skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lived in both the us and Canada. I noticed that mri and CT scan scans were really easy to get done in the us, but would often require a month or more of waiting in Canada for non Urgent issues. I wonder how much the overuse contributes to differences in health care costs between countries?
Very good news! I can then say it has been tested on Win 7!
That's quite a stretch to say that the advertisers and majority of the staff at every news station in the country don't like pro-Snowden stories.

The truth is far simpler: the German interviewer wants more money for foreign rights to the interview than U.S. stations are willing to pay.
...HoMM2...

I'm actually surprised I figured this one out (unless it's not Heroes of Might and Magic 2)... a lot of the younger people here probably wouldn't. Might be one of those titles to write all the way out and possibly send some interested parties on an internet quest for further information. :)
Or you could just get an app (and some black tape), depending on the energy range you want to look at:

http://www.xinexus.ch/nuclear-radiation-dosimeter/index.html

edit: I think I got the wrong thing there.. better go for this:

http://www.hotray-info.de/html/radioactivity.html
Only 5% of nobel prizes have gone to women, and this includes literature and peace prizes. I'm sure if you narrow it to pure STEM it's much lower.

Men have invented every major technological advance in history. If you look outside your window all the roads, all the buildings, cars, aeroplanes, cell phones, etc.
All men.

My theory is not that women are dumber, it's that the fight for survival is not there for women. They can just have a man pay their bills in exchange for sex.

Actually by seizing that advantage it makes women seem actually smarter..... and they live longer too.
How Nintendo Plans to Make Money Again
You must be speaking strictly in terms of monetary deflation. I could see dogecoin being deflationary as well, but in a "price deflation" sense.

Dogecoin could also become deflationary. If 6 billion dogecoins worth of value is created in a year and only 5 billion coins to match that increase in value, the economic value of goods created surpases that of the coins created. As a result, you have more goods chasing (relatively) fewer coins, increasing the value of the coin. In other words, less dogecoin gets you more stuff so you actually have (price) deflation.

In the US, during the stupidly-named "long depression" of the late 19th century, prices slowly dropped to about 60-65% of what they were at the start of the period while the total supply of money grew. That's because more goods were chasing (relatively) fewer gold-backed dollars. Monetary inflation coupled with price deflation.
Blogspam. These are clear SEO attempts, svbtle is a clone of so many other blogging platforms, it's irrelevant.
> They had the chance to invest in the following companies early, but didn't: Intel, Google, Apple, FedEx, PayPal, and others.

This is misleading unless we know the list size in which these bypassed companies appeared. If the success/failure ratio is 0.01, then it should surprise no one that venture capitalists sometimes miss a winner while carefully investing in startups.
Micronewton electromagnetic thruster
To expand upon your point, biology lucked out with Carl Linnaeus. It so happened that Linnaeus's methods of classifying and naming biological organisms happened to correspond very well to other scientifically relevant concepts (genetics, etc.)[0]. We have no similar guarantee that the same applies to classifications of behaviors.

That said - and let me qualify this by saying I have many complaints with the DSM (particularly the DSM V) - the fact that the DSM classifications may not be helpful for research purposes does not mean that they are not helpful for clinical treatment. Clinicians who use it properly (a big caveat) use it to ensure that they are all using a common vocabulary, though with an understanding that the vocabulary is imperfect.

This is why I get very frustrated when I see online discussions about mental disorders devolve into recitations of the DSM diagnostic criteria as if they were checklists. The DSM provides a convenient library, but the clinician still has to identify which portions are relevant and which are not, and to write the "code" that glues those relevant portions together.

[0] Not that they weren't without fault, but they were an important early effort that has been revised in modern day.
The AP feed is carried by every major and minor newspaper in the country. The point of the feed is that smaller articles can be written once and disseminated throughout the country.

Snowden doing yet another interview isn't very newsworthy. He's done interviews before, and he'll do them again. Based on the transcripts of the interview (see other posts), there isn't anything new in this interview. All in all...it's not news and the only reason it even got written about was because its Snowden.
IAP isn't the enemy; shitty games that exist solely to make money are the enemy.

Exactly right. IAP has absolutely enabled really, really bad behavior, but it's not the cause any more than the existence cars is the cause of automobile accidents. One facilitates but does not imply the other.
The presented device directly converts electric energy into kinetic energy <-- caught my attention.
Some people just don't like declarative programming
Reality Check:Are you a business card CEO?
> it's the right order of magnitude

Probably even closer when you consider that cryptocoins suffer much more "loss" than USD does. People lose wallets, get hard drives wiped, etc., which are deflationary events that partly counter any built-in monetary inflation. Whereas losses of USD due to things like setting bills on fire or losing them in a lake amount to a miniscule portion of total USD outstanding.

