skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally, I had the same experience at the same age.

Plan for the worst, hope for the best.

A great doctor bought us three good years - far longer than anyone expected.

I always say, if I can give anyone one piece of advice it's "Don't wait!". There's no telling how long any of us have left.
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Due to a couple of historical accidents, most Americans have health insurance through their employer--which means they get their employer's choice of insurer. And employers are not incentivized to pick an insurer based on how well the insurer works with cases like this.

It's pretty messed up.
Thanks for stepping out on a limb and doing something disruptive and new!

We need more open source science!
What is "cit"? It doesn't explain it. "t" is only presented as a verb but not as an object as far as I can see.
Oh lord, "ads engineer".

I weep for humanity.
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Sadly, I downgraded my network from IPv5 to IPv4 this weekend, since I couldn't quickly figure out how to get OpenWRT to hand out correct IPv6 addresses. Maybe I'll work on that again this weekend.
get a CactusVPN account for $5 and stream the olympics from the UK. Works great.
Hy was originally a project to show "Hey, see how awesome Python & AST is!". Lisp being an easy choice to implement. Just awesome it have turned into something actually use able and fun to code with.
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For portability you should also use \033 (the octal code) instead of \e, which is non-standard.
http://www.testingreferences.com/testinghistory.php, via Google, leads me to Google: http://books.google.nl/books?id=76rnV5Exs50C&lpg=PA81&ots=o8...

"Project Mercury was done with short half-day iterations. [...] Tests were planned and written in advance of each micro-increment"
If you don't like it, then don't say it. If the existence of people who do not share your religious beliefs honestly disturbs you, then you have some serious problems.

Frankly, I don't believe you. If being made aware of people who do not share your religious convictions, both in style and magnitude, really effected you in a negative way, then you would be in a non-functioning emotional tizzy 24/7 unless you were living isolated away on a compound or something. No, there is no genuine emotional damage here, nothing but a purely academic notion of "offense".

Just another opportunity for cultural imperialism. Yet another failure to recognize that religious rules should not be imposed on others, and are only acceptable in modern society when applied to yourself.
I'd be very surprised if you had a seriously novel method of avoiding piracy. I get the desire to do so, but realistically, not so much. (If only because they just have to find its code and nop it out.)
I agree completely with your last point. I accept basic utilities are granted a monopoly, but with that comes common access.

Maryland also doesn't want the NSA to leave since federal money is a huge part of the state economy. Also denying state contractors from providing support could cause massive disruptions. I imagine a lot of basic services at government facilities overlap (custodians, food services).

Unfortunately the states don't really have any legitimate tools to punish the federal agencies. I suppose since the NSA is under the DOD they could rollback state benefits to military but that'd be very unpopular. They could also go NJ style and close down roads outside their headquarters.
OT but that felt like a pretty risky click for work...
Right.. That "national scam" is working great all over Europe. It's cool when you can pay your treatments, but cancer treatments are in the 6 figure range - enjoy paying that from you bank account.
AngelScript can use them directly, though. Perhaps it was too immature when they made the decision.
You're assuming innocent people like myself actually have a say in US foreign policy, so I guess middle eastern people should kill me? I hate US foreign policy, example 1, Cuban embargo, how's that working out? Or invade Iraq when we need forces in Afghanistan, so instead of 1 effective war, let's fight 2 ineffective wars. Guess what? I always vote against the sitting congress and I haven't voted for a sitting president. I have as much say an Iraqi. So yeah, kill me and see what it does.
Yeah, that's the pretty answer, kind of like "Cops are there to protect you" or "Poor smart kids get scholarships." That stuff exists in theory, but whether it materializes for you is arbitrary. The government can fight you for any length of time to refuse or minimize benefits, or they can make you provide prohibitive amounts of documentation you can never fulfil. People have to get lawyers to get benefits. Or you might luck out and deal with an SS office that's more accommodating.
Same thing I noticed. All 4 accounts (which were the only 4 comments in this thread earlier) were created just an hour or 2 before this post was made and the only comments those accounts have posted are in this thread. Couldn't be more obvious/idiotic with the shilling.

I don't see why the company couldn't have let their product speak for itself instead ruining their rep with this underhanded tactic.

Also, their site says the public beta opens in 11 days.. Why not wait till then to show HN so the developers here could actually try the product themselves? Some brain-dead marketing from kobra.
Here's a thread on tools from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6906979
Because things have improved? I own a Nokia Lumia 925 and have barely anything to complain about. The thing is I've never been crazy for searching through a ton of crap apps every day like some of my friends. WP8 delivers what I need in a consistent way. I'm glad I moved away from the Android phones I owned in the past 2-3 years.
At least with CL there's a certain logic to it. getf => get form, setf => set form, setq => set quote, etcetera. All languages are guilty of this—I used to be bothered by Python's len() and Ruby's .uniq() and so on and so forth, but you get used to it after a while. Except for PHP. You never get used to PHP...
Just logged in to up vote your comment. Really nice of you.
> Facebook's per-user revenue for US users was $4.19 as of last October

Revenue per user over what time period?
This is a good solution. Have a archive private repo that everything I'm done with goes in. Perfect.
Maybe you could port your GLES1 to a compat layer like

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/06/i-have-ported-xscreensaver-t...

https://code.google.com/p/gles2-bc/

https://github.com/p3/regal

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/177233/Indepth_Bringing_R...

