skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy cow, I am not used to product launching so close to the announcement.
having gone through portent writing and application processes myself, it really is like a game to see how much you can get away with.
The German government was hardly really negotiating a no-spy treaty. They benefit too much from the exchange with the US (at least that's what they think). Remember, the NSA is not supposed to spy on US citizens, just as the German BND is not supposed to spy on Germans. So they spy on each other's citizens and exchange the information.

So far so good for Merkel and friends. What probably upsetted them was that the German government was spied upon, too. Also, they were just second-grade allies, and the US was probably trading information with the UK for example, which they didn't share with the Germans (see the "Five Eyes" agreements). But it's hard to believe that any of this is news to the German government, if their intelligence agencies are any of their money worth.

So the big question is, why do they tolerate being spied on? I know, diplomacy is complicated, and you have to make a lot of delicate compromises, and there is a lot that you can't see from outside.

Nevertheless... Espionage is already punishable in Germany. If a German citizen is involved, they might even be charged with treason. If I were Merkel, I would just casually mention the possibility of pressing charges in this case (you can file charges against anonymous in Germany), and use this as leverage e.g. when negotiating trade agreements.
The real strength of Dropbox comes from the ecosystem of apps that use dropbox to store data. It is hard for newcomers to challenge that network effect. But competitors like Tonido are doing interesting stuff by focusing on the security, privacy and the private aspects of owning your own cloud. If they are able to change the narrative from utility to trust and security then newcomers have a fighting chance.

Finally it comes to what wins the customers: Trust or Utility or the Balanced of Both.
This all sounds like a negative for the large companies I mentioned. Yeah, it's a lot worse for the small guys, under your assumptions[1], but in the end, the ISP is still taking money out of Amazon's pocket. Relatively speaking, this sounds like better news for ISPs than it is for Amazon's potential to squeeze out competition.

[1] Though, I think small sites would just engage in collective bargaining of sorts.
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Do you find an incentive to read more as to ensure that you are getting your monthly money's worth?
The USA actually has one of the largest single payer healthcare systems in the world: The VA.
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I don't think this tangent adds much to the intended discussion, and I feel you're missing the point of the original post. There is much more to talk about here than the definition of death. However; I would like to both humour and disagree with you, I don't think there is an agreed position of what it really means to be alive. Is someone in a vegetative state really alive? If a human is on their deathbed with absolutely no chance of recovery, although they're not technically dead, they're not really alive either. There is most definitely a transition.
> Oh you say you can't pay $50M out of your garage? Well our internet isn't for people like you anymore.

The fact that it doesn't work that way already is largely just an accident of history, and I don't know if its necessary to keep that status quo artificially. Small entities are just in a bad leverage position, especially when their "product" depends heavily on someone else's very expensive and hard to reproduce infrastructure. Look at the app market. The people selling the infrastructure (Apple, Samsung) make all the money, because lots of people can write apps but very few can build cell phones. That's the natural state of things.
This is one of the things that makes java 8 really exiting.
I think it is going to show where JIT languages are going to shine in comparison to AOT compiled ones.
Multi architecture code in one program without the developer needing to jump through hoops.

Graal/JVM (like pypy) is a really nice way to bring many languages to advanced VM's. See for example node.jar/nashorn/"fast js on the jvm" or Topaz and Truffle
(Ruby on pypy and graal/jvm)
In the old days it was possible to access members of
structs inside unions without having to name the
intermediate struct. For example the code in the sed
implementation uses rep->ad1 instead of rep->reptr1.ad1.
That’s no longer possible (I’m pretty sure this shortcut
was already out of fashion by the time K&R was published
in 1978, but I don’t have a copy to hand).

Wrong; it didn't just work in the "old days". The functionality described here is actually known as "anonymous struct" and is now a part of C11; but unfortunately not a part of C++11:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8622459/why-does-c11-not-...

gcc and other compilers have also supported this functionality for a long time, although as a non-standard extension. This technique is also still widely used in systems-level programming and is hardly "ghastly" although I'll readily admit that there are better ways to accomplish what this particular case was doing.
What are the other ramifications of being classified as a common carrier?
I have designer type friends who don't do the design in photoshop at all. They just do their design in html and CSS.

This has the obvious advantage that when you're "done" with your design, the UI code is already written.

Of course it's way easier to do things like adjust gradients in photoshop. I also assume that most people will be able to do things in photoshop that they might not know how to do in HTML/CSS.
Thanks for taking the time to arrange the event. Is there a chance in the future they could be held on weekends or at least later in the evening for those who don't live in London to make it down? Appreciate it's a complicated matter, just curious! Maybe if enough people registered/paid?
January sales tactics: 63% of premium (clothing) market reduced
The funny thing is that most people choose Elixir over Erlang because of the syntax - personally I can't stand Ruby but love the Erlang syntax. When I see Erlang code, everything just clicks - almost like I'm reading prose.

