skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only do this when there's no other choice: I work in an open air office that the startups du jour are so proud of, so I'd rather listen to a coherent stream than dissonant chatter.
I wonder if the type of music factors into that at all. Ambient background noise I'd assume is a bit different from listening to death metal. I know programmers from both camps.
There really isn't a strong case either way on the matter of mid-life cognitive decline. The peak is "somewhere" between 17 and 70, but the plateau is so flat that it's hard to pinpoint it to a specific age and it seems to depend a lot on the individual.

We still don't know when we peak. I tend to take that as a positive.

Where there is exponential worsening is in physical health: risk of death (also, risk of cancer) go up at about 9% per year, or a doubling each 8 years-- that's the Gompertz model, and it holds well from about 20 to 85. For mental decline, though, evidence for general decline in healthy people is pretty thin.
So, you don't really own a Chromecast. Google lets you use it, as long as you use it the way they approve. Sounds more like a lease than a purchase.
Sorry for that, it is almost never that there is so much traffic on the little server I host on and the rails app is not helping.

Here is a link to the markdowned text:

https://gist.github.com/jeena/6337097/raw/aed33410c3376ec3ca...
Apple debuting 64-bit A7 chips(?)
This reminds me of GolfScript [1], another language designed specifically for code golf.

[1]: http://www.golfscript.com/golfscript/
Yeah, god knows there weren't onboarding problems for any platforms before Firefox OS. Certainly not one where a dev portal went down for weeks or anything.
Yes, only games, from the text of the change. This hints that perhaps the change is aimed at their attempts to implement parental controls and push into the child / family-friendly market? If using Google's system then they can enforce the controls on in-app billing set at the device level.

Of course, it is also possible that they recognize there is a lot of revenue flowing now from games through in-app purchases and have decided just to be anti-competitive assholes. But I would have to say, that has not been their form to date.
I took one of the previous offerings of the course, and they assume that you know Java. The programming assignments start on week 1 with "real algorithm" work, there's no time wasted introducing you to Java or anything like that.
There are to many conflicting standards for this. Most of them are calling themself some 'EDI', even those that are not based on X12. X12 itself is not human readable, and EDI based on X12 (Tradacom, US EDI, UN/EDIFACT) are complex beasts. To complex for average coders. So those coders invent new standards e.g. for SAP, or OASIS.

imho, the solution would be UN/EDIFACT. The United Nations version is flexible enough to cover 99% of the real life cases, and improves twice a year, to cover the remaining percent.

Take a look at my XML::Edifact CPAN Perl modules, if you want to start with free software EDI.

Now EDI is only half of the bill. EDI would be the HTML part of the Web of business documents. But you also need a transport part, and the EDI networks are not connected, as they speak different languages. And you need some open servers and browsers for your EDI.
As someone that spent quite a bit of time in French hospitals visiting relatives recently, I have no reason whatsoever to think access to care is limited in anyway whether on ethnic or socioeconomic background... Do you care to cite some sources?
Serious question: why do you think that hospitals don't have to eat costs?

It's a loaded question in the sense that I've been at various hospitals and they always talk about their budget shortfall which is in part due to non-reimbursed care provided to those who cannot pay and/or have no insurance. But it's also not a loaded question in the sense that I want to understand why people would think hospitals don't eat costs.
Interesting, but plenty of examples of just the opposite.

"Von Neumann ... received complaints for regularly playing extremely loud German marching music on his gramophone, which distracted those in neighbouring offices, including Einstein, from their work. Von Neumann did some of his best work blazingly fast in noisy, chaotic environments, and once admonished his wife for preparing a quiet study for him to work in. He never used it, preferring the couple's living room with its TV playing loudly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann
I use select * a lot in PostgreSQL. I do this any time I have a relatively self-contained table which can't be further normalized very far, and CRUD queries wrapped behind a stored procedure which returns the table type.

The reason I use select * there is that it reduces a maintenance point when it comes to return types and tables. In that case, I am guaranteed to get a return type which matches the table type. If the two are closely linked, then select * makes a lot of sense, and the alternatives aren't going to do better.

This makes schema changes more compatible than trying to change the column everywhere in every query in addition to the higher levels of code.

I would generally agree that an application calling select * from table is a bad thing for the same reasons, but if you are encapsulating your db behind an API, a lot of reasons shift.
Sounds fun. I always like to optimize for that. :-)
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As others have said, I think most developers would take a nice, quiet office. Given the horrible open plan office I currently work in, you need some way to drown out other people "collaborating", so headphones it is. Sometimes I just wear the headphones, without any music ;-).
Not to defend the costs or the state of the system, but the justification for the prices of medications in hospitals usually includes the time of the nurses, pharmacists, and techs that make the whole administration process happen safely.

