skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been able to get into healthcare.gov yet, but you start with a button labeled "apply." Did they not expect anyone to just curiously browse?

Because for browsing, it doesn't seem to be much data. My state has about a dozen regions, and the only other variables are age and smoking status. You could do the whole thing with a static site, using a little javascript at the beginning to direct to the right folder.

You could handle huge traffic with a few nginx servers. Put it on AWS with Cloudfront and you're not even hitting the servers for a lot of requests.

Then send people to a database-backed webapp when they're actually signing up.
Knew we should have used a bubble sort. Thanks for catching that. https://help.github.com/articles/github-glossary#pull-reques...
> ... until they traveled to India and observed men using a cup of water to shave. All the MIT students had running water.

Interesting. My brief sojourn as a representative of Her Majesty's Government also taught me to shave from a bowl of water, simply because running water was an inefficient use of resources. It did require agitating the razor quite abruptly to clean it, and shaving was a little more jarring than when using warm water, but it worked.

And the bowl could be tipped-out after shaving to be filled with tasty porridge for brekkies. :)

P&G should promote this design to various militaries around the World. The use-case seems to match perfectly ( right down to the lack of a proper mirror ).
1:1 preview please. I have no idea what half of these are.
That really is a bad argument for Netflix. What privacy am I giving up exactly with Netflix? None.
When I spoke of the president's violations of the Budget Act, I wasn't referring to them in the present tense. Regardless, his violations have been numerous, though you are correct that he is not currently in violation of the budget act.
USSR. Millions lost.
Weren't the full-QWERTY Communicators within that price range? Any more interesting than that and we'd have credited to them a more full-featured OS barging into the range of PDAs - assuming we can rule out an Apple-style lateral leap.
Thank god at least the SWSD is operational!
True that, I could totally get by on just vim but I'm sure my beginner students would be a little intimidated! ChromeOS is pretty amazing, I love the simplicity.
Seems more accurate than both the Apple and the Amazon AWS status pages so far.
I'm a little worried about performance with VirtualBox and a machine with 2gb of RAM and a little over a Ghz of processing power - just judging by what I've seen trying to use VirtualBox over the years on more powerful systems. But it has made some great strides in performance so maybe it's time to look into it again! I do agree with some of the other commenters also who are worried about ease of use for the students.
"Nuclear Missile Launches Department - Degraded Performance" - have they laid off the dude who carries around the "football"?
With the ongoing automation of everything and a population reaching 7.5 billion, a basic income or a standard of living is going to be inevitable.
10gen's investors might have been cautious then but RethinkDB's investors can't be now. Now they see what the upper limit for RethinkDB can be too.
Or just skip the subservient/traditional stuff and use their real name.
He also attempts to justify the social implications of his position by saying that we can still have high levels of risk-taking and innovation but without suffering an oligarchy by severing the connection between wealth and power.

This is a nice idea, but in reality the power that comes with wealth is an even greater motivator than the improved quality of life that comes with cash. He suggests that his motivation for becoming wealthy was increased security; well, what position is more secure than one of great power? There's no reason that removing the link between wealth and power would reduce motivation less than flattening top level income.
If you have a basic income, why do you need a minimum wage?
I'm fairly confused why it doesn't come standard on Chromebooks. Google has a vested interest in encouraging Android app development and if dev mode on the Chromebook came with it, I'm sure they'd see a lot more people trying their hand at Android development. On the other hand, if you're already writing Java, you probably have a powerful enough machine to handle it.
Houses on my block in the United Kingdom that cost £3000
in 1970 are now going for over £1.5 million.

was this a typo? Because that's a 500-fold increase, and I can't imagine inflation in the UK was that bad since the 70s?
I believe the phrase is "hear, hear".
The article says "a basic income for all adults", not a basic income for all adults below a certain income threshold.
Insecure Programming by example (by gera)
Derp. Thanks.

Edit: I can't edit my prior comment. Time window?
It actually does, which is kind of sad...I sometimes have to close and open 2 or 3 times before it wakes up. It's weird though because you can still vaguely see the screen image as if it's just a problem with the backlight.
The very first entry is "Senate Whisky Stocking Department" - interesting !!
After Silk Road's demise, online drug dealing moves to new sites
Why Young People Are Startup Chumps
I suspect it is exactly to prevent paperwork. Having two different tax-systems, depending on your employment status is going to be a huge mess.
Also, yes, I can echo the trackpad not working so well and suspend kind of failing to do it's job - only seems to work after opening and closing the laptop several times.
For us non-US folks what is the "ACA"?
It's fun to type in sentences in the URL part, and watch the picture morph around. Even a single letter repeated over and over gives cool patterns.

