skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've purchased and I've operated expensive machinery and I've seen what happens when people don't take appropriate safety precautions.

He could have built an enclosure and put this on a table similar to what is used in lab experiments.

But please tell me what this has to do with whether I have personally tried to build, in particular, engines?
In plenty of cases doing lab work is impractical, and doing it the old fashioned way that makes sure takes more than a day; plenty of times doctors don't have that long. Plus there's the competitive pressure, people fire doctors who don't give them the antibiotics they demand.

WRT to the first problem, starting in 1995 I got recurrent sinus infections (which are now mostly prevented with a couple of nasal sprays). A sinus biopsy is not practical, instead my doctor, knowing what locally worked, gave me one particular antibiotic. Later a standard formulation of that plus an anti-β-lactamase drug. Then the one that still works (a different β-lactam family), but I need 30 days of it.

When I was unemployed and only had catastrophic medical coverage I got a full course from samples of a new, lipophillic drug that builds up a concentration in your fat and you therefore don't need to take it for so long, and the constant dose no doubt helps. But that one failed for the next sinus infection and I was back to the 30 day one....

Errm, when it's pretty clear the patient has a bacterial infection, why isn't it often a best practice to give a first line drug while doing a culture? Strep throat is the classic example I can think of from when I and my siblings got that in the '70s ... of course, although I don't know if it was realized by then, giving an antibiotic for it is mostly prophylactic, to avoid rheumatic fever. I have a very good friend who's about a decade older than me, when she got that her mother completely freaked out because prior to right then it was a death sentence. Fortunately penicillin was just making it out into civilian use....
We should all do this. A more generic template:

Dear MY MP,

As a digitally literate citizen of the 21st century, I'm sure I don’t need to explain why David Cameron and Claire Perry’s attempts to censor the Web are so dangerous.

I’d like to know your thoughts on why this isn’t being debated in parliament; why it seems to go against their own policy after a consultation on the issue, and whether you (as my representative) agree with Mr Cameron’s ideas?

I’m deeply concerned at the scope-creep of these policies. We all oppose obscene images of children and rape. But those are illegal, and filtered, already. Is it true that we will have to opt-in to “extremist” material, and material on “smoking”? Who decides what is “extremist”?

I urge you to oppose this censorship by the back door, and I hope you’ll raise it in parliament, which is the proper place to debate such matters.

Yours sincerely,

MY NAME
Large organizations have a tendency to demand custom solutions, and then they want to throw the switch all at once. That is pretty much opposite the bottom up, self-organization, of HN themes.

If you could "bubble up" a "good enough" 911 system, it probably would be reliable and probably would scale. But the contract will be given to the company which will say they can provide a big custom solution on a deadline. It's almost worse if they believe it themselves. A dishonest vendor would at least understand the scale of the problem(s).
FWIW I was one of the fellows, and happy to chat about it if anyone's interested. (contact info in my profile)

if anyone wants to help us fix the broken procurement policies that lead to systems like the one described in the article, let's talk too :)
BN is a great showroom. But agree, their assets are mainly the real estate. The inventory is just a commodity, and a depreciating one at that. On the other side of the Eq, B+N have had major impacts on the publishing side. The vaccuum that would be created there--in terms of losing the 800# gorilla on the buy side for trad. publishers-- is interesting to think about.
Publishing to Heroku is as simple as 'git push'. Scaling is super easy too. Need a second instance of your webserver? 'heroku ps:scale web=2' is all you need to do.
looks like someone needs 911.io -- replacement emergency 911 system using mongodb, node.js, and twitter bootstrap.