Also, hospitals will bill whatever amount they can get reimbursed. Most insurance companies have contracts with hospitals where they only get a fraction of the billed amount. The rest is written off by the hospital. Uninsured patients can usually work out payment plans for lower amounts as well. That said, healthcare in the US is still pretty damn expensive.
The only thing is you need to be careful about where the contract is.

There's a huge difference between an application executing a sql statement:

SELECT * FROM accounts;

and a UDF like:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION accounts__list_all()
RETURNS SETOF accounts
LANGUAGE SQL AS
$$
SELECT * FROM accounts ORDER BY account_no;
$$;

In the latter case the select * reduces maintenance points in your db because you have already tied the return type to the table type, so either you get to use the * or list all columns manually and the latter, given the requirement to list all every time, makes any schema changes incompatible with your API.
I'll bite. From my biased viewpoint, based on who complains most, people prefer the quiet more as they get older. Kids don't seem to care, middle aged prefer some separation, and my elders can be derailed by a greeting. I've always assumed it was the skill to tune out, but perhaps theirs are weightier thoughts.

Personally, I need some mindless noise in the background, but nothing with any meaningful signal. The noise keeps me slightly alert and keeps the bored parts of my mind busy (like reading ingredient labels in the bathroom). The rest of my mind can then concentrate. When I was a kid, I was a walking hazard if I let my mind wander too much, and have walked straight into walls (I'm assuming sight to be an even higher bandwidth signal than hearing, but perhaps it lacks the same interrupts?)

While complete silence is certainly soothing, it won't spin my mind up either. There's strong utility in getting zeroed out in silence, and I bet it pays off, but I have few opportunities for that (work in a plant, ride a motorcycle, and apartment is near train tracks). But the rumble of the Harley and wind is soothing too; that's where I think or decompress usually.

I find airports nearly impossible to sleep in (two terrible childhood overnight stays). But a train is lovely. One had a detached mumbling voice, the other a lulling rumbling with random clacks like rain.

Perhaps there's some way to run a controlled experiment to figure out if it's the quality of the noise that does it?
The image of the Maginot Line article in full resolution:

http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/maginotl...

Its better reading than all of techcrunch, so..
If that is so then I didn't get how to compile a version of jQuery that does not do unsafe things, and I even tried the jQuery version which they themselves use in the Marketplace code but it also did unsafe things, at least according to their automatic analyser.
The problem with having healthcare under private enterprise is that these healthcare providers do not operate under the free market conditions we assume they do.

There is no "perfect information" allowing consumers to choose the cheapest price. As the article points out the pricing structure is very opaque. Not to mention the "consumers" want the best product regardless of cost, after all we are talking about their lives here.

Given the lack of free market conditions operating on these healthcare providers it is only logical that they would behave like the extortion rackets they are.
I found CL really nice. One nice feature about SBCL is it can be incredibly fast. Sure, not as fast as raw C, but it approaches it. (This is useful when you're using CL as your IR.)

The macros were the big win for me with this. I have only a few macros, but without them, the code would be significantly uglier. The entire builtin-generator is a big giant macro, and it was very nice to define my own little DSL to build commands. (fun story: I originally started developing this as a Python interpreter, and abandoned it because (a) it was far too slow, and (b) it was difficult to build a clean, abstract, method of writing builtins)

Other than the macros, the other big win was how easy it is to generate lisp code. There's no string munging, just (cons 'add cmds) and you're done.

There are some things I don't like about it. I think Scheme has it right with functions and variables sharing one namespace. I find the common lisp

(defun something (a)
(map #'square (funcall a)))

much uglier than the scheme equivalent of

(define (something fn)
(map square (fn)))

but that's purely cosmetic.
missed out: 3D holograms? :)
The only thing you really can do is to make sure to save up enough money that you can afford to retire in your mid fifties if you really have to. If you lose your job at that age, it can be very hard to find another one.
Thanks, fascinating story.

Presumably all that happened under Allchin after bradsi left....
It is as simple as copy and paste, make some small modifications to the configuration file and you go from a stock Ubuntu server install to having Gitlab up and running.

I would call that simple.
The improvements of Facebook over it's predecessors were marginal at best, too.
Nabokov, who as a novelist was similar to Borges in many ways, wrote a whole book about this - Pale Fire. Of course it's about many things, but that is a major theme.
Just distribute the source.

I'm in CompBio too and actively avoid software distributed as just jar files. Give me the source so I can fix your (probably) broken software.

