skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article does not represent current state of knowledge in this field, and makes many misleading statements. I have presented a line-by-line criticism of the article in my blog which is available at: http://are-we-really-giving-ourselves-cancer.blogspot.com/

CT scans are safe, and the present concerns regarding radiation dose from CT scans are not justified by any evidence.
Also once the condescension is done, if you want to know what the maintainers of bitcoin have to say about any of this all you have to ask is,

So where did this code "come from"??. Cue grasshoppers and frogs.

Im so glad its up on github though. Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
Sorry our site sucks. We released accidentally and are more or less in "semi-stealth mode." You probably shouldn't be interested yet. Unless you like playing with semi-broken stuff. When it's not broken we'll let you know.

Urbit is indeed a purely functional OS, not super dissimilar to the OP's project. And it works at least well enough to run a chat server on its own network (which generated all those logs with "leaves the building"). But we ship no code before its time and we probably shouldn't even have a site up.

You'll enjoy the video though - it has good music, at least.
As they say, time is money.

Although I used TurboTax because as military, I get service for free, including direct deposit. I could've filled out the tax forms myself (done so multiple years in the past), but it's a lot of time, and I had 3 W-2s to do this time.
I was expecting this one:

http://inspectelement.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Q3cUg29...
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HN isn't a place where you should be testing a social app.
> I consider 1% a reasonable price to pay to promote Bitcoin.

Yes, that's why I say you are following policies of your own choosing. ;)

In a way though you're both "right"... you're still spending your dollars after all, only via an intermediate form in pursuit of your desired currency goals.
I'm not opposed to stadiums, but I am opposed to tax payer funded or loaned stadiums. I am also opposed to use of eminent domain to take land for any non-infrastructer project.

I figure if the team doesn't want to pay for it then get a "buy a brick" drive going and see if it funds the stadium.
git's CLI design is byzantine and inconsistent, with terms that are both overloaded and underloaded (many commands do multiple, unrelated things while at the same time many common tasks do not have commands). It's very easy for newcomers to place their local repo into a limbo or failure state that they can't get out of without consulting a git guru. git's error messages and man pages are written for its developers, not for its users. git's overall CLI structure maps poorly onto its underpinnings, half-hiding parts and not explaining the rest. Pushing and pulling have really bizarre default behavior that easily confuse those who have not carefully studied how they work.

git is extremely powerful and is, buried underneath its abysmal UI, a thoughtful and elegant work of engineering. However, as a product it's incredibly difficult to explain to other people. Until you've invested a thoroughly unnecessary amount of time learning its gotchas, quirks, and vagaries it is a monumental pain in the ass to use.

(Don't get me wrong, I use git all the time and appreciate its power. I just wish Linus has asked someone else to design the CLI.)
Not necessarily; it might be possible to have some balls collide in such a way that at least one comes to a stop. At least one ball will keep moving though, and it isn't clear to me whether it is possible to prevent that moving ball from, eventually, hitting that stopped ball again. I think that would require at least three balls (ignoring pockets)
CSS has two faces, the awesome "You can make amazing things with ease" face and the "It won't do what I want unless I create some cludgy arrangement of elements in order to attach a combination of weird properties"

Those two faces are because of two simple facts.

1. CSS is a really good way to set properties.

2. The properties are shit.

The part of the properties that is most gloriously broken for layout is that the X and Y dimension behave differently. That's _really_ not what a lot of websites want.

I experimented a while back and came up with a model for placement like this

http://www.fingswotidun.com/gunk/boxtest.swf

If you had properties like these you could center, proportionally center, left/right/top/bottom align and handle growing in the direction the user wants.

What CSS needs is a new generation with all new properties, a full modal change so that it doesn't have to be backwards compatible and interact with archaic properties.
My real trouble with miscommunication at Chipotle is not that I have to repeat myself several times because I'm encountering new employees (Chipotle seems to have done a good job of training me as a customer to know exactly what I need to say at each section of the line), but that the glass partition is often so high that I have to repeat myself several times because my voice does not project over the glass. I'm 5'4", not abnormally short, and even on tip toe this happens. Having to shout my order is more annoying than repeating it, imo.
>What else is the US supposed to do? These men didn't necessarily commit crimes - prisoners of war are simply fighting for their country or side.

This shows a deep misunderstanding of the situation. The Taliban and Al Qaida were always criminals. Its not like they are simply members of the Afghan and Iraqi armies that were present before the United States entered, they are a small minority of religious extremists that that are attempting to impose their idiotic beliefs on other nations.

With that in mind, those who are in Guantanamo that are suspected members of the Taliban and Al Qaida should not be held indefinitely without charges or trial. If we have evidence, we should prosecute them. If not, we should release them after a reasonable amount of time.

