skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The health insurance is actually pretty bad and really expensive. The pension isn't that cushy either. They changed the pension system in the mid-80s, but people still spout off the false notion that you're somehow set on a government pension.
For me the accomplishment is to get Youtube username:
http://www.youtube.com/user/paul/about
Joined 25 Apr 2005

You were planning it all life long :)
How do you figure this is clear cut case of insider trading. What's your evidence to reach that verdict, that the jury apparently failed to see?
How secure is Square Cash?
What would you tell someone using Windows 95 who's complaining that your app won't run?
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Needham's book series is very interesting, but most professional historians who read ancient Chinese sources in the original language think that Needham engaged in huge amounts of axe-grinding to try to make his Marxist point about the development of science and technology in China.
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No sweat.

Good luck, have fun, don't die. :)
> The narrative presented is often that our bodies aren't suited to modern diets and people used to be a lot more healthy.

It's true we eat a lot of processed crap today, but if you read about a diet and see any claims that people used to be a lot more healthy you can probably ignore the rest. The paleo diet for instance, which is big nowadays, isn't based on any knowledge about what humans actually ate during the paleolithic [1]. What people forget is that the lifespan of the average human used to be much shorter, and our ancestors just had to live long enough to have offspring instead of living healthy long lives for us to be here today.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOjVYgYaG8
I was on a jury for a trial involving an alleged dui offense and what you mention is exactly the reason we found the defendant to be not guilty.
Insider trading laws should be repealed. People selling shares based on nonpublic information introduces said information to the market more quickly. It's also a victimless act, a willing buyer and a willing seller decide to trade based on the information they know, with shares that were purchased without any agreement to not sell them based on the information the owner knows.

It's just ridiculous that Congress conducts insider trading while other people are persecuted for it.

Insider trading laws are a violation of the first amendment, as restricting what I can communicate to someone else is censorship and abridgement of free speech.
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I love websites like this, they are a constant reminder that you and those around you are not mortals. Others might also like www.aznoe.com its on the same lines as this...
Thanks for the Input! You're right, I should be clear - I don't think these competitors suck at all, I envy their marketing and sales. I've spent time in sales myself. I just lack the resources to do it and continue my normal daily responsibilities to my clients, so I was looking for some anecdotal advice on how to get over that hump in any way possible.

Thanks for your response, very thought-provoking.
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I get your point, and I think it gets to the heart of the matter.

Now that everyone uses Facebook, Gmail, Amazon, Twitter on a daily basis, the average person thinks of those as simple 'websites', that are easy to build.

Almost daily I have friends/family come to me with a business idea that starts off as "it will be easy.. just like <huge site> but with blah".

Non-tech people honestly think 'websites' are simple things, and we should be able to knock-out a Facebook or Twitter clone in a few days.
I'm surprised to find not one defense of Mark like there was in the original thread a few weeks ago, when the trial started. At that time, there were a bunch of people with very specific arguments why it wasn't insider trading. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember reading and I found them interesting.
bahahahahahahaha this is going to end so well

(Seriously, though, good work!)
Things wrong with the ‘Lean Startup’ model
Absolutely. That's the dilemma right now. The way I see it, the solution is:

1) Sell 2+ or more of the toolset to get some working capital

2) Promptly hire inside sales on 1099 to get out there and get the business with base salary. I've been assured the time & effort to find someone with commission-only offers is futile.
A synchronized method would block the entire thread, but calls to ReentrantLock.lock, or any other java.util.concurrent class, can be turned from thread-blocking to fiber blocking.
Stdin isn't important, but the ability to treat the whole environment as a process that takes source code as an input is.

Mutating the environment isn't necessary to be a useful program. The techniques of "move the code to the data, not the data to the code" and "share by communicating, don't communicate by sharing" depend on this.

The actual implementation behaviors of C and Java prevent me from treating a remote system as an abstract, environment-free machine, at least without doing a ton of tooling. The almost unavoidable, unwanted side-effects on the local filesystem due to executing source code is what I'm referring to as pollution.
Ask HN: Is RFS1 Buzzfeed?
I'm not saying there isn't more than one answer, or that we're applying to RFS1, but it's interesting to ponder:

"What would a content site look like if you started from how to make money—as print media once did—instead of taking a particular form of journalism as a given and treating how to make money from it as an afterthought?"
I call my mom every couple of days and see my dad every couple of weeks, but I still found imagining the finiteness of our interactions powerful.
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Scala's complexity is an issue, but I would not characterize it as a big problem. In any organization that adopts Scala, you should have a coding style guide that explains what kinds of constructs are allowed. Start it out with nothing more than Java with less redundancy and then add one thing at a time, making sure that the whole team understands the construct, when to use it, and when it is overkill. The idea is to evolve your way to functional style code rather than dropping it on people's heads from day one. This requires some restraint from senior developers and it requires them to spend more time on educating internally than on coding a masterpiece.

