skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if you think you should have a larger government than you have now the question is what kind of larger government, and once you make the wrong choice there's a huge inertia in the system that makes correcting that choice very hard.

To quote Theodore Roosevelt,

> The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in practical fashion. No permanent good comes from aspirations so lofty that they have grown fantastic and have become impossible and indeed undesirable to realize. The impractical visionary is far less often the guide and precursor than he is the embittered foe of the real reformer, of the man who, with stumblings and shortcoming, yet does in some shape, in practical fashion, give effect to the hopes and desires of those who strive for better things. Woe to the empty phrase-maker, to the empty idealist, who, instead of making ready the ground for the man of action, turns against him when he appears and hampers him when he does work! Moreover, the preacher of ideals must remember how sorry and contemptible is the figure which he will cut, how great the damage that he will do, if he does not himself, in his own life, strive measurably to realize the ideals that he preaches for others. Let him remember also that the worth of the ideal must be largely determined by the success with which it can in practice be realized. We should abhor the so-called "practical" men whose practicality assumes the shape of that peculiar baseness which finds its expression in disbelief in morality and decency, in disregard of high standards of living and conduct. Such a creature is the worst enemy of the body of politic. But only less desirable as a citizen is his nominal opponent and real ally, the man of fantastic vision who makes the impossible better forever the enemy of the possible good.

tldr: don't make perfect the enemy of good. This comes several paragraphs after the famous "Man in the Arena" bit.
Good point! Water table contamination is yet another hazard.

Fukushima is situated on the coast line, and already leaks into the ocean, but Chernobyl is near the Pripyat river, and is a tributary to the Dnieper River, which empties into the Black Sea. The Pripyat is contaminated within the exclusion zone, but it would be bad news to disturb and agitate any contamination, and make things worse.

Given that it's already a bad situation, and that natural leeching is already taking place by doing nothing, any engineering project would have to approach the site carefully so that leeching is not accelerated.

Yucca mountain is located in the southwest desert, so that mitigates water seepage, but Yucca mountain isn't a disaster site (yet), so that technical challenge can be tackled before it arises.
Take a look at Lamernews (https://github.com/antirez/lamernews). It is written in Ruby by the author Redis. It uses Redis as the primary database.

Here is it in action: http://lamernews.com/
> I think Marx was a much better diagnostician than he was a clinician.

That is a hell of a way to put it, and I totally agree. His basic framework of social relations (I am probably butchering terms here, please forgive me) seems basically right to me the older I get, though like Simon, I don't necessarily agree with his proposed solutions.
>if we have for profit public schools, I'd want their profits to be tied to the long term effects of results of their students, not to yearly test scores.

This is a great idea! Why not do the same for government-run schoolteachers? This may help attract and retain high quality staff, as well as providing low-skilled teachers an incentive to leave.
Sensible? He points at miles of Baltimore housing projects where "fathers" consider themselves responsible only for impregnating women and the state to be entirely responsible for the child after that as the fault of libertarians. Neighborhoods where everyone assumes from birth that they are permanently exempt from any responsibility for supporting themselves, because that is and always will be the state's responsibility, and are free to spend every day doing what they feel like, are blamed on libertarian ideas.
Let's not be naive. Spying doesn't involve warrants. It's called spying because that's what it is, spying, not building a legal case to take to court. Warrants aren't ever going to figure into spying.

You can bound the scope of what spy agencies spy on, but expecting them to spy and to get a warrant to spy before they do it, that's not going to happen. If you truly want warrant based searches for everyone, everywhere, then you have to ban spy agencies world wide and make this all a law enforcement function.
Delhi is not a state. Indian politicians have contested in constituencies they have not resided for a very long time. Kejriwal hasn't done something new here.
Cool. Where are they "caching" the content if not on your device? In the ether?
The chilling thing is the answers you get when you ask some of the more frank of the upper class in a moment of candor what should happen to the people that are no longer necessary or left behind.

Some of outliers of their solutions range from literal slavery via prison/slums, to starvation, to genocide. Worst of all answers is indifference or "God will provide". They got theirs, go fuck off and die.
My understanding is that Chrome only cares about this sort of thing when it's a CA in the default trust store that shouldn't be impersonating them. User-added certs like in your example are fine, because explicit action was taken.

