skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like an excellent way to get rid of that pesky, difficult-to-trace physical currency in favor of modern, lovely digital transactions.
Freedom in Smooth Space
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"Rene Duignan is passionate about life"

No, he's passionate about control.

Where do people get off telling others what they can and can't do with their life. Who better then the ACTUAL PERSON to decide when and if it's the right time to call it quits (for whatever reason - once again it's nobody elses business on the why).

With 7 billion people and counting, why are people making such a big deal when someone decides their time on the ride called "human life" should be over. For most, there is little choice, you live, then you die. For some, they would rather take personal control over the when. Why is that a bad thing?

The world has turned into a huge nanny - butting into the smallest of things that should remain completely in control of the individual.

Over the last 12 years, twice I've fought with cancer and won (or at least had it declared a tie) but you can bet that I have a exit plan in hand (and yes, that includes taking care of the people I'll leave behind). Withering away in excruciating pain is not for me (does that make me weak? a coward? or just prudent in deciding how I WANT to end MY LIFE).
The kind that thinks his benefits will be denied when the insurer finds out he lied on his application.
Ah! Thank you for the clarification. I plead caffeine deficiency.
First, let me quote http://ripplescam.org/:

But wait – you can become your own validator! [...]
The consensus system ensures there is only one ledger – the most accepted one.
If you run your own validator, you must connect with OpenCoin Inc servers, or you
will be building a different ledger. In practice, it is not possible to
“dethrone” OpenCoin Inc as you have to co-operate with OpenCoin Inc.

Second, I'll point out that while minimizing the number of validators may be attractive, it also makes the currency much more vulnerable to top-down control, via governments, corporations, etc.

Last, if you're reading this, I'd suggest that you read up a bit about Ripple on Bitcoin Forum before you make conclusions about the currency - there are a lot of interesting discussions about its viability (like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146964.0).
What an oddly responsive page
It's more or less a match contribution. My governor is one of the few that has not made a decision to expand Medicade. That expansion will cost money, but the Feds will then contribute back to put towards enrolling low-income but not less than 138% of the poverty level people into health exchanges, which is something that the states are required to do.

So no, it's not free money. It's a standard "Do X and we'll fund Y in your state."
It's a little disappointing that the author didn't go into more detail on arguably the most interesting part: the modeling that they explored. It would be really cool to query Yelp's api to gather more data to factor into the model for each restaurant. Unfortunately, Yelp's api always seemed severely limited to me, it's a trove of rich data that they've kept locked down. Their api only allows you to gather 3 reviews on each business [1] and there's no way to query for data about a user.

[1]: http://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation/v2/business
* You underestimate the size of the Earth or overestimate the amount of the waste or the effects of radiation. Most of the nuclear waste could be just ground to dust and spread into oceans and the atmosphere, were it not a political suicide. The high-activity waste that's a real problem, on the other hand, decays into virtual inertness in a few decades.

* The lithospheric magma is not hot enough to vaporize or even liquify solid capsules of nuclear waste. Even the magma itself isn't liquid, just ductile solid.

* We're talking about subduction zones where the underlying magma conveyor belt is going down. It isn't going to return any time soon, giving plenty of time for the actually dangerous high-activity stuff to decay.
The problem with these is... I'm busy.

I might be able to commit 70 hours to the tutorials and assignments this week, and then im busy again for the next 7 weeks.

If they were all completely self paced, then perhaps the completion rates will improve.

