skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, yeah, progress toward completion, which would obvious to most everyone using the site.

But I'm sure some would get it wrong even then!

Visions of a family gathered around the monitor:

"Go IRS!"

"Social Security, we KNOW you can do it!"

Etc.

(I do really like your idea, it just seems to be inevitably politically impossible.)
1. E-cigarettes are not harmless and I wish people would stop perpetuating that lie. It is not clear exactly how harmful they are, but they are not harmless.

2. Ecig marketers are trying to push this story line of e-cigs vs the tobacco industry. It is mostly bs as the major ecig company blu is owned by a major tobacco company and every other major tobacco company has an ecig line now. The ecig industry is the tobacco industry.

I am very happy for you that you were able to quit. And it seems to me that is the only way.
I think you misunderstood his intentions. You see, fallacies are like Harry Potter spells except their Latin names produce crushing arguments instead of magical effects. You are now engaged in a duel and must respond with your own invocations. This is how debates are conducted.
Damn you Sony and your Perfect Day commercials...

I think now's a good time to go listen to Transformer again.
The problem with the Leaf is that range is heavily constrained by hotel loads, not the traction motor.

http://insideevs.com/real-world-test-2013-nissan-leaf-range-...

A Leaf typically gets low 70s to high 80s in range, but as soon as you need AC or heat for an extended duration, you've lost a lot of that range (some reports have put the range at only ~30 miles with hotel loads maxing out).

I'll be the first to admit I'm a huge Elon Musk fan (I also own several thousand shares of TSLA stock). Putting the fanboy in me aside, I think Tesla was correct in shooting for such large battery packs in their vehicle. It greatly diminishes the range anxiety EV owners might feel. The other factor you can't control for is that, in my opinion, if you own a Tesla its going to be much easier for you to charge at your workplace or your home. You're probably a high net worth individual who is going to have a much easier time having chargers installed at home or work. Most Leaf owners I'd imagine (NO DATA HERE, JUST MY ASSUMPTION) are city dwellers in condos or apartments where its going to be much more difficult to get charging infrastructure installed above a 15-20A/120V circuit.
And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why HR is so hot on a positive outlook on life in candidates. Cynicism leads to burnout, burnout leads to turnover, turnover leads to lost profits, and lost profits means suffering.

The cult of cheerful actually has a purpose. No need to improve working conditions when you can choose those candidates from the pool that will put up with the workplace as it is.

Improving conditions is more difficult - it's the supervisors that set the tone, and changing entrenched habits is a hard task.
>what does that even mean?

It means that if you are writing health-critical software, where lives are involved, and you deliver low quality dreck (as in this case), then you should be held criminally liable.

There is a lot to be said for SIL-4. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_Integrity_Level) It seems that someone goofed by not giving healthcare.gov a SIL-4 requirement ..
Can anybody help with any reference to an elaborate tutorial for CI-Bonfire
please i need help in understanding codeigniter with bonfire
They've already been studied, and they are clearly far, far less harmful than ordinary cigarettes. As for the more constant usage, it's definitely a problem, and one that will need some creativity to solve. I don't buy the explanation that you're getting less nicotine from it. People who use high-concentration liquid seem to have just as much as a problem with it as people who don't. As for the MAOI explanation: I've known people who use MAOIs and ecigs at the same time. They exhibit the same behavior.

What I think is happening is this: With a classical cigarette, there's a clear beginning and end. With an e-cig there isn't. You're getting a dopamine reward every time you hit it, and there's no cue to stop. My recommendation to anyone starting on ecigs would therefore be to start with a very low nicotine concentration, and stay there.

If you want to avoid this effect, that is. If you don't care (and there doesn't appear to be a health reason to care), then I just wouldn't worry about it.
How about Twitter, which Fred is an investor in? How sure are the future profits?
I got stuck in the first exercise #2.
I'm trying to read 2 args, cast them to int and add them.

putStrLn( read (args!!0)::Int + read(args!!1)::Int )

Definately need to do learnyouahaskell before reading this tutorial which is what I'm about to do. The link to how read is implemented doens't make any sense to me (coming from a procedural language background).

I suggest adding answers to the exercises or asking questions that are self contained in the tutorial.
Some time ago, I wrote some articles on image scaling that go into a bit more technical depth (with a specific focus on mipmapping):

http://number-none.com/product/Mipmapping,%20Part%201/index....

http://number-none.com/product/Mipmapping,%20Part%202/index....

A problem I get into at the end of the second article is that gamma-correction is very important for good image scaling results. However, almost nobody gamma corrects during scaling, even today.
Beta-carboline MAOI's were originally hypothesized to be what is important for those who feel something is missing with nicotine-only eliquid. After 3 years of working on this, I can tell you that this is not true. What's important is the other "minor tobacco alkaloids" like anatabine, anabasine, myosimine, etc.

Beta-carboline MAOI's, like the minor alkaloids, do have a potentiating effect with nicotine and therefore increase satisfaction or the potential for addiction; however, these MAOI's are pyrosynthesized (created by burning) 20-40x. This means that these MAOI's are not a significant component of a WTA eliquid or non-burned tobacco like the snus many people turn to for the "something missing".
I should be clearer: I don't think Obama wants to end foreign surveillance (totally constitutional), or even metadata surveillance (declared constitutional by SCOTUS).

It's the unintentional collection of data on U.S. citizens that is politically damaging. However, he can't kill that part of the program himself as it totally hobbles the NSA's foreign surveillance capabilities--it's very hard for them to correctly screen out U.S. citizens. To achieve a 0% false positive rate, they'd probably have to throw away 99% of traffic with today's techniques.

So he'd either like the courts to do it for him, or for them to validate the approach (as you say). Showing that NSA data is being used to prosecute a terrorist is a political win, either way.
"I hope the tobacco industry takes a huge financial hit from the sale of these things because they literally prevent people from dying."

From what I can tell, the tobacco industry is going to eventually own the e-cig market too.

http://money.msn.com/investing/big-tobacco-invests-in-e-ciga...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57588583/
Which EVs are you looking to have compared? I have the data locally for the Nissan Leaf, all the Tesla versions, and the Chevy Volt. If you'd like this data shown side-by-side, I'm more than happy to provide it. Also, if you want a vehicle included I did not list, more than happy to provide that as well.
The project is full with 'known knowns' that have bitten them very hard; their excuses may be valid if they were harmed by the unkowns while handling the basic stuff at least somewhat appropriately - which they have not.
This exposes the flaw in the article's argument. The author argues that Amazon can simply choose to stop or slow down their investment for growth. But a lot of that "investment" is actually customer subsidies like lower prices or free shipping. As soon as Amazon ceases those, they will face stronger competition from established profitable businesses like Walmart.
wow. just yesterday they tried to pin it on Bush.
Weight, traction motor power, and hotel load draws/efficiencies are all going to play into an apples to apples comparison. Until someone can get their hands on a 48 KWh Leaf, rough estimates can be made but real world data could be much different.
Well, it's been established all these external data sources are being used.

So its either on-line, maybe with caching (maybe someday), or using a periodically run off off-line copy inside of Healthcare.gov, right?

I'll bet the House hearings made clear which is happening.
I used Spyder as a generic python programming tool, then I switched to PyCharm and never looked back.
RIP Lou Reed, one of my favorite musicians. The song Heroin has so much dissonance and noise throughout that it's almost revolting to listen to. Over time it grew into one of my favorite songs in that I learned to find beauty in the clash of consonance and dissonance. At the risk of hyperbole, that mindset of finding something new from the conflict of opposing forces is something that now applies in far more areas of my life than just music, and the VU was the vehicle that introduced me to that philosophy.
That's all fine and dandy if the manager is actually fair-minded. If he's more interested in playing politics and executing vendettas then he's part of the problem. And I've found the latter holds true more often than not.
Would that level of quality be possible in 3.5 years, given all the other constraints?

I agree about the lives, BTW, this screw up will kill people: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622634
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> Amazon is not the only company that is plowing back all of its incremental profits into growing its business. This is very common for enterprise software companies as well. Salesforce has made or lost a small amount of money every year for the past four years but it has grown its revenue from $1.3bn to over $3bn in those four years. And its market value has gone from $12bn to $32bn in the same time frame. Workday hasn't made any profits in the last four years, in fact the net losses have been increasing. But the stock has doubled in the past year and the Company is now worth almost $14bn.

It's amazing to me that folks in the Silicon Valley/VC world continue to look at the performance of publicly-traded tech companies and for some reason never seem to consider that, as deserving of premium valuations as some of these companies may be, much of the crazy price action of the past several years has been driven by the Fed.

You can't seriously look at the charts of companies like Netflix and Tesla and believe that this is the result of DCF analysis.

> If you believe, as Amazon management does, that the future growth is going to be there for Amazon, then you ignore the current P&L and think about what a future P&L might look like.

> If you think that Salesforce and Workday can continue to grow their revenues at or near their current growth rates, then you ignore the current P&L and think about what a future P&L might look like.

How about this: if the Fed balance sheet continues to go up and to the right, ignore fundamentals, pick momentum stocks and think about what their future charts might look like. It doesn't take a lot of imagination: up and to the right.

Of course, when the fun ends, "profitless prosperity" will indeed be profitless for the folks who didn't cash out in time.
Transformer is every kind of pop wonderful (and I mean that in the best possible way).

No idea how familiar you are with The Velvet Underground but have a listen to The Velvet Underground (self titled - 1969) if you haven't heard it before. Just amazing.

Sad to hear the news that Lou Reed is gone - though, he sure did make sure he experienced everything he could from life along the way.
"Share" is a stupid way to look at rapidly growing markets. Apple is not losing anything with their iPhone business.
And then one year later Obama, the Nobel prize for peace winner, gave the 'freedom medal' to Merkel praising her:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/07/remark...

"Told by the communists that she couldn’t pursue her love of languages, she excelled as a physicist. Asked to spy for the secret police, she refused."
Nixon reborn.
I know those stories of "X number of people die every year from lack of insurance," which were sincerely believed by their speaks but lacking in rigor.

I'm expecting over the next few years, as the number of uninsured drops close to zero, that there will be no discernible drop in the number of annual deaths.
The American political system makes quite a lot of sense. It isn't supposed to be top-down. The writers of the law wanted a top-down centralized approach and that isn't how the US Constitution or US States are structured. You can get away with it for a lot of things, but anything this intrusive just doesn't work. Its not the first or, sadly, the last that the federal government will try this sort of thing.
How do you improve fairness in the workplace?

You give people more responsibility. You give them more control over their workplace, somehow. And, most important of all - you listen.
> E-cigarettes are not harmless and I wish people would stop perpetuating that lie.

They might be fairly harmless, we don't know. The three biggest risks of smoking are cancer, emphysema, and heart disease. For a casual smoker, heart disease is by far the biggest risk. This is caused by the carbon monoxide, and eCigs have zero of this. There's also no reason to think that they cause emphysema. In terms of cancer, the majority of the carcinogenic effect of cigarrettes is thought to be caused by radiation rather than by the tobacco itself. So with eCigs you can easily wash off the radiation from the tobacco, or else just use synthetic nicotine or other drugs.

Since the industry is completely unregulated I'm sure these things are filled with all sorts of poison, but even still there are no currently known risks. And even if there are risks, which there likely are, it's not clear that they'll be any bigger than, say, drinking the occasional glass of wine. And it's also likely that once we figure out what these risks are, we'll be able to mitigate them.

I certainly wouldn't use these things today, but in twenty or thirty years they may well be a really good bet.
"Congressional oversight of the NSA is a joke. I should know, I'm in Congress"
Of course they're not scared, they have a nice stock price and seemingly no need to justify it.
Xen also does this, but AWS may still be using a very old fork of Xen 2 or 3.

It's unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be a large-scale consumer for the XenServer platform now that Citrix open-sourced the entire thing.
OK, then we'll just talk about it on its own merits:

* It closes the connection after every request, making poor use of TCP sliding window

* Binary file transfers are finished by the server closing the connection. There's no end-of-file marker or Length header.

* No provisions for caching

* A single ASCII letter identifies all file types

It's just a bad protocol design. HTTP/0.9 had many of the same problems, but that's not where HTTP is anymore. Gopher+ solves the single-letter identifier problem by using MIME types, but none of the other problems above. Not that anybody has ever implemented Gopher+, anyway.
Anyone know how I could send Tim Kreider a dime or two?
One alternative upscaling method (for non-integer ratios) is to first upscale with no interpolation a integer ratio to make a bigger image than the target size. Then the large image is down-scaled (with some suitable algorithm/filtering/interpolation) to final size. Afaik it is what Apple does with it's "Retina" MacBooks and thus I have dubbed it "retina scaling", but there is probably a proper name for the method too.

edit: comparison http://imgur.com/a/fC8iQ#1
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While Xen should make live migrations technically possible, it would probably reduce EC2's provisioning flexibility and introduce undesirable complexity.

Migrations would be restricted to hosts running specific releases of the hypervisor [1], and AWS's SDN systems would need to handle these changes in very-near-realtime.

[1] wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Version_Compatibility
I'd like to see any citation for #1.

For #2 you need to prove that if there exists s in S and s has property X then every element t in S also has property X.
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Amazon is Jeff Bezos's company and everyone knows it. He maintains detailed oversight of all the lines of business.
Interesting, but at some point people have to be shown a selection of offerings. That selection must allow seeing if your doctors are in the network.

Your suggestion would allow for that, but not I sense in the "instant gratification" way we're used to dealing with web sites. I.e. "thanks for your input, wait for SMS/email/N hours till you log in again for the next step".

BTW, I've read it's a 30 step process. Not all will require "take a ticket and wait to be called", but more than 1 or 2 I suspect.
And what percentage of your total content creation output is that?
i feel like my flow is always different than these types of tutorials:

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout -b my-working-branch
git add <files>
git commit -m "some description"
git add <files>
git commit -m "review comments or other changes"
git checkout master
git checkout -b my-working-branch-squashed
git merge --squash my-working-branch
git commit
git checkout master
git pull
git cherry-pick <hash from squashed commit>
git push

this way i can push a single commit that may have been comprised of multiple commits on my working branch. i haven't come across a tutorial that does it this way. am i doing it wrong. this flow works well for me.
I didn't see mention of evidence.
This has been discussed many times, but as you've just joined, here's a PSA:

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. [1]

Lou Reed was an amazing musician, and someone that promoted intellectual curiosity [2], hence the 20+ points. (too bad one of the mods seems to disagree, hence it was flagged to now show up at the front page anymore).

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFy4kRLCJBU&t=20
Investors regret missed opportunities more than the lost investment in failed companies.
I agree that they're not harmless. They're addictive, and being forced into reliance on a substance is never good.

Though, this is the only detriment we know of.
Here's another anecdote for the train!

Quit smoking in about 1 month from vaping, and that was 2-3 years ago. It's an awesome hobby, I have great stamina, and I can taste food. For the last year or so I've been riding a bike to work every day, averaging about 6-8 miles.
The whole point of it is to avoid telling the court and defense about unconstitutional search procedures that were used, i.e. omitting them.
Politicians are only true to their "roots" when they're in opposition. Once in power that all quickly goes out the window for "expedience" to "solve" the problems we currently face, and to not let the opposition get in a word edgewise.

Pay attention and you'll see that people from both parties do it consistently. Once you recognize that the only reasonable conclusion to come to is that you can't vote republican or democrat since either will betray you once they've gotten your vote and are in office.
When offering upscaling options, it's great to offer all the things mentioned in the article. But please always offer nearest neighbor as an option too. I want to see the original pixels as close to their original form as possible, and so do many gamers. Pixel art is great, the "blockiness" is part of its charm.
> it is extremely common in the research literature to lazily conflate tobacco with nicotine.

It is also assumed that the tobacco is burned. Sure, snuff can cause oral cancer (unlikely though it may be in comparison to cigarettes), but if you dodge the oral cancer bullet what are the other potential problems? I have no idea because everything I find conflates tobacco use with burning it and inhaling it. Smoking is bad, we get it. Smoking automotive tires is probably bad, too. How about the effects of tobacco itself, separate from the bad effects of burning something and inhaling it?
False detection on file tcpip.sys
Seems like it was lazy of them to not hack the upvotes, no?
Almost all politicians are carbon copies of one another. Until we vote out every single incumbent, and refuse to replace them with like-minded cronies, we can expect more of the same.
Thank you so much. I've been looking for this exact thing for years, but never had the time to make it myself.
I use a standing bike: http://www.elliptigo.com/. It's more of an elliptical trainer on wheels than an actual bike. They're pretty awesome, and a much better workout than a road bike. If you don't want to actually cycle around with it, an adapter transforms it into a stationary trainer.
The TRON-ripoff logo isn't helping at all.
The only good thing about the mess that is Obama's presidency is that people might finally learn that it generally doesn't matter who you elect, most presidents and politicians will act similarly. Politicians tell the country what they think >50% of them want to hear, then do whatever they want in office. While the things Obama and his administration (and Bush's!) have been doing are awful, I've enjoyed watching the public outcry. Hopefully it lasts.
Honestly, I have doubts that there's much bad going to come of unregulated liquid. They're very simple solutions with few ingredients, and there isn't that much room to screw it up. If you bought ingredients from China, you might end up with VG and PG that weren't actually VG or PG, so there's one avenue. But the same thing happened with toothpaste years back, and toothpaste is regulated.

I'd actually be more concerned about the hardware than the liquid. It would be easy to cut costs by using unsafe materials for heating elements, solder, or the wicks. But even with all of that risk, you're going to have a hell of a time beating the harm of cigarettes.
Well, but healthcare.gov is not health-critical software, just as most other health related tools. Software on an X-ray machine is health-critical, but the software used for billing X-rays is not.
This reminds me of a comment Morgan Freeman made when an interviewer asked why he wasn't celebrating black history month. Paraphrasing from memory:

Interviewer: So how do you think race should be addressed?

Freeman: Just stop talking about it! I'm not a black man, and you're not a white man.
"I'm expecting over the next few years, as the number of uninsured drops close to zero"

Errm, it's as I understand it a well established fact that tens of millions will remain without coverage. Try a search like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=obamacare+won't+cover+everyo...

The first two links said 30 and 26 million, which agrees with my general memory. It was obviously a very early criticism of the ACA.
Judging by his description of BUILD, it sounds like was a big influence on Go's build system.

Well, no surprises there!
Thanks, got an update from AWS, it was not scheduled retirement, it was some other issue.
> They can't easily digest the idea that servers can and will go down randomly for no known reason.

Then you should educate them. This isn't something unique to the cloud, physical servers absolutely can do this too. I work with thousands of (physical) servers in the day job, we have all kinds of failures that take out individual hosts on a regular basis.