I wonder if there are any sentences that are also meaningful pictures?
Cool, I was considering upgrading RAM on it at some point if necessary. How were you able to get two finger scrolling working in Ubuntu?
It's really not amazing. Considering buying a mini-mouse for this guy.
Alexandre and Christoph both earn the same amount of money. Alexandre has no employment expenses. Christoph has 1000 SF per year employment expenses. Income is defined as revenue minus expenses. Thus Alexandre will pay more tax than Christoph, because Alexandre has a higher income.
It's a good idea, but that's too high. You want to keep people from starving and living on the streets; not keep them from doing something productive with their lives.
He really is! He got back to my GitHub issue in a manner of hours. That guy rocks.
> I've always liked the idea of a base salary for all citizens. However, this plan appears to set the base level far too high -- it needs to be barely enough to fund the most basic of life's essentials, and indexed to an inflation rate of essential commodities. Life on this salary needs to be difficult and unsatisfying.

Do you know the purchasing power parity of Switzerland? Switzerland is more expensive than most countries.
It doesn't seem like much, but this is why we have GitHub and the cloud!
Very interesting since it's usually spelled whiskey in the US. Clearly that department is run from Canada or some other country lol.
Steam lets me add non-Steam games to their launcher right now on Windows. Imagine the ribbing they would get from the hypocrisy of making a walled garden on Linux.

The bigger limiting factor would be "games that run on Linux." Does League of Legends play on Linux?
ACA is the Affordable Care Act, more colloquially known as Obamacare.

Offtopic perhaps, but somewhat hilariously, ad-hoc polls indicate that if they are presented as separate things, people vastly "prefer" the ACA to Obamacare, despite them being the same thing.
Just for the record, I am not currently arguing with you, but I just thought I would point out something from real-world experience which starkly contradicts the "ideal" economic equilibrium you describe.

In my experience as a Norwegian, the parity argument isn't even close to true in the real world. There are lots of non-perishable goods here which are imported but are a lot more expensive than they are in the US. For reference, there is a 25% VAT on everything and there is occasionally an import tariff on the order ot 5%. Also some special taxes on vehicles, tobacco, alcohol and fuel, but I'll keep those separate.

Most goods here are a lot more expensive than abroad. Clothes and shoes are 2-3 times more expensive than in the US. Ditto for furniture and most non-perishable goods you would buy in a store. All food is 2-3 times more expensive, even imported, canned goods. This is in line with the labor required to stock and operate a store. Electronics are usually ~30-40% more expensive than abroad if you get them in the right place, which does more or less match the parity theory. My guess is that this is because buying these goods on the Internet is a viable option (in contrast to groceries, clothes, shoes, food, medicine, furniture etc). Hence these retailers are forced to conform, or go out of business. I am not sure how they are able to do this, whereas a clothing store or a supermarket is not. But this is what I observe. The cheapest electronics retailers are very low on staff and high on automation.

Long story short, locally labor-intensive products are obviously a lot more expensive in expensive countries. But higher salaries also have a very large effect also on the cost of imported goods, because there is a lot of labor involved during the shipping, import and sales process. If you are able to automate away some of this, you have a massive business opportunity. But it's a very obvious opening, so it is not a trivial task.
Passing by value in C++ can offer speed increases when the function will be copying the object anyways, due to move semantics, constructor eliding, etc.
A friend of mine worked out that if you draw a picture, and leave "blank" space (which is rendered in text as underscores) then you can carefully replace the blanks with letters which appears as noise in the picture, but otherwise doesn't disturb what you drew.

edit:
e.g. http://pix.pe?Cttttt5tt9vt____P_5___J__v9_ttttttt9v9tttttkkk...
DE Blades are the way to go. http://www.maggardrazors.com/index.php/product/budget-starte...
Given that programmer incomes tend to be towards the rich end of the spectrum (an average programmer income puts you around the top 5% in North America), and the money has to come from somewhere, your income is unlikely to go up, and will quite possibly go down after taxes. That's fine if you support the greater good, but buying more things seems highly unlikely.
IPhone 5s Home Button Annoying Click Sound
havent had a problem ivy and ant didn't tackle relatively gracefully yet. I'm only using gradle because all the cool kids are but tbh I'm not really a fan of groovy. I wouldn't ever use the language outside of gradle and thats a bad sign to me.
How to Revise a Tweet
how so? you can even use regexs easily to specify which transitive deps you don't want. what are you missing?
http://usgovernment.statuspage.io/incidents/0knqk2v79yn7

"In order to route funding to where it is most needed at this time, the War on Drugs has been downgraded to "Slight Disagreement On Drugs". Policy is still being crafted, but we can tell you that the halls of the The US Capitol building smell more interesting than normal tonight."
Alternate implementations make me uncomfortable. The original client is not documented much at all, and there's very little room for error.

I salute the amount of effort that's gone into this though.
Cloud-based User Management for Web Apps
Thanks, and insight appreciated.
> One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income.

