skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life sustaining you'll get for free by the hospital which merely raises everyone elses rates. We already have socialized medicine, its just the "wrong" middlemen are profiteering.

From personal experience via a friend with a broken arm, the hospital will eventually present you with the most amazing collection of bills you've ever seen with the most unimaginable rates, so a simple non-compound arm fracture and cast will end up billed as $50K. The goal of the hospital is to book as large of a paper loss as possible, so the paper loss will probably exceed actual service cost by a couple orders of magnitude. Somehow the ER doc who spent about 15 minutes verifying yes it is indeed broken will charge 6 hours of dedicated time, you'll be billed for entire jars of painkillers if they give you a single pill, etc. It'll take about six months for all the bills to arrive from all the doctors and the hospital, but bill collectors will start calling before the first bill arrives. Once you're sure you have all the bills, its bankruptcy time, which costs some time and money. So the real cost of any lifesaving medical procedure never exceeds maybe $2K to a lawyer, maybe less. She needed the car insurance money from the accident to get the car to continue to attend school and work, don't recall how she paid for the bankrupcty. Bankruptcy is actually pretty expensive and not surprisingly the sharks in the biz only take cash. The bankruptcy doesn't really matter, because part time no benefits minimum wage retail cashiers are not going to get mortgages and new car loans anyway. Legally officially it could be an issue for 7 years or whatever, in practice its not an issue after a couple years at most. I suppose if you had the misfortune to break your arm the week before graduation and you get a real job, you'd be out a substantial amount of money. It would be highly unwise to get married if you're poor, because if she was my wife at the time, I'd have had my financial life destroyed by her mere car accident and broken arm. At least that's how it was in the early 90s. Other than prices probably going up an order of magnitude or so, I suspect nothing has really changed.
I love how websites in the 90s were designed like magazine ad layouts with clickable maps.

Feeling nostalgic.
Would also be curious to see how the execution model and language relates to/differs from Microsoft Dryad[0]/SCOPE[1].

[0] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryad/
[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/jrzhou/pub/Sco...
Interesting concept, but it thought my male friend was female and married.
Show HN: Geofancy - iOS App for Geofencing /w HTTP-Push
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Cool. Thought it was IAD, but wanted to verify we were talking about the same thing. We didn't officially launch the new flavors until 11/4 (even though they were out there before that) and we addressed some networking limitations just prior to launch. Thus, if you initially ran your tests with Cloud Block Storage prior to the changes, you very likely would have gotten the results you experienced.

In the performance tests we've run since the networking changes, we've seen substantially better IOPS performance with Cloud Block Storage. If you happen to rerun your tests we'd love to hear about the results!

Thanks for checking our products out.
Why is the phase not even mentioned in the article?
Interesting. But if I understand correctly, this will not retain images sharpness? It's not easy to see with just a 2x increase.
Do bees know what they don’t know?
Fasting is quite common in Jainism.. There are various fasts people take on, among which is atthai - no food or water for eight days or just no food for eight days.. I've done it once.. its quite similar to how its described in this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_in_Jainism

There are several benefits of fasting but primary reason to fast in Jainism is non-violence
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I've no quibble with what it found out about https://twitter.com/erbo except that it labeled me as a "parent" when I'm not. What's it basing that assessment on? Or would that be telling?
If anyone is curious, the algorithm is: 1) take the FFT of the image; 2) add zeros after the highest frequencies (remember to shift the data so the zero frequency is centred); and 3) inverse the shift and take the inverse FFT. This is called "zero-padding in the frequency domain."
People bellyache about taking 20 minutes for a half charge, completely trapped in their old thought patterns around cars and ignoring the actual use case:

"Do you really want to know how long it takes to charge a Tesla Motors Model S most days? 20 seconds. That's how long it takes to plug the car in when you get home. The car is ready in the morning. It's just like your cell phone."

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/tesla-lost-38m-in-th...
I despair at all the broscience and dangerous advice in this thread.
In terms of sheer numbers India may very well be ahead in both categories...
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The Positive Effect of Negative Information
Not until you let go of your problem with applying the word "traitors" to traitors who you personally admire. I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people would be proud to be called a 'traitor to Nazi Germany.'
This is a must-see documentary, not just for its coverage of prohibition, but for the historical insights you can glean about American politics: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition.

