skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a similar app at http://healthcostnegotiator.com/

I took the approach of targeting under/un-insured patients with the goal of assisting them in negotiating their health care costs to levels more similar to the Medicare payments. It is pretty difficult to shop for medical care in the event of an emergency, so my tool gives nearby, regional, and national prices for selected procedures so that the patient go into price negotiations with their care provider and hopefully get charged a lower price.

Edit: I also made a visualization of the CMS Provider Charge Data here: http://labs.coseppi.com/cms/
You only really have that problem when you want to start with a currency out of nothing. In that context, it might be interesting to study Hut Taxes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hut_tax

It is a fascinating problem though, because the price level is really just an arbitrary number when you look at it from a global perspective: If all price tags were removed from everything, an alien observer would have no way of telling it.

This makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, and I suspect that is what underlies a lot of the ultimately romantic desire to tie currency to something "real".
Sure, if you find it convenient - go for it. However, I'd not enforce it as a policy for whole organisation for the reasons outlined above.
Interesting how they pitched it "as a complement to Java". Seems like everyone since then has been trying to emphasize how it's not.
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Website:

http://www.poweruptoys.com/pages/app-toys

Kickstarter campaign page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/393053146/powerup-30-smartphone-controlled-paper-airplane

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the project in any way.
Not sure if it applies here, but the EU Charter states:

When an individual enters the EU for the purpose of claiming asylum,
s/he is required to claim in the first EU country that s/he seeks enters.

So probably not elsewhere in EU.
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People have to go. It's been a couple hundred thousand or a couple million years, depending on how you measure it, and the species has yet to prove itself. Destroy humanity!
Website:

http://www.poweruptoys.com/pages/app-toys

Kickstarter campaign page:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/393053146/powerup-30-sma...

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with the project in any way.
Yes, Julia also has type aliases [1]. This is a pretty obvious feature when you have parametric types. The article feels a bit like the author has pretty limited experience with other languages besides Java prior to trying Ceylon.

[1] http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/types/#type-alias...
Seconded. I went to a High School that consistently has the second highest SAT scores in the country, and was able to get in because I lived in an area that has trouble filling their allocated slots at the school. It has been a tremendous advantage in my endeavors that my social group and network contains so many people so much smarter than me.
There is plenty of gold in Fort Knox!

Our currency has not been pinned to gold for 40 years (when the Bretton Woods system collapse), but the Federal Reserve still maintains the holdings.

Before the Bretton Woods system collapsed, the US government was required to allow large entities to exchange their USDs for gold. Now, it isn't required to. But the fact that the Federal Reserve holds the gold, and that it is well known that they would use it to support the value of the USD, helps maintain the value of the USD.
Are you talking about: "It's a sad joke Rubyconf attendees yearly confuse @bryanl and @daksis with each other, but it's happened at every Rubyconf i've been too (which is granted 3 but it's there)."?

I don't think there's anything racist about that if it's an honest mistake the audience makes. Or did you mean to say the actual presenters announce them by the wrong name?
I would expect that the two aren't independent -- the proportion of black women to black men could well be very much higher than the proportion of white women to white men. The same qualities and situation that help a black man become a programmer despite the various forms of systemic bias would also be useful to a woman.
Yes, I totally agree, but I'm sure you can agree that it's still just a matter of deciding what you want to do with your free time. If you decide that the free time you have is better spend watching Braking Bad or playing EVE, you should not use "lack of time" excuse for any other activity. It's all about priorities.
> WTF does that have to do with anything?

The author has been writing / working on the implications of drone technologies regularly in various contexts for the past few years. He didn't dedicate a separate piece to the Amazon news at the time, and the political underpinnings of drones (which he has most often dealt with in the military context) and extraordinary / unjust rendition are not at all unrelated.
That may be so, but then it wouldn't be the fault of discrimination.
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This is definitely a concern. What does it tell us, I wonder?

I'm certainly not saying that there are no individual bigots in the OSS world. With thousands (millions?) of people you'll get all points of view, beneficial and toxic.

A simple 'grep' of GitHub reveals a lot of crap, but are these influential projects? Do these projects have multiple committers who have signed off with pride that "my project contains 'n-----' in the code comments"? Do these projects have lots of users?

It would be interesting to plot the occurrence of racial slurs against the number of participants in a project (controlling for offensive term filters or corpuses of 'real' language). My hunch is that the vast majority of these terms occur in one-time undergraduate projects or forgotten hobbyist repos.
Does including GPL code in your project (movie) makes this project (movie) GPL too and requires release of all movie source code? (i.e. 3d models, scenes, screenplay, etc.) And if yes, if someone will rebuild whole movie, will it be possible to download binary version of it compiled by some Joe for free?
With respect, may I ask what the reason actually is, that the word rentier has negative connotations?
I don't see what the government expects. They go out of their way to keep things secret, like with FISA courts and the gag orders on the no-fly list, and then they say "she can't prove it was us" as a defense. Hello? Rule of law?
There is a popular lecture on youtube where a defense attorney and a police officer give some interesting insights in the criminal investigation process.

http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc.
This American Life recently featured an episode on (false) confessions. I found one of the stories in particular quite painful: the suspect who confessed just in order to get the interrogation over with, the cop who didn't realize that they had spoon-fed the suspect the facts to support their own confession. Give it a listen:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/507/c...
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I'm curious, why would it be bad if the organizers of a conference made that mistake, but it's not bad if the attendees do?

And yes, he means that people walk up to Randall and say "oh hey, Brian!" and vice versa. Really, really often. Sometimes repeatedly. They're different heights, they don't even look like each other at all. They're just usually the only two black guys there. It happens at more than just Ruby conferences...
I wonder if this is just a case of "bad press" for them, or if the broader implications of widespread domestic spying has actually sunk in.

Interesting to read this in light of the recent flurry of engineer code-of-ethics style submissions that we've seen lately.
Never turn out to be decent games? Some of the most beloved and respected games in history (e.g. Elite) are done this way.
You're moving the goalposts. At first you wanted specific instances, now you want specific instances in major projects.
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Oh, agreed. I'm not trying to imply that all high-paying jobs are stressful... not at all.

I'm just saying that there are indeed jobs that are high-stress, and that typically, the trade-off for that stress is in higher pay. There are certainly high paying jobs that aren't inherently stressful, and I'd wager that most of us, as programmers, enjoy them quite a lot. There are also certainly low paying jobs that are extremely stressful -- state level politics, social workers, etc., are likely to fall within those demographics.

Just as certainly though, there do exist high-stress jobs that also are high pay, and that said high stress is a check mark in the con column against it, just as 'physical labor is hard' is a valid check mark in the con column against trade labor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Nam... Can't become standard soon enough.
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The people who get to make those descisions are the people who chase the jobs where they get to make those decisions. Now who do you suppose is the most motivated to get those jobs?
Judging by the last time a CA issued a CA=yes certificate for MITM, nothing will happen to it. Mozilla will send another "strongly worded letter" [1] and then fail to take any action at all.

[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:Communications

"2) Review your CA operations and customers to ensure that there are no certificates chaining up to your trust anchors that are included in Mozilla’s program that may be used for MITM or “traffic management” of domain names or IP addresses that the certificate holder does not own or control. Mozilla’s CA Certificate Enforcement Policy has been updated to make it clear that Mozilla will not tolerate this use of publicly trusted certificates."
So you're saying there is a passive or subtle bias against blacks or Hispanics in the OSS world in a way that is not also applied to Asian members of that community?
Doesn't Chrome use certificate pinning? It seems that it would be immune to this, no?
The built in Podcast app does that.
Here's the link to the online Stanford course: http://online.stanford.edu/course/statistical-learning-winte.... It is being taught by two of the authors too. I definitely recommend checking it out.
This is already beginning to happen- melanoma patients are screened for V600E mutations to determine if they can receive new treatments, as with breast cancer and tamoxifen or her petit although this happens with immunohistoxhemistry rather than sequencing.
The V600E mutation also appears in some other cancers (bowel, from memory) so occasionally used there too
Are any of them open source projects that anyone has ever heard of? I don't see any.

Edit: why did you delete the links to the searches? It looked like literally 99% bad word lists, and a couple of random repos that probably only the comiter cared about. One of them was a dump of metadata from pirated files off The Pirate Bay.
Promise as in showing the potential for future research, not for your promising to do future research.

But yes, it is a gamble, that often fails. But people aren't given tenture just because of what they've done in the past. Yes, it relies on what they've done in the past, but the intent is that past behavior is a predictor of future behavior.
The US is trillions of dollars in debt. The gold holdings in Fort Knox are a few hundred billion at most. You can't prop the dollar up with gold if there's a major economic boo-boo - the value just isn't there to offset such massive deficiencies. When they tried exchanging dollars for gold under the BW system they started to run out of gold.