(Yes, I have a low opinion of the quality of software in my field.)
Where will video games be 15 years from now? eSports?
Bbury Google search? Since when did Google search rule blogging platforms? Maybe I'm missing something here.
I know little of the field and nothing of the state of the art, but wonder how smarter compilers would combine with the statistical analysis that profile-guided optimization, the JVM and branch prediction logic do. Do the improvements they bring up add up perfectly, or is smarter compilation more effective for dumber CPUs/runtimes?
I found noise generators to be very helpful when I was studying or reading in places prone to distracting noise. I did find that either the noise or the presence of the headphones started to get annoying after an hour or two

I find music or even some banal sports talk (almost functioning as noise) to be helpful in allowing me to accomplish tasks that require some thought, but nothing deep. Anything requiring deeper thought, I need quiet.
"You're missing the point that by replying, the recipient establishes a relationship with the spammer -- he confirms that his is a working e-mail address, and he invites more mailings to that address. This is why security professionals warn to never reply to a spam e-mail."

Can you describe an opt-out mechanism that doesn't provide a spammer with exactly that same piece of "working email address" information?

If they're sketchy enough that they'd mis-use an "unsubscribe me" email as an "invitation to more mailings", surely clicking an "opt out" link would be treated the same?

(Personally, I'm happy to click opt out links for mail that's arrived by dedicated mass-mailing companies like MailChimp or Campaign Monitor - they've got a strong business case to not annoy email recipients, and although I as a Campaign Monitor user can easily generate a list of email addresses that have opted out of any of my mailing lists, if I were to abuse that list via Campaign Monitor, they'd shut me down pretty quickly)
That's also the way it works in PostgreSQL. I think the view is actually compiled into a parse tree with named columns, and the view given a defined type iirc.

(Select * from ... in PostgreSQL is actually really usefun in anything object-relational because you get objects of a named type back btw.)
As we age it appears that it's harder to filter out distractions:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125181035.ht...
> the rails app is not helping

Do you have any caching mechanisms?

(Rule #1 for submitting a blog post to a high-traffic site like HN is to first make sure you've got some sort of reasonable caching mechanism turned on.)

Edit: Also, Chrome and curl at least are using 256-bit AES for the TLS connection. This is overkill and can impact performance. Consider altering your configuration to use 128.
Their science is no match for your anecdote!
Technically that was Britain. Canada didn't exist in 1814.
You are right. I used "title" as a synonym for the note, as in the title the court awards you against someone who owes you a debt.
I've done a considerable amount of scraping; if you're poking around at nicely designed web pages, node/cheerio will be nice, but if you need to scrape data out of a DOM mess with quirks and iframes w/in iframes and forms buried 6 posts deep (inside iframes with quirks), I'd use PhantomJS + CasperJS. Having a real browser sometimes makes a difference.
Whelp, the private sector sure seems to be fuckin' it up, so maybe it's time we give the government a shot.
Part of the problem is that problem domain for small businesses doesn't look the domain for large businesses.

For one thing, large businesses often have to deal with multiple country rules.

All my invoices are issued to Australians, at the moment (though I'm open to invoicing others, hint hint). So it's fairly straightforward; my invoice template includes the legal requirements of an ABN, business number, the words "Tax Invoice", an identifying number and prices with and without tax.

If I bill in other countries, I might need another template.

If I bill in a pile of other countries, then any universal system has to account for per-country variations in an abstract, generalisable way.

But abstract, generalised ways of doing things obscure the concrete case. Instead of thinking in local terms, I have to learn the generic term and then understand how it will map to my particular problem.
Sounds like the problem isn't actually medicare, sounds more like it's adding a capitalistic, profit-maximizing middleman into the system.
Do you have any references that he's hard for Spanish speakers? I'm curious.

I find him easier to read than most other Spanish short story writers. Could be the logic.
I discovered Euphoria back in the DOS days when it was still commercial. I agree that it seems a little dated these days but I still fondly remember it.

Also it is still a great language for non-professional programmers and still has an active community there. Note the recently updated SDL2, SFML2, and Allegro bindings for example.
Twig too, and you can sandbox functions and auto-escape data. To me, using templates is more or less the same as using a framework with PHP -- it does add overhead and you could get by with, say, plain PHP and having urls point directly to resources but sometimes I think the benefits of that extra abstraction, even if it is a bit recursive, outweigh the potential costs of not having logical buffers between a request and its execution. An app that's too dumb can come back to bite you just as hard as one that's too clever by half.

Blade (used by Laravel) seems to be more along the lines of "bare PHP/bind to PDO object" but I haven't studied it too hard because i'm such a twig fanboy.
I found the video lectures for this course extraordinarily boring compared to the Stanford algorithms courses taught by Roughgarden. Sedgewick is a brilliant computer scientist, but those videos really put me to sleep.

Both classes are still solid offerings from Coursera, but having gone through both levels of both, I'd recommend the Stanford ones first.