Same thing goes with Akka, start small with a simple Actor System with a supervisor tree no more than two levels. Then work your way step by step into more complex solutions where people will recognize the value of a supervisor tree. Expose the inner workings either by implementing message monitoring in Scala or by diverting the message flow externally to RabbitMQ brokers where you can more easily tap and monitor the message flow.
> I feel everyone should have upgraded from XP by now

I don't know the answer but it could be a big factor: Is Win 7 as easy to pirate and update as XP was?
Did you know monitors leak anywhere from some to a lot of white light, depending on age and quality (if you turn off the lights in your computer room some time and load up a black page, is it completely dark in the room? Ever wonder why not?)? F.lux can't change the color of that light, and so the question becomes: is that leaked white light enough to negate the benefit seen in the studies?

So I bet you can imagine my persistent confusion with your linking to what amount to irrelevant studies, when this question is the one I've been asking over and over again. When you say "have done the equivalent with blue and red lights", you are absolutely, 100% wrong. It is extremely reaching to say that F.lux is doing the same thing, if you know how monitors work.
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You can see the home where I grew up in your site’s photo. I freaked out for a second, thinking it might be some kind of message from above. Or some crazy breach of my privacy. I guess it’s just a freaky coincidence! Wow.
You can check out GoInstant as well, which supports IE 8+ http://goinstant.com
Actually, the biggest thing Quasar gives you is lightweight threads. That's the hard part. Building actors, agents or dataflow variables on top of that is very easy.

Having said that, I do think actors have some advantages over agents when it comes to fault tolerance. Actors better isolate and communicate faults.
Just remember there's a good chance one of your parents will die a lot sooner than you or this site actually estimates.

My dad passed away rather quickly fighting cancer back when I was 25, he only got an extra 2 years after he found out.
Depends how much they're paying me, and when they started paying me that to maintain that app
That would depend on how much money they will pay me.
Only 17.5k/yr? You got off easy! Our first quote at $work was 6 figures, though we ended up settling on a figure more than yours and less than $100k/yr. We've now switched to OSM + MapQuest open tiles + leaflet and couldn't be happier with the result.
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It is not a victim-less act. The person that goes into a transaction without knowing insider information usually believes they were cheated. Quite rightfully so.

Your first point is wrong as well. If insider trading were legal there would be a huge incentive for insiders to keep inside information away from the public. This would lead to slower dissemination of inside information. It would also lead to great economic collapse because no-one would trust stocks anymore.

Insider trading laws do not violate the first amendment because they do not restrict speech, but actions (i.e., trading).
What aren't you getting about this? There is leakage of white unfiltered light that comes from from most monitors (the super duper high quality monitors boast about low light leakage, but they still do it a bit). F.lux cannot possibly change the color temperature of this light. So my question is and has been, does that leakage have enough of an impact to negate the effects of F.lux? That's the question worth answering, because if it's, "No, the effects are negated by the white light leakage", then there's absolutely no point in using F.lux whatsoever.
ehehe, it's cool :D though the user list goes crazy with too many users
eheh it's really cool, but the user list goes a bit crazy with too many users
The discussion is around web design / development - a field with an extremely high number of people running OSX (I'd say that the majority run OSX, but I don't have any statistics to back that up, just observation).
It doesn't have to be for free. I know someone who would "hire" potential candidates for a 2-week contract, and based their skill on the code they write during that time. If the candidate doesn't end up getting hired afterwards, he still gets paid for his time. It's a win-win.
This isn't actually true.

When your monitor is displaying a red image, red light is coming out, but so is white light, because your monitor is not 100% light sealed. The backlight in your monitor is leaking through the edges of your LED screen.

So the question becomes, is that leaked white light enough to disrupt your sleep? No one's done any studies on this question, no one's looked into it, and so until they do, F.lux's effectiveness remains in question.
Well, being aware is the 1st step I guess :) .

I'm treating the money and job ones first, after that I'll tackle my weight (I did manage to lose 40 pounds a few years ago, but got them back compensating for the shitty job and money troubles).

