skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unclear how accurate this is. I searched my area for a random item (something respiratory) and there was one hospital that was $10k and another that was $30k. The $30k hospital probably has inflated prices, but not by 3x – it's also the hospital that takes harder cases. It's the hospital other hospitals send patients to. When we looked at hospitals for the birth of our daughter we looked at C-section rates. Almost all hospitals were the same, there was one good hospital, and then there was this hospital which had twice the C-sections of any other. But it's the hospital that gets the hard cases, a friend later delivered there (I think by C-section) after barely avoiding premature labor from 20 weeks to 35 weeks. Because people go there when they have medical challenges they have a high C-section rate, and generally high rates for everything.
And for a more common situation involving "a few cosmetic changes" that makes me feel not so bad about talking shit about drug companies, take a look at levocetirizine.

My doctor tried for a couple years to push it on me while fully knowing that I would much rather just go to Costco and buy a year's worth of generic Zyrtec for the after-insurance cost of one month of Xyzal. There is literally no difference in effectiveness or side effects for me between the two. For many people there won't be much of a difference.
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I had a poke around but lack the Google-fu to find the "propaganda" law in question. I would really be curious to see the law as written and what it entails.

The reason I ask is because the linked article http://edition.cnn.com/2013/08/01/world/europe/russia-gay-ri... about the law has the quote "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations around minors." which sounds reasonable to me.

Please note I don't want to see analysis of the law (as everything I saw while searching seemed biased), I want to see what it actually says. I want to see the other side of the argument before I cast any personal judgement over this.

Please note I am not homophobic, or against non-traditional relationships, I just want to hear the other side of the argument, especially when it would appear based on what I saw that the majority of Russians agreed with it.
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Same as the USA then.
Fair enough, Great work!
This is normal. IRS does not run the SSL site on that domain.

You get the same error at https://www.whitehouse.gov/ for example.
What's the future for Google's plunging $12.7B AdSense business?
I attempted to find a online form, and was directed to https://sa1.www4.irs.gov/irfof/lang/en/eiaTPstatus.jsp.

It looks like www.irs.gov is not used for secure connections.
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Woah. I guess I could have seen this coming..?

I utilized their API for just under two years (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.asot) and several months back they just pulled access from everyone without any insight. It took months of complaints before they started tending to developers (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/beatport-api) and so I removed the integration from my app. What a shame.
I think part of the flight from Facebook and Google+ into smaller social networks which don't require such identifying details is due to this desire for pseudo-anonymity. That said, it's no IRC. And many forums I frequented years ago have long since been destroyed. Perhaps that's why teens are also digging Snapchat, and services like it. A way to communicate without being tracked.
That's what's holding them back from doing streaming apparently (at least this is what Matt Adell alluded to last week), there's no hardware support in the CDJ's, or for that matter reliable connectivity.
Keynesian stimulus is often justified by 'wage stickiness', which is a theory that nominal wages are very slow and unlikely to adjust down; the stimulus causes inflation and devalues real wages, by increasing the money supply.[1] Please note that this is not my belief, but it is supported by some empirical evidence, and is widely held in some circles.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics#Wages_and_s...
Well you have to take a look at the results of your IPO and think 'Alright, with what that cost and what we made, what position are we in?'

An IPO changes a lot of things about your company's situation; it's not unimaginable that they looked before and took a gamble that an IPO would help, and they afterwards they had to take a second, completely different look.
My reading of rayiner's comment was that the severance packages were small because the employees were desperate and stupid.

I'm suggesting that the size of the severance package is divorced from the quality of employee. The severance package has to do with how much money the company has and how concerned it is with publicity.
Implementing microstates in Backbone.js
anything written in python?
Plenty of "disciples" cling to a few soundbites from their idols that enable them to rationalize their behavior, without ever seeking to understand their idols' broader points.
Self-Imposed Complexity
There are certainly GCs that don't pause for 50ms at a time -- Go's GC is not very good, and they even admit it.

Felix Klock's PhD is an interesting exploration of this: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pnkfelix/thesis/ although his collector does have some long pauses on particularly evil programs (those programs cause much longer pauses on conventional collectors).
My antipathy towards AirBNB comes because my experiments using AirBNB exposed me to:

- hosts using fake names
- hosts using fake addresses
- hosts giving deeply inaccurate descriptions
- hosts telling me that the super might swing by, and I should introduce myself as (some other name) friend of (another name I'd never heard) if I ran into him.
- neighbors of the unit giving me the stink eye, presumably because of what other guests had done.

