skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, a lot of people have mentioned cronyism, which I think is baseless. CGI Federal already had contracts for Medicare.gov and CMS.gov, so when CMS had to build healthcare.gov, CGI was an obvious choice.

This is sort of like saying:

Also, a lot of people have mentioned nepotism, which I think is baseless. I've already done work for myuncleisgreat.com and myuncleiscool.com, so when my uncle had to build myunclerules.com, I was an obvious choice.
Something missing from these discussions is velocity of money. Big income may not mean much if you're burning thru it fast with little to show; reversed, I've known people to amass small fortunes from paltry incomes because they were frugal.

I haven't thought thru it much nor come to conclusions, but do think one's "velocity of money" needs far more consideration.
Uhhh, I think some of these are NOT free?

Specifically: Heroku, MongoHQ, Amazon S3
Yes, yes, yes, the solution is
from the Mayans -- kill people to
pour their blood on a rock to
keep the planet from getting too
hot.

Right: WaPo is continuing to flog
this old horse, trying to keep it
going as a long list of stories easy
to write for nearly automatic eyeballs and easy ad
revenue.
EU court holds news website liable for readers' comments
I hate MATLAB with a passion. It is the PHP of engineering, computer vision and robotics.
GC is required for all Haxe targets. As you suggest, in some cases it's provided through default haxe libraries (on C++), and in other cases it's provided by the runtime (flash, js, etc.)

I've never had it remove something that I needed to rely on via the main loop. It's almost always the opposite (it doesn't remove things or doesn't remove them fast enough, and I have to use object pooling, etc.)
Only the long-form census is voluntary. The short-form census is still mandatory, and not completing it could land you in court, like what happened here.
It's a bit overreacted but the creators know for sure who Burzum is, that's what annoys me.
I would be amazed if 80% of XBL users are forwarding ports on their routers. I've never heard of this before.
Is it ok if I press both "Javascript - Like" and "Javascript Dislike"? :)
Ask HN: Freelancers, who are your customers?
Hi HN!

I'm a web developer, and I want to try to become a freelancer.
After some research, I have found some people interested to work with me. They are individuals (not companies), and interested in small projects (blog, small e-commerce, CMS, etc.)

I think that's a good start! But now I'm wondering if it's possible to make enough money by only doing work for individuals.
Should I start right now to focus on companies? Or doing small websites for individuals is enough? Can focusing only on these small projects can eventually bring me bigger customers in the end?

TL;DR As a freelancer, who are your best customers? Individuals, startups, small companies, big companies, etc?

Thanks!
Ah yes. Let's all stay positive. It's not like anyone ever died from not wanting to criticize something, right?

Only, things ranging from people going on doomed escapades and startups, via mountaineering accidents up to and including the Eschede train disaster can be at least partially attributed to people being afraid of expressing criticism. Of course there is a valid criticism of how many people express said criticism, but that's another matter.

In fact, what I do see, is a lot of people who are so attached to their own opinion, that even after an amount of statements intended discern between the opinion and person expressing it, they still become angry when facing criticism.

One of the actual reasons I come to HN is to read dissenting views. I may disagree with them, but without them this site would be useless.
Even if ECDSA relies in a PKI, what you do with it is signing and not encryption. The S in ECDSA stands for "signing". Either you don't mean "ciphering" or you mean an EC encryption algorithm (and not ECDSA).

The problem is... why would Lisa cipher her own knowledge with her public key? Only she would be able to decipher with her private key to learn... nothing!

PS: I'm from Madrid too!
I could comprehend the first piece of code in about 20 seconds and the final result in a couple minutes. It's pulled apart nicely, but it's not as simple any more.

The end result might look better in something like Lisp or Ruby, but I don't think it's a great tradeoff in Python.
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The standard only covers up to C# 3.0, if I am not mistaken.
Why not JS?
> First, you can use C# really well without depending on any Microsoft tech.

