skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK I can't use 2 dictionaries, so whether I use German or English, autocorrect sucks in 50% of blobs of texts I write.

Text messages and Facebook posts/replies are mostly German, Twitter is 50/50 and random stuff is likely to be English as well.
Mass immigration to Israel from USSR was true though. Stalin was also irked that Israel didn't go communist. So their fears were well founded at that time
Designing without reusable elements is like coding without partials
The banking startup simple has a feature like that called "Safe-To-Spend" https://www.simple.com/goals/
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You're right, there's nothing wrong with praise. It just shouldn't be the major reaction that children get from their parents.

> The children learn from example, not from your words. Do YOU have fun doing your work? Do YOU enjoy mowing the lawn? Do YOU enjoy riding the bicycle? Then your child will too.

Correct. And do you value them for just being them, instead of their achievements and their effort? if yes, they will too.

> Admittedly I haven't read Jull, but I have heard a few quotes from his books before and none of them made sense to me either.

They didn't make sense to me either, until I actually read the book. It's too big a shift from "standard" educational approaches to be summarized in a few quotes.
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Yeah, in retrospect it was for my own safety - if I got on a bully's bad side who knows what could have happened. A few years before me a kid brought a gun to the school (this was prior to Columbine), and there were also gang associations at this time, for which reason bandannas of any color were not allowed). (I went to school in Napa, which you would think would be the safest town in the world but it had one or two gang shootings and bordered the high-crime city of Vallejo, not to mention one of the most famous serial killers spent at least a little time there (the Zodiac killer) ).
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939)
I believe that there was a similar premise in a series of Star Trek: Voyager episodes, where a businessman steals a time traveler's technology and uses it to bootstrap the modern computer industry.
Perhaps good design can help deal with some of that fear?

Most people can handle being in elevators OK, despite being in claustrophobic box full of people, hanging on a cable, inside a vertical tunnel. They just don't think about where they are.
Taking the argument further, it seems more likely that you are a Boltzmann half-brain, with the other hemisphere's input arriving randomly.
No offense, but this is a very weird article.

A little background on group purchasing organizations: GPOs represent their member hospitals. They "buy in bulk" and extract discounts from manufacturers and take "administration fees" to cover theirs costs.

Who owns the GPOs? The hospitals do! The largest GPO, Novation, is owned by VHA and UHC, two of the largest healthcare alliances that is comprised of US hospitals.

Margaret Clapp, the first author of this article used to work for Mass General who is a member of VHA, who thus owns the GPO Novation.

These GPOs exist because the hospitals themselves created them.

And it's ridiculous to say that GPO discounts are responsibly for drug shortages. GPOs don't want drug shortages because (1) their member hospitals don't get the drugs they want (2) because the GPO loses money every time a hospital can't order a drug.

The current drug shortages are actually due to a number of different factors:

(1) Margins on generic drugs are razor thin, they are basically commodities. The purchasers of these drugs don't care who makes them, since they are all deemed equivalent by the FDA; the result is that whoever has the lowest price gets to sell their drug

(2) The generic drug market looks like a commodity marketplace, but in fact it isn't. There are a number of costs associated with manufacturing a drug to FDA standards. If the FDA comes in and says "you can't ship that drug", you've probably just lost all of your profits for an entire year.

(3) Drug prices are "sticky" due to the way that Medicare and Medicaid pays for drugs. If you suddenly have a manufacturing problem and need to raise the price of your drug to cover costs, you're out of luck since it means the purchasers of your drug will lose money.

(4) Because of the low profit margins, companies are simply getting out of the business. There are other products they could sell that are lower-risk and higher margin.
Larry Niven phrased it thusly:

> If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niven's_laws
What's worse is that the other browsers decided to emulate this bad behavior. Most of the mobile browsers now no longer properly wrap text when zooming, where once they did.
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"The fifth line" on the Soviet passport which listed the bearer's "nationality" (what we would usually call ethnicity in English) was only removed from Russian passports in 1997. But Edward Frenkel was picked out as a Jew because of his surname even though his nationality was listed as Russian, like most children of mixed marriages between Russian and non-Russian parents.

What if Edward Frenkel's father had been Russian and his mother Jewish instead of the other way round? Well, the commander of the Soviet Air Force in Ukraine when the Soviet Union broker up was Kostyantyn Morozov, then Konstantin Morozov. He had a Russian surname and his nationality was listed as Russian. If it had been known that he had a Ukrainian mother and had Ukrainian sympathies, he would never have been given such a powerful post by the Soviet authorities. As it was, Morozov announced his allegiance to the pro-independence cause to become the first defense minister of an independent Ukraine and to establish the Ukrainian armed forces.

