skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comes from a very concerted effort by highly placed folks in the US (Koch Brothers, health care companies). Essentially, they create fear and confusion around the new laws through Fox News and dial-in radio, and American idiots eat it up like it was the Bible truth. The people in this country who are against the health care law, uniformly, know nothing about it and regurgitate Fox News BS when asked why it's a bad law.

Thing is, the law has its issues, but the other side never gets near them, they just make shit up "death panels" and government interference and stuff. I, as an American, am super embarrassed by all this. It doesn't help that the health care companies wrote the fucking law, anyway... now they're fighting against it!

The sad truth is, unless we have a single-payer, socialized medical system, none of these changes will help much. Really, the biggest change the new law enacts is that it forces health care companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions like Diabetes and heart disease. Right now, they can tell you to go away, they won't cover that stuff. IN 2014, I hear they'll be forced to at least offer you a psychotically expensive plan if you have diabetes.... Ah, this country sucks ass.
The security researcher quoted in the article agree with you:

> Arbor researcher Marc Eisenbarth said there's no evidence
> Healthcare.gov has withstood any significant denial-of-service
> attacks since going live last month. He also said the
> limited request rate, the lack of significant
> distribution, and other features of the tool's underlying
> code made it unlikely that it could play a significant
> role in taking down the site.

Although, I will say that if the tool is grabbing the dependencies of each page (which in total comes to about a megabyte per page load), it might add up over time. Yeah, it's static, and yeah, it's not LOIC (it'd surprise me if LIOC weren't also being used against this site), but the site debs didn't do themselves any favors with the size and number of their static assets.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/this-is-what-happen...
I find that one of the causes for wildly different levels of code review (and value derived from them) is a lack of training. There is a real lack of materials for explaining how to do a code review, how to do deal with the human aspect of giving feedback, what is/is not valuable to talk about (arguing over tabs vs spaces should not happen in a code review). Most of my experiences have involved a trial-by-fire process - new engineers receive a few code reviews from more experienced people and that is your "training".
Yeah, surprised that got no mention.

I thought the ./* wildcarding for safety was really cool. they also could have covered find -print0 | xargs -0 for safety.

I'm glad they talked about "$@" being usually always the right thing to do. That's been a hard won learning experience for me in the past...
There was a song that started as following:

Ask for money, and get advice
Ask for advice, get money twice
> a program to genuinely try and help people

That part is still very much open for debate.
This happens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
Thanks for this. I've been using PIL forever, didn't know there was a live fork.
It never was the case. Ignore the stack overflow dribble.
Amazon has pretty weird numbers, and is public.
Are you with a company that does better on mobile? E-commerce? Online to offline? I'm in e-commerce and Twitter has not been that effective for us (while Facebook has been fantastic).
You guys responding to this so quickly makes me want to give Codio a shot.

Any thoughts on pricing before I commit?
The feature works per table and is off by default. Unlogged tables have another nice property: If the data gets corrupted somehow, then the table will be completely empty. This makes it clear to users that you'd use unlogged tables for caching or other data that you have no problem with losing.

It also means that you can be sure that the data you read from an unlogged table is that data that you put there. I much prefer this over the possibility of maybe reading corrupt data without any possibility of detection.

In my case, the use-case of an unlogged table is a table that practically works like a materialized view (until postgres learns to refresh them without an exclusive lock and maybe even automatically as the underlying data changes). If the table is empty, I can easily recreate the data, so I don't care about any kind of WAL logging or replication. If the table's there, perfect. I'll use it instead of a ton of joins and an equally big amount of application logic.

If the data isn't there, well. Then I run that application logic which will cause the joins to happen. So that's way, way slower, but it'll work the same.

The advantage of using an unlogged table here is that it's cheaper to update it and it doesn't use replication traffic (unlogged tables are not replicated).
I suspect market forces will squeeze out those entities.
Twitter is still losing money though... they haven't figured out how to make a profit. The fear is that what they'll need to do in order to make money will drive their user-base away.
Does he record his conversations? That's a lot to remember.
Jack Dorsey's great book recommendations
Yeah, this is a cute trick, but flat only works when you design the entire UI around it. I also am not a fan of overriding CSS that isn't expecting to be overridden.
Open-Sourcing PEPS: A modern webmail server
>> And it can be more targeted than something like Facebook because they can say "Show this ad to people who follow our competitors".

You can do exactly this on Facebook, and it is very effective. Twitter's ad platform is better built than Facebook, but targeting will likely always be better on Facebook because it simply has more information about users.
Where do you get the limit of 256TB compressed from?

Amazon Redshift enables you to start with as little
as a single 2TB XL node and scale up all the way to
a hundred 16TB 8XL nodes for 1.6PB of compressed user data.

from http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/features-and-benefits/
Great work and research; horrible submission headline.

The news here is that, in addition to the huge market for traditional DBs, postgres is going to compete in a serious way on MongoDB's home turf. As that becomes more apparent, it will validate postgres's flexability/adaptability and cast doubt over special-purpose database systems and NoSQL.

MongoDB still has a story around clustering, of course. But that story is somewhat mixed (as all DB clustering stories are); and postgres is not standing still on that front, either.

(Disclaimer: I'm a member of the postgres community.)
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Interesting I had missed where he claimed the hack occurred 10-26. Because he pointed[1] to this transaction https://blockchain.info/tx/9536feebe3a50b94f85ca27d56e669a72... as the blockchain evidence. That transaction was on 10-23

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=248803.msg3509247#ms...
Why are the best runners from one small kenyan group?
The question of whether the current Bitcoin ruleset is incentive compatible strikes me as the most important Bitcoin research question: it answers whether Bitcoin, as a system, will continue to be stable over the long term.

Is a Democratic Republic incentive compatible over the long term?
That's actually a mirror though, all commits are through SVN.
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50 months == 4 years and 2 months
100 months == 8 years and 4 months
I feel like HP made a tactical error by eliminating the Compaq brand for their garbage products. It feels like car companies have the right idea - Toyata/Lexus, Honda/Acura, Chevy/Buick, and so on. If HP had used Compaq for their low-end cheap products, they might not have reaped as much profit in that space as the HP brand got them, but the HP name might still mean something. Now the HP brand is worthless.
And on top of all that it only has I/O ports equivalent to an Uno. The auto 3.3/5v stepping on the pins is nice, but after working on a Due it feels... constrained.
I think these are all fantastic things to implement but do you know how much pushback you get from engineers on this:

Me: "Do you have a standup every morning, so that you know about schedule delays after at most one day?"

In general folks HATE these, but I would love to hear other cases where people have found them successful. We are small enough that the conversation is ongoing so haven't needed to implement it.

What I have done in other cases is the "walk-around" to speak to people individually rather than in a massive group meeting - and that seems to have been well received.
would scapy be slower than construct?
If you are discussing this topic, you might consider referring to the legislation as the "Affordable Health Care Act", which I believe is the title on the actual legislation. Calling it "Obamacare" triggers an overly emotional response from people on both side of this issue.

Ask people if they want universal affordable health care, and most people will discuss the issue. Ask people if they want Obamacare, and you instantly raise all sorts of issues that have nothing to do with health care.

Edit:

I agree with many of the responses here as well. The actual name, which I believe has ten titled parts [0], is a bit of marketing copy as well. But at least it's marketing copy that relates to the substance of the act.

Calling it Obamacare makes it personal, and this is about much more than Obama taking care of all of us.

I'd love to see a neutral name for the legislation itself. I am starting to call it "the current health care legislation".

[0] - http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/rights/law/
Yesterday's thread about PEPS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6682226
Yea the fact that they are still making update option is going to keep fragmentation an issue for IE, at least, from what I understand, with IE11+ they are making it an opt-out not opt-in
It's $58 to order the watch from TI. I've seen some deals go as low as $24 on other websites. I wanted this because I had a minor moment of panic when my iPhone started flaking out on me. This would be a small price for me to pay for a peace of mind.
And they say this isn't another tech bubble...
This is a new explanation to me. And if true, a good example of how "Nature vs. Nurture" is a false dichotomy. In most interesting cases, both are important, and interact in complex ways.
Prominent VCs join the fight in Congress to stop patent trolls
I agree - and your comment gives me an idea for a series of posts on this exact subject.
Craigslist blocks ALL hyperlinks in posts. Craig says "Sorry".
This is pretty awesome. One of those things you can do when you own the entire stack.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

― C.S. Lewis

Yes, classic American culture tends to take rights violations very seriously, to the point that it may baffle those used to living under tyranny. Yes, many of us have a problem with the government commandeering the healthcare of 100% of the population just to "help" 3% of the population. Would have been cheaper, and far less disruptive, to just buy that 3% health insurance outright.
Or you could just ... name it 'foo' to begin with?
From my experience, anecdotal experience of others, the success of Mass Relevance, the day to day of my friends who work at Twitter, and my outsiders observations, Twitter's biggest revenue channel right now is partnerships with major media companies. Things like Twitter TV tweets and the rise of second screen viewing have done more for TV advertisers than anything else. In some cases, it's made non-sports become nearly DVR-proof. Networks love this, and so will support Twitter, in my opinion.
Turning your marketing upside down
Oh that's an ugly URL.

https://codio.com/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=promtweet&u...

Please remove utm junk before submitting.
I believe these claims are based on sunspider, which is not really considered a great benchmarking suite. Something like Mozilla's Kraken or Google's Octane may give better real-world results.

FWIW, I only recently understood what made a benchmark suite 'bad'. Basically VMs often speed up by identifying patterns which can be optimized. But there's a balance because this analysis itself has a cost and if the speed up is not much (or does not happen often), then it can slow down other apps. Apparently SunSpider has a number of places where it's easy to add special optimizations, but the result may actually degrade more common code execution.

All browsers optimize for SunSpider, but relying on those numbers alone can be deceiving.
If you didn't catch a short on it near $50, wait. The stock market bubble is going higher under Yellen's dove policy. The valuation crazy tech stocks like TWTR or LNKD will go that much higher accordingly. This market doesn't drop until the Fed stops or the market goes so high it is forced to crash (runs out of oxygen, everybody panics, mass selling ensues, down goes the latest bubble).
Got it. As someone who only owns one stock, I guess I don't look at the market as a whole enough. That makes more sense than anything else.
Paypal is ancient. It's likely they developed their web framework before any open source java web frameworks became popular. Paypal existed around 1998, Java Struts 1.0 came out in 1999. Struts 1.0 is probably one of the big reasons many people flocked to PHP.

They probably made their own web framework because nothing good existed at the time.
I respectfully disagree - I think the biggest change the law enacts is the cap on the MLR. Telling insurance companies they have to cover those with pre-existing conditions doesn't make them want to cover those with pre-existing conditions, it just makes them not want to be sued for one more thing. That is no kind of motivation to keep costs down or provide decent service - if Joe Sicko says "screw this, I am going to your competition" they break out the champaigne. With the MLR cap, having one more person means they can take home more money, so long as they're operating near the cap to begin with.
There's a lot of paperwork and checks involved. No matter what route you go, it will take some time.
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Once again ... It's not a fair argument to say that you can leave any time you want.

Your home, family, friends, culture, job and probably a big part of your identity will be left behind. Even in states with well known scumbag governments people tend to stay until they have a very real threat to their life and person.

And to think that democracy is a kill-everything-silver-bullet is very naive, we have had laws written under democratic rule that allowed one person to own other persons, less then 10 years ago sexual intercourse between men were still illegal some states in USA.

And yet I agree that a central government is preferable to no central government, I would also agree that democracy is very much preferred over the alternatives.

All I ask is that the social contract is not to be used as a pretext for things that are not absolutely necessary since we are born into that contract and can not nullify it in any realistic way at a later stage in life. Please respect my personal freedom, privacy and individual rights - keep the use of force and violence against others to an absolute minimum.

Is that to much to ask?

PS Search youtube for video called "George Ought to Help", it may contain some things worth thinking about
Work to Live. Don't Live to Work.
OpenBSD now supports booting from keydisk-based crypto volumes
Show HN: RasberryPi & JavaScript Powered Pizza Ordering
We made this fun little button powered by RasberryPi, Arduino, Node.JS and Phantom.JS
Please explain how doubling everyone's monthly premiums so that health care 'businessmen' can make more money helps the American people.
Open Space Manifest
https://github.com/dahfazz/openspacemanifest
> You can't write cli applications in a JVM language because the start-up time is too slow. Which means you can't compose scripts that call Java apps.

You're right. In the case of small, fast applications designed to be called as part of shell scripts, the JVM does suffer start-up costs. Some testing on my personal machine shows the JVM to be 2x to 8x slower than a comparable Ruby or Python script in startup time. [1] Depending on the script, that startup time may or may not acceptable, and if the script runs for longer than a second, which is entirely possible for anything that goes beyond the local machine, the JVM will get progressively faster.

> This is not just 1 type of application, it's the most important type of application by far.

This needs more explanation. I've used Unix for many years, and I've definitely bought in to its philosophy of small and composable; It's a philosophy that in many ways mirrors functional programming. However, in my opinion, the most important type of application varies considerably by person. For you, the small, single-purpose
applications may be what you use most.

And I agree, if you're programming for the Unix platform, the JVM would not be the best choice. Unix was built on C. A program that builds on that platform is probably a better choice.

But there are many more applications out there, and for any command-line program that operate in a time domain longer than 10 seconds, the JVM startup costs are mostly eliminated. This time-domain is very plausible for a command that operates on medium-scale databases or anything with network connectivity.

It's silly to completely dismiss an entire platform because it is not the absolute best choice for a single domain of programs.

I'm curious: What do you do where the short-lived, composable Unix functions are the most important programs?

[1] https://gist.github.com/bostwick/8ee1d4df9c7743f9efed
If you buy TWTR stock, what are you investing in exactly?
It just shows we've been up to the same tricks for years ;)
Calculate tides of ocean on your android with Surfih app
The application seeks to assist all users who have some connection to the ocean and it depends on the tide of the sea to choice the best time for surfing, sailing or even fishing. The different other mobile applications,is that does not use any external service to display the tide graph. Tides are calculated directly on the mobile phone using location configured, current date and moon phase. The algorithms of calculation is the same used in navigation systems. I have plan to add moon phase on graph on the next release. That I hope come soon! :)
Denying people access to healthcare.gov is like blocking an ambulance trying to take someone to the hospital, you'd have to be a pretty low criminal to do it.

If you don't want healthcare then don't buy it and pay the fine (or refuse to pay the fine) just don't block others.
Open Space Manifest
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Please provide extraordinary proof for the extraordinary claim that tech IPOs are rigged to transfer shareholder value to the banks managing or participating in the OP.
And the Patriot Act is very Patriotic!
Yes, for a project I'm working on, I had a JSON array of objects that each had a key called name.

I have fast indexed queries that return any rows that have an object with a given name in it, and for full text search on that name along with a few other things.
For those who understand German, you can read it up on wikipedia:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik-Effekt
This was posted yesterday and was on the front page for most of the day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684800

(hell, it's still on the 3rd page)
Yeah, there are some minor differences between the internal and external style guides. Tab width is one of them (it's 2 spaces internally)
24 hours? but did you pay a fee? sometimes if you don't pay a fee it takes long time until some block includes your transaction, and specially when the difficulty of the network is high (like now).
So basically you want to implement Enterprise QA processes for a tiny team so as to make up for incompetence and bad hiring decisions. Sorry, I don't buy it.
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That was the fear with Facebook too though. Newsfeed ads, FBX, etc were all unavailable pre-IPO, and were constantly referenced as the changes that will break Facebook.
Space is cheap, but IOPS are not, and RAM always has an opportunity cost.
Please don't take this as snark but I wouldn't recommend shorting anything if you are so inexperienced that you don't have a trading account or don't know which one to use. Shorting stocks is extremely risky and should only be done by traders with lots of experience.

If you really want to bank on Twitter going south, you can try buying puts when they're available. If you're not sure what puts are, leave this whole idea alone.
nice, what's the name of the song?
Got it, thanks for explaining.
I've always been meaning to take a look at Ember. When I first started seeing discussions about it about 2 years ago, there weren't many guides or quick examples on how it is different than other frameworks out there. What would the use case be for Ember.js vs something like AngularJS?
There aren't any options yet, they'll probably start trading later next week. After that you can trade them through e*trade or whatever.
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I'm having trouble understanding why so many here cannot grasp the use of the rhetorical device. It's used to say: The world is not how you think it is. You are likely so misinformed that picking randomly on this test will give you better results than relying on your knowledge.

Are people seriously considering the idea that he thinks Swedish professors, his colleagues, are not as smart as chimpanzees? He has previously said this.

I think this is a classical example of pg's middle-brow dismissal. What is the real point here that's painfully obvious to most people I know? Our notions of how the world is are wrong, and often they are very wrong (we seriously underestimate life expectancy and literacy, and overestimate alternative power).

Amusingly, I've never seen such a deluge of comments like this about the Swedish professors. Too often people are so preoccupied with defending 'their people' that they miss the point. It reminds me of reddit threads on marijuana. It isn't that the British are dumb, it's that we all have these misconceptions.
I for one do not watch CNN and don't know anybody who does outside of an Airport or hotel setting.
It's the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", or ACA (oddly never PPACA in real usage that I've seen, though I see wikipedia lists that acronym).
This is the wallet that the owner of Inputs.IO has claimed[1] is where the stolen funds were transferred:http://blockchain.info/fb/1emztw

Blockchain.info has tagged it as inputs.io hack. And a couple users have tagged it as well with public messages. But besides that, as far as I know, all anyone can do is watch it get drained.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=248803.msg3509247#ms...
Wow, Maybe I should do one of thouse microblogthingis.
New York kicks off Startup-NY tax-free program
I understand what you mean by "they lost out a fair bit of money". However, that is not exactly true.

They have failed to gain that (admittedly huge) chunk of dollars but they have lost nothing: the have the same money they started with and they never had any more than that. You only lose when you start with X and end up with X-Y, for positive Y.

They have probably missed the opportunity to gain more but that is their mistake (if it is a mistake).