As someone who is coming from a very FOSS world and trying to learn C#, I have to counter that no, C# does not have a really good open source ecosystem. Mono works, MonoStudio is pretty decent, but it lacks all of Windows, and there isn't much to target that is not Windows if you are doing anything that is not a webapp.

Objective-C also has a pretty decent open source toolkit in GCC, but a toolkit that lacks Cocoa is like trying to eat dinner but forgetting the food. Mono is a great toolkit, but it's missing 80% of the libraries that makes C# an easy language to use. You've got your forks and spoons, but you've got nothing to eat.

Note that I'm not complaining against C#. I'm really liking the language and everything I can do when I'm in a Windows or Windows Phone environment. I'm arguing that C# is not as portable, in practice, as everyone continually claims.
It is very questionable whether a tax penalty is equivalent to "gun-to-the-head tactics". Speaking of a tax penalty: where did you get $3000 from?

"The fee in 2014 is 1% of your yearly income or $95 per person for the year, whichever is higher. The fee increases every year. In 2016 it is 2.5% of income or $695 per person, whichever is higher." - from https://www.healthcare.gov/what-if-someone-doesnt-have-healt...

Someone making $300,000 per year might pay $3k in 2014. I'm failing to have empathy for this kind of person who refuses to have health insurance. Poorer people pay way less of a penalty and are entitled to subsidies that make refusal of coverage much less fiscally logical.

The outrage still makes little sense to me unless you ignore many relevant facts.
IANAL, but if you create a derivative work of GPL v2 code you have to release it as GPL v2. This doesn't mean you, the copyright holder, cannot release it also with another license.

Sorry, not true.

The whole point of it being a derivative work is that someone else is also a copyright owner. If you release under a different license, you're saying that you give permission on their work. You can SAY that, but you're wrong.
Absolutely wrong.
If you have evidence that this character existed, please point to it more specifically than a whole Wikipedia article.
Nothing about "Jesus" is hotly debated because there isn't a single mention of a "Jesus" in any believable document to begin with.
This is not the place to discuss, but I didn't want your wrong message to be the end of it.
A recurring observation about wealth distribution is that if everyone's income & wealth were equalized, we'd soon return to the economic disparity & distribution we see now. Poverty/wealth is, on the whole, a consequence of chosen behavior.

I find it odd that those of us who make this observation, and follow it thru to its natural outcomes, are lambasted for the consequential opinions we hold thereon.
Surely you ment to write the opposite?
> You scored 17 out of 20! Congrats you are... True Kvlt.

I don't know anything about black metal, but I build my kitchen with Ikea and spent some time in their stores!

I would have hoped the black metal sound was from the band itself, but alas it was the same sound every time...
Switch .fr to .com: http://books.google.com/books?id=_EdbrocXX9MC&lpg=PA183&ots=...
Indeed. Once you get hold of it, the REPLs and the prefix notations seem like a life saver, just like the complex Vim and Emacs key bindings.

Most just look at the code from outside, frown at it and leave without ever knowing the immense power the language and its workflow gives you.
I imagine he's referring to the fact that every time somebody says "Where's global warming now, it's freaking freezing!", somebody else will respond with "It's not global warming, it's climate change, jackass!".
That's what I did :)
UPnP?
I had a similar background and strategy and got 14/20. I call it statistically significant :)
Much like here. Different country, similar distribution of wealth. This supports an old adage about the difference between Russia and the U.S. -- in Russia, it's dog eat dog. Here, it's the other way around.
zoho.com looks nice. But it only gives 20 accounts on the free tier. Windows live domains, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a limit on the number of accounts.
Very, very typical government contracting. Government IT contracting is like free money. Great work if you can get it, and getting it probably involves swallowing multiple congressmen's semen.
Sure, but PayPal's statement isn't for a bill. It's like a bank account statement.

