skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I read it, you are wrong about CoreOS. It's meant to be run as a host OS, not as a guest. It provides a minimal Linux Hypervisor you can use to run containers built for docker.
Are you a prof at UIC (or alumni)?
I saw a job posting that basically described the first part of this, which made me smile because it actually made sense, instead of abstract nonsense about goats crossing bridges...
The advice you get there is a political consensus, not a scientific one. Have a look at http://www.choosemyplate.gov/, linked directly from health.gov: You will have a hard time finding a recommendation against any food product. The non-obvious trick used to appease the food industry is basing the recommendations on nutrients and ingredients, allowing the industry to push their "Any food product can be part of a balanced diet" myth, and reengineer the processed food so that they can put whatever nutrient or ingredient is considered healthy right now on the labels.
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Healthcare.gov is far more complex than a repo, which is why I care more about the process. The data integration process is/was staggering, with 55 contractors/agencies involved (according to the NYT). That screams trouble all over it, especially with government contractor reflexes.

Was this achievable in the given time? If so, what was the plan to get there? If not, how should it have been managed?
I agree with the Tyrant part.
The rise of the lipid hypothesis wasn't the general scientific consensus being wrong, it was the US government cherry picking science based on lobbyist pressure. So while I fully trust science to advance, I don't trust the US government to build science-based, non-biased dietary guidelines based on scientific findings.
It's not a matter of it solving issues. It's a matter of it belonging to the public.
"I've never understood people's fascination about SpaceX. There's almost nothing to gain- and Russian Proton has the advantage of being really, really well tested."

On a serious note: the primary disadvantage of glibc is that it's really, really hard to change (and build times are slow). While it's already here, sometimes you want to port it to a new platform or a new ABI, and the adventure begins.
Are there any others that have had success marketing to this segment? I'm sure many try.
Anybody who claims that this has sense, just do it yourself and let me know when you succeed.
Does this mean there will finally be Linux support? There is no mention of how DRM will be implemented.

Edit: One of the older blog posts (link in this one) discusses HTML5 Premium Video Extensions
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That's interesting, I'd like to know more about that.

There are certainly areas where some level of multitasking can be trained. For some, it's still merely fast switching, and for the gifted few, there's the capacity to become so familiar, competent, and therefore at ease with complex tasks that they become second nature, and that frees up bandwidth for other things.

The problem gets to be that that sort of thing is very challenging, and most people just aren't capable of doing it well, if at all. The level of self-deception surrounding the issue is stratospheric. (We're talking about maybe ~5% of the population.) And, for the most part, it only makes sense to practice in high-workload environments where there may not be the ability to add people to divide the workload (think: some aviation).
There's still a lot of value for pricing intelligence (see current #3 post talking about Amazon's Fulfillment-By-Amazon product) in arbitrage. The "shipped by amazon" has an immense amount of weight. It's pretty straightforward to acquire products (even from amazon 3rd party sellers), relist on amazon with FBA/prime/etc logos and profit.

Although Amazon has started it to do it themselves directly via "Amazon Warehouse Deals" -- http://www.amazon.com/b?node=1267877011 -- They'll actually purchase other seller's underpriced inventory and relist it themselves for a tidy profit. Especially easy when it's sitting in their warehouse already in a box.
I mean the data the government releases to the public. e.g data.gov datasets
This rebuttal doesn't seem to say that much about Lustig's central claim: that fructose is metabolized in a very different way from glucose, that large amounts of fructose metabolism harms the liver, and that this harm may be associated with metabolic syndrome.

What it does say is that overall calorie consumption has increased since 1970 but the fraction of calories from added sugar has not (no claim about fructose consumption specifically?), that fructose is almost always found along with glucose, so the fact that fructose does not induce an insulin response doesn't mean that foods containing fructose aren't satiating, that the Japanese do eat some fruit, that most fruits have less fiber than sugarcane, and that dosage is relevant to toxicity.

Couldn't Aragon be right about every one of these points without refuting Lustig's central claim? Can't it simultaneously be true that consuming too many total calories is harmful, and that consuming too much fructose is also harmful?
This is amazing and thank you for sharing; As API said in another comment. I wish i was alive during those days and also alive today. I hope I'll be saying it about our future, but there is something about the nostalgia, I just fixed desperately needed box with ribbons and remembered how much I loved it when i was younger..(fixed it btw.)