See Adam Langley's blog about this here: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html
Here's a reply purportedly from an O.D.[1]:

Eye doctor here. Avastin is currently used off-lable for eye conditions (most commonly wet AMD and macular edema in diabetes). It is only FDA approved for use in treatment of some colon and lung cancers. Generally speaking, even though it fits standard of care within the field of ophthalmology to use this drug, there are still some inherent risks in doing so for the practitioner, thusly, Lucentis is still preferred by some. Also, I've not encountered this (as MOST insurance companies would prefer practitioners to use the cheaper drug) but I've heard of difficulty with third party payer coverage/ reimbursement when using the off-lable drug.

Another thing to consider, as ajrw pointed out, they ARE NOT as the article mentions "the same drug." Some people respond more favorably to one versus the other. Commonly, the two will be used in succession on the same patient as though no double blind clinical trial has been done to confirm this; both drugs tend to exhibit a slight tachyphylaxis over time (diminished effect). Practitioners have found that when one drug starts becoming less effective, switching to the other VEGF inhibitor can show recapture of the previous level of therapeutic benefit.

I would advise all to take this article with a huge grain of salt. Most practitioners are not aiming to increase insurance costs (obviously, as generally speaking, the higher the bill, the harder it is to get the reimbursement.) Many are probably apprehensive to use an off-lable drug from a medical-legal stand point.

Note: I am not a surgeon. So some of this is slightly presumptive.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1sdxz6/an_effectiv...
Indians are brainwashed to believe that 'voting in elections = democracy'.

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-12-07/news...
It's a pedagogical exercise, not a cycle-counting contest. GPU acceleration amounts to premature optimization when your goal is learning the basic math.
Not just the Nordic model, but even the achievements of some European countries (notably Germany) and Japan, would have been possible without US security guarantees?

Essentially the US/Nato is the main protector of Western interests, and American taxpayers ( + deficit financing ) essentially props up these 'regimes' - granted they are more democratic, and there is a great deal of autonomy than a traditional vassal states arrangements.
> Few people are saying saying "let's not do this" for some value of "this", they're saying "let's not force everyone to do this".

There are four guys in a crippled spaceship. They have 7 hours of oxygen left if they continue to breathe normally. If they all make a concerted effort to breathe slowly they could extend the oxygen to 8 hours. The rescue ship arrives in 8 hours.

They are all in it together. There's nothing that can be done about that.

Now the libertarian astronaut insists that he won't be forced to change his breathing pattern. No way is he going to be forced to do anything different. He's not going to be forced to be in it with the other guys. No amount of cajoling, threatening or reasoning will get this guy to give up his "one-man island" philosophy.

But he is in it with the other guys. Sticking his head in the space-sand doesn't change the hard facts of 7 hours of oxygen and rescue in 8.
The Contradictions of Mandela
The arguments about the divide in America often misses an important point - personal choice or rather the sum of many personal choices that lead one to be on either side of the divide. The fact that we have so many people in prison is driven by the fact that people break laws in the first place. Some laws might be unjust, but the vast majority are just. If you commit what society has deemed unwanted, you must be punished. This is the basic concept of social organization.

Recently, I went to see a movie "20 blocks" down the street (as the author puts it) not thinking one bit that it might be a bad idea. I won't bore you with details, but in the end, I was assaulted just for asking someone not to speak loudly during the movie... How is this normal? Am I to blame for this anyway, just because I am white and of upper-middle income?!

This is the reason I cannot buy in to the fact that capital is to blame for all evils. Personal choice and degradation of moral values is what is the tragedy of the West and the world. In all facets of our society, we have chosen to ignore the basics that we understand to be good. These moral principles have nothing to do with wealth. If we remember these and act on them, the balance will be restored.
Warning: may cause uncontrollable sobbing.
> You're an American (or a Canadian or a Briton or whatever). You are part of a society and part of a nation whether you like it or not. So let's make it work for everyone.

Regardless of which lines one did not to choose to be drawn around them, not everyone has an affinity for them, and if history is any example of such, blood will be drawn for those to fight for their will to reconstruct such lines to their choosing…
So you avoid a few null checks but you introduce the indentation problem you mentioned a few comments ago.

I think we can agree this is better than the alexkus example but there are tradeoffs involved.

(PS: I am bothered at how you cast the return value of malloc, this is C we're talking about right, not some other language with more plus signs? :-))
Consumer debt and the increase of public lotteries are the schemes that allow inequality to exist as long as it has. Take them away and you take away hope.
Rather than persuading CAs to implement Certificate Transparency, how about sorting CAs into groups by jurisdiction and displaying different icons or colors for low/medium/high security, corresponding to having signatures from 1, 3, or 5 complementary jurisdictions? This would give CAs a financial incentive to cooperate: people are less likely to buy 3 or 5 certs at full price, so they could capture significantly more market-share by teaming up and offering to sign each other's customers for half or quarter price. It's (more) free money for them and it significantly complicates the process of performing a MITM, especially if you aren't the USA.

