skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in a class of things I'm worried about. The good institutions & traditions that we built over decades (or in this case, millennia) becoming obsolete, dying and taking all the side benefits with them. Many lost their primary purpose, but they had so many important auxiliary purposes that I'm worried about losing them. For millennia, libraries stored knowledge and people went there to access it. All sorts of things naturally grew around this resource. Universities and their predecessors are one example but there are also small informal institutions. A group of friends meeting in a library because it is a a safe and quite place to do homework is an institution of sorts. A couple of homeless people using it as a safe place to hang out, read books and feel part of society is another example, especially if their interaction with others there is special in some way (it is).

There are lots of things like this. Churches. How do we do churches without gods? How do we allow young people to spend a few years focusing on their minds without universities. Can we have universities after going to lectures becomes obsolete?

Technology is eating a lot of things. It's eating them faster than we can replace them.
Progress is necessarily contingent upon hypocrisy.

It is the lie that conventionally accompanies hypocrisy that boils the blood.

When untruth is supplanted by humility; hypocrisy dissolves into displaced aspiration, wherein tremendous potential for good may be found.
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As mohawk says, the content of the summary article fairly clearly reflects the gist of the publication. It was exploratory work, they think that that's the key factor but aren't sure.
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It loaded for me. Extrapolating a judgement for an entire system from the first public day of a high-traffic rollout of a website seems a bit premature.
>>Some examples of this: scaling your CI to run more than one build at the same time is tough on Jenkins, trivial on Circle

That is not true. In Jenkins you just check "concurrent builds" in your job configuration and that's all.
The la4j (Linear Algebra for Java) 0.4.5 has been released
When it happens in the US - it's to protect freedom. If it happens elsewhere - OMG! Human rights violation! Must send the troops to save the world :)
Fair point; I was mostly responding from my POV, and mostly to the second part. Yes, many of us in the government are geeks who love to code, and have to be threatened with arrest to not work overtime :) The law is the law, and it doesn't always make sense (or the conclusions that are arrived at via the law don't make always match up with "common sense"), but a lot of this is political anyway.
I would love to use this, but the app wants access to all of my spreadsheets at any time. It looks like I'll need to set up a dummy Google account first.

It looks really cool.
I am not exactly a student of philosophy so I may have a hard time understanding the argument, so please bear with me and my attempts to explain myself. If I misunderstand something, I apologise in advance for my inadequacies.

> ...attempts to invent a caricature of those you disagree with based upon age, despite that having literally nothing to do with the discussion in question...

By classifying my concerns as an 'attempt to invent a caricature' are you trying to claim that the issue I am trying to raise does not exist?

Also, you seem to be reducing my entire opinion to just the age-ist point. So I went and re-read my post. Turns out there is an additional 'since' in the line that changes the entire meaning of the paragraph:

> The ones that believe that ~~since~~ they have been writing software since the time that programs had to be punched on to cards and fed to a machine that was usually the size of three rooms, they believe that it gives them the right to look down upon any and all attempts by those who haven’t done the same.

This is clearly my fault and I should have been more careful. Age-ism isn't the divide I am talking about in the post and not even remotely the point I am trying to make! Therefore, I propose the following changes to the offending paragraph:

> Their asshole-ry (can't think of another word) comes from a self-belief so strong that you wonder if they have been writing software since the time it was fed to computers via punch-cards. Worse, their sense of entitlement is so strong that it leads them to believe that they have the divine right to look down upon any and all attempts by those who haven’t done the same.

> Your jeering criticism was nonsense, however, manufacturing a strawman that didn't exist.

What strawman did I manufacture?

> People expressing frustration with the discussed submission, however, were making a very cogent point.

When did I reject the notion that the people expressing frustration weren't making a cogent point? My entire opinion was based around the thought that they needed to be a little more positive/constructive with their criticism.

It seems we have differing opinions on what counts as positive/constructive and even on what counts as criticism itself, in which case, let's just agree to disagree?
I don't want to be disrespectful, just sharing my opinion. My dad passed away few months ago and we decided to delete his facebook account. It was too hard for us to see his pictures and suddenly feel the pain all over again. Especially on FB the profile picture shows up in unexpected places.(mutuals friends etc...). For us deleting the account seemed to the right thing to do for the healing process.
This sounds like a scam. The frequencies used by cell phones, and those used by WiFi routers, are (a) different, and (b) the subject of much study, with the conclusion that there's no prospect of interference between then.

If someone from AT&T really intended to fight with you about your router, it would be national headlines, because it would imply that the FCC got it wrong. In fact, if this were true, it should be national headlines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_frequencies#Frequency_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

Not to oversimplify, but cell phones don't require access to the same frequencies that are used by WiFi routers.
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I submitted a pull request when it first opened:

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov/pulls

Doesn't look like they're doing much updating, though. I don't know if that's standard operating procedure on gov't websites (which, let's face it, have lots of clunky requirements that other websites won't have) or if this repo is just for public show.