Also, I don't know if this has changed, but the programming assignments required a custom Java installation provided by Princeton with a bunch of extra packages specifically for the course. I found that a little weird compared to the Stanford class's approach of just giving you an input file and verifying the output provide (ala a coding competition).
The sad thing is, koush and the CM team can take the TV sticks they're getting from http://equiso.com/features/ http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/this-week-in-cm-aug-16-2013

If they do it right, they can tie it to CM Account, preserve user privacy, and use bonjour to enable stuff that you can't do with Chromecast because it uses SSDP.

This is pretty annoying of Google.
Which private sector is that? Because our current healthcare system is nowhere near "private".
For me personally, I only listen to music when doing menial tasks. But if I'm writing code or trying to design my plan of attack, music noticeably hampers my ability to focus and think creatively.

When I want quiet, I try to just use my over-ear headphones without any music. They typically dull surrounding sounds enough for it to be tolerable. But if I'm still having trouble, I use my less comfortable earmuffs[1] to block out almost everything.

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009LI4K/ref=oh_details_o...
If you aren't already, and depending on how big your app is, you may want to compile your app into a single file using r.js. Keep in mind, you lose the "load only what the current view needs" aspect of it. I've usually found it to be a better loading experience when compiled.
I tell every developer buddy I have that they should get a pair of Fuck Off Headphones [0]. They need to be big enough that people can't try to say, "Oh, I didn't see you had headphones on".

I work from home now, and they work just as well for keeping my family at bay as they did for chatty coworkers when I had to be in an office.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wireless-Gaming-Headset-Surro...
I read somewhere recently that the Maginot line has been unfairly maligned and that it actually did its job pretty well.

Edit: this is the piece I was thinking of: http://ericmargolis.com/2013/06/on-ne-passe-pas-the-unknown-...
> I'll bite. From my biased viewpoint, based on who complains most, people prefer the quiet more as they get older. Kids don't seem to care, middle aged prefer some separation, and my elders can be derailed by a greeting.

Or maybe, older people complain more about noise because they actually know what sane conditions are and how life was back when ADD wasn't a thing yet.
There's a lot of waxing poetic and conjecture in the write up but the most interesting take away for me was the HYENA article which (at first glance of the abstract and conclusions) seems to say that the presence of certain kinds of noise will have underlying physiological impact, raising levels of cortisol, that you're not consciously aware of.

While not every study ever published is automatically granted validity just by putting "abstract" and "conclusion" at the top, I do prefer the part where someone tried to measure something.

As it stands, I think your response and the article are equal parts conjecture based on anecdotal evidence except for the one linked study that the article seems to over generalize. That doesn't make either useless, but it does make me interested in other physiological effects that might be occurring without my conscious ability to recognize them.
To go back to my original question: Can you point out where the article mentions that it's "flatly unconstitutional?"

Specifically, you said: What they're doing is flatly unconstitutional, as the article mentions.

The article, as far as I can tell, says that the plaintiffs claim that it's unconstitutional, but as I've pointed out, every such plaintiff must make the same point.
With respect, what does capitalism mean to you? Lassiez-Faire or something different?
Ask HN: Looking for Freelance Bloggers in Japan (English to Japanese)
I'm currently looking for a freelance blogger in Japan. With translation skills (English - Japanese) for 8 - 10 hour per month contract, starting in October, for an early stage product play.

Ideal person would have knowledge of the Japanese blogging / content market landscape, and an idea of content marketing (SEO) for the Japanese market.

The company is based in Brisbane, Australia, and consists of Australian and Japanese staff, all of whom are dual-lingual.
They don't clarify though, the costs of running a sufficiently-advanced multiple-effect distiller, dealing with the FDA, WHO and whomever else forces them to... these costs could definitely add up, no?

What do you think the bar is for entering the market of providing water for injection? Who's there to make it costlier, maybe the insurance oligopoly can hold some of the blame for this as well...
In the noise/age relation lies a little frequency thing, when you don't have regular event of mind-flow, you care about not disrupting them.

A dev I know and I experienced another strong disrupting setup: having unsimilarly thinking person near you (colleagues, parents). Their mere presence shuts you down even if they make no sound. As soon as they left, your mind fills the room.

Comparing airport (place) with train (vehicle) is not fair. With large enough seats and no AC a plane is as nice as a train. Engine sound filtering through ~= rain sound. I stumbled upon laptop fan recordings, the low freq air flow has the same texture and effect as an engine. Guess fest explanation : pre-birth frequencies heard through the mother's body.
If your language has pointers or aliases, precise call graphs are exceedingly expensive (for large programs), because you need a precise pointer or alias analysis. Do you have a link to a publication about the technique you describe?
I'm from Argentina, and I have heard that many many times, but I've never read one of his book.
Waterfall development of Prince of Persia 2