skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it implies than in real life men WILL be 95% of the audience, and doesn't artificially alter his language.

Or it implies that whoever reads the text, man or woman, will be wise enough not to give a fuck for such minutiae.
hmm, but that seems to depend on the C runtime. Nevertheless, it's on my bookmarks and I'll play around with it.
How is prohibiting competition a restriction on insurance industry control over medicine?

That's like saying medallion cabs have too much control on taxi service, therefore we should not remove restrictions which keep Uber and other competitors out of the market.
I have read the oppsite, can you show me how vpn+proxy over ssh can prevent getting blocked from DPI? I thought they block everything not on their whitelist.
If OCR can read it then it's not a good captcha, is it?
Given what we already know about the extent of DPI monitoring on the US internet, and the US govs data sharing programs, why do you think this a more practical choice than actual democratic representation in the long term?
You say "By the time they're practicing - 52% of physicians see patients for 40 or less hours per week." How much of their time is given to office or practice administration, and what percentage of physicians are wholly out of practice, and running hospitals, doing research, etc?
> Whether we want to get there is another story.

NASA could probably have come up with a Soylent-like product by now, but they haven't. I guess that being stuck in a small can in space means that nice food becomes important.

So, on the ground, there are two hurdles. i) Portion control, ii) Choice.

Some people will not eat two scoops of ice cream. They will eat a pint of ice cream. They won't eat 2 cookies, they'll eat the packet of cookies. Some people will smear the cookies with peanut butter, and crumble them over the pint of ice cream.

Will Soylent help these people? What happens if someone eats double the recommended daily amount of Soylent? Or triple? Or quadruple?

Some people will walk into a supermarket, walk past all the fruit and vegetables, and into the doughnut aisle. Then they'll walk past the meat and fish and into the crisp / chip aisle. Then they'll go to the weird salt / sugar / fat / slop instant meal aisle and buy bizarre "food".

I have no idea how Soylent will help them.
Finally a use for my super power!

When I was a kid I was obsessed with inventing a 3D TV. I went to the library and tried to understand how holograms worked and everything. I was so intrigued by stereopsis that I would constantly try to get any two similar objects in my field of view to "combine" by crossing my eyes until they locked. I'd hold my index fingers in front of my face, and then either cross my eyes or stare past them to bring them together, and see how far I could move them apart before I lost the lock.

I obtained the power of exceptional vergence. I was actually surprised to find that only two or three people I've met can make non-auto-stereograms (two photos side by side) work at all. And to this day, autostereograms resolve automatically for me.

My only weaknesses are cheap faux wood flooring and other short period tilings.

And Tetris. Man I suck at Tetris.
Mirah - A Ruby inspired Runtimeless Programming Language
Why Scala Rocks*
Azure offers a free tier and hosts nodejs native: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/nodejs/

(Disclaimer: Only used it for a simple app)
Actually it's a very good example.

Is 中 a word? Or 中國 a word? Or 中國哲 is a word? One can't say until they read a full sentence, making sense of it and distinguishing words from context.

Similarly, can you clearly distinguish operators here ",`(({.@] , ($: }.))~` ({.@] , ($: }.)) @.(>&{.))@.(@&#)"?

Sure, we can acclimate to a lot. Assembler is also a language. But nobody gonna write Hacker News in it.
That's after-the-fact, how you are feeling about your life now, and then yes, it's fine advice. But did it help you the slightest bit when people told you this back you were being bullied?
Linode. It's cheap and gives me full control, though I would be curious to see how its cost to scale is vs. other "cloud" platforms.
Have used Heroku, Dotcloud and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, all with good results.

Also hosting a few private apps on a digital ocean vps using dokku[1] which is working pretty well so far.