Imo it's even plausible that Dogecoin's current loss rate is >5%, in which case the currency would still be deflationary even with the new coins being added.
The people of Argyll and Bute (the Scottish Parliament constituency containing the Coulport and Faslane bases) have voted for the SNP in recent Scottish Parliament elections:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argyll_and_Bute_%28Scottish_Par...

The MOD itself says that a total of only 520 civilian jobs would be lost if Trident was moved - and only 310 of those are definitely locals:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/political-news/labour...

And finally, don't you think some things are more important than money and jobs?

I really liked Charlie Stross's account of how he changed his views on an "independent" nuclear deterrent:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/04/on-the-u...

Personally, I changed my mind from being a reluctant supporter for the need for nuclear weapons while wandering round, of all places, Auschwitz-Birkenau, our guide made a comment about how although Auschwitz-Birkenau remains the very worst that we have achieved as as species a lot of countries, including the UK, calmly contemplate the use of weapons that would have far worse results. From that day I have felt very strongly about trying to remove nuclear weapons from my country and independence seems the most viable route to achieving that goal.
MVP's make sense for products that require a lot of effort to build. An MVP for a blog is just horrifyingly lazy.
Wild speculation that {women|older people|Black people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is baseless discrimination. Wild speculation that {men|younger people|White people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is stimulating discussion. Just a heads up for when the downvotes come.
I contend that situation matters, and that standing up for youself has been tried by some people who then suffered worse brutality.

It's easy to say "stand up for yourself", especially if you have wrong ideas about bullies, but just saying it is not particularly helpful for many people being bullied.

It is trite and simplistic. It is also harmful for some people being bullied.
Microsoft ads were more product-centric (which were not that good too) rather than being emotional.

In my opinion a recent trend of tech ads is to touch a cord of the consumers ( e.g. Google[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE], Apple[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiyIcz7wUH0]. Well Microsoft is shifting focus to that with this nice commercial.
> he also has a 95% success rate, with rarely more than two back-and-forth iterations

Just to be clear, this is actually 2 distinct data points:
1) 95% success rate
2) rarely > 2 rounds

First on your #2: any software patent[1] that was obtained in the last ~10 years AND was granted with <= 2 rounds is either:
a) truly innovative and from out of left-field (READ: extremely rare)
b) the original Claims were very narrow
c) the Claims were significantly narrowed during prosecution

Now combine this with your #1 and what we can likely ascertain is that your "patent-writing-guru-for-hire" either doesn't try to get a decent patent for his clients, doesn't know what he's doing, or allows his customer to dictate that time-to-completion outweighs quality.

When you write code, do you get credit for how fast you can get the thing compiled and out the door - or do you take pride in the end result is not only to spec AND well thought out AND thoroughly QA'd AND provides advantages in running it? Yet, with "95% success rate" and "<= 2 compiles" is basically asking your "patent-writing-guru-for-hire" to sacrifice quality for speed in getting the job done. Make no mistake, the english words used in patent Claims is as serious and deliberate as the writing of any code - a wrong placement of a comma, period, semi-colon, choice of words, or ordering is on the same level as a misplaced bracket, for-loop, choice of data structure, etc... At some point, they'll likely come to bite.

Take coding as analogy - anyone can write code that compiles AND then claim he's got 95% success rate at compiling - but the question is whether the end result is worth the time, effort, and expense spent. Just as there is a justification for top coders to be paid upwards of $150k/yr despite the existence of $5k/yr alternatives: QUALITY.

If you are a startup with real money poured into true R&D (e.g. where many trials and experiments and dead-ends were required to achieve the innovation) that can then be easily duplicated and you determine that you need solid protection - then investors demand you to get some defensible attribute - patents offer this. I suggest you simply won't get that with someone who claims a 95% success rate in <= 2 iterations. Impossible.

If you still don't believe me, then give me your patent number and I'll detail you some simple workarounds that competitors can (and will if need be) use to completely avoid your patent - aka workaround.

[1] technically, there is no such thing as a software patent
That's because those people... ARE the joke!

But seriously, Dogecoin was a way-out-there bet. You can't be upset if it doesn't work out. Also, I've seen enough "devastating-end-of-the-world" news on cryptos that make the price tank only to come right back up a month or 2 later. Maybe this'll be reversed after the price tanks & difficulty drops. I'm keeping my doge miners going... You never know. But I'm fully prepared to find out it was all for naught. Easier for me to say since I don't spend anything to mine them. My job gives me limited but free access to cloud servers.
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MSNBC didn't cover the interview because the entity ceased to exist last year. However, its successor, NBC News, did report the interview...6 days ago when it first came out. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/26/22454373-snowden-... This was the first result on Google.