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If anything's propping up the American Dollar, I suspect a far more likely culprit would be that OPEC primarily uses dollars - creating a demand for dollars in the international exchange markets.
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For Google properties yes, but not for the majority of sites.
It should've happened before Snowden's revelations, and have their morale down after everything they've been asked to do. They just seem upset about "getting caught" now. Well, cry me a river.
its not an exact solution, and actually the implementation is just very poor. highly optimised versions of this have been around for 20 years or more running with /software/ rendering.

you can boil the whole thing down to a convolution matrix type trick which a modern gpu will eat for breakfast.

i should find some time and do one of these... the quality of 'impressive webgl tech demo' seems to be about 15 years out of date in general...
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Based on the article's statement that "agency employees are privately voicing frustration at what they perceive as White House ambivalence amid the pounding the agency has taken from critics", I suspect it's the "bad press" angle rather than a realization of the (negative) consequences of their actions.
I like the concept of a procedural space exploration game and No Man’s Sky looks like a promising entry in the genre. There has been a number of attempts so far that approached this concept from different angles (from using space as a setting for fast roguelike gameplay [1] to pure exploration [2]), many of them resulting in good games.

That said, if No Man’s Sky really is totally procedural I wonder how the developers will handle the overall structure of the game and avoid the "quicksand box" [3] trap. This is especially pertinent if the game doesn't feature a Minecraft-style combination of building and survival to make the players not mind the "quicksand".

I know the game in which I enjoyed exploring space the most is The Ur-Quan Masters (formerly known as "Star Control II") [4]. The star systems and planets there are not procedurally generated and I don't think randomizing them would make much of the difference for the reason I'll explain in a moment. My best guess as to why I liked UQM/SC2 so much beyond its audiovisual style is that a) it has no formal mission structure that limits the player's actions; and b) there's a lot you can do; but c) your exploration still ties into an engaging larger story, which and in turn contributes unique one-time encounters to the exploration. A consequence of c) is that mixing up the layout of the galaxies without changing the overall plot, which at its core is fairly linear and features a time limit (think the original Fallout), wouldn't really change what the game is like. My guess is that the company that figures out how to generate distinct game plots that provide c) along with a) and b) will take over the procedural games business, if not the game industry as a whole. The question is whether c) can be done well enough in some way that doesn't involve an artificial general intelligence or per-player MTurk writers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Adventures_in_Infinite...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noctis

[3] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuicksandBox

[4] It's now FOSS and available from http://sc2.sourceforge.net/. Highly recommended if you have an interest in SF space games.
The space scenes look a lot like Homeworld.
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The first Node.js dismissal, as expected.
You can take quite a long vacation for 20k.
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You'd never be able to make it just a drop in replacement, because it's not just about the allocation and freeing. The interesting stuff is specifying the hierarchies so that freeing a higher object frees lower ones too. Existing code using malloc/free wouldn't be doing that.
Per this 2009 thread:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477147

the CA cert is in the firefox cert store under the name PM / SGDN. Delete at will!

DCSSI, the party discussed in that thread, was re-titled ANSSI in July 2009
I believe the choice of BSD kernel of OS X was laregely due to the permissiveness of the BSD license v. GPL, not underlying kernel advantages.
People are very good at insulating themselves in bubbles where they convince themselves that everything they do is for the good of people. In those instances it takes public revelations before they will start taking notice. And even when it gets public you can expect that a lot of the morale issues is that some of them will feel betrayed for not getting lots of officials (and Obama) speaking up in their support for doing what many of them presumably still think is vitally important work.

This is one of the reasons why transparency is so vital: People with power are scary when they operate without getting to hear what people think about what they do. We're experts at filling in the blanks with what we think we deserve to hear.
Agreed. Incoming Rails vs. Node flame war aside, if it takes you 3 months to make trivial changes, you're doing something very wrong, or your development process is completely broken.
I've been in Australia for over 2 years, coming in under the 457 program. No degree either, and it didn't seem to be a problem. Getting PR through a 457 is pretty straightforward, though it will take 2 years and is more expensive now than it used to be. The upside is there's no skills test going this route.
To be honest, I don't know - I never go long enough without being near a charger to really notice.
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We just need genetically modified humans, like we have genetically modified plants. Need to remove a few genes: like greed, jealousy, and probably a few others. But there is no ethical way to do this :(
I've been looking into things that might help manage memory in some larger applications. I've been working with GObject recently, which has some benefits but using it is a bit of a full on lifestyle choice, and I'm not sure how suitable it is for some of the smaller embedded environments I work in.