So, if you want to harvest the power of Erlang, I'd suggest you start with the real thing first. The only drawback is that once you get used to functional programming, guards, pattern matching, OTP, cheap processes, links and all the other goodness, there's no way back.

If you still feel Erlang is weird after spending a couple of days working with it, feel free to jump on the Elixir bandwagon. :)
Great writing. But as someone who also came from a different design field, I'm not sure it's obvious to new designers where and what they should start learning. It would have been great if the author had identified tools for a replacement workflow (though I'm sure Treehouse must get more into that elsewhere on their site).

I came into the world of UX and UI design by way of architecture, and it was quite a while until I found tools that really made a sensible workflow:

• Dot grid paper, index cards, pencil, and scanner for sketching & wireframing or paper prototyping (white boards too of course)

• Fireworks, Photoshop, and/or Sketch for creating graphic assets or the occasional mockup

• HAML for generating HTML

• SASS & COMPASS for creating CSS

• Foundation as a CSS framework for prototyping

• Sublime Text with Emmet(Zen Coding)

• Live Reload running on browsers in another monitor

• Git & Github to get things on the development server

My web developer partner and I sometimes refer to this as the "designer's stack".

[Edited for clarity]
I really like the look and feel of Trello, but we've been using AgileZen for so long that it would be incredibly difficult to switch. I wish there was a way to auto import our cards from AgileZen to Trello...
>FRIEDMAN There is room for some public health activities to prevent contagion, such a thing as for example..

And then Friedman gets cut off when he is about to get into the examples. Knowing Friedman I would assume his examples would consist of incidents that the the private industries have quite a deal of trouble handling such as a violent outbreak or an extreme vaccine shortage.

I would not play off Friedman's words to call for regulation, taxation, or any other restriction of free trade for antibiotics.
(Consider all links in this comment NSFW :) )

Wow. Kinda myopicly focused on kickstarters lack of sex projects without mentioning much of anything happening elsewhere, nor the normal issues with chargebacks on sex related products.

Indiegogo's highest profile project has probably been vibease (Hopefully Dema will see this and speak up :) ), who netted $130k or so. However, there's been tons of other projects that haven't made it but have at least gotten press (like the Elaico, which wanted WAY Too much money for not nearly enough newness. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3020125/fund-this/adventures-in-t...).

Also, there's a funding site specifically for sex stuff, called Offbeatr (http://offbeatr.com). It's mostly for funding porn productions, but there's also been video games and other things. The problem with offbeatr is that there are a BUNCH of up front fees (to offset the usual chargeback scares associated with sex projects), as well as an odd 3 round process to get your project approved. Furries do seem to love it, which seems to get their projects over the 3 round issue since they know their fanbase will always vote things through.

Concentrating on LovePalz is weird because while they /claim/ to have been rejected by kickstarter, no one from KS will ever confirm this, and their launch was a MASSIVE failure that would've caused lots of bad press were it more publicized (http://www.slashdong.org/2013/06/03/lovepalz-ships-also-does...)

More articles on sex crowdfunding:

http://www.slashdong.org/2012/11/28/would-you-like-some-maki...
https://medium.com/boinkology-101/ffbadb214acb
Nest's Sale -- and the Myhrvold/Patent Twist
AMD has begun to ship drivers on steamOS. And have begun to pick up their game.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU2NjQ
Did you use "make -j $number_of_cores" ?
The recognized leaders of these countries are the ones who are allowing this. Read Dirty Wars by Jeremy Scahill for more.
Yes indeed, if one thing US is best at it would be marketing, but what I have explained is only true for the past decade (2000 upwards). Upto the 90s and before the tech boom, it was very difficult to make a good living in India where the only stable choice then was to take up a government job.

The generation before (those born till 70s in India) had to struggle a lot under newly independent India and its socialistic ideals. That generation also created the craze about going away from India to build their careers. Couple this with the civic issues of India (which are still prevalent) and you end up in the popular view about India in the west.
The Doomsday Clock stays at 5 minutes to midnight
If scientist were getting twice as fast, I doubt it would make a difference. As I said, ok scientist are twice as fast, but can they think of a novel solution twice as fast? What is the last great physics discovery that was by a single (wo)man? Why are there no medals in sciences now won mostly by teams?

Again I don't think it won't reach super human levels. I just don't think the Singularity is within next thousand years (I'd say several thousands but I don't want to underestimate humans).

Progress in AI (or other sciences), to me seems more like an Evolutionary Boom, followed by long periods of nothing. Basically lots of information about how 'X' works piles up on a floor until someone or something picks it up and sorts it into a neat pile that explains lots of stuff, then more and more stuff piles up and now we need even smarter person(s) to sort that problem.