1. https://github.com/progrium/dokku
I wonder what would have happened if Linus got to this point before the Internet gave him a pardon for any past and future dickishness.
Scala Cake Pattern
I haven't tried Nodejitsu yet, but their pricing looks really good because they have a $9/month plan for low volume web apps. My gripe about Heroku (which I have used on customer and my own projects) is that the minimum monthly price to get always-on service is $35/month. (The free tier unloads your app if it has no traffic for a while so the next user waits for a loading request). I have several personal projects that I want always-on, but they are low traffic apps.
HSM = hardware security module, for those that aren't familiar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
> They're just taking people hostage and encouraging spam on social networks.

Isn't that what social networks are for these days. They're just junk mail by another name.
Isn't that just statically linking binaries? Couldn't I do that manually too very easily? Serious question.

Otherwise, if it's really relocating binaries, then it's awesomse, BUT I definately want to know MORE about the 'caching' part. That comes short in the docs.
Scala Loops without loops
I don't see any indications of coordinated trolling in that thread but rather, a lively discussion about Fish, his antics and Fez.
So much synergy. So much.
> This is bullshit conjecture with some convenient nasty labeling ("sociopath") for anybody that doesn't fit your mold.

I'm not saying that not caring about ones particular opinion makes you a sociopath - that's misinterpreting my words.

Saying that we are hardwired as a social species is not conjecture, it's what evidence from pretty much every bit of research on the subject shows - from psychological experiments to brainscans showing that feeling "pain" over not being treated nicely isn't a metaphor - it actually activates the same areas of the brain as things that physically hurt.

And how else would you explain that social isolation even works as a form of punishment/torture in the first place?
After all, the primary objective isn't to create an impenetrable system, but one that's exceptionally difficult to penetrate.
Look at comments on previous posts, overwhelmingly positive. The cancellation incited the 800+ comment shitstorm you linked, they didn't precipitate it.
nice but is there no way to get back to the front page once you are on a sub page?
The pause-on-interesting-frames feature doesn't work too well when there's disagreement over whether a frame is interesting, unfortunately. If the number of Yes and No votes both exceed some fixed threshold, then it marks the frame as "debated" and only stops on it if you tell it to stop on debated frames - which includes both frames with an overwhelming majority of Yes votes and ones with an overwhelming majority of No votes.
> men WILL be 95% of the audience

It has been postulated, I think plausibly, that the commonality of such language is one reason why this gender disparity continues to exist.

Personally, I agree with this argument. If you disagree, that is fine -- but please show a little bit more respect.
Since so many people here are saying Heroku, Linode, or AWS, I'm wondering if someone could explain the value proposition of these over a cheap VPS for most small to medium deployments.

I can get a 4GB ram VPS for $10/m, which seems orders of magnitude cheaper than the popular options. What am I missing out on?
I was thinking about redistribution of one's work. It would be a lot of hassle for a simple patch.
My only knowledge of APL is second hand via Scott Meyer's "More Effective C++" where he gives it as an example of the benefits offered by lazy-evaluation, saying that rather than compute the results of each statement in series it makes a compound statement where it computes only the result needed.

In my own situation APL is a language looking for a problem - I don't currently have a use case for it.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=azvE8V0c-mYC&pg=PT121&lpg=PT...
These are awful tips and don't prevent the retail problem of showrooming. Even if BN is cheaper than Amazon, you can't beat the convenience of buying stuff from your laptop in bed.

They need to draw people into their stores AND make them spend money. A lot of these tips are just about getting freeloader traffic.
You're creating a false choice. You can have trusting relationships with family and friends and still be shrewd when it comes to business. By all means trust your loved ones. When it comes to business arrangements, stick with exactly what was written down on paper and agreed to by both parties. If this were a situation based on personal trust, they wouldn't have you signing a contract in the first place.
You're very clever, young man, very clever, but it's payment gateways all the way down.
She is classically trained and went to a good school. That sets her apart from the overwhelming majority of contemporary pop acts, whose training is mostly from karaoke pub competitions. She's no Beethoven, but she might have been; that's the point.
I'm not sure I follow: If you give someone your patch, you also have to give them your patch?

edit: And, if you don't give someone your patch, you don't have to give someone your patch?
When the history of our time is written, a major theme should be the recursive multiplication of finer and finer rules to regulate what should be handled by common sense and good will.

