skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is Central Europe anyway? You have added Southern Europe after all.
The contracts were still being negotiated. He didn't sign until several days later.

I don't know if he considers it my fault, but he should. He is not the only person who has failed to consider my advice and lost, just the one to lose the most money. This a very often repeated theme in my life. I somehow manipulate people into not taking me seriously. I don't understand it and I don't want to believe it but its easier to believe than the alternatives.
You are correct that both of those are additional resources. I didn't mention Anki since I am on the fence about regular people using it.

For example, I think the fact that the person has to take two thoughtful actions per flashcard review: 1) answer the flashcard and 2) grade themselves.

Also, the way that things can get backlogged and the particular SR algorithm seems cumbersome.

Anyways, these aren't issues that other people haven't brought up already. I just feel like it more of a 'hardcore' tool rather than a beginner tool.

I have tried to read Remember the Hanzi a bit, but it feels like I am reading a dictionary. Maybe it is closer to the Chineasy method but with less story?

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Well, the fact that you take a stance on the subject's truth indicates that you do care. :) Taiwan's place in history is about as muddled as Palestine, Tibet, Ireland, and others, sometimes less, sometimes more. Some people take one side, some people take the other side, while I've found that people who don't care don't actually take a stance.
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Sounds like he's in the right place, too! :-)
> When was the last time you heard about something RMS did in the way he presented his ideas to be more receptive to others and thought "hey, that is pretty clever and a nice hack."

I guess this doesn't quite qualify and he may not even be the originator of the idea, but I thought it was pretty clever:

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-softwa...
They probably count generated code. SQL generators aren't known for their LOC efficiency.
Yeah. Let's rent a holiday cottage with all of us and talk it though.
The option to enter a starting color seems to be hard to get to -- controlling it with a mouse is quite unwieldy.

Click on the up arrow to access controls.
Technically, I live in the USA... About 2,400 miles Southwest of Los Angeles.
They might be including all of the HTML in addition to all of the library code and all of the code in all of the interpreters and compilers they used, but even that probably comes up short.

Maybe if they include all of the possible HTML the site could generate, but counting potential code seems perverse even beyond the usual cluelessness of the mass media when talking about software.
it's either Java or .net , but it feels more like Java. i'm more interested in knowing what the data layer is made of though.
I much prefer Venkatesh Rao's definition of hacking:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/04/18/hacking-the-non-disposa...
It's not obvious, but once you click to select a color, you can click the arrow at the bottom and manually insert hex / RGB / HSL, etc. to manually define your base color.
Is there much difference in the way the apps function?
Thanks for that.

I would have though that in a language all about error checking this would not be allowed:

Something()

But there you go, I've learnt something new about Go.
The Kindle Fire doesn't have the Google Apps, and might never have them, but the Barnes&Noble Nook HD does (I have one), starting a few months ago. It originally didn't (I suspect for the same reason as the Kindle Fire), but Google later allowed B&N to run the apps (B&N even replaced their custom web browser with Chrome, a move which not everyone liked).
> According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code.

> One specialist said that as many as five million lines of software code may need to be rewritten before the Web site runs properly.

Oh, so only 1%!

Tangentially, why are so few quotes in this article sourced? I see no reason why they shouldn't be. It's all throughout the article... They keep quoting "specialists."
Once they realize (or you teach them) that they can use computers to create simple video games or similar things, they'll never look at computers the same way. Or maybe that's just me. :P
Maybe not explicitly, but it was stated in the context of a critical article about Google's betrayal of openness, so we could at least be forgiven for interpreting it in that light. It's not a stretch to assume it was meant as a criticism.
...and your WiFi loses 802.11ac, and shorter battery life...

Oh, and still doesn't have touchscreen.
From March of this year:

Chao said that he’d once held high hopes that the exchanges would run smoothly from the beginning, but that those hopes had been dashed. “The time for debating about the size of the text on the screen, or the color, or is it a world-class user experience, that’s what we used to talk about two years ago,” said Chao. “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/03/22/cms-on-...
> What I don't like about Android is that it doesn't come with a good email client that's not GMail.

That would be like saying that the default camera app does not come with filters, shaders and other features that you like. What Google does is, gives a good enough app for generic use and leaves options open for developers to make better things and put them on the Play Store.

If Google starts incorporating all such features, it'll get much more difficult for developers to earn through the store.
It's a self-selected survey, it's likely that people who have a higher desire to have their country of residence represented would be more likely to participate. I suspect that Canadians fall into that category.
Actually, the HTML code shows an <ol> for that list. It's not related to markdown (which in this case rendered the appropriate HTML code). The numbers (or bullets) being displayed in the left margin is just a browser's default styling. It increases vertical readibility, considering that lists items are meant to be read in sequence.

