skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not apply the federalism principle. This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622746 by protomyth on another Obamacare topic points out "The writers of the law wanted a top-down centralized approach and that isn't how the US Constitution or US States are structured." and why we shouldn't be surprised by it's abject top level failure.

ADDED: to the initial responses to this: no, not even close. E.g. explain where the Federal government has a role in this beyond the FDA's standards establish what can be sold, which are in part an economy of scale.

E.g. the Naval Observatory and NIST each maintain independent ultra-precise time bases for the nation, which strikes me as just right. At the national level, Daylight Savings Time is promulgated, but states like Arizona (minus the big NE Indian Reservation) and Hawaii where it's not a good idea don't observe it.

But most things should be left to the "50 Petri dishes" of the states (or groups of them, e.g. the Multi-State Lottery Association http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-State_Lottery_Association ). Romneycare? Sure, why not try it? Obamacare? I think you know my answer to that.

And please don't make replies that don't factor in the Federal government's interference in this starting with WWII.
Chelyabinsk-type cases are exactly why this is needed. Asteroids big enough to cause mass extinction events are rare, and hardly worth talking about except in the extreme long term.

However, much smaller asteroids that could potentially destroy a city are more common. If it struck in the right place during a contentious period of international politics (say, the Cuban Missile Crisis), it could easily be mistaken for a preemptive nuclear strike. Of course, the radiation pattern would quickly disprove this, but such evidence is not likely to defuse the situation if there's a lot of hot-headed people running around.

In such a case, just knowing ahead of time that it's coming would prevent a catastrophic loss of civilization. That's not even counting the humanitarian effects of evacuating the people in the predicted strike zone.
We call companies out on their ToS all the time, even if there's no provable harm that has happened in the past. If it's in the contract, they both intend to use it and have the legal right to use it. I'd rather not that that chance, personally.
Until I can write something like Ableton Live in any Lisp I'll pass, thanks.
Up does this by default. Alt+Up is useful for searching a single word through history

I know of three history completion modes in fish.

Full command search: start typing a command and press Up. This will search for entire commands matching your query.

Word search: type any letters in a command, then press Alt+Up. This will cycle only the current word based on a substring match of your query. Useful for hostnames, filenames, etc.

Context-sensitive: If fish 'previews' the rest of a line as a lighter color text, press the right arrow key to complete. This is sensitive to the current directory and available files. If you go into a directory, `touch filename`, `cat filename`, and type `cat`, it will preview `cat filename` for you. Pressing the right arrow key will type it. If you `rm filename` or change directory, `cat filename` will no longer appear.
“You can beat global American companies” says VKontakte founder Pavel Durov
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On a side tangent resulting in similar (edited: milder) symptoms, for decades I've noticed the typical westerner calendar is extremely lopsided. June thru December is one holiday per month if not more, where you can take a vacation and not stress about whats going on back at work, in comparison the other half of the year January thru June has ... basically no time off. Oh you can take a vacation day, you'll just have two days of junk in your inbox tomorrow, and that makes stress worse not better.

I get slightly depressed in January for a couple weeks with the realization that my next day off is pretty much Memorial Day weekend at the end of May. That's a long time to go without a break, especially after spending the second half of the year never working more than about 3 weeks without yet another holiday.

That's why I don't think the articles advice to go on a vacation is useful. WRT stress reduction all you'll end up with when taking a vacation in the first half of the year is getting paged/called by everyone still at work and you'll have an overflowing inbox. In comparison, during the other half of the year you don't even need to spend vacation days to get long weekends and slow work weeks. 90% of the company takes friday after thanksgiving off, I may as well take it off too.

So to reiterate one last time I'm talking about something that happens at the same time of year with vaguely similar symptoms for a completely different reason (or maybe not?) than the discussion of low D3 vitamins or whatever... although I'm sure the lack of holidays does not help those suffering from medical issues.
I wonder what causes it since the variations in sunlight are tiny in SF (shortest day = 9.5 hours) compared to for example Stockholm (shortest day = 6 hours).
A further testament to the quality of their effort, in that it's according to you a good match to their local technical base, we're pretty sure it scales up to the level needed for the state (intuitively and per the evidence), costs of licenses is I'm sure noise for the effort, etc. etc.

Not necessarily to my taste either (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6627673), but if it gets the job done, who really cares?
Operations thinks they are the TSA
Is this also what is used to enforce academic standards (i.e. each student doing individual work)? I've heard CS lodges the most official complaints of any department.
I have the Philips goLITE, and highly recommend it. The blue wavelength makes a noticeable difference. It runs off of a rechargeable battery, which is very handy if you move around the house/office in the morning. It's also small enough to use as a travel alarm clock, and I've found using it makes it much easier to shift time zones.
> The problem with D/Nimrod/Go/Rust is the kind of people who would use them have already invested heavily in coping with the pain of C++ and have solid tools.

I don't know about D or Nimrod, but I always got the impression that Go and Rust had quite a bit of appeal to the kind of people that aren't heavily invested in C++, but instead are more currently focussed in dynamic languages like Python or Ruby, but forced to spend time writing modules/extensions in other languages (likely C) for performance.
Sharing Nobel Honors, and Agreeing to Disagree
You are misunderstanding what he's saying.

He's saying that you could use a periodic-submission order system. Say that the period is (for ease of discussion), 1 hour, ending on the hour. All orders made during the hour are queued up and simultaneously executed at the start of the next hour. If there are too few bids/offers to satisfy all trades, then trades are satisfied using some fixed rubric (i.e., pro rata, max/min price buyer/seller will accept, etc.) Until execution, the orders remain secret (not published to the orderbook). In theory, this allows people to place orders based on a known price.

In practice, in the past (before electronic trading took over), the published orderbook was updated manually as traders submitted bids, offers, and executed sales information to the exchange.
Hah! didn't see this one yet. Although it's a bit outdated, I will check it out as well reference it from my blog post
You see this sort of thing more and more these days. But hey, if you can't trust something linked off of hacker news, who can you trust? ;)
Very nice! Bookmarking this one for sure. Thanks for sharing.
"you pre-anticipate the goodness"

That's pretty much exactly how I feel about skiing at this time of year - even though I'm in my 40s I still get a childish level of excitement looking out for snowfalls and trying to work out when we can go skiing first (which here in Scotland can be anytime between November and January).
DDoS Visualized Attack Map
Google phone support for Chromebooks is surprisingly good.
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Yes, fixing your Vitamin D level gives a very effective boost, however it is absolutely not harmless to consume too much vit D as the article implies. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D
> Run-of-the-mill hackers should know this.

Do you really need to put the guy down for honestly admitting ignorance and trying to learn?

Anyway, "hacking" and computer science in general is diverse enough now that I wouldn't expect even an expert in any particular subfield to necessarily know anything about another. It's quite possible to be, say, an experienced database guru with a solid working knowledge of raytracing, network administration, and Unicode, without ever having touched anything related to emulators.
or right click and open in an incognito window (in Chrome)
> They had no idea (at that time) how dangerous it was.

This reminds me that every time Fukushima is mentioned on HN, the discussion is immediately dominated by people who claim that radiation exposure is not harmful (or even that it is healthy) and that contamination is not an issue in the province. To be fair, I think these days it's an ideological problem, whereas back then they just didn't have enough data and models about what's going on.
Report on advanced nanotechnology
That is a funny joke but after I read it outloud to my friends I got confused. How is it cheaper? One would enter the taxi with pesos. These pesos do not go up in value. Instead the cost of the rides go up. Thus you would want to pay sooner rather than later. Of course there is no joke in saying the bus is cheaper.

Unless one entered the taxi with US dollars. Yet in theory the exchange rate should match inflation. To me the joke would only make sense under hyper-deflation.
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Thanks for the link.
I wouldn't want to rely on my interpretation of reading that Act to keep myself out of trouble! There are so many links that go to fairly unhelpful definitions such as 'when used in a provision outside Chapter 7, has the same meaning as it has in Chapter 7.'
So it's not a settlement facility etc, it seems exepmt from these if it's not considered a financial product?

Out of interest, do you know what a similar service that accepted AUD instead would be classified under?
Original article here:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230447050...
Ishikawa diagrams and the 5 whys are quality control tools, specifically root cause analysis tools.

What OP mentions is taking notes of his though process as he goes along, so he can jump back in after an interruption.
Mobile  Scale: an inside look
Not to mention taking advantage of the deduction by "volunteering" at your friend's charity in some kind of fuzzily-defined "advisory" role, probably by attending a series of "thought camps" with your friend at his villa in The Bahamas or chalet in Klosters.
Sure, you can do it that way -- but isn't it ugly? Isn't it harder to read?

One thing I recently did that required a lot of macros was writing a unit test framework for Arc, the Lisp Hacker News is written in. (framework, with examples, here: https://bitbucket.org/zck/unit-test.arc) So to create a suite, you write:

(suite math
this-will-pass (assert-same 4 (+ 2 2))
this-will-fail (assert-same 3 (+ 2 2)))

Like stopwatch, instead of passing a lambda that runs the body of the unit test, it just lets you put the body in. Why? In c-like languages, you don't write an if statement this way:

if((val % 2 == 0), lambda (): { return true; }, lambda (): { return false; })

Isn't it easier to write:

if(val %2 == 0) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

So if using lambdas isn't good for if, why is it good for stopwatch?