[edit] There was zero credit to government persons, which I kinda feel lacking.. Someone was thinking here.
I did not realize/know that there were so many parallels between the Japanese education system and the Indian one. Thanks for the education (no pun intended)
It sounds like the problem is owning too much stuff.
Libertarians and religious people come to the same conclusion by entirely different routes: Calling people to obedience to any other laws than the ones of the Creator, the original lawmaker, amounts to pronouncing a blasphemous heresy. Anybody doing that will deservedly burn in hell.
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It's possible I'm an idiot, but I suspect my co-workers would fare worse, and it damns the language in my book.

No, you're definitely not an idiot. Haskell's type system is a completely different language, semantically speaking, from its language of terms. This type language is much more like a logic programming language than a functional one. Type variables are unified by the type inference engine, a concept with which most people are unfamiliar. Type constructors are easily mistaken for data constructors (they often use the same name). A lot of Haskell tutorials gloss over these details which is unfortunate.

Please don't get discouraged. Once you start to grok the type system you'll be amazed at how powerful it is. It's pretty incredible how well it works at inferring all the types and catching countless errors. The oft-cited claim that Haskell programs "just work" once they pass the type-checker is true in the vast majority of cases. The amount of work it saves you by not having to write (and maintain) unit tests is staggering.
So we know what our tax dollars were spent on, and how our private information is being handled and potentially not well protected. This code needs a public audit.
A great example of why you shouldn't, in fact, ever try doing this for JSON parsing within something important.
There are a couple of vocal people there with strong opinions. They don't represent the community as a whole. Only people with strong contrary opinions would have anything to say in such a thread, so there's a selection bias at work here.
It needs to be made public period. It's our money, it's our code, it's our data being handled by this code. Does anyone seriously trust the government with their data enough to not want this code public?
> Its our code let's see what we paid for.

That is a different petition to the one that has been posted, which states that the reason for open sourcing the code is "so we may help fix any found issues".

The "let's see what we paid for" argument is an appeal to the more general proposition that there should be public scrutiny of public money. There already exist mechanisms for accessing taxpayer-funded content held by government (including source code) under FOI and other legislation. Unless there is some inadequacy in the operation of those laws, I think they answer the point.
Some of this yes. But really, our first customers were / are other startups that were dedicating a lot of engineering resources to crawling and analyzing data. Eventually one company we were helping asked if they could pay us. We sort of stumbled into our first revenue and then realized there was a business there.
I was actually wondering about that... most of these ultrabooks have a Y or U trail which basically translates to underpowered and throttled CPU.

Apple doesn't really say which SKU they're using, Microsoft also hides that info. Which kinda makes you wonder...
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That's a fair point, but Android is open source (and indeed was heavily marketed on that basis). They don't get to use any mechanism they like to make the situation comparable to their closed competitors.

Android is open source; their services and corresponding apps aren't, and that's what they use as leverage. Not allowing them the same rights over those as other companies have over their proprietary software is essentially punishing them for having released something as open source.

And yes, Android is open source, and the Kindle Fire proves it. The fact that some people expect Google Play et all to be bundled is not Google's fault.

Their situation is also not comparable to iOS, WP, etc, because of their position of market dominance, just the same as the situation with Windows and Mac OS back in the day.

But Windows was, and while Microsoft was criticized for a lot of anticompetitive plays, not allowing people to create forks of Windows was never one of them. Not to mention that Google does allow you to create forks of Android, they just don't give you access to their services on top of that.
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They fined them for losing money? What?
I would think it has to do with how many other things link to the provided pages, considering that's the gist of how PageRank works.

It might exclude the main http://google.com because you're doing a site search, and it assumes you've looked at the index? It might be missing most of the other pages specifically about Google because they have a lower ranking/less incoming links than the Google+ profiles listed in the search?
I don't follow. This is a public service, with public data serving the public. There's nothing secret here. If anything should be public it's this.
Oh it's almost certainly guaranteed to fail. Also from the nytimes:

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

In comparison:

Windows 95 had 15 million lines of code.
Windows 98, 18 million
Windows XP, 35 million

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html

Luckily for all of us they have about 8 weeks.
If you have a copy and never use it, are you guilty of credit card fraud? The answer is still no.
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Wow! Microsoft needs to buy this. Great addition to excel.
Except its not a vulnerability in the normal sense. It's the functional equivalent of playing a private recording with your speakers turned to maximum and the windows open - just in the EM spectrum.

