skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a second I thought this proposal was brilliant:

Drop the radioactive wastes, in canisters, in to the seabed folds where the continental plates are sliding under each other. The radioactives would disappear back into the magma from which they came.

Until I realized, this radioactive stuff would get vaporized and eventually escape in to atmosphere and ocean. Wouldn't that be much worse than getting spilled on land?
This is the future of automation: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

All you need is software that determines what needs to be done, and a minimum wage work force wearing headsets to receive task commands to carry out. Short circuits the need for ANY advancements in AI to enslave entire social classes.

I would love this to be wrong.
Not yet. What's your use case: do you browse them by folder or just want to search through them by keyword?
To celebrate, we're giving away all our software! This weekend, you can download any GNU project free of charge! On a serious note, I think I will actually download and play with a few new projects. Maybe I'll even try out Debian/HURD :)
Leopold's? Damn would not have guessed
This a good example of why I don't use Facebook, although I do like the premise here.
It does have strict typing with objects, but not literals.

If I make a function meow(MyClass $meow) { } it will throw errors if anything other than a MyClass is given to it, including NULL.
It's possible that this is a misunderstanding of terms. It seems reasonable that when the NSA pulls up all data on a single person only 10% of it comes from the Internet firehose, and the other 90% comes from Facebook/Google/etc. They may be sucking up all of the Internet, but are not able to correlate is to a person 100% of the time in an automated fashion.
Assuming it wasn't fake, all sorts of things could go wrong with something like this. For example, what's to stop someone from scheduling a non-consensual kidnapping of another person as a prank?
I can only imagine the battle of reality distortion fields that must have taken place when Jobs first approached AT&T. It must have looked like a bar fight between Yoda and Sauron.

Arguably, no one else could have won that battle. Gates, maybe, but he was out of the game by then.
The argument has been that by specifying what each URL part is, you can build a link to https://pinboard.in/t:minimalism in the first place. Is delicious.com/minimalism the tag minimalism or the user minimalism? And what is delicious.com/settings? In practice, delicious gets around this by making all-user tags accessible at http://delicious.com/tag/iphone, but then you can't have a user named "tag". Or "tools", or "help", or "about", or "terms", and there's probably more and they might change every now and then.
So something like this, but less shit: http://i.imgur.com/30lVuJk.png
I'm glad to see other people thinking this way, because I believe this is the problem we're actually dealing with. Combine that with the fact that this cat can not be stuffed back in its bag, and all I can think of doing is hoping the surveillance is complete enough and disseminated widely enough that no one asshole or cabal of assholes can seize control.
I think its probably to enable the collaboration tools. I;m pretty sure you can still use it w/o giving up your email, just forgoing some of the collab features
Again, you're really minimizing the impact of this. 99% of people have no framework to understand the implications of facebook, and that doesn't make them out of their right mind.
Political people love Blackberries because a BB within a BES community is both secure and makes it easy to obfuscate accountability. You could rotate devices in such a way that you can compartmentalize who can communicate in writing by moving phones around. You can also shut people out by not giving them the list of device PINs for important people.

If you've ever worked at a place where the execs frequently "lost" BlackBerries, they were up to something.
Interesting. What about medicaid though? From what I've seen there's a minimum income to get the regular plans on the exchange, and below that you have to go with medicaid (assuming there aren't net worth qualifications for that).
I like it! I came up with this:

http://twitter.com/tqbf/status/384037360570089472/photo/1

(I'd have used FF Scala).

Vote parsnip!
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
When nReduce started, it was actually really cool. I think a big problem they had was changing a small piece of user feedback that was a slight pain point, but not a major one.

Everyone used to check in on Wednesdays and many were, week after week. They changed it so you could choose whenever you want, and all the teams in my group disappeared. It went from a vibrant Wednesday to dead every day. It was incredibly sad as everyone lost touch with each other.

