skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a friend who was in the military, he chipped a bone in his food during training and gave him a limp. He couldn't prove it happened on training grounds, so the military wasn't willing to pay to fix it, but he was also able to resign (I question this logic. Nice job Canadian military).

So he scheduled surgery, it wasn't due for 4 years. His life wasn't in danger, it wasn't completely debilitating, he could walk with a limp. So rather than go to another country, he actually soldiered it (he's the soldiering type it seems). Well guess what 4 years of a persistent limp + exercise does to you. Nothing good. He finally had the bone chip removed, I'm sure a cheap operation. Only now he's had 6+ years of physiotherapy correcting his improperly developed muscular system.

+1 Canada for having a public health care system that moves fast when it needs to.

-1 Canada for having a public health care system that moves incredibly slow when it doesn't need to.
Dead on arrival often indicates a link to a banned site - there is a list somewhere ...
Great deck about functional programming in Python. Also:

* `operator.attrgetter`, `getattr()`, `setattr()`, `object.__getattribute__` [1][2]

* `operator.itemgetter`, `object.__getitem__` [3][4]

* `collections.abc` [5][6]

[1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/operator.html#operator.attr...

[2] http://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#object.__g...

[3] http://docs.python.org/2/library/operator.html#operator.item...

[4] http://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html?#object.__...

[5] http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#collection...

[6] http://docs.python.org/3/library/collections.abc.html
Would you mind sharing your provider?
An example:

First alpha release of Python 3.4 is out (python.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155423

It probably linked to [1], but all we can tell is that it was something at python.org. The post was by plessthanpt05, an HN user for about two years with 838 karma. All of his/her posts from the past year or so are dead (about 60 of them). They don't appear to be a bot.

Python 3.4.0a1 isn't something that would interest everyone on HN, but it certainly doesn't seem like the kind of thing that should have been killed.

[1] http://python.org/download/releases/3.4.0/

Edit: more details on plessthanpt05
The Factoring Dead: Preparing for the Cryptopocalypse
Cross-European medical tourism could explode next year, after 2011/24/EU: Directive on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare enters into application.

The directive created a legal framework for patient’s right to seek healthcare in another member state and for reimbursement.

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2...
Another way to handle this is to forward all your work email to another service, then if you change jobs that email simply stops, but you still have all the history and any personal messages that might have gotten sent to that address.

I know a few people who don't like using Outlook so they set up their work email to autoforward to gmail and use that to handle their email.
Have a look at http://ractivejs.org
To be uncharacteristically charitable to the US government, Im not sure any government has credible computer/internet policies. Certainly not here in the UK at least.

Partly, I think this is because of the general ignorance of the population. And that is because the mass media see the internet as a threat to it's businesses and demonize the internet at every opportunity. So the general population see shed loads of scare stories which they believe because the have (or had) more trust in the mass media than the internet.

How often have we heard the sarcastic phrase: "It must be true, its on the internet"? (Of course my reply is always an equally sarcastic: "It must be true, I read it in a newspaper".)
At least provide a screenshot. You even linked to a page saying that you should never use that character on a website.

It's a rectangle for me as well.
Yes, because blunt analysis of the Mexican government is a war crime.

>U.S. Ambassador Carlos Pascual left Mexico in May 2011 amid furor over leaked cables that angered the Mexican government. Mexican President Felipe Calderon had publicly criticized a cable in which Pacual complained about inefficiency and infighting among Mexican security forces in the campaign against drug cartels.

[http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130801/NATION/308010053...]

I would actually care what happened to Manning if he just released war crime stuff. But he's a goofball who deserves what he got.
For how long have you run a popular discussion web site, and what measures do you take to reduce the increased snarkiness in extended exchanges? I'd love to hear how you solve the problem.
2.4%. And please cite your source that says it applied to every other licensee. My reading of the commission document indicates that all other license agreements Samsung made for this patent involved multiple SEPs from each party in cross-licensing agreements. Samsung was also trying to use its SEPs as leverage to get Apple to cross-license its non-SEPs to them at a discount to Apple's proposal. Were both parties being reasonable in their demands? Honestly, I couldn't tell from the redacted document.

Samsung blatantly copied the iPhone in many many ways. Using the pinch to zoom patent is likely similar to prosecuting the mafia for tax evasion - it wasn't their most egregious offense, but it was the only one the feds could make stick.
From what I read they basically said that they didn't care about FRAND commitments.
The average salary for a professional degree in New Jersey is $68k. How many teachers have master credentials? It doesn't end when you get your bachelor degree.

Anyways, the free market works both ways, even libertarians can appreciate that. I totally think that teacher salaries should be market driven, but when you get rid of the all the low-quality teachers (low-quality works exist in the private sector also, mind you), you'll have a huge problem attracting the right standard of talent to fill in the gaps.