Fox News reported the AP story here: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/26/german-tv-snowden-sa....

CNN covered the story here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/world/europe/russia-snowden/.

Nobody in the US regards CBS as the 4th rail of news broadcasting, but they covered it here, with video: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/snowden-nsa-conducts-industrial-...
Secret EU plan for police to remotely stop your car
On the surface, you wouldn't think immutable data structures would offer any significant performance gains. But there are a lot of cool techniques and unforeseen consequences that emerge.

The clojure library "om" is able to use reference equality (instead of a deep comparison) to check for diffs. This results in a 2x or 3x performance gain over mutable data structures.

So I agree with you, this will likely just be a toy OS. But if his design demonstrate huge advantages, the ideas could be adopted by mainstream operating systems.
How darec you
I'm surprised that there isn't a cryptocurrency that uses much more complex rules to determine the number of coins mined in each subsequent block.

It seems like the blockchain could be used to evaluate the health of currency's ecosystem in a way similar to taking a look at the system monitor or result or cat/proc/loadavg on your desktop. Heck, the blockchain could even be used to store 'extra' system state information with every block, like current exchange rates with other currencies, which would then be used to determine the reward for the next block.

I guess all I'm saying is that I'm surprised there's not a version of bitcoin with an algorithmic 'central bank' type of function, rather than a very straightforward 'inflationary' or 'deflationary' algorithm.
Assuming this move doesn't completely kill the interest in Dogecoin, and that Dogecoin continues to thrive after this, then I doubt there will be any sort of "inflation effect".

Yes, in theory both Bitcoin and Dogecoin should have inflation until they reach their maximum number of coins, with or without any sort of "built-in" inflation rate. In practice, however, they are both highly deflationary, because they haven't reached their maximum ballpark cap market, which means the demand for them will make its value be highly deflationary, much more than this 5 percent per year figure.
Blatantly false. A 5 second search turned up the following:

CNN covered the story here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/world/europe/russia-snowden/.

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/german-tv-snowden...

CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/snowden-nsa-conducts-industrial-...

Fox News (AP): http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/26/german-tv-snowden-sa....

And see this link (German) for the explanation as to why this interview was not available in most non-German countries (including the UK) due to copyright licensing demands by the German interviewer: http://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/edward-snowden-un....
There are definitely interesting things there, but fwiw Lisp machines weren't based on immutable data structures. Common Lisp in general has an ethos of being multiparadigm and using imperative updates whenever convenient or performant. Functional constructs are probably used more than in C-like languages, but not exclusively, and are probably a minority approach in "production" Common Lisp. That's one place where Clojure differs quite a bit from CL; it sort of combines the "Schemey" preference for functional style, non-destructive functions, recursion, etc., with the CL ambition of a "batteries included" library and industrial-strength tooling.

However if you look at the first-order similarity as not being immutable data structures, but instead the idea of an OS entirely built within a managed runtime, the Lisp Machines and Microsoft's Singularity OS (C#) are two interesting examples.
Forgot to source my info on the "om" library. http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/om-react
Shucks. I just ordered new business cards with just my name on it with no email or title so that people have to google to find out how to contact me. I might be a business card Dick.

I think this was a really good article and I like the reminder that its not the idea - its the execution.
I've thought about this for the last few months. I'm in my 30's and never really cared about math until the last couple years. I'm discovering that it has become somewhat easier now for me to understand and learn new math. I had the usual engineering calc set and hated it. But now that I actually have some goals associated with it I have been able to make progress. I've been particularly interested in ASR and AI/ML. I was deficient in the math needed for it but now I'm getting up to speed rapidly. I think the key is to have had some in-depth exposure to math earlier in life though.
Ask HN: An eBook about learning to code
If you are learning to code, or want to, what do you want to read about? I'm thinking about writing an eBook about the process, challenges, etc and wanted to see if there is any interest.
This veiled attack on someone because of what their name may imply makes my stomach turn.

I've sometimes wondered whether those who are most passionate about bashing other languages and frameworks, are in fact, just using transferring the behaviour from more direct bias towards a group or person.
As far as I can tell, your library does topo_graphy_, not topo_logy_. Topology ignores such things as corners, distances, and convexity. That makes it hard to combine with GIS systems.
The actual GC of freeing memory is indeed possible (and common) without stop the world. Heap defrag is another story, though. This involves moving objects to different locations in memory, and if the memory is mutable, measures like stop the world is required since multi-byte move is not atomic.
Employee handbook probably has a clause in "IT Policy" that says 'Employee is responsible for maintaining the security of his/her password' or some similar such nonsense that the Uni will try to hide behind. Typically the only way for employees to opt out of this (when this option is available at all) is to elect to receive a paper check.

