skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think this will be the year of smart watches. Smart glasses look so absurd, I think this year there will be a number of options for glasses in market, but they won't gain popularity 2015-2016.

Smart watches, however, don't look particularly different than normal watches, they aren't obtrusive to other people, etc. like glasses are.

EDIT: Using words better.
I have stopped using macports since I tried homebrew. Is there any reason for me to switch back?
Yes! Just look at the code required to serialize objects, send them between 2 computers, and deserialize them. You would need to do all of that stuff manually. Even with a library like AKKA, I don't think it's nearly as simple as it is in Erlang: 1 line to connect, 1 line to do the remote call.

In Erlang you can remote into servers, examine their message queues, update the running processes with new functions, etc. You can guess what that would take with those other languages.

You could roll your own supervisor process and have things automatically restarted when you lose connection to them in the other languages, but it's already baked into Erlang.
Does anyone know of a similar list for OSX?
The filtering will be enabled by default for all large ISPs, so potentially a large % of the UK. You have the same problem with HTTPS either way.
You point out some of the ridiculous things they cover, which isn't wrong. However, these plans ALSO don't have lifetime benefit caps, are available whether or not you have pre-existing conditions, and offer (almost always) much better preventive care coverage. I don't think many people realize just how bad the old, cancelled, catastrophic care plans were/are.
A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn is interesting. I would not say it is balanced, but it does provide a lot of information that is not commonly emphasized in other history works.
It's like Microsoft can't catch a break: if they develop something that competes with other solutions - it's NIH syndrome; if they don't - they're behind the curve.

Fun fact is that DevDiv produces tons of things that allow .NET devs use existing OSS solutions for things that are not done by Microsoft themselves.
I tried both, why do you prefer PyCharm? Personally I like the Visual Studio IDE. The main concern I found with the VS extension is that is using 1/4 of the CPU all the time but with PyCharm I saw a similar behavior.
This doesn't make the target object read-only - it just returns a reference to it.

data = {one: "one"}
ref = makeRef(data)
ref().two = "two"

data
=> Object {one: "one", two: "two"}
Did anyone else read the title as "Having a Servant is Not Right"?
I recently tried the free startssl cert.

Fine on IOS/OSX/W7 Chrome/Safari/Firefox/IE but it was rejected by Android default browser where startssl must not be a known CA.

I don't think I can do without Android.
How about they don't choose either? I chose to not be involved in a sham of a process that purports to give "two" options.
We're sort of in that boat. I've been grandfathered into my plan for some time now, but we switched over my wife from a $7500 deductible plan to a $3500 deductible plan in 2011 and that plan is going away. Only plans that were you were enrolled in prior to March 23, 2010 can be kept under Obamacare, which is unfortunate because a lot can change in 3-4 years, particularly when most people were unaware of the actual implications of the law.
Listen I am sorry that something wrong for you. I'd appreciate your help in fixing it. Can you plz send through the details to support@startupcompass.co?
So, let's say that the au pair finds out that she's getting paid a third of what her employer claimed on an official document to be paying her (and also considerably less than the legal minimum wage). What's wrong with the au pair then leaving the employer? What's wrong with her seeking legal advice? What's wrong with her lawyer threatening legal action?

Also, I find it very sleazy that the diplomat's sister possesses and released to the press a personal letter from the au pair to her family.
You are assuming that the fact that one part of the US government works on something implies that another part may not take a special interest in someone outside government that is involved with other aspects of it.

I don't see why you'd jump to that conclusion at all.

(Note that I have no opinion about this specific situation)
FYI, this kind of advice is available in abundance to trans people. One common version I have heard is that you shouldn't transition unless you feel like the only alternative is to kill yourself. Also FYI, many trans people meet this criterion.

Having said that, at some point you have to size up the risks each way. Everyone gets to make their own decision about their own life. And ironically, your last quote, to me, counsels exactly the opposite choice from your first. Hating my gender presentation makes me just want to hide away from life with my computer.
Well. Under the old regime, my family was paying about $2000 a month for premium blue shield/cross for three. 44, 46, and 17 years old. BUT, my work was subsidizing my insurance so I only paid $800/month. Without subsidy, $1000, in fact, costs the family more.

So, my partner and I "split up". We stopped filing a domestic partnership in California and now, I pay 175$ a month. She pays $100 a month. And her son pays nothing (Medical).

By breaking up the logical family unit, we saved over $500 a month because my partner makes around $20K a year.

I'm not so sure this is working out.
Can employers/employees work around this stupid cliffing kind regulation with optional deferred compensation?