I believe this would not be a problem in the long run for the following reasons:

- A lot of boring low-pay work is unnecessary (dealing with the endless paper trail of over-complicated bureaucracies, lots of things that companies do, like telemarketing, just because it's so cheap, etc. etc.);

- A lot of it is necessary, so it would just become more expensive. At some price, people will be willing to do this work despite the basic income. Many people actually enjoy doing meaningful work, be it plumbing or being a doctor. It's the soul-crushing pointless work that is so depressing;

- This would then create strong economic pressure to finally use technology for what it's good: automatize labor. No longer would there be the job loss dilemma;

- Likewise, this would create strong economic pressure to simplify everything: no more pointless bureaucracy, no more over-complicated taxation schemes that require an army of accountants, much less pointless meetings and other corporate fat, and so on.

I'm filled with hope by this idea and honestly believe that it has a chance of working. It's time to step into the next era.
There are some on-line electronics stores that run quite efficiently. In these places, the price is much closer to the USD equivalent in similar stores in the US. I think this supports the argument above related to Higher labor costs driving up prices.
I think you completely have missed the historic charter and nature of the W3C. It always was a pay to play organization, where they highly encouraged corporate or institutional members and dissuaded individual membership. It's very, very different from (say) the IETF.

The intent was to recognize the Web world for what it was: filled with competitive interests with no interest on the integrity of the architecture that had been created. The W3C was a way to bring their engineers together to save the Web from the various marketing departments that were escalating an arms race of proprietary browser features. It was to create a legitimate channel to drive agreements across competitors without antitrust concerns.

It didn't entirely succeed, only somewhat. But this decision is consistent with its history. The W3C is only a reflection of its members.
> From my own very cursory glance I'm not quite sure why you would compare Nimrod directly to Go, I think it's more aptly compared to something like Rust, with both having optional garbage collector, generics, macros etc.

(Disclaimer: I work on Rust and don't have a lot of experience with Nimrod other than reading the docs.)

Nimrod and Rust are in a similar space, yes; they're both systems languages that use compiler backends designed for C (in Nimrod's case, by compiling to C; in Rust's case, through LLVM). I especially like Nimrod's nice Python-like syntax.

Regarding "optional garbage collector", Nimrod and Rust are pretty different: last I looked, Nimrod follows the D route of tying safety to the GC, so if you don't use the GC you also lose memory safety. As far as I know, Rust is still unique among industry languages in that it takes the have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach of memory safety even if the GC is not used, via unique pointers and lifetimes.
We just launched UserApp after 9 months of hard work. Please try it out and let us know what you think :)
I think it might be a joke based on half-life.
I have just one suggestion: Make it possible to erase pixels by right clicking.

Other than that, great work!
It's NORAD-based.
Meh "a healthy work/life balance" to me is a pre-condition. If you use that phrase with the word 'perks' in the same sentence I'm moving on...
It does not look so cheap when compared to blindfolded solving.
Storing everything in the URL is a feature I just rolled out today. The HN submission is in honour of that. You can of course post it without the http://pix.pe/? to twitter, paste that chunk of letters back in, and it will work. Here is an example of how that looked:

https://twitter.com/ZenSaiyuki/status/373400181338693632

Which is neat, and purist and all, but people didn't know what the "gibberish" was, so making it a link is a compelling improvement, it would seem :)

I was really inspired by the twitter image compression challenge http://stackoverflow.com/questions/891643/twitter-image-enco...
"Oliphant Immortal" from Gurk III: http://pix.pe?Q_____A4_YEAHDDYcDbYacDbA4_H_______wGuAA_H4__H...
Near - ReactiveCocoa Open Source iOS App Example
Not my dad's either.
I don't use maven for my builds these days but that's completely wrong. configuring deps is painless as is adding plugins. I've used it to build maven projs as well as osgi projs.
Credit cards have been around in their present form since the 1960s. And magstripe credit cards have been around since the 1970s. So patents on the basic technology have long since expired. (Of course, there are all sorts of ancillaries that were developed later -- CVV2 numbers, AVS, fraud-detection, etc.)

The article talks about replacing 16-digit card numbers with a new payment infrastructure. The Orbiscom technology produces virtual card numbers that are backwards-compatible with existing 16-digit credit card numbers.
There are those who reject persons of other races(1) among both the native-born and non-native-born but ignoring them, multiculturalism works very well.

(1) Racist is a good shorthand term for these people, idiot is another.
The latter part of my argument, about neighborhood and building-scale self-sufficiency (a concept I believe to be somewhat silly) was indeed premised on Western living patterns... but not the rest.