My personal experience leads me to believe that AirBNB is, at it's heart, a platform that is built to create negative externalities. The processes in place to correct these issues are non-existent, which indicates to me that AirBNB knows this, and does not care.
Its clear to me at least that any definition of "terrorism" must include the concept of inducing fear in the general populace by means of acts of violence on that population. That's also clearly NOT what Mandela did.
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Well, it happens on both sides in the USA all the time. Plenty of violence to go around over here.
Not only that, its a pain in the ass to maintain Microsoft boxes compared to *nix. I dont understand how anybody has patience dealing with guis that just get in your way of getting shit done.
I can't imagine why a DJ would trust his live show to any streaming assets. A service interruption is certain to displease the crowd.
I found and article [1] that features an English translation of the law.

"Here is what Article 6.21 actually says:

Propaganda is the act of distributing information among minors that 1) is aimed at the creating nontraditional sexual attitudes, 2) makes nontraditional sexual relations attractive, 3) equates the social value of traditional and nontraditional sexual relations, or 4) creates an interest in nontraditional sexual relations.

If you’re Russian. Individuals engaging in such propaganda can be fined 4,000 to 5,000 rubles (120-150 USD), public officials are subject to fines of 40,000 to 50,000 rubles (1,200-1,500 USD), and registered organizations can be either fined (800,000-1,000,000 rubles or 24,000-30,000 USD) or sanctioned to stop operations for 90 days. If you engage in the said propaganda in the media or on the internet, the sliding scale of fines shifts: for individuals, 50,000 to 100,000 rubles; for public officials, 100,000 to 200,000 rubles, and for organizations, from one million rubles or a 90-day suspension.

If you’re an alien. Foreign citizens or stateless persons engaging in propaganda are subject to a fine of 4,000 to 5,000 rubles, or they can be deported from the Russian Federation and/or serve 15 days in jail. If a foreigner uses the media or the internet to engage in propaganda, the fines increase to 50,000-100,000 rubles or a 15-day detention with subsequent deportation from Russia."

I think that this says that advocating for equality is a crime. Scary.

[1] http://www.policymic.com/articles/58649/russia-s-anti-gay-la...
C# has pointer goodness, in that you can do pointer arithmetic and bypass type safety.

However, you have to declare an 'unsafe' context in which you'll do it. Unsafe contexts are tied to a local scope, which means that you can't do anything like having classes with fields of pointer types. Pointers don't outlive the function in which you use them.

Also, before you can get a pointer to an object you have to "pin" it, which tells the garbage collector not to move it around. This is necessary, of course, but it can have severe performance implications since it basically torpedoes all the garbage collector's best performance optimizations.

So pointers are there when you need them. . . but the language makes them extremely inconvenient to use them more than you absolutely need to. A pretty solid compromise, IMO.
The implication is that the minimum wage technicians at the manufacturer were magically transformed into robots who happen to be very good at following procedures.
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Well trolled...time to move on.
This demo drew attention a lot in the game industry. Also, there is no mention to it in the nvidia paper but another noteworthy voxel terrain demo was the cave demo (voxlap engine) from Ken Silverman (3D realms / Duke Nukem 3D 'Build' editor) [1].

[1] http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap/voxlap03.htm
Yeah, I read your post wrong. I read it as the size of the incentives to stay, not the severance.
>But monads apply functions that also return a wrapped value.

Yes, but they also must follow the monad laws.

>It should be easy to see why people think the jQuery chain pattern is indeed monadic.

It is not easy for me to see. In any of your examples are you returning the same encapsulated structure in your lambda you pass in? It doesn't look like it.

>For what it's worth, I'm far from alone in asserting that jQuery is indeed a monad.

Yes, a lot of people have a misunderstanding of monads.

>Since Haskell people claim to be the only enablers of "true monads",

I'm not a Haskell person. I write monadic code in both Scala and C# to great effect.
What are the good Asian mobile phone brands?
I think you skipped the word 'are', in the phrase 'people who are left'.

Regardless, you both appear to agree that the layoffs who pass on the earlier, more attractive offers are likely to get the least attractive severance packages.

Edit: Not it appears that Rayiner agrees that he's wrong, which makes me wrong by proxy, which is confusing, since I can't find where you two are in any disagreement.

Just pretend I'm not here, I guess.
Easy to use jQuery source viewer
Why? Assuming he's being truthful, all he's reporting is what the Man claims.
I would short a prediction contract for the year end bitcoin price on @Predictious https://www.predictious.com/economics/price-of-bitcoin-2013-...
He was treated normally (i.e. like hosts are expected to treat any foreign athletes) because Germany didn’t want to destroy its image. I mean, Germany almost snubbed Jesse Owens outright by not allowing any Blacks or Jews to participate, but after threats of boycott walked back on that (though did not change its mind, as is obvious from the quote you provided).