Let's say the cliff is 50k. You earn 55k/year. So you get paid 50k and opt to keep 5k in a deferred compensation stash that gets paid out sometime in the future (maybe when your baseline is sufficiently higher than 50k that's worth it?).
If your heart stops beating for 12 hours, maybe you need to talk to your doctor.
Not all of them were bad. Health insurance varies wildly by state, which is another topic that's being ignored, and we had a reasonable catastrophic plan that covered all preventative care visits with just a small copay.
Depends what "whatever technology you're already most proficient with" is.

I think that any of Angular, Backbone, React, JQuery, Django, Rails, Node.js, PHP, and many others are fine for prototyping. Use whatever you're most familiar with.

However, if all you use is Java, or C++, or Google Closure - you're probably gonna have a bad time. Some technologies are built for mature projects with dozens to hundreds of developers. They pay a large tax to manage the complexities of large projects. If you're just starting out, you'll be paying that tax even though your codebase doesn't require it.
I haven't touched it in a few years, but back then, when Notepad++ was already getting a lot of praise, I found that it started to fail pretty badly for me as soon as I waded into its more "advanced" functionality. Regex pattern matching, I seem to recall for one, but also other behaviour I've since forgotten the details of. Indentation, even, I seem to recall, such as in more involved cases of combinations of indenting commands and outdenting commands.

For a couple of years, I spent a fair amount of my time doing some fairly heavy text manipulation in TextPad. At this later time, Notepad++ had some other features I was interested in that the somewhat languishing TextPad was not adding, but its inconsistencies in the points I'm recalling were eventually a gamestopper for me.

TextPad is paid, and they borked their initial version 5 releases in some significant fashions, but it was very good and consistent at swallowing and processing large swaths of text on moderate resources. Good for e.g. beating mammoth print-to-file-d TPS reports into something useable in downstream steps.

P.S. TextPad also implemented "persist indent upon wordwrap" in an effective fashion I've not found elsewhere.

I don't mean to sound particularly like I'm pushing TextPad. And I was particularly unhappy with some of what happened with their v 5 release. But the features/behaviour I've described I found very useful and somewhat unique to it.

I haven't been an environment where I've need of heavy use of it in some time, so I can't really speak to its current state, anyway. But I wish that combination of features and performance was more prevalent in the marketplace (free or paid).
American here. Watching this case intermittently, it's a little hard to fathom the seething anger in India. The matter seems fairly straightforward:

- Rule of law applies, regardless the person; that's the theory, anyway. In practice, the laws tend to favor the wealthy and powerful; but whatever gets into the books tends to be applied as resources permit. In other words, this had nothing to do with the fact that the diplomat was Indian; it had to do with a point of law.

- There are well-known limits to diplomatic immunity.

Recall the reckless young American that went around and broke a bunch of car windows in Singapore sometime back. Americans were all upset that he was caned. But on one level, it was quite fair -- any Singaporean would have received the same punishment, and Singapore did not budge on the rule.
The author says: Many/most are free some aren't. Those that aren't free are very likely worth your 30-day trial, and very likely worth your money.
Look here (recommended by an insurance broker or the like): http://insurance.answers.com/health-insurance/aca-basics-ope...
at Special Election Periods for the officially allowed criteria.
Getting a fraction of the wage the law requires => treated well

Demanding the wage the law requires => extortion
Not really. The HN title is the same, but the link points to a different article.
That helps, but it still means you can only have the data on one thread at a time. What would be a massive help would be if you could split a buffer into non-overlapping views, and transfer each view to a separate worker. Some algorithms would still be challenging or impossible to implement this way, like parallel prefix sum algorithms, but it would still greatly widen the number of things you could do in parallel.
I'm a small business owner. Small business owners were screwed by the previous health care regime. Individual plans are hella expensive. Small group plans are also expensive, and extremely sensitive to the health issues of who you had on staff. Both were going up by double-digit percentages every year.

My income is over the subsidy limit, but with careful shopping, I've found a plan (with the same carrier as before) that's substantially cheaper and has better coverage.

Of course, when my carrier cancelled my plan, they "recommended" a much more expensive one. If I hadn't shopped around, I would have thought that the ACA was causing my premiums to skyrocket, but the opposite is actually true.

Bottom line: don't believe everything you read about the costs of ACA.
I've heard this argument before, and I dislike the paternalism of it. I read the fine print and made tradeoffs that I thought were appropriate for my situation at the time.
India doesn't have much income inequality. Their Gini is 33, same ballpark as France, Bangladesh and the UK. (For comparison, Denmark is at 25 and the US is at 45.)
Ah, I think we've been talking past each other. The typical view of HSR is that it is viable for HSR journeys of four hours or less — not that it is viable for car journeys of four hours or less. This means SF–LA should be well within the viable HSR distance (per above, it really shouldn't take more than three hours by HSR).
The support for "being treated well" in the Daily Mail article is a letter written to her family, one month after arriving in the US. That's not strong evidence for the claim. One, it was only after one month, which may not be representative of the rest of her working time. Two, when people aren't doing well, they don't always tell their family so, because they don't want their family to worry.
I wonder if the same people who say "If you can't afford to pay a servant a living wage, you shouldn't have one" also like to claim the raising the minimum wage doesn't increase unemployment?
I've been doing this for well over a year now on my html5/js apps.