EDIT: Nevermind, I think I understand why it wouldn't work: independently verifying customers is hard, so they would either have to trust each other or spend a nontrivial amount of money verifying each customer. If they trusted each other, the additional security would be worthless, since the host country of the principal CA could just order them to lie. If they each verified the customer independently, they would each incur the usual amount of fixed cost, so they couldn't offer much of a discount.
Back in high school I had one of the standard required classes on Government, the majority of which I've since forgotten. But there was one bit which has stuck with me in the years since. The teacher drew a box on the board and put the label "government" inside it. He then drew a much larger box around it, which he labeled "economic system". This illustrated two things I think are fairly important - first, that the government is a small piece of the economic system overall, and second, that attempts by the government to interfere with the economic system would have a much bigger return effect on the government.

For an example, lets say the government bans the use of some inexpensive material in building houses due to health concerns, requiring companies to use some more expensive material instead. This has a direct economic impact on those construction companies, which, when you consider them all as one group, would add up to something significant. These companies in their efforts to make money could now do two things: use the new material, costing them x, or spend money lobbying to repeal the change, costing y. It seems almost inevitable that the money it takes to repeal the law will be cheaper - because the government (or, at least, the relevant portions) are effectively fighting against not one or two companies but an entire economic sector. This case naturally grows worse against sectors that are large/concentrated/powerful, such as finance and medical (which in my view would be the reason it is so difficult to have serious financial reform - even after a disastrous crash like 08).

But there's something more to be taken from this, I think - and that's that the economic system we have does not place value on health, or safety, or environment. Capitalism encourages a very "not my problem" attitude. Got a factory putting contaminants in a river? Not my problem. Worker loses his arm using dangerous machinery? Not my problem. An efficient and rational actor in a capitalist system doesn't worry about these things. This is where you get tragedy of the commons type effects, where someone (or people) seeking to maximize personal gain - as you should, under a capitalist system - damage or ruin something not just for themselves but for everyone.

In short, this idea that "Building a society is the responsibility of each individual who values it" runs directly contrary to the principles of capitalism, near as I can tell. I would be interested in hearing why/how this is not the case.
not being open to the patient's own ideas != not being open to ideas other than his own
Unless the GPL license is different from what I read here (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) then it does not extend to make the entire film subject to the GPL license. The GPL license only extends to "covered works" (works based on the GPL'd work).

If the entire movie was based on the GPL'd work then the GPL could extend to the entire movie and its source assets. For example, if the code of the GPL'd work formed a central pillar of the plot of the movie (the actual code itself, not just its function or purpose because those things are not copyrightable), then the GPL could possibly extend to the entire movie. However, in movies the GPL'd work is usually just shown briefly on-screen to fill out a scene involving computer code; it does not form the basis of any part of the movie itself.

A bright line test: if the code could easily be replaced with random mumbo-jumbo psuedo code (or even jibberish) without meaningfully altering the tested work (i.e., the movie), then the GPL won't apply to the tested work.
The request context is I think the most annoying part of go http handling.

Oh you want to wrap your handler with something that does db.Begin()/db.Commit()? Well you need to stuff that tx somewhere...

so then your options are a global map[*http.Request]interface{} with mutexes or pass it as an arg. Passing it in as an arg means you either lose compile time type checking because you use reflect or lose the ability to add more middlewares that build up request context. The map[]interface{} also loses compile time type checking for the most part unless you do something per type of context, with more mutexes.

The second option is the sanest, but means either reflect if you have more than one context arg to build out (sql.Tx + cache + oauth grant + whatever else maybe?) or you have some common context object that may or may not use everything every request and your just adding more context members all the time that may or may not be initialized for that particular request.

Sometimes I miss the dynamic typing and/or compile time type templating.
Yes , but certainly with a debut and huge margin it's a big deal .
And finally there is Dr. Oz, who talked well, was attractive, knew Oprah and was interested in talking about all sorts of diseases and conditions outside his training. He has a TV show, multiple book deals, is a millionaire, and doesn't have to see a patient.
I don't see an interpretation of what was said in the article where reimbursement of the cost goes to a pharmacy and 6% goes to the doctor, though admittedly I skimmed.
One major problem, which the article touches on, is the media. Seems like normal people are usually presented as being completely baffled by the simplest bits of math and science. And those who understand math or science are presented as otherwise broken human beings: as people with egos out of control, people incapable of understanding other people, people who are irrationally evil, etc.