It's at least educational...for anyone who doesn't know how flexible Jekyll can be, this is a full fledged installation. You can create and deploy your own flat-file health care site in minutes. That's a very cool concept, actually, and probably never been done before with a government website.
I hate to go meta, but that last sentence in your post could have been omitted with no detriment to the post's message and great improvement to the tone.
Could cstross or someone with equivalent knowledge tell us how this affects authors? If publishers like it someone must be getting screwed. Scribd is less a 'netflix' for books and more like a 'megadownload' for books, with the occasional academic paper for that 'we need bittorrent to get linux' veneer of respectability.
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The practice of statistical inference requires only a few key skills.

Just curious, what do you think they are?
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Right, like which product manager decided it was a good idea to add a website monitoring feature into document software.
Let me rephrase your story using HN-centric terms:

You: "Hello IRS, I want to send you a sensitive document over an insecure channel that another department of government is hoovering up."

IRS: "No."

:-)
I did a quick search of the linked article, did not find any historical analysis of conscientiousness as relates to all previous distance learning initiatives, from correspondence courses to radio classes to film-strips to VCR tapes to analog laserdiscs to multimedia cdroms.

I'm assuming the brain has no magic way to respond differently to a video lecture delivered over analog NTSC on a PBS station in 1960 than to a .h264 file delivered over the internet in 2013.

It would be interesting to know if this was all figured out WRT postal mail correspondence courses circa US civil war era or whatever.
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Thanks for this! You are a great writer, I read Coffeescript Ristretto and it was a big help. I appreciate the rigor you bring to technical writing. I actually bought Javascript Allonge after reading Coffeescript Ristretto but it's always great to hear more good information is available for free.
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Yes, this is probably the real issue.
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lol. first one on the question lost when i clicked

http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=76951fbe3c65173e
That's the problem with this medium I'm afraid. Often it comes off other than we meant, and feelings get hurt. For the record, I'm glad there was no real malice behind the comment :-)
> I feel like Data Science is not a real academic field, and it's not something you need a college degree in.

Its an emergent academic field in the way that bioinformatics was a few years ago; "data science" is a name for something that's been taught in less breadth and depth as parts of other academic disciplines (including parts of the "research methods" curriculum in the life and social sciences, parts of statistics, parts of computer science), but certainly its as legitimate an area of focus as the disciplines its that parts of it have been hosted in. There's more than one way to divide up intellectual pursuit, and a number of ways that have cut across the previously predominant divisions have been coming to the fore recently. This is, really, a good thing.
A few questions, does this work with Python 3.3?

Also, how is it better than Tornado web sockets?
Right, I mean, we can talk about large, ominous themes or we can talk about daily practicality. My boss wants me to come in around 9AM, more or less, but my body and mind want me to be awake from midnight to 4AM. That's sort of a problem. If a doctor can help, then I want that help.

The attenuation of differences in this context means that the intent is to standardize the populace, nothing more, nothing less.

It sounds to me like you came to this article with the feeling that owls are mistreated relative to larks and you're layering that previous sentiment over the article so that it says things to you that it doesn't literally say.
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Good idea, this definitely accomplishes the same functionality, but it's done at runtime, rather than the compiler knowing all the functions at compile time. Perhaps a minor difference for most cases, though...

I would still prefer a C extension... Perhaps I should just use Go these days, though ironically all these memory allocation policies are useless in a GC language.
They just turned those former pirates into a revenue stream. It's a good business move. Either spend tons of money litigating pirates to just have them go somewhere else, or at least make some money off of the inevitable.
Bottom line: everyone who knows coffeescript knows javascript. The inverse is not true. Personal preference, de facto standards, "it's just like ruby" - none of this has to even come into the equation.
Samsung's entire business model is being a sketchy fly-by-night knock-off company. First it was Sony and other Japanese electronics makers and now it is Apple. And I don't think Samsung would really deny it. They're pretty good at what they do.

Somewhere along the way they became a huge global company that makes a lot of money, but they forgot that they need to start acting like one.

They don't need to fake benchmarks or anything like this. They are the main event when it comes to Android.

Samsung is who we thought they were: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw5UWqpcsDs
Just curious, is there a reason you choose vitamin c has the micronutrient for comparison?
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Oh, I know. I was a civilian contractor for the Army Corp of Engineers during the last government shutdown.
Can you define 'technology professionals'?
I'm a marketing strategy consultant specialising in analytics and optimisation. Does this fit your niche?
You'll find the same computer system in use no matter where you try to enter.