I have a custom data access layer that returns a promise.
The data access layer mocks RESTful services.
I have a databootstrap.js that gets put in local storage on app start, and hey presto a fully functional prototype....

Its definitely a great way to work, it really engages your client/end user and the feedback loop becomes smaller.
Once your done, your client side is mostly finished.
I think it comes down to adoption rates and general influence, and Microsoft isn't meeting those goals in many people's minds. They doing great stuff with Javascript, Node.js, Python, Azure, and all that other jazz, but I view that as "me too" stuff.
Ahem.

Raymond Allen Davis is a former United States Army soldier, private security firm employee, and contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). On January 27, 2011, Davis killed two reportedly armed men in Lahore, Pakistan. Although the U.S. government contended that he was protected by diplomatic immunity because of his employment with the U.S. Consulate in Lahore, Davis was jailed and criminally charged by Pakistani authorities with double murder and the illegal possession of a firearm. A car coming to aid Davis killed a third Pakistani man in a "hit and run" while speeding on the wrong side of the road. On March 16, 2011, Davis was released after the families of the two killed men were paid $2.4 million in diyya (a form of monetary compensation or blood money). Judges then acquitted him on all charges and Davis immediately departed Pakistan.

The incident led to a diplomatic furor and deterioration in Pakistan–United States relations. A major focus of the incident was the U.S.'s assertion that Davis was protected under the principle of diplomatic immunity due to his role as an "administrative and technical official" attached to the Lahore consulate. The U.S. government claimed that Davis was protected under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and demanded he be released from custody immediately. President Barack Obama asked Pakistan not to prosecute Davis and recognize him as a diplomat, stating, "There's a broader principle at stake that I think we have to uphold."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Allen_Davis_incident
The author shows a complete lack of understanding of India - and brings up completely unrelated topics (casteism?!) to support her already weak point. In fact - bringing up the Diplomats caste is her being racist (casteist? - dunno the right word but you know what I mean) herself. It's as if an American author were to say "well a few hundred years ago these black people were slaves - and now they dare to treat someone badly" - how is that a reasonable argument by any means?

Coming to the crux of the matter. Having lived in Bombay - and having had servants I can say that its in no means as "exploitative" as the author claims. Sure - an indian house helper earns less than an american does. So what? The median income in India is nowhere close to comparable to that in the US. An uneducated village boy - who would either earn a few hundred rupees (10-20 USD) a month working on someone elses farm in his village - is much better off coming to the city and earning more than five or six thousand rupees (100 - 120 $) a month in the city - with which he can also support his family back in the village who get by on subsistence farming. Many servants take on multiple jobs - earning almost double or triple of that. Which is NOT bad by any means considering he will often be provided meals and accomodation in addition to his salary. Its a simple calculation - the average IT worker earns approximately 40-5000 rupees after tax per month - assume if a couple - both employed in IT - earning around 100000 rupees per month - keep a maid to cook and clean - and pay her 10000 a month. Thats 10% of their salary - why is that exploitative? The maid is free to go take 2-3 others such jobs to fill her day and is easily making close to what the IT guys make. Until we reach a standard of literacy and education where everyone can make tonnes of money - this will continue - and its NOT a bad thing. A lot of families try to break the cycle by paying the school fees for their servants children or buying them the yearly textbooks etc - we did that growing up. At the end of the day - its a free market and these are not indentured slaves - if they find better paying work elsewhere (and often they do - cleaning malls and the like) - they go do that - and no one can stop them.

As for why people "need" servants - well - its a part of the culture and has a lot to do with economics as well. Right now - in a city like Bombay -its cheaper to have a servant who washes your clothes and cleans your house - than it is to have a washing machine (if you're lucky enough to have the space to fit one in) & a vaccuum cleaner. Its a dusty country - and you do need to clean more often than you do in the temperate regions. In families where all adults are working - it just makes sense to have a servant. Its economics and logic - not exploitation.
> So another, privileged process does the open on its behalf and sends the resulting file descriptor to the primary process for processing.