I'm not contending that using that information wouldn't be a crime, but accidentally collecting it certainly should be held to a different standard.
See that just it, we don't actually know if it was the contractors. Maybe the contract was subpar, maybe the government signed off on a bad design, or maybe the contractor did screw up. Open source the code and all of the mystery will be gone, well know exactly what the root cause was. Open source the contract, the code, and the emails and notes involved in picking the winner for this proposal.

Without the facts, everyone's just guessing or making things up. Open source everything on this. It's our money, what was it spent on?
Is this the reason the topic of autonomous corporations reappeared recently? The topic itself is interesting, but the timing seemed odd.

Dawn of Autonomous Corporations, Powered by Bitcoin:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6589067
Perhaps short-sighted. Audit, yes. Github, no. Totally interested if there's really a poster-child failure of contractors hawking closed-source tools here, but we have be be very objective and professional if we ever expect to benefit implementation of public projects. FOSS is still in a state of having intellectually won to anyone paying attention without having won in ways that outsiders can understand, much less support in a context of public policy.

I'm sure the SV approach to MVP's and demanding survival in short iterations has something to offer, but really it's going to take SV and FOSS together to figure out how to solve these problems in the first place before we waste two elections cycles talking about Obamacare and finally getting a $680m fail whale. We failed long before the exchanges showed up way overpriced and under-performing.

However, let's say that Obama's 2nd election platform was about a pledge to lower credit-card micro-transaction costs for all consumers and lubricate online payments to lower the price of business creation. Stripe, Dwolla, Square, Venmo, and numerous others are born with a presidential veto to kill protective, industry-spawned legislation for four years, long enough to contend to become the Google of payments and totally disrupt banking, payments, and retail POS. All along the way, as the companies are competitors, they typically do not exchange value or software really, seemingly over-competing when all of them will end up writing bank integration software to get their network into the money system. SV and FOSS seems good at eliminating dead-weight coders and management practices, but can SV companies effectively use resources without meaningless competition and duplication of effort? Not as long as I'm going to be the founder and try to get super rich all by myself we won't...

This is the problem with SV and FOSS that prevents us from coming up with the model that solves problems at the society level and involves government without creating the iron rice-pots that are the seed capital of government contractors.
So wikileaks didn't solve any problems open sourcing secrets?
> What is really happening is risks are socialised, profits (if any) are privatised.

Well not quite, given companies pay tax too. Not only that, but large industries like Aerospace spend money on other stuff. I agree it's clumsy, but it isn't as simple as you put it.

Seems to me with the level of subsidy Boeing/Airbus/Bombardier receive, why aren't they just nationalised.
I don't know how much of a benefit there is, but I doubt it's a problem. If they make a mistake, worst case is they lose money and everyone else gains from it.
So it boils down to "show me your code" and then "please write a few test examples". To staff up a cheap coding sweatshop this method is good-enough.

In most cases an applicant must be able to read English (to google some code to copy-paste and occasionally search through documentation) and able to install and run Eclipse.

The real problem with hiring is that a HR middleman is ignorant and can't tell a good code form a restaurant menu. So he must give a very few simple exercises from common text-books with known answers.

The even bigger problem is that almost no one needs coders, everyone wants programmers which is a complete different set of analytical and engineering skills.

Coding is just a process of translation of a ready-made by someone else, poorly understood (if at all) specifications into a spaghetti [Java] code by calling poorly understood methods of ready-made classes, coded by someone else.

Programming is a process of understanding and describing reality (in terms of design documents, protocol specifications, and then, least importantly, source code in a several languages).

The criteria of success for a coder, btw, is when it just compiles (unit-tests? what unit-tests?) by the industry-strength most advanced compiler of the most sophisticated industry standard static-typing language (static typing is a guarantee from stupid errors, everyone knows) which is even verified to run correctly on the most advanced VM which incorporates millions of man-hours of optimizations, unless.. Never mind.

Success of a programmer is when it, like nginx or Plan9 or OpenBSD, is good-enough.)
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Good to know and good luck! On the financial clients, stick with the buy-side as they have substantially larger budgets and are willing to pay quite well for exclusivity. Providing data to sell-side analysts rapidly dilutes the value of your information.