So the solutions must be formed like:

(a) get rid of bad teachers

(b) recruit and retain good teachers

A "war on teachers" in general does nothing about (a) and only screws us on (b).
Ask HN: Flag != Downvote, Right?
I'm seeing more and more instances of high quality, relevant submissions that are getting tons of upvotes, and generating very interesting conversations
in their comment sections without even a hint of controversy, and then BOOM -- flagged off the front page -- most likely because of a small but very vocal minority who
take special exception to a particular story for one reason or another. I'm pretty sure flags aren't intended to serve as downvotes, but that seems to be how
they're being used of late, rather than just on spammy, off-topic, inappropriate, inaccurate, abusive, libelous, or frivolous submissions. Is my understanding correct???

This was a pretty interesting bit of investigative journalism that I submitted the other day:

"Dozens of CIA Agents at Benghazi Attack, Being Kept Quiet w/ Monthly Polygraphs (thelead.blogs.cnn.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152006

and it was definitely relevant to HN given all of the concern of late about abuses by the intelligence community and the "War on Leakers". However, it was
flagged to death because the word "Benghazi" has become so politicized that apparently some HNers just read the headline, incorrectly assumed
that it was some sort of right-wing talk radio screed, and flagged it without even bothering to click through to the article.

This was an interesting piece of journalism, giving a detailed description of the pressure the intelligence community exerts to silence "potential leakers".
The reporter (Jake Tapper) is probably one of the best in the business right now - with a reputation for being very balanced, and on a network with a
similar repuation.

This was no Fox News or MSNBC political hit piece.

This problem seems to be getting worse and worse.

UPDATE: And... This was flagged in 10 minutes. Great, The Circle is Complete.
Understanding Proximity in Japanese Context
is this a reveal.js rendering of an IPython notebook ?

ipython nbconvert --to slides <notebook.ipynb>

http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/nbconvert.htm...
HN no longer stands for HackerNews, now it stands for the Hellban News
a List is a generalization of a Pair - it could be empty, while a Pair cannot (logically). Apart from that, a Non-empty List could be viewed as a self-referential (recursive) Pair or a chain of Pairs. So, technically, List is the same ADT as Pair (cond/car/cdr) plus explicit null? and list? functions.

Yes, they could, but it is more reasonable to split the code, so you could dlload or statically link the pure code independently from unsafe code.
We will be doing this legally, which means paying ourselves salaries and paying taxes etc. etc.
I ran into the character limit, but I just wanted to add some of the patterns I've noticed of stories that tend to get unfairly flagged, although there are plenty of instances where I don't really see any possible explanation for the flagging:

- Stories that could be considered as positive towards Microsoft - Personally, I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, and if there was a Reddit-like downvote for stories, I
might consider using it for some of these submissions. But uniformly flagging anything that could be construed as positive towards Microsoft seems quite out
of line and petty.

- Political stories or opinions with a Libertarian bent - based on user comments, HN seems to be about 1/3 Liberal, 1/3 Libertarian (with a few conservatives
thrown in), and 1/3 moderate/apolitical, but comparable political stories and opinion pieces by Paul Krugman, Matt Taibbi, Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, and other
Liberal writers don't seem to run into the same flagging issues that Libertarian ones do.

- Stories that are negative towards Apple - this doesn't seem to happen as much anymore, but was probably one of the best examples of abusive flagging a couple of years ago.

- Political stories in general - I'm sympathetic to HNers who get frustrated when NSA or Aaron Swartz stories completely take over HN, and I'll admit that
HN has been a little too politics heavy of late. However, I find it really troubling when HNers openly make comments about how they are "flagging every
political story they see". I've witnessed some really interesting submissions and comment discussions get unfairly snuffed out because of this attitude.

I would be curious to hear about any other abusive flagging patterns HNers have noticed, or any opinions on what can be done about it.

I know that there is a thread buried away somewhere for feature requests and that this probably isn't the place for it, but I wish flagging could be more
transparent somehow. Maybe with an icon to make users aware that flagging is taking place, and where they could have the opportunity to counter it - or unflag -
a submission when they feel that the flagging is abusive?
The argument is presumably that if you won't do it, they'll find someone else who will.

That's a pretty shit argument for being the one who folds. If everyone does refuse then it doesn't get built. If you refuse and they find someone else, that person may not be as good as you and may create a less effective surveillance apparatus which is easier for white hats to neutralize or dismantle.

