skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm delighted to hear that this child is doing well, and I'm utterly appalled at Tim Armstrong's attitudes towards the lives of his employee's children. Apparently it's possible to pay a programmer $100K/year, but spending ten times that to save the life of one of his employee's children is absolutely unacceptable. I'll be sure to keep that in mind the next time I hear from an AOL recruiter.

The whole point of insurance is that a middle-class family can afford to pay $12,000 or $18,000 in premiums per year, but they can't easily afford a $1M black swan medical event. So the insurance company spreads the risk out over a large pool. The system breaks down, of course, if the pool is too small. A company with 10 employees probably can't absorb a $1M expense either. But AOL has 5,600 employees and it had $1.05B in net income in 2012. They can afford it to cover expenses, even if they decide to self-insure.

Of course, another solution is to make the risk pool as big as humanly possible and to get employers out of the insurance business completely, so that no startup needs to worry about medical expenses. The AMA is a messy political compromise to do exactly that. But Tim Armstrong is also upset about the AMA. So I'm not quite sure what his ideal outcome is here.
So that's why everyone seems to recognize me.

That makes sense though. The more closely faces represent the golden ratio, the more attractive they're judged to be. Therefore, the more similar they are in that aspect, the more attractive they are. So there are a lot more ways to be ugly that there are to be attractive.

That's interesting because familiarity also increases attractiveness, which is why 'unattractive' people (think actors) might be judged somewhat attractive despite their unattractive features...which in turn make them more memorable, thus more attractive.
No. I have a System76 Ubuntu laptop and the speaker quality is excellent. Plays music nicely and sound is clear and crisp. How many quality laptops do you have experience with?
One sixth. There were two "distressed babies".
Hitbox detection is off, and the physics don't feel nearly as good. There's more to flappy bird than a bird moving through pipes.
I'm glad you reposted this. I am not sure what HN etiquette is for that. Some articles really do deserve a repost and this is one.

And yes, looks like it will take after Tasha Yar, and die repeatedly.
Faster than Light: Warp Drive – SpaceVision 2013
Please, github, enable ipv6. Please.
Tim Armstrong should not only resign but leave the country. We would be better off without losers like him.
Only in the same way that Honda loads your GPS at the factory in Japan, but you can drive it wherever you like.
Self-insured group health plan.
He pays money?
Hey thanks for "apt pinning". Never knew about that. One more question - how do you get the Ubuntu PPAs into Debian? It seems a lot of new software is exclusively published on Ubuntu.... at least that's what it seems from Webupd8 and omgbuntu
Then one should figure out why nobody needed this feature.

I'm no expert but maybe it's actually possible to create speaker that doesn't go bad.

(I could code the protection into the sound driver in half a day probably)
Why I've switched from Chrome to Safari
Important things are 24 hours a day. Spot and forward FX, commodities, sovereign bond futures, Equity index futures, etc. See for example:

http://www.cmegroup.com/trading_hours/

CME tends to be closed for an hour a day for cleanup and that's it. US equities aren't a big deal compared to the size of bond or FX markets.
> AOSP ... is more open

AOSP is not an Android, stop lying, googleboy.
The race to keep younger and younger babies alive is fueled with ego and dollars.

If you actually look at the global data on neonatal mortality [1], that doesn't seem to be true.

Countries like Finland, France and Cuba perform better than the United States on this metric. These countries offer completely free healthcare to babies and pregnant mothers.

Frankly, I find your assumption borderline offensive. Maybe you should take your USD-tinted healthcare analytics glasses off for a while and contemplate the possibility that human lives are worth saving.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.DYN.NMRT
MVPs all the way down
Seriously I'd rather walk on coals! People who enjoy this game must be serious masochists!
This is now the second Flappy Bird clone within 24 hours and sometimes I wonder what's going on in such people. Talented coders who can program like hell but are not able to find an own idea or at least to steal some neat idea and make it better.

Do they really think because it's open source or HTML5 makes it better?
stefan, where are you playing?
Version 3.274 says:

Do not use lambda expressions, or the related std::function or std::bind utilities.
Is it actually "neglected" if the existing service works reliably under a continually decreasing load [0]?

Surely the actual time in transit makes up the overwhelming majority of time of DVD service and mail is generally a once per day delivery.

Not much point in optimizing what isn't broken in the electronic portion of that operation.

0: http://gigaom.com/2013/10/21/when-will-netflix-kill-its-dvd-...
New maize varieties to boost grain production in West and Central Africa
thanks for the comment man! This is a personal study project to show how it easy to code this famous game. It's not for personal showoff or something like this. It's to show to youg ones how it's easy to execute the game idea and to open their minds to other things.
"We had two AOL-ers that had distressed babies that were born that we paid a million dollars each to make sure those babies were OK in general."