The "deadlines" and timetabled classes are being carried over from traditional college courses without any real need for them to be.
And if you like languages, don't forget:

Why Arabic Is Terrific http://idlewords.com/2011/08/why_arabic_is_terrific.htm
Once one job has been automated away, all the people that were doing it need a realistic reconversion plan. A farm worker can convert easily into a factory worker, but cannot learn mandarin, software engineering or whatever overnight. (not even taking into account the legal challenge to convert. Whatever happens, if my job go to China, I will have massive legal hard time to follow it)

Europe and the US have been historically bad at that. Europe hides those workers in "pre-pension" (loads of steel/mine worker get their state pension around 45), "long term unemployment"; US hides them in various disability assistance program. (source: there was an article here I think a few months back)

Luddism want basically to stop progress in order to keep people employed, which was stupid 100 years ago, and is stupid now. GP on the other hand suggest to embrace the changes but accept some/lot people will need assistance.
Here is the idea I submitted, uses Deja Vu monospace for the font. The shape is a bolt, and I am trying to go for the idea of industrial strength and security.

http://dev.bitmono.com/tarsnap/tarsnap.png
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Everybody in their own, separate office? C'mon, who can afford that?
There is one hack that seems to work.

Keeping the app free for its first week on the store. This gets the app in the hands of the right people, the "early adopters". If the app is good, they'll use it and recommended it to friends long after the promotion week is over.

People are not afraid to pay when the trial was confirmed as a success by their friend (who is an iPhone genius).
Nirvanix confirms abrupt shut down rumors (but doesn’t apologize to customers)
It's structured as part of your taxes. If you got too much subsidy during the year, you'd pay the difference next April, if you got too little, you'd get the difference back as part of your refund (or use it to offset the rest of your bill).

You're supposed to be able to elect to take a lower subsidy than you expect to qualify for, if you want to make sure you don't end up with an oversized tax bill next April. Presumably this will be part of some form when buying coverage on the exchanges. We'll know what it looks like in a couple days...
Good question -- you estimate what your income will be when you sign up, and then report actual income later (your subsidy will be adjusted to your actual income).

https://www.healthcare.gov/will-i-qualify-to-save-on-monthly...
We[0] have the GU domain because the Guardian was previously Guardian Unlimited.

[0] No longer there but still think of GU very fondly
nReduce inspired a local weekly startup meetup I started called iterators. Really, I wanted the weekly check in aspect more than anything. It's interesting the bonds that form when you meet more than monthly.

It's too bad to see it gone, but it had an impact, and that's great. There will be others that come and go.
Well, the thing is both Chrome and Firefox get updated automatically but IE doesn't.

So the problem will not IE versions that are already old (IE6, IE7) but current versions of IE - even future versions before they implement these new standards.

As these features roll out to Firefox and Chrome, users of these browsers will have to them because of the auto-update pretty quickly.

Eventually IE will implement them, maybe in version 12, and you'll have users still using IE10. Heck, maybe they won't be able to upgrade their IE because it won't run on their aging Windows 7.

Unless IE switches to the auto-update used by Firefox and Chrome, and stops dropping Windows versions in their new IE, I don't see the problem going away.
But why would such an expectation be reasonable? Surely once you have given the information away, it's their business what they do with it?
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The parallels that I will be looking for - does DE's character protagonist start to reject the 'cult' culture gradually over time

To be honest, it's hard to see how any work of fiction on a topic like this - on a trajectory like the one the excerpt here sets up - could not have this trait, "plagarized" or not.
Wow, I could never write this well in a million years, but as I was reading, I couldn't help but feel that this was a blog post that I've been wanting to write for a while.

Without going on a rant and hi-jacking this thread, replacing "Participation Rank" with "consumption of beer/alcohol", "gathering" with "late night beer party", "Dad had a seizure" with "Mom was very sick", "kayak" with "badminton", "profile" with "LinkedIn", and you have 100% of my story give and take a few breaks in flow and sentence structure errors that are bound to happen with simple string replacement.

Guess it's time to finally go write that blog post.
What about plugging Algolia Search API on them ?
URLS were and I assume still are a massive part of the collective thought process in the Guardian but yeah, if you are GU then the internet will take whatever you say as canonical to be canonical regardless of seo strategy
If any law would make suicide illegal, or any government would exert any control over you should you fail, then it stands to reason that those people making those laws, and those people in those governments, own your body.
It's hard to justify a lot of expense in marketing when you're getting 0-$1.99 per install. And that's for the lifetime of the app.
How to Price and to Promote Design Work
How I Build Scaleable Web Apps on the M.E.A.N. Stack
Ramping off caffeine is actually quite simple. You go to the pharmacy and get 100mg or 50mg caffeine pills, and start taking 10% to 20% less caffeine per day than you were taking beforehand.

Do a little research beforehand, but the average cup of coffee has ~100mg caffeine. So 5x50mg caffeine pills for a week or two, and gradually decrease, and it becomes very easy to quit. I've done this successfully (and also chosen actively to get back on caffeine for performance/training reasons, which once lapsed, I then used the method again successfully).
Yes, that sounds likely. Apple is a master at feature strategy.
Why is HN getting filled with these "genius" medium.com posts, which are basically just crap?
Thanks Jacopo and nice to meet you! Couldn't have gotten even this far without Alex and Gabe though: https://starthq.com/about ... not to mention our awesome early adopter friends like Finn, Jaakko, Jesse and many others. You guys are all awesome!
Saying no one in their right mind ought to think this isn't a logical consequence of the existence of Facebook is not the same thing as saying anyone who hasn't yet come to that conclusion is out if their mind.

Telling people you shouldn't be surprised is telling them it is an expected consequence, not something exceptional that can be prevented. It's telling them that if after actually thinking through the implications of Facebook existence , they shouldn't be surprised. They should have seen it coming.

Conversely, telling people that this is surprising make it seem like the government did something monumentally evil that we did't expect them to be capable of and if we merely make the government not evil, it goes away. It doesn't. Facebook can and still will do those things and sell it to advertisers. The government can and will do it with public profiles.

As a side note, most of the article isn't about "social networks" like Facebook. It's about actual people's networks of social interactions as extracted from phone, email, and other metadata. The fact that the government is doing analysis on a huge scale should both be surprising and deeply distressing.
How close is the spectrum to that of sunlight?
Did you miss this one? Loaded Buffalo Potato Dip Recipe
Would be ultra-cool if you could propose a "generate a matching sample" button.
Same could be said about Ruby. PHP and Ruby are both "General purpose programming languages". I'm not sure Matz saw creating iOS apps when he created Ruby in 1995. Sure it's not fair to gripe about the language. It's not the languages fault, you can only do one thing with it, it's the communities.
That's interesting but according to your link, Advance Premium Tax Credit <> Refundable Credit. In practice, what will be the difference?

How does an existing high-deductible plan compare to a Bronze plan with the Advanced Premium Credit applied? If it's significantly more coverage, if it's significantly cheaper, if it's easy to sign up for, then it might be attractive to that percentage of uninsured smart enough to jump through the extra hoops, if they actually want insurance, if they can afford a Bronze plan with the "advance" applied. That's a lot of ifs. I think a large percentage of uninsured will opt for the status quo (do nothing) that's just human nature.

According to your link, you have to file your tax return to get the difference (refundable - advanced) paid to you. What percentage of uninsured file tax returns?
Forgot to tell you how to use it. Simply insert an expression and some text and press the little red button right above the input for the regex. That's all you have to do! Enjoy :)
I disagree. The issue is not exposure to customers, it is the mindset of customers. The market has matured as smartphones have become ubiquitous and free apps have come to dominate the market. Direct sales have simply faded because they are less lucrative at the highest level, and users have re-based their perceptions around that. Even if you could get your paid app to the top of the charts and attain maximum exposure, you would still make less than if you had used a fremium or ad-based model. Why do you think all the highest-grossing apps are free?

I don't think this is a particularly surprising phenomenon. People work very hard for their money and have far too little of it. If they can get something for free, why would they not? Moreover, if everyone else is distributing their thing for free, why on earth would people pay for anything?

Money is valuable because it is scarce, and if people can avoid paying, they will.
Library of Congress and FTC will take their sites offline if gov’t shuts down
The BBB is the very definition of the word scam. More specifically, extortion.
US: legal definition of journalists is being changed
I think the question would more be of an American who moves to Turkey, then ten years later goes to Russia and commits the crime there. Is this person a Turk or an American? They don't live in the USA; it doesn't make sense to call them an American.
Is the new tab page only on a beta version of Chrome or something? I still see the old page and there are no updates available.
Insightful.

On the other hand, many self-funded businesses are doing quite well charging for services targeted to non-mass markets -- for example, SmugMug (for professional photographers), FreshBooks (for invoicing & accounting), 37 Signals (for team productivity), etc. Some of these businesses are essentially one-person operations -- e.g., AppointmentReminder.org.

I would include FogBugz in this list.

"Make something and get people to pay for it" seems to works well for many vertical/specialized markets, some of which are quite large.
Yes, just went on the similar thing for Elasticsearch - and a number of my colleagues did the same. It was around $800/day, and the class was about 20 people - so there's definitely some money in it.
I have thought about this, but in cases where it would be useful, it's impossible to generate a sample match string. For example, creating a match string for /(?:a|[bc])efg?/ is super simple, but for something like: /(ab(?1)*)/ it becomes much harder. Not to mention the performance hit you would see for these more complex expressions. (These are just dummy expressions for illustrative purposes, but I'm sure you get my gist.)
I think they like to dismiss features they don't currently have (but are usually working on) because it gives them the opportunity to bash their competitors.

They also know how bad the memories are of the mainstream tech journalists -- which means they rarely get called out on making sneaky statements like the ones in this article: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/steve-jobs/
It's at least logically possible for a government employee to create value greater than the taxes necessary to employ them.
Great example of this is Buffer app that makes $2MM from ~16K users and 1MM free users:
http://blog.bufferapp.com/from-0-to-1000000-users-the-journe...
Sorry about that, we're working on getting the VM integrated; we've had a huge blocker for a month:
https://github.com/grabhive/BitcoinKit/tree/integratedvm
Potayto, potahto. Racism and nationalism stem from a common root: fear of the other (or tribalism). Whether it's triggered by skin color or cultural differences, that fear still comes from a primal, irrational place. (It doesn't help that any particular other you could name will likely hold a similar bias against us.)
I agree with you pvnick -- it's a little different this time though. More dangerous. Because you can be observed by computers that can correlate your activities from many different sources. The thing is, this technology is becoming cheaper and more available, and it's not just governments that want it. Corporations do too. Just like cellphones are addictive to PEOPLE, this is like crack to organizations of any kind.

TODAY: Uploaded a YouTube video with copyrighted song in the background? Video censored. Sent money to a friend on Paypal? Account limited. K-Mart figures out girl is pregnant before her dad knows, based on her shopping. Exceeded speed limit between toolbooths? Instant fine.

TOMORROW: Left a parking lot without entering restaurant? Instant towing. Exceeded parking meter by 2 minutes? Instant fine. Exceeded speed limit for 10 seconds on the road? Instant fine. Surfing websites correlated to high incidence of child abuse? Children taken away. Need to be arrested? "parallel construction" will resultin "random" traffic stop and arrest. Facebook, Google, all these companies want your data, not just governments. Credit score and insurance premiums calculated based on your fb friends etc.

Truth is, the information is out there, and the cameras are going to be smaller and more prevalent. So now what? We have to focus on making our GOVERNMENTS more transparent. Presumably our privacy will shrink as cameras will be more available.

Terrorism is a problem of technology. And this leads to the "solution" of increased surveillance - which may prove to be worse than the problem.
TARSNiP? :)

(I quite like it, but if you replace that keyhole with a simple "A", it would be much better.)
I used anki throughout high school for classes and SAT prep - pretty much the main reason I ended up at an ivy league school (now a junior). It was especially helpful for classes like AP Bio / AP US History where there was a ton of pretty obscure stuff to memorize.

It's not so useful in college now that I'm majoring in applied math, but occasionally I'll use it for a humanities class. (throwaway b/c I always use throwaways)
PhysicsJS: A modular, extendable, and easy-to-use physics engine for javascript
Handango did not have as large a distribution as pre-loads...

Pre-loads were multi-platform. You're talking about this from a consumer viewpoint, I'm talking about it from the commercial viewpoint. In aggregate the pre-loads market was MUCH larger than Handango.
Wow, thanks... I'd googled it and couldn't find it anywhere. HN delivers! That actually seems like a pretty common-sense cutoff point.
To you, perhaps. To many tech people, perhaps.

But the Guardian is trying to reach more than that audience, and I'm sure there are lots of "Fox-News Americans" who will scorn the .uk and still find .com to be professional. They have a sense that .com is normal, and that other TLDs are inferior.
You can transfer the apps from iTunes even if they are no longer available. You can even keep old versions if you copy the .app files or rescue them from the recycle bin after the updated version is available. I suspect you can only install them on devices attached to the correct account and I'm not sure what happens with the Mac App Store (or Google Play, Windows store etc.)
It's pretty simple:

graph.facebook.com/[integer]/picture?type=large
I predicted 5% of uninsured who don't want insurance will pay the fine. About 15% don't have health insurance. If it turns out 1% of the population pays an IRS fine, that's even more people than I predicted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_coverage_in_th...
As a counterpoint, before the iPhone came out, it was standard practice to wipe the PDA Phone (usually Windows Mobile) when doing a software upgrade. Can you imagine the average consumer dealing with this engineer-designed nonsense? My boss at the time was persuaded to try a Windows Mobile phone by a very adamant - she lasted a month.

Google search for "Caution: Installing this update will delete all the information on your PDA Phone."

Contrast this with OTA upgrades of iOS 7 and 30% adoption within 24 hours and the Android 4.2 OTA upgrades (global adoption rate obviously lower) ...
"Amendment V: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury..."

Note that it does not say "citizen".
IMHO this (disallowing trials) is a big mistake. I very rarely would buy an app that I can't try. Of course I can afford to lose $1 or whatever - it's not the cost but the fact that I had been scammed what would infuriate me. It would only make sense for the app makers to turn my loss aversion against me - if I already used the app for a couple of days and liked it, now the choice for me would be "lose it or pay measly $2" - and that would be completely different game. Given that Apple exercises total and absolute control over the whole ecosystem, it could easily make trial system that makes apps free for 3 days (or 15 days if the developer chooses) and then makes them stop working until you pay. I think it would make Apple ecosystem much more friendly to the user, because frankly reviews are usually worthless and screenshots etc. are not much help either.
This is great, thanks. How replicable is your process for other cities that have open data?

Code for America recently worked with Yelp and several cities to standardize restaurant inspection data so that services like Yelp (and perhaps you) can display it nationwide.

http://www.yelp.com/healthscores
Gran Turismo 6 may be released for PC
Design a logo contests are tacky. It reveals a lack of understanding of your own brand and it's bad marketing. Go out and hire a professional graphic designer.
Because lists filled with vague, circular advice are easily digestible and codifiable, which leads to page views and a validation of the author's authority.
I don't get why these companies keep trying to differentiate on controllers - the controller seems to be the most refined part of modern video game consoles.
Drivel. Who knows, there might be a real formula lurking behind this post but you won't find it in this feel-good checklist of mostly obvious nothings.
http://i.imgur.com/mqct6hZ.png
Where it all started zoom
s/paranoid/people who handle information of any value/
To be fair, it's not a stand-alone article but rather one in a series of posts. In an earlier one the author wrote "I'm in that tiny minority that already buys his own individual coverage and will lose access to doctors and hospitals I currently use. I'm in that tiny minority who won't have a hospital within 20 miles of his home."