Thanks for the prod :)
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How will you know that no one is going to ask those questions if you don't stick around for the entire interview?
Perhaps. An item gains wabi-sabi through stressors increasing imperfection?
Sure. It'd be a lot easier to develop client apps for all of Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and then expect ten thousand triathletes to install something in order to register for a race that sells out in an hour, than to offload most of the form-handling work into Javascript that talks to a lightweight backend doing little more than data validation and storage.
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Morbidly amusing results when you select Ethiopia (or any developing country really) as the country
That may not actually be for sure, as you may simply be experiencing the effects of placebo.

Which is why I wish someone would look at F.lux specifically, or "color temperature lowering technology in computer monitors", I guess.
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The confound is that senior federal positions tend to be skewed more towards mid-to-late career due to the push over the last decade or two to hire contractors instead of staff. I don't believe there's any public information available which would help you distinguish that.
This is far from an optimal simulation, because the framework is so general. The spatial database gives you true isolated transactions that require (fiber-blocking) locks.

In fact, the code is very naive, and that's our main point. Even naive code can scale well with this approach. We care more about scaling than sheer performance.

So your calculation is wrong, as we're not trying to approach a theoretical limit (which would require optimizing the algorithm) but to demonstrate scaling of a naive algorithm. For example, instead of a single spatial join, each spaceship queries its surroundings: this is asymptotically (n^2 vs n) worse than a single join.
Couldn't see the forest for the trees for a moment.

It is an E-commerce solution for SAP Business One clients. Like SAP, each client's needs are base toolset + customization work. It is a vast step forward over the current solutions available. We've enabled the systems to work together and greatly reduce the order fulfillment cycle while leveraging the SAP B1 tools.

More Detail:

The next steps are to add a CRM module (original client is funding this work) so that their CSR staff can avoid using any of the POS system SAP comes with, which is pretty terrible from the interface perspective and takes a long time to process orders. The CSRs prefer to run through checkout with phone orders due to these improvements. The client is a 5-10-mil/year client, and we will have replaced their in-house order intake process entirely by leveraging the web tools. Phase 2 also included broker/outside sales staff order processing tools.
There's a much larger problem this article ignores. Now is NOT a great time to enter the electronic health records and data industry. That industry has been flooded with ideas and products for the last decade from large and small groups alike. They have disagreed on standards, formats and interopability.

This is why some people just throw their arms up and say, "take the fucking PDF and leave me alone."
Improving Tor's anonymity by changing guard parameters
I wanted more customers who were focused on results, instead of price.

... and also trust you to provide the right solution. Good clients tend to know what the want at a high level and trust you to take care of the rest. Problem clients tend to micro-manage and are looking more for a robot. Usually those projects are unsuccessful for the same reason telling a heart surgeon how to perform surgery is disastrous.
Since Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse never got past 27, so I don't see why this list would even matter.
How did that feel? I ask the question very genuinely. It sounds as if you suspected the accused was guilty, but that the evidence did not back it up. How did you feel about letting him go?
http://justgetflux.com/research.html

It's on their website. No one did any "research" except the people who made F.lux.
Who are you to talk when the allegations made against you have never even been heard in court, let alone tried in front of a jury?
Thank you for verbalizing this. It is exactly how I feel right now.
I'm not too familiar with Python greenlets, but I believe they don't exploit multi-core hardware as well due to the GIL. Quasar fibers run and scale extremely well on multi-core hardware.
That's cool. I find the real-time typing quite annoying, mostly because if two or more people talk at the same time, messages that aren't completed yet get pushed to the bottom. I think it might get really messy if a lot of people start using it.

The nicest thing in my opinion is that every article get it's own chatroom, so that people can talk about a single argument (and can post things that aren't maybe worth a full comment).

Is a Firefox version under development?
> But as I've posted previously, and as you can find trivially easily via Google, of the 30 year increase in life expectancy in the US, a minimum of 25 of those years have come from public health improvements rather than from modern medicine.

Do you categorize vaccination as modern medicine, or as public health? Is there no overlap, some overlap, or much overlap in the concepts of "modern medicine" and "public health"?
It could have, but AFAIK we aren't seeing similar effects for other nations after having great famines with large mortality, so I'd assume that it's not the case.
Good points... every comment thread gets its own room too, like yours above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6562592

The reasoning behind the streaming text and auto-submits is to keep the conversation ephemeral, in the moment, more like talking than texting.
This comment makes me wonder how much this venture would be effective in actually producing change.

Thanks to the internet's "filter bubble" we are able to believe whatever we want to believe.

