands before I'll mix mathematics and a touch screen.
The shenanigans the commenter is outlining is probably an attempt to make sure that the landlord can ensure that there will be enough minor charges at move-out to enable them to keep the entire security deposit. It's shady and probably wouldn't hold up in court, but most renters wouldn't fight it and would just forfeit their deposit.
> just run it on the same machine

Sometimes you don't have that option (e.g. Heroku).
> There are real dollar costs to our overall quality of life from society's health self abuse expense. Excuse the graphic image, but a car accident is generally walk away or dead, while health care for the long term unhealthy keeps bleeding once it starts.

Agreed. But there are other factors at stake in alcoholism or obesity, too. Excluding drunk driving, which is in a league of its own (and alcoholism definitely plays a factor there!), most of the people who drive dangerously are simply jerks. Many alcoholics have legitimate economic, social, personal or even psychical problems that lead them on this track, and many obese people are obese as a result of, or partly due to underlying conditions (e.g. endocrine system problems) or simply due to not being able to easily get the amount healthy food and exercise they need. Whereas a lot of people involved in accidents like this one are just idiots.
damn... how stupid human beings can be? One's life is priceless, and we sacrifice it because we have no patience for traffic ?

Damn... this is so hard to bear, I hope family will receive all positive energy and love we are sharing here and beyond, and that this energy will surprisingly shape their life in the future in a way that it will somehow ease up their suffering a bit, and then one day make their life normal again, togheter with the reaching of the wisdom that he is still around us/them.

With love..
That's exactly what Stupeflix Tasks will do in a few weeks, along with video thumbnails strips, thumbnailing of videos at any point in time, video uploads, audio waveform, text to speech, video reverse etc.
The beta doc is at https://stupeflix-tasks-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/versio... , feel free to give me some feedback on it !
And if you want to do way more than just transcode, but create completely your video from images / music / videos , you can use the video rendering service at http://developer.stupeflix.com/ . It will migrated to the Tasks api too.

(Disclaimer : I am the CTO )
Well I need a side project at the moment :) I'll try and put something together and drop you a message.
Interactive Elixir (0.9.4-dev)
iex(1)> :start
iex(1)> 8 + 4
...(1)>

And then the session freezes. Tutorial is unclear about what to do following that.

E: appears to be broken in FF 22.0 for me, but works in Chrome. Other people with a similar FF version do not seem to be having the same issue. Disregard this comment.
I guess you are also a proponent of walking through shady neighborhoods at late nights then? While at it, do you also recommend carrying a holier than thou placard to appeal any wandering criminals to change their ways? :)
As a representative from one of the competitors mentioned there, I can tell you that feature list is dishonest and absurd.

When someone offers you "infinite scale", run.
I haven't seen the last part. Many popular blogs are delivering nonsense and not being sidelined. The blog-news industry is full of poorly researched speculation sourced mainly from Twitter and Wikipedia (not always with attribution), reblogged images from Reddit, sensationalized summaries of university press releases, top-10 lists, etc., etc.
The courage of Japanese managers in the line of duty in situations like this is commendable. Similar examples were found during the Sarin gas bombings.
>That's equivalent to saying that a scientific claim doesn't have to be falsifiable

No it isn't. Simply stating the opposite of reality doesn't make it so.

>It wasn't proven, because there wasn't enough evidence for a statistically relevant result until March 2013.

That is up to interpretation. Many felt there was enough evidence. This is not a case like that, there is literally no evidence at all for TDD. None. And you are demanding that I prove it doesn't have benefits. Prove programming while wearing pink socks doesn't have benefits.

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

That is your fault, not mine.

>TDD's claimed benefits are falsifiable

And have been falsified, like in the link I provided you. But TDD salesmen use that falsification as evidence supporting it.
In light of a couple of recent stories on HN, including the one on the passing of Doug Engelbart, I'll offer this up as a source of ideas for startups:

Everthing old is new again... and some ideas that seem old haven't actually been completed yet. Other ideas seem to fail, but only because they are "before their time".

With that in mind, I'd suggest going back and reading the writings of people like Doug Enbelbart, Ted Nelson and other computing pioneers (and not just computing pioneers, really, but any great thinkers. How about Nicola Tesla, for example?) and look for places where they proposed amazing things years or decades ago, that still don't exist, or don't exist as fully as they could. On that same basic note, go back in time and re-read some old issues of Infoworld, Computer World, Information Week, Business 2.0, Red Herring, Fast Company or Wired from the late 90's or early 2000's and mine for "before their time" ideas that might be ripe for a second shot.