My employer's system (which comes from a big name edu-prise sw vendor) takes a 6 digit password and my system username is public information (it is not advertised, as a username, but it is visible on public facing documents). Access to this system would allow a person to change my payroll & benefits info, mailing address, and other contact info, change student grades (for the current semester), access confidential student information, and in some cases, add/drop currently enrolled students from courses. The system default password and reset default are also public information. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
I was thinking that to make this work:

1. Exchange of favor - e.g. bring stuff and I will show you th city, concert tickets etc.
2. The buyer's card is authorized (not charged) and traveller gets paid after the stuff is delivered.
3. Pickup/dropoff points in a city (ofcourse, doesn't scale)
Do any of these mitigate concerns?
That's great!

Anything that drives away people who want to "invest" in DOGE for dollar exchange is a good thing.
Op here, thanks to both of you :) I would very much like to expand prior art to more than just Linux and Clojure.
Dealing with overly detailed project planning
Isn't Twitter written in Scala, a programming language designed with immutability in mind?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheney's_algorithm
Is quite common in systems and uses "forwarding pointers".
Ubuntu Touch GUI Toolkit Allows You To Turn App Ideas Into Stunning Mockups
I think this is becoming less true: people are willing to trade off performance for safety and flexibility, given the right circumstances. For example, running everything inside of virtualized Linux instances is less performant than running in bare-metal Linux, but virtualization is nonetheless taking off like crazy.
One of the stupidest comments I've seen on HN.

The Nobel Prize is well known for being sexist.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women...

>Men have invented every major technological advance in history.

One counter example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

Actually http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/15_most_important_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women_in_mathematic...

Sexism is still alive and well

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/201...

>But in a groundbreaking study published in PNAS last week by Corinne Moss-Racusin and colleagues, that is exactly what was done. On Wednesday, Sean Carroll blogged about and brought to light the research from Yale that had scientists presented with application materials from a student applying for a lab manager position and who intended to go on to graduate school. Half the scientists were given the application with a male name attached, and half were given the exact same application with a female name attached. Results found that the “female” applicants were rated significantly lower than the “males” in competence, hireability, and whether the scientist would be willing to mentor the student. The scientists also offered lower starting salaries to the “female” applicants: $26,507.94 compared to $30,238.10.

We are not talking about equality of outcomes here; this result shows bias thwarts equality of opportunity.
> $ git branch --merged | xargs git branch -d

does this actually work? `git branch --merged` for me also
returns '* master', which when xarg'd would include the '*'
and also 'master'. I don't want to delete master, and I
certainly dont want to delete * if it globs.

EDIT: made this into a code block as I have no idea how to make asterisks display.
replied here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166333

Thanks for good points.
> If they can add inflation they can take it away...

The longer a coin runs, the harder it gets. And if I'm reading this bug report correctly, it's not that they're 'adding inflation', it's that they're declining to change an erroneous setting and maintaining the status quo. The more clients that come out, the more that setting will get locked in...
Viral math
This is an interesting case. If an employee is liable for the loss as a consequence of a data breach in a university system then does that mean it's acceptable for an employee to do their own penetration testing of university systems handling their money? This would help them better understand the weaknesses to protect themselves and push the university to fix their systems. Yes, this professor could have been phished and given up their credentials to a bad guy, but that shouldn't entirely offload the liability onto the employee as the university should have had strong measures in place for validating changes to routing numbers.
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Ask HN: Banking services for startups?
What sort of banking services are needed or recommended for startups? What sort of banks should startups be looking for? Small and local, or big and national? Any particularly good or bad experiences to share?

In my case, when I incorporated the business I opened an business account at a local credit union. But as I head toward generating actual revenue this year (enterprise SaaS), I wonder if there are things a larger bank could do for me that my credit union is too small to handle.
If you can't afford their software or services after 3 years than the problem is that your startup never became a real business.

The BizSpark program is intended for people trying to launch new businesses (hence the name). It's not intended for hobby projects or side projects.
>Whereas losses of USD due to things like setting bills on fire or losing them in a lake amount to a miniscule portion of total USD outstanding.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing redeems partially destroyed or badly damaged currency as a free public service.

Every year the U.S. Treasury handles approximately 30,000 claims and redeems mutilated currency valued at over $30 million.

http://www.moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/damagedcurrency.html