One man's "ferocious investigative journalism" is another man's theatre.
Certainly a good theory that I've also considered myself. It's a fundamental cost that every person goes through. You can contribute to the social sphere until 20+ years of literature education.
It's mind-boggling how complex the universe is yet somehow we are capable of understanding it.
Good question, I am not sure. I suspect that power figure is derived from thrust ("The three-stage Saturn V had a peak thrust of at least 7,650,000 pounds-force (34.02 MN)") and velocity.

This (annoyingly "furloughed") page on nasa.gov has an article written by Wernher von Braun that says:

>"A large stand was built to static-test the huge stage under the full 7,500,000-pound-thrust of its five F-1 engines. These engines generated no less than 180 million horsepower. As about I percent of that energy was converted into noise, neighborhood windows could be expected to break and plaster rain from ceilings if the wind was blowing from the wrong direction or the clouds were hanging low. A careful meteorological monitoring program had to be instituted to permit test runs only under favorable weather conditions."

http://web.archive.org/web/20130216021235/http://history.msf...

180 million horsepower is 134.2 GW, so the 190 GW figure is at least in the same general neighborhood.
Well, nothing like a little crash to bring these kind of people's head back to earth.
> But as I've posted previously, and as you can find trivially easily via Google, of the 30 year increase in life expectancy in the US, a minimum of 25 of those years have come from public health improvements rather than from modern medicine.

Assuming you are getting the 25 years from the CDC[1], you are being obtuse. Immunizations is the first thing listed. Vaccines are a component of modern medicine. Control of Infectious diseases includes antibiotics, which are medicine. Clicking on "Declines in Deaths from Heart Disease and Stroke" shows that it includes "an increase in the percentage of persons with hypertension who have the condition treated and controlled" using pharmaceuticals, definitively modern medicine.

In summary, these 25 years aren't coming from just getting people to quit smoking. There's a large component that is modern medicine.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/about/history/tengpha.htm
I'd be more inclined to agree if there was an example showing how to type script.cpp in the terminal and have it automatically build with g++ and run.
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As we are about to enter a period of hyperinflation, salary is about to sky rocket, led by government employees.
> His statement mirrors what venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said last year, when he proclaimed, "I love gridlock!"

I doubt Marc Andreessen loved gridlock when he was working on Mosaic @ the NCSA

> The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is an American state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Supercomput...
Your clients might appreciate advice on how to use technology better?
Realise it was thrown together in a day but didn't especially like 'the feels' I got from being told that I would see my Dad, who has already died, 572 more times before he passes on.
It's that old joke all over again;

A new nuclear reactor was built near town. Not long after, residents began complaining of headaches, nausea, trouble sleeping, tiredness, and a host of other issues.

The lead engineer on the project commented with a grin: "You think that's something, just wait 'til this baby's operational!"
In USA I studied math and cs, I got this similar speech. I think it depend on school and area of concentration in USA.
Agreed, it does and you made the right choice. But in reality once you know Haskell - bind is a very common operation and reading this version is very natural.
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Nice sarcasm, but...

>he had alarming levels of arsenic in his system (probably due to working with metal ores and copper extraction)

Also, the argument here that "since he wasn't eating a modern diet and still had health problems, we can't blame health problems on our modern diet" is somewhat silly. Diets like paleo are clearly against grains, which Otzi definitely ate (for all we know, that was most of his diet [1]... this guy was alive long after the advent of agriculture).

Paleo (and similar diet) proponents would tell you that the cause of his gallstones and bad teeth were a high grain diet. To be clear, I'm not arguing that those claims are accurate, only that the logic in the OP doesn't directly counter such claims.

Furthermore, the short life expectancy argument already being trotted out in this thread is pure bull. Life expectancy, which was mainly low due to infant mortality, dropped when agriculture was introduced and didn't recover until last century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy...

[1] http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/04/lessons-from-o...
Have you tried the xflux daemon? It's a command line version for X. http://justgetflux.com/linux.html
Note: The update is only for Windows and not OS X.
You do not have to give up your US citizenship to gain citizenship in another country.
Even if you tell Colombia you will, at any point you can tell the US you never intended to cede citizenship, and you are an US Citizen again.
It's VERY hard to lose citizenship (at least, as a natural born citizen).
That could be the problem right here. Or it may not be a problem, depends on your values.
And I could copy them with minor modifications and claim I designed it all, in only a few minutes.
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Cheated of what? Owning a share does not entitle you to profit.

I fail to see what's amoral about trading based on information that other people don't know. There are no two people who know the exact same things. All trade is based on asymmetric information.
Haha, I'm not really sure what you mean. Yesterday I didn't know TogetherJS was ready to use, and yesterday I didn't know of Mozilla's plan to not support IE.

How could anyone be bothered by something before they know about it?