skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basic Emacs lisp is well worth learning. It takes Emacs from being an editor to being your editor.

With something like Eclipse, even adding a little bit of functionality is an undertaking. You have to create a project, write a bunch of boilerplate, load it and so on. With Emacs, it's basically effortless: a line or two of elisp can do wonders. Sometimes I add functionality by just executing elisp directly (with M-:), without even bothering to put it in a file! It's that easy.

This has really changed how I work. Now I don't think twice about having some throw-away elisp for just one project. Or even just one file! Modifying the editor (in small ways) becomes an action almost as natural as copy and paste. Now Emacs is like a jazz performance, with room for improvisation: never the same editor twice.

Emacs is also the perfect development environment for Emacs lisp. (Who would have guessed?) It's the most integrated system I've ever seen; there is an intuitive and remarkably consistent link between the lisp code and the editor itself. I usually know how some bit of elisp corresponds to an action and vice-versa. And if I don't, the incredible interactive help system is, well, helpful: I can easily look up what function a keybinding calls or what keys are bound to a function. These days, I do it instinctively, without thinking. Throw in Emacs's general lisp prowess (paredit is incredible), the ability to randomly evaluate an expression and see the results immediately as well as the ease of inspecting variables and you have a very remarkable environment.

15 minutes as the key to all this? There's no question! Since you're going to be using your editor for years, it's well worth 15 hours or 15 days or even 15 weeks. (And since it's Emacs, you'll end up using it for more than just programming: LaTeX, org-mode, blogging, chatting, email...)

Go for it!
Found here: https://github.com/jckarter/clay/wiki/Clay-for-C---programme...

main() { println("Hello world!"); }
>trusted computing base was nearly eaten by China

Citation ?
PLease stop telling me to take app X with me.
Unlike the majority (apparently) I can't afford a smart phone. Every time I log out of a particular web app, the website doesn't ever fail to notify me that I should download the app on my (hypothetical) smartphone and take it with me. Yes. I'm too poor for a smartphone. Thanks for reminding me. Maybe send me a smartphone and I'll download your app.
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Employers are not subsidized, people are.

If anything employers are obligated to pay a higher cost for labor since they need to compete with government programs that pay people not to work. Even programs which pay people regardless of employment status create disincentives for employment (thereby requiring employers to pay more), due to diminishing marginal utility.

The most recent empirical study on this that I've seen: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/matthew.notowidigdo/research...
To clarify again, I am not saying this is a good thing. I was just pointing out what seemed to be a major point of difference between this and the US situation.

A lot of the unrest and anger here is because mass surveillance was approved to be carried out in secret and the companies were not even allowed to talk about what type of data they were providing to the government.
> contemporary pop acts, whose training is mostly from karaoke pub competitions.

Source?
If we eliminated the programs that transfer funds to low wage workers (and reduced your taxes commensurately), do you believe that wages would go up? If so, why?
Simple ways to improve Laravel performance
Right, "holding down the single button" certainly means the user has physical access, so this sounds like it is by design. There is context to security.
Right, and I think their "office" is just devs they work with on Elance, really: https://www.elance.com/s/mirkoj/
One will never know if it might've been done on purpose.
Omnicom and Publicis Say They Will Merge
Great work, but I need an ibuprofen after a few minutes :)
"Java vs. C++"?

Sigh

The basis of your question doesn't even make sense. Let me explain:

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What is new in IPython 1.0
I'd rather be a resident of a British colony (particularly at their peak) than of most of the horribly self-governed countries in the world. Or French colony. But definitely not Portugese or Belgian colonies.
DHCP In The Data Center
You're right that apps are a definite factor in the success of a platform. I think we can both be right here, so +1 yourself buddy :) Without any good apps, I think a more open hardware strategy is worthless - but a more open hardware strategy can translate to lower prices which make up for poor application performance, bugs, etc.

In any case, I hope that everyone can get what they want. For me personally that means: Give me absolute control over what is running on the device.
A Practical Guide To Hiding Your Online Activity
The other day i thought i had found a textbook chapter on stream algo's/online learning, but Chapter 17 has yet to be written

http://ciml.info/
Ask HN: Offline mode for SaaS
im planning to build a SaaS, my potential clients will generate transactions every 15 minutes or so, they also have very weak internet links cause they dont live in the city, so it could be the case that internet is down for more than 30 minute. I guess the solution would be to build an "offline" mode, but im not quite sure how can i do that or where should i even start, any pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

thanks,
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You are conflating the overall cost with the per-year cost. Per-year, fatties and smokers cost more.

Since insurance premiums are also paid on a per-year basis, per-year is the relevant point of comparison. Of course, in a single payer system which only receives payments from people while they work, it would in fact be beneficial to induce people to die earlier.
How Internet hatred can destroy your soul and dreams
I agree with you completely, but as someone who knows music theory the way musicians think about it, I find the "nerdified take on music history" to be a wonderfully refreshing view on the subject!