You can change it via CSS. Just add to your <ol> or <ul> the following: list-style-position: inside. The numbers/bullets consequently become part of the text.

My preference for styling lists is to leave the numbers/bullets outside but apply a margin-left to the lists so that its numbers/bullets fit inside the main wrap.
It's funny that Google is publishing this. I work in the ad tech industry and Google did this to us 3 months ago, in order to connect to ad exchange

Signed contracts of about 200 pages long, including really long NDAs
Took $35k deposit
Put us through Dev / Testing Cycle including a few hundred million hits each day for about a month.
After spending 3 months on it, they said that we were profiling user data (which we were not - it was an ignorant mistake on our part in checking an item YES in the contract rather than NO). We pleaded, begged and argued with no merit.
Google blocked us from accessing their ad exchange ..

In the meanwhile...Google does user profiling openly, mining search queries, Google+, Google Maps and everything else available at their disposal, including the kind of apps that you open on your phones (non android included, thanks to Admob).

It seems to me that they are deliberately blocking any fair competition in the marketplace. If this is not a monopoly, then what is this supposed to be?
Thanks, couldn't find it at all.
HN meetup in CM anyone?
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5777500

It's worth to mention UI changed several times since last submission and it definitely improved!
Bay Area actually :)
We could call it FTP!

In all seriousness, HTTP is a good example of scope creep. The type and volume of content sent in a typical session is far different than what was common a decade ago.
It's fancy but I still like these better:
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
https://kuler.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/
I disagree that cloud computing is a bad idea because of this. It has advantages and disadvantages. Not being able to hack around to make changes you wish is a disadvantage, but having access to something you would not have otherwise is a much bigger advantage.
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My own conspiracy theory: XML "code" got included, even the stuff that is unambiguously data. This may or may not include HTML templates (possibly machine-generated) and the data files for each individual health care plan. This is the result either of naive use of a line-counting utility, or a miscommunication between technical and non-technical folk, or both.
> It's best to keep the code in everything to the minimum!

Optimizing for readability is usually most important.

Readability is usually more important than reusability, in fact, although readability very often enables reusability.

But we're talking about mission-critical embedded code, which is a special case in many respects. Still, making it as readable as possible makes bugs easier to find.
Did they do a character count and submitted that as LOC to justify the high costs?..
Pyongyang isn't that far away from where I live. I see Koryo planes all the time at my local airport (the only Russian ones there, I believe).
Amphetamines were available over the counter until the 70's, no prescription required. Did you read the article?
Also, one thing I forgot to mention: in Chinese there are a lot of different pronunciations per character if you are talking about all of the different dialects. Most people are learning Mandarin now, but there are still native dialects in different parts of China and Chinese speaking countries...

I have heard that if you get a hundred miles outside of Beijing pronunciation can be different enough in Mandarin that it is difficult to communicate.
Thanks for eating up more than $3000 from my company, Google Checkout.
Wouldn't Australasia include New Guinea also?
I don't think as many Canadians are moving to the states as they used to. The tech sector in Canada is doing quite well, and many of the American companies that people used to move down south for have offices up here (EA Vancouver, for example). Even in Victoria, tech is the number one industry, and the talent pool is good enough to support serious players in industry, locally or foreign owned.
I don't believe that dollars are an appropriate unit of measurement for life experiences. I do believe that graffiti and others forms of street art are intentionally impermanent and functions of their location.

But Banksy isn't graffiti in general or something other people decided was worth money after someone just did it for joy. Banksy's shtick is calculated to generate publicity and a whiff subversion specifically as a part of him maintain his position as a highly paid, highly valued, highly publicized. Banksy could have gone to NYC and done anonymous graffiti for year and no one would have notice if there wasn't any publicity.
Let's be clear: This number could not be accurate, even if it included the line counts of licensed code (SDK's, database engines, etc.). The article failed to even cite its source, beyond saying that "one specialist" said this.

The NYT is a left-leaning publication. This seems to be a transparent attempt to try to soften the blow to the Obama administration's image by saying that implementing healthcare.gov was a Herculean task that no one could have gotten right on the first try because it required a half billion lines of code. It's no coincidence that this article emerged the day before Obama himself plans a press conference on this very issue.
Much depends on what the sort of work you want to be doing down the road is. Does it require a bachelor's in engineering? Does it require a masters? Ph.D?
Voluntarily?

