skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nearby star would raise the temperature a few hundreds of K. To have nuclear fusion you need a few millions of K. So the effect would be negligible.
Do things that matter.
A fair point. Other examples of problems were empty drop-down menus from presumably non-cached failed DB accesses[0] and forgot password links in emails leading to an error about no match found for the provided information [me], which I suppose you could respectively file under 'unexpected heavy load' and 'bug' rather than 'poorly written code', though at some point no matter how you classify the problems it makes me nervous to submit my information because I wonder what security holes are waiting to be discovered along with the other problems.

[0]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-02/untangling-obamacar...
China has a similar problem.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2013/01/20/the-china-m...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-05/china-approves-inco...

This is frightening to social scientists in China who analyze society from a Marxist framework, especially those who have noticed that regional wealth gaps in China are greater than those in Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia disintegrated.
Meh. Client side-verified size limit. If you think this is a good idea you are failing at APIs.
I tried signing up the day it launched and ran into issues with 404s. After 3 or 4 days, I was finally able to create an account. When I went back the following day to login for the first time to choose a plan, I couldn't login.

I get a message saying my login credentials are incorrect. I hit the forgot password link and enter in my username. It finds my account and sends me a password reset email. I click on the link in the password reset email and it takes me back to healthcare.gov with an error message that my account can't be found, which obviously makes no sense because they just used my account to send me an email.

Live Chat has provided zero help, only stating that it's probably a performance issue and to try back later.

One odd thing is that the registration page says you a need a lower case and upper case character, a number and at least one symbol from a pre-defined set. To my knowledge, I didn't use an uppercase character, nor do I use one when do the password reset, which properly sends me an email. I feel like maybe the login portion is properly validating the username requirements, but the registration didn't which is what has left me in this mess.

Sorry, this site isn't worth $600 million.
They use this at Trovebox, I like it a lot.

It would be great if it could give you a list of failed uploads though, it would make them easier to search and investigate.
I have worked with IT consulting for the government (in Brazil), and if the software needs of the american government are similar to the Brazilian ones, you can't compare twitter, instagram, etc. with this! They are completely different kinds of software, governmental softwares have tons of integration with old COBOL systems that runs millions of sensible data, and tons of requirements, really, pages and pages of different use case scenarios. Governmental software require more man-hours than successful start ups, even when they work and succeed as a project. The "MVP" of a governmental system is huge.
Now, don't get me wrong. the price is absurd, this example is clearly a total failure. It's just that this article compare apples to oranges.
Toward that end, he said, Congress needs to pass “cyber-legislation” to encourage private companies to share data on cyber-threats.

People distrust NSA because it collects too much data. The way to increase public trust is to encourage everyone to intensify the collection. With even more broad language.
What is it about CoffeeScript that people don't like?
Would have been cooler to play a sample by each band instead of "Burzum - Lost Wisdom" everytime.
I wish I found this site when I took Color Science in college. I was able to pick a free elective and that one sounded fun. The first day I went the professor rattled off 3 prerequisite classes "we all should have taken by now", I hadn't taken any of them. In fact, I was the only CS major in the class.

I explained the situation to the professor and he understood but he said it would be a hard class. Fortunately, we worked in groups for every assignment, so I could get some help from people that actually knew what they were doing.

The book we had for the class was dense and I never really found a perfect overview of everything we were learning. This website really sums up a lot of it. We went into more detail about the 1931 XYZ color space, and learned about color spaces that were made after that and how they affected the field.

I ended up learning a lot in that class. One of the big assignments we had was to take a photo of a portrait under different light conditions in a light booth (daylight, sunset, incandescent, etc.) and use MATLAB programs to make all of the photos look exactly the same.

Here's a Wikipedia article that covers a lot of what we did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_balance
Idea for a bidding model: Bidders for government contracts would need to put a large amount of money in trust. The government pays them interest on this, plus alpha. If they weren't meeting targets, then the government could just eat into the trust money.

Now the risk management is no longer being done by government, but by the banks who lend you the money. They specialise in such work. This a similar dynamic to film financing.

Imagine the secondary market that would pop up for the risk underlying such projects.
I told https://www.healthcare.gov/ that I want to apply and live in New York. It immediately gave me a link to http://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/ . I clicked the link, and it says:

> Access Denied
> You don't have permission to access "http://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/" on this server.

Why would the top level of such a site have permissions at all?
Some say health-care site’s problems highlight flawed federal IT policies
Simula is a hybrid language made out of an imperative Algol base and extensions for OO.
Irrelevant! these wealthy russians stole anything they could,they did not create any wealth.
My wife and I joined the New York City Teaching Fellows—a NYC-based spinoff of TFA—in 2006 at the tender age of 22. I taught in the New York City public school system for seven years and earned my masters in special education and a school building leader license along the way. Much of the article jives with my experience.