If the computer says, 'deny' you're done.
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Why oh why does the big green button open a new tab... who thought that is a good idea?
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Been borked all day for me, except for a short time I tried it at 5:30am.
I've used it and it is pretty mediocre or at times just inaccurate. I get so many false alerts from Google about the site being down that I've turned it off.

As another comment puts it, it's just the wrong tool for the job.
Describing the login page of the exchange as a 'single point of failure' for the entire healthcare system seems a bit harsh. It's not like hospitals everywhere say "Oops, login page is down, shutdown the ICU - we're goin' home"
ah yes. Al Jazeera. the New York Times for terrorists.
This is why it's important to have days where I'm okay with not getting anything moved to "complete".
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You can't assume that e-mail is a reasonable work flow. It's reasonable for the IRS to have a policy of taxpayers not sending sensitive accounting documents to random employees' email accounts.
it is not 40%, it depends on your civil status and your tax credits.
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...it seems ... as if Mozilla went from being totally dismissive of memory complaints to being hyper-responsive to memory complaints with no (publicly stated) rationale behind the change.

I don't know what their internal rationale is.

"Memory is cheap," we like to say, but it's really only true if you're not wasting it like crazy all the time. Ten years ago you could surf the web with 512MB of RAM; now we're getting to the point where 4GB isn't considered enough. If 4GB now costs the same as 512MB then, then in the sense of "dollars worth of memory required to perform function X acceptably," memory hasn't actually gotten any cheaper.

If you can get performance that used to require 4GB down into 1GB, you've upgraded the performance of a bunch of older and low-budget devices from "barely usable" to "fine."

Take the big-picture view: updates like this can actually result in a slower flow of "obsolete" computers and devices into the landfills. This is one of those bottlenecks where a little good engineering can have really disproportionate positive aggregate effects.

This sort of thinking has been one of the selling points of desktop Linux for a long time. I wish Microsoft thought more like this.
Where the logic hides in Rails apps
Firefox's UI is the most customizable of any browser that I know of. You can really make it into almost anything you want. My example: http://i.imgur.com/aMgQBgW.png very clean and functional.
Maybe if you only want WebSocket, and you're already using Flask, and you want to give up events and roll out your messaging protocol. Sounds like a lot of work.
So store the state on disk if the user hasn't been to the page for a while. When I've I last visited a tab three days ago I don't mind a little disk delay when I get back to it, in exchange for not having disk churn everywhere when I'm trying to get work done.
Seems like a lot of people are building databases these days.
im pretty sure it is possible, I'm just wondering which frequencies it would accurate at...
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The main contradiction you are referring to has it's core at this phrase: "Breaking that commitment was wrong."

People who are inside the system are so invested in the viewpoint that they and their people are always right no matter what, that they don't really stop to take the time and actually think about these issues from a more objective point of view.

The argument would be that everyone inside knows that the IG's are not doing their job properly, continuously prosecute those who bring information to them, and therefore have undermined the official mechanism to address these issues.

As a former military guy who finally, to use the cliched term, "woke up", I do think there is conversation to be had about the duty of contractors in their agreements. So while I feel that the largest swath of the American Military is criminally negligent and in dereliction of duty by not addresses these constitutional issues as required by oath, I wonder what process the civilian contractors go through and if they swear any sort of oath other than the legal one regarding classified information? Regardless, in the military, it is the defense of the constitution that is mission number one, and I personally feel Snowden has done more on that front than just about any general or politician has done in years.

Having left the beltway about 2 years ago, I feel like everyone is either too scared to rock the boat and get fired or otherwise prosecuted, or they think they can ride the wave to the top and are simply opportunistic. They are saving themselves and their families now not realizing they are creating more destruction for their children and grandchildren.
Just to be clear, we already have a health insurance marketplace. This is a new government-mandated health insurance exchange.
That was the clearest explanation of traffic I've come across. I'm inclined to buy into it (often it seems no one knows what they're talking about when it comes to traffic).

It also runs counter to what is commonly said about traffic jams. Most people focus on restoring smooth flow by doing things such as driving really slow to create space in front of you. This guy makes the case that "flow" is not really the important factor here.

For the record, I am "that guy" who runs all the way down to the end of the closed lane before merging over. Except I don't consider it an asshole move because as OP points out, I'm making the best use of the road ahead (while allowing fewer people to merge ahead of me)
I've never had that experience, and every state and federal office I've worked in, or known people who have worked in, has email.

They may also have procedures that limit what communication channels documents for particular uses can be received through that prohibits using email for certain functions, but they have email.
Python 3 compatibility was my first question also.

Unfortunately this relies on gevent and gevent does not work on py3.