skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equal access to healthcare? You have got to be kidding me. This is a state by state argument, not a federal one. In fact, it's even more local than that. Anyone poor as you say already gets free healhcare in every state. What more do you want? Fact it, this is just another redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the poor. The rich (which you infer are Republican, although most wealthy people vote Democrat to keep the poor there) are not impacted by this anyway. I love how you can boil down an 11,000 page bill to two sentences. Ignorance must be bliss. Tell us what it's like, and in the meantime save those finger movement keystrokes for something enlightening. Win-win, that.
Seconded. I can often predict my weight to 200g if I have a similar diet for a few days running. That said, I have two pairs of scales. Both give reliable results, but one is consistently 500g off from the other. I wouldn't be surprised if most consumer scales have similar levels of inaccuracy. Not a problem for weighing yourself perhaps, but potentially an issue for plane luggage...
To me it sounds like this all is the wrong place to fix these problems, but then again, these problems are extremely hard for the compiler to optimize.

I personally would opt for explicitly separating the reads from the writes, because

a) the flow of the program gets extremely complicated this way (it's hard to read the order in which instructions are executed)

b) it would avoid race conditions (or worst case make them a lot more obvious.)
I've started a makerspace in my home town and, while it's not profitable at this point, someday I may make a stipend for all the hours I pour into it.

Building the space got me the opportunity recently to be a foreman on a large interactive art sculpture build for an international company where I was able to learn to weld and even hired on some good friends of mine who are artists and fabricators.

Someday I hope I can meld the two worlds - physical fabrication and programming - into a lucrative and enjoyable career. I feel it's a great blend of IRL type work and the addictive satisfaction I get from writing code
I recall paying 7SF for a coke when skiing 20 years ago
I bought an air popper for popcorn on clearance a while ago. Has a few advantages to the "stove and pot," but it's not necessary really. Mostly it keeps the popcorn from burning if you're not paying close enough attention and the ratio of unpopped kernels is much lower.
There doesn't seem to be a definition of layout thrashing anywhere on the internet. Googling "what is layout thrashing" returns nothing.

Anyone want to offer the net's very first ever explicit definition of this term?
Hmm, can this be implemented in JS frameworks, so that can be done with less code?
I don't know what any of these things mean -___-
"C++ is not more than twice as fast than an equivalent Go program at this stage."

I believe that is a simple typo, where 'not' was meant to be a 'now'.
If everybody died, money would have no value. So yes, it's always worse than losing an unlimited amount of money.
There's still an incentive to work with a negative income tax. This is an interesting discussion about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
Sparkling: A lightweight, extensible, C-style scripting language
I always thought Apple took the iPod and added phone radio to it, then they took out the radio, made the screen big and called it iPad.
Not anymore. This is interesting stuff.
Not everyone lives in a major metropolitan area where programmers are thrown money like there's no tomorrow.
I see a lot of four legged animals run like that in assorted nature docs.
Why do companies keep doing this crap? Is there some logical reason why they would do this?
Presumably this would replace Social Security and most other forms of welfare (might even replace medicare / medicaid — people would just buy insurance based on the basic income).

Given that entitlements are ~60% percentage of federal, this might be easier than you think.
Thanks, this seems like a good integration.

Any suggestions regarding a specific choice of data format? Latex? Markdown? Etc.
Introducing [random noun] a [random noun] for [random noun].
When interleaved DOM queries and modifications in your JS cause the DOM to be successively invalidated and then laid out again, multiple times within a single script.

Modern browsers use a dirty-bit system for DOM modifications: they don't perform a layout every time it's changed, they just note the change and then perform the layout when the script returns. However, if the DOM is queried in the meantime, they have to perform layout, because otherwise they won't have up-to-date dimensions and positions. So if you interleave queries with modifications, the dirty bit gets set, the DOM gets laid out, the dirty bit gets set, the DOM gets laid out, etc, defeating all the optimizations browser vendors have put in place.

Layout is an expensive operation, too - on a moderately complex website like Google Search it takes about 17ms on desktop, and that can increase by 10x on mobile devices. 170ms is well past the point of visual perception.
I recently posted on G+ that if the hardware were more open, the Pixel would be the flagship Linux developer machine.

The problem is that I don't want to get a laptop and spend countless hours getting it to "just work"
> I'll save you the Google effort

It's kind of sad that the act of searching the web is now reduced to a brand name. I'm not blaming you, I say it too. With the PRISM and friend revelation I feel it's time to go back to what we used to say before Google quasi-monopoly became effective and use generic terms like "search engine", "search the web", etc.
My wife pointed out is that one of the disposable lines in the article mentioned that until "talkies," movies were less of a "bread and circuses" pasttime - the illiterate don't get the full experience of a silent film.

