skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how "market value" is any more nebulous a concept than the "intrinsic value" people are mentioning elsewhere in this thread. Why is gold worth (google google...) $950 an ounce? Because there are lots of people who are willing to buy your ounce of gold for $950, or sell you an ounce of gold $950. That's market value. Why is my $20 bill worth $20? Because any bank in the US will let me deposit or exchange it for $20.
That's... such a wonderful comparison. Because we've never seen an apparently dominant American car company lose serious ground to competitors because it refused to pay attention to what consumers actually wanted, have we?
"Tell right from wrong" is a conjectural extrapolation. What this really tells me is that animals observe social protocol. Now, perhaps morality is no more than social protocol. But all of these "moral" behaviors have important practical consequences.
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No, it's not fine. As the commenter above you said, your users deserve more respect than that. Most users, particularly unsophisticated users, re-use the same passwords across most or all of their accounts. It's a bad practice, but they do this because (amount other reaons) they expect that the people who run the websites they use would have the minimum respect and courtesy to treat the passwords with a reasonable standard of care.

Storing the password unhashed (encrypted or plaintext) is NOT a reasonable standard of care.
There are plenty of such tools for keyword research for SEO purposes.

A collection:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

http://adlab.microsoft.com/Keyword-Group-Detection/default.a...

http://www.google.com/sktool/#

http://www.keywordspy.com/

http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/

http://www.wordtracker.com/

Overviews from SEOs:
http://www.searchengineguide.com/lisa-barone/five-steps-to-e...

http://www.copyblogger.com/keyword-research/

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/free-keyword-research-too...
"When one says Sudoku is NP-complete, one should keep in mind that this refers only to an unusual type of Sudoku puzzle in which there might be multiple solutions."

http://11011110.livejournal.com/23221.html
I'd argue it's good to know not just the simple math of everything, but the basics of everything. Reasons why some designs are the way they are, what constraints technologies were designed under and how ideas evolved into what they are today. I can't say how annoyed I get at hearing people grumble about falsely intuitive topics and how much better they can do it given the shot with absolutely zero education in it (traffic light timings, road construction, software and the such come to mind.)

Sure there are clear benefits to the added creativity in your own field, but why not learn, well, just because? You'll have richer conversations guaranteed!
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Note: if you're planning to actually build something based on these instructions, be sure to get a case that supports the Tyan motherboard's CEB mounting holes or be prepared to drill your own. Both of the Coolermaster cases mentioned in the article only have ATX/EATX mounting holes.

(I'm still a little irked at George Ou for writing an article whose premise rests on the existence of a machine that he didn't even try to build.)
"Even when fighting for mates, the loser of a battle is allowed to escape with its life. Sometimes accidents happen and the animals die of injuries, but death is not the intent. Humans intend to kill when they battle."

Usually, when human males fistfight over a woman, the loser is still allowed to escape with his life. Murder doesn't usually enter the picture outside of adultery, but a cuckolded alpha wolf will not be all too kind, either (and most cuckolded humans don't murder, either.)

Humans will fight to the death over resources, but we are not the only species that will do that.
Interesting. A good example that illustrates why C is the top language is _why's shoes -- it's written mostly in C, but still belongs to Ruby-land.
Experienced developers should have enough code lying around to make simple projects quickly. From my experience typing code is much more efficient then using visual interfaces(Textmate <> Dreamweaver).
How do you know it's verbosity skewing results, and not a preference for certain languages depending on the size of the project?
The blog is not accurate. They only send you your password the first time, when you create it. They store a hash, all you can do afterwards is reset it.

http://support.wordpress.com/passwords/
How about an Irish Corp? They have a low tax rate. 12.5% and tax treaties with a bunch of countries. This should allow you to get dividends or capital gains at a more favorable rate. Tons of high tech companies have set up their European operations hqs there, using it as their nexus for all Euro profits.
There's no two ways about it. If you don't take reasonable care with your users sensitive data, especially things like passwords, security questions, credit card information, etc. then you are an completely incompetent unprofessional hack and also a creep, a jerk, and a generally miserable person to boot.

That means you don't store passwords in an unhashed format (plaintext or encrypted). You don't store credit cards at all unless you've can't find any other design options. And if you do store them, you take great pains to meet or exceed reasonable standards (like PCI) for storing them safely and properly.

This is vastly more important than what language or framework you use. Vastly more important than whether you use CCS or tables. Vastly more important than whether you use a SQL database or a hip new RESTFUL key-value store.

This is about trust. This is about integrity. This is about professionalism. Are you trustworthy? Are you a professional? Then do the right thing damn it!
Or perhaps since Rails/Ruby is trendy, a lot of projects get started in Ruby, but never finished.

I'd like to see some language stats broken down by activity on the project.
Clearly the IRS prefers the interpretation that your 'nominal' payment was actually $50K (or included a $47.5K gift) -- so tax is owed even if the recipient sits on the coins.

If in fact someone immediately sold the coins and reported the nominal payment plus the short-term 'investment gain', it might push the matter below the level of IRS concern. My understanding is that when the net tax effect is about the same from alternate accountings, the IRS is unlikely to quibble about the particulars (but IANAL or tax accountant).
The only way to account for that is to compensate for verbosity between languages. I'm not sure anyone wants to go there, it's not pretty.
I think one of the major points of the article is that you can only actually have inflation if you disconnect money from the gold standard. Life would be much better if we had a gold standard, no doubt.
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Good point.

Also, I wonder how those would be weighted if you counted projects that consist of >90% identical code as the same project (for example, how many of those Ruby projects are thinly veiled forks of Rails?), filtered out projects that are less than (say) 10k of source, etc. Maybe more Python projects are on bitbucket because of Merucial.

The 90% and 10k there are pretty arbitrary; just, those language stats need a lot more clarification before their meaning is clear.
Are you looking to protect business versus personal assets, or protecting assets via risk management, or other?
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The C projects could also be more complete and mature. Everyone and their mother has a 50 line Ruby twitter-client/blog/wiki implementation up on Github. I would also argue that the presence of a Linux kernel mirror, Perl mirror, Android (including the Linux kernel, again), and large projects like them skews the byte vs projects percentages a great deal.
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This is about an team orange moon and, a practical empire of products that all begin with one tiny seed that is planted in the fertile soil of those hearts that are eager for your detail product. For instance, I am in the action of making a set of online video recording* where I instruct scholars the several methods demanded to talk English.
the web now has all the material to take someone from a grade school level of understanding through an intermediate college level. what doesn't exist is all this material aggregated and organized into a curriculum. With college degrees becoming increasingly specialized at the expense of general domain knowledge I feel that something of the sort organized along the lines of wikipedia would be a boon for millions of people.
There is inestimable value in doing so. I find the approach especially valuable for learning new programming technologies — in practice, learning a new technology comes down to the questions: what does the code look like, and why? By looking deeply at the hardest parts of the source code, I find out how much I don't know about the software and learn more about the system itself.
I had largely the same reaction you did when I saw "minority" used that way.

You're right. "Minority" is a really bad word for what biohacker42 was trying to say, because many "minorities" (in terms of social status) are not numeric minorities. (Blacks in apartheid-era South Africa. Women throughout history.) As jfoutz mentioned, we both know a pointer is not a dog.

It's convenient that you misquoted me, too, because doing so leaves out the part where I already conceded that it's bad usage. Which leaves me at a loss as to what you're trying to add to the discussion--did you say something more than what I've already implied (and exhaustively reiterated here)?
is this the same as what was discussed here:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3613/3324835985_f8339dd2cf.jp...

here's the HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504151
Well that, and the fact that it doesn't even run Mac OS X. But beyond that it was exactly what I was looking for. :)
C is popular:

http://langpop.com

However, in this case, yeah, verbosity is skewing things. Also, it should be noted that github numbers, like stack overflow, are still influenced by big initial communities with strong biases (Ruby, and C#, respectively).

Still, though, interesting numbers, thanks!
From the source code of Wordpress MU:

// If the stored hash is longer than an MD5, presume the
// new style phpass portable hash.
if ( empty($wp_hasher) ) {
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-includes/class-phpass.php');
// By default, use the portable hash from phpass
$wp_hasher = new PasswordHash(8, TRUE);
}
Nice one! I love this stuff. I suppose more powerful tools of battle increase accidental death in all species.

I can see an evolutionary rationale for cuckolded violence. Unfaithful mates introduce other genes that take resources the cuckolded mates could be providing to their own offspring. The unfaithful mates, once driven away, increase the probability that all raised offspring are genetic descendents and is an incentive to reduce infidelity by future mates.
The slashdot story doesn't seem to be referring to Sound of Traffic but both links are great, thanks!
Seems like navify is overloaded at the moment.
They will probably not return novel ideas though. That's the whole point of the proposed service.
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cloc does a rough estimation of the terseness/verbosity of the almost 80 languages it supports. It'd be pretty easy to incorporate those scaling factors for this analysis.
I wonder if you could pull all the projects into one repo, repack and figure out it's unique objects using git. I always wondered if a global object store was possible or even a good idea for a site like github. I guess that's a different project though.
Sounds like a neat idea. You obviously have to get hospital permission/buy-in before this idea could really take off. This is a similar idea to OpenTable, the dining reservation system. Perhaps you could do (or already have done) some research to find out how that company has succeeded/failed and apply those lessons to your efforts. Online based reservation systems are a great idea, but seems like a lot of leg work is required to get it really rolling. Classic chicken/egg problem here with early adopters.

1. Add some auto-suggest features to the 'add a hospital' form.

2. Use an IP address/geolocation service to guess where I'm located and pre-populate the state for the form.

3. I tried to add my local hospital, and received a very ugly error message:

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Internal Error

There was an error processing your request. The system administrator has been notified of the problem, it will be fixed as soon as possible. Please try again later.
TELEPHONE SUPPORT

For telephone assistance, call our on-duty support technician at (770)-597-9185.

====
They're not bad. Of course you can improve them, and if you try, all power to you. Seriously, you can make a bit of money off of this.

Ping me if you need someone to bounce ideas with. Email in my profile...
If you can afford to wait do you actually have an emergency? There are many other options, including clinics in drugstores, which don't burden emergency departments.
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I'd say it's a hack because he played within the rules, at least some of them. I wouldn't call "paying under the table" a hack.
Thanks for reporting this, it's been fixed, and we did receive your hospital suggestion. :)
> Outside the U.S., British Virgin Islands is the quickest, cheapest, easiest place to do it:

Please if anybody has any experience setting up a BVI please share here.

This is good stuff.
Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.
I have been developing web apps for almost 8 years now. I worked at agencies, development shops, I freelanced, I was CTO of an startup, had the six figure salary, etc. I just can't do it anymore. I hate sitting on my ass all day writing some code. My neck has been hurting for two years for spending so many hours in front of the computer. I kind of have been hating my career for a couple of years now and I have no clue about what I should do. I'm in my late 20's and I don't have a lot in savings left (six months of living costs at the most). I quit my job last year to work on a webapp of my own. I finished about 50% of it and haven't been working on it since. I got some freelance web maintenance work just to help cover some of my bills I get paid monthly and it's really easy stuff but I find it very boring as well and I wish I didn't have to spend any time working on it. I'm not lazy I just got tired of writing code and this industry in general. I always delivered the best work. In all of my previous jobs and was usually the best developer, engineer, etc.

Has anything like this happened to any of you?

What do you recommend I do?
I'm a father of 3 and this service would have been useful on several occasions. TRUE emergencies are handled VERY quickly at the ER, but there are a lot of times when the regular doctors office is closed (holidays, weekends, after business hours) but you REALLY need to take your sick child to get medicine or whatever. We've had more middle-of-the-night ear infections than I'd care to remember. :)
> Can you use the axiom of choice in this case?

Yes, you can.

> I think it is required that each bin has a finite number of objects, even though there are infinite bins.

No, the axiom says only that the product of nonempty sets is nonempty. It doesn't say anything about the number of sets or their sizes.

For those who don't see the connection: Each element of a product of sets consists of a choice of one item from each set. Saying the product is nonempty is saying there is a way to make such choices. For example, the product of {1,2} and {a,b} contains, among other things, the pair (1, b), which can be thought of as choosing 1 from the first set and b from the second.

There are restricted versions of the Axiom of Choice (e.g., Countable Choice, Dependent Choice); however, none of these are called "the Axiom of Choice".
Find a place to work where you're not the best developer, engineer, etc. It's more fun when you're learning.
This is a very good question, and a very complicated one. In many markets, retail clinics and urgent care centers are open 60 hours per week at best; nights and weekends, treatment options are scarce.

Additionally, many hospitals operate onsite "fast-track" clinics which are connected to the ED, so low-acuity conditions are essentially treated in something resembling a retail clinic.

Our goal is to make the emergency medical treatment experience as efficient as possible. Parents don't want to be sitting in the waiting room half the night, potentially exposing their children to contagious diseases in the er. Professionals lose valuable time to ER visits that drag on forever. We're trying to recapture that lost time and give the patients more control of the treatment process.
> I don't know any animal, other than humans, that will kill another animal just for the sheer pleasure of it.

How do you know why an animal does something?

Sure, it may eat after it killed, but humans sacrifice a goat it's reasonable to say that they didn't kill it for food even if they do get around to eating it.

When a cat brings mouse butts to its owner, did it kill the mouse for to eat or just as a side effect of the offering? How do you know? Heck - what is the intent of the offering?

BTW - Writing "I don't know any animal" suggests that your knowledge of/experience with animals is comprensive enough to offer as evidence. How about describing said knowledge/experience especially wrt its range? (I've spent hundreds of hours with horses, but I don't claim to know what they're thinking; it's barely enough to make a good guess as to what they might do. I might have a clue wrt cats and dogs, at least specific ones, but I have no chance with birds, reptiles, fish, sea mammals, cattle, elephants, other primates, and so on.)
The drugstore clinics can certainly handle ear infections. There are also urgent care facilities in most areas that can be utilized.
InQuicker specifically notes that they aren't for urgent or emergency conditions (http://www.inquicker.com/when_to_call_911). I don't see any reason why this couldn't be extended to non-hospital clinics, they work pretty similarly.
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"...keep the ball around the outside and shoot threes all night..."

Because they can. There is a dramatic difference in talent between college and professional basketball. That difference changes everything (and makes it more boring for us).

So what would be the analogy in business or programming?
"Can we trust a result if people must pay to criticize it?"
Wireless encryption only protects your packets until they reach a router. After that, it's just as (in)secure as a wired connection.
Sounds like a case of burnout to me. I think a lot of people would envy your position, especially given today's economic climate. Without knowing anything of your situation, except that you don't want to work on computers any longer, I'd suggest taking a step back and really analyze your situation. Have a serious conversation about your immediate future with someone that you respect (parent, mentor, older friends/siblings, fellow hackers) and see what they'd say about your life, in general. Also, get out and socialize more. You obviously have a knack for putting together successful projects, so use those skills to help other people out. You will feel better about lending your skills and time to someone less fortunate.

Also, read some books? The 4 hour work week comes immediately to mind. You haven't defined success for YOUR life yet, it seems to me.
The key phrase here is "middle of the night". How many areas have drugstore clinics that are open at 2am?
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That's more of a DoS attack than a breach of security. You can detect mass password rests and determine if that is happening. However, in practice, I've never really heard of this happening (I'm sure someone will point me to some examples). But again, this is just another sort of DoS attack.
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Great idea! Which EHR/scheduling systems do you currently interoperate with? EmStat, Epic, etc. Alternatively, if you're not directly hooking into the ER's systems:

A) What sort of workflow do you use to exchange scheduling and appointment data between your site and the ER?

and

B) Is it the same for each participating hospital? If not, how are you planning on scaling your operation to include more than four hospitals? I'm genuinely curious, having done some work on ER workflow analysis and modeling. I think this is a great idea, but can envision some pretty significant workflow issues on your horizon depending on how you've got stuff set up currently.
I'm not sure what your qualifications are, but I've given mine -- a parent of 3 kids. Drugstores (in my area, anyways) are NOT able to handle ear infections because antibiotics require a physicians prescription. Urgent care facilities are always preferable to ER visits because they cost less for the patient and permit ER staff to handle true emergencies, there there are many instances where urgent care just isn't an option.
Someone should also mention that 'public domain' != free to use. Many countries don't recognize the public domain which means that many projects wont touch code in it. They would much rather have BSD or GPL code.
Last time I checked Google Chrome didn't support audio or video either, nor had they made any announcement about codec support when they did.

Apple, Opera & Mozilla all support the HTML5 but Apple supports H.264 with AAC, the others support Ogg Theora and Vorbis.

It would be a major coup if the owners of Youtube came out for non-proprietary audio and video codecs.
FWIW, finding duplicated code (particularly in a language-independent manner!) is a surprisingly difficult problem. You need to scan not just for large copy-and-pasted blobs, but code chunks that have just had constants changed, variable names adjusted, indentation style changes, etc. I've been working on a tool for this in my spare time, and I hope to have it out sometime this summer.
Isn't that just a matter of how one defines "morality"? I think morals are just rules that are being followed without understanding the reasons why. Even in human societies it is the same - we think we are all human and moral, but really the moral rules only serve to make us establish a specific organization of society (the moral rules are induced by society). In that way, why not consider the behavior of wolves or whatever "moral"? They are evidently following some rules.

Societies are subject to evolution - fair behavior among it's members might give one society an advantage over another society, so the fairness rule sticks and becomes inbuilt.

Not sure what is supposed to be new about this research then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_tax_in_the_United_States

In theory, you are allowed to gift up to the $13K tax free each year. I wonder if he could claim that up to $13K minus the nominal value of the coins was a gift.