ultra reliable, super scalable
The Danish Internet filtering works by messing with the DNS at the ISP level. If you don't want to get filtered, just switch to a non-ISP DNS, or run your own. Sadly it was implemented with little or no public debate, very very few got upset and most of us just switch DNS. I think the UK is in a much better position because they at least have the debate public and loud.
Or perhaps it was done exactly for that reason : it made testing easier, and they just forgot to turn the check back on before shipping ?
Scientists use mobile games to generate database for analysis of human drawing
Review: Engineering a safer world
Not to knock B&N but I figured they were on their last legs in my area when my public library started allowing coffee drinking. I have to pay the small monthly tax regardless, after all. I've had a good success rate finding current books I want at the library. When they don't have it I'll usually check the nearby B&N and pay the premium over Amazon.
You can also press Up arrow, Ctrl-A to go back to the beginning of the line, add "sudo " and enter. This type of thing also works in most REPLs (Python, irb, Node, etc.)
It's funny that Go keeps getting mentioned when people talk about new C-like languages because as you point out, it's not actually very C-like. In fact, the only thing that I'd say was truly C-like is the ability to create standalone executables. One of the dead giveaways is that most interest in Go seems to be coming from the Python community.

A better comparison would be Rust and Clay. Rust seems to emphasize correctness in the type system, Clay on making existing C++ style generics less cumbersome to use (a frankly laudable intention). On the other hand, I think it would be easier to give Rust the good things in Clay than the other way around.
Is that book still worth checking out if you're read Learn You a Haskell or do they occupy the same sort of beginner niche? I'm almost done with that and was thinking I'd probably take a look at real world haskell next.
>>> They believed he would take their guns

He's still trying to undermine both gun ownership and self-defense rights. He is now vocally opposing Stand Your Ground - the principle he himself supported and helped strengthening while in the state senate by sponsoring a law: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354059/obama-voted-stre...

He is still advocating severely limiting and restricting access to guns. It's not his fault that it is politically impractical right now. He is trying as hard as he can.

>>> raised taxes when he actually lowered them, etc.

He did raise taxes. It took him a while but you can't say he did not - it's just not true. What is true he didn't raise taxes for everybody - but he did raise taxes for some. And he's and his party still are advocating even more tax raises. Again, the fact that it yet didn't happened is not his fault - he did all he could to raise taxes even more, but he is not a dictator, so the Congress did not allow him to go further.

>>> And, they continued to believe in wild conspiracy theories, even in the face of plain facts to the contrary

Now you are equating people who oppose Obama due to disagreement with his politics (a tiny bit less than a half of a country) with a tiny minority that believes in conspiracy theories. Do you really think it will go unnoticed? When you attempt sleight of hand, it should not be this obvious.
This depends entirely on the drag coefficient of the train car. If the engines on a supersonic jet cut off, it's essentially a rock traveling at the speed of sound through still air. I don't believe the acceleration is cataclysmic for the occupants (although probably jolting). Remember also that normal commercial gets travel at like 80% of the speed of sound, and they can easily handle a loss of engine power. (Although maybe typical engine cut-outs are more gradual than a suddenly ruptured hyperloop tunnel?)

So the train car need only have aerodynamics similar to an air plane in order to avoid bad stopping forces. An aerodynamic design makes sense anyways since you want to avoid drag.
I can't agree w/ this assessment more.

I did some contract work on network gear in a rural Ohio county's 911 center a couple of years ago and spent a few days around the dispatch center. I have a ton of respect for the work that the dispatchers do. I listened to them stay calm, cool, and collected while taking calls from people who were completely freaked-out (angry, injured, scared, etc).

The job is certainly a lot more than just answering the phone.
emacs is the editor of sore wrists.
It probably would still use maglev to eliminate the friction between surfaces. The acoustic waves would be a means of propulsion.
There is something like that for the great wall of china:
http://www.greatfirewallofchina.org/
I'd love to talk about this more. Can you elaborate or point me to the closest version to that reality?
FYI, B&N is a bookstore - B&H is an electronics store run by Hasidic Jews: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H_Photo_Video

:)
This would of course tie in with the private police force and private fire service, right? And when the customers stop paying and sue the company into oblivion, who handles the calls? Do you prevent monopolies from forming so no one company becomes responsible for all 911 call traffic? That doesn't sound very libertarian to me.