If you want to use credit, you have to let lenders collaborate to determine whether they're willing to lend to you, if that's their criteria for making decisions.

If you don't want to use credit, they get no special pass to store and use personal data about you.

I'm from Europe, where generally personal privacy gets more emphasis than it seems to in some places, notably the US. We have explicit laws about collecting and processing personal data, but certain organisations seem to get a free pass for no apparent reason. As this story demonstrates, the risks are still there.

That said, perhaps we shouldn't be too worried. The last time I paid a little real money to get hold of my personal credit report from one of these credit reporting organisations, it was so riddled with obvious errors, including more than a few wildly inaccurate data points, that I was on the phone to them for something like half an hour to get them to correct everything. At that point (I kid you not) the woman on the phone asked if I would be much longer because it was the end of the day and time for her to go home.
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The whole "high-art = big money" mindset is what ruins everything. Just let it be. It's an image that people enjoy looking at, and it's right there for everyone to see - touchable, fragile, transient.

I agree but I'd like to point out that Banksy is as much a part of the "high-art = big money" as the galleries and the press.
Slightly off-topic: Does HN fail to parse an URL with no slashes?
This (L2ARC being considered "valid" even after a reboot) sounds quite a bit like ZFS is growing features that already exist in Linux's bcache (and maybe dm-cache? I'm not sure how it treats data).
Android is not banned from (or, in) China. It is hugely popular. See, for example, a popular website's offerings for Android telephones: http://mobile.139shop.com/commend/170__001_1.htm

Interestingly, in China, and this is personal experience not a market survey, the more one moves away from big brand manufacturers of Android telephones, the more pure / bare-bones / no manufacturer or telecom added applications the Android install is (again, China experience only).

I am sitting in mainland China with an Android phone in my pocket. 518 Yuan can easily buy a bright 5 inch screen, 4 days battery life (my average usage) with WiFi on most of the time, only one manufacturer installed app (Baidu input; being in China, this useful), 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 2 SIM card slots, SD Card slot (free card included, only 2GB, but free is free), 5MP camera (2MP reverse), user serviceable battery.
I often use 0 == 0.0.0.0 == localhost
Pure anarchism has many of the same problems as pure communism. In practice it's a system that is typically unstable and rapidly degenerates into simple autocracy or oligarchy.
"While the general goals are certainly technically achievable, there are 44,000 pages of regulations generated from the affordable care act, in addition to the over 1,000 pages in the law itself. Just to dig through that and pull out everything related to insurance policy offering is going to take some serious time. In addition, each state has unique health care laws and regulations regarding the offer of insurance in that state."

And don't forget that the "law" has changed literally every single week via policy changes from HHS.

I was a government contractor for years and found it miserable enough.. but our milestones and requirements weren't constantly changing. I feel sorry for some of these guys.
hahaha what a crock of bull. Probably the same experts that built it were quoted as saying that. Or maybe it is true... when you cut and paste every code snippet from the web and mush it up to create this site it does add up to 500m lines of code..

Anyone have detail on language they used and/or frameworks(s)?

Someone should be held liable for this. They just wasted tax payers money on would be experts and have to spend more tax payers money to fix it. Disaster!
Somewhat ironically, that is exactly the same philosophy that was embodied in Java when it came out, and Java has grown so that it's now mentioned in the same breath as C++ when compared to Go.

I think what happens in all languages - indeed, in all engineering projects - is that people start using them, and then their design collides with the real world, and people start asking for new features to make their own lives better, and each additional feature makes the language incrementally better without costing much. But when this has been going on for 20 years, you have an accretion of features that don't quite hang together and collectively are a royal pain to deal with. Eventually enough folks get fed up with this state that a new language can gain critical mass, and the cycle starts over again.

The only languages immune to this are ones that explicitly reject certain use-cases as out-of-scope, and can design accordingly. C, for example, remains a great little language because it doesn't pretend to shield you from the dangers of the hardware, and so it can remain both fast and simple because everyone who wants it to scale up to big complicated applications reaches for C++ or Java instead. Python remains great as long as you remember that it's a scripting language and don't pretend that it'll be fast or maintainable beyond a certain size.
Presumably it's the same where you are here where substitute teachers are paid at a higher rate due to lack of benefits, so that isn't that surprising.

Although I definitely see the advantages of the stability of knowing who your classes are, sick and long service leave and paid holidays over the freedom from preparation, marking and report writing and other paperwork. I think being a substitute teacher you miss out on a lot of the benefits of the actual teaching too, like building a relationship with your students, and being able to teach long-term concepts instead of a period at a time.