The nature of the relationship between Hitler and Jesse Owens is quite different from the relationship between FDR and Jesse Owens.

Points of comparison would either be a hypothetical successful German Black athlete and how Hitler would treat that person (not allow him or her to participate is the answer to that) or a hypothetical successful non-US black athlete and how FDR would treat that person.

As is quite obvious from your quote, Hitler still perceived Jesse Owens (and black people in general) as sub-human and was very outspoken about that. There is racist ideology oozing out of that statement. It’s consistent with everything else he has said about race.

FDR was obviously also racist, no question about that, but there is a difference between Hitler’s and FDR’s racism.

Jesse Owens’ own focus was very understandably on his own and others’ Blacks troubles they were facing in racist segregated America at the time.
Now I'm trying to remember if I can recall any scenes in which Claire Danes' character enters a scene intentionally armed. My memory is failing me though.
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Micro-payments have two fundamental problems:

The first problem is inertia. You need a critical mass of users before anyone will bother to accept a particular payment processor, but users don't sign up if no one accepts the payment service. This is the reason why people still use Paypal.

The second problem is fraud. If someone commits fraud over a matter of $0.20, what amount of resources can you really afford to spend investigating it? A micropayment processor that thoroughly investigates fraud will have to charge the sellers a large chunk of the payments they process, but one that doesn't will be bankrupted by fraudsters.

Crypto currencies have some potential to break this by changing who eats the loss in the case of fraud. If it isn't the payment processor (or there is no payment processor) then micro-payments become viable. You still have problems with e.g. malicious software stealing bitcoins, but they're different problems that don't break micro-payments.
Discoveries of Data Scientist Who Spent a Year at the New York Times
The War on Whistleblowers (2013)
Survivor 2299 Officially Confirmed Hoax
I do something like this:

char * buffer = ( char * )malloc( sizeof( char ) * 32 ) ;

Why? because i like to look at my code written that way.

If i code for somebody else's preference,i do it their way,if i code for my own consumption,i code it the way it pleases me.
Just for the record, there are plenty of us that are anti-EU and welcoming of immigration. There are plenty of non-bigoted reasons to dislike the European Union.
Even if they have internet and software support, it's not reliable enough for streaming services. I was reading your post when the soundcloud feed I was listening to dropped out (literally). I don't think any EDM DJ would accept that risk. This would support your argument that they'd be targetting a new audience.
Much much more amusing to see how random college drop outs can so deeply compromise national security. Imagine what trouble we'd be in if a motivated nation state tried to get the USA's secrets?
I've used x10 on and off since the early 80's. And... it sucks. When it works, it's cool, fun and cheap. But reliable it's not. For starts, all the inexpensive units I've used only support one-way commanding and the commands are susceptible to collision. Send a command to turn a light off and just hope that it goes off. Want to dim a light? All the commands are incremental so you'll have to do stuff like send 8 dim commands to get to a known minimum state then send 4 brighten commands to brighten to the desired level. And since it's one-way with no acknowledgments, you just hope that your commands were received and that the light was on to start with. Fun to play with, but I'd never trust it for anything but toy usage.
About 1/2 of Airbnb listings in NYC are illegal and Airbnb is fully aware of that fact yet still profiting from it.

Good. We should all strive to break at least 2 or 3 "laws" a day. It builds character.

It's also good for reminding the jack-boots who run the government that We The People are still the ultimate source of political power and that we aren't going to just roll over and accept their totalitarian bullshit.
I got started in Clojure because I was looking for a Lisp that I could use and would grow to be "acceptable" for use as a consultant, since that is how I make money programming. I enjoy functional programming and being able to use the Java ecosystem as a backup "just in case there isn't a Clojure lib" was a huge benefit. My path sort of went from noir to compojure/ring and now I use it to experiment with things like Titanium.

Erlang for me was a developing interest in distributed systems, which I think is of growing importance. The Riak source code, and associated projects, have been great for advancing towards such goals. Erlang the language is pretty easy to pick up and I've spent more time on distributed computing concepts than needing to parse out language details.

Haskell is my favorite language. I like it because it fits my mental models very well and I thoroughly enjoy functional programming. Snap is my web framework of choice and working with a Haskell/Snap/Riak stack has been awesome for a project I'm currently working on.
Ask HN:  How exactly can I clone HN for another industry?
I'm a high school student and am curious as to how HN was cloned (banker news, coinspotting). I'm sure the front end stuff is simple, but what about back end? What about IP infringements?
Bitcoins accepted – kudos to this.
I'm very clumsy (I might have ADHD myself) but I have never accidentally killed someone.
Heh, fair enough. My day job is in HFT.
How can I keep API keys out of source control?
Song Key Finder
The closest analogue for client side is brian.io/lawnchair

I haven't been keeping up with it, but is there anything better now?
I urge everyone to listen to this in counterpoint to the recent hype of nudge:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02144zz

(may be IP-limited to uk, apologies)
Scheme: An Interpreter for Extended Lambda Calculus (1975) [pdf]
Excellent point. Since the Ancient Olympics, the Games were a period of truce. Any ongoing conflict was suspended. It was almost the only time where any disputes would be postponed for a later time.

And we're talking about an actual war, not some political disagreement. Those athletes would probably try to kill each other the next month or so.

It's really sad that people take advantage of such a great event to gain attention for different causes, even if those causes are right. It happens every single time.

Countries will always have disagreement no matter what. Save those for a later time. Not the Olympics.
Well, most good names are taken. Atlassian Bamboo is not that popular anyway.
I don't work in environment where I get to deal with hardware failures, so pardon my ignorance, but has anyone seen a failed CPU piece which has failed during normal operation? I am under an impression that it is very rare for a CPU itself to fail so that it would need to be replaced.

The only times I've even heard about failing CPUs has been if they've been overclocked or insufficiently cooled(add in overvolting, and you get both :)) or physical damage during mounting/unmounting or otherwise handling hardware. And even then the failure has usually been elsewhere than the CPU itself.

Of course I am not saying it'd be unheard of, but for me frankly, right now it is.
I don't see any kind of 1-based indexing in the chapter 7 py file.
Princeton University dismayed by leaking of J.D. Salinger's unreleased stories
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I found that too, but it seems to be lifting portions of the text. I want to see the whole thing. Preferably in Russian with a side by side English translation (I will run it through some converters just to check).

I can see how advocating for equality can be listed as a crime based on what's listed there though. Its interesting that the word "propaganda" is used which leaves a fair amount of room for interpretation. Point 3 is the sore point it seems, although I can see why its in there as you would not want to equate child-adult relationships which this would prevent. It all hangs on the word "nontraditional"

I find the organisation fine interesting. Could you use this to fine Focus Features for distributing the film "The Kids Are All Right" in Russia?

EDIT - The linked article actually points out that the key words are propaganda and nontraditional. I still want to see the whole law though as those should be defined somewhere.
I looked at some of the code and it's totally fine. If you say you can't read it because it's not PEP8, then maybe you ought to find another line of work.
Features such as weather forecast widgets should not break if you choose not to share your location with Google, and right now many will.

I (and I think most people) like their weather forecast to show where they actually are?

Using geo-location makes it simpler for users, which I think is a good thing, isn't it?
For example: It's nice to be able to write a big hunk of state to persistent store and read it back in again with a single operation (like for app pause/resume) vs. iterating through a huge object graph and serializing. Of course it'd be rad if languages could help you not screw this up (maybe Rust does?)

GC doesn't solve all problems, for instance some of the weak reference bugs crop up just as often in Java as they do in Objective-C w/ ARC and ref counting.
Interesting. What's you definition of a startup then?
I see. What I was worried about was a version of the code you didn't actually write (casting the ptrdiff_t result to a [u]intptr_t, not casting the pointers first).
I mostly don't, though I ended up using my real name on Twitter, which I post to regularly. Generally I try to avoid it whenever possible -- I hate being Googlable. Not really sure why I changed my mind for Twitter.

I have an unusual name combination, so there aren't many others with my name. However, about 5 years ago, one of the few others started playing college football, so the search results are mostly for him, though I'm guessing he's graduated by now.

Just now googled my name for the first time in a couple years probably. Still mostly about college football, with a few of my things scattered throughout, including my Twitter account and an archive of a mailing list where I used my real email address (which is my real name). Also at least a couple things still surfacing from the mid-90s, when I didn't know any better.

My first Internet lesson to my kids will be: never use your real name online. I am glad most of my teenage real-name-using happened on local BBSs or things like AOL, and so it has vanished into the ether; my kids won't be as lucky.
That does not reassure me.

"We discuss our tools and techniques to monitor and inject packets in Bluetooth Low Energy. Also known as BTLE or Bluetooth Smart, it is found in recent high-end smartphones, sports devices, sensors, and will soon appear in many medical devices. We show that we can effectively render useless the encryption of any Bluetooth Low Energy link."

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot13/workshop-program/pr...
Your moral values a complete replica of the state?