Let's presume we're interfacing with public services here, just for shits and giggles. What happens when grandma Jean forgets to pay the bill one month? Does she lose access to those public services when she needs them most because her 911 is redirecting to a busy tone?
can the indian govt can do anything? I haven't seen it can execute anything. so, don't worry about such programs, they will build something, which will be so useless, it will be only used to bill the govt.
Quora's "India Problem"
Have you called 911? The operator essentially does triage over the phone, and advises what intervention the caller should engage in. They are not just there as dial-an-ambulance.
"but almost every project I've seen had kept on trucking to meet an arbitrary deadline regardless of how poorly any of the testing goes, then the system hits the floor"

And the reason for this is simple..the one person who can pull the plug on a project of this magnitude, won't. Simply because s/he doesn't want to have to answer to having already dropped 88 million with nothing to show for it. There becomes a single person to blame at this point, whereas a failed system that gets implemented, suddenly allows for MANY people to be thrown under the bus.
Supercomputers reveal how K+ channels gate electrical current in our bodies
Event Hacking: free ‘n easy MVP	
I recently created an event, an Unconference. I did that a few years ago for ReadWriteWeb. That one was charged, this one was free – monetizing via the insights and connections.

I wanted to see if I could do this for free with a runway of about 3 weeks. This is my MVP for running an Event. Here is how I hacked it:

WordPress for background info that I linked to from email invites.

Gmail Groups for email lists: only pain was manual copy and paste from LinkedIn but that was a one time chore. Next time I will probably use MailChimp (ForeverFree version) as Gmail Contacts/Groups is limited and a bit kludgy.

Eventbrite; it is free for free events
(MeetUp was my presumption but monthly fees put me off). If I was charging I might switch to EventBee for their $1 flat fee.

Promote using LinkedIn and Twitter: automated via my WordPress post

Location and refreshments via a corporate sponsor.

It all worked and it was free. It was small but attendees said they wanted to come to the next one and gave me feedback on how to improve it. So it served the classic MVP purpose of being a learning process.

For my next event, I plan to try a few things such as:

Record Using iPhone. Could I get a stand to hold it?

Broadcast the event live? Or record it and upload to YouTube?

Use Polling both before and after to get some quotable data points
Older Win XP machines doesn't support SNI, so you could get around it with an older machine. Of cause that's a problem that will go away over time.
because you probably don't know what to look at after all. Look at the predicated type declarations for example. It's a language with concepts built in.
There's OpenAPL, but I've no experience with it (yet).
I'm not angry, but I have noticed you have a certain axe to grind and that you have a tendency to cherry-pick citations to support it, make sweeping comments that go against the bulk of current research and that you're extremely hostile to those who disagree with you. I was only reminding you of the guidelines since belligerence wins over nobody and makes HN a less pleasant place to be.

>good luck with your suggestion of 1 hr of cardio/day to people new to fitness... lmk how that pans out!

Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you were asking in earnest... can only assume you're referring to what I shared earlier on HN—pretty much everyone who joined my high school swim team team made tremendous improvements in their fitness levels. Ditto for sedentary students joining cross-country. It already "panned out" years ago and it was a huge success!
Co-founder of Yandex dies suddenly.
The answer can be one of a billion reasons:
dependency chain breaking, register renaming deficiencies,
alias breaking, etc.

First step needs to be the hardware performance counters.
Usually it will tell you something interesting, but leave you scratching your head.

Then you find a friend at intel, who laughs, and explains some wildly esoteric detail of the core2 processor that causes this.