In a nutshell, prohibition was far more invasive and far more corrupt than today's drug war. Al Capone was a billionaire in today's money, and the drug lords of yore were willing to exert political influence in a way that maybe happens today in Mexico, but certainly does not in the U.S. Al Capone once walked into City Hall and pushed the Mayor of Cicero (which was a former independent city in the Chicago area) down the stairs and nobody touched him. Politicians and police were openly on the take from bootleggers in a way that is totally foreign to our modern sensibilities (unless you have any familiarity with the developing world).
It actually worked in 10.8 and is buggy as hell in 10.9. So here are some fun things with 10.9:

Create a folder A, set folder A to sort by Kind, create a folder B inside it, create 100 text files. Open 2 Finder windows showing A. Scroll window 1 to the top of A, scroll window 2 to the bottom of A. Drag the last file from windows 2 to folder B showing in window 1. watch window 2 scroll. Sorting files into sub-folders just became an exercise in frustration.

Set any folder's view properties with AppleScript and they no longer take effect until you navigate out of and then back into the folder.

Move too many images with previews and watch Finder hang.
A few suggestions:

- Use Vagrant and some bootstrap scripts (or Docker) to make giving them a dev environment easy

- Get them to use a git GUI like SourceTree (free & good: http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/)

- Build a workflow around pull requests / review branches a la github/bitbucket/gerrit so you can have them submit changes but an engineer reviews/verifies before it's merged.

In general, empowering them to do this is an investment in the future and well worth it.
It's good to see there are still people at Google with integrity and not afraid to speak up. Sadly, they do not run things. In this environment, you either quit or turn to the dark side.
> Do you ever buy anything at grocery store, drug store, restaurant that you put in your body?

Not really a fair comparison. If a grocery store assaults or defrauds you, you have legal recourse.

There is nothing you can do if an illicit transaction fails.

The rest of what you say is true, of course.
Perhaps they meant a DAC or headphone amp? They aren't Pi small but some get fairly small and a select few higher end ones can drive extremely efficient speakers, but that's a bit of a stretch.
Have you tried Amazon? If you're prime there's a big selection of videos for free, but for those not free there's almost always a streaming rental available for an average of $2. I've found myself using the service quite a bit recently when I want to watch a specific video (as opposed to netflix when i just want to find something to turn on)
Well I dont have trouble communicating with the majority of people in the US no matter where they are from or even the UK and Europe. But I do have a problem understanding the Indians that I am talking to 10+ hours a week.

I am not trying to bash people from India here its just that I have more trouble communicating with so called "English as first language too" speakers than other groups.
You can use $x('//some/xpath') for testing XPath's which can be very useful, but not sure about XQuery, never even heard about it being used before.
As far as I can tell from the code, this is exactly the same. The approach, bandlimited interpolation, is executed in the frequency domain here and in the space domain in sinc interpolation.

Bandlimited interpolation is "correct" in some technical sense for sampled signals and images, making some assumptions about the sampling procedure. That doesn't imply it's perceptually optimal, though. If your goal is "best approximation of what I sampled given the available data", then bandlimited interpolation is good. If your goal is "image that looks good", it probably isn't.

I'm not crapping on this contribution, though, it's always cool to see more signals stuff open sourced.
Being Libertarian doesn't necessary mean you have to be against all tax. For example (in the Libertarian point of view), taxes should only be used to maintain order, that being said the government should run prisons. However, in the case of drugs a rehabilitation program likely would be cheaper than a drug war and still under the classification of "maintaining order." Since drug users can often be violent, unable to drive, etc. and could cause harm.

Therefore, it's actually better and fair to use a small tax for rehabilitation than it is to use prisons to keep drug users locked up. This is according to the Libertarian point of view.. Strictly Libertarians are against tax, however in this case a more middle road can be argued for and be within the Libertarian's view.
I had mine arguing some obscure issue in some convoluted way just to get past the 20 minute mark so he could bill for another 10 minutes. And then they bill you $35 for sending you automatic reminders about important dates you're already reminding yourself about.
Google has issued a statement about its months-long mystery barge project
> it's still fundamentally a caloric deficit diet for that purpose

This is true. I think the misconception of magic comes from the illusion that you basically can eat until one becomes satiated. It is easier to become satiated and hunger is more infrequent.
The Fermi Paradox doesn't necessarily say that intelligent life doesn't exist. The impossibility of interstellar travel is compatible with the Fermi paradox.

The point is that if interstellar colonization is possible, the age of the universe practically requires galaxy-wide colonization as an inevitability. Yes, it would take millions of years to colonize an entire galaxy. Tens of millions, even.

Guess what? 10 million years is only 0.1% of the age of the universe. So if one civilization develops interstellar colonization, they experience geometric growth and claim the entire galaxy.

So either there is no civilization that has a 0.1% lead on us (which is statistically absurd if Earth-like planets are common) or interstellar colonization is impossible.
Because the economy that Thatcher and Blair made is going so well? Triple-dip?
"Unfortunately the GOP and conservative democrats killed any "public option" in the ACA so we'll never have anything like the NHS here."

Hardly a permanent situation. When you have a corrupt enough system, just like a scrambled enough computer, the best bet is to hurry up and reboot the system so you can bring it up clean. After the reboot we'll have sensible insurance. The problem is surviving until after the reboot. There is too much money to be made by crooks so we have to nurse the existing system along until enough blood has been squeezed from stones.
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Coincidentally, I just had a talk with one of our principle developers about Fourier transforms. He's an audio expert and was trying to explain re-sampling and aliasing to me. I understand the high level steps, but the math is all a blur to me. Recently I've been trying to become much stronger in math, as I eventually want to study aerodynamics and astrophysics. So I've been studying calculus (textbook) and dynamics (edx) lately.
It was due to 4chan's success with CF that I chose it for the projects I was the lead system architect for.
This site is awesome! As a product person, it's awesome to see the variation across so many. Anyone know one that does something similar for web sites/apps?
I can't find the discussion but he answered some questions on reddit once.

He said it was reckless and wouldn't recommend it to anyone, the only reason he did it was because he was desperate.
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Wonderful. "Hacker" News at its finest. A post that is nothing more than an anecdote full of questionable horseshit on an important matter like health in turn generates HN comments that are merely anecdotes full of questionable horseshit. On health. Health.
Doesn't look like it's actually released yet (RC4)

https://developer.getpebble.com/2/

Pebble SDK 2.0 is currently in BETA and intended for developers only.

SDK 2.0 will be released later this year as an over-the-air update to all Pebble users.
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
Since when in recent years has that been a determining factor? The war on Bad People has been the go-to excuse for all sorts of things which we might feel should not be legal, or which are not. The Justice Department can merely choose not to prosecute them, congress can enact legislation granting immunity, or the agencies can flat-out lie about what they are doing.

If the government is running a drug marketplace as a honeypot to catch sellers and buyers, it's possible that some of those buyers and sellers might mount an effective suit ... but I'd say the expected result is much more likely to be jail time for the buyers/sellers.

Moreover, the courts will rule that only people directly harmed by such things can sue for it, and then will deny THEIR suit unless they are able to prove that it happened. Since it'll all be classified up to the moon, the government will deny its existence, and no suits will happen.

This is a deliberately cynical take on how that would go down, but I fear it's probably not inaccurate.
Kickstarter in two weeks?
It had most of the language of a DMCA notice and was headed "DMCA Takedown Notice". Now that you mention it, the actual text doesn't exactly say DMCA.
Instead of a contentless dismissal, can you provide us some information that supports your claim?
The universe is old. If habitable planets are common, then it's functionally inevitable that intelligent life exists with a billion year head start on us.

Would they eschew expansionism? Maybe. Would they always eschew it 100% of the time? Definitely not. And this is a Darwinean process - the ones that decided to stay home are the ones you don't meet.

And they've had a billion years to change their minds. Consider that the likelihood is numerous billion-year-head-starts, one species would inevitably try it.
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Would you please identify some of the dangerous advice? I'm not sure of what exactly broscience is.
My thinking was that the documentation isn't nearly as strong for Node as it is for Django. And also JavaScript doesn't have all the same libraries for the backend. But certainly being good at JavaScript is very highly valued in the marketplace right now, so if you have other technical friends who can help you then this might make sense. But they might literally need to be willing to spend a couple dozen hours sitting next to you while you're learning Node, which isn't always trivial to set up. But in general I'd still recommend just learning Python, because I think the advantages of knowing you'll be successful outweigh whatever extra work there might be.
Fantasy Despot Syndrome and Healthcare.gov
Nice write up.

I wonder if this is something that's more common with certain life circumstances.

For example... I'm married and have 2 kids. I had a corporate job for the first 10 years of my marriage. I traveled a ton and completely missed out on their lives. When I changed jobs, it was a bit of a shock for all of us.

Now, we recognize that it's not what we want anymore. I work for a small software company that is ridiculously low-stress, but even now I wish I could spend more time with my family and be a little more free to take off and go camping with the kids if we felt like it.
I'd recommend taking introductory meetings with several attorneys. You should be able to quickly get a sense of what kind of person you're dealing with. Then check references. Yokum, for example, has a lot of clients who will say nice things.
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Terabytes is not big data
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I don't know much more about Fourier analysis than you, but theoretically it's an infinite series. So to describe an arbitrary smooth curve, you need a potentially infinite number of circles (or sin terms). I'm not sure if it's a countably infinite series or not. I think in principle you could have a component for every number in the real line.
Turns out we _do have_ an implementation of ActiveSync in Opa!

That said, as we need to make a living, and if we go the MIT way (see comments below), there are high chances that the Exchange support will be a paid extension.
But dude think of the metabolic hacks and read about my one weird trick for rapid weight loss.
In addition to the numbers already posted, you can remember that Google decided to add encryption to the data links in September.
> what are the potential risks that everyone is very explicit about trying to avoid?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refeeding_syndrome (fluid disorders, neurologic, muscular and hematologic complications, gastrointestinal disturbances, can culminate in coma and cardiac arrhythmias or failure)
Can you unlock the screen without a physical keyboard yet?
1. Can you force it to do exact (not approximate counts) and aggregations?
If so, what are the preconditions (size of tables?)

2. In data warehouse terms, would you fit it as a MOLAP, ROLAP or HOLAP kind of engine? I'm not sure whether all data is held in memory and whether aggregates are cached. Can you preprocess the dataset in batch mode (let's say overnight), repopulate aggregate caches for faster retrieval later on? (I mean that as something similar to SQL Server Analysis Services in MOLAP mode).

3. Can you compare it to Apache Drill ?
well this could be fixed by using something like bittorrent sync to allow you to keep your "inbox" wherever you want all you need is the code... and storage space... and well at least 1 of your own computers that already has the inbox to be online at the same time. this also uses a separate dht table to sync and as long as your inbox is only in the megabyte it wouldn't be that hard to read your email from your friends computer or any other computer... but i do agree I would want to limit the ability to spam the network as this would load down a lot of the peers with excess mail that they actually wouldn't need... maybe somehow limit how many messages each node can send out... as this system would be like torrents but you would need a private key to open... you could send mail to multiple people they download the one message and decrypt it you wouldn't really need multiple message sent so if a node is sending many the rest of the network could identify that and ignore that node...
An impressive read; that's a tough job to take on. No matter the quality of the researcher's work, someone, somewhere, is going to be inflamed by the conclusion.

It's also a super fun job to take on. Nuclear measurements can be very perceptive. Everyone I know in the business loves to have meaningful applications in the wider world. Our lab was a fun place to be immediately following Fukushima [1] (and Chernobyl, too, but that's before my time as a physicist).

On the scale of technical reports, it's well-written, and intended to be read by semi-technical readers. The analysis covers a lot of ground on sources of uncertainty. They do a reasonable job handling uncertainties on the things I know about, and my only remaining concerns extend beyond my expertise.

It's a worthy read; check it out!

(as a bonus, in the appendices, you get to see photos of everything in the travel bag.)

[1] http://www.npl.washington.edu/monitoring/node/1
what is the data format FB stores? (xml/json/?)
> See my comment below for an excerpt from Obama's formal 2008 platform on civil liberties, which he explained repeatedly throughout the campaign (and has now broken repeatedly).

"Below" is meaningless in a comment thread where posts swap places constantly. Can you be more specific?
Thanks! Presto supports arbitrary SQL including some basic window functions (full support is on our roadmap). I've used window functions at previous companies with commercial data warehouses to do some basic click stream analysis: http://prestodb.io/docs/current/functions/window.html

We have over a thousand employees in Facebook using it daily for anything you can imagine, so I recommend trying it and letting us know what you find useful and how it can be improved.
Just to be clear (and as mentioned in a comment on the post), ng-switch is actually closer in functionality to using multiple ng-if directives (which is only in Angular 1.1.5+). ng-switch actually adds/removes the elements from the DOM, whereas ng-show just shows/hides the element.
"\x1B[1;36;40m" "\n" "\x1B[0;37;40m"

I keep a file sitting around with versions for different colors/languages.
Learn this one weird trick to match a backslash!
If ONLY there were an open source browser that we could modify to disallow the tracking technologies...
An interesting retrospective. What would be interesting would be to know the challenges you've encountered once you started working as a developer.
I have two questions though: I'm curious to know why you state that

"Ruby is probably the best platform to learn if you're a designer and you want to learn how to code to add value for your clients."

and also I'd love some more details on why "Python is fairly mediocre in a lot of ways"
(not starting a language war here, I'm genuinely curious)
Agreed. On the scale of insurers, there's no risk - it's just cost averaging a.k.a. what the government should be doing. There's no way to lose money at it.
This is 4 months old. Why post it now?
Fasting spikes stress hormones and lean tissue catabolism. It's clearly a very stressful thing for the body. Small doses of stress have hormetic benefits but it's easy to go too far.

Vigourous exercise is stressful, too. A bit is good for you, but a lot is clearly bad. High energy expenditure athletes prematurely age and have elevated death rates. I'm sure it's the same with fasting. I would be careful about doing "a lot" of fasts.
Rex Hartson coordinates a research group about Human Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech and they are pretty good. He's also the author of this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-UX-Book-Guidelines-Experience/dp/0....
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