I must be misunderstanding something. I assume that the unprivileged process still cannot actually read the file, otherwise you could access unauthorized open files by going through every possible file descriptor. What processing can the unprivileged process do? Keep track processes that have open files?
I've never been to the US. But I recently watched a series of YouTube videos on Floyd Mayweather's personal life. He lives with a retinue of about a dozen very attractive female "personal assistants", ranging from the masseuse to the cook and the secretary. It was very clear from the videos that these people were on call 24/7, and their functions included sexual services. If this doesn't fit the definition of servant, then what does? The US seems to have an aversion to the concept of servant, not to the reality.
Pretty amazing that it was a result of a lucky mutation. I wonder what happened to the millions (billions?) of organisms that couldn't maintain a steady heartbeat?
>The cheapest insurance plan they can find through the new federal marketplace in New Hampshire will cost their family of four about $1,000 a month, 12 percent of their annual income of around $100,000 and more than they have ever paid before. Even more striking, for the Chapmans, is this fact: If they made just a few thousand dollars less a year — below $94,200 — their costs would be cut in half, because a family like theirs could qualify for federal subsidies.

Is this accurate? It sounds like bad math on the part of NYT similar to people who believe that make a few hundred dollars more and shifting to a higher marginal tax bracket means less net income. Aren't taxes & subsidies normally structured to avoid these sort of discontinuities?
Just to note for people who know about SICP: this book is not like that. The book jumps straight into basic principles of Lagrangian mechanics, talking about the least action principle and the Euler-Lagrange equations. It is not "mechanics 101 for smart people" like SICP is for computer science.

With that said, the computational approach they take is unique and useful. You'd especially like it if you like Scheme and the coding style found in SICP.
RSA paid off by the NSA to keep security weak.
Defiantly risky

That's a species of risk that is admirable and patriotic!

A safer plan might be to buy non-qualifying catastrophic coverage in case you get in an accident or develop a serious illness outside the open enrollment period. Safer, but more expensive, than relying on hacking the system to bail you out if shit happens.
Well, the nuclear industry disagrees with you.

According to their experts, a nuclear Iran is a good idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shah_of_Iran_building_two_...
Yeah, good point. That would seem to be a clear exception to what I wrote.
Yes, people have run the simulations and the ones I read said they could find absolutely no scenario where being married doesn't cost more. Often a LOT more, as you're found out.

"I'm not so sure this is working out."

Well, that might depend on your objectives. E.g. many can't help but notice that in general married women vote Republican, single Democrat.
There must be some kind of Yogi Berra-ism to describe "how bad" the insurance is that so many people wish they could still buy.

Insurance against a condition that already exists is not insurance.

Preventive care should not be something you look to insurance to pay for. Do you expect to be insured against your weekly grocery shopping bill? Your utilities? Your rent?
Yes, at some layer of abstraction there will be the possibility of sharing memory. It's probably better to keep it behind the scenes for all but the most CPU intensive uses.
Do you have stats on how customers were "regularly" screwed by it? My understanding is that "rescission" was extremely rare.
i saw the google cars in Buenos Aires argentina some months ago.
Best practices guide at: https://www.ssllabs.com/projects/best-practices/index.html

More technical wiki with configurations at (already mentioned): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
X86 Intrinsics Cheat Sheet
>You cite that guy as some kind of super centered human?

Where did I do that?

>And you tell us it's not harrassment... just astonishing. Just no.

Again you misread me. It may be harassment, but what was my point about harassment? Read again please.
I'm pretty sure you have to eat every so often for your heart to keep on working...
Many countries generally don't cage people suspected of crimes - but not convicted or even charged - in a small holding pen similar to those used to hold animals. Others do, but let people with means bribe their way into better conditions...
Isn't exploitation based on the idea that you're manipulating some part of the system to pay someone less than they're worth? If maids are typically worth $Y and you pay the maid $Y, that seems fair to me.
India has a class problem.
Don't follow any advice on w3schools.
Don't follow any advice on tizag.
nice, i used something like this when i wanted to avoid escalating privileges for my osx n2n client.

as far as i remember, chrome also uses this method.

alternatively you can use libancillary.

http://www.normalesup.org/~george/comp/libancillary/
Here's something up to date:

http://www.phptherightway.com/
File descriptors are local to a process (after all, fd 0 is each process's personal stdin). The special extra data passed to sendmsg makes the kernel map a new fd in the receiving process, granting it access to the underlying file. It might help to consider that the fds in the two processes are likely not the same number.
the "caste crap" has increasingly less to do with people being "servants" - its more an income and education thing. In fact - being from a "lower caste" in India - actually makes getting into the IITs (best engg. colleges) & IIMs ( best management colleges) and pretty much everywhere else a cake walk due to flawed affirmative action programs.
So it demonstrates how much more difficult UI design is using HTML5 versus every other UI design option out there. It's often worth it for the platform independence, but we could've done much better if we designed a UI markup format from scratch.
They also redistribute a LOT of money to the age 50-64 bracket. And the money for the subsidies has to come from somewhere, TANSTAAFL. Also look at the banding system.

I don't know about Jayschwa, but __xtrimsky elsewhere in this discussion is one of the "young invincibles" who's buying of very expensive insurance is essential for the economics to work out; well, such as they were before 14 and counting last minute changes.
Same here. It has become such a standard tool for me that I install it on servers as well.