I do know a kid who got a misdemeanor charge for a hallway scuffle at a public high school. It was settled with probation before judgment and the requirement to attend an anger management course; but it should have been handled by a detention and forgotten. He is now a teacher at the same school, and if he ever goes into administration might bring some needed perspective.
> you even learned recently that the UK has a PRISM on it's own.

I knew that for years. I've been talking about echelon and similar for many years.

> What about the government supported public exposure of demonstrants Faces

If you can show me demonstrators who hide their face and who don't commit acts of criminal damage or violence I'll agree the law is stupid.

> criminalizing every demonstrant?

UK laws around public protest are sub-optimal, and the police do misuse many powers. People who have been wrongfully arrested, or kettled, or similar have my full support in bringing those police officers to justice. But many people demonstrate peacefully every year and have no problems with police.

> How will you know if protesters got killed when this info is censored?

Look at the massive amount of press coverage around people killed by police - (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4713753.stm), (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13268633) - do you honestly believe that information is or could be censored?
Obamacare really hasn't been fully implemented though. Until insurance companies cannot bar anyone with pre-existing conditions, and until the exchanges go into effect, it's hard to truly say what premiums and coverage will be like.

If I were to predict, I think ultimately you see more people go for high deductible / catastrophic only plans, creating a more transparent, open marketplace for most non-emergent/outpatient care. Perhaps the plans will provide some exceptions, such as coverage for cancer care - although that will probably happen over time when the government requires them to. I think that leads to lower costs for individuals.
With the availability of more interesting pricing schemes, would also hope the disastrous icd-9 and cpt systems get wiped out, but less optimistic about that.
"...often too little to support themselves and their families."

http://www.livingwage.org.uk/

Just why do the rest of us have to subsidise employers who pay less than a living wage through taxes? Never understood that.
In India, Prism-like Surveillance Slips Under the Radar
It's Not Over for Barnes & Noble
A second-hand IBM X3650 in my basement. 16GB RAM, dual quad-core 3Ghz Xeons, dual power supplies, and hot-swap RAID 5 drives for less than $400 on eBay, connected through the Comcast connection I already have. The Comcast connection is the weak link. Google fiber would be so nice.
EC2 for some things, dedicated hardware for some others.

Where it sits, however, is only part of the problem!

I use plz[1] and instagit[2] in tandem via post-receive hooks to do the "deployment" bit, along with a service registry (closed-source, written on work time, boo!) like seaport[3] and a proxy based on httppp[4] to route requests to the right application.

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1. https://github.com/deoxxa/plz

2. https://github.com/deoxxa/instagit

3. https://github.com/substack/seaport

4. https://github.com/deoxxa/httppp
Changed.us
No, the ORG are not the answer.

To the outside world they look like a bunch of nerds who refuse to pay for movies online.

This may be unfair, sadly perception is 9/10th of fact.

You need to write to your MP and tell him/her that its is insecure, undemocratic and will endanger kids.
To expand on this a bit, absolute security for encryption just doesn't exist. If you wanted your data 100% secure, put it in a database, disconnect the DB from your network, put it in a locked room, guarded by biometric locks and security guards. Even in that scenario, the data is vulnerable, but why even bother discussing that point, as the data is worthless if you can't access it.

With that reality in mind, I was responsible for PCI for a large part of the infrastructure at a Level 1 Merchant, meaning a yearly audit had to be passed. Ultimately, our solutions boiled down to restricting access to an external (read different machine/network segment), firewalled host that did the decryption. In some cases this was an appliance that was purchased (this helps with compliance, but they're expensive, and they're a nightmare if they become a performance bottleneck as they're a black box you know little about). In other cases we used a web service we built that worked similarly (auditors will pick this apart because it isn't a "standard" solution).