Considering the storylines of many silent films, I'm rather amused to contemplate what that implies. Seriously, "Keystone Cops" is kind of like the "America's Got Talent" of its day - "Othello" it ain't.
This is cute but it needs to be obnoxious, not cute. Give me monsters coming out, the screen flashing red when you're hurting and dying etc. If this dude shows up in the middle of your dashboard attacking you you're going to notice. http://cdn.gametop.com/download-free/doom/b2.jpg

Also if the enemies, one per metric, are killed with a chainsaw when your numbers improve or stabilize that would be somewhere close to the pinnacle of awesome.
"some kind of revision control" =/= rcs, and eight years is quite a while. I'd happily bet that more sysadmins know git than rcs if you find a measurement.
Sure. I actually meant to ask the "if a big country does it" version, because that's what makes Basic Income an interesting macroeconomic policy. If the US did this (and the US definitely has the room--both geographically and otherwise--to absorb way more than 6 million people), what do you think would happen?
The Experiment - 52 Projects
Ah, I was wondering why my hosting provider had disabled WHMCS. That explains it! (Not that it was terribly hard to guess.)
But the cost of a flop in that case is the time they could have been selling a successful product. No matter how you slice it, the cost of a trip to India is going to be insignificant compared to the benefits of getting the product right the first time.
Because I had to go back: "Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers"
Without border checkpoints official limits are sort of irrelevant, assuming you don't try to resell what you bought.
I would say that by now the manosphere is substantially more complicated than your brief sketch, and has differentiated into various strains. An important strain are those who fight for men's human rights, as currently men are second-class citizens in regards to various dimensions (in many industrialised countries), such as: (1) men get punished harder for the same crime in comparison with women, (2) men dying several years earlier than women, (3) men commit suicide substantially more often than women, (4) male pension age is higher than female pension age (e.g. in the UK), (6) men working more than women, many more work-place deaths for men than for women, (7) paternity rights for men, (8) alimony and divorce rights is highly skewed against men, (9) sexual violence are men is trivialised and rarely persecuted, (10) false accusations of sexual and domistic violence against men
is trivialised and rarely persecuted, (11) homelessness is mostly a male phenomenon.

The question of the pros and cons of traditional gender norms is a controversial, but insignificant in comparison to the aforementioned questions of justice and human rights.
That story is in Stories of Your Life and Others; I'd recommend the whole collection: http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/193...
It's always confused me to that I can't prioritize tweeters into 1, 2 and 3. Open up twitter after 8 hours and the tweets are sorted in priority.
"However then I thought I could make more money doing things like project management."

This makes me sad. You want coding because you're realizing most managers are worthless and developers who can empower themselves do without you.
Isn't that… kinda what BD is doing? I'm sure they could give you a list of prior work they're building on as long as your arm. Their main current work seems to me to be in building self-stabilizing walking platforms, upon which they can eventually carry various other loads, such as, oh, the dog-level AI/sensor package you're using as an example.

I dunno, I guess I kinda want to take on the role of the Voice of Startup Culture here and say "congratulations, you've identified a hole in the market, start working on your MVP". Except I also kinda feel like that's exactly what all the modern work you disparage is doing; the MVP of "robots" is a huge, multifaceted problem, and nobody's made it out of the "cool tech demo" level yet.

You've made a list of a half-dozen fields that need to be advanced. Which one are you working in? Either as your day job, or your hobby? Or are you just sitting on the sidelines going "it's all been done before"?
I have an air popper, a stove-top popcorn popper (complete with a wire stirrer that you crank around with the lid closed), and a microwave. When I was growing up we had a popcorn popper that you held over a fire for fireplace popping. That was circa 1970.
Working with unicode streams in Python
I didn't know they released the WAD as public domain.
> legal, technical, and regulatory

Three things.
NetBSD 6.1.2 has been released
What? Querying and writing to the DOM are explicitly what JavaScript was made for.
> something rotten with them.

Like spying on us?
Are we really so desperate to stick with buzzwords and "hot tech" that we wind up creating Heroku-powered Ruby apps with Bootstrap UI widget-filled pages to serve up a set of 5 static images over HTTP, rather than just, say, uploading them to imgur?
Automated filtering approaches like Facebook's edgerank are a band-aid fix for fundamentally wrong user interface. For me, there is no content on the internet that is time-critical and has to be consumed in the order it was posted, or as soon as it was posted.

The great thing about the Google Reader interface was that you can sign up to 300 blogs, and see which ones have new posts in the left hand column. You read the interesting ones every few days, and perhaps scroll through the headlines of the boring ones once per month.

This way no post goes missing because it is too old, a frequent poster doesn't take priority over an infrequent but more interesting one, and the user decides how to "filter" content based on every visit.
True, I use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but I still call it googling.