Those are definitely artifacts of the paper age. For the first decade I used PayPal, if I wanted to know what had happened, I just looked at the website and saw recent transactions. Their "statement" is just an email with a link that takes you to the site to look at recent transactions. Its only point is to drive traffic; it adds zero value.
Because the language comes with a culture. Same with C#. C# is a great language. Horribly misused and taught in the weird manner, leading to incredible amounts of indirection that people confuse with abstraction.
How does DropzoneJS sign the CORS upload request to S3 without having a light service running in EC2 to perform the signing request? You don't have to include AWS credentials in your JS do you?
Reported signal issues many times. Nothing done, said use Wifi calling. Had to drop T-Mobile.
> For a system which establishes and maintains long-running connections, the initial connection overhead becomes a non-factor, regardless of the encryption strength, but there’s still a rather large performance penalty compared to the unencrypted connection.

A theoretical performance penalty, which, in practice, you just right there told us was a non-factor, right? If you are connection pooling. Which you should be.

But yeah, in just about _any_ sort of application using SSL, if you're not connection pooling your performance is going to be seriously sunk. I demonstrated the same thing ruby HTTP libraries and SSL here: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/ruby-http-performanc...

MySQL, http, anything -- SSL connection establishing is expensive. If you are making lots of SSL connections, it's going to be expensive. If you can pool and reuse SSL connections, you always always want to, it will make a big difference.
That's a ridiculous statement. $63M a year to build, run, maintain and host unknown numbers of web sites (thousands!) and services that process trillions of dollars annually seems absurd.

The total budget for all government websites isn't important (for starters they aren't paid for out of one bucket), it's just important that individually each one is managed competently.
This map is of metal bands in general, not just death metal.

The site that this data is sourced from, www.metal-archives.com, might be of interest to some non-metalheads. It is an excellent example of a impressively complete crowd-sourced archive and a testament to the huge nerd/collector/aspie population in metal.
Pretty much everything I build where it's my time that I'm saving and my money I'm not buying extra servers with is running ASP.NET. Here's one of my better known products:

http://www.twiddla.com/
Dear Gatesman+Dave. Don't use Lobster if you're a design agency
The existence of those laws says that society has decided that yes it is appropriate (largely because nothing else seems to work, I think).
What if you considered the income : outflow (non-investment) ratio? How many years of living expenses do you earn each year?
I have to admit I have strong preference to available editor/IDE or REPL rather than language itself.

I can adapt on any language if the language has enough feature set, but lack of fine toolset support is unacceptable. For instance, these features are highly expected

1. Syntax and scope based accurate auto-completion.
2. REPL debugger with accurate break-point and stepping.

These features are optional but make it awesome if exists.

3. Fully featured REPL.
4. A lot of proven libraries.
5. Exceptional linguistic features.
6. Fast build - compiled or interpreted for fast iteration.
7. ...

Of course, the language itself needs to be designed to support those toolset features.
Building a Code Instrumentation Library with Python and ZeroMQ
Pressure sensors don't really give a good measure of altitude from one sample. For starters weather can drastically change the pressure in a region. If a sensor package could somehow filter that out with a 4 minute sample rate (doubtful) then the sensor is still giving you altitude relative to sea level which means the data would have to have a GPS component to differentiate between on the ground on a tall hill or flying over a flat lowlands area.
The problem with this comparison is that choice of size of the wealthiest share of population (top 110, top 400, top one family, top 20%) greatly influences the outcome of comparison. Why won't we all just refer to good old Gini coefficient and call it a day.
anyone else also feel this way about Tim Ferriss's stuff? I know theres a huge community of 4HWW fanboys around here so don't take it personally. However - I did have the feeling reading most of Ferriss' books that he essentially did just what Gladwell does - say something counterintuitive - back it up with some sort of studies (though he bothers even less to do that than Gladwell does) and even worse - personal anecdotal evidence! (What still cracks me up is - "I put my phone away from my pocket for a week and my sperm count went up" ..Geez).
Those are two separate languages, you know. :-)

Some of the biggest annoyances about the Matlab language are not duplicated in Octave:

http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ#What_features_are_unique_to_Octav...
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Good point. I hadn't thought of that workflow :)
There is a price for new vocabulary involved, which is some learning curve.