Is this how health insurance works? Maybe AOL is "self-insured"? I don't understand AOL having anything to do with paying directly for medical treatment. Except, by virtue of making claims and costing an insurer money, the premiums increase. It's as if the insurers, ever-faithful capitalists they are, want to sell us insurance and can't believe we have the gall to make claims against our policies, and have convinced our employers to be equally appalled.
This doesn't explain how rubygems works at all.

For example, when you do

require "some_gem"

how does require know where to find some_gem.<ext>?

First ruby looks in the current load path (i.e. $:). If it cannot find the file it then looks in your set of installed gems. If it finds a match it loads the file and adds that gem path to $:.

http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.1.0/Kernel.html#method-i-require

(though those docs say nothing about checking the gem paths.)

This makes sense since if your project depends on a certain gem, who knows where you might reference it. Better load it as early as possible so its code can be used anywhere.

That's silly. If you are referencing gem code in a file then have that file require the needed gem. require will only load the file once so you can wait until you need a gem before you load it.

(load, OTOH, will reload a file as often as you call it).
In my view a reason to teach sorting is simply that it provides a set of relatively simple cases for studying things like execution speed and storage requirements.
Google music, the camera, etc.., you need really need to inform your self.
We aren't experts, so perhaps we'll eventually run into similar problems, but it seems like supporting a contributor to do something major might just be a case where it doesn't always make ROI on the first feature, but the point is to attract that contributor as a member of the core dev team, since every subsequent major improvement that contributor makes will become easier. We are trying the wizard avatars for significant contributions to try to motivate people to really join the Archmage team.

The other ingredient might be excitement to do things. People will spend more time figuring out how to make changes they care about if they're psyched; if they just want to fix some bug, they'll give up more quickly and need more time from you. So highlighting some cool things to do might help. I notice that you link to small tasks issues, but don't have any open right now. Always taking the time to write good issues that explain how to do a thing, even if you think you'll probably do it and aren't planning on doing it soon, is a good practice, because it'll be easier when you go to do it, and some contributor might see that and get inspired–then they'll know how to do it instead of needing to ask you where to start. Here's an example where I wrote up a lot of info on how to do a task and a contributor put in a lot more time to finish it afterward: https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat/issues/23
This is just the second Flappy Bird clone to make Hacker News; there are many others (you can find some on reddit.)

There is nothing wrong with developers seeing something they want to build and spending time building it. (Especially when it is so quick.)

One advantage of creating a clone in HTML5 is that the original game was not made in that way and it is easier to share that way via social media; perhaps one of these could get a lot of traffic.
Well, if you work for him, you apparently get Compensation, including salary, 401(k) matching, and a health plan that'll cover your infant's medical expenses even if they run to like a million dollars. For someone or another, that's probably the best deal they were offered.
Oh, it is ironic that the troll making wrong claims is the one calling others liars.

Are you more than 10?
Mobile? Who Are We Kidding?
Being "more open" than the alternatives doesn't make it "open".
Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science
> The more closely faces represent the golden ratio, the more attractive they're judged to be.

Citation needed. The number of bogus references to the aesthetic power of the Golden Ratio is astonishing, most of them turn out to be false.

Online searches reveal the some articles claiming a relation between facial beauty and the Golden Ratio do so by simply redefining the Golden Ratio to equal any number that test subjects choose as most aesthetically pleasing:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2814183/

Quote: "We found that although different faces have varying attractiveness, individual attractiveness is optimized when the face’s vertical distance between the eyes and the mouth is approximately 36% of its length, and the horizontal distance between the eyes is approximately 46% of the face’s width. These “new” golden ratios match those of an average face."

Ah -- "new" Golden Ratios. How convenient, and how utterly unlike the real Golden Ratio, 1.618.... I caution my readers that the authors of the linked paper are social psychologists, a field with only a superficial connection to the world of science.
Camera, music et al still are on the AOSP tree. Perhaps the one that needs to inform himself is not him, but you.
I just clicked on sign up and now I can't and I would close my browser.
Yes it is. I'm not a Google employee, although I would be if I could because at least they're doing interesting stuff.
You're right. Being Apache licensed makes it open. Therefore it's open.
Going to a continuous cycle will end techniques like "banging the close". That would be disruptive.

>the downtime could go down by an hour per year.

Just my opinion but I think that would just increase the pain and complexity of the transition.
The typical googleboy's discussion - anyone who criticize google is troll.
> I'm no expert but maybe it's actually possible to create speaker that doesn't go bad.

Of course it is, but nobody wants to do that; it's not profitable. * sigh * .

I sometimes wonder how difficult would it be to create, say, a brand of kettles with lifetime warranty, designed to last 50+ years instead of 50+ weeks the ones we have do. How hard would it be to sell them and to what ends would the competition go to stop you from killing their market?
A square wave has twice the power of a sine wave of identical amplitude.