But people who try to change language forcefully are annoying and mostly wasting their time (see the politically-correct crowd). It has to occur naturally.

So I'm ok with it being google for now. Photocopying in favor of Xeroxing has somewhat faded. Although calling tissues Kleenex is still going strong.
Based on the looks, both.

Hydraulic pump for the legs + generator for the electronics.
What a nice surprise to see my own project on the front page of HN. :)

Here are some examples of web apps which use Jester in production for those interested: Nimrod forum (http://forum.nimrod-code.org) and Nimbuild (http://build.nimrod-code.org). The source code for both is also available on Github: https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimforum and https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimbuild.
One man’s quest to sleep in every former slave dwelling in the U.S.
Google is one in a long line of brand names that are so ubiquitous they come to identify the category. Kleenex, Photoshop, Bandaid, and so on. There's nothing wrong with it.
A $30,000 car is made affordable through financing, and financing rates are affordable because cars are useful.

In civilized countries you're not going to pay $30,000 for any required medical procedure... There are some advantages to universal health care...
I think it says more about humanity circa 2013 that you fail to see the irony of your post.

Apologies if you meant it as a joke.
I just peed a little.
Show HN: Web service for monitoring web pages (weekend project)
Type in URL and keyword to look for, set search interval and forget it.
Once keyword you are looking for appears on site you will receive email notification with short description and link to article (hopefully :D :D :D)
Interesting, the long term perspective didn't cross my mind. Let's hope it does indeed turn out this way.
I've always wondered how people who follow thousands of people are able to get much value from their timelines. I've concluded that they don't, or they are using lists or other tools to manage their Twitter experience.

Speaking of lists, I disagree with the author's claim that they are hard to set up. Twitter (and many Twitter apps) have made a list quite easy to set up, and monitor. Doing this is one way to handle the unfiltered feed problem.

He brings up an interesting point, though, regarding negative behaviors such as being less likely to follow new people. I agree that this can happen, but the flip side is people may be far more selective about who they follow as time goes on. Assuming that such users are regularly unfollowing bad or spammy accounts, their Twitter experience should improve over time.
What's the legal status of this?

I can't fathom why vendor locks are covered by the DMCA, but they are. (At least, that's what the Library of Congress says) so maybe this is covered too. Or not.

Maybe a bunch of customers could get together and launch a class action lawsuit?

(http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57572492-94/what-the-dmca-c...)

> Unfortunately, this would be very difficult for several reasons including the fact that wireless subscribers are no longer allowed to sue their carriers as part of a class lawsuit.

> The problem is the U.S. Supreme Court's 2011 decision in Concepcion v. AT&T Mobility, in which the Court upheld the validity of class action waivers and arbitration clauses in consumer contracts, according to Michael Ashenbrener of Aschenbrener Law, a consumer advocacy law firm based in Chicago.

> "As a result of the Concepcion case, it is essentially impossible to sue a U.S. cell phone carrier in a class action," Aschenbrener explained in an e-mail. "Consequently, there is no effective check on the power of U.S. wireless companies."

Mobile phone companies suck, eh?
What about documents that can have multiple interpretations?

Where do I zoom to edit and HTML file as a set of tags? Where do I zoom to edit it inside a WYSIWYG editor? Where do I zoom to see it in a browser?
Quadrupedal animals have multiple gaits; at higher speeds, they'll start bringing the forelegs down together at closer points in time.

Check out, for instance, this video of an actual cheetah running around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIeXEiJuJUY - you can see the front paws coming down very close to each other in time and space, followed by the wide-spread rear paws making huge leaps forwards.

Also a quick images search for "horse muybridge" may be enlightening - Muybridge's books are super well-known in the animation circles I come from, as they were the first major works of research into high-speed photography documenting How Stuff Moves. You can see that horses have a whole bunch of different gaits available to them; most other animals are similar, but less tractable to a photographer's whims!
The irony of saying "write less code"? Yes, imgur is itself a service, but it's one with much less complexity (and more generalization) than the OP, and the OP gains nothing from its increased complexity.
I think there is still a difference if a man hires a female escort, or a woman hires a male escort, also in US.

To cite Compagna.de/en_home.html "Compagna explicitly doesn`t offer erotic service at all." as a disclaimer.

So its more about knowing the cheap side street pub that has the best tappas in town, talking to the bouncer at the dance club to get instant entry, when a row of people are waiting for hours, sometimes even shopping.

Sex is outside the contract of the agency, but it happens.
It's not a formal term; the author was just drawing the parallel between memory + disk thrashing and the DOM + layout thrashing. Basically slowdown due to excessive reads and writes/redundantly moving data back and forth.
Yes in some cases, like software, I agree that positive motivation naturally exists. Negative motivation may also naturally exist. For example, if you enjoy your work, and the work is desirable, you'll be anxious about losing it. However, I wonder whether it's quixotic to think this applies to all types of work.