I suspect that is because the pile of data to sort out is getting bigger and bigger and bigger, so that no single human can filter it any more. You now need teams and computers and God knows what else to make a breakthrough.
If for breakthrough of same magnitude you need more smart people than you did before, means that problems we're dealing now got harder.

Another thing that strikes me is that perhaps the thing that contributes to discovery of how Intelligence works isn't the same thing as intelligence. I.e. we're making our computers faster but not smarter. We assume that speed of thought is all, but what if there is a choke-point, like entropy? Chaos and randomness are essential to with creativity and discovering novel solutions. So basically we make our computers 20 times more intelligent, but they aren't chaotic enough to find what fixes them.
About 1/6th of the country is covered by Medicare. Medicaid covers another 20%+ and increasingly being nationalized. All told, we're looking at 1/3 of the US population's healthcare being paid for by the Government. The prices set by the government tend to drive the price levels adopted by the private payers. So while there is no NHS equivalent, the US government is critically important in the set up of the reimbursement structure.
Create A Typing Effect In CSS
No LESS is a stylesheet language that compiles down to CSS. Javascript isn't involved at all, unless you use their script tool to run uncompiled LESS in the browser. That is only meant for prototyping though, in production it will be compiled down to CSS.
Which is because the term "recall" is misleading, especially in this case.
"LPT: Have sleep-onset insomnia (difficulty falling asleep)? Stop thinking with words and think with images instead."

http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/1uy56a/lpt_have...

I’m not sure if there is any evidence backing this up. Trying this myself didn’t work too well because my eyes tend to seize a little bit when I try to 'think with images'.
There's a school of thought that the "Axis of Evil", invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the ongoing antagonization of Iran and Venezuela are all demonstrations to the world at large of the extent to which the US would respond to such a move.
This means you're browsing the wrong site.
I love how they talk about design and then take over my middle click to force loading over the page I'm reading. Umm, hello it's 2014 and if I want to open in another tab I WILL!
Not sure I understand this, for example, with targetprocess I can use it as a complete swap for trello without any loss of functionality or simplicity. Take a board for example: http://www.targetprocess.com/product/, it's just as easy, if not easier than trello (as it also allows for the drag and drop customization of cards) but if you like you can take advantage of the more advanced, yet still easy to use features and all with seamless reporting.
Is this a bi like vimproc[1]?

1: https://github.com/Shougo/vimproc.vim
That's one reason why C++ has actual references in addition to pointers.
Poll: How many HN users have started startups (successfully)?
It'd be pretty cool to get an idea of how many people on HN are actually founders.
Startup founder - Still working on the same one
Startup founder - IPO'd
Startup founder - Working on my second, third etc.
Startup founder - Acquired
The infinite monkey cage

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc

In Our Time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl

In Our Time is an excellent radio programme, and every episode is available online. There is plenty of choice.
I think that's the thesis of the "worse is better" approach.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Options are the most obvious:

def foo(opt: Option[Bar]) = opt.map(_.toString).getOrElse("")

This non-obviously creates an extra object in the Some case. As opposed to:

if(opt.isDefined) opt.toString else ""

which creates 0. Not a huge deal in this specific case (unless this is a hot call). But this sort of thing is endemic to all of the standard libraries.

Edit -- only 1 extra object, but it is in both the Some & None case (which is sort of the point, it is hard to know with idiomatic Scala)
It's funny that after all, native code is still what devs wants. Even on top of a super JS engine JIT I-don't-know-what.

There was a HTML browser, then a scripting language, and it seems it was the easiest, hackiest way to massively deploy native-fast software, and it's done through a browser.
This thread is about solving them using pen and paper:

http://forum.projecteuler.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1982

I don't see this problem listed, but I didn't look through the whole thread.
That would mean tech people are... well people regardless of sex. I like this idea! Maybe we need to remember this more.
> There's no denying that the PNaCl is a superior approach, and if we were starting from square one would be the smarter design as well.

Not necessarily. That has been discussed at length many times here and elsewhere. PNaCl's approach is interesting and technically has much merit, but also has significant downsides (startup speed, complexity, size of implementation, reliance on LLVM for something it was not intended, risks of undefined behavior, PPAPI, etc.). It's technically an impressive technology but also one with fundamental compromises.

Instead, an undeniably superior approach could be to start entirely from scratch, not JS nor LLVM nor anything else, and work to design something truly optimal for the use case we are talking about here (code shipped over the network, to run securely inside a browser, at near-native performance, with fast warm and cold startup). That would look very different from both JS and PNaCl, and could avoid the compromises that both have.
Well, there's two things at play here. The complexity of the CSS model in the browser (plus all the browser-specific quirks) and the CSS syntax. Less only solves the CSS syntax issue.

My reading of this thread is that it was started based on the complexity of dealing with CSS in the browser rather than dealing with the CSS syntax.
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OK, so I'm betraying my ignorance of statistics here...but aren't there just too many other variables that far outweigh the one studied here, and despite attempts to control for them...aren't easily quantified?

The actual product, for one thing. How do the researchers quantify the real world (or hyped) appeal of Pebble and Ninja Baseball? Do they look at the respective markets for such products? Such a factor seems to so far outweigh a textual description that it almost seem a low ROI to spend an inordinate time on exact phrasing.

Edit: OK I read the paper. Seems to be no or very little mention of inherent product qualities...thus, this study seems very limited, and missing the forest for the trees
no, CSS itself is a bit shit, that's why LESS and SASS came along
without net neutrality we get an internet where the rich get preferential treatment, and where providers can pick and choose between people using their services. how is working towards that not unethical?
Heh. Point. Let me amend that to - the majority of Americans are not covered by a national health care system.
Want to know more?

The basics: Switch2OSM http://switch2osm.org/

Beginners guide how to start mapping for OSM: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide

Help OSM as a developer: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop
I've personally seen horrific technical judgement calls made by managers who used to code (usually not in an environment like anything they're actually managing). There's a huge, dangerous class of problem where you think you know what you're doing, but you don't.

"It's not what you don't know that hurts you. It's what you know that just ain't so." - Satchel Paige

When the fates of a whole team of individuals rest on your judgement, it's best if it is grounded empirically or at least humble enough to account for the possibility that you could be mistaken.
We ended up writing out own little load test suite since we wanted to accurately represent a concurrent load of different user profiles. Each user profile has a different set of functions and rate of accessing the system which we had a difficult time replicating in JMeter.

It's very simple little java program and nicely tailored to our particular use cases which makes using it very easy. I am not typically a proponent for "roll your own" but in this case, I feel we got quite a bit of ROI from writing very little code.
So you're telling us that copywriting matters. Duh.
Funny, I wasn't aware that intellectual property was a quantity competition.
Yes, the arithmetic primitives don't support variadic arguments. You can see how + works - and that it only deals with the first two arguments - here: https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin/blob/278354246aebf14b8.... A pull request fixing this would be welcome.

In the meantime, for variadic addition, one can do:

(load-file "core.gk")
(reduce + 0 '(1 2 3)) ;=> 6
Blood sugar levels after eating
According to Dr. Jeff Volek we normally carry about 8 g of sugar flowing through our bloodstream (that’s approximately 2 tea spoons), in the form of glucose.

For the sake of you understanding better: sugar=carbohydrate=glucose. So it’s one and the same thing.

Thus, after eating there will bea rise in blood sugar due to the content of carbohydrate that was ingested (carbohydrate = bread, whole wheat foods, pasta, rice, sweets, potatoes, etc).

So, unless you have a high-fat-low-carbohydrate meal, your blood sugar will rise due to the amount of carbohydrate you eat.
Building A Global Health Sensing Network From Star Trek-Inspired Devices
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Is there an exchange type program, but not for students? I know a few people (and even myself in the past) would have loved to go work in Europe for, say, a couple of years. I'm sure others in Europe would love to try the same for a bit.
I wonder how well that law works for Government employees (or contractors)?

/s
except when your company is US gov :)
IBM does a lot of stuff that's really patent-worthy - materials, processes, semiconductor techniques etc. It's not like they patented the most FAT filesystems, double-tap-to-open or one-click-purchases for the 21st year in a row.
Can you give examples of medicines developed thanks to computational chemistry simulations?

I'm rather ignorant about this area of research, but it always seemed to me kinda fruitless? Sorta like high throughput screening - a ton of resources and computation is dedicated because it sounds like a good idea... but ultimately there is very little to show for it all.

Way too little signal and way too much noise.
I wasn't talking about transpilers, i was referring to vendors support for every major browser.
Chrome 32 launches with noisy tabs and auto malware blocking
The phrase at the top of the list for phrases signaling that the project won't be funded is "pledged" but the 3rd, 4th and 5th ranked phrases signaling that the project will be funded are "has pledged", "pledged will", and "pledged and". How are you supposed to interpret those seemingly conflicting results?

Another fishy thing is that the top of the list for phrases signaling that the project will be funded is the phrase "project will be". It's fishy because whenever you meet your funding goal, Kickstarter puts a blurb on your page saying "This project will be funded on <deadline>"†. It makes me wonder whether their scraper accidentally picked up some text that was not part of the user created promotional text.

† https://www.google.com/#q=%22This+project+will+be+funded%22+...

Edit: One more thing. I would be much more convinced of the model accuracy if they had tested it on provably out of sample data. I.e. Take their model as it stands today and use it to generate a prediction for the next 1000 campaigns posted to Kickstarter. Compare the prediction results to the actual outcomes and post the results.
promos for early users, to get the word out, etc. so yes, discounts.