This might be quite a good middle ground. Need to go and have a look at the impact on performance and memory usage.
Long story short, if you are arrested CLAM UP AND ONLY ASK FOR YOUR LAWYER, SAY NOTHING ELSE.
Then, this might be interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053961
"has always been considered"

by whom? "mid tier" is a very generic term. Most critiques and opinions I know of consider these devices best in class.
Yoza! Just did a search for some of the popular slurs.
So yes, let's not do anything and blame stuff on some lame stuff like lack of time.

Hmm, no... let's not do anything until we can rationalise the problem. On average I spend around four to five hours a day teaching myself programming, that amount of time is the main reason I can learn it effectively. Along with the commitment of two part time jobs (one of them being voluntary), an accountancy course, searching for new jobs and the fact that I can't afford a car, I get about 4 - 5 hours sleep per day. No, that ain't no balance. If I had children to look after, I doubt I would be able to do it.
We could remove those genes by killing all humans. You didn't say you needed to keep the rest.
Yes, which is how they found out about the fraudulent cert. They went ahead and revoked the entire intermediate CA because Chrome doesn't pin the whole internet and if Google confirmed fraud on their own domain it has to assume there are others.

Chrome's popularity and Google's use of pinning to their own properties is a pretty powerful combination to detect MITM.
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More like "USA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, much of U.S. population says," I'd say.

That happens when you do something most people would feel shame for.

A major difference between NSA employees and the rest of us is that they can easily stop what they're doing. Let's hope their pitiful loss of morale leads them to develop a conscience, respect for the law, or whatever it takes to stop doing things that lead to feeling so bad.

> “They feel they’ve been hung out to dry, and they’re right.”

Bullshit. They're adults who chose to do what they did and work where they work.

We have emotions to guide our behavior. If they feel bad for the environment they chose to work in and the work they chose to do, maybe they should look in the mirror and ask if they ought to reconsider their choices and do something that doesn't draw shame and contempt from the rest of the world while undermining their county's interests.
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You're missing the point entirely. Executive salaries can be a magic wand for insurance companies to go "look how low our margins are!" by funneling what would've been profits into the pockets of their already highly-paid execs.
There is another source of demand: debtors can force creditors to accept currency as repayment.
The second video is a dud too. Towards the end, Bryan Cranston admits that indeed, he married at 23.
Makes sense, reading someone else's code is generally harder than reading your own.
This is definitely correct, but if the developers themselves say explicitly on their blog that they don't consider the current builds production ready, i wouldn't feel comfortable recommending to build something important on it, as it is prone to changes, even if it succeeds.
> Chrome's popularity and Google's use of pinning to their own properties is a pretty powerful combination to detect MITM.

Plus the fact that Chrome reports back to Google when it finds a valid certificate that's not the pinned one.
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The article reads as if they're waiting for confirmation that they were right all along.

However, USA citizens are still waiting for an admission that they were overboard and will change their ways.

These viewpoints aren't reconcilable, and trying to please both is not only hypocritical but simply impossible - the president must make a decision, and set clear the expected direction for NSA; otherwise there can't be good morale if they're unclear if what they're doing is considered by the top leaders as good or evil.
You need to consider that the analysts that are complaining here, are trained to not question the motive behind their work, or the implications. They are essentially soldiers following orders, so if they started becoming critical of the task they are doing, they wouldn't be fit to do it, and lose their job.

The problem however, is that while they are trained and behave like soldiers, they do not get the gratitude that is usually given to soldiers, because regular soldiers go to combat, and risk their lives, while these stay in the basement at Fort Meade. So their only pat on the back comes from their immediate superiors, in secret.
Because:

a) They have never met the speaker personally.

b) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_perception

It has --nothing-- to do with being racist.
Yeah, my dad taught me to count on my hands in binary when I was young. I tried explaining it to others but that usually broke down when I reached four...
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Xiaomi competes for the consumers who are jealous of the UX of iOS but could not afford a real iPhone. Also Xiaomi fails to match the demands to its flagship products time and time and always runs into shortages.
I completely agree with the expressed sentiments, both regarding TBBT and Community, which is a fantastic show.
If you know that a gesture is expected, the hand is not necessary.

However, it's unlikely that people would recognise they are expected to gesture without some context - the clearest way to indicate the correct context is with the hand.

The hand is providing a necessary function here - although I agree it might be a bit heavy and that it will be less necessary once you've established the context.