I really find this book an insight into how to transpose one model into another. It could apply to so much more that music theory, it's just that the author has a predisposition to music and therefore uses it as the illustrative example.
I think the comment's point is that good sites are not using it, not that 10 sites is a good sample size.
I absolutely agree that the financial incentives are mismatched, with private companies less interested in trying to cure or improve underlying medical problems than in treating/controlling symptoms.

"Asking the government or charities to play this game is asking for politics to further enter into it, the outcomes are not likely to be good."

I'm curious where this die-hard free-market willful blindness comes from. I object to the categorical classification of government or charity being bad choices to solve problems.

The nature of the specific market under discussion makes all the difference in the world. The nature of the administrative path from funding to research & development also makes a difference. There can be efficient allocation of funds in government and in private sector charities, just as there can be inefficient allocation of funds due to bad management in private companies devoted to solving the same problems.

Free marketeers have effectively redefined "government run program" to mean inefficient... it may be that most of the time, but there is nothing inherent about government programs that demands inefficiency. There's a similar stigma regarding charity. Those are almost effects of free-market thinking: if everyone is convinced that government and charity are poor ways to solve any problem, then government and charity are left with incompetent administrators, bloated management structure, and poor oversight.

Since this problem is identified as one that the private commercial sector is poorly motivated to solve, the question is not whether public sector or charity should attempt to tackle the problems -- it should -- but how to structure charity or government programs so as not to waste the money they are given to address the problem.
This is particularly bad for a country like India where the police already has too many powers: they don't need a warrant for many things. By "need", I mean it's not that the Constitution doesn't require them to, but it's not enforced. So much so, if you are a "no-one" (means you don't have any "political connections"), the police can come to your place, search it, and arrest you and put you in lockup. All without requiring a warrant. Good luck complaining. (Of course the police requires a warrant when dealing with politicians, since they can't touch them.)

Now given the police state India already is, this is more dangerous. Why? Because the police has too many powers, they don't need warrants and now the state has the capability to spy completely on its citizens. I can only see glaring human rights violation coming out of this.
I hate to be the one that says this, but MSMQ is missing.
I frequently shop at Barnes & Noble, and I have a membership. (There's one just down the street.) I like the experience of going to bookstores, so I consider whatever premium I pay a donation toward keeping that experience a few blocks away. In reality it is the equivalent of a small monthly fee.
the most popular ones I hear from hackernews and reddit prog seems to be

microsoft azure

heroku

digital ocean

linode

amazon aws

dotcloud

openshift

openstack

google appengine

can anyone tell me the pros and cons of each?I doubt there will be one who who tried them all though...
I was just thinking there hasn't been a new programming language announced in the last week or so. With so few existing languages to choose from that have extensive supporting toolsets and APIs, this will surely stand out.
Censorship concerns/debate aside, if you can opt-out of the filtering, isn't that a rather simple solution and quick fix? Or is the filter only for porn and the gov is just starting to censor things they don't like?
However, on a technical note, 'relocatable program' usually refers to a completely different concept, namely that the programs binary has relocation entries so it can be 'relocated' and executed at any address range (thing Address Space Layout randomization for binaries or libraries that will be linked).
Well the original post is one example, obviously.

But, lots of examples below, all from the first few Google results of "coffeescript ambiguity":

http://ruoyusun.com/2013/03/17/my-take-on-coffeescript.html [section "full of surprises"]

http://ceronman.com/2012/09/17/coffeescript-less-typing-bad-...

http://johnbender.us/2012/11/27/math-envy-and-coffeescripts-... [this is a more formal analysis]
Why do I go to a B&N? Two reasons: I'm buying a gift and I want to browse the coffee-table books. Or I need something immediately for work or a project.

So for me, #2 (tables, not shelves) and #7 (community franchising) would make the most sense.
Matlab is useful for it's special use case -- for mathematical applications (signal processing, medical imaging, etc). It has good tools to speed up the code too: parfor and the like.

But the cost gets to me. It inhibits collaboration, and costs a ton for non-academics. From scientific computing[1]:

> $1,900 for the commercial Matlab; $2,800 for Simulink; and typically $800 for each toolbox.

The whole Matlab suite doesn't sit well with me, so I'm most likely a Pythonista. The speed of Numpy/Scipy is comparable, and the quality of the Matplotlib plots wonderful. In fact, I've done a speed comparison[2] between between Python and Matlab. I would have optimized more in Matlab, but didn't have access to the Optimization toolbox.