Not only is there little to no support for teachers, but it sometimes feels like because there are a few bad teachers floating around in the system, that everyone needs to be punished and inconvenienced. I like job security as much as the next person, but I was a huge advocate for getting rid of tenure as a result.

I'm still incredibly passionate about education, but suspect that being a teacher is the best way to create change. Even in my short tenure, the amount of bureaucracy had increased exponentially. When asked for advice on becoming a teacher by a college student recently, I recommended against it—which broke my own heart, because I believe that it's an incredibly important profession—just not one I would give my twenties to again knowing what I know now.
I'm not sure what you mean. Suing someone isn't an act of violence.
Check out Sturgeons law... 90% of everything is crap. Some think he was an optimist! :)

You've hit a few nails on the head, especially with the loudest complainers being the least likely to spend money and the unwillingness to expend any effort.

What I noticed with the few clients I visited for the POS vendor was that the owners weren't busy, they were lazy and cheap. If your idea man's idea involves getting people to do anything besides say yes or no on the phone, I wouldn't bother unless you meet face to face with a few people that are really enthusiastic and prove they're willing to make an effort. They will just frustrate you and make you hate life otherwise. This is especially true for any kind of banking or financial business such as mortgage brokers or credit reporting agencies. I have yet to see a group of people less willing to spend money or to try to cheat you out of it. Restaurant and bar owners would be second on my list.

I didn't see much of the support portion of the POS business because the majority of the people were in a different state, but, more than 1/3 of the employees were in the training and support department at this particular company. A support contract was required for any big business simply because the customers wanted a neck to choke when something went wrong. Developers could intuit a fair amount about what was going on with the customers due to the problem tickets and CRM entries we saw.

If not for the support/training revenue I suspect the POS corp I worked for would have been out of business years ago. However, they had some huge customers that just wouldn't buy anything without a support contract. The mom-and-pop customers paid per incident and screamed and hollered the whole time. The large corps are locked into the POS support dept. The mom-and-pops are not, but... I don't think you want to deal with them...
Your descriptions of the painful bugs are all apt, your absolutely right that it should deter anybody from feeling like their data is in good hands.

But just as you can find a bug deep in the code, you can also go up the stack and ask how it got there: how were the specs for a valid username defined and published? Where were the tests—or at the very least, QA procedures—that should have encoded and verified those specs? Where were the managers that should have made sure those tests existed? Where were the manager's manager that should have delegated resources to the manager to get those tests written? Where was the manager's manager's manager who knew how to hire someone who would value quality control? Who was on the government procurement panel that did not adequately assess their contractor's ability to deliver quality?
Ivory language: an eDSL for safe systems programming from Galois
People continually underestimate the power of the narrative.

Humans want to see things in terms of stories, of drama, heroes, and so forth. Even if the underlying history doesn't fit the narrative, allowance will be made so that it does. The story wins out over all else.

This is why the internet meme is so powerful. Nobody steals your kidneys and leaves you in a bathtub, but it makes for a helluva great story. Bill Gates isn't giving away money for emails, but wouldn't it be awesome if he was? I could probably put together a list of 100 Hollywood movies that purposefully destroy the truth just in order to sell more movie tickets. And people love it. (sidebar: "Big Fish" is a great movie about this topic) Movies will even go to great lengths to reassure you that they are telling a true story -- then bullshit the hell out of you.

People know that they're stretching and murdering the truth, but guess what? They don't care. A good story is much more interesting than what actually happened, or some cold collection of facts.

And I think 3 centuries is being generous. Most times this begins way before the people involved die. There are many people alive today trying to restore in the public's mind what actually happened, instead of what the public believes happened through consuming some terrific story.
I think public transportation really is an important factor, though. I don't commute, but if I did it would have to be by driving, and unfortunately I'm not the sort of person who can really be at peace while driving in traffic. It's not that I get road rage; it's more like I become hyper aware and focused on what's around me, so I can't really enjoy the alone time.

In the past, I've commuted by public transportation and I never minded it at all.
And the award of least significant poll of the week goes to...

Seriously, you won't get anything meaningful out of this, people will vote for the language they like and then bash the usual suspects (PHP, actionscript, C++,...). Also they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end.

I'm sure the people who "dislike cobol" (7 people at the moment) have intimate knowledge of the language in production in order to cast such a vote.

It's just a popularity contest and a bad one at that.

Also: "Other - Dislike: 5 points". Enough said.
I don't discriminate. All languages are equal in my eyes, each with their own quirks and adventures.