This is why scheduling and register allocation models in compilers don't bother with ILP based modeling for x86 processors. Even if you modeled the externally published architecture perfectly, including port restrictions, decode lengths, branch stalls, cycle counts, register requirements, etc, the processor just does whatever it wants internally anyway, because they don't really give you all the details.
A reading list on F# and other ML languages
Which front-end would you suggest for non-technical users (for compatibility)? Still bootstrap 2?
Nexus 7 (2013) - Mini Review
The latter and even when you opt out it appears to log everything.
Obviously there's a whole heap of details, systems and other areas to be thoroughly familiar with. My criticism was of OP suggesting that somehow 2 months not being good enough was a stretch and the story was hyperbole. Although I haven't dealt with 1/100th of the stress a 911 operator has to go through, I can say that sentiment is quite silly.
Do you know why Obama came into power?
:) a corollary of Greenspun's tenth rule: every language spec will be revised at least until it is possible to implement a slow, incomplete version of Common Lisp inside it.
The numbers I give are adjusted for purchasing power. Workers will not engage in a massive die off on $8/hour or even $1/hour.
YUI does CSS based transitions[1] and it falls back to a JavaScript implementation when the browser doesn't support them.

[1] http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/transition/
B&N was the shop around in the various suburbs I grew up in.
You're proposing subscription-based private emergency services?
You absolutely can sue the government if their responders fail in their job and someone is hurt or dies. This happens all the time.
I don't think blocking India-specific topics is enough. Even general questions are dominated by answers from people with "Indian-sounding" names.
This is why I'm eagerly watching Light Table releases waiting for the "good enough" moment. It's going to have the advantages you mentioned, except in Clojure(script), which is, er, more broadly applicable. The GUI being bog-standard Webkit is another major plus.

Emacs has had an astonishing run but is just slightly too opinionated for me to have taken the plunge. The promise of light table has kept me working in sublime for now (with a bit of Catnip IDE on the side).
But, "two or three years ago" is a strangely broad phrase to use for something as huge as monitoring emails. Why did they not say "that stopped in the middle of 2011" or something like that?
So, what do I have to do to get your help with an 8th set of crypto challenges with an ECC focus? :)

(We have some basic problems, but you seem to know this stuff better than I do.)
Here's an example of that kind of situation happening for a fire department in Tennassee: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/10/04/122193/county-f...
In case anyone else is interested in C-replacement type languages, I've been collecting a list:

ATS: http://www.ats-lang.org/
BitC (seems to be dead): http://www.bitc-lang.org/index.html
Tart: https://code.google.com/p/tart/
Deca: https://code.google.com/p/decac/
Cyclone: http://cyclone.thelanguage.org/wiki/Why%20Cyclone/
Nimrod: http://nimrod-code.org/
Habit (Haskell adapted for systems programming): http://hasp.cs.pdx.edu/

Plus of course the obvious ones, Go, Rust, D. I don't keep track of these projects' usability, I just write them down as I come across them.
That's what Zuckerberg had in mind, originally (reportedly).
Not sure...there is a dearth of games now for US players and I was so disgusted with my money getting wrapped up in the Full Tilt BS that I went away from poker for about a year. I am certainly still a winning player at live poker, but the hourly rate can be a bit dismal and I don't enjoy it enough to do it everyday, or even once a week.

I would say that by 2008 the average live game was strong enough that I definitely had to practice disciplined game/seat selection, couldn't just sit down anywhere and expect my edge was higher than the rake.

I agree HU strategies advanced exponentially once stoxpoker and some other video sites came on and people started being heads-up specialists.
A lot of people here saying that the India govt is too incompetent to do this.

This is naive thinking. The indian govt might be slow and corrupt but rest assured when it comes to implementation they are actually quite decent. See the amount of work that has gone into computerization of various things like personal tax, property tax, education etc. Other governments can move much more quickly because they only have 1% of India's population. India has so much paper records and most of them lost. For example, can you imagine what it takes to move the property tax system online? Most land records don't exist on paper with the goverment. This is not just a data entry and technology problem anymore.

