skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Overstock isn't taking a risk here: they are getting the same exact USD they got before.
Are there any other dentists around who would work on Bob's pal? If so, are they actually better dentists than Bob? If so, is it possible for Bob's pal to find, enter, and understand their places of business, well enough to receive the care she requires?

Cryptocat would never be used by Glenn Greenwald, but that's because he is privileged to have access to better crypto.
Those lamenting the fact that "asshole" isn't one of the available types might like to try instead the Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type test: http://www.andrewlipson.com/lstest.html

"The Lipson-Shiu test attempts to remedy this and other oversights by classifying along four alternative axes: Intelligent-Stupid; Lawful-Chaotic; Important-Unimportant; Good-Evil."
I would say "intent" of law, rather than what actually happens. e.g., the reason we call tax loopholes, "loopholes", is because the consensus is that they're being used to defeat the intent of law.
Megacorp with a shell company of zero employees in Ireland using the double irish[1] I think means the company isn't paying their "fair share".

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
That's an odd argument to make against libertarians when libertarians support defense spending as a key role of government.

The Highway Interstate system was driven mainly by defense needs. It's also known as the "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways"[1]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
The weather might be something to take into account. Personally, I wouldn't want to live in far northern countries like Norway because of the limited sunlight hours in winter. I've found that more than the temperature, it's sunlight exposure that has a strong influence on the way I feel.

Living in a country that may get a few hours of weak sunlight in winter doesn't appeal to me, no matter how high the standard of living might be otherwise.

Your personal preferences will vary, of course.
I can't help but think all the libertarian hating is an attempt to find a new scapegoat in those places where Republicans have been all but eliminated. Because let me tell you, "volume" from Silicon Valley or not, libertarians have almost no power. Conservatives pass laws, Republicans pass laws, Democrats pass laws, Liberals pass laws, Libertarians mostly post on the Internet.

Whatever's going wrong in SV isn't the libertarian's fault. Or, if it is, then the Democrats in power ought to take a serious look at how their wondrous plans manage to be scotched by such a small, low-power minority.
What about i/o costs of traffic (outgress).

What other costs do we need to factor in on aws?
I wouldn't call them Bitcoin clones, because all three are cryptocurrencies rather than just alternative bitcoin. I think there is large potential, because with the current state of banks and finances, something decentralized and open can only be achieved with a system like cryptocurrency, where (at least) in popular ones, measures are taken to make inflation impossible. I'm no expert though, so correct me if I'm wrong about this.
What's an anonymous email? Even Tor is subject to tracking if the endpoint IPs are monitored [1].

The issue of anonymous disclosure is a real issue if you don't

Why do you think Wikileaks was such a big/new deal?

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/2013/12/18/harvard-s...
Which android devices is this compatible with?
But reducing copyright term to (say) 20 years would be "just changing a number", but I'd regard it as a reform.
1+2+3+4+... = -1/12
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In 2012, Obama's AMA received 5.6 million views (1.6 m unique) [1]

"The site averaged over three billion pageviews each month in 2012, which is a 50% increase from the two billion the site reported for the month of December in 2011."

[1] http://www.slashgear.com/reddit-saw-37-billion-pageviews-in-...
While we have all been there, we may not all be there according to our own measures.
> Still, the graph shows the site’s beginnings in the primordial muck of porn and programming. The r/NSFW subreddit was one of the first, Olson explains (though he notes that the site was never 100 percent NSFW; his graph leaves out /r/reddit.com for purposes of legibility.)

FTA
> if you're writing something for other people to extend then using a well known framework as a starting point is a very, very obvious choice.

This is precisely why we chose to build on top of Backbone.js. It has huge market saturation and easily understandable principles, but could benefit a lot from some of the killer features of Angular and Ember.

Rarely does a framework do everything you need. In the eventuality that you create another app you'll want a custom platform to build off of. It simply makes sense to base that custom platform on top of something stable and vetted by the community.
What are the distributions on the answers? I always get xxxP where the first three are always around neutral and I'm P off the charts, whatever the hell that means.
Or an alternate headline could be "Graphs show how Reddit became more diversified as it became more popular".
See "Advice to Mathematics Teachers on Evaluating Introductory Statistics Textbooks"

http://statland.org/MyPapers/MAAFIXED.PDF

and "The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?"

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz
So are those who avoid paying taxes but fight for lower taxes also your political enemies?
> Also education is free for everyone. Very few attend private unis.

Exactly. It's really misleading to readers who might be from a country where private higher education is more of the norm to just say that 'most families can not afford private universities', since most people who take higher education go to a public uni/college. And most people don't even want to go to a private university.