Engineering has practical consequences. If you build something that gets democracy activists killed, you're the one who has to live with that. There are plenty of cool problems to solve that don't involve the construction of a surveillance state.
http://xkcd.com/144/
It would be great if the title said anything at all about what the app does.
>* And it would still not look like that to the bare eye. To a camera with a long enough exposure, sure.*

Nope, it really DOES look like that (maybe with a little worse color rendition). Try a remote desert. You can see tons of stars clearly, the galactic haze, etc.

But you're right that in a city you'd also have to remove pollution and heat haze.
I'm not sure what the solution might be. I think its an excellent feature of the system that a judge, who can see the whole situation in front of him, is empowered to set sentences instead of a legislature that must necessarily speak in general terms. My preferred solution would be to get rid of statutory sentences and sentencing guidelines and instead just have a couple of maximums (20 years for a non-homicide crime, life/death for homicide). But that wouldn't stop prosecutors from bullying a defendant into accepting a plea deal by arguing "the judge could sentence you to up to 20 years!"

The other solution, less discretion in the hands of the judge is, I think, worse. Americans are not a compassionate people to criminals. It's easy for a voter and a legislator to call for 20 years or 30 years for a crime. Much harder for a judge sitting in front of a real human being to do that. So if you move discretion more to the statutory process, I think you'll get the opposite of the desired result.
New Samsung smartwatch to be called "Galaxy Gear"
I didn't know I'd need all those things for my water, but it's probably because I'm a renter. My rent is a paltry $685 per month (in Manchester) for a decent two bedroom. Compare to boston ($1500/mo)

The landlord removes my snow on time for free...

Never had an issue with the electricity.

But for a homeowner, yeah. I agree. Plus higher property tax.
Awesome.We own bunch of CC licenses and I am happy to beta test, if you guys want. :-)
No: "many of the non-producing 'pirate' distributors are driven out of the distribution market by law enforcement" is exactly the opposite of the case. Law-enforcement has the smallest impact on the secondary-market distributors.

Producers, whose content get leaked to the secondary market, get caught by law-enforcement, because each video available to law-enforcement is one more piece of evidence that can be used to track and trap them.

The consumers in the primary market will get in trouble with the producers for their leaking to the secondary market--much in the same way that Microsoft will get mad at you for leaking your company's Windows/Office MAK key. If a producer has only given copies of a video to five primary-market consumers, it's quite easy to figure out which of those consumers is responsible for the leak. The law doesn't have a good way to catch these people; but the producers do. (In a lot of cases, this amounts to literally being "in trouble with the mob.") Note that this knocks a consumer out of the primary market--but increases the amount of free content available in the secondary market. Since producers and consumers are taken out of the primary market in equal numbers when this happens, supply/demand stays constant.

The "pirate" re-distributors in the secondary market--the people these primary consumers leak to--don't care about any of this. They have no personal relationships with the primary market, and are not personally involved in it, other than in consuming and sharing the content produced there. They also don't have to share any personally-identifying details about themselves to participate in the secondary market (they can just be a TORified IP address, unlike the primary market which operates more through established contacts.)

However, by and large, the secondary market is overwhelmingly larger than the primary market--and so, when a Best Buy repair tech finds exploitative pornography on someone's hard disk, that person will likely be a member of the secondary market. Catching anyone from the primary market requires these social-engineering-based busts that you hear about--where someone infiltrates a primary market--precisely because there's no social "path" from the secondary market back into the primary market.
Python 3.4.0 alpha 1 released
Blocking Tor stops plenty of spam. Boards.ie blocked Tor and watched spam fall off a cliff.
You have to set "showdead" as "yes" in Profile settings.
>Obviously, light pollution is the best kind because it goes away within minutes of turning off the source

Only we never "turn off the source".

>Who the fuck cares about this

Humans? People not absorved in their little microcosm? People not expecting everything to dazzle them with 10,000 volts in their pleasure centres to "care" about it?
Training path for Competitive Programming
This seems to get more frustrating by the day. Greenwald depicts a system where the NSA/FISA are in cahoots, seemingly deciding for themselves what they should or shouldn't be doing.

Their stated regulatory agencies, the House/Senate, aren't even allowed to read info about what is they're doing -- yet the House/Senate have to vote on NSA authorizations? This is what Congress is receiving:

"Thanks for your inquiry. The full Committee attends
Business Meetings. At our July 18, 2013 Business
Meeting, there were seven Democrat Members and nine
Republican Members in attendance. The transcript is
classified."

How does this go on for so long!?

The Congressman received no response to any of his
requests. With a House vote looming on whether to
defund the NSA's bulk collection program - it was
scheduled for July 25 - he felt he needed the
information more urgently than ever. He recounted his
thinking to me: "How can I responsibly vote on a
program I know very little about?"