Except PHP, PHP can fuck off.
I think some people still like wasting their time by writing "real" code from the start.
Just did the same thing, we're all in this together, though 7-8 yeas ago it would've been a straight dislike. It's power is growing, be wary.
The problem with this logic is that carte balche on an amex is no way to run a government, even if every dime spent is sucessful in "keeping you in power". To the extent that one is rationalizing the status quo, it is pointing out the obvious. Unfortunately, the math no longer works and the system is going to be reset as someone else has to pick up the tab. It may be republicans or it may be your children. But whomever gets stuck with the bills is going to be pissed off, methinks. Part of being a successful politician is not creating deep-seated enenimities.
Very true ... how do you fit that into the 3 months before demo day?

I'm seeing a system that contains a complete list of government contractors/sub-contractors (this actually exists today). For each company, a list of verified skills (a proven track record) would allow a procurement agent to narrow the field, and a reputation system that let's the cream rise to the top.

I'm not sure it would be feasible to track the employees that make up a company as that's pretty fluid (on the time-scale of government contracts), but in the software field, you could (for instance) sum the reputation of the company's developers stack-overflow profiles.

Obviously, a lot more thought is required!
I don't really get why people hate it so much, sure it has it's flaws, but it also has it's strengths.
If there is a local Toastmaster's club I would recommend going: http://www.toastmasters.org/ there are other clubs but they provide a very supportive environment for starting to speak in public.

I've been lucky enough to speak at a few conferences, and if you're confident on your subject, which I am sure you are, you should just think of it as you passing on your experience. Don't think of it as a judgement of you or your past, people there want you to do well, you're up there for a reason which is because you're the one who can give them the information they're there to hear.

I say go for it, if you can go to a speaking club near by to get constructive criticism and help your confidence

Good luck!
This advice should/could be taken in to account for more internal/corporate teams as well. I've tried to fight an uphill battle for years with teams I've been on to get everyone to just use a couple internal mailing lists instead of manually emailing multiple people directly about a project. Having a searchable discussion archive about ideas/topics on a project is extremely useful for new people joining a team, but they rarely exist in corporate environments. Often there's an outdated wiki, and maybe sometimes a ticketing system, but the bulk of the discussion that happened electronically are locked in peoples' emailboxes. :/
Should have included F#.
Show HN: I made an OPML of the tech blogs you should read
Who is in-charge for healthcare.org? What company?
If you discount households with negative net worth, the Walmart heirs' wealth is still equal to the combined net worth of the bottom 28%, which translates to about 33 million households.

Of course, wealth is not the only statistic we should study, as many households with little wealth may still have decent income. There are many factors to consider, but the simple fact is that a single family owns more than a third of Americans - a powerfully descriptive statistic of wealth inequality.
we need a package manager (aka bundler). just passing that along :)
Same here, it's quite unavoidable if you started out with javascript coding and matured with it.
>but I don't feel convinced because they all seem to be generic attacks on accuracy."

It's the same mentality that drives people to criticize every article here with an I know better, this is wrong attitude.

Malcolm Gladwell is a popular entertainer, he has a new book out which will surely be a best-seller, so he gets attacked. In the same way that people will attack the work of Ben Affleck or Michael Buble. That's unfortunately how our society works.

If policy makers are quoting Gladwell on important issues, that isn't his fault.
Debug story perhaps? I haven't tried it but that's what puts me off.
I feel really strange knowing more about US healthcare than people that have to use it.

The so called obamacare is mainly about access to healthcare. To the people that are left out. Also it is a Republican creation from the early 90s, when the people from the right were actually trying to devise policies rooted in reality with a chance to work.

What it does is actually increase the power of the free market by forcing everyone to trade their goods out in the open transparently.

There is no government control or rationing.
What do you mean by "retailers innovate at the front-end"? And what do you mean by "innovate on packing, pricing, and promotions"? Shouldn't the shape of the package or the specific price have no bearing on how the inventory and sales are recorded?
My first UNIX experience was in 1993 with Xenix, followed by almost all commercial variants of it.

By then I was already spoiled with GUI environments from Atari ST, Amiga 500, Windows 3.x and GEM, as well as the typical MS-DOS IDEs from Borland.