In all cases here is a high level of how they work: encrypted data is passed to the service, which pulls the encryption key out of memory, decrypts the data, and sends it back to the requesting host. The encryption key is stored in (at least) two pieces, each piece is encrypted with a key encrypting key, key encrypting keys are know to very few employees, no single employee holds both key encrypting keys. The encryption keys is only assembled in its entirety while in memory.

Again, there are problems to this, as patio11 intimates, compliance includes much theater a times, but this is reality, and it does provide benefit over other solution, in this case, at least three layers of security must be compromised before you could decrypt everything.
Then you use mullvad.net and pay with cash by snail mail.
In my experience, a lot of Linux programs aren't straightforward to compile statically. Having said that, that might just be my ineptitude!

Which bit of the caching isn't clear? If you're happy that whack creates relocatable versions, then the caching works just by copying the output directory into ~/.cache, and then copying that directory to the target on subsequent installations. The exact details of how programs are made relocatable are under "How does Whack work?" in the README.
I tend agree with you.

I see the behavior of Fish and his detractor as symptoms of the same cocky entitlement and nastiness that is so terribly common gaming culture.
I was actually really excited to read that, thinking I was going to implement it straight away in our plugin. But it seems to require scanning up the table from the current cell, for each cell, to get its header, and it also requires knowing the rendered height of the cell, which I don't fully understand. I'm sure if I actually sat down and wrote it out, it'd make more sense.

At any rate, it seems like trying to implement their algorithm verbatim in javascript would be pretty slow for large tables. Maybe it's better to just use it for inspiration.

Also, their algorithm seems to come at if from the perspective of, "I have a cell, what is its header?" It would be more efficient in reverse, if we could instead answering the question, "I have a header, what are its cells?". What dynatable does now is sort of a hybrid approach (we find the header cells, make a dictionary, then loop through the rows, assigning each cell value to its attribute in the dictionary). The issue is, according to that article, any table cell could potentially be a header cell, not just those in the header row or in th elements.
It's not really a risk you can really protect against in any meaningful way with insurance. It's the banks that ultimately eat the loss, and they just write this off as a cost of doing business. Banks really do lose a lot of money to fraud, card losses, and other miscellaneous security issues and bad actors -- a lot more than people think.

Storing CC data can be done sufficiently securely, of course, although PCI DSS guidelines are insufficient and silly in places, and you really have to go above and beyond to make it secure enough because data breaches can threaten the status of your merchant account. If you become too costly or too risky to do business with, the bank will simply cut you off by terminating your merchant account. You may also end up on the TMF which will make it very hard to get another merchant facility in the future.
TL;DR: NSA man claims Europe more likely to spy on citizens than US. Uses study done without knowledge of PRISM (presumably) to back claim up.
I made the same mistake. Maybe we are so used to other people being super skeptical to what we do? See you in Prague ;-)
I like these in general, but the 'line' skin is a usability problem. They look like buttons, but function like checkboxes/radio buttons which make it very confusing.
It is very easy to set up a service to ping your app once an hour to circumvent this.
1. This is neat information: it's worth sharing. (I'm glad I ran into a discussion of it not long ago, because it helped me understand the sort of thing in this comic. Come to think of it... was it mentioned in a what-if?)

2. This is also a pretty big spoiler, I'd think.
> I also noticed something that doesn’t usually happen when

> using a mouse and keyboard, even though I’m routinely in

> front of a computer for seven or more hours a day: after

> an hour or so, my right arm felt really tired, all the way

> up to my shoulder. Even when I started fresh the next day,

> making motions as small and precise as I could, it still

> started to bug me after a while.

Sigh.. http://catb.org/jargon/html/G/gorilla-arm.html
Buzz Aldrin: Discovering the moon
How well did she do with exposure in the market? Can she recommend the editor?
How would that be the case?
YOu have a dedicated box that stores details and is remotely contacted through an XML-RPC/JSON-HTTP API of some sort.

