skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The author exaggerates the amount of time in flow. I wish I could be in flow longer than a day. Design discussions, feedback, and engagements can happen every day and you can block out some time to hopefully get in flow every day.

The big misconception the author has is that flow means blocking out weeks of time.
Can you imagine how much self awareness folks will have when everyone can switch on their wearable device and record it live in HD?
And yet 64% of Hungary's voters still voted in the supposedly meaningless 2010 elections. Are they all suffering under this illusion? That seems like your first problem to fix.
And in this case, the government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS, a part of HHS) took upon itself the role of integrator, including integration testing. For which they manifestly didn't have what it took, right down to not assigning any one person the full time responsibility for getting it done.

Towards the end of October they got "fired" from this role and replaced with QSSI ... who are responsible for the "data hub" and this Oracle EIDM system (which is part of the data hub? Development has been so politicized that they refused to publish architectural diagrams, not even supplying them to the state exchanges).
Transferring money quickly and easily and cheaply across boarders. Universal currency.
23andMe is not going to provide you with an "authoritative" DNA "fingerprint" because how would they tell that this genetic sequence in this chromosome from this cell is legit but this contradictory sequence in this other cell is different.

Obviously noone has the capability to do this, so they present you instead with "most likely" results. Not the level of proof I'd be looking for in a court of law.
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Don't air your dirty laundry in public if you don't want everyone seeing it. Seriously, what happened to discretion? If I take off all of my clothes and run through Central Park, I can't get mad because someone took a nude picture of me. Don't go to the coffee shop to make a scene with your spouse. The problem is that people aren't embarrassed by their bad behavior without someone shaming them publicly. Adults ought to know better.
Sheep MarketPlace Scam
That is a fair point and this question is deep enough to be out of scope for HN comments. However, I think there may be a legitimate reason for an existence of a ruling class, or more like "leading class": if that class is accepting people based on their merits, like human decency or intellectual capability.
I saw a reference to the [interplanetary transport network](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Networ...) sometime back, and wanted to confirm if that is the only/best way to travel between planets and is that what the MOM is doing, i.e. it has entered into one of those paths where it does not need to spend any energy till it reaches nearby Mars.
It's pretty incredible.

"If this gravity stuff worked like you said, then cars would all be stuck to the ground."

"Well actually, they are."

"Sure, usually, but I saw a picture of a car that landed on top of another car. Clearly there are some flaws in this gravity thing."

"It's true that there are ways to get cars off the ground, but they don't stay off the ground for long, and their behavior still fits entirely within the theory of gravity. This is pretty basic stuff and you should really research it."

And then they call you a "fascist" for "not tolerating dissenting views".
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Every country on earth has export reporting and foreign currency exchange laws. Between the two, there is always monitoring (for large transactions) and regulation (tariffs, duty) of international trade and capital flows.

Keep in mind it was illegal in the USA to actually export crypto source code for keys of a particular strength in the 1990s - it was viewed as a "munition". This is why web browsers had 40-bit and 128-bit SSL versions. Those were lifted eventually due to efforts from the software/web business lobby.

However, it still is also illegal to export many classes of goods and services to particular nation states that are undergoing US sanctions. if your homeland is Iran or Syria, for example, you're not going to be sending dog biscuits. If it were Pakistan, you probably could - but it would have to be reported as part of the export manifest with FedEx or DHL. Same goes for electronic transactions like bitcoin.
Yeah I'm confused too, it kind of looks like a peacefull protest, at least right now while I'm watching.
The Graun really has done nothing but expose law breaking by GCHQ here (Data protection act, knowingly accepting illegally obtained data from the US). It's astonishing that the Police are investigating them instead of the spooks.
As a non-vegan, I can guarantee that there is a lot of wrong information in this article. There is nothing unique about nutrition from animals. It is important to get the full range of nutrients, but food and food-based supplements are available. I have never seen any evidence that some people have a physiology that requires animal nutrients.

Also, the movement from radical veganism to radical local food advocacy is not particularly enlightened. I am a big advocate of local food, and I am involved in developing local food systems, but the author asserts that everyone needs to depend entirely on their local food system. This is simply not possible for people in Seoul or New York. The author also asserts that Earth is incapable of supporting 7 billion people. Trillions of inefficient machines cause the majority of environmental damage, not living people. Poor agricultural practices are also a problem, but they can be corrected.

I am happy that the author recovered her health, but I worry about the quality of lessons learned.
The purpose of a hyperparameter opt algo is definitely to have fewer than the thing it is configuring, and definitely for it to be faster to get a good model by just running the default search policy than by trying to rig up your own meta-algorithm on top of it.
> This is a first bubble which is popular mainly among tech geeks :)

Not by a long shot. Remember the early 2000 dotcom bubble burst?
and now up to 0.3+
Ugh, if you are in public it's not private. Might as well rename the title to "Please stop live tweeting people's public conversations" if you want to make a real point.
Clear Explanation of Wealthy Inequality in America
Ok
this intArithm variant (w/o memoization) for NodeJS is 6 times faster (0.54 sec)
comparing to naive

function intArithm(){
var
max_a0 = +process.argv[2],
longest = 0,
max_len = 0, a0,len, a,z;

for(a0=1;a0<=max_a0;++a0){
a = a0;
len = 0;
while( a != 1){
len++;
z = a >>> 1;
a = (!(a&1))?z:(a+z+1);
}
if(len>max_len){
max_len = len;
longest = a0;
}
}
console.log(max_len,longest);
}

the problem was with division by 2 operation which is not integer in js. So replacing it with shift >>> makes the trick.
Formula optimization gives additional 200 ms.