Also, none of math, this-will-pass, or this-will-fail are predefined in the language, or even by my framework. You don't have to use strings, as you might otherwise:

(suite "math"
"this-will-pass" (assert-same 4 (+ 2 2))
"this-will-fail" (assert-same 3 (+ 2 2)))

Why might this be useful? Well, when you're writing a function:

int abs(int val){ return val<0 ? -val : val; }

Wouldn't you find it annoying to write:

int "abs" (int "val"){ return val<0 ? -val : val ; }

So Lisp lets you incorporate your code as part of the language, and doesn't force you (as much) to hammer your thoughts into the built-in structures of it.
Tweeting Bra - Sends Tweets Everytime its Unclasped
The problem with D/Nimrod/Go/Rust is the kind of people who would use them have already invested heavily in coping with the pain of C++

As someone who has written C++ for eight years now, I don't agree that life works like that. Two jobs back, I worked on a system in Prolog plus C/C++. There, I couldn't have switched to Go or D if I wanted to, binding Prolog with those language runtimes would be a big hassle (for everyone). However, in my current job, I couldn't write C++ if I wanted to. All the work is done on the top of the JVM, so a JVM language is what one has to live with :). In other words: the set of languages that can be used depend highly on the employer and the project.

The larger barrier against the success of these new languages is inertia of your co-workers, employer, etc. And that's for a good reason you touch upon: C++, Java, the JVM, .NET, etc. are all reliable languages tools used by a large community.
Oh my... I would be in heaven if I had Sim Ant!
Install it on remote machine :)
The rich.
Well is hasn't been regulated yet because it is an "imperialist" product hence it is a luxury. But most products are regulated in Venezuela too, and those products are scarcity now because nobody likes to produce without profit and there is not enough money to subsidize all of them and cover the whole demand.
Funny remix
A little video and remix myself and a friend put together! I though it may give you guys a giggle. Enjoy! :)
Paul Allen and the Machines: Teaching the next generation of AI
This is really amazing. It's faster than a Mac Plus! But my brain is missing the scratching noise the floppy disk used to make as a program loaded.
I'd prefer that to a Jackson Pollock.

Has anyone managed to compute the value of the Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension?
I'd say that if retina display isn't your thing, go for the best macbook air available. It's a killer machine with a staggering 12 hours of battery life and it weighs so little your back with thank you.
In terms of performance, with the new mavericks optimizations and haswell proccessor you will barely make this machines fans work unless you compile xcode or encode video
Observationally I think there's a huge exercise component, in past centuries miners, textile/sweatshop workers, and assemblyline workers didn't seem to suffer.
> Why not apply the federalism principle.

You mean, set national standards and leave the implementation to the states within those standards, with feds only stepping in if the states refuse or fail?

That's exactly what PPACA does for most things -- including the exchanges.
The original page 503'd for me as well, and I wouldn't have known that the imgur link was a mirror if it wasn't for the replies to it (since I just Cmd+F "mirror" to find this).
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell
Anyone old enough to remember Apple back in the 90s?

This sort of activity reminds me of the actions Apple took to try and hide the mess of the roll-out of Open Transport and all the network mess it caused for folks.
Introducing the Mozilla Location Service (experiment)
Why did not he just call apple or visit their store?

I want to see him dealing with Google or other big company via community forums, I remember a story on HN when a nexus was released and people could not get the phone for months after they paid for it, they could not even get a phone number to call and ask a question. Apple has a genius bar at their stores and a phone support, you can not seriously expect a reply from apple representative on a community forum.
Google has a better approach here. In their forums, they will promote power users to semi-moderators. These people then, drunk on the (useless) power bestowed upon them by Google, do their best to fend off and send into nirvana actual problems, or just shower askers with pointless routine stuff (reinstall, turn it off and on again) until they give up.
I guess everybody is happy ?
Where do you see the nic.io price is $60? I just paid $96 us dollars last week from the site. Nic.io prices are in pounds.
Nice -- just need to eliminate the "has to be Microsoft" mentality in the enterprise (our shop refuses open source anything since "there's no support model") and Linux can finally make in roads in the organization. But as they say - you don't get the big bucks for backing non-proven technology , ie., non-Microsoft solutions. SAD
WorkWankers
you could try making a prototype. :)
Why do people still say stuff like 'cost of licenses'; the cost of licensing Windows Server for a system even at large scale (think StackOverflow) is so small it barely qualifies mention.

Unless you are talking about licensing SQL Server per processor, the cost of licenses is unimportant.
LG unveils G Flex curved smartphone
How often are you going to be carrying this around? If the answer is "not that much" then I'd say throw in the extra 50 for an rMBP.
Google+ Local:  Changes and News
Kind of an ironic story to bring that up with. Perhaps if more states had taken advantage of their freedom to apply the federalism principle, things would have gone better.
The JavaScript Event Loop: Explained
You could use them for rough spell-checking by hashing all the words in a dictionary. You would then need some additional data structure for overcoming false positives though, but any word rejected would necessarily not be a member of the original dictionary. The BF size would be much cheaper to store than the original dictionary and searching for each word would be pretty fast (though not necessarily faster than exact string lookups).
I have a somewhat opposite problem; I can't work at all during the summer. I can't deal with heat well and can barely think straight if I get even slightly too warm. This summer in the UK was unbearable in my new flat, which appears to have been designed as the most effective greenhouse in the world.