So I never saw UNIX that way.
Disliked Scheme by accident :( SICP really changed the way I think and write code. It also taught me the basics of compilers and interpreters.
That doesn't answer the question - the same can be said of a lot of OO languages.
Way ahead of you: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bath+book&tbm=isch
I guess some just dislike the idea of sugaring Javascript. Others my think that it hides something that can bite your ass, though imho the oppossite is the case.
For me personaly after spending some time with CoffeeScript writing plain JS was a displeasure for sure.
There's going to be the common blabber and hating on the usual suspects but polls like this tend to be good ways to bring up a general topic and let everyone discuss. Maybe it would've been better in a AskHN but at least here we get a list to reference (and for people to get angry at what's missing, people love getting angry). Also, it gives a view of what this specific community in this specific thread feels and adds to the context when reading other threads.
It's quite silly asking such a subjective question, but aren't most polls just that, subjective?
Are the video game console wars over? I did not realize that the PS4 was the clear winner. I am curious are you from Europe? It is my personal experience that xbox is the preferred platform (at least among my peers) in the US and that the PS is the preferred platform in Europe.
Using Haxe with Unity3D
Those rich are personal friends of Putin or are connected to him. They don't produce any goods, they just exploit Russia's natural wealth. Russian economy survives just because of its oil and gas. It will completely lose its weight when it ran out of its black gold.
I though Wallet was more of a payment system, to compete against the likes of PayPal, then a Point-of-Sale system?
Exactly. It's (at least from what I've seen/read) common convention to make sure that getters/setters should be quick and have minimal side effects.

Your application shouldn't hang from a database call when you pull a property from an object. And obviously, methods doing such things should be documented appropriately.
This was based on a question on Quora that I saw yesterday: http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/What-are-the-best-... -- It doesn't include all of them, and as the output.log suggests, there are many which I couldn't find an RSS/Atom for automatically given the 20 minutes I spent on the task. So, feel free to extend the list, or add a better way to discover the blogs that don't have an rel="alternate".

But, until then, enjoy the OPML that exists now!
What? No love for F#? Why do folks always leave F# out of these things?
>So it's a little bit more subtle than just "our climate is inherently better for deep philosophical thoughts" or "our climate means that we are more productive workers".

Precisely.

The people here are ripping on the author's simplified theories by presenting even more simplified versions of the arguments.
The difference between established federal contractors and startups disappears if startups get federal contracts. I know a lot of startups would like a better shot at that cash, but if the problem is in the incentives then it's no help to get different people doing the same things.

If there are already problems with how federal contracts are awarded, it is hard to imagine that wholesale deregulation is going to result in a more selective process. For example, blind removal of lowest-bidder requirements would make larger-scale corruption even easier.

There are legitimate complaints and federal contracting needs work, but what kind of work? Let's not underestimate how much worse we can make it. The money on the table is ample incentive for people to propose innocent-sounding reforms which really just open up the taps or redirect them to different parties rather than increasing efficiency.
I would have done that for XSLT if it had been on the list.
Developers: Hate wasting time in Photoshop?
Wayland vs /usr/share/xsessions
US Government spent $634,320,919 to build Healthcare.gov
I don't think it usually creates interesting discussion. Just a billion of comments with no replies along the line of "XXX is great!" "YYY sucks!".

Everybody talks and nobody listens. It's just pointless popularity contest.
Some people also hate Obamacare, civil liberties and human rights. Who knows why?
Its strengths are few and equivocal; its flaws are unspeakable and legion.
I don't think it's entirely clear that GoDaddy revoked the certificate on their own. Their statement was they were made aware, it's unclear if they became aware based on news coverage, or Levison made them aware of the key compromise.

I'm not entirely convinced GoDaddy would want to insert itself voluntarily into a federal court case based on news reports. But I do think they would revoke a certificate if Levison reported the key compromised as standard procedure. I can see threats of obstruction charges being thrown at GoDaddy for interfering with the investigation.
Emailing is a good way to have 1:1 conversations, but the whole point is that in many circumstances you aren't entitled to get a 1:1 conversation and personal attention of a busy stranger, so use the maillist or go away.
All programming languages claim to be better than that "Other" language!
CoffeeScript is only syntactic sugar. It brings very little new to the table, but perhaps worse of all, it doesn't really fix all of JavaScript's WTF-issues while adding a few of its own. While it's an improvement over JavaScript, its advantages are sometimes outweighed by the extra hassle to compile and deploy it.

I don't really dislike it but I really do not see myself using it if I had a task where I needed JavaScript.
This poll should be more specific with Visual Basic. There are a few different languages that share the name VB.

VBA

VB.NET

VB6

VBScript
Like or Dislike... for which use case? For instance, I don't plan on ever writing web applications in Lua, but I consider it a very good choice for game scripting. Does it mean I like it? Or dislike it?
"... vetted for their impeccable ideological purity ..."

Rather, vetted for their impeccable ability to wax lyrical about "ideological purity." I'd suggest that these guys are personalities that learn how to survive in the current climate regardless what that climate happens to be.