And I doubt memoized c or lua variant will be 6 times faster than non-memoized. As it is not that linear.
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Kudos to you to have read the whole thing and followed through with comments. I stopped reading after I came upon two fallacies, early in the article.
> There will be an eventual cap at 21 million bitcoins, so satoshis stash is somewhere between 9% to 4% of all bitcoins.

Btw: As the rules and mechanics of the Bitcoin network are enforced by the majority of clients it would be pretty simple to invalidate these bitcoins if the majority of the Bitcoin software authors would agree to do so. Just ignore any transaction regarding these old addresses.
It's not whether any situation is good or not, it's what is a direct consequence of the technology and the laws we have. If you want freedom of expression and the Internet, then this is something you have to adapt to.

If you're going to ask "But why does the First Amendment mean that my public behavior can be for all to see and hear?"...I don't think the principle is much different than it is with photography. I can go out and take photos on Times Square and not have to worry about getting everyone's permission before I upload it on the Internet, even if such a photo inevitably damages someone's privacy (perhaps I inadverdently capture someone on his way to a strip club?)
Why do you assume the government tour guide of North Korea would be honest? I'm sure it was a fascinating tour, but not one rooted in accuracy.
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Docker or Vagrant? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16647069/should-i-use-vag...
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Sending money back home is a far different scenario than laundering, and the assertion that it is assumes bad faith from the beginning.

I'm not suggesting you don't have a point, but the idea that BTC has value is, I think, arbitrary at this point. There are thousands of leaves littering the lawn in my back yard right now -- surely I could send those to a foreign land without having to declare it, right?

An argument could be made that they have more actual value than a crypto-currency at this point, as they're a tangible good.

Similarly, if I send $10,000 worth of virtual roses to friends on Facebook, the government is not interested, and I haven't seen anything that convinces me, at the moment, that BTC should be treated differently than any other all-digital good.
Does it? When mining becomes unprofitable, Bitcoin servers will have to tack on transaction fees to speed up the verification process.
What was the threatening message? Could you link to it?
Why should they be invalidated? Why shouldn't the inventor of something useful benefit from the invention?
I'm hopeful Eastern Europe will regrow the spine half a century of so called communism destroyed.
I think it's more than possible to get a good software engineering job - I have not had to do any competitive programming or puzzle problems to get a job, although I have a history of being competitive in mathematics in high school (which I generally keep secret, along with many of my accomplishments). Actually, I don't even have a computer science background or even took a programming class (excepting in high school almost 15 years ago, where the teacher was a consultant who didn't even know programming).

I don't even think those who have experience doing those things are even a good barometer of whether they would be good coders, or do well in software engineering. They may certainly do well, but I think that companies that look to hire those who can do those are looking for people of a certain mental makeup - some of these companies may arguably be using the wrong criteria for hiring.

Your GitHub would make me curious if my company was looking to hire & probably would be enough to get an interview, but knowing how to talk about tech would be important. Since this is all hypotheticals, I wouldn't be able to make a positive determination without an interview, which would be the clincher.

Also I see that your GH page lists that you're from India? Many companies may find it difficult bringing on a candidate from overseas (HN's audience is predominantly US), although with the right company, remote work would be possible - however, remote work is probably difficult to pull off unless the company is absolutely confident in you as it is.
Yeah, I see forward to funeral live reports. These tearful moments are so much better than movies.
There are massive subsidies going to the 50-64 years of age crowd.

Now, yes, you can argue that it's good to smooth costs over a lifetime ... but that also hits the young very hard when they can least afford it. As does their FICA taxes for Social Security and Medicare.

As we've seen in pretty much every other developed country, this whole welfare state approach is a self-correcting dead end, as enough of the young decide not to play the rigged game and decline to have children.
The post at Joyent is eye-popping and Bryan Cantrill comes across as a horrible person. In just four sanctimonious, power-hungry and smug paragraphs he makes Joyent look like a toxic entity I would never want to deal with.
What drinchev said, plus: a significant proportion of the electorate is controlled (probably 10-15%) and outright bought (another 10-15%). The elections are technically fair, but those who have been in power for most of the last 25 years come with a hard advantage of 20-25% over whatever the authentic outrage can channel into voting booths.