Would the breakup of the Soviet Union have gone differently if all the high-ranking generals in control of Soviet forces in the biggest non-Russian republic were pro-Russian? It makes you wonder how many accidents of history can be traced to the arbitrary custom of inheriting surnames from fathers.
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Hmmm; maybe in some parts of the world. Around here (NH/VT) the curves are pretty obviously imposed by geology (if they didn’t follow narrow valleys, they would constantly be going up and down 1-2k ft ridges, and river valleys are not straight).
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When you are entering it in the station, you have a lot of open space until the hatch closes. So what about instead of having windows, make them 3D holographic displays that look like you are peering out an airplane window? There is still the mental knowledge that your are in a tube (like a subway tube) but it might be enough to fool your subconscious.
We can do Anything, but we don't want to be run into the ground by overwork and screamed at when Anything takes Forever.

So the answer is "no" to people in "suits" until they prove they aren't going to be abusive and nuance-free.
Raising Capital? This is a Must Read
David Adeyalo, from Terebinth Collective, writes an amazing piece about raising capital for your startup. He analogizes Jordan Belfort's character from WoWS with all startup founders.

Don't simply 'pitch' investors… tell them a story!

Article Title:
Becoming the Wolf of Wall Street (or How to Raise Money for your Startup)
Why Raising Money For Your Startup is Like Using Jordan Belfort’s Stratton Oakmont Kodak Pitch (without any of the cheating or lying)
Dear Recode.net how in the world....
How in the world would I know what the icons in the upper corner of http://recode.net/ are supposed to mean w/o hovering or clicking?

What's the reason for being so cryptic?

It's not cool to make me think. Stop trying to reinvent for the sake of being different.
Could someone comment on this vs YNAB? With YNAB I have it hooked up on my desktop as well. How does this compare? I like the neat visuals, wish YNAB had those.
Stallman doesn't have much influence on Emacs development itself anymore, but Emacs is a GNU project, Stallman is still the head of GNU, and a move to another VCS would be a major organizational change. I too wish he would be less hard-headed about this, but lets not overblow this issue out of proportion.
David Adeyalo, from Terebinth Collective, writes an amazing piece about raising capital for your startup. He analogizes Jordan Belfort's character from WoWS with all startup founders.

Don't simply 'pitch' investors… tell them a story.

Article Title:
Becoming the Wolf of Wall Street (or How to Raise Money for your Startup)
Why Raising Money For Your Startup is Like Using Jordan Belfort’s Stratton Oakmont Kodak Pitch (without any of the cheating or lying)
That would be a great (yet unsatisfying) twist for the end of a low budget sci-fi movie.
In our case, the explanation is even simpler. Most of our work is for local devs, where the clients prefer to be able to meet the freelancer face-to-face occasionally. Even for a project where most of the work will be done remotely, kick-off meetings and in-person collaboration is still valuable.
Morality is the right word, though; this is not ethics. It is unethical no matter what for psychologists to date their patients. It is not unethical for you to date one of their patients. Maybe a given psychologist is definitely not abusing their power/role in their relationship with a patient, and is sure that they are still an effective psychologist for their patient/lover. Then it may be morally OK (depending on your moral code), but it is still unethical.
Curiously, the URL seems exactly identical in both submissions, which are almost consecutive ( ...94, ...96).

That probably means the duplicate detector has some delay on getting its past submissions data. The rate of submissions these days seems to average one a minute, but the delta on this pair may be different, and it is not apparent by now.
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You're right. What's important isn't how many people tweet, it's how many people sign up. Of course 20% of new signups will tweet, they get a free month for it.

That's why you give a user-specific shortened link with UTM values for people to tweet out and don't simply reward them for tweeting your site name or address.
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Sad that this optimization has to be done manually in 2014…
Then change the orientation of the seats? Without a reference frame you can't tell.
C.S. Lewis's Abolition of Man takes this question and turns it into a rather full thought-experiment.
The questions I ask are:

1. Do you have coding and documentation standards?

2. Do you conduct regular peer reviews?

3. Do you use a bug tracking system?

4. I feel more comfortable working as part of a team, not just a bunch of people working together. Do you conduct regular team building exercises, such as weekly lunches or meetups at the pub after work on Friday?

It's surprising how many companies don't have even these fundamental quality and people management procedures in place.
Git was also early to the market, but had a fast core and terrible user interface. Git was used for the Linux kernel only two months after Linus had started coding.
I agree completely that this is a delicate issue; my main hope is to raise some awareness that the disconnect between technological progress and progress in morality/ethics deserves greater research focus. I am not in favor of blindly imposing anyone's particular and likely flawed understanding of morality universally, but that this could be an urgent issue for our species' survival.
Isn't the gotcha of this test the fact that the history of previous coin flips has no effect on the next flip, given a fair coin?

The OP is only asking what the outcome of the NEXT flip is, not the probability of flipping 11 heads in a row. Or did I read this wrong?
I'd estimate over 90% of my friends show accurate information. Some don't fill it all out and a few use fake jobs or a silly middle name. Most of the fake information I see is left over from when people were younger and put up 'funny' stuff in the job field as they didn't have one then.
As usual in OS X, glaring deficiencies in basic functionality of the base OS are dealt with via a vast ecosystem of third party software. I'd probably estimate that somewhere between 1/5th to 1/3rd of available third party OS X software is software designed to fix basic problems with the OS as shipped (or with the apps that ship along with the OS).
I had your same experience, then I opened the syntax guide in another window and indented something four spaces, tried again. It rendered the very simple markdown as HTML.

Pretty good. I might show this to my friend who is trying to learn Javascript, doesn't know any HTML or Markdown now, probably will need to learn both, slightly interested in parsing and parse trees, but I don't know how useful it is.

I wouldn't put this on the front page though.
I downloaded Microsoft Money Plus Sunset yesterday to get access to that very feature. It doesn't do the online updating, but the 'project future cash flow' feature is very valuable to me.
Ignoring the rest of your comment… how would this kill you all?
Obvious: comments, twits...
Any non-obvious ideas?
>Can I look at the coin's two sides?

I would give points for just asking that question, because many people bound by conventional thinking wouldn't dare to ask it, accepting default assumption that you can't. I'm not saying this says anything about your ability to solve the problem, but asking the question is a good sign of a supple mind.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment – what does this have to do with how great the US is?

Snowden grew up in the US. Having the US after him means he is excluded from traveling to a large part of the Western world due to fears of extradition (even making it out of Russia, due to flight connections and such, might be hard).

Perhaps he is happy living in Russia for the rest of his life (though I doubt it), but since when does a desire for clemency indicate he (or anyone) views the US as the "greatest country on earth?"
I'm not so sure consoles are the problem. XBox Live gets a lot of heat, and deserves it, but most of the fratcore's market strongholds don't have their roots in consoles. FPS, MMO, and sandboxes all have famous PC roots, while technical fighters got their start in the arcades. Madden is really the only one the consoles can claim, and then only arguably: the first Madden wasn't released on consoles, but the consoles were where it really took off.

That's why I'm reluctant to point the finger at consoles. The problematic franchises and strongholds have their roots elsewhere, and continue to start in these places, only coming to consoles later. If anything, consoles' low barrier to entry makes them more a part of the solution, not the problem: simply put, we need new blood, and lots of it.
Thanks for the clear explanation. And great job on writing a high-performing Bignum library. From these benchmarks, it looks like the go-to for a high-performing, permissively licensed Bignum library.
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When we pick the coin, we have 1 in 1000 chance of getting the double heads coin, and 999 in 1000 chance of getting a fair coin. Lets call this P(fair) = 0.001, and P(fake) = 0.999.

When we have the double heads coin, the probability of getting 10 heads is 1: P(10 heads|fake) = 1. When we have a normal coin, the probability of getting 10 heads is P(10 heads|fair) = 0.5^10.

The quantity we want to compute is

P(heads|10 heads) = P(fair|10 heads)*0.5 + P(fake|10 heads)*1
= P(fair|10 heads)*0.5 + (1-P(fair|10 heads))
= 1 - P(fair|10 heads)*0.5.

To compute P(fair|10 heads) we use Bayes' rule:

P(fair|10 heads) = P(10 heads|fair) * P(fair)/P(10 heads)

Here

P(10 heads) = P(10 heads|fake)*P(fake) + P(10 heads|fair)*P(fair)
= 1*0.001 + 0.5^10*0.999.