One of my co-workers makes most of her living from substitute teaching (she teaches a part time load) though and seems to be fine with it, so different strokes I guess.
Creating successful "unnatural" imagery is very difficult and often not the case for artists, and almost never for designers.

In regards to LCD screens and other devices not being "natural," RGB linear color transformations don't create natural color palettes--the real world is far different than our digital recreations.
Right — no one there knows how to edit the database credentials out of the PHP source. :)
I suspect that as unbelievable as this sounds, it might actually be true. There must be a ton of "repeated code" to handle all of the different states and rules. I'm guessing that they started with one huge bloated "template" and then wrote automatic code generation systems that just copied everything hundreds or even thousands of times.

They could very well now find themselves in a position where it is humanly impossible to untangle it all and make even the smallest changes. I'm calling it failed at this point.

Edit: Title was changed from: Healthcare.gov "contains about 500 million lines of software code". This comment reflects this fact which seems unbelievable, but if true, I feel would likely mean that it was mostly created by code generators that probably copied and ossified original errors and misconceptions to the point that it is no longer possible to fix. Its a total failure, the money is gone, but they'll keep throwing even more after it, until the tiny, disjointed systems they develop in the mean time as "temporary solutions" eventually become the "real" system.
There are many webdev learning books that used Google Checkout and built an app using their service as an example.. It will be fun for people reading the book after a couple of years about a service that doesn't exists anymore, it'll be like reading some sacred scrolls from times forgotten by today's humans..
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Yeah, so the solution to the problem ignore the rule mentioned on the 1st paragraph of the page about it always going the shortest route or doing the most clever thing or something.
Although I agree that everyone needs to watch out for low contrast type scenarios, I don't exactly see how this article exemplifies one in any way. Can you point out anything in particular?
"For every search query performed on Google, whether it’s [hotels in Tulsa] or [New York Yankees scores], there are thousands, if not millions of web pages with helpful information."

True.

But there is exactly one Trade Winds Central Inn in Tulsa.

If I look for [hotels in Tulsa] right now, the name of that inn is prominently displayed in the "Hotels in Tulsa on Google" box. Clicking the name will lead not to a page about the inn but to a page of search results where that specific inn is again prominently displayed at the top. Clicking that link will bring a booking page where Expedia, Priceline and multiple others bid on providing booking service for that specific inn.

And if I scroll all the way to the bottom of that page I find a little link: http://www.tradewindstulsa.com/ That's the the one vital link for that one little inn in central Tulsa, Arizona.

The "algorithm" placed the name of the inn on the top of the front page. Then it placed the actual link two clicks deep and at the bottom. The "algorithm" is not stupid...
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> Now at time T+t you want to have X+d value where d=0 is okay, but (d < 0) is unacceptable.
> ... a better return than the rest of the aggregate efforts of human-kind

If a venture produces a lower return than the rest of human kind, 'd' will be negative. Knowing whether d will be positive or negative
let alone by how much is difficult.

> The highly risky investments will simply not happen. There won't be any bubble mania.

The high risk investments will absolutely happen but only if the rewards are commensurate. The issue with monetary policy is the skewing of risk/reward.
It depends.
You implement a protocol while defining a record or type, so called inlined implementation, then it's the same as a Java class with a implemented interface.

Clojure allows extending protocolls outside a record/type definition though. This allows you to extend protocolls to classes/types you haven't declared, like Clojure map. I'm uncertain how that is implemented though.
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Think so. Or has it got anything to do with the #?
In something this loaded with politics, I wouldn't imagine anyone involved would think it a good career move to have their names attached to bad news quoted in the press?
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Imagine someone threw together some automatic code generation thing. It tries every possible input and then creates a special if-then statement for it.

Don't worry, the compiler will optimize it.
It feels like something is wrong with your comment. I'm pretty sure that Google does something what looks more like A/B testing than law making process. That basically means that you should have some magic power to guess how adjusting one parameter (I don't even speak about multiple) will affect final result. Could you guess how mathematical attractors will behave by changing some parameters? Are you sure Google hires super geniuses that can guess weather? If they do why Google has not released they weather prognosis service yet that would wipe-out all competition from the scene?
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Perhaps because people working on the project would be fired for talking to the press?

You know, "war on whistle-blowers" and all.
Interestingly, the UN includes Mexico in Central America, but it seems to be one of the few official organizations to do so:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm