skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The flaw in your post is that deterministic does not mean showing everyone the same thing. Though to be fair, a random number generator would be used to determine which users to expose the article too (just not how many of them).

Well to be fair, what you are describing is a random experiment in the statistical sense, ie. something modeled by a probability space. I see what you're saying, but I would say your usage of the word is the nonstandard one, not chilldream's.
Yes, my point was that such a device is going to be relatively easy to fly remotely even over a balky, high-latency connection. (Except perhaps in high winds, but high winds are likely to ground these things anyway.)
People might not enjoy your 'joke', but you do have a very good point.

When I looked at it the first time, the mouse problem didn't came up. I used my two fingers and like in the authors mind I just swiped to the left and the timeline moved as expected.

After reading the comments, and seeing the 'mouse problem' I could see it in my minds eye how it 'breaks'.

But seeing your comment I realised the web site only breaks for 'older' input devices.

I believe the website would work just as nicely on any multi touch cellphone, and it would make sense to scroll from left to right.
Why are you so quick to claim it's a "less-than-carefully thought out [idea]"? If I recall correctly, Bezos even joked about how they need to make sure it doesn't land on people's heads. There was also mention of the forthcoming FAA rabbit hole to step into. They're not idiots, so give a but more credit where it is due. He fully acknowledges the technology is years away, but gives us a taste of what's potentially coming.
As far as automated trading is concerned, performance is critical, which is why C++ still is king in this domain.
But that then breaks natural horizontal scrolling if you're using a trackpad.
Technically speaking, Jeff Bezos owes your friend absolutely nothing. He offered the producers of 60 Minutes half his fortune and a trip to Vegas if they could guess his announcement. He didn't offer your friend anything.
(At Least) A Commit a Day for 30 Days
Actually, the spy agencies in the United States and their political defenders continually claim successes. Those successes are then later revealed to be bunk.

I suppose you can tell yourself that they're doing this on purpose and hiding the real successes, but if so, it sounds like a daring attack on their own credibility.
Wow, these comments are really frightening. No wonder contemporary software is so shitty, and programmers are clueless as hell.
The Elegance of Uncertainty
Check out www.timeglider.com ---- a zooming timeline where importance is tied to size/visibility of events. full disclosure: my creation.
That's probably because the author is able to devote less resources per client than Wolfram?
Well, 2.5 years.
Hm, I'll try to find it and put it on github some time :) I'll update you on that.

Thanks!
> less code, less bugs and less bullshit than the horrendous status quo of corporate Java development.

It may take some getting used to syntax and design wise, but being able to code things up in 1/10 the size of other languages completely blows away the disadvantages of Scala.
Oh, sure. Japan pours tons of money into English education and little comes of it.
So you are saying that the small credit he gave humint in the enigma matter may in fact not be deserved? Surely this makes your argument weaker than ever?

Slightly off topic, but you may enjoy this on my blog: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/19946053957/enigm...
The EMH says that the absence of news when news is expected should cause price swings, as well as the presence of news when that news is unexpected. And that the presence of expected news shouldn't cause any price swing.
Perhaps more correctly a doctorate can be considered the pinnacle of your educational achievement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/BUGGER makes for relevant reading too.
My "favorite" part of Scala was half a dosen DB libraries each re-implementing SQL as a DSL.
Reading the Puppet Source - Or, How I Lost My Sanity
I didn't even understand that you had a point of your own; I saw the conversation go "It's stupid that tulips would go that high, and funnily enough it didn't happen." > "citation?" > "look at the wikipedia page for Tulipomania", and then a comment that it's in the nature of tulips to depreciate over time (side note: I get the analogy to patents, but I don't get the analogy to windows 3.1).

The tulipomania page does not support the idea that high tulip prices didn't happen. Those tulip catalogs were not the polemical pamphlets (admittedly, it doesn't appear to be clear who put the prices in). The only thing my comment mentions that came from a propaganda pamphlet is the price of cheese, but I figure there's no real reason to doubt them on that. A law really was passed for the relief of people who had bought tulip futures. It seems to have been effective, but none of that means prices weren't high; it means tulip prices didn't have a major effect on the Dutch economy.
The smoking gun on this is announcing a new service on a Sunday evening. No-one does that. Unless, say, it happens to be Cyber Monday the next day.
Instabridge is hiring iOS developers. We're building the largest wifi network on the planet and are backed by some of Europe's leading investors. Ok to work remotely!
http://instabridge.com
I was thinking of using http://gist.io for this, but a service that let's you minimally blog, and submit to HN with a single button click would be ideal :)
Yes, I use it and I think it is pretty cool. Mostly, it is just a quick way to navigate to what I need on my smart phone without having to open the app folder, find the app, navigate to the item of interest within the app. It also integrates nicely with calendar events and Google Keep. You might be able to use it (in limited capacity) without sharing location data.
The graph.tk graph is displaying from ~-300 to ~300 while the WolframAlpha graph is only displaying from -10 to 10. That is hardly a fair comparison.
He wasn't talking about their management processes, he was talking about their capital structure. And he was right. A lot of the acquired companies have high ROIC, because Berkshire Hathaway at its core is a big insurance company and Buffett's investing is there to increase the book value by investing the float.
Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations [pdf]
If you change a link's title, I won't know if I've read the link previously.

Also, crappy headlines are often a sign of crappy writing/content.
TIOBE is garbage but I would not dispute that Scala use is higher today. However, Scala and Clojure use both continue to rise.

Well-written Scala and Clojure can provide comparable (ie Java level) performance.

Clojure has tools (like core.typed and Prismatic's schema library) to optionally provide you with static typing where you want it, without the burden where you don't need it.

Clojure does regular releases every year (that continue to be high quality and maintain backwards compatibility) and now has paid developers and support that will continue to accelerate progress. Because of the flexibility of the language, a great deal can be done outside the language in libraries (such as the entirely new concurrency paradigm in core.async).
Please read the article. This example actually supports his thesis that "as long as it is possible for counterspies to generate misleading information most of the time, spies are useless even when their information happens to be correct."
Owner has been doxed? Link?
I am seeing just too much criticism for Scala and the coherent theme seems to be - "I didn't take time to understand the language well and then my pride got hurt as I couldn't understand it's constructs. So Scala is shit and too complex."

I am not from CS background, but I took time to learn it and by far it's THE most natural and expressive language I have found AND I don't even know what functional programming and the theory is, all I know I learned through Scala.

Please guys, let's not project our laziness as a fault of Scala.
"Greyhound therapy" has been around for many, many yesrs. I heard of it ca. 1980 and it wasn't new then--somebody was talking about it adding to the troubled population of Washington, DC.
Of course there is.

Unless you'd rather we go extinct?
After the last front page thread about HN ranking (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854) I built http://news-yc.appspot.com, which shows an unpenalized version of the front page (and tries to calculate the applied penalties). My plan, time permitting, is to start clustering submissions by topic (probably using k-means or similar) as well as building a recommendation engine around submission comments ("users who commented on this submission also commented on…").
I think Martin's post has a very interesting point about the "Scala tribe" and its inherently rootless nature. I don't really think he is entirely right about it, but he is onto something with the notion that Scala has something for everyone to hate. It helps explain how such a low-quality post could make it to the FP.
Ask HN: Happy Dec. - How Many Startups Made It Big When Founder Had A Day Job?
These engineering companies are paying well. Wont the paycheck from these companies be enough to have startups run on their own?
Because they're more specific, and thus more useful. I take the bus everywhere, but rarely does a single leg bus journey take me door-to-door. This is the nature of the shared resource.
Certainly there's enough genetic variation that some will have better fitness within their given environment. But, that's after the fact. It would be presumptuous to think that we can understand all biological and environmental aspects beforehand. Right?
cool stuff :)
I've used Prezi recently for this as well.

Pic >> https://alpha.app.net/jmergy/post/16369534/photo/1
They say that for a successful c++ project you need to first define which parts of the language you're not allowed to use. For Scala projects it's even more so. And you can only hope that all the libraries you'll be using provide some sane method names that map to all the insane operators they invented to do the same thing.
First, I'm not a doctor, and people should consult doctors for medical advice.

Do I get to pose random questions without research? I can only assume you were referring to my question "how much do we know about whether a newborn has a compromised immune system or not?" That seems like a pretty legitimate question, does it not? Do I need a medical degree to pose a question regarding how much medical history we have about your average newborn baby?

Am I crossing some line into medical 'research' by asking that question? When babies are born, do they have clear documented medical histories that I'm unaware of?

You also asked if there were "any vaccines given to newborns that are contraindicated for immune-compromised people".

First we need to define newborns. Wikipedia says hours days or a few weeks old. I couldn't find how the CDC defines newborns.

In the first couple days, the only scheduled vaccine per the CDC is usually Hep B. Whether others are given in the first couple days probably depends on doctors, the baby's health, the parents, the country we're in, etc.

From the CDC:
"Hepatitis B vaccination is contraindicated for persons with a history of hypersensitivity to yeast or to any vaccine component (92,189--191). Despite a theoretic risk for allergic reaction to vaccination in persons with allergy to Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast), no evidence exists that documents adverse reactions after vaccination of persons with a history of yeast allergy."

So assuming you consider an allergy to be compromising to the immune system (which, by definition, an allergy is), it appears your answer is "yes, there is a vaccine given (or at least recommended) to newborns that is contraindicated for certain immune-compromised people".

Hopefully those contraindicated infants are not given that vaccine, but as I posed earlier, how much do we know about an individual infant's immune system within hours of birth? This probably depends on a lot of things as well - doctors, hospital (or home birth), availability of testing and results, etc.

The RV vaccine is usually given in the first couple months, where the 'newborn' label could still apply depending on how you use the word. RV is contraindicated for SCID.

Below is a full list of contraindications for several vaccines, listed on the CDC website.

http://www.cdc.gov/VACCINES/recs/vac-admin/contraindications...
> the appearance of Nigella had an interesting and unexpected effect: a rowdy all-boys school started wolf whistling.

You're right, I misinterpreted that quote to mean that the audience was an all-boys school. My apologies.

My criticism stands, though. Poorly-considered reactions all around, including the folks who applauded the speaker's indignance -- for rushing blindly into the arms of the less offensive.
> A person with an 80 IQ, for example, would likely not be able to understand advanced philosophy or mathematics or some such at all -- even given infinite time.

Yes, I wanted to write similar thing too, but felt that post was too big already. Besides, I am not completely convinced by the idea itself - having enough memory, you can actually slowly link the most complicated concepts even when you can link only relatively "similar ideas" (brain of higher IQ has a tendency of creating longer physical neuron links, which some relate to the ability to understand seemingly unrelated concepts). The impossible part probably comes from the fact that the time and effort required would be inadequate.
The New Nexus 7
Scott Adams challenged over Elbonian/Estonian jokes
Good stuff. It looks great! Will definitely use it.
No, he's not grasping.

He didn't called it "hot air and baloney" because he thinks it would never physically work. He called it that because he believes it was timed to coincide with Cyber Monday. The bureaucratic hurdles for this are too numerous to mention. It goes in the Hyperloop-from-LA-to-NYC category.

I doubt he's missed the mark since there's not many other logical reasons for Amazon to announce this possibility five years in advance.

It's Amazon.com marketing hype. Go buy something.
C# does that too. It's called LINQ and it's very popular.
One of the World's tiniest, poorest countries is redefining HIV care
BoltHR - Jacksonville, FL - Fulltime - email: efleming@bolthr.com

We are willing to work with you on timeline for relocation and provide assistance. We pay well.

We are create HR tech software focused on small and medium sized businesses. We are well funded by our founders and pre-launch. Our software is looking to make an impact on small/medium sized businesses by providing easy to use and beautiful products. We have a design first mentality, we like to get things in front of customers fast and collect feedback, and we build our products to be fast in order to provide an optimal user experience.

Our development office is located in booming downtown Jacksonville. No state income tax, great weather, an NFL team that is improving (we hope), beaches, tons of great outdoor activities, and a tech scene that is growing fast.

Out tech stack includes Node.js, Angular, Mongo, MySQL, and various Amazon Web Services. We are looking for front end developers and back end developers excited about working with Javascript across the entire stack. We would prefer people with experience with out current stack but want to hear from people that are interested.

If even remotely interested, shoot me an email at efleming@bolthr.com. I am the CTO and I'll get back to you immediately. We are going to build a great team, a great product, and have fun doing it. I hope you'll be a part of it.
Managing Iptables firewalls with Puppet
I'd be interested, maybe, in seeing opposing political views or different opinions on economics, or something like that. Because I'm interested in those things and because I'm not very certain that my current beliefs are correct, when I even have a belief. Just today a friend introduced me to a good documentary that partially changed my view of nuclear power and I learned a lot.

However I wouldn't want to get stuck with something that is a complete waste of time, like creationism, or religion, or abortion, or something along those lines. Or something that just doesn't interest me, like, say, climate change or conspiracy theories.
Insurers Claim Health Website Is Still Flawed
Doesn't Amazon now own a stake in Waterstones?
Wow, I'm suprised this is still a question. Yes, I successfully convert BTC to USD on a regular basis. I don't wish to disclose how much, but it's not pocket change (and yes, it's subject to taxation).

The delay complaints you see are mostly people who have never done international wires before and therefore who aren't aware that because of the existing banking system, wires can take 3-8 days to clear. That delay is not because of the Bitcoin exchanges, that's because of the banks that deal with your "real-world currency".

Bitcoin is very liquid if you're not a total idiot. If you wish to convert it anonymously (I don't), it's a little harder, but still doable (see localbitcoins). Most exchanges require copies of your passports and other ID to comply with U.S. regulations (i.e., they don't want to wake up to Seal Team 6 in their bedroom).

All of this is no different than any other currency.

In other words, Bitcoin is real-world currency. Welcome to 2013.
HN libertarians don't like to be made to feel academically inadequate. Startups care not about this art crap, and the author is obviously not aware of unpopular sub-genres of rock, many of which kick Chopin's ass, so to speak.
Didn't the soviet union develop a nuke alarmingly quickly after the U.S.?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
I was helping my bartender friend with a spreadsheet for his per-bottle profits, and it would have been so much simpler if we could have named the columns after each liquor, and the rows for their wholesale-cost, serving-size, bottle-size, serving-charge, etc.

You'd probably need a way to override it to allow certain individual cells to have a unique name, though - constants if you will.
> Wow, these comments are really frightening.

How so? Also can you explain the connection you are drawing between the comments and the quality of modern software and programmers?
Could you get your pizza or Chinese food delivery via drone?
Yes, that came out in a thread where people were complaining that many positive/neutral posts about Microsoft/Nokia were being downranked and disappeared from the front page, while negative stories didn't usually have that problem leading to a chilling effect on the stories submitted and commented on. People seem to have got riled up over it because they thought it was being flagged, but PG said it was because of the flamewar detector that penalizes articles with lots of comments but fewer upvotes, atleast in that particular case.

The flamewar detector does its intended job with things like the gender discrimination stories but it looks like it throws out the baby with the bathwater and contributes to the echo chamber effect.

Here's a couple of Samsung stories that met the same fate. http://hnweird.tumblr.com/

It's really hard to tell(except if you're pg or HN staff) whether a story disappeared because of the flamewar detector, or flagging or the domain greylist or something else. I guess this is intentionally so.
"raised street level an entire floor to combat flooding" - yup, that's pretty much the same technique by which "the ancient cities are rising." Except that Chicago was lifted up, whereas the old cities were only readjusted - essentially, ground level becomes the first basement, entrance is now on what used to be second floor. This process could be repeated, giving rise to old ground-level floors becoming the third basement or similar. Case in point: Prague's Old Town, founded at riverside, was gradually raised by up to 30 feet (which has unexpected consequences, and actually worsens the flooding problems it was always expected to solve).
Hold on a second.

The publisher was more than happy to publish the study after it had been scrutinized even though they knew it might be controversial.

Suddenly they change their mind. Why? Does this mean that all papers published by Elsevier or the journal involved should be pulled until further review?

No pun intended, don't you smell a rat?

"the retraction derives from the journal's editorial appointment of biologist Richard Goodman, who previously worked for biotechnology giant Monsanto for seven years."

In a nutshell, after publishing the paper, the journal hired a former Monsanto employee who wrote papers saying GM crops were safe. Don't you think he would want to retract a study which contradicted his own life's work?!

"Richard E. Goodman is professor at the Food Allergy Research and Resource Program, University of Nebraska. But he is also a former Monsanto employee, who worked for the company between 1997 and 2004. While at Monsanto he assessed the allergenicity of the company's GM crops and published papers on its behalf on allergenicity and safety issues relating to GM food (Goodman and Leach 2004)"
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/monsanto-targets-heart-scie...
The versatility of *tex never ceases to impress me!
- Great job Freebo.
If you're old enough and social enough to remember, librarians were the pre-Internet search engine. While most people only interacted with a librarian to check in or out a book, their primary function is information retrieval. You just go up to a librarian, say, "Hey, I'm looking for information about X", and they come back to you with a hand curated list of books, periodicals, and other materials which are most likely to answer your questions.
It's certainly not meant to be a complete solution, but it can be expanded to include both horizontal and vertical scrolling, so that either will work.
It's like saying: "it's useless to have a sword, because my enemy will have a shield".
Is it trolling if you are arguing the opposite of what you believe currently in a sincere non-inflammatory manner?

It is because you don't believe it and you're misleading people about what you really think.

Yes, but isn't the point of it all to get to the truth of the matter that exists independently of the debate.

The truth of the matter exists and it's what you really believe. Playing around with contrary viewpoints is just childish.

Why be so arrogant to think you're right and just have to convince the other person? Are you really convinced you know everything there is to know about the issue and can't learn any more from another person who doesn't agree with you?

etc...
HealthPocket, HealthSherpa offer partial workarounds for Healthcare.gov mess
DigitalOcean announces second Amsterdam datacenter
Make these things fly 5 feet off the ground only over roads and they wont pose any more danger then what already exist on roads.
Worth noting that BitBucket had this as long as I can remember.
Lose Weight By Getting up For Once
your résumé looks real good! please do share the source if you can
This space for Clojure is changing rapidly. The prevailing approach to web dev in Clojure has been to assemble the (already available) libraries that you need into an application. For some, that's sufficient. Others likely need more structure.

The Luminus micro-framework (http://www.luminusweb.net/) is a great choice providing a starting structure around existing libraries. Caribou (http://let-caribou.in/) is a more full-featured framework for building web apps. Pedestal (http://pedestal.io/) provides heavy-duty tools for creating data-heavy single-page apps.

And there's a new book on the way about Clojure web dev http://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj/web-development-with-cloju....
First thing I thought of: add salad cream (either as dip or spread on one or both layers), and a light dusting of white pepper or cayenne pepper, to make the perfect after-beer culinary delight. Must try tonight instead of oven chip butty + ketchup.