We fill in the formula we got by Bayes' rule:

P(fair|10 heads) = 0.5^10 * 0.999 / (1*0.001 + 0.5^10*0.999)

Then we fill in the original formula:

P(heads|10 heads) = 1 - 0.5^10 * 0.999 / (1*0.001 + 0.5^10*0.999) * 0.5
= 0.75308947108
rgb(218, 218, 218) on rgb(237, 173, 45) makes my eyes hurt.
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Very neat trick. what does "errrr" do?
The 2013 revenue stats I didn’t want to share
There is the concept of eminent domain which lets the government force-purchase land for this purpose. However it's typically only done in cities or where the geography / geology requires it. Out in California's central valley where it is flat as far as the eye can see, it's sometimes better politically to do a curve to follow edges of property lines than to piss off some big wig ranchers.
I'm nearly positive I've seen that in Microsoft Money, and pretty sure I've also seen it in Mint.
Objective-C: TIOBE programming language of the year third time in a row
Here [1] is a good but necessarily incomplete summary of version control tool history, written by ESR.

Tom Lord does deserve much credit for DVCS concepts, but so do Larry McVoy (Bitkeeper) and Graydon Hoare (Monotone).

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/version-control/version-con...
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"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
– Albert Einstein
Well, for all those who say "a free market does exist": I don't consider a market as strictly regulated in terms of manufacturing (FDA) as well as in pricing (at least in Germany, and IIRC in the US anywhere Medicare/Medicaid is involved) as a truly free market.

That being said, the medical sector needs extreme regulation for obvious purposes (eg. to give all people access to adequate health care, not only the rich, and to make sure that the products do what advertised and do not kill the patients). What has been missing in the US is a compulsory insurance scheme...
Have you read "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" by Orson Scott Card? It get's a little weirdly preachy, but the idea that Columbus really is the fulcrum about which the fate of the Americas tips, and that if you could go back and get him to think of the locals as actual people and not savages, things could work out pretty good.
Believe in your idea because....
Every attempt to compel humanity towards some higher degree of morality, or to accelerate this process, either through force or through law or by throwing money at the problem, fails. Our morality is increasing, but slowly. It is a developmental process. Steven Pinker's observation that violence has actually declined over the course of human history, despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, attests to this fact.

Unfortunately, like the stages of economic development, there are no shortcuts here. The moral development of our species will be exactly proportional to our development of moral feelings, like empathy, and no faster. And since this kind of psychological change - from generation to generation - happens exceedingly slowly, there's no way around the fact that our moral development is also exceedingly slow. But slow is better than non-existent.
All the cable modems I've used (UK) have always downloaded a an image over TFTP on boot. As I understand it they can come up with a very minimal loader and reach out for their config to the local "node" for configuration, and this can include new firmware. On the support line they're adamant that you reboot the things before proceeding past the IVR. Which makes sense.

The last I heard about it the different levels of service (bronze/silver/gold they were at the time, 5/10/20Mbit/s) are just based on the MAC the modem sends on this initial config/handshake. When I moved from 20 to 50 I was told to reboot the modem and it came up will an all new shiny more craptastic than ever web interface as well as setting it's WAN port to 50Mbit/s
More than not needing, people don't want video in most situations. I remember people saying: "how could I tell to my wife that im at work and not at the bar?"

This is how innovation works in terms of reference dependence, we weight the new features versus the previous ones and decide if there is a gain, or several. Additionaly, loss aversion will be included in the formula and make it harder to change.
A worthless POS would lack to motivation to finish learning...
Exactly. Wealth, if you're smart, see what's coming, and know how to prepare, brings you options others simply don't have. I'm not talking in the SHTF / survivalist sense, either, though it's true there, too ... simply stating that wealth allows you to do things you couldn't without it.

This is similar to how every time politicians salivate over some new scheme to "tax the rich", the rich - being smart, motivated, and having the option to do so - find ways to avoid paying more than they have to. The middle & lower class, on the other hand, are either no better off, or are actually screwed.
Are you afraid to fly? An aluminum tube with no exit for thousands of miles and a much longer time in the seat.
If you can either show a portfolio of past work or get introduced by a friend, hanging around a tech incubator can also work out. I got my first client through a TechStars investor who introduced me to two founders at TS Cloud last year. I contracted with them for a few months while also looking for other clients, realized I hated freelancing and became their first employee.
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Beautifully designed, it looks great on both Android and iOS. Nice work. I'm usually not a very good user of these apps as my income/expenses are very irregular (so any automation features are useless to me) and I'm terrible at remembering to enter the data. I'm going to give it a try though.
Believe in your idea because...if you will not believe in it nobody else will. It is you who could make it happen.
Why would you believe in your idea? share your thoughts
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