By the way, first piece of code can become much more hairy with time.
Things not considered by this and other articles that I would urge readers to consider:
1) RFPs are often written poorly by non-technical people, with requirements that are not accurate at the time. These requirements then change a lot to reflect reality which results in a lot of wasted effort and redirection. (This is probably also the case in large Enterprise implementations)

2) Compliance with government regulations costs money. Lots of money. This results in a lot more overhead. It also results in a lot more time to get people up to speed, on site, and going. This is why government contractors keep winning bids - compliance costs are huge barriers to entry.

3) Systems you need to integrate with in government (especially legacy systems) can be a complete pain in the butt. It's more likely you're integrating with some FORTRAN green screen than a nice JSON API. This makes large scale systems integration hard.

That said...the app is still very broken and there is obviously a failure here. Failure to test properly (otherwise poorly written tests), failure to open to competitive bids judging from another comment in this thread, and many other issues.

There is a LOT to be done to improve IT acquisition in government, and many things should have gone right that went wrong for the money spent (Figures I saw were more like $138 Million in other publications), but readers should please consider the organizational barriers and difficulties that exist and then factor it into the cost. It doesn't take the sting away, but it does lessen it a bit.
Well, "abstract bullshit" is a bit strong; real scientific effort went into the paper and those models certainly have some predictive power. (Contrary to what you occasionally see online, it's still damn near impossible to publish bullshit in Nature or Science.) If anything they are guilty of framing their results in the most arresting manner possible, but hey, welcome to science in the 21st century.

Plus, something tells me that this episode has not truly shaken your belief in climate change :-) If this paper leads a few thousand skeptics to finally embrace science, I view that as a win.
US National Laboratories Prepare to Shut Down
I try not to be a trend-following coder. I stick with what I know, what works and what seems to have the most documentation available.

Java, PHP, Python, C, Obj-C and C# are my likes.
> Based on the numbers that I see, JavaScript is disliked more than ActionScript

Not now: AS has an 84% dislike rate to JS' 39%.
To my mind,this highlights a flaw in free market theory. Obviously this scenario was not created by market forces. But now that the inequality exists, does anyone seriously believe a perfect free market economy, if implemented in Russia tomorrow, would act to substantially undo the resource distribution issue?
Given that the TrueCrypt developers are anonymous...

I hadn't realized this was the case. That's pretty interesting.

I'm actually surprised that more pro-crypto, pro-privacy types haven't disappeared behind internet pseudonyms. Certainly if I were running a project that I hoped would be useful for dissidents in an oppressive state, I'd do my best to run it as anonymously as I could manage.

There might be personal risks and project risks in revealing yourself, but very little to gain. Knowing the names of the developers might give people warm fuzzies but it probably wouldn't mean much as far as the true security of the software goes. If the name is "John Doe," that tells you nothing, and if it's "Phil Zimmermann" that still doesn't prove that the NSA hasn't forced him to compromise the stuff.

In the particular case of TrueCrypt, which accepts donations through PayPal and credit cards, the "anonymity" of the project members is likely to be pretty thin. I imagine an American prosecutor could have them found easily enough.
It's telling that the article you link to wastes several paragraphs on Nintendo's Virtual Boy, which didn't have any head tracking, displayed only red and black, and couldn't even render 3D models. Yep, totally applicable to modern consoles that can render highly detailed cities, with convincing physics, surround sound, and multiplayer connectivity that would be unimaginable in 1995.

The first wave of VR headsets came out while 3D gaming was in its infancy. Some genres (FPS, fighters) made sense early; platformers and RPGs were only really honed after the VR craze was dead and buried.
In Ukraine, the richest 50 people own 85%. Which is way more eye-popping.