I always look forward to autumn and winter. I get to wear clothes I like, nobody's outside as they're all whinging about the rain, and I feel a sort of melancholy bliss when I'm sat indoors whilst it's raining. It's one of the main reasons why I still live in Wales rather than somewhere like SF.
No, the problem is structural: bad routes, no security, no mobile infrastructure, no energy (I am not talking about potential energy), bad education, bad transport of goods between cities. And I am not talking about corruption yet... you can bribe anybody in a direct way with witnesses around.

You can say that Argentina has all the ingredients to be a first world country but it is just a hope to be at that point.

For example, since Argentinian security forces don't work as expected, a shopping center has extra security personnel and on each shop there is another layer of security guards.
Seems like a pretty interesting use of the twitter platform. Concerns about security are the biggest issues I'd think.
Bad Skype Calls Suck and How We Make Sure They Don’t Happen
Not sure why someone downvoted you. While it's true that not all work is pleasant and sometimes we have to force ourselves to get things done, I think it's equally true that for solving difficult problems reflection is necessary. Especially as I get older and more experienced, I feel like my brain has more fodder for solutions but it takes more time to tumble around and fall into place. A lot of things besides actually sitting down and coding can help: getting 8-9 hours of sleep, talking over the problem with someone (even non-technical), getting some exercise, mind-mapping / wireframing, staring into space for hours at a time, etc.
Advance Your Web Design Career by Saying No
Vicarious AI passes first Turing Test: CAPTCHA
The Future of Communication
Very true. At the last place I worked I found I couldn't usually do any programming until after 5pm when others left, so I got a good couple of hours after that get programming done.
Even Solaris had zsh in the default install.

Actually, it's still part of the "default" group packages (similar to an installation profile).

The default shell for new users (including root) is now bash though.
Thank you.

How well does it fit into your morning routine? Do you have to stare straight to the goLITE right after waking up or would it work just by keeping it next to the breakfast table or next to the bed?
His main complaint was the censoring of posts related to warranties, the technical problem and the "no comments" were smaller issues.
The key point of Lessig's post is not that Apple reps do not post there, it is that Apple reps remove posts that offer tangible, actionable, information, for flimsy reasons.

A forum use posted information about how to get an issue resolved by exercising one's warranty rights; that post was removed. Lessig reposted that info; it was also removed, and Lessig was informed that the forum does not allow for "polls or petitions."
That's a tough call. If this was going to be my only and everyday machine, I'd go for the 13" Pro with the Retina display. The processor is faster and I could live with the extra weight. If it's a secondary machine, I'd go for the Air for the portability and battery life.
Yup. The problem seems a small matter of an OTA software update. The solution being posted - and deleted - is demanding a replacement of >US$500 of hardware. Whatever the reason for not fixing the actual problem, what's being advocated as a solution isn't: it's just a way of counter-irritating the company into (one hopes) releasing an actual fix. Abusive behavior is not corrected by abusive behavior in return. There's some reason the correct fix hasn't been released (whether you agree with the reason or not), Apple doesn't want to talk about it for whatever reason makes sense to them, and of course will stop any advocacy of malicious behavior on their servers designed to manipulate the company into doing something they have reason not to.
Are you talking of the "corralito"? That was over ten years ago, so I'm not sure if that's what you mean by "not too long ago". You make it sound like it's still happening.
Definitely a good point. Cisco was worth not quite $600 billion at the peak of the dotcom bubble. They lost about 93% of their value in the meltdown, but that didn't mean routers were going away.

The same is no doubt true about mobile software and social networks. I personally don't think Snapchat is worth $100 million, much less the $5 or $10 billion valuation they may eventually command from a VC round before the party is over. I don't think they can monetize the product, or convince a major player to spend that kind of cash. They're stuck in a tumblr-like quandary, but it's even worse, because their valuation removes a lot of potential buyers. That being said, clearly there are going to be a lot of winners in the mobile software market, regardless of Snapchat's individual future.
A multivitamin is not taking D3 supplements. Gwern has a short excerpt on the topic:

http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#vitamin-d
Among the hundreds of lines of javascript on the home page, I did see a block about disabling the back button. Their front-end work is certainly sub-par.
Frequently Misunderstood JavaScript Concepts
Author here (a bit late to the party).

I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has any.
Isn't comparing code on edit distance a bit too simplistic? If I pull some functionality into a separate function the code tree becomes already quite different