I would love to see a small country like Switzerland incubate this policy.
At the risk of mowed over by the crowd, I want to propose not calling it income. It's welfare. In no way should we equate it to result of someone's work.
Maybe surprising now, post "thermonuclear war", but not for 2007.
Yeah, let's all maintain native codebases for simple mobile websites.
And I say, "Don't buy from Samsung."

My own personal recommendation is to buy a Chinese phone. They're a lot more affordable, and work nearly just as well.

I wrote a bit about my phone, a Samsung Mega look-alike that I paid $200 for. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494895
Ah, I love it when my sarcasm utterly fails to connect.
Right or wrong, we should all take a moment to consider the irony that people are now writing stuff like this:

"If {language} lost some of it's edge compared to an {other language} based platform, it's because people have awaken from the hype dream they were living in, as they should have never have used it for that job anyway."

and compare it this passage that Bruce Eckel wrote in 2005:

"The {language} hyper-enthusiasts have left the building, leaving a significant contingent of {language} programmers behind, blinking in the bright lights without the constant drumbeat of boosterism. But the majority of programmers, who have been relatively quiet all this time, always knew that {language} is a combination of strengths and weaknesses. These folks are not left with any feelings of surprise, but instead they welcome the silence, because it's easier to think and work. Where did the hyper-enthusiasts go? To Ruby, apparently."

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=141312
Shumway: An HTML5 renderer for Flash
So what do you recommend for us to use instead?
Further information regarding the exploit: http://localhost.re/p/whmcs-527-vulnerability
There are checkpoints, they are (usually) manned and funnel traffic through single lanes, it's just that they rarely actually stop people.
Using Geeky Tools to Plan for Our Birth
I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and he killed my contract
as a developer, i don't need them to be different than each other as they are mostly open source so i can take a good look at what they have done, how they've done it and many other things. i'd like to think such applications as showcase apps for the languages

as a prospective user, having this web application up and running somewhere and showing it would be much more compelling to me.
Hmm. My Mom was a trained engineer. She's no longer with us, but if she'd lived long enough to select a Bitcoin wallet, I have no reason to believe she'd have picked a poor one...

(And yes, I get the irony that they probably picked this headline out of fear that "not your dad's..." was sexist.)
The difference being that the author of the doomguy website seems to me is just having a laugh and you're being dead serious.
Appmaker
...or maybe it's just for fun.
I realize this is a day late, but will Loom support sqlite? I need a library that has:

* Read

* Write

* Callback (to sort out paradoxes when two or more devices update the store independently offline and need to merge)

It's possible to do this with CoreData, but poorly, with a high burden on the developer to learn the entirety of Apple's APIs and no way to alert the user as to what it is doing under the hood, which causes the app to hang for minutes or even forever until the managed object context says it's ready.
lists are useless imo, they are just like contact lists in skype or aim chat. And to make them there is no reward after. Lists would be useful to organize people and give different rules to have posts leak into main feed. for example posts with at least 2 retweets and/or 2 likes. if they'd make something like that, that would be awesome.

For now I just don't bother I scan fast enought to find interesting bits for me.

my 2c.
I don't understand the point of redirecting every number between 0 and 100 when there are only five gifs.
http://web.archive.org/web/20130112204225/http://www.fantast... has a backup.
React has been designed to batch all the DOM reads and writes and is one reason why it is so fast. In general this is not an easy property to get because it requires taking over --all-- the DOM operations of your codebase and reordering them.

http://facebook.github.io/react/
Ask HN: How quickly do you expect email responses or respond yourself?
Obviously, the priority of the email's content has a big effect on response times, but in general, how long do you expect it to take for someone to respond? Work-related, weekend-planning, recruiting, general inquiries from friends-of-friends, or whatever.

Similarly, how many hours after sending an email do you assume it has been read? 2 hours? 4 hours? 12 hours? a day? Do you assume that an email you sent in the morning of a weekday will absolutely have been read by the end of that night? And whatever time range you expect an email to have been read, what is your expectations for a response?
First of all great job guys. The website looks really good even better than HN. One thing I dislike is the scroll bar in the middle. It makes navigation a bit cumbersome in my opinion.

I see you are using redis! It would be great if you could share some details about your usage like how much memory your app uses and what are your costs associated with it.
in my experience, when I ask students to use a VM, I find out that (a) their HDs are already full of crap (music movies, crapware) and/or (b) the bare metal is not fast enough, or not enough RAM, to run a VM well. There is a certain appeal to forcing them to have a dedicated physical machine.
Why indeed? I'd rather have a beer than popcorn, so Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, TX gets my vote.