Yet they vote to fund it anyway, knowing that they don't know anything about the programs they're funding.
An open discussion has the benefit of generating valuable feedback for PG.
Show HN: Flang - Angular directive wrapper for Flot Chart library
How long is the limit after which you are allowed to express a criticism?
A tuple/triple of functions of certain signatures?)
As an NH resident, I can confirm this. Also, vanity plates are inexpensive here.
Prototype, share and receive real-time feedback
Mind you, there are also studies that actively "venting" emotions like rage will keep you angry longer than just ignoring them. (And then there are many social-science statistical surveys correlating the drop in violent crime over the past century with the rise in "things for bored, testosterone-filled adolescents to do that don't harm anybody", like video-games. (And then...))

This isn't one of those things where all the evidence just says something general and simple, and then can be specialized to infer what happens for a case like this; it's really one of those times where we need to test what happens in this case in particular.
Those screenshots look both ugly and hard to read. The colors and font really don't work well.

I checked the MetaFilter website and it looks somewhat better, although I still don't like the colors.
Another consideration is the projects that have been built with each framework. That can help you gauge popularity, where the jobs are, where you could get a job (or potentially poach someone from), and the capabilities of each library/framework:

http://backbonejs.org/#examples

http://emberjs.com/ember-users/

http://builtwith.angularjs.org/
Why would they leave? Major researchers need to publish in major journals in order to get tenure - if they choose to publish only in lower quality open access journals, they are perceived as weird and low status.

If UC requires open access this problem is solved. Every researcher has the perfect excuse for why they didn't publish in a closed journal.
Have a set of clear rules (and not vague non-language like "don't write non-hacker, off-topic stuff") - AND ENFORCE IT, visibly. Unenforced rules aren't rules. Unclarified rules aren't rules.

Whenever someone is penalized, point them to the specific rules they violated. And keep in mind that people make mistakes every now and then. Show largesse. This isn't a production line where flawed products are tossed out at the blink of an eye.

Last, don't view everything as a "problem" to be "solved". We're talking about human beings, not Turing-complete automatons. That's a big part of the problem with how HN is run. You will never "solve" this the way you would a bug.

You need a human element to address something human. Treating everyone like a spam bot only works for spam bots, and has the side effect of pissing off the human false positives.
Pythex looks really nice. I have used http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ so far and is pretty good.
With captcha solving costing cents to solve, this doesn't really fix much.
Ask HN: I'm having trouble finding the right mail hoster
I'm about to own my very first domain and of course I really like the idea of having a mailbox on my own domain, especially because I now feel confident to put stuff on github without having to worry that the mail address in every commit is about to change in the near future.

But I know that I don't use mail that often. I'll probably use it to sign up and send out applications, but that's about it. Shelling out $10 a month for something I rarely use seems a bit steep to me.

Some domain resellers offer free mailboxes with every purchase.

1. Is it a bad idea to have the domain and the mailbox associated with it in the same place? Is the cheapest namecheap box alright?

I've been looking trough a few mail hosters and I'm still not sure which one is the best fit. Only real requirement is payment via other options than a credit card (don't/can't have one). Pay-pal, wire transfer, Bitcoin, all is fine. Also IMAP.

I only heard good things about Rackspace, but has a minimum of 5 mailboxes ($10).
Google Apps isn't free anymore and I'd rather want to get away from them.
Zoho Mail offers free mailboxes and so far is my first choice (there must be a catch I haven't found yet).
Fastmail.fm is only somewhat cheap if I pay in advance and their sign-up form seems ancient.
Atmail Cloud doesn't say anything about payment options before signing up.
Anything from Microsoft rather not.
Hushmail, too expensive.

2. With most of them so expensive, wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a cheap dedicated server (like the 5$ OVH one) and host mail myself? Far more space and it allows me to do other stuff with it.

3. Living in Europe, is it a good idea to choose a mail hoster in the US or is there some downside/privacy concern? (or the domain as well, for that matter)
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFgR0m-9FmM
It's not quite as simple as that. The public pays these researchers' salaries, but part of the bargain is that they get to profit from anything they patent. If that were no longer the case, a lot of researchers might jump ship to the private sector, where they get higher salaries in return for their employer controlling their research. In any case, it's not fair to change the bargain retrospectively. The promise of being able to patent and otherwise profit from their research is part of the bargain in the existing status quo, and an important part of that bargain.
Customizing Your Bash Prompt
COBRA doesn't mean you get free healthcare. It means you pay the rate that your employer did, plus a 2% administrative fee.

It's better than individual coverage because individual plans are made more expensive to counteract adverse selection (i.e. people who buy plans are sicker than those who don't) but it's not really affordable for someone who just got laid off.