Hanging around hackerspaces is also a great way to gain exposure to a constant stream of interesting ideas and approaches.
The problem is that need doesn't necessarily correlate with wealth; in fact there may be a reverse correlation. The people who need to travel the most can't necessarily afford to spend six times the normal price to do so. For others money is no object when it comes to getting home in time to watch the game.

You're making an assumption that everyone can afford the increased prices and it's just about making a rational decision to "pay up" or not.
I still use my TI-89.
"The web" is actually just a collection of hyperlinks, applications that parse markup and document storage and retrieval services. You don't see code. You see pictures of cats. And you never, ever need a text editor to use it.

Face it. Your love affair with ASCII is just that: an emotion.

(As to your original question: humans haven't needed to program in binary or assembly for decades. That's what so great about computers: they do the hard work for us, so we don't need to type everything manually into a text editor. Is that such a hard pill to swallow?)
I agree, but here it’s backed up with evidence. Maybe the concerns are irrelevant in three years time with more advancements in hardware (though the author addresses that), the points made are valid.
Mercy Hospital charged $16, 244 for a breast biopsy; the procedure will cost $3,500 at Surgery Center of Oklahoma.

WTF?!? I don't know what we charge for a routine biopsy, but for an MRI guided one with vacuum assistance - vasty more complicated, expensive and time consuming - we charge about $2000USD.
Come and have a holiday in New Zealand at the same time and it may still be cheaper.
How about the ability to save drafts?
generally it seems to work

Interactive Elixir (0.9.4-dev)
iex(1)> {:true,foo} = {:true,123}
{true, 123}
iex(3)> IO.puts foo
** (RuntimeError) restricted
iex(3)> inspect foo
"123"
This release prodded me to look into Firefox OS again. I have a Nexus S lying around unused, and that's one of the supported "tier two" devices. So I installed it.

I really want to love it. I love Firefox, but Firefox OS is very much "not there" based on my experience. The browser is significantly worse than Firefox for Android. As far as I can tell, Sync is not available at all. Tapping the URL bar just/always puts your cursor where you tapped (does not select the text for easy replacement). Lots of smaller fit/polish things seemed much worse.

And the device experience is really strange. There's the "marketplace" but also the .. I don't know what it's called, two swipes to the left of the app launcher screen. The experience is very poor compared to Android/iOS; using familiar "apps" is really the mobile site for that service, and doesn't work as well as the Android apps I'm used to. (I.E.: Rating a movive in IMDB takes one tap to load another page, one tap to open the select box, another to pick the value, then another to submit that form. Versus one tap on Android.)

Lots of the "real apps" from the marketplace are also immediately greyed out if you lose data. Including simple games that totally should work offline. (Though I was recently surprised by how many games refused to run without an internet connection on my Android tablet recently, also.)
I don't think the article was exactly _lying_ as putting a spin on the truth to make a political point.

What they did is totally cool, and more providers should post their pricing transparently. There are complicated, sensible reasons not in the current world, which I hope will change.

The government does not obviously stop them from providing pricing information about how much they charge for medicare/medicaid, hell the gov't releases that info themselves for the really big providers. It is, however, their business and I'm _sure_ they could point to some of the thousands of regulations and laws they operate under and say that it realistically prevents them from releasing pricing. It's like when people who haven't done so say they won't start a business because taxes are too high. Not false, but politically laden.

Saying that they don't take medicare/medicaid so that they provide a higher standard of care or be more successful or whatever is kind of like saying "Our private school doesn't accept kids who get reduced price lunches, so that it can operate efficiently and provide the best education."

It's not _lying_ so much as blatantly spinning it. This just feels like when you see a tech site re-run a breathless press release verbatim. It's not _false_, but it's not exactly fair to readers, either.
How many times have you been impeded by people driving cars when driving? I'd wager nearly every time you drive if you live in a city. How many times have you been impeded by people on bicycles?
Fukushima disaster has not raised cancer risks [1]

We need more nuclear power and less nuclear scaremongering.

[1] http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/06/un-report-fukushim...
Nice intro. I have been curious about this language and it is great to give a try without any install.

Might be a bug - with the Lists example after I typed in part of the tutorial it jumped to the next example. I was not expecting a change jump.
The fallout products of an atomic bomb generally have short half lives. Wikipedia has some interesting graphs comparing the radiation dose of a fission bomb and Chernobyl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#Half-life
Hi there,

I'd love to help you. We (RedisGreen) run extremely high-performance, dedicated Redis installations and work directly with customers to help tune their app and their installation for the best possible service.

Getting Redis up and running is easy, as has been mentioned in this thread. But the devil is in the details. Third-party vendors distinguish themselves in terms of active monitoring, quality/knowledge of support, and closed-source features (e.g. one company offers what they call "multicore Redis").

I've been running large-scale production instances of Redis since 2009, and our other team members are similarly qualified.