On startups aspect, I'm surprised to hear that they aren't just using readily-available tools like Mozenda for basic crawling/scraping. Guessing you're able to provide either the scale or deep data that those tools are lacking? There's of course the legal implications with selling someone else's data / marketing leads / etc to be mindful of which can definitely get tricky as times. Yelp is notorious for pursuing with legal action those who scrape + sell their data. Yet everyone in the SMB marketing world still craves it.
The top profile (at least for me) is in just 77 circles. I wouldn't be nearly as surprised about the results if the Google+ profiles were all for well-known people and products, but the majority of these don't seem to be.
Nonsense. Open information on public expenditures is a painful process and you know it. So by that token the petition should simply be responded to by the whitehouse with a "file a FoIA". Balderdash and red herrings all around. It's public money, it's public code: period. Your point is a distraction, and you know it.
As an owner of a collection of old Minitel-compatible 8-bit machines (my 'nicest': an Oric Telestrat), I yearn for a return of Minitel. I imagine actually that the "Internet 2.0" movement would do well to make it feasible for anyone to create a node, and participate in, a MiniTel-like local area transmission network, with cheap .. like ultra-cheap .. parts and technologies.

If I collect two months of electronic trash from the local garbage-collector, I'm fairly sure I could reconstruct a miniTel'ish network, or 10, in short order.

Perhaps I should stop thinking about it on HN and just go do it, but see .. this is just another reason why the French are great!
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Semantics3 (YC W13) gives you access to similar pricing data, but across several web retailers [1]. They seem to have a slightly different take: being a data API rather than a standalone website for product tracking and discovery.

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Check out his fantastic demo pages for a look at the work being done on Daala.
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This is great news!
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Hm seems still quite a bit noisier than airbus 350 (why isn't it mentioned even once in the article?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3AiGiJgf9Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3SMaNrsaoI

But it's cool we got to see so many first flights this year!

Here is some detail on why it is so quiet

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airbus-a350-xwb-se...
Just from my anectodal experience, low carb diets seem to be easier to follow for people who like meat: fats and proteins are something that many people from older generations consider "real" good food. Also eating lots of carbs is sp much easier than eating lots of proteins and fats, that it's simple to reduce your caloric intake by reducing carbs.

if your dad enjoys numbers, wifi scales like Fitbit Aria can make it much effortless to track weight and not be de-motivated by natural daily variations in your weight.
Aren't we talking about geared turbofans, as described in the article and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan ? Geared turbofans, unlike the ungeared GEnx, presumably have gears in gearboxes.
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Maybe you should have removed your IP from the source code before placing it on github
I assumed they had redundant servers with consensus algorithms in place in finance but apparently they don't. Would it be impractical?
Sorry if i've missed something, but what's the news ? Schemaless datastore has been a part of app engine since the beginning, and this particular evolution since a least a year...
Which costs us all money. If they really did build the system, as requested by HHS then open source it. There's nothing to hide. If they defrauded the government, then it's all the more reason to see the code. It's very simple: taxpayers paid for this, what did our elected officials agree to, did the contractor build that or not? If they did, the it's not on them and everyone needs to stop beating them up, if they didn't and it's way off from what they agreed to do them they need to be help reponsible.

And before anyone thinks I have no sympathy or am some political hack, I worked in the Clinton White House and wrote a lot of code for them (24 hours in cyberspace anyone?) and a few years later I helped build the GSA schedule system. I know how hard it is tackle politics and design. And that's why I have little tolerance for waste.
Are you being paid to astroturf?
Then surely we can open source F16 source code and publish it on Github.
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.. and thus, the analog with the modern App Store is complete.
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In short:

Because the "site:" operator does not rank on popularity or PR. I think it never has, and if it did, it was changed a long time ago. It merely shows you the indexed pages for a site. You can still gather a little info from it to see, for example, which pages are likely to appear in the secondary index / supplemental results ("In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries"). Pages in index is somewhat of a vanity metric. It can be more insightful to look at the number of pages that send you at least 1 visitor a month.

If Google would rank "site:" on popularity people would probably (ab)use it for icky stuff like PageRank sculpting or figuring out how (internal and external) linking influences ranking, much like they did with popular search words /trends.

In the same vein "Link:" does not show all pages that link to a site and doesn't order them by link strength.

If you want more reliable information on links and page importance set up webmaster tools and analytics.
I'll be interested in this when (ha) I hear that airlines are using that boosted efficiency to make coach seats more comfortable on the same profit margin, rather than continuing sardine-packing and pocketing the difference. Until then, it's entirely academic.