[1]:http://www.scientific-computing.com/review1.html
[2]:http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/scottsievert...
The markets appear to disagree with your hypothesis. Market valuations of the health insurance companies have zoomed to new highs.
There is HTTP library in J (APL "spiritual successor") standard library. There is one for APL for sure - it's just less popular and so the google results are less helpful.

Unique features of J (I'm writing about J because I know it, while I don't know APL) are that all the basic verbs (functions) can operate on arrays as easily as on atoms. There is no special syntax or feature for adding two matrices, for example, standard `+` verb does it naturally.

The second unique feature is a tacit - point-free - style by default. This means that function composition is the default, not function application. You can define new words by just slapping old ones together, without worrying about threading params through them.

The third unique feature (and probably unique to J, previous are found in APL too) are complex rules of composition (hooks and forks) as well as words that modify functions. You can express very complex things in very little space thanks to this.

J is very interesting, unique language which are very well suited to one thing - very fast and efficient array transformations - and completely useless for other things. I hear it's used in a financial and banking sectors, for rapidly prototyping and sometimes deploying statistical and mathematical algorithms. If you have a good enough use case, then learning J will pay off. For anything less than full time commitment, I think that R od Python+Pandas is better. Still, I'm very happy I tried to learn J, as it's completely unlike anything else and it helped me greatly to understand numpy/pandas for my main job.
Angels Get Carry for Helping a Startup Raise Money With AngelList Syndicates
And let's not forget early cats on the Inter... well, cats. http://i.imgur.com/1XsRylm.png
The triangle .net user group met there (and may still). Walking through it, you get a definite 70's sci-fi feel, and there's a lot of wasted space. But as a corporate showpiece, it's excellent.
I'll say check out Modulus (http://modulus.io) we're new but things are very well.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders.
In that regard, see the three classic virtues of a programmer - laziness, impatience and hubris. http://www.cranked.me/2008/07/laziness-impatience-hubris-thr...
Except that there is no "Government run insurance" in that marketplace.
1000 here, 700 there. I'm surprised there were not more in a country that has experienced the dangers of an extreme government spying on its own people.
Poll: Would you buy a Lumia 1020 if it ran Android
http://www.nokia.com/global/products/phone/lumia1020/
Yes, it has the best camera, and Android would make the difference in my buying decision
No, I prefer iOS or some other OS, or I have better choices among other Android devices
I have bought, or plan to buy one running Windows
Undecided/none of the above
I recently attended an academic workshop on algorithmic music in Common Lisp and wrote some relevant code in Clojure while there. A lot of people there had strong music theory backgrounds and were very interested in both alternate tunings and the "set theory" approach to pitch sets.

The good news is that with Overtone (the Clojure interface to SuperCollider) you can specify individual pitches rather than MIDI note numbers. People at this workshop who wanted to work with pitch sets or unusual tunings had to resort to controlling the pitch bend programmatically, which, while it certainly works, involves a lot more effort and results in less elegant code.
No comments? I guess Hacker News gets blocked when you install it. :)
The Government is trying to do the same thing with similar tactics as the US counterpart. They don't make any noise, or put any effort into making people aware of what is actually going to be done to them. As a result, there is virtually no media coverage, and only a couple of vigilant people who care about it are even aware of this.

They just barely mention it in passing, is ambiguous and can be interpreted however they want it to: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=70747, like: "Hey, we are going to monitor every aspect of your life, and keep the records forever, and will be used against you for the interests of various corrupt people; in effect, shutting you up. No big deal :)"
This is a common MISUNDERSTANDING, unfortunately. The insurance in the exchanges is still "run" by HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES. Where government enters is:

(1) To allow people to compare apples to apples by having, in the exchange, groups of plans that offer the same coverage.

In the current individual insurance marketplace, it is basically impossible to compare policies because they all differ on many different details, and finding out those details is a laborious, unrewarding, and confusing slog.

(2) To make sure that the plans in the exchanges would be considered insurance to a rational person. Right now, the individual market has a lot of low premium plans (i.e., plans for which you don't have to pay very much per month) which are next to useless when you actually NEED the insurance, because they don't cover very much at all. The idea is to maintain minimum standards of coverage so if you ever are in a situation when you really NEED insurance, you actually will HAVE insurance.
I'm not a fan of his designs. I don't deny they're bold, and the titanium "scales" on them are a modern interpretation of slate roofing tiles. But the proportions are all wrong to my eye. It's like he's channeling Theodor Geisel.
Step 1: Put your dic (delete)

pns.py

I was cracking up. Brilliant!
India has a very complicated relationship with censorship that's compounded by underlying communal and religious tension. It looks idiotic when you hear about people being arrested for tweets and likes, but what gets lost is the fundamentalist barbarianism that underlies it: the grim truth that people might die otherwise. That unemployed youth will take to the streets and violently protest at every imagined slight to their <insert religious ideal / figurehead / motto / policy here >. That leaders will tacitly encourage the violence and terrorism that their own minions commit.