The API should have two methods:

* Add a new card to account.
* Make payment of £xx from card NN.

The machine is locked down, runs no other services, and so cards cannot be exported/stolen from this system. You'd encrypt the filesystem and prompt for a key/passphrase at boot. Ideally you'd only login via the serial console so the only service exposed is your "add/charge" methods.

(Even allowing the remote-deletion of cards could be a security issue; obviously.)
I'm curious about this as well. I write a blog, and people compliment me on my writing there, but those people are my friends, so they are biased.
Very nice! All themes looks great besides the line skin, that mix the check with radio and show an X when they are not checked.
It definitely is a powerful way of thinking. And yet, implementing transformations used for event sequence/path/time series/complex nested data structure analysis in SQL is like using tweezers for the job. Set thinking is powerful, SQL has limitations.
Kool-aid
I wrote a similar comment too. In practice you find you might want to allow "delete card" or "update card" which are complications to the simple-model.
I think the issue is that, if you are doing something like sorting, you actually are going to have to redraw the entire table.

Also, for things like plain-text searching, it's faster to do it on a collection of objects detached from the DOM in JavaScript than to scan the DOM, and especially if you're doing non-text comparisons (like comparing a number with the parseFloat representation of the values in one of the table columns for all rows).

And finally, if you are going to read and then redraw in the DOM, it's best to do it as grouped atomic operations due to the inefficiency making the browser reflow (https://developers.google.com/speed/articles/reflow).

For what it's worth, this is how Dynatable works internally, though I haven't had any issues with it being slow, though it's possible I just haven't used it with large enough data sets yet (I've only used it on tables of probably 1000 rows or less so far).
Show HN: simple street names cleaner (my evening project)
For heroku and other PaaS's, there's no need to manage a server. Don't need to set it up, don't need to maintain it, keep software up to date, etc.
The only reason I currently go to B+N instead of paying much less for a better reviewed and larger selection of books on Amazon is I have no idea what to get someone as a gift. Other than gift shopping I have no idea why I'd sit in a car for 30 minutes when I can just open another webbrowser tab and get a better product, cheaper.

The current organization by generic area of study does nothing for gift shopping. I need store categorization by stereotypical demographic group. "wife" or "tween boys" gift section. Maybe broken down by hobby, maybe not. Holiday and "event" selection. So... this is THE place to buy gifts made out of old fashioned ink and paper.

Their biggest problem is lack of selection. Amazon is so much bigger, and about a half of the store floor space is already non-book (toys, board games, videos, CDs, coffee shop...) They may as well give it up and become a gift store for the small segment of the population which is not functionally illiterate. Coincidentally people who are literate tend to hang out with other people who are literate, and are usually in an economic class well above functional illiterates, so its probably a good demographic to market to. They can keep their chocolate bar selection, those are good gifts. Obviously the gift card and wrapping paper racks stay. Maybe old fashioned optical disks should be kept for awhile. The rest of the addon non-book stuff can be junked. Why would I want a coffee bar when I'm shopping for a kids b-day party gift? If you've ever been inside a "hallmark store" imagine that toned down a bit with a selection of "gift books". Bland generic popular inoffensive stuff for gifts; pretty much what they've already got.

Another interesting idea is segmentation. So the general masses of the population have given up on physical trinkets and now go virtual. Selling physical CDs? In 2013? I haven't bought a physical CD at a retail store since the 90s. Well, that's OK. There's always going to be a small segment of the population who want physical stuff (aside from gifts, see above). They might increase profitability by intentionally shrinking, which is stereotypically unthinkable by the "drive it into the ground" types, but might be their best bet. As long as they don't make the big mistake of assuming 1:1 mapping between old people and luddites. The Venn diagram probably looks more like 100% of hoarders are physical buyers. Also probably lots of aspirational buyers; lots of travel guides sold, and "kids summer workbooks" and the like.