An exception might be Handelshøyskolen BI, a college for business administration and the like. But I've never heard of the cost of that being a systemic issue.
there are different levels of security. "Thanks God, children aren't going to bed hungry (and thus probably survive next few days)" vs. "children going to bed after glass of good milk and cookie (and thus probably grow healthy)". Norway [successfully] invests its national wealth in maintaining the latter level. Looks very smart to me.

To be able to give them meaningful advice to do things differently (like, for example, importing), one has to show an example of a country which does things differently (and at least as successful in achieving the goal as Norway).
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I think the lesson is that tech is a harsh industry to be in regardless of which tech you choose, and you should count on your skillset being obsolete in 3-5 years regardless.

Also key is to not let what you're told to do at work decide what you're going to learn. Even if your current company is using whatever is the latest and hottest framework you need to be learning other languages, other ways of doing things.

Here's an anecdote: I did some consulting work for an Indian-owned company in the US. I was helping out with some Rails stuff. It was a curious case of out-sourcing reversal. They had a hard time finding devs in India to do Rails because those developers felt that Java and EJB would be better for their resumes so that was the work they went for.
N's tend to be big-picture, conceptual thinkers, whereas S's are detail-oriented and concrete.

J's are to-do list sorts of people, they enjoy finishing tasks, tend to "get a lot of stuff done", but can be stressed if there isn't a plan. P's prefer starting projects to finishing them, they tend to work off-the-cuff, probably appear to get less done, but are more capable of dealing with changing circumstances and priorities.
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Maybe that's true and maybe it's not. Unlike COBOL, Python 2 isn't inferior to its putative successor. Maybe people will eventually move anyway. Maybe they won't. Maybe they will, but not until after we are all dead.

Or maybe somebody will say bugger this for a game of soldiers, take the current Python 2, add such features from 3 as can be backported without breaking compatibility and release it as Python 4, and everyone will move to that and forget about Python 3 altogether. I don't know that will happen, of course, but I don't know it won't either. Prediction is hard, especially about the future.
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how did u arrive with the 6-7% number, just curious
I should seriously investigate this. I'd love colder climates, I have EU citizenship (though, d'oh, just remembered, Norway isn't EU...), and my GF would love to live in Europe and has Norwegian heritage (though she's a fourth generation American, so ...)
BTW, Box is HIPPA compliant
N/S: Sensing is paying attention to facts, literally things you can hear, see, feel. Intuition is prediction, what do the facts mean?

J/P: Judgement is about planning, making concrete decisions. Perception is leaving options open, doing things on the fly.
Undecided. They will always be somewhat magical in that the "box" operator creates them by default. But the syntax for them may change, or be moved into the library.
Documenting Rust must be a major pain.
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GP asked for counts, not uniques.
Harp doesn't watch your files. It lazily compiles as requests come in and stores the results in an LRU cache.
Excellent. It was the multitude of different pointer types that confused me the most, so it's great to hear that they are simplifying this.
I think it has to do with intentions. Not trying to literally map online site to a house. But in general, when a person has found a vulnerability and is trying to report it in a good will (no matter through what channel), as opposed to using it to try and blackmail, etc., things should not be reversed and used against that person.
I love how INTJ is described as "rare" but is by far the highest one here.
"ome of his points (like "Attention Profit vs. Attention Deficit") are because he was reading from iBooks on an iPad."

Agreed. I almost never read ebooks on my iPad or even my Kindle Fire. Occasionally I'll use those to read a book that has color imagery, but never for novels. The eInk Kindle is lighter (besides the obvious advantage in terms of portability, the iPad hurts when you go to sleep while reading and it hits you in the face) and has longer battery life, too.

It's simply not true that paper books are "bug-free". The cheap-jack binding used on most paper books nowadays is good for maybe two or readings, if that.

I don't read for a "tactile experience". I want the delivery device to disappear completely if possible so I can concentrate on the content. The eInk Kindle is also superior there. It's lighter than just about any paper book.
I guess with an easy way to do projection mapping (like http://www.facadesignage.com ) this could become a good way to create interactive wallpapers.
That makes sense – the main thing that bothered me actually is that I didn't (and still don't) know when to ask for discounts. Even if you said discounts vary, but we'll look automatically look at what we can offer when you hit the following sums... that would be great.
I agree that there is a general problem that researchers go on fishing expeditions with their data. But having a small sample size doesn't make it any more likely to find a false positive.

We've already agreed that a small sample size doesn't make it any more likely to find a false positive for a given hypothesis. This is true for H1, H2, H3, etc., where each of these is a hypothesis. Therefore the aggregate effect of testing N different hypotheses is that you're no more likely to find a false positive with a small sample size vs a large sample size. You are more likely to have false negatives with small samples, though.
ICIE
Inheritance may not make 1.0.
In my experience writing web apps for many years (frontend and backend), you either (1) start off with an existing framework, (2) write your own, or (3) end up with a mess.