We don't care too much about privacy rights yet because we haven't got that far on whatever pyramid diagram of priorities you'd judge by. A majority of the population lives in poverty, is hungry and thirsty, does not have access to non-toxic food and water. The urban population is still very concerned with making ends meet, putting their kids through college and hoping that their dreams will be fulfilled through the lives of their offspring.

Those with money, influence and clout don't care. They can either simply buy their way out of this kind of monitoring or laugh at it over dinner.

Besides, we really don't have the capability to pull this off well enough to be a danger to anyone.
The most effective apology is often not as complicated as this. The crucial part is asking for forgiveness.

"I apologize for ______. Please forgive me."

I learned this a long time ago from a CareerTrack seminar on communication and it has served me well in getting out of many a bind - allowing me to move forward and past mistakes, some very big. It is especially effective in written communication like emails to collaborators.
Just don't mention that you're choosing them based on their lesser intelligence.
That and a few other examples should show up on the homepage or an "examples" page.
If anything projects with fewer recent commits are generally more stable/robust...
£10 says that opposition to the filtering will count as an extremist view.
hehe, sure why not. the more, the better? :)
Interesting, seems like this would be a good one to include in the recent go/haskell/D/rust shootout.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6094668
These ideas are all contradictory. What a pointless article. Throw a bunch of random ideas in the air and see what sticks. If B&N fails, you can point to all the ideas they didn't follow and blame the failure on that. If B&N succeeds, you can point to the ideas they did follow (for these ideas cover the entire universe of possible action, so they will end up following some of them just by chance) and claim credit.

Dumb.
just play the original: you can use a the text editor of your choice, run in terminal, run with or without animation (nearly instant), and you have full debugging capabilities via puts. Also you get the rogue-like ascii graphics which is the original inspiration for the game.
When very bad outbreaks start to occur because antibiotics' effectiveness starts dropping precipitously, I think there will be progress. It will take a few years to get ramped up, but given modern technology I think there will be some interesting partial solutions fairly soon after that.

The Russians were particularly interested in this sort of thing during the latter part of the Cold War, as I'm sure the West was, and still is. They were looking at enhancing the immune system as an alternative to antibiotics or vaccines for agents that could not necessarily be fought with antibiotics or vaccines (i.e. biological terrorism). They also looked at using immune response as a bioterror target (e.g. something like the reaction to TGN1412 but using a transmissible bioagent instead of a non-biological agent.) They were keenly aware that the two problems were linked.

Obviously, immune response is bad at all times when there's no active threatening infection to fight, but needs to be maximized at least along certain paths when there's a threatening infection. That was a difficult problem with 1980's technology. I'm optimistic that it's not quite so intractable a problem, at least in cases of common bacterial infections typically treated with antibiotics today. More narrowly targeted immune system boosting seems plausible now that there's a somewhat better understanding of immune system interactions...
Who decides exactly what is "extremist related"?

If a news agency shows the latest Al-Qaeda video, isn't that spreading terrorist ideologies?

But the entire thing is just wrong: If we (the "western" world) does something; how can we criticize oppresive regimes when they do the same thing?

What can we say when Egypt blocks internet access for "national security". What to say about North Korea and their near total censorship to protect the NK culture (and possibly saving their children's innocence).
Absolutely wonderful. Well done!
If "weight loss product, colon cleanser and green coffee supplement" are what they are marketing, a better "harsh" word would be deceptive.

Not only are they marketing deceptive products, they were too stupid to do it successfully and now their merchant accounts are frozen. I choose the word stupid because there is a strong history of the FTC going after other companies selling these exact same products in this manner since about 2009. (The biggest being Jesse Willms, $359m http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/02/willms.shtm)

So, yes, Skymall & its original owners got scammed.
> How would a public insurance option change this?

Because when the guy who eats donuts has some numbness in his foot due to Type 2 diabetes, he's going to go to a doctor for advice since he has insurance. The doctor could catch him early enough to prevent the most devastating parts of diabetes and saving you more money than had he woken up one day unable to walk and called 911 and received an amputation that the state picked up the tab for.

This applies for everything. Poor people regularly never see doctors in their offices. They go to the ER when it's nearly too late and rack up huge bills in the most expensive facilities. We don't turn away patients with emergencies. The hospital will bill you and the state will cover you if you don't pay.

Edit:
Here's a public health idea: tax sugar (or crops such as corn turned into sugar). We tax cigarettes; it's only fair in my opinion. And the tax on cigarettes makes e-cigarettes very economical.
I am really disappointed that Ryan Bates is not being STRONGLY credited anywhere on this page... this is just a graphical wrapper on his original creation.

https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior