skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Wakefield but have worked in Portsmouth for a long time and spend most of my time there. Just breaking into the tech sector now. I'm a big fan of New Hampshire and New England in general.
That's a fine bit of conservative nonsense you just regurgitated, coming to the conclusion that the problem the U.S. is suffering from is "too much health care", and therefore the solution is to reduce access to healthcare and insurance. It rests on the assumption that patients get frivolous medical procedures (open heart surgery for you! and open heart surgery for you! and open heart surgery for you!) because they may not pay full price for them, a claim which, like the teapot orbiting the sun directly opposite the Earth, has never been observed in real life.

In actuality, healthcare is a well known example of a market failure - there cannot be a normal market in healthcare ever, because definitionally, your health is worth an infinite amount of money to you (how much would you pay not to be a slave? how much would you pay not to have your hands and feet chopped off?).

Further, healthcare prices are unpredictable. How much does a gall bladder surgery cost? Did I mention that the patient got a flesh-eating bacterial infection as a result of the surgery? That's true and will always be true even if prices were posted at the door, which they are not.

The solution - which has been discovered by every advanced nation on Earth except the U.S. - is having the government strongly involved in paying for healthcare, insuring across the entire population to even out costs and making sure that, e.g., medical device manufacturers can't gouge the unknowing public. Monopsony powers nicely counteract the inherent power imbalance that healthcare providers normally have over the sick, and everything works just fine, costing each of those nations less to cover their entire nation than the U.S. currently spends to cover a small segment of its population.
No I am not saying at all he lied, but the case can be argued various ways. What I am saying is that the court expected from Michael Barr to give expert testimony if the firmware was of "good enough" quality, given the constraints of the market and the risks.

It's easy to overreact after a tragic incident (and I have full sympathy with the families), and to demand more stringent certification, but it comes at a cost as well, the price for the software goes up.
You're using a lot of strong language concerning the morality of user action on service revenue, while ignoring your apparent apathy toward the financial benefit of your advertisers. This seems to happen quite often. When the service isn't getting paid because of blocked ads, the users are 'leeches' and 'entitled', but when the advertisers aren't by the avoiders there is no equivalent outrage.
The app looks really clean and very well designed but for $10 I'll need to see a video tutorial or something. I would definitely get on board with this if I could get rid of Messages.
Usually, if it's going well, I'll tell her I'm there by myself, and they tend to be impressed I had the confidence to go out by myself and approach them.

Absolutely. People follow your lead.

If your manner suggests that you're ashamed of what you're doing, or that you think you're doing something 'wrong' or 'awkward', they will believe that.

If your manner suggests that you're engaged in the most normal activity in the world - being friendly as a human being, going out and interacting with other human beings - then you will put others at ease and they will be comfortable and friendly around you.

Now, that's not to say that everyone will think it's normal. But that's OK - people who find your behavior objectionable or 'strange' are probably not a very good fit as a friend or a lover.
> Their opinion only matters because you make it matter, by caring about it enough to let it stop you from doing something you want to do.

I disagree. If enough people in your community say that you are unwanted, you will become unwanted.
I had a Mercedes SLK 350 about ~5 years ago (leased). I was at a stop light in the Chicago loop, and while holding the brake, the engine revved up 2-3K RPMs with no accelerator pedal input. After taking it in for work, I was told it was a software issue and had been resolved.

I don't lease/purchase Mercedes vehicles anymore.
Apparently as per their docs (http://docs.clustrix.com/plugins/viewsource/viewpagesrc.acti...) this is true specific to end-user transactions:
"Note: serializable isolation not currently available to end user transactions."

The Serializeable isolation level is used for data moves within the cluster according to the table referencing isolation levels and row visibility rules.
Show me where people are advocating anti-white and anti-cis policies.
Has it been ruled out that it wasn't just a case of the wrong pedal being pressed? That is often the simplest explanation for cases like this. The driver swears they were hitting the brake pedal, but that car just kept accelerating! Not surprisingly, these cases often (but not exclusively) involve elderly drivers, new drivers, or car rentals.
Yet, Barr discovered things that the NASA report didn't.

NASA: "The NESC team examined the software code (more than 280,000 lines) for paths that might initiate such a UA (unintended acceleration), but none were identified."
I wonder how many of these users are real users. From what I know I need a google plus profile to review or rate Android apps or businesses on Google Maps. I really think they just growth hacked this number.
As I mentioned in another recent thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6615457

engineers are often not aware of basic principles of fail safe design. I mentioned Toyota, and this article confirms it.

Not mentioned in this article is the most basic fail safety method of all - a mechanical override that can be activated by the driver. This is as simple as a button that physically removes power from the ignition system so that the engine cannot continue running.

I don't mean a button that sends a command to the computer to shut down. I mean it physically disconnects power to the ignition. Just like the big red STOP button you'll find on every table saw, drill press, etc.

Back when I worked on critical flight systems for Boeing, the pilot had the option of, via flipping circuit breakers, physically removing power from computers that had been possessed by skynet and were operating perversely.

This is well known in airframe design. As previously, I've recommended that people who write safety critical software, where people will die if it malfunctions, might spend a few dollars to hire an aerospace engineer to review their design and coach their engineers on how to do fail safe systems properly.
From the linked page:

"Foreign Affairs, November-December 2013
The End of Hypocrisy"

Published: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry-farrell-...
I've heard that the event you're describing is just a few percent of total medical expenditures, and even if we could not collect on every single event you describe, it'd still be less than the loss rate in other industries, such as merchandising (where employees steal the stuff you're trying to sell).

If that's true, why are we using this tiny loss-rate percentage in healthcare—when other industries handle double or triple the loss rate without any drama—as a primary argument for making dramatic changes to healthcare, or alternatively, as an argument against changes that would fix a whole bunch of other things, but not that, because they don't go far enough? Do we really need to solve that?

It seems to me that we can actually just ignore the problem of emergency room situations—including non-payment—when discussing improvements to healthcare regulation in the US because it really doesn't matter. And since it doesn't matter, people should stop bringing it up as if it did.

My $0.02 (assuming the percentage I've heard is accurate).
ad 5: change "mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y" in about:config

ad 4: you can create a bookmark, edit its "location" and "keyword" accordingly. "%s" is the placeholder for the text you type. E.g.

Location: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%s
Keyword: g

Usage: Type "g whatever" in the URL bar to launch google search for "whatever".

You just need to extract the minimal URL and place "%s" accordingly. That way you can create multiple ad-hoc search engines, like "so foo" -> google search "site:stackoverflow.com foo" etc.
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a neat looking ship. This rendering (from the cover of a recent IEEE Spectrum) makes it look like something out of science fiction:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/img/08cover2013-1374501406697.jpg

ETA: it was originally designed to have a vertical gun that could only fire straight up. Smart projectiles would proceed to head off in whatever direction they were programmed to go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer#Advance...
I live in a single payer country. I can absolutely go to a private hospital and do what I want at my own expense (assuming it's passed the equivalent of FDA).

My wife has limited private health insurance. I can buy private health insurance.
slashdot, qz.com (mostly financial news)
The ability to do a schema migration consisting of several changes as an all-or-nothing, all-at-once change would be useful even if they can't figure out how to do it concurrently with other operations on the tables.

It shouldn't require too crazy of an implementation to allow reads concurrent with schema modification (seeing the old version of the world) and it's not impossible to allow concurrent, transactional writes too.
Go has both faster run-time performance and stricter type checking than Ruby, Python, or JS, competitors in the server space.

Go development is fast, because the language is simple and it compiles very quickly.

Once you've made it, you certainly don't want to recode. Although, of course, if you've super-made it, you can just get more hardware. But even the largest web companies can run into the performance bottleneck. Like Google, apparently.

The Go Authors say one of the motives for building Go was the very long compile times of building C++ apps for large-scale web development. One thing they mentioned in particular was the large compile times due to processing and reprocessing of #include files. We know Microsoft ran into the same problem because they put Pre-Compiled Headers (PCH files) into their C family tools. Go has an import facility that prevents the problems of the #include file design.

Go is trying to hit the sweet spot for large-scale development. Go is by no means the only one, of course.

Any of you guys know how well .NET does in compiling big web-scale applications? I don't.
I just wsnt to add that not even formal methods absolutely guarantee absence of errors. Firstly, there might be errors in the proof itself. Secondly, you always make assumptions about the CPU, memory and other hardware components. These might fail due to a variety of reasons: hardware bugs, electricity disturbances, heat, radiation, physical damage and more.
It's got to be nice to be a straight shooter about your company and not "spook the market" when you're honest. You have analysts clinging on to your every word even in niche industries, ready to make some kind of recommendation.
Yes, but it is not just the $ / LOC, it is also the time to market which influences the profitability of a product.

But your point is taken, it might well be feasible to demand aerospace quality code from the automakers.
I agree. If I don't want to be interrupted, I close down the client. I don't really see how this is much different to manually setting my status to 'busy'.
Google invites Glass users to upgrade their Hardware.
The Top 5 Reasons A Great Freelance Developer Makes Great Business Sense
"The End of Hypocrisy" is the actual title of the article, as you can see a few lines down in the linked post and wherever it is published elsewhere: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry-farrell-...

"End Hypocrisy with Leaks" is in fact the editorial title of this Cryptome site.
There are lots of designers on the market places right? (dribble,etc)
The engines of a large ship are going to release on the order 10 MW of heat into the ocean, and I'd expect a datacenter that could fit on that ship to release within an order of magnitude of that. By contrast, power plants can release tens of GW of heat.
The US tends to subsidize research in healthcare, significantly by its methods of pricing for healthcare.

For instance if a US company makes a drug knowing they will be able to sell a pill for $100 in the US and $20 abroad, is it really fair to say that the US paid 5x as much (since it is most certainly subsidizing the cost of the drug).
I was always taught that the mechanical override was shifting it out of drive and into neutral.
So after a few subjective years, you will be overtaken by newer and faster ships, and when you arrive, there will be a flourishing civilization already there to greet you.
Presumably SQL Server fits somewhere up at the top with MySQL/Postgres/Oracle?
<< Michael, you see, in Europe there are far better ideas and better executors than those you saw at Disrupt. The problem is that some European countries fail to understand software and Internet of Things as a potential for not yet existing value-added products. This is so clear with European VCs that won?t fund ideas they don't understand.
So, what happens to the "far better ideas" not easily understood from people whose wallets still live in the dotcom bubble?
We have to work at night, and only those nights we have some spare energy left from our day jobs, which we cannot leave, because we don't have funding to pay for dinners or rents.
Silicon Valley doesn't have better ideas, it has better investors and resources.
How do you plan to "disrupt" that? >>
I'm totally ambivalent on this feature because I think it really doesn't matter. If you don't want to be disrupted, turn off notifications (if possible), or log out. If you are too busy to talk to someone then don't tempt them by showing up as logged on in their contact list. It's win/win.

Instant messaging is becoming more and more like email in that it is moving from a synchronous to an asynchronous form of communication. When I IM someone and they don't answer instantly, I assume they are busy. Just like with email. Just like when they don't answer the phone. Just like with voice mail. This is even if their status has a green bubble next to it, because that really means nothing, especially when it is user selected.

N.B.: In every enterprise chat program I've used, setting your status as "away" or "busy" does nothing to stop others from contacting you. Microsoft's offerings (OCS/lync) has a "Do Not Disturb" which does this.
heh, this applies to all 'new' databases - if you aren't sure which one to choose, you're usually better off staying with a relational. You'll be bleeding edge in few years when SQL is forgotten and then re-discovered.
Good for you for breaking out of your comfort zone. It's not easy to do. But with practice just about anything gets easier. I'm naturally very social and "good with people" so this is rarely a problem I experience. I have, however, coached friends on interacting with others. A few points to consider for anyone that finds social interactions difficult:
1. breathe - sounds so obvious, but people tense up
2. listen
2. ask questions of others and be interested
3. listen
4. humility - don't try to impress everyone

Again, nice work for getting out there.
> most U.S. politicians do not recognize just how two-faced their country is.

> Hypocrisy is central to Washington’s soft power -- its ability to get other countries

> to accept the legitimacy of its actions -- yet few Americans appreciate its role.

> Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because

> American ideals are attractive and the U.S.-led international system is fair. Realists

> may be more cynical, yet if they think about Washington’s hypocrisy at all, they

> consider it irrelevant.

This is just astonishingly brilliant. It is exactly the perception of the rest of the world but I never saw it so bluntly articulated in the American media.
Are we then not Solarians?
So its kinda like a Pebble smartwatch with almost zero features and somehow they even managed to get less battery life.
You already have that, it is called the ignition key. The fact that the driver didn't think to either switch off the engine, put the gear in neutral, or slam on the brakes, makes me think he also wouldn't think to press the big red button.

Also pilots get proper training to handle their vehicles, car drivers not so much.
Kids learn coding through interactive robots
>But at the end of the day, it's this culture that is often hostile to white dudes on principal, and just... okay?

So, the premise that this begins with starts not with the notion that you're a bad person who doesn't deserve to live but more from the notion, popular in lefty circles, that your opinion about the plight of less privileged people doesn't matter precisely because you have no experience in the subject matter.

There is a legitimate criticism that people have swung too far into these kinds of identity politics, and that they're ultimately more divisive than not. Ultimately, they prevent the formation of a communal polity that can work together on shared incentives rather than splintering into a fractal set of identities.

It gets trickier because a lot of white dudes parse this as a personal attack and thus get (appropriately, from their perspective) upset. I'm not personally, consciously responsible! What did I do wrong?

The key thing to keep in mind is, if you're not a white dude, you've spent most of modern history totally shut out of the conversation. It's extremely infuriating! And having white dudes complaining that they're not being listened to - with all the attending historical baggage that claim carries - only compounds that frustration. Which is why people lash out.

We're still in a state of flux; things will settle down one way or another. But I think it's worth keeping in mind the difference between "All white people are racist" and "We're really tired of only listening to the opinions of white people". Usually, people mean the latter and not the former.
Has instant messaging declined in popularity from it's heyday of ICQ, AIM, MSN messenger etc?

I spent hours chatting on those things, but nowadays seem to get by just fine without.

I'm guessing that Facebook Messaging meets the need for most people, but putting IM on the web as a feature within a walled garden is a step backwards for something that was, and still could be, as ubiquitous as email.

I think there's still a gap for someone to innovate in real time messaging. It hasn't really moved on in the last decade as a concept, but I have yet to come across any other platform that replicates the immediacy and connectedness that you used to feel on those long ICQ and MSN chats.
Java: Custom SWT List Box
Ars Technica! I even pay a subscription each year instead of ad blocking.
US Responds To France: You Were Spying On Yourself
Thanks for the clarification. Is it feasible to get into a prop shop or hedge fund as a programmer and "graduate" to trader? How common is it?
Datomic Console
Hi, thanks for the answer! I suppose it would be possible, without impacting the legal protection afforded by the notice, to preface the notice with some language indicating that docker would prefer it not to appear in the README, e.g. "unfortunately, due to ...". But in any case, congratulations with all the momentum you've gathered and I'm looking forward to learning more about docker here.
This seems to be pretty interesting as there's no native support for such control natively in SWT
Nice and practice solution having a custom Java control.
Just a big yellow screen here (firefox 24)
If you've got good PHP devs already, and they're most comfortable with it, just stick with PHP. Changing just for the sake of changing (all the hate on PHP) doesn't make a lot of sense.
Its apparent you've never tried it. Its a fascinating thing to leap into the trash to see what you can find. There is generally an odor, but you aren't there for things that stink anyway. Any bag that stinks you ignore. I used to look for likely working electronics, good looking/fixable furniture, and rarely, still sealed food. Some folk go further and will pull loose fruit/veg out. If you leave any rot behind and wash the food, you should be fine. You never pull cheese/meat out of a dumpster, however. Too risky.

People are very wasteful. Just because something goes into the trash doesn't mean its without utility. It just means someone decided it didn't have any utility for them. Many perfectly fine things go into the trash everyday. Letting them rot in a landfill instead of being recycled seems way more distasteful than a smell that will wash right off.

If you are going to try it, the first rule of dumpster diving is to leave the site in better shape than when you found it. If you make a mess, you clean it up. Its the decent thing to do, and helps keeps the neighbors calm. Its an oddly invasive act, as peoples trash is basically a story of their life, so anything that soothes people about you going into a dumpster is good.

Personally, I did it largely for the sense of adventure. Its like a modern day treasure hunt. The fact that I was able to furnish my apartment very richly for nothing was a bonus.
avconv seems to be more up-to-date than ffmpeg.
How many hours are startup team members working on average?
40, 60, 80, 100+
Yeah, because I went there :). It was super subjective, but I'm sure that changing the details wouldn't change the conclusion.
Value Memes ala Spiral Dynamics are probably more applicable here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
> from time to time you can hear news of some low-level worker being arrested for accepting payments for illegal transactions

The fact that you hear about low-level workers taking bribes shows how profoundly uncommon it is.
Do you mean something like file.jpg.exe?

Agreed, emailing .jar is kind of lame. They should have tried with some office/PDF exploits first!
In our society many of us subconsciously or sometimes consciously turn down the volume of our own conscience, because we'd rather not come face to face with our hypocrisy, our complicity with banal and not so banal evil [1], because we don't want to give up the benefits. In the Internet tech community, its ultimate manifestation is how we pretend we do not earn our livelihoods from advertising, something most of us deep down know to be evil [2].

[1] The Banality of Systemic Evil, http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/the-banality...

[2] No free lunch, no free web, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6624666
Cool service but the color choice as a weird vomit yellow for two of your feature icons is pretty awful. I suggest keeping it consistent with your blues. How about #1984A2.
Sometimes I question the value of going digital for systems like this. Does the benefit gained over an analog equivalent justify the risks associated by using a black box that cannot be qualitatively evaluated or examined by the layperson?

My friend had a 50s Ford when I was in high school. The throttle control was a lever and rod attached to a couple of springs.
This is just an absurd complaint, it's a dynamic language, if you want compiler forced type checking, use a static language. Dynamic languages are not broken because they don't behave like static languages.
USA FREEDOM Act Aims to Amend Excesses of NSA Data Collection
$50k+ per instance

No problem; $80,000 per spinal fusion. Even if caught, they're profiting. If.
slashdot, digg

Used to be heavily in to redditt but cutting back, hence back to occassional /. and digg use.