While it was slightly annoying that I couldn't choose the day, it was working. Its one of those things where when you have a deadline many people will make it, when its flexible, it suddenly becomes really hard.
Per the CMS regulations:

"Under the final rule, “tobacco use” is defined as the use of a tobacco product or products four or more times per week within no longer than the past 6 months by legal users of tobacco products (generally those 18 years and older) and includes all tobacco products."

Source: http://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/Resources/Files/Downloads/market-ru... (page 3)
Stack Overflow benefits from network effect, and in the "sharing economy" of people contributing their knowledge in exchange for "internet points". Thus, you do generate value (not necessarily monetarily) off of even free users, if they contribute to discussions.

(I can't speak to Trello as I haven't needed/used it)

I'd argue that the success of the IAP model used in the app stores is much more of a response to the lack of free trial versions, which is kind of like the drug pusher "the first hit is free" sales method...
It is? I've only recently started using a mobile device, but with android's drag-to-form-words mechanism, I can you type "guardian" faster than "gu". I don't know about iOS, though.
We store your launcher on our server so need an identifier for you to be able to open it up in another browser on another device.

Your email's domain will be used in the future to link you up with your colleagues, Yammer style.

We also want to let you know when we release new features, so they don't come as a surprise.

You can turn off all mails from us under Account/Email.
I love the very basic premise of ripple - route payment in trust networks, P2P. I am more skeptical of the particular implementation, and especially the "pre-mined currency needed for transactions" bit, but after some thought and discussion don't think it's as big a problem as I worried (though I'm still not quite confident in that). In any event, open sourcing the server software is a good thing.
simpler than a restaurant: a coffee shop.
coffee machines have been around for quite some time, they are easy to operate and they produce decent coffee.
yet "the total number of coffee shops in the US increased by 70% between 2000 and 2005" [1]
AI seems necessary but not sufficient for automation...

[1] http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com_cont...
Right, you're welcome to use a throwaway email using the likes of Mailinator. Just verify it using the link we send you so we know you're not a bot.
OP here. I do actually believe what I said.

Pre- and post-checks are of course possible, but I've rarely seen them used in practice. More importantly, they can't be used to provide any sort of correctness guarantee, which static typing can.

I'm not sure what you mean by tagged values and pattern matching - I know what those concepts are, but I think you're saying they're widely used by good developers? I have not seen evidence for this.

The reason I call it one of the biggest advancements is that it is actually being used in production, has low overhead (both in cognitive load and performance-wise), and actually handles the complexities of duck-typing. It shows that it is practical. (By contrast, Erlang is sufficiently different to most other dynamic languages, both in use case and semantics, that it is difficult to generalize from Erlang to say Python).
Alright, my mistake then.

I'll look at Erlang. I'm trying to wedge self-teaching Python into this semester.
Take it from a guy who has actually played it with a controller. I played LoL with a xbox 360 usb controller. its nearly impossibly to get it right. I had figured that this wud be fun cuz i could map the spells to the buttons but the pointer movement is so not cool. I tried higher sensitivity and the pinter was running all over the place, so brought it low so i cud aim with precision but then turning an attack into a retreat took a LOT of time. It was just a crazy experience. Maybe we could get better at it over time but i dont see why anyone would sacrifice their mouse advantage to play on a controller? it would be a huge disadvantage in a competitive game.
>> Do you know how apps got on phones before the App Store?

Umm, yeah, I do. Handango and manual sync.

While Handango wasn't as frictionless as the App stores are today, it was popular, multiplatform and had a pretty good selection.
MBA can't run GNU?
"The living room" isn't about meeting the needs of every PC gamer, because what meets the needs of every PC gamer is the PC.

StarCraft 2 requires dozens of buttons, and isn't even on Steam. It's not going to happen anytime soon.
UTF-8 – "The most elegant hack"
Wowsers!