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_n...
That is a particularly useless observation.

What about when wealth distribution is done not through simply handing poor people money, but through providing more social programs, mental healthcare, high-quality education, etc. to people most in need of it?

Most people who point out economic inequality would rather like to see long-term social stability programs, not just handing people money until we reach a good wealth curve across the population.
Show HN: Encrypted end-to-end file transfer
I think the parent's point is that you can (and should) get your "monthly" statement anytime you want, for any time period you want, on demand, by going to <bank>'s website.

Monthly bank statements (which I think the parent is specifically talking about) are different from monthly bills in that statements don't require you to take action.
I think only the weakest level of "market-based" can apply here. The government has grossly intervened in the health care market since the WWII wage and price controls implicitly created the business model of employers playing for health care as non-controlled additional compensation, to the explicit post-WWII requirement for emergency rooms to treat everyone who entered.

Now Medicare shifts quite a bit of additional costs onto others, you need federal government approval for every new hospital bed, I remember reading some time ago that one state's hospitals were screwed because the state and the federal government had incompatible requirements for hot water temperature, etc. The FDA has massive and politicized control over many system inputs such as drugs and devices, the government has failed to intervene when almost every other country insisted companies sell drugs at near cost (our market supports way more than half the cost of new drug development), etc. etc. etc.

And just before Obamacare was passed the government (mostly Federal with states "partnering" Medicaid) was paying for almost half the nation's healthcare.

A market that was thoroughly intertwingled with governments doesn't really seem up to allowing statements like "It just hasn't worked for health care."
I believe his main point is that its not just the States that has a corrupt/ineffective government. Other places with there own government problems have managed to gain some form of public free/cheap healthcare.
When the music stops, yes.

The confusion over this stems from people living comfortable lives, despite negative net worth, because their cash flow satisfies creditors and their expected lifetime net worth (after the debts are finally paid off) is positive.

The statistics are misleading because they view the data as "game over right now", when the matter is ongoing. Someone might have negative worth right now, but that's not taking into account the fact they'll earn a million dollars over the next decade.
Ask HN: What's the best web GUI for Snort IDS / advice on setting one up
I'm after something with a basic threat summary, but also with the ability to drill down for more details if required.

I've found a few listed on snort.org[1] and have played around with some demos of them, but I'm still not sure which is the better frontend.

Also, if anyone else has any advice / expertise on running an IDS then they would be greatly welcome (if figure it's better to be told something you already know than to miss off something vital because of pride).

Thanking you in advance fellow HNers :)

[1] http://blog.snort.org/2011/01/guis-for-snort.html
The Paleo or Primal diet idea has been around for a long time. I think it has gotten more momentum as more cherry-picked scientific studies have been found.
I also stopped going to /newest after I lost flagging privileges (on that day where 25 NSA stories were on the front page at once, as well as filling every slot on the /newest page).

Shame, since I used to enjoy the occasional spam flagging / new story upvoting session. Now that I can't actually offer any help there, it's not really worth going back.
See also (a) for context and implications:

"Alzheimer's breakthrough hailed as 'turning point'" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24462699

(b) the original paper's abstract (full paper is pay-walled, unfortunately):

"Oral Treatment Targeting the Unfolded Protein Response Prevents Neurodegeneration and Clinical Disease in Prion-Infected Mice" http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/206/206ra138

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Does anyone know how representative the rodent model of prion disease is of the human model of Alzheimer's?
Thanks for the response. So decimal-in-silicon doesn't matter for scientific computing after all. :)
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escaped fragment is used by major search engines google, bing, yandex (if you are interested in russian markets), not sure about Yahoo! as it was ages since I used yahoo for anything.
A great follow up poll would be to find which languages people actually prefer to use the most.

I like haskell alot, but I can never think of what to do with it