I'm a former Soldier and I know how much it would suck to know in your heart that a person you detained, was in fact a terrorist, yet they walk due to a lack of evidence. However, if we don't observe the rule of law, there won't be an America to defend anymore.

I'm inclined to believe that quite a few of the people in Guantanamo are guilty. But we also know for a fact that certain groups, such as bounty hunters, were shipping lots of innocent folks off to prison simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We need to start looking for these innocents and set them free in a timely manner. We already have enough blood on our hands.
Does TurboTax work on browsers with "Linux" in their user-agent string this year?
It's really hard to generalize. Each provider has different physical hardware with different neighbors and even multiple data centers.
That's fine -- but please add an "About" link that says what "urbit" is.

That lack of explanation, that expectation of speaking to insiders, is unfortunately very common on web sites, not just yours.

Please add the About explanation even if you decide to take the site offline. At least that way, it will already be ready, later, when the project is further along.

I was just reading about the defunct House functional OS yesterday, coincidentally, so I'm interested in the general topic.
Sorry about that. I really ought to upgrade to 9.

Apparently Mathematica added some new features in version 9 that are intended to better handle differential equations with discontinuities (see http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/NDSolveWhe...). Apparently this is getting tripped up at the boundary between the two behaviors.

One simple thing that might work is to change the force law to either

force[disp1_, disp2_, dir_] := -k Abs[(disp1 - disp2).dir ]^(3/2) dir* If[(disp1 - disp2).dir > 0, 1, 0]

or

force[disp1_, disp2_, dir_] := -k Abs[(disp1 - disp2).dir ]^(3/2) dir* Piecewise[{{1, (disp1 - disp2).dir > 0}}, 0]

If these don't fix it, then you would need to play around with the options for NDSolve.
Ive been at least 20+ chipotles in at least 5+ US states and never heard of this greeting thing.
Well, if it was a lying numerical solver...

Seriously: I think they will make breaking changes if the existing code turns out to be mathematically incorrect. That may or may not have been the case here.
>In any case - apt-get, yum etc are third party tools that just copy, extract files from some server and run some pre-made configuration scripts. Thats all they do.

Third party to whom, exactly? Each major distribution maintains its own repositories and packaging system.

Okay, so that's all they do... it works great. They also provide a central place for your system to download a huge variety of software that has been tested and approved for your specific OS version.

>All the hard work of figuring out dependencies, avoiding cycles, etc is done OUTSIDE the OS by the repository maintainers. You can do that on ANY OS.

You could, but they don't. The fact is that for years prior to the Apple App Store for iPhone or OSX, or the Windows Store, there existed a way to install a wide variety of Linux software automatically and easily from a central source.

>Different repositories which the user ads can and do have dependency conflicts. One package from repo-1 can require a lib with version >= 1.0 while another package from another repo-2 will only work with version 0.9, etc. I have often had to add add other repos to get software unavailable in current repos. I have run in to these issues quite often. And I am not even getting into how brittle apt-get in general is.

Sure, that's true. Personally I've always found the software I need on the main repositories for Ubuntu or Debian, and not needed to add external sources. When there is a package I need that's not in a repository, installing a binary or compiling from source has worked fine. So I haven't experienced the problems you mention or hint at in 10-12 years of desktop and server Linux use.
I didn't do this often enough to automate or organize the collection of programs to install. When I did store programs on CDs (for instance, Netscape 4.x so I wouldn't have to download the 30mb package) the version would be outdated by the time I'd need it again.
No, I just don't think they should be exempt from regular sales & etc. taxes. They are not a legitimate nonprofit organization or trade organization, but a group of businesses trying to launder their main product's expenses via a 501(c) organization.
You're completely missing the point. Having elaborate workarounds for utterly common problems that have all kinds of edge cases is exactly where we were with button rollovers in 2005.

All the W3C had to do for CSS2 was look at Mac App or Cocoa or any other decent GUI framework and figure out what needed to be added to make all that stuff work simply. Instead we get ridiculous crap that sort of half solves the problem if you do it in just the right way and apply a couple of rolls of duct tape to it. We're at CSS3 (?) partially implemented with stuff being proposed for CSS4, and none of these common problems have been solved.
I don't see the purpose of this
I've never been greeted like that in MN and would probably walk out after saying "Yeah... no...". I do tend to go to Panchero's when I'm in the Twin Cities, MN.
No, they avoid may other taxes via this strategy as well, such as sales taxes and hotel-occupancy taxes.
This is important - anything that a majority of a cryptocurrencies userbase doesn't like won't get implemented because they wouldn't upgrade the protocol, they would fork it.
Why not integrate with github? That seems obvious to me
I don't see the article arguing otherwise. The article is just arguing that states shouldn't be playing the NFL's bullshit game, not that it's the federal government's fault they are.
There already is one: http://github.com/
I can see this being really useful for group discussion and learning online, but you'd have to modify it a bit for that.
The ability of central banks to steer the economy has nothing whatsoever to do with dollars being a convenient medium of exchange. It's entirely about dollars being a medium of account - your contracts and sticky nominal prices are denominated in dollars.