I'd love to help you out and give you honest recommendations on system scaling. bpo at stovepipestudios.com
Excellent. Although Firefox previously had a simple API that could be used to do most of these things manually in JavaScript, the Web Audio API provides convenient high level functionality while retaining the ability to manually process samples if needed, and, of course, now works in both WebKit and Firefox.
Every company i've ever worked is usually "extra busy" after a long weekend because they're catching up with email/calls/etc that have gathered during it (and also support issues, etc.)

Coming into work right after a few days off and having this thrown on your plate with no notice just adds to this. (But ultimately, it's really about the complete lack of notice more than anything else.)
A couple of months ago, Time magazine (of all places) did a really good story about the lack of price transparency in healthcare and how that may well be the single largest contributor to the burgeoning healthcare costs in the US. I think it is behind a paywall, here is a starter though:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2136867,00....

In a stunning example of competence and efficiency, the US government responded to that article by publishing a ton of medicare pricing information on a hospital by hospital basis. Here's one article discussing the data:

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/white-coat-note...

FWIW, as a person who has been using catastrophic insurance (e.g. super high deductible) for over a decade I find this move to more price transparency long over due. I've had the experience where some practitioners simply refused to take cash up front, it was insurance or nothing while others would give a significant discount, like over 50% for cash up front. We've still got a long, long way to go, but it's a start.
I've always wanted to do this with a site, except for the fact I could get fired.

Plugin is http://zurb.com/playground/jquery-raptorize
I don't know anything definitively one way or another, but it might be related to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement_under_Unite...
Cloudinary does that. We used it for a bit but ultimately decided to roll our own. Their service worked great though. We've tried a bunch of options since hosting on Heroku makes large scale image processing a chore. Cloudinary was best of the bunch.
Can you link external USB hard drives in a RAID-style system?
Yes, you can provide arbitrary URLs to the Saver and our (Dropbox's) servers will download them, assuming they are publicly available.

(Note: I am an engineer at Dropbox and worked on this product.)
> arguments about whether or not promises or callbacks are better in Node can run off the right side of the page.

Just like the callback-based code does! Hey-ooo!

...I'll see myself out.
The author is completely missing the fact that the flip
side of "price-gouging" is making sure that a scarce
resource is only utilized by those who need it the most.

If there are only 20 taxis, and there are 20 people
desperately stranded who need a taxi, and 200 people
who would just "like" a taxi, then if a taxi costs
$200, those 20 people will happily pay for one.

I think being able to pay 200$ for a taxi is not the same as needing it the most.
How is this a "bike accident"? It sounds like a hit-and-run murder, for which the driver ought be prosecuted at the very least for vehicular manslaughter.
But the Constitution does mention the communications medium of the founder's era...

"...papers and effects..."
The parent post said "statically".
Cool, that's super helpful feedback.

We definitely support installing plotly on private servers -- there are certainly a lot of companies that won't let their data leave their building.
> Doctors have maintained repeatedly that Yoshida’s illness has had nothing to do with exposure to high doses of radiation.

Is there any validity to this claim?
Citation? Other comments are offering conflicting reports.
Frankly I think the letter is worded fine, and makes strong effort to be polite. If one is suggesting the exclusion of women astronauts is the issue, then that is a different thing entirely.
Are they doing their own payment processing, or doing it through another provider? I couldn't find out poking around their developer site.
You can choose to be happy
We're not talking about a simple hard surface. We're talking about a handgun inside a bag filled with other miscellaneous items which is then jostled and pushed around.

You could argue the chance of an accidental discharge is low, but it's certainly meaningful enough to warrant caution. All the more so given the consequences of accidental discharge inside an airplane cabin.
I bet he's excited to see what he can do with CoreText and iOS7 for this.
I worked in a billing office for 5 years, there are literally thousands of codes for EACH insurance company, again EACH insurance company.

The reason the cost of healthcare is so high is because medicare pays roughly 15% of a bill, others are somewhere between 20-50% of a bill depending. That is to say if the doctor charges you $40,000 you pay your 10% co-pay of $4,000 and the insurance then only pays maybe another $8,000.

Also, just so everyone knows, it's pretty easy to negotiate down your bill. The reason healthcare is so expensive is so many people don't pay it. If you are willing to pay say 40% of your bill it's already 25% better than medicare.
What's the story behind the iPhone's "Marimba" ringtone?
> I dont think anyone has ever been able to figure out why the co-pilot never thought to stop pulling back.

Under the normal fly-by-wire control law, constant back stick wouldn't stall the aircraft. The computers would stop pitching the aircraft up before it reached the stall angle of attack. But, the system had dropped to Alternate law which is a reversionary measure, in this case caused by the pitot system failing.
Under Alternate law, high angle of attack protection is lost and you can pitch up into a stall.