This is why distorting the amplifiers (especially digital clipping) is so much worse for speakers than overpowering the speakers. This is a very well known fact in audio circles.

Playing metal at full volume is not as damaging as playing anything intensely digitally clipped at full volume.

Yes, Dell is putting on shitty speakers on their laptops, (what else is new), but VLC should be amplifying the output using level-limiting (hard-limiting), which would effectively bring all the quiet parts to be just as loud as the loud parts, instead of just digitally clipping the output.
Text-only version http://www.philome.la/VideoJames_/the-pipes-are-my-solitude/...
Building a Magnetic Tape Recorder from Scratch (1949-1952)
I also had a distressed baby a few years ago that spent months in the NICU of one of the best children's hospitals, had multiple surgeries, was in and out of the hospital for the first few months of his life. Ultimately an incident occurred that left him brain dead and on life support before he was 6 months old. We decided to remove life support and held him as he died in our arms. The family insurance plan offered by my ~1000 employee public tech company covered everything. I never saw a single bill and only had to pay the requisite co-pays. Always wondered how much it all costs...
I utterly and completely disagree with the notion that teaching someone numbers.sort(...), and that having fun building an iphone app in a language that will be obsolete in some number of years is not as valuable as learning the "fundamentals" and the underlying reasons why something works.

teaching numbers.sort(...) is saying to someone "heres a tool, and here' how to use it. Some people will want to go on and understand how and why the tool works - and we should recognize those folks and encourage them.

this is the classic art / science / engineering conundrum -- they're all important and they all overlap.
Skrap - Easily scrap web pages by providing json recipes
Skrap is a command line utility and node.js module for easily scraping web pages by providing json recipes
Link bait. Way down in the article you finally learn that this occupy leader is suggesting a non-violent militia, or really, protesters.
> Most people I talk to seem to act like J.K. Rowling and Richard Branson are outliers. They made it big under circumstances that would crush most of us.

Perhaps there's lucky breaks and rare opportunities.

What was it Bruce Sterling said a while back? "You can be Microsoft but someone has to bend over and be IBM."
> Google music, the camera, etc.., you need really need to inform your self.

Music and Camera are still in the AOSP tree, just not Google Music and not all of the fancy camera features. Besides, neither of these changes happened in 4.4. The proprietary music app has been around for a couple years now, and Photosphere has never been in the AOSP version of the camera, which has been out for a couple years as well.
I clicked "Sign Up", then pressed "Cancel" on the Javascript input prompt. You cannot close the this prompt without either forcing your browser to stop creating prompts, or by providing a valid address.

Disabling my "cancel" button is not friendly behaviour at all.
So basically, Dell's crappy speaker/amp design can't handle square waves at full volume. I suppose you shouldn't listen to loud chip-tunes either, then.
There are Apache- and other permissive licensed parts in iOS - so iOS is "open platform"?
> AOSP is the carrot, the compliance necessary for google's value add software is the stick.

"Because cloud!" seems to be the answer to most of the points raised in the original article, which kinda sounds ok on the face of it; but why can't those backend services be abstracted out as well? Why shouldn't I be able to choose some other provider for all these services, like location?

It reminds me of a commonly suggested solution to the browser wars in the 90s, when the reasoning for Microsoft's integration of IE directly into the OS was all the new possibilities from such deep integration: why not just allow different browsers/engines (e.g. mozilla) to be swapped in? Well, because then you wouldn't be using MS products anymore!

And I think a lot of that is repeating itself here.
The entire point of this issue is that AOL chose to self-insure. That means there was no insurance company.
I'm not the parent but I've never had issues with Iceweasel. There was a time when the user agent string did not contain "Firefox", but it does now [1] (that might have caused you problems?).
And if you're using wheezy, there are backports to the latest Firefox (iceweasel) packages. I usually see the update on the same day or the day after the official Mozilla release.

[1] since 2009 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399633
I'm aware of arithmetic overflow, thanks. It was the subject of my research (which will eventually be open source, watch www.peripetylabs.com/publications/ if you're interested). See my sizeop library in the meantime: https://bitbucket.org/eliteraspberries/sizeop

I am not dismissive of the problem. I just know from experience that the chances of code like that being fixed at all, let alone correctly, is near zero.
Comcast has it deployed very widely. Definitely in (most of?) SF.

Note that you need an IPv6 capable cable modem & router. Recent cable modems are mostly capable, and most (all?) Apple routers are.
The official bitcoin client (and all its alt forks) runs as a JSON-RPC server. It also runs as a graphical and/or command-line client for said server. You can thus communicate directly, or you can script calls of the command-line client (which gives back the direct JSON responses.) There are also plenty of language libraries that wrap the JSON-RPC calls.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls...
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC)

I find the naming of the API a little peculiar, but it's simple enough.
If we think microeconomics for a moment: healthcare for distressed infants could be a textbook example of inelastic demand. Q: How much are you willing to pay to save the life of this child? A: ALL THE MONEY! AND MORE!!
> I do think our medical system needs some rethinking though.