Also, what asset people choose as a store of value is also mostly unrelated to the medium of exchange or the medium of account (any relation is due entirely to transaction costs).

http://www.bayesianwitch.com/blog/2014/bitcoin_critics_not_e...
Never seen any absurd greeting, and for those who havent been to chipotle, or those who want to complain about how they order there, follow this simple guide and you wont have to repeat yourself: tell the person manning the section what you need from them and nothing else.

1. You step to the first section, tell them whether you want a burrito or a bowl and potentially what type of rice/beans.

2. Next person, next instruction, tell them your meat and possibly what salsa.

3. Final person (besides the register) tell them what types of additional fixings, hopefully in the order they would stack next to your burrito.

This is a simple strategy and the only time I have had to repeat myself at a chipotle is when they are playing the music too loud.
It looks more like a teaching tool - http://kurikku.com/s/52ef0237e4b0630f318682a7/clojure-projec.... That would be valuable learning or improving in any language.
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Has anyone used this (or something similar)?

the Hg-Git mercurial plugin

http://hg-git.github.io/
Chipotle seems to have done a good job of training me as a customer to know exactly what I need to say at each section of the line

Hear. "Hi, welcome to Chipotle, what can I get for you?" → "Wheat tortilla. pause Brown rice." As an engineer I don't mind (I know exactly how their queue works and when to say what) but the interaction that takes place is not normal.
I wanted it to be for public code review first and it seemed the smallest thing I could build. Something to replace codereview.stackexchange.com

But github and team features are definitely planned for the future if people like it.
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I go to numerous restaurants with the same model as Chipotle, and none of them seem as disorganized as Chipotle. In fact, my friends and I generally like to make fun of Chipotle for being ludicrously inefficient, in some parts due to the crazy passing around of people and order components mentioned in this article, and partly due to the employees not having any real experience rolling burritos. In comparison, there's a 24-hour burrito place called Freebirds nearby (related lineage, but yet entirely unrelated to other instances of Freebirds if you happen to have one near you: the one in Isla Vista is unique) who have almost an identical mechanic, and yet the staff, many of whom have been working there the entire 15 years I've lived in this area, are able to rapidly organize and serve lines of drunk people going out the door and down the street at 1-2am, and without the burritos falling apart as you attempt to pick them up. I guess to say: I don't think it is Chipotle optimizing for "throughput" that causes the problems described here, as these problems directly and negatively impact their throughput. (Also, for those who doubt the greeting thing ever happens anywhere: the Chipotle near me definitely has the "people jump to greet everyone that walks in the door" property.)
#EsuranceSave30
>I think people would take issue with the more explicit forms of function annotation being the __only__ option, for the simple reason that they're a bit verbose and ugly.

I understand the desire to build elegant abstractions via metaprogramming, but I think is an example of metaprogramming done poorly. This particular feature was a source of confusion for me and my coworkers when we first started learning to use Angular. I think that the explicit form is the only sane way, or at least one of the possible sane ways.

I'll $q.defer() to SICP to explain the principle that is being violated by the implicit form:

"One detail of a procedure's implementation that should not matter to the user of the procedure is the implementer's choice of names for the procedure's formal parameters. ...This principle -- that the meaning of a procedure should be independent of the parameter names used by its author -- seems on the surface to be self-evident, but its consequences are profound."

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#...
CSS 3D is lovely, but it would be nice if they -- Apple, Microsoft, Firefox, and (especially) Google -- took care of freaking business.

The latest Chrome on Windows has completely screwed up select controls for no apparent reason -- they do things like fade and zoom in, but don't actually work properly (I'm a Mac guy, but our Windows guy has been cursing Chrome for days).
FWIW, the Chipotle in Goleta (in essence a suburb of Santa Barbara, CA) does greet everyone incessantly as they walk in the door, so it does happen at least somewhere ;P.
The Element Inspector (in Chrome) and Firebug (in Firefox) will let you interactively modify the DOM.

If you want to make changes permanent, Stylebot or Stylish are useful. Stylebot is Chrome-only, Stylish exists for both browsers.
I agree with your general assessment and skepticism of performance tests, particularly on top of virtualization.

Minor point though: Digital Ocean at least advertises SSD for their servers, not spinning disk. Fraction of a ms random reads seem within the realm of possibility.
AFAICT Github doesn't let you annotate arbitrary lines of code. It does, however, let you make line-level comments on pull requests
I prepare and file all my personal and business taxes and forms without any software, other than excel.

Filing by hand means the IRS copies only the most important information, then archives/destroys the original. The end result is less chance of an audit, as there is less information up front. At least that's the rumor.
This is actually the principle reason I invest in bitcoin - I imagine that (at a very consecrative rate, because it requires a super majority of consensus to bring about a protocol upgrade) it will integrate features from other cryptocurrencies that can be proven valuable. And I don't mean things like scrypt - the status quo of bitcoin like their sha1 hashes. And they don't want proof of stake because they buy expensive mining hardware to get the cash outs from doing work.

But they might (probably, actually) inflate the money base a lot further down the line, and never let it actually cap at the 21 million btc Satoshi advertised.
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There are already plenty of apps which do similar things, like foursquare, but they tend to focus on locations rather than people (x went to this restaurant, etc.)

As you describe it, I don't see why I as a user would want other users to know who i've been hanging out with. If you can find a way to do it that doesn't seem quite so neo-Orwellian then there might be some value to it, otherwise other apps are already doing it better and I think you'll have quite a lot of network effect to overcome.
I heard if you link to Node.js source on your blog, they'll drive some traffic your way.
Javascript gets a lot of shit, but really the biggest WTFs are HTML and especially CSS. Javascript at least has Crockford. No-one really has a handle on how to deal with CSS -- it's a wall-to-wall disaster.
The merits of the presidential system are actually a plotline in one of the episodes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLoio0Z6jLw
You can do line-level comments on commits as well, outside of a pull request.
... but if you hit it hard enough what's the maximum number that will go in?
Really great idea, especially for beginners.
I'm not convinced that the brainscan patterns uniquely identify psychopaths. There are lots of things that frontal lobe dysfunction is also correlated with: ADHD, Bipolar disorder, and psychopathy. I suspect comorbidity (meaning: how likely you are to have the other diseases given you have one) is quite high, but I'm not convinced that frontal lobe dysfunction implies any or all of these disorders.
A lot of the commenters on here are looking at this in terms of normal code commenting or something similiar. However, for something more akin to a tutorial, having in depth line by line breakdown in a easy to ingest manner is very nice as a concept.
1. How does it detect?
2. How does it make money?
3. How does it make money?
Anytime someone says CSS is well designed, ask them how to vertically center something and look at their face as they go through the five stages of grief.

I'm pretty good at CSS I suppose, and it's not something you can learn logically and progressively. You have to learn all the weird nuances and quirks of it as well as the syntax.

EDIT: speaking of CSS, if you want to know true pain and nothingness, try making responsive emails that look good at three sizes on several clients in CSS.
I just created this subreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/12for12/. I'm not attached to the name at all if you want to do something different, but thought it'd be good to get a start as there appears to be interest.

I have a similar goal this year of releasing a product each month so am happy to moderate.
Does it change much to focus on the original intention of the engineers?

If the bug ever surfaced or was ever thought of by anyone at Apple at any point in the development process of iMessage, Apple will have effectively accepted to lock the user in by not having it fixed or communicate about it in some way.

The OP must not be the first to report the problem either (he switched after iOS7, iMesssage was more almost two years old by then) ?

This might not be an issue Apple cares in any way, and that's fine for them. We should just recognize their shitty behavior, even if it's originally accidental.
apparently my sarcasm is not appreciated.

chitptle has a great business model. and for fast food they are pretty efficient. I've been a pleased customer for 8 years. on every transaction, I assume that they made a profit.
Nothing conspiratorial in the fact that the networks (correctly) assess that the American viewing public would rather watch Mad Men or Game of Thrones than The Snowden Files, any night of the week.
git aliases.
10 has Association expressions [1], which are a huge language addition (and long overdue). Seems there is some synchrony with Erlang on that front!

The features I'm most excited about in 10 (disclosure: my team is working on some of these):

[2] String, XML, file templating

[3] Hands-free machine learning

[4] Entity and EntityValue: semantic "hooks" to represent real world entities

[5] Dataset, a general data modelling and query framework.

Also, DateObject, TimeObject, interaction with external processes, multiple undo, a large number of updated data sources, the ExternalService "meta-api", device connections, time series stuff, GeoGraphics, and a long list of no less worthy features.

[1] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/Associations.htm...

[2] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/WorkingWithTempl...

[3] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/guide/MachineLearning....

[4] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Entity.html

[5] http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Dataset.html
There isn't any laundering going on and they are a 501(c)(6).

"501(c)(6) — Business Leagues, Chambers of Commerce, Real Estate Boards."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League#Corpor...
I have been to Chipotle about 100 times in the past two years (mostly when I was a student) and my experience has actually been quite different - never seen any absurd greetings or inexperienced staff. That said, I mostly went to the same Chipotle and so I'm not sure how consistent the customer experience is across various outlets.