That said, in the AF447 case, the suspicion is that the F/O never even appreciated they were in a stall, irrespective of Alternate law being active.
Making calls from Hangouts — in Gmail and across the web
Well, in an ideal world it would be both perfectly manageable and not dangerous, but I think we're both saying the same thing. Cars and bicycles are very different and bad things tend to happen when they share the same roadway.
Grep too slow? Use git-grep
I can't help thinking some of the pain could be resolved if we had a reliable datagram protocol between UDP and TCP. Delimiting a TCP stream to create a messaging protocol is already suboptimal and error prone, and it's the root cause of the head-of-line blocking problem experienced by HTTP ('fixed' in SPDY).
So is that just cookies by another name?
Not to sound self-righteous, but the HN audience (or more plausibly, some subset within) has a high influence on what the rest of the world sees and wants.

Any Dropbox employees read HN?
> When I first read about Firefox OS I thought I would have the experience as described above. I would buy ANY phone, donwload the Firefox OS, install it and enjoy mobile life from a different perspective.

Someone has to write the drivers AND have an incentive. [1]

[1] https://autonome.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices...
I don't find any difficulty when being a pedestrian in L.A., besides actual distances.

As a pedestrian you don't need to "share the road", only to cross it. Sidewalks seem plentiful, even if underutilized, and most road crossings have been well marked and signaled. Cars have generally been respectful when I cross.

Cycling here would certainly make me more nervous, outside of the corridors with well-spaced dedicated bike lanes. But walking is fine. It's good exercise and the weather's great.
VCs on the Future of VC
Fair enough.

However, I feel pretty good about any public effort to end the post-9/11 Strangelovian affair we've got going on in this country.
Thanks so much for clarifying this, I just chose the point where the road crossed I-85 because the reports said it happened near that interchange. Truth be told, that stretch you show is even more frightening to me for the reasons you describe -- it's exactly the sort of road where drivers who just got off the highway would feel "stuck" behind a cyclist, and it's so narrow.
Rubyforge down
No problem and I should point out that I was being cynical when I said "we don't really care" with regards to trial/district courts.

The sad truth is if you want to take someone to court or if you are taken to court, if you really want to be satisfied you better be prepared from the outset to go through at least two trials (one to develop the record and one or more to attack/uphold the record).

You literally could get a judge at the lowest level that decides he's going to rule based on how he feels that day although you'd like to think not.
Again, wealth does not equal need. You're assuming all of the desperately stranded people have $200 at the ready for a taxi trip that's normally only $20. And some people will pay whatever price for convenience, because they have plenty of money.

You can't just assume that everyone CAN pay whatever price is set, and just decides not to because they don't need it enough. In this scenario, the poor people die and the rich stay comfortably unaffected while using the resources others are far more desperate for.
> No. Medicine in inelastic.

Fantastically incorrect! A good portion of medicine is elastic. If you have the sniffles you don't NEED to see a doctor but many people choose to because they can. If you tear your ACL you don't NEED surgery to continue to stay alive but you sure do WANT it.

Furthermore let's just suppose that the demand is fixed and won't change. Demonstrably false but let's just try. Okay. Publishing of prices can still shift that demand from one particular vendor to another depending on price. Just the same as the demand for TP is largely fixed but purchases can be shifted from Target to Wal-mart to Costco depending on price.

Very, very few illnesses are so outrageously life threatening that they have to be performed RIGHT NOW at WHATEVER hospital you're at. That's mostly limited to trauma type stuff from accidents of various kinds.

For everything else like seeing the doctor for the flu, broken bones, joint problems, diabetes, heart disease, etc etc etc you could certainly spend 15 minutes on the internet. And for many of those things you could afford to spend a whole weekend or three if you wanted. For example once you've got an insulin prescription for the next X days/weeks/months you've got tons of time to shop for a doctor that you would like, or who offers a better price, etc rather than the first doctor you can manage to get yourself to.
Here is a response from the VideoLAN president:

http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2013/More-lies-from-Secunia
I like it. I'm always typing simple calculations into the search bar -- this is a great way to keep track of them.
For details, see:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/tutorial/ios#co...

They have a few naive conflict resolution rules that you can choose from. The granularity is per field. They do have an option that attempts to be smart about array-valued fields.
This must a a US thing - I have never seen an advert on TV for a healthcare clinic of any sort that I can recall. I saw a poster at a cinema recently for a medical clinic, which I remember as it was so unusual.
your link doesnt work for me, here's a different one:

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a13
calling this a huge win and a massive victory wouldn't be much better, but it is a very respectable start
Yes: http://www.20splentyforus.org.uk/