Well, great food for thought, thanks.
Glad you like it. I made this :) It was the project that got me to move to the US, and eventually start a couple GNU projects of my own (GNU FM and GNU social)
A cruise on the S.S. Brainstorm
Long time Halo veteran here so i dont really see why this would pose problems on FPS games.
Exactly. I understand that if I give away my social profile and/or pictures to a large corporation that they may be abused by said corporation. That's what corporations do.

I choose not to do so, I don't use facebook or gmail, but if I did I would only expect them to be using and abusing it, not some secret government program.
I'd bet 1-to-10 that if someone uses '+' operator then that line of code is never expected to encounter "0x4zz5" there. And I'm pretty sure that this addition is not meant to return a number exactly 4 less if it encounters "0z4zz5" instead of "0x4zz5". There is some theoretical chance that it does, but really, it's a lottery-type chance.

The whole total function has something that it's expected to do, some value that it returns in the end - and if it can't do that then any returned value is useless and wrong anyway; and automatic, silent type conversion is the worst possible choice of action, since it not only doesn't work, returning a value that you didn't intend (as other options); but in addition makes the actual bug hard to find and potentially corrupts a lot of stored data before you find the bug.
Short of dropping off the grid and moving to a cabin in Montana, I don't see how any of us can exercise this vote.
It supposedly has very advanced tactile feedback. I'm hopeful this bridges the gap between touch and buttons. Time will tell, I suppose.
Medicaid does have some asset tests.

Below 138% of the federal poverty level, you would qualify for Medicaid. [1]

If you had ethical qualms about it (or couldn't pass the asset tests) you can absolutely purchase a plan on the Exchange -- you just wouldn't receive a subsidy.

[1] In states that have opted to expand it, see my other comment.
Formula for entrepreneurial success
Very inspiring talk! Is it possible to deal with continuous data in those matrices or is it more oriented around discrete values?
http://i.imgur.com/UP5d3gH.png

edit: http://imgur.com/k6elBCU with masthead

Not a professional designer but I like mucking around in inkscape and it was a fun way to avoid work.
Search is entirely locked in.
Maybe it doesn't and just gets reported as if it does.
Losse says she'll probably post an excerpt of her book for people to compare with Eggers's: https://twitter.com/fake_train/status/383965453283913728.
I've been considering making spaced repetition software to help reteach and remind me of technical concepts I've learned over college that I don't recall too well. Stuff like fluid mechanics, microelectronics, thermodynamics, control systems, complex analysis, computer architecture, etc. Basically I have access to a lot of relevant course notes I took over the years (and digitized), but I don't remember it, so I would use SRS on this material to relearn it. I was thinking 20 mins a day would be a good amount of time for this.

But wait, let's take a step back. Does it really matter if I can recall all this engineering material? Supposedly my brain "knows" enough of it such that if there were a big project in a field requiring that knowledge, then I could relearn it all, because I've been trained to think in a way pertinent to that material. Is my time better spent just learning new topics and building things, which is what I currently do? Why dwell on having perfect recall? It only seems to benefit test takers.

I would love to hear counter-arguments for why SRS for engineering materials would be a good idea for those no longer in school, maybe then I'll be motivated to build some gamified spaced repetition software. It'll need to be fun and reward-based, imo.
From a branding perspective, if you're forced to use an underscore for a twitter or instagram name, always put it at the end.

Sad to see the Guardian go to a .com
I grew up pretty poor. We used preventative services regularly. I've actually gotten worse about that at the same time my income has grown dramatically.
If there was a reference to support your claim, you would have provided one. As I said before - you're just making this stuff up.
My impression, as someone who had a used Sun 3/50 in the early 90s, who later used Linux a lot, and who used various Unix workstations (IBM, Sun, Next, SGI, HP) in college:

For the bulk of Unix user/developers, the big thing was that GCC reintroduced the idea that you should be able to get free dev tools for your Unix OS, during a time when some vendors had decided that you should pay more to get the dev tools in addition to the base OS.
> But Apple altered their path and made something that customers wanted.

My feeling was that they knew the path they were going to take but weren't ready and chose to control the conversation with misleading statements.
I think that's better than paper resume. It is very difficult to find right candidate when you look at hundreds of CVs and practically they all look same.
Since few months, I started to ask online activity of candidates which is working quite well for me. We are happy with recent hires.
> The only ambiguity in the case of these Curiosity papers is that not all of the authors are US Government employees, and thus the work is, I am told “co-owned” by the authors.

Amazingly, this is an almost exact re-hashing of the debates on IP that occurred between Lysander Spooner and Benjamin Tucker in the 19th century. Tucker presented Spooner with a thought experiment: If two people should co-invent, how should the property be allocated. Spooner, of course, said 50-50. Then Tucker rejoined - what if one of the co-inventors should choose to give the patent freely, does that impinge on the property rights of the one who does not so choose (if you choose to disallow the scenario, does the holding of the patent impinge on the property right of the one who would choose to give it away)?
Take a look at what happened with the individual mandate in Massachusetts. About 1% of the population (48,000 in 2009) paid the penalty, set at 50% of the minimum insurance premium. Even assuming that the rest of the country has people stupider than Massachusetts, and more ornery, it's really not going to be anywhere near as bad as you're predicting.
This is superficial and hard to quantify, but .com has a junky feel to it nowadays. Their co.uk sounds more reputable.
Ah yes, the "creaky old IT department"... Gosh darn it, if it weren't for those old fogies and their weird inclination to worry about making sure things actually work, and their bizarre insistence of mapping technological choices to the strategic concerns of the business (as opposed to just providing the coolest new toys for all the geeks to play with) - then, we might actually be able to get something done!
If you need some help for any info about initial Erlang ask me.

For start:

http://www.maht0x0r.net/library/computing/erlang.pdf

http://www.erlang.org/erldoc

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Erlang

http://ruslanspivak.com/2007/09/09/erlang-for-python-program...

and you need emacs24+ for good ide and programming with erlang or just use interactive shell erl for initial start.
Sorry. I got bitter there at the end, it was uncalled for. I spent 3+ years as a PHP programmer, there's certainly nothing wrong with being a PHP programmer, but it's hard to argue that in 2013 it is still a good and productive platform to learn. It pains me to see newcomers starting out by learning PHP, they are essentially shooting themselves in the foot for at least a year of their life (if they are going to be a professional web dev). I was pretty productive at PHP, but only because I cut my teeth for years writing shitty cgi-style PHP scripts, learning the abortion they call their stdlib, then using PHP's OOP crap and finally using frameworks like CI. Imagine if I had spent that time writing ruby. By the time you get the whole way through, you realize that your "high-level language" should do work for you, not the other way around. I think what it comes down to is that PHP does not mandate good design patterns because it cannot even decide on one itself. Once I understood this, the language was forever tainted.

I think the only reason PHP is still relevant is because it's so damn accessible (kinda like w3schools), every shared hosting provider under the sun gives you apache+php, and when you're starting learning web programming shared providing is the way to go.

Why do you say php and Javascript suffer from the same ailments? They suffer from a few of the same ailments, like a crappy/confusing stdlib (although you don't see mysql_real_escape_string in javascript's API) and funky invisible type coercions. Lack of true OOP in javascript, though confusing to beginners, is a design feature as far as I'm concerned, prototyping gives you the tools to implement OOP however you like. But javascript has had a known design pattern from the beginning, which is very powerful and useful once you learn it. I strongly doubt a (another?) phplint at this point would change anything.

As for the "anecdotally" slide, I read the last statement as a conclusion of the previous stats, which didn't make any sense to me. Either I am completely misreading it or you are taking the phrase "anecdotally" far too literally.
my point is that the OS here doesn't matter, switching an OS is very likely not enough to be disruptive.

say they would have switched to android - so what? now they would gave been on equal footing with samsung, etc, but with no reason for anyone to switch to BB at all. you disrupt into a completely different market, not the same with something that's now equal at best.
Great work Oleg.
Great article!