You really shouldn't be doing (2) unless you've had several go-arounds with (1). (3) is, of course, undesirable.
Or, similarly, drop a physical, paper note off under their door explaining the problem.
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Reddit was released to the world by a link on paulgraham.com. It had an impact on the initial user census.

It took a while for all the cat picture morons to take it over.
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TL;DR - "Fortunately for your users but unfortunately for you," users in today's world expect amazing UX, on their platform of choice (largely iOS and Android), aren't willing to compromise on speed, usability, or access, and it means engineering is harder. We live in a world of amazing user experiences and products, and if that means more engineering work, so be it. If we limited our products to what's easy engineering wise, we'd still have crappy products and experiences.
That's basically what I was going to say. I've developed a realtime system for my company that uses a REST API on the backend, but we use websockets to push updates to the clients in realtime. It's so much faster (no polling and no overhead of establishing new connections). When there's an update we hit the API once to fetch the new data and then push it out to all clients subscribed to the given data set which massively reduces load on the server.
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You cannot redistribute software that uses both GPL libraries and proprietary libraries.

But is redistribution a use? I would say no.
Worth mentioning that there's a Stackless Python3, albeit for 3.2 and 3.1
http://stackless.com/wiki/Download
and cheaper
Is this a reference to something? I have a vague memory of a show/movie where someone said that same thing about someones refutation of astrology. Something like: "typical aries" or whatever. I just can't remember what it was.
Except 20 year old code bases tend don't need much development.

PS: At one point I was maintaining one by myself and noticed hey, I don't actually have any open issues at all. Which compared to most software development is an odd place to be.
Not surprised at the number of INTs. Fair number of ENT as well.
Arguably, if it hadn't been turned into a meme/image site, it would have been closed, which is not interesting at all.
Interesting article and its small sampling echoes what I’ve long preached – keep HR and recruiters out of the hiring process.

The claim that HR/recruiters are the only ones that have “pipeline management” (translation: multitasking), “offer negotiation” (translation: requirements validation; this is farce as HR/recruiters work for the company and not the candidate, thus they all have a take-it-or-leave-it approach), and “brand recognition” skills are completely false. If HR/recruiters were such experts on brand recognition then there would have been responses to the limited sampling.
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> All the new python3/python2 libraries I've noticed adhoc recently have been doing the horrible 'polyglot' one-code-base-support-python2-and-python3 thing, or been in python2.

uh, what's better? two codebases? heh, hardly. Trust me.
I'd love to see an example of a project that has been actively developed for 20 years and has made a similar change. Linux comes to mind as a project old enough that has been kept updated regularly, but it has always been good-old C (not sure, though, maybe there has been some changes introduced)
(I'm not trying to be sarcastic, I think it will be interesting to see how they faced that kind of change)

You're right, migration may be needed at some point. But "at some point" is a very fuzzy definition, and my guess it that it will be later rather than sooner, giving the complexity of it. Paying interests of technical debt for this year, and we'll talk again next year indefinitely may well be an option if getting rid of technical debt is too costly. Sure, you'll pay more on the long term, but each year you'll face the same question: "Should I do this costly long term solution, or just keep going whit relative pain for a while?"

I loved this tweet today by Brandon Rhodes about this:
https://twitter.com/brandon_rhodes/status/421309568158019584
Why is that important exactly? To know in which pigeon hole I belong? Don't get me wrong. It's vital to be aware of one's traits, strengths and weaknesses but I'm not a D&D character. Defining people by four-letter groups seems just weird to me.
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One of the Senior Thesis presentations at my college last year was someone working on a context spell-checker. I don't know if his demo could suggest a better word, but it would highlight words that seemed wrong.

It was based off of Google's NGrams, I think he used 3-grams, and checked to see how frequently a word showed up between the two words next to it.

The problem with that was it required a HUGE amount of data. Like several hundred gigabytes worth of space just to store the 3-grams (compressed down to one instance of each 3-gram coupled with the number of times it showed up in the original dataset).
ENTP all day, all night.
I think all forums evolve towards decaffeination, including 4chan. People like to give 4chan as an example of low quality, but I think 4chan is actually in the top 1% of quality due to being an out-of-control creative machine. The 4chan-as-low-quality cliché goes well with all the other re-re-redigested morsels of tedium that 99% of content consist of.
It's more of a meme (in the original sense) or trope than a specific reference.
On the one hand, Myers-Brigg is "pseudoscience". On the other, most HN-readers are INTP or INTJ, as expected.
The headline is so absurd that I'm not reading it. But an excellent analysis.
and the spacing thing... what a nightmare for copy/paste
So is the next milestone 1.0 or 0.10?
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If these things are to be believed though, INTJ is more likely to be found among engineers/scientists. There are some who say INTJ is the most "independent" type - one could draw a correlation between the personality type and that of an entrepreneur striking out on their own and/or freelancers. It's then easy to make the argument that you'd have more INTJ's interested in something like HN.
Or make life real simple and just use Socket.io
Oddly enough, django-social-auth has been deprecated for some time now in favor of python-social-auth[1] (same author). It is more user friendly than django-social-auth, and also offers up a lot more functionality that django-social-auth wasn't giving me.

[1] - https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth
Because that might seem like blackmail to some people...
AWS is also HIPPA compliant.

http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/
I recently did an analysis using Reddit data between 7/22/13 and 9/26/13. 1 in 3 links go to Imgur or YouTube.

http://minimaxir.com/2013/09/reddit-imgur-youtube/
what kind of library could transparently use async IO, or not, based on platform? using explicit async for anything dramatically changes the behavior and public API of the code.

there is of course a huge carrot for library developers to support python 3 which is, so that python 3 users can use your library, rather than having all of your work replaced by something else and generally holding back the community.
If I recall correctly, he specifically created imgur because Reddit links to Imageshack and the like would always die.
Yes, that's pretty much what a lot of Middle Eastern countries do, and it's a terrible long-term economic strategy.

Oil wealth is notoriously volatile, and it creates all manner of bad habits (for instance, scaling a services economy to match the scale of the oil wealth; the latter is a finite commodity, and the former is extremely hard to scale down once built up).

Norway has been relatively smart in managing its resource boom. It hasn't completely subsidized the cost of living, spent its oil wealth on giant, shiny objects, hoarded the wealth amongst a corrupt and tiny class of elites, or built an enormous social-services machine that won't survive an oil bust or pricing collapse. It's not spending above its means, presumably under the realization that its means came from a geological lottery ticket.

When your country hits the oil jackpot, your job is to convert the oil money to real industry. You don't splurge on mega-hotels, distribute the money frivolously, etc. You need to use it to create the basis for a non-oil-dependent economy.
Off-topic: My personality type is such that I click upvote randomly on HN polls. </joke> This has been the obligatory reminder that HN poll results are meaningless. All ESFP's are just asleep at this time of day.

On-topic: No surprise INTJ is fairly well represented. Logical introverts are a stereotype of our industry.
Yes you can certainly stream and do message passing within HTTP (for some browsers) but you can't, for instance, return headers more than once without your own application protocol.

The most interesting bit about this architecture for me is the 1:1 mapping with a pure HTTP resource. It's a bit like an implicit subscription to a pub-sub enabled resource. In this implementation we are simply calling our API like we normally would (except on the stream domain) and waiting for an update.
A few I work with on most projects are...

Backend: one of the most popular API Frameworks is Tastypie.
Authentication and authorization: Django Userena.
Debugging: Django Extensions.
Django CMS
Django Haystack

These are a must for your tool kit.
Ah, news to me. I guess it can be introduced without breaking backwards-compatibility.
What changed in web design this year (and what’s next)
Yet the poll-results show that HN is predominantly INTP/INTJ, which Myers-Brigg would predict for this audience!
Disclaimer: I've written a bunch of it.

It's actually not too bad. The biggest problem with the docs currently is that it's a patched-together set of things people have written at random over the last few years. Mozilla has taken some concrete steps to address this, it'll be much better overall soon.
And that was a mistake? I don't see the principle that can stand against any regulation no matter how ill-advised when the counter argument is "you must hate highways and the internet".

It's a great argument against someone who demands no regulations or laws, sure.
Uh...no. In fact, 1.9% is probably way less than their costs (ie, unsustainable).
I guess I'm in a third camp:

3) Python's semantic whitespace is so wonderful I'm baffled that most other programming languages don't have it. It's like they're coding with one eye shut: why not do this wonderful thing that makes everything easier?
I'm very impressed with some of the tools that have recently come out of Prismatic.
My guide got merged in for this release: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/0.9/guide-pointers.html

TL;DR: you don't need them as much as you may think, so don't let that scare you away!
Checkout mobile A/B testing framework Vessel.io (https://www.vessel.io), Supports iOS,Android, Windows, PhoneGap etc. Easy to use.
How is TrueVault better than AWS?
No, still use South everyday and will until it's rolled out in Django 1.7 - fingers crossed!
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I'm sure that if you meant to argue with anything I said, you'd make a greater effort than posting a link to a book you enjoyed. But just in case: I believe that mathematics is able to describe very fundamental concepts of our universe. That doesn't mean that everything in the world _is_ mathematics, for the same reasons that the fact that you can describe many things in spoken words don't make them spoken words.