No, what I am worried about is that if they pull if off, you cannot keep the politicians off this. And it's guaranteed to be misused. It's dangerous to build a monitoring system because a security hole in such things endangers everyone. If the richest companies in the planet like apple, google, sony cannot build secure governments, I highly doubt government can.
Believe me, if I wrote all the reasons I dislike Obama, it would be comparable in size to a George Martin novel. Yes, I dislike him. But that does not make what I say about him untrue - in fact, the reason I dislike him is exactly because these things are true, I don't have any personal animosity towards him. But these not all the reasons - these are only the reasons why anybody who is willing to look clearly into things and go beyond propaganda should have expected Obama not to be a transformational leader. Which he is not. If you persist in the opinion that all signs were pointing at him being transformational, but it somehow didn't work out (I'm sure it was Bush's fault or Tea Party fault or anybody else's fault but not his) - well, feel free to believe it. I only hope next time next Obama tries to sell you a bill of goods you remember how well you did on this one.

>>> Yet, you are so certain that you're right because you and Fox News say so.

No, because people who knew him say so, e.g.: http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/03/harvard-law-classmate-law-...
And it's not the only place, just try to find somebody who was around him when he wasn't yet a big politician and ask them, or read accounts of those who did.
What if we made 911 into a voucher program.

When signing up for a phone, you must pick a 911 provider. The cost is fixed, so you're not choosing based on saving money, but based on quality of service. Each provider would be audited and would publish response times, etc.

You could choose the government program described in this article, or go with someone more technologically advanced.
For posterity: 911.io doesn't exist. Parent is just thinking out loud.
It actually works similar enough that I switch between Vim and Evil daily without getting annoyed. I usually use Vim from the terminal. The follow things you asked about are all working:

Macros
Repeat
:'<,'>s/foo/bar/gi
:%s/foo\(bar\)/bar\1/

It is very actively developed and quite stable. There are of cause Vim features that are not implemented yet, but the core seams to be very well covered.
It will surely be illegal for the citizens to have their own drones. It will be gov't-only airspace at that altitude. (The people won't object in sufficient numbers either, giving gov't the mandate.) I doubt an Anon could launch or land a drone very many times without getting caught.
Screw up, or perhaps the engineers understood how many of the people like themselves would want to use it.
Have you seen http://nerdydata.com? It's some kinda of credit based search engine for source code.
I'm not convinced somebody thinks for humanity when they say things like: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
They used to be a really hot hardware and I think software (e.g. CAD) company, even did a lot of Chipper RISC chip work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_architecture ; not to be confused with the Clinton administration cryptographic debacle). Then they exited the hardware business in 2000 and among other things became a patent troll: https://www.google.com/search?q=intergraph+lawsuit

Which of course is an even worse sign.
Let's not forget that the developers of the system are potentially handing the system over to another party for O&M, didn't have flexibility in choosing what software to use, didn't get to prioritize the requirements and blue buttons were equal with system stability. They may have even had a separate contract do the design spec, and IV&V. The diffusion of responsibility combined with the rigidity of the procurement process is such that it is often impossible to achieve the flexibility needed to devise an optimal solution.
Small two-stroke engines used in lawn mowers and the like were incredibly simple. Perhaps a dozen parts for the entire engine. Of course, such things are now banned in California.
That would be true if you were a sociopath. But those with empathy need to learn to deal with stressful calls, and I imagine that would take some time and effort.
AFAIK any shell command preceded by a "!" works just as you would it expect it to work in your shell.
http://kotaku.com/5891962/fez-creator-says-people-have-gotte...
Probably the former. There were a bunch of similar sites originally, this one arguably the best, and the comic didn't always link to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0usJCEUgWyM
Those very basic operations work, but it's not feasible yet to use it exclusively as a shell and be able to do anything moderately complex without getting fancy with subprocesses and so on. Though, it's been a while since I used it (2 years) -- have things changed significantly in this time that now make it a good candidate to use as a command-line terminal?