If you're young, Western-minded and willing to work, it's much, much easier to emigrate and leave the hoi paloi to rot under their perennial red overlords, than to stay and fight the system. So people emigrate, and the shit for the rest becomes deeper.
The folks at MarkLogic must be unhappy with being singled out in the following paragraph:

Some of the companies building the system opposed an early decision by the Medicare agency to use database software from a company called MarkLogic, which handles data differently from systems by companies like IBM and Oracle. Some suggest that its unfamiliar nature slowed their work. By mid-November, more than six weeks after the rollout, the MarkLogic database -- essentially the website's virtual filing cabinet and index -- continued to perform below expectations, according to one person who works in the command center.

The company's response is recorded as:

In interviews, MarkLogic’s executives faulted inadequate computing power and instability at the site’s data center, as well as the failure to properly integrate their product, problems repeatedly cited by other website vendors.

Any insight on what is meant by how MarkLogic "handles data differently"?
This is my rough understanding of what's going on:

Ukraine wants to increase cooperation with Europe, and possibly join EU. This would undermine it's relationship with Russia.

The previous Ukranian president, Viktor Yushchenko, usually sided with the West, and current president, Viktor Yanukovych, wants to preserve friendship with Russia.

Russia obviously doesn't want to lose allies, so it threatened to stop trading, and impose strict sanctions on Ukraine if they agreed to partnership with Europe.

Some Ukrainians dislike Yanukovych for siding with Russia instead of Europe, thus causing protests.

If you have more knowledge about this situation, feel free to correct me if I err.
I've followed your advice and have been playing quick 9x9 games on KGS while I'm working through the first "Graded Go Problems for Beginners" book. Thank you.
Absolutely!

Competitive programming is highly focused on algorithms, data structures, optimization and your ability to come up with a solution fast. To excel in it, it may take months, or even years of practice. I've actually never met anyone yet who does really well in these contests, and they still do have good jobs.

Competitive programming can really help you gain expertise in these areas - far more than a typical programmer. But these areas are just a subset of software engineering - there's a lot more to it. Of course it's great knowing it all, but for many programmers this kind of thorough knowledge isn't required.

But if you wanna build new, awesome stuff from scratch (something like Redis, Git or Nginx) or you're working on a system which needs to be efficient, those skills really come in handy.

Lastly, I see you're a GSoC student who has worked with Mozilla - you're probably good enough, if not great!

Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823682
I believe we should give others consideration at all times, unless or until they earn either our respect or our ire. It becomes more and more obvious how old-fashioned and unpopular people find this view.

That wouldn't necessarily be a problem (well, a public one, anyway) without the great power that's been bestowed upon individuals by The Internet. All hail the internet, enabler of bad behavior from 4chan to Twitter (though with the kind of deeds documented here, I'm starting to wonder where the difference between the two went).

Now we have a total disregard for others coupled with the widespread ability to disseminate any kind of vitriol at the speed of LTE.

Not what I'd call social progress.
It's not much of an option (in the Ukraine) when the opposition leader is in jail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko
Paul Walker from Fast and Furious is dead
http://mashable.com/2013/11/30/actor-paul-walker-dead-at-40/

Speed was a factor in the crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office said.
The wreck took place about 3:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. ET), about 300 yards from the office park where the event was held. The speed limit there is 45 mph.
Up and down the road near the crash site were burned rubber and doughnut marks as though someone smoked their tires in figure 8 patterns.
(Not addressing the fact we have incredible amounts of cheating at elections)

People can get really dumb when 98% of their time is spent trying to survive on 200-300 USD a month.

Add these facts to that 200-300 USD:

- Food is generally more expensive than in the UK

- A litre of gasoline costs 2 USD

- Electricity and gas prices are more expensive then in the UK

- The VAT is 27%

etc...
he's explicitly getting fired because the decision maker believes that the behavior must be motivated by an attitude the decision maker disapproves of.

But that happens all the time, and is OK! If an employee made a hiring decision by being motivated not on finding the best candidate for the employer, but by being motivated by wanting their child to get the job, that's an fireable offence. If someone made an internal promotion by being motivated by bribery, that's a fireable offence. etc.
Why should my actions be limited by the wishes of inconsiderate people?
That Ferrel clip is no more or less disturbing than any featuring Al Murray doing The Pub Landlord. How many of his audience get that it's all an ironic joke?
Looks like it posted (late?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6827554
His core point is still true - when the price is so volatile, it's now not a means of exchange, it's a speculative investment where the last buyer will get 0. It's kind of like the Palm/3com mispricing in 2000 when the subsidiary was worth more than the parent.
When you say "Ukraine wants to increase cooperation with Europe", who do you mean by "Ukraine"?

The president? The people in the west (i.e. the ones protesting here)? The people in the east who only speak Russian?
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Now you have to trust the driver. And depend on there not being "test modes" in the hardware that can be turned on (USB 3.0 is a pretty complex beastie; frankly, if I were a spook agency I'd want to have doors in via seldom-examined ports like USB).
> "You need: Authorization to work in the US"

Understandable given your size yet personally quite disappointing :( Any plans for sponsoring visas in the near future?
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Primary and secondary are from the clients perspective. Master and slave has to do with zones. A slave zone is essentially blank and gets all its records from a master zone.
Why doesn't shoving a private conversation in my ear qualify as earning my ire?