You probaby don't want to hear it, but if I were running a medical system I'd decree that gestating one-and-a-half-pound globs (from the article: "One doctor, visibly shaken, described [the fetus's skin] as 'gelatinous'") outside the womb is a waste of resources. To me, if miscarriages aren't the end of the world, neither are "babies" that die of natural causes within a few minutes of being delivered.

There's just no way spending a million dollars to raise a fetus up to the age of zero passes any kind of cost-benefit analysis. The cost of replacing the thing is much, much lower.
> (note: if you don't really understand healthcare, e.g. what self insuring means, please don't respond with comments that the insurance company pays the bills, this is what insurance is for, etc.).

Could you explain more about how self insuring works?
very nice approach!
Out-of-the-box VS 2013 (and C# development) is so far ahead of Eclipse (and Java development) that it isn't even the same sport.

The myth that Eclipse users try to perpetuate that "you must buy Resharper just to be able to work in VS" is just that: a myth.

My team has worked on both C# and Java backends for AAA-games and after we moved to C# we have had people actively threatening to resign if we ever went back to Eclipse (and Java). The debugging capabilities, the speed of the tools, the relative sanity of C# compared to Java ... there is simply no comparison.
I never had either failing speaker or failing* kettle in my life so it's hard for me to say anything. Maybe there just so much you can get from laptop speakers so it makes sense to cap their power hard?

* Some no loger turn off automatically, tho
> Why shouldn't I be able to choose some other provider for all these services, like location?

You can, just provide an implementation of LocationProvider: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/pack...
Oh, another Yasha Levine "article" about how evil is Google. Shocking.
They only check the DNS server and DNS entries, not actual connectivity. No attempt is made to verify whether your mail and web servers are actually reachable over IPv6.
Cardinal Richelieu had something to say on the topic.
The irony is that if we were to have a single payer or other form of universal healthcare like they do in France, this little girl likely would have died. In France they use "Statistical prognostic" approach which in these sorts of cases withhold NICU services for infants with statistically low outcomes.

Edit: couldn't find data for premies at 25 weeks, but at 37 weeks and below, survival rate in the US is higher than European countries. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db23.htm
Fascinating: they care enough to consider such things, but they have made an insane decision.

Good luck there.
This is not the second one, nor will it be the last. Kongregate alone has dozens: http://www.kongregate.com/search?q=flappy

It's just hype. If people are motivated to learn new skills because of it, then that's a good thing.
More interesting than the bit about the militia is where she is described as arguing ""poverty was not a political problem but “an engineering problem” and told politicians to “get out of the way.""

Edit: My interest here is in the reference to hacking social issues, even one as monolithic as poverty.
flying over the pipes shouldn't be allowed, right?
http://reddit.com/r/startups
Well, she did use the language "fodder for the NYPD." She might not be planning to arm the paid protesters, but she does seem to expect them to at last be on the receiving end of violence.
That was my first thought too, but there's big problems with that if you think about it for a while.

Say they did something like that. Now, I am going to build my own "purchase provider" that just says I paid without ever charging anything. How are you going to stop me from doing that? Somebody would have to authenticate "purchase providers" as actually charging money and paying it to the developer. Either you'd have to manually embed keys for authorized providers in your app, or trust some third-party to authenticate providers. Either way puts you pretty much where you are now.

Then there's the matter of developer authentication. Now I build a "purchase provider", but I'm an honest one who wants to actually bill the customer and pay the developer. How do I know who to pay? No developer has signed up in my system yet, so I have to use some kind of universal token to identify the developer of an app that somebody is making purchases from and tell them they have money to claim from me. It would have to be email, since what else would work? And we all have seen how secure email is lately. Anybody who managed to put a different address into the app or somehow intercept email to your address could claim the money.

Then we have payment splits. The Google app store has a published payment split between themselves and the developer that you implicitly agree to by publishing there. If you had universal "purchase providers" that anybody could implement, who decides what their payment split is? If I wanted my payment provider to split 90% to me and 10% to you, how do you stop that? If we have a third-party doing provider authentication, what are their standards for what payment splits are acceptable?

There's probably even more issues that I haven't thought of yet. If you want to do purchasing like this, you pretty much have to make your own app store and define a proprietary API for it that app developers must explicitly implement.
>Now, let's say Iran manages to detonate a primitive nuclear device in a coastal US city. The textbook MAD reply is a total destruction of every Iranian city. You can make the case that this is crazy on it's face

No way. It is completely rational to kill millions of innocents because a handful of madmen also killed millions of innocents.