Let's act as if a solid understanding of math and science is the norm. Let's see more shows where being smart about math and science isn't some Lisa Simpson or Sheldon Cooper-like deviation from the norm, something that only comes along with social ostracism and other anti-normal traits. Let's see more news programs that regularly discuss scientific topics more deeply than "Stars. Sure they're beautiful to see at night, but are they causing your kids to get CANCER?"

Kids need role models. Basketball is no more inherently interesting than math and science. It's just putting an orange ball through a hoop. Over and over. And over. And over. But Lebron James is on my TV every other night, being celebrated on the court, in Samsung ads, on the news, etc. And if you say, well, that's because watching someone poke at a calculator isn't as exciting as watching slam dunks, well, you're buying into that shitty media representation of mathematicians and scientists as being exclusively pocket-protector-wearing geeks who never leave their windowless broom-closet offices...

Anyway. This is one reason I think Neil Degrasse Tyson is so important right now. He's an awesome role model. I'm 36 and I want to be him when I grow up.
medicine is one of the areas where being economically driven causes problems.

medical research is stupidly expensive and companies need to recover their costs for their to be progress at all. incidentally its the /only/ valid argument i have seen for patents. it also explains a lot of the high expenses involved... its a shame, i feel that this is an industry that desperately needs to be nationalised because, even with the best of intentions, a business must be profitable to survive.

we regularly see layers of rhetoric and polical manuveuring attacking e.g. Obama care, the NHS and similar initiatives and from this i feel we lose out - they criticise the specifics for a political agenda. imo the spirit of these programs is exactly right - the problem is always sloppy implementation by politicians (as with any case where nationalisation is not effective - which is /provable/ almost in the mathematical sense). We can't expect them to do well though - they are winners of popularity contests which essentially boil down to competitions of rhetoric and salesmanship - they have no reason to have any of the prerequisite skills for us to expect them to do a good job in that arena - or even leadership in general. it is a massive failing of our particular flavour of democracy imo.

on the other side doctors are supposed to be bound by the Hippocratic oath. this utterly rules out not helping people because they can't afford it - and yet many physicians have to make that choice regularly - which is not just breaking their word, but against the entire spirit of medicine and morality.

all in all its a horrible situation, but one that i believe is incredibly fixable... however articles like this are attacking the institutions which currently allow us to have medicine and portraying it in a way that the common man will empathize with. its just another pile of rhetoric distracting us from being productive imo... if you dig into any of the details as other commenters have mentioned, the factual basis is weak.
Discourse Developer Install Guide (Vagrant)
QA:

- The settings link is a 404 if you haven't completed your profile yet.

- There isn't a link to complete the registration flow from the rest of the app. If you click Settings prematurely and get that 404, your profile is hosed unless you know to find http://availability.is/users/calendars in your history.

- There's no obvious way to choose a profile photo.

- The calendar listing doesn't auto-update. I just went and made a calendar (thinking it was required) in GC, but I can't link it to your site.

- It isn't made clear during registration that the availability calendar is a feature, not a requirement.
And that's what The Wire was about basically, it was about people who were worth less and who were no longer necessary, as maybe 10 or 15% of my country is no longer
necessary to the operation of the economy.

I wish more people would write about the so-called employment to population ratio as opposed to the new claims for unemployment model. Not as a metric of who's freeloading
but as a metric of who's able to have skin in the game.

His 10 to 15% number may well be conservative.
Isn't this also accomplished via the SSL Observatory functionality in HTTPS-Everywhere?
Do you live here? Because there are lots of empty lots and there are tons of under-developed areas. I don't know why you believe "Manhattan is extremely construction-friendly"; it's certainly not 'construction-friendly' enough so that there are numerous affordable housing options. Some crazy number of housing units are under either rent control or rent stabilization. The housing dynamic here is insane.
Pokemon and arithmetic - why not?
Oh man, you got me going on a mission to find a similar book, so I thought I'd drop the things I found back in here:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_(book)

- http://stuffwecollect.com/galactic-aliens-alan-daniels-origi... (This was for sure one of the ones I'd read)
This is kind of a funny analogy, perhaps better than you realized. Families and governments compete directly with each other for power over society. The English-speaking countries are way, way out on the government end of the continuum; here, you don't have to be in a family if it's not to your taste. Compared to the rest of the world, Americans, Canadians, and Britons already have only the most tenuous connection to their families anyway.