skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...seems quite likely they are not friends of individual privacy" is a vague and unfair slur without specific examples of organizations and anti-privacy stances.

True, the libertarian-leaning groups are not going to mind so much about something like audience-tracking scripts, because such things are a pea-shooter threat to privacy, compared to the government's privacy carpet-bombing.

We can defend ourselves and others from Google Analytics, and not wind up in prison for trying. Not so with a state program of total, secret, compulsory surveillance, that's linked with the government's unique scale, permanence, legal immunity, and ability-to-punish.

Against such a threat, those who emphasize the common cause are the good coalition partners. Someone on the sidelines, like the Salon writer, withholding support based on a partisan ideological purity test? Not an impressive coalition partner!
You can't remember arcane keystroke combinations and yet you like Eclipse? While I admit it's no emacs in the keystroke department, it is very inconsistent with pretty much every other UI tool out there in terms of keystrokes.

Powerful tool, but the "we'll go our own way despite commonly accepted UI standards" has always made me a little crazy.
i understand you point, and even file manager not exists on iOS, despite is running a modified version of unix, in which almost everything is presented as file or directory...

experience of Android is only on Google's Android, this is my point, if you want to have the true Android Experience, than you have to use Google's Android because Google Apps only run on official Android OS
The Velvet Underground's career can be summed up as: "Commercially unsuccessful, but enormously influential".

On a side note, if you have a few minutes to spare, read Lou Reed's review of Kanye's Yeezus: http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed

It's interesting to read a legend's opinion on a modern pop-star.
I might be misunderstanding. Is the suggestion here that several companies would induce them to be less competitive, but a single large company would be highly motivated to succeed?
As an adult, I'm not going to stand around and whine about unfair conditions. If I perceive a problem, I create a change in my life.

Last time I checked the recession was still ongoing, and the latest labour survey showed voluntary separations still to be uncommonly low. I'm aware that computing is quite shielded, but the Danish study isn't about you. It includes everyone else, too, and most are in a worse position.
What happens to it on a retina display?
First space tourist (Dennis Tito) reflects on experience 10 years later
EC2 used to terminate instances with no warning in many situations when it launched. It seems they've concluded most people didn't understand that, and avoid that whenever possible now.

But "cloud" compute services should in general be treated as less reliable per individual unit unless your provider explicitly explain to you why not (such as guaranteeing to use a high-availability distributed filesystem), as you no direct way of ascertaining status of the underlying hardware. You need to plan for failure regardless.
I agree that they overpriced, although they are of really nice quality. I personally use Muji notebooks, which have a nice paper and sturdy cover/binding while being really cheap.
Just to respond to your first sentence. All ACA plans have a "coinsurance maximum". Meaning, you pay your deductible. Then you pay your 20%-30% coinsurance. And then when you reach your coinsurance maximum, your health insurance pays 100% of your health care costs. The coinsurance maximum varies with the plan but they're not very high. Mine is around $3500, and the biggest I've seen is $12,500 for "out of network care". On top of that, "annual/lifetime maximums" (where the insurance company STOPS paying for your care after a certain amount) are prohibited. And that is different than before. The upshot is that everyone on a health insurance plan truly has an out-of-pocket maximum now. (There's always the chance that I have missed something here, but this understanding is consistent with the intent of the law.)

I'm in my low 40's and my premium went down over 20%. I think the premium increases for people are also very much about the improved quality level of the plans, and some of that quality increase is "hidden" due to the old plans having lots of against-the-patient "tricks" that are now outlawed.

BTW, you have referred to my other comment a couple of times now. I am not saying it is dishonest to not want to provide health care for undocumented immigrants. I am saying that is intellectually dishonest to have that position, and simultaneously criticize Obamacare for not covering that number of uncovered patients. I believe that if someone criticizes a problem, it is their responsibility to also be in favor of the solution. That's a basic value in rational discourse/dialectic.
Lou Reed reviewing the new Kanye West Album Yeezus.

http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkwD261MHsc
Totally agree on asking FizzBuzz type questions first! I have understood a lot about the person just by asking simple questions. Most people fall into the trap of answering it in a very complicated way to advoid many if else if conditions for no reason! :P :)
I am speaking generally, everytime I try to compare them to gas or diesel cars I don't have data for the EVs, if you could provide the data for the ones you have I would appreciate.
The present value of future cash flows are driven by a maths formula. In essence, NPV= FCF/(1+R)^t. R is being driven to zero by the fed. As R->0, NPV goes up. This is true for all levels of FCF.
From what I can see, this only applies if you are using Comcast wireless equipment.
Humor HN: Google Easter Egg, Conway's Game of Life
Do you have an XFINITY Wireless Gateway? Can you see an addition xfinitywifi network?
Those other projects are developed in the open, Android is not.
Lou Reed Reviews Kanye West's 'Yeezus'
I think the administration was worried if they didn't launch on schedule at the start of the shutdown/ceiling fight they might have to accept house republicans demands of a delay in the ACA. Apparently they were gambling the problems wouldn't be discovered until after the shutdown/ceiling fight was over. They won the gamble and the ACA survived but the problems remain and fixing them looks challenging.
Curious: what does overpriced mean?
> but it is certainly a toxic substance, in the medical sense.

Excuse me for not accepting the pseudo-science weasel word "toxic". Vitamin C is toxic at certain levels. If you do not bring in more specifics, then what you are saying is meaningless. Just saying "I choose to reserve judgement, but have a gut feeling that it will be shown to be more harmful than cigarettes" is about as far as strong a claim you can make based on the evidence you have presented.
I FizzBuzz all new developers I hire. Frankly, if you aren't prepared to spend the 5 (at most) minutes it takes to put FizzBuzz down in a language you say that you are an expert in, I'm ok with you walking.

Being a productive team member requires trust, and FizzBuzz is a really low standard to start at when attempting to gain trust. I'd be openly suspicious that anyone who can't be bothered to run through FizzBuzz in an interview would be the type to complain that whatever task they are working on (that needs to be done) isn't RealProgramming(tm), and is beneath them.
Sure you have.

https://twitter.com/AlanHungover/status/393822237926903808

Users complain all the time about being required to change their password every week to something unmemorable because of crazy complexity requirements.

Security is a tradeoff with usability.
As far as security is concerned, I'm much more worried about ISPs providing WiFi routers that uses WEP encryption AS A DEFAULT.

For those who don't know, WEP can be hacked in a matter of minutes with no technical knowledge required. There's plenty on scripts on the internet that automates the whole process for you.

Do yourself a favour and use WPA2.
Yea this makes a lot of sense.
Ok, thanks for the snark.

If we're so clueless that we can disambiguate from companies in this fictional scenario, then we're hosed anyway.
What you say here doesn't make any sense. Shareholder value is increased by effective use of capital by the company. Plowing your margin back into your business if it can result in growth is good for shareholders, since the stock will rise, whereas plowing that profit into ill-advised acquisitions and executive bonuses is probably less so. At the same time, issuing a direct dividend to shareholders when there is little use for that capital for future growth is (obviously) good for shareholders, but issuing the same dividend when that money could have been used to increase the market cap of the business through growth is bad.

In other words, the specific mechanism of how a company uses profit (or more specifically, free cash flow) does not have any inherent value to shareholders (dividends, buybacks, paying down debt, or re-investment.) It's only in the context of the opportunity cost of how that capital could have been used elsewhere that you can measure the value for shareholders.
I am stuck with windows for now because we develop Windows software. But I have Virtual Box image of Ubuntu on this machine, which I use for web surfing and al manner of other activities. I just prefer Ubuntu. After having reformatted my Windows machine last week because of a bad virus infection, I have decided to do all of my web surfing on Ubuntu..
you forgot http://source.android.com/
Like for Healthcare.gov: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6539349 ?

I haven't looked into this, but can you point to any concrete examples, as opposed to the usual political platitudes?
You're asserting that my defense of the ACA is because my premium went down. That's a pretty uncharitable interpretation of my views. In that same comment I wrote that the chief goal of the ACA was not to lower our premiums. To make it explicit, I would also support the ACA if my premiums had gone up.

It sounds like the rest of your views are based off of your beliefs of how things will play out, which is of course difficult to argue about.
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Heh. Is there such a thing as a consumer ISP-supplied router that isn't a total POS?

Does BT not let you override their DNS servers? I don't know why ISPs seem to think DNS hijacking is such a good idea. I find it hard to believe they could make any substantial amount of money on it, it just pisses people off.
Try putting two spaces at the beginning of the line.

void strcpy(char *x, char *y) { while(*x++ = *y++); }
It's hacker news because hackers upvoted it.
What about TopCoder?
Same, I've added that to my 'remember this' list of phrases/quotes/terminology.
Having a version for every patch would be difficult, but the base level of {XP,Vista,7,8}{32-bit,64-bit}{RTM,SP1,SP2,...} should safeguard the majority of your users.
I'm kinda sad that even though tablets are multipurpose and go for less than $200, people still manufacture paper notebooks and books. What happened to save the environment, reuse, save the trees?
It seems to be a problem with raw sensor information prior to encoding, otherwise I figure there would be more blocky image corruption.

Frame 0-26: Puck Flying

Frame 27: Impact g force shorts capacitor (usually rated for ~10g), scanline loses chroma until circuit at proper threshold again.

Frame 28: Frame dims b/c of occlusion from puck, and collision likely turns glass into a negative meniscus lens.

Frame 29->: Officially an inelastic collision. Time to get a new camera
I have an Xfinity Wireless Gateway, and I see no visible networks named "xfinitywifi" nearby.
"A good resume with a long list of well-known companies and a degree from a top-tier engineering school doesn’t guarantee anything." I'm sorry but a year+ at those companies proves you've provided at least something of worth to them. The real crux of the argument is can they solve the kinds of problems your company faces.

I would certainly hope that the barrier to entry for every job I applied for wasn't something so standardized (and quite frankly, useless). I would eventually point to a github repo with it done already. We wax poetic about DRY yet you're gonna ask me to repeat myself? Seems pretty hypocritical to me.
FizzBuzz-type questions are for the first remotely technical interview, not once your programming credentials have already been established by the people who are interviewing you. You make it sound like the people interviewing you already know anything about you other than what's on your resume.

It filters out a surprising number of people, including those with what appear to be very impressive resumes. I don't know what your definition of "hiring off the street" is, but if it means that the people interviewing you don't know anything about you prior to the interview, then that's pretty much all hiring for any company of any size (i.e., non-startups).
Are there any projects for wireless charging while driving out there?

If you could somehow power a car while driving on the freeway, you would essentially solve most range problems of electric cars.
You can use this US gov tool for side by side comparison between all vehicles (gas vs gas, gas vs electric), just specify year, make, model of each vehicle: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbsSelect

I'm away from my laptop at the moment, but will get the data together as soon as I'm back.
The wear caused on a road surface is a higher-than-linear function of axle loading. The standard model has a power of 4. Double the mass, 16 times the wear. Very light vehicles, like EVs, don't significantly wear the roads compared to large cars, pickups, and especially commercial trucks.

Consider, (damage is normalized to a Ford F-150).

Weight Damage Gallons/mile
Honda Civic 2815 0.05 0.032
Toyota Prius 2921 0.05 0.020
Nissan Leaf 3291 0.09
Ford Transit Connect (me) 3500 0.11 0.50
Tesla Model S 4647 0.35
Ford F-150 Pickup 6000 1.0 0.059
Ford Excursion Diesel (bro) 7725 2.75 0.055
Maximum Loaded Truck 20000/axle 1970. (+other axles) 0.2

The Leaf does so little damage that we can ignore it. A Honda Civic weighs even less, but will be paying something like half what a pickup does for 1/20th of the damage. My brother's Excursion is doing about 25 times the road damage as my Connect, but we pay essentially the same gas tax. A truck with a maximally loaded axle is doing almost 2000 times the damage, for about 4 times the fuel tax.

Clearly, fuel use as a proxy for road damage is flawed, but not because the light vehicles are getting away, more because the heavy vehicles are under paying. That exponent of four gets big in a hurry.

I propose: Assess road expenses into wear based maintenance, and all other costs. Then each vehicle pays based on their mileage and "wear factor" for wear based maintenance and just their mileage for the rest of the costs. The black boxes are needed in the US because our roads are paid for locally, you have to break out the payments to the right parties. It's not like we aren't tracked everywhere we go anyway. Keep the fuel tax as a carbon tax, import/trade balance deterrent, revenue source.

Edit: That proposal is going to need a rural subsidy, and possibly a freezing climate subsidy as well. By then it will get political and we'll probably end up with a tax on paint color by the time it is done.
While parked, yes. While driving, no. It would be extremely expensive to repave roads to support this.

EDIT: Yes, you could wire roads only when already performing needed repairs. Yes, you could run wires above roads for power. But why? All of these miles we have of infrastructure, it'll be faster to continue to drive down the cost of battery technology to the point where people will say, "Can you believe we even considered wiring roads?".

My opinion is that battery technology is going to follow that same cost curve as solar modules: http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/images/countyfair/...

Within 5-10 years the cost of battery technology should have fallen to where the cost of the battery is marginal. The trick is to get the cost of the cells down, while reducing the need for so much manual labor to assemble the packs from cells. My hope is that Tesla comes up with a way to automate pack assembly or 3D prints the entire pack, cells and all (perhaps not "print", but laser sinter).
Saturated Fat is not the major issue
Once upon a time there was EC2, without EBS. It was actually a pretty good place to be. There was no ambiguity because everyone who used EC2 was given a lot of warnings about how they'd have to architect their systems to avoid critical failure. I wonder if the introduction of EBS has actually increased data loss because people aren't as paranoid about it.
Well before I started posting code on github a few months ago, it was probably a pretty high percentage. But I see what you mean.
If anything, less so. Firefox OS could be viewed as an incredibly limited subset of Android, and these things promote ever increasing dependence on computing services not in the devices, which more than likely means closed ecosystems in clouds. This is a worse situation than you have on Android today.

The freedom problems with Android are more to do with driver support. Until an app development SDK is self hosting it's a bad sign too, but none of the mobile OS candidates has that right now.
Truck containing 22,500 LG G2 phones goes missing
I really like the approach and the visuals. I almost never think of Git visually and this opens a whole new dimension for me. I'm looking forward to discover techniques and workflows outside of my everyday patterns. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

However, the interface is often confusing. For example, I'm not sure what to do with the avalanche of dialogs at the beginning. So I just navigated to the earliest '1' button and pressed that. Also, the "goal" graph at the beginning of each exercise disappears, and I don't know how to recall it. Finally, the goal objectives can't be displayed at the same time that the console is active, and "help level" restarts the entire level description. It would be nice if both the goal graph and the list of objectives were both visible during the exercise. (If this is indeed possible, I obviously missed it.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/developers
Are we looking at different pages? http://imgb.mp/jmI.jpg
I wont actually receive your texts anymore; I had to turn the Twilio service off (thought the app still works as expected). I shared it with my small twitter network and someone used up all my Twilio credits and sent me 495 texts!

But whatever, valuable experience! :)
Mapping the Expansion of Google's Serving Infrastructure
This is so true and this quote would always remind me of the programming language Scheme. Scheme never quite made it big commercially but almost everyone who tried it implemented a programming language just to see it for real.
Well I don't know many schools where you only do projects, classes are absolutely optional, you organise your time exactly the way you want, you don't need any kind of diploma to enter. The only mandatory part is being present for the project defense.

Never saw this kind of teaching in any US university / school, so it's not that far fetched to call it "revolutionary".

It certainly is in France, especiall (Epitech has been doing that for 10 years but you had to pay something like 40k which for us is a lot for education, and also you need a high school diploma, which is mandatory if you want the bachelor/master diploma delivered by the school to be officialy recognised by the government.)
Any plans for personal (home) sized units? I'd love to get off our power grid as we have daily outages and brown-outs that kill electronics happen a couple times a year. (And yes, I'm in the US, and in the middle of a hefty power grid but according to the power company, we have problematic squirrels).
Do you mean FizzBuzz specifically, because then you may just see how well they do on pop-quizzing?
This is not how strcpy is implemented. It is typically done in assembly.
That's for completely supporting my point that this was a political decision.

But I'd say the jury is out on the wisdom of this decision. A Healthcare.gov launch delay would have joined a bunch of other delays and waivers, and ... well, you and I don't seem to live in the same universe, I don't see any scenario where Obama and the Senate Dems would have been forced to accept anything they didn't want.

There's in fact more than a little worry from the liberal side of things that this most recent crushing of the eGOP was a step too far, e.g. http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/10/16/the-third-par... which I'm just starting to try to grok.
Sure, not the same quality of education for programming though. Since the two are free, I really see no reason to choose university over 42 now.
Yup. It really boils down to human nature. Which is sexier, a stock whose cash flows and business are well understood, or a stock like Amazon whose "potential" could possibly take over the world? It's hard to let your imagination run wild about the potential upside of an investment in a boring blue chip that is in the business of making regular profits, but whose margins, market, competition, and overall arc of the business are well established. But in an environment where the stock market is at an all time high, people are ready to believe that Amazon is just a few knobs being turned away from world domination.
Great tutorial, look forward to the next one.

Clojure, and indeed LISP is one of the things I would really like to learn but most of the tutorials have been way to academic in there format. This one so far has been much more focused and clearer on the intent of the language.

Thanks
"That work load should have no effect on risk of depression sounds downright whack."

Then again, two of the summaries you quote actually suggest that things have a lot more to do with office politics and work environment.

Think of it this way: if you've an infinitely long todo list, but no pressure whatsoever ("wake me up as you complete the tasks"), it's just an insurmountable amount of work that you'll grow used to never completing and you'll do as much as you can and be satisfied with yourself.

Now, toss a boss into the equation -- one that tells you to get it all done by yesterday. Or put another way, one that essentially goes: "let me load your backpack with 50kg before I order you to swimm across this river". That can screw you up rather quickly. Especially if that boss's priorities change daily or hourly.
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The argument i'm making is that no matter who comes in, so long as they dont have a dedicated and passionate lead, it will be all for nothing.

I dont argue that the contractors are/can be part of the problem but from my experience, the government _IS_ the limiting factor, especially when they say that they're the systems integrator, not the contractor as is in this case.

I did my damnest to write/architect/design the best system that I could but if the government forces you to use RH JBoss 2 versions behind the latest, just because they have a support license then refuses to buy JRebel because it was too expensive after paying tens of thousands of dollars on said JBoss, and then changes the system requirements every 6 months you're doomed. Worst of all we were _NOT_ allowed to talk to end users. We can only talk through our Task Order Managers and supposed Technical Leads (that have little or extremely dated technical experience).
I was using 2.2.5