Show me a city in Asia, and I will show you land 100-200km (often 25-50km) away that is barely used, having been given over to scrub or wilderness or low-value agriculture. Only in the centers of the most dense cities do land prices even eclipse solar panel prices when considering this power generation method. This has to be the case, for transportation reasons: a city can only grow where it has access to significant amounts of land to feed itself. The amount of land required to feed a person tends to vastly overshadow the amount of land required to power that person's share of the generation infrastructure.

200kg of rice staple a year per person (estimate from Burma of strict rice consumption diet) / 4 tons rice per hectare (world average) = 500 square meters per person, for a no-protein diet. Replace rice with wheat, and add some meat + dairy, and you increase that figure by several times.

...

Napkin Math (Guaranteed to one order of magnitude):

China uses about 500 watts per person.

Beijing's region gets about 5kwh/m^2/d of insolation

At 10% efficiency that's 500wh/m^2/d

That means 1 person needs 24m^2 of land given over to solar panels

Beijing has 20M people

That's 480 km^2 (a square plot of land 20km x 24km) that Beijing would have to find to place solar panels; Compare with, for example, the size of Beijing.

...

The Chinese province of Inner Mongolia has sufficient unused desert scrubland to power the entire world several times over, if:

A) The solar panel price problem is solved

B) The energy storage problem is solved

C) Electrical distribution infrastructure is approached in a systematic manner
What is the "Department of Denying the Existence of the NSA"?
Light attracts light, darkness attracts darkness. If you can think metaphorically, you'll understand what this means.
A shot of reality
Do SO questions come with their own RSS feeds?

If yes, then try using http://twitter.com/updt_me to 'follow' the questions - you'll get a DM whenever there are new answers in the RSS/Atom feed! :)

It's a self-learning project I built over a weekend, so it's kinda rough around the edges, apologies in advance! Do let me know what you think.
If you dont mind me asking, what hype are you referring to? I think a lot of people are correct in assuming that Rails is a good solution for a large (largest?) class of web applications, from cruds to crud+some ajax and so on. We know for a fact that it is working for some really successful companies, so I think depicting people as living in some dream just for rationally concluding that a particular technology will suit them is, well, a stretch.
Happy Halloween

http://pix.pe?IJJttttSJTdaStuttts2kkkgkkltttttttkkkkkktltttt...
NPM stores dependencies in a node_modules folder within the project directory, i.e. "locally." It does have a command-line flag to store something globally, though -- useful for dependencies with executables.

I'm not a Java developer but it sounds like Maven stores all its dependencies globally (like in /usr/share/java). I'm not sure why that would be a "pain point" except making it hard to do different versions of the same library.
Neither of my parents have a bitcoin wallet.
I found the easter egg but I'm not sure what exactly it does. At first I thought it's one iteration of conways game of life but that's not it.
Enlighten me!
Very much desirable to prevent wage slavery in globalization
Putting that statement back into context though, I went on to explain that either party could reopen offices.

The problem is that generally, each party thinks that their opposition party is the one that can clear the jam, while ignoring that both parties are being stubborn on their points.

A fun, but unrelated exercise would be to see if you can find faults by members of your preferred party that has contributed to the intractability of the current standoff. If you cannot, then I would wager that your stance on this issue is colored by party lines.

More fun, as most people would do when faced with this challenge, is to watch as people acknowledge faults in their own party, but then go on to subsequently explain how much more egregious the faults are that reside in the opposition party.

Everybody's politics is naturally colored by their own beliefs, but as a debate on procedure, they're basically irrelevant here. We have a standoff. The timing of it is poor, and perhaps the motivations for it are even worse, but we have a standoff, and neither party is willing to negotiate in good faith.

That particular fault lies equally with both parties at present, and any attempts to influence the conversation otherwise are disingenuous, in my humble opinion.
For the last one, I see a velociraptor :)

http://s177.photobucket.com/user/p0oki_photo/media/Velocirap...
Yeah, as if there weren't any nerd moms. Stop the headline sexism already.
An Accounting Lesson for Twitter
Samsung makes business history
Mattress Tag Illegal Removal Response Team: operational!

(dang it! I thought it was finally safe to tear off the darn thing!)
HTML5 applications for Android – The lighter side of mobile apps
Money, Nascar's TV contracts over the next decade are worth nearly $5 billion.
What like Twitter? You could win the lottery 10 times before having a chance at starting a company that has scaling problems like Twitter. Besides Rails still exists in there stack.

Don't even mention LinkedIn, they don't even know what they doing. They were using like Mongrel version -2 and Rails -0.3, when they decided they had issues with there mobile platform and moved it to NodeJS.
If only could be used for android development...
A more detailed argument is here

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/is-america-the-worlds...
Looks intriguing and I can tell you guys have spent a lot of time on the feature-set. But the biggest thing that will hold me back(and may be others) is a lack of clarity about security and my data(what happens in the event that you are down? in the event that you close shop?)
Namecheap fails to use HTTPS with Credit Card information