I think gevent zeromq is no longer necessary

http://zeromq.github.io/pyzmq/api/zmq.green.html
Ah good. One last question, if you don't mind: how does the subsidy work for a freelancer, who doesn't know his annual income until the year's over?
5 Facebook Don’ts For Your Start-up
I don't think it's as simple as making a touch sensitive surface map for buttons. Take this for exampe:
in Xbox controller, you can have you thumb touching "a" and "b" at the same time, while you can either click "a" or "b" while touching another. Try doing that on a steam controller.
Shame the zoomed-out view is just nonsense. All this is, is a way to click and see a couple hundred random ones at a time. The zoomed-out view is just actual random noise, not an average of colors or anything. The title is disingenuous.
IAP in general is fine, but a lot of these apps are bait-and-switch. They do not make it clear up-front that unlocking critical features requires payment. Games are the worst. There are so many "free" games which simply do not allow you to have fun without spending money. They claim to be free, but then it turns out you have to grind pointlessly unless you pony up the cash. It's gotten to the point where I won't bother with any free app that's listed as having IAPs.

I much prefer the "Lite" model, where you basically have a functional demo for free, then a separate paid app. Offer the paid features in the "Lite" version as an IAP too, if you think that helps.

What it comes down to is that a good transaction should be a net gain for both sides. I give you money, and in exchange I get something that's worth more to me than the money I give you. We both win! But the way many of these games are done, the creator deliberately makes their game less fun in order to make it more lucrative. It's no longer mutually beneficial. Rather than adding value to get more money from me, they actually reduce value to try to extract more cash.
Question---how do designers who do this survive? $500 is not a lot of money---you'd need 100 of these projects/year to make 50K. Do designers do that many? If you've got bigger projects, something like this seems valuable as a sales tool rather than your bread and butter.
"Employee discharge from eyes, nose, or mouth"

With the US's health insurance system and management habits? Makes sense.
Republicans supported the ACA until Obama did. It's based on their own blueprints from the 1990s fight and Massachusetts.

And if you're going to whine about the length of the bill, get it right. It's 906 pages with legislative formatting (huge margins, lots of other whitespace). The PDF is trivially googleable.
> I don't then want to load it up with cheap, ill-designed apps.

The depressing thing to me is how much of a minority thing this is. It's not platform-specific; Android sales have always lagged iOS in general, but the aggressive ugliness of Android apps and cheapness of Android users (don't get me wrong, fellow Android people, I use them as my daily drivers, I prefer them) has now just made the jump to iOS.

Which is insane. But, hey.
"Robots will need to defend the one percent, when the ambition of the masses has turned into a pit of despair, like a animal trapped in a corner with no where to go and nothing to lose."
Why are we supposed to vote up spam? Posting a question to quora specifically so you can answer it is spam.

I am sure their social media marketer thought it was good for SEO, but really. Stripe is a poor knock off of every other payment system out there. Even the Bank Of America merchant services App for doing the same thing is better.

Stripe is everything you hate about PayPal and Square, paired with everything you love about Bank Of America. (yeah that's a bad thing)
Consumer awareness on many health issues is not an incentive problem. Do you really think that someone wrecks their body with a poor diet over 20 years is going to change behavior based on how much they pay for health care? I really wish it was that simple.

Health care is got a nasty price-sensitivity curve. Who wouldn't pay a lot of money to live a little longer?

The solution I would like to see is:
1. Just lower the eligibility age for Medicare by 2-5 years every year. All the machinery is in place and
the gradual change gives the system time to adjust.
2. Put 10-20% of the health care budget into making it cheaper to treat and prevent diseases. Allocate the
money using the existing grant process. Require that all the results be public domain.
3. Treat lifestyle issues (weight / smoking) when people are young. Go after them aggressively as diseases
while people are still in public schools.

The only encouraging thing I have to say is that Social Security got progressively improved once it was enacted. Maybe we will get the same thing over time.