Depending on how difficult it is. Might be an interesting way to bring codebases that target OpenGL ES 1 onto WebGL
Thank goodness we don't have a COO and a corporate structure. Corporations have specific and absolute missions, usually starting with making a profit for the shareholders.

However, countries generally don't have such specific missions but instead strive to provide an environment for their citizens to pursue their own goals, usually prosperity and health and happiness but not necessarily dictated by the state.

We usually don't think of corporate C-level leadership as being there to referee among many competing and disparate elements in the corporation. They are there to set direction, give orders, and generally keep the corporate body on track and working together toward a common goal.

In wartime, countries like the U.S. have come close to that type of effort, but otherwise it's every man and woman for themselves, free to set their own goals.

So, yes, the U.S. is by its nature ungovernable. It's remarkable that it has as much functional government as it does.
I guess there's always Dogecoin for things like this.
There's been talk of Firefox incorporating Tor for a while.

See here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901614
Some people still run on 32bits machines. Time to git clone and make*.

post clone update: no i686 support.
And somehow we've gone from a minor request for the removal of vulgarity to "cultural imperialism". Sheesh.
Heh - that's nothing; at least they have the option of paying for access. Charter customers on the east coast get access, but those of us on the west coast do not (as per Charter's customer service reps, confirmed by our inability to use our data to log into the Olympic coverage online).
And in the music community, the Mbox is a popular sound interface for Pro Tools.
I appreciate what you're saying but number of public websites with different language options which weren't meant for countries outside of the US is going to be pretty low relative to the alternative. Occam's Razor would suggest those sites are generally intended for international consumption.

However, to get back to my original point, I was commenting about how all countries nationalise common language; and regardless of the justification of using an American flag for English language options, it's still an example of that point.
There was an academia in classic China called Hanlin. Its business model was probably close to what I'm taking about: infinite funds providing a roof and good food to the guests and their families. Extra income in the form of fame, access to the brightest minds of the times and their books, and great output opportunities as public servant. Main task was to extend human knowledge and embellish Chinese culture with more poems or pictures.

Google probably could have been this way but right now it's too late I guess.
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News flash languages are mutable and borrow words from other languages all the time - not even UKIP complain about french or german loan words e.g. Café schadenfreude and so on.

It seem that only France seems to feel the need to have a bureaucracy to try (in a king canute like way) to hold back the tides.
I'm happy to see people do innovative things with programming languages.

But there are a lot of people doing that right now. I didn't get a vibe from this one that it could do anything interesting that you can't already do in either LuaJIT or Julia. Other innovative languages I've been tracking include Go, D, Nimrod and Dart.

The world is improved by innovations; it's not improved by script language proliferation, or "me too!" projects. Lua in particular is a very well documented language, and is the de facto standard in video game development. I think the bar has to be pretty high to justify creating a new language.

Yes it would be more fun than figuring out how to get 3d matrices to work and be fast in LuaJIT, if you don't already know how the FFI works. But there's a LOT of value in using LuaJIT, and unless you're bringing something else of value to the table, no, I don't think it's worthwhile backing Yet Another Language.

I know of at least a half dozen other engine-specific scripting languages, and I would wager NONE of them are as robust as Lua, as well known as Lua, as well defined as Lua, or even as well designed as Lua. The value of having a shared language does outweigh every new programmer's desire to write their own language.
>I use AngelScript

Have you seen the LuaJIT FFI by the way? Very similar to what AngelScript offers. But it's also JIT-compiled by the best dynamic JIT compiler in existence. :)
I don't think the criticism was intended in a negative spirit. Getting a native speaker of the language to help edit your writing is a very helpful suggestion. It's a good way to improve your own language skills, while still making your writing available to other audiences. I would definitely encourage people to still publish in their native language though. As you point out, it encourages others to learn other languages and will be very helpful to your fellow countrymen.
Can someone explain for non-native English speakers what’s the problem with “goddamn”?
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Some people don't have family. Friends are good at help that's very limited in time, extent, and especially cost.
I just use Bitbucket—unlimited private repos with caps on how many users are allowed to use each one. For one-person projects it's ideal. Github's main value proposition over Bitbucket is its community...but that's a moot point for private repos.
Does this have anything to do with Linux containers (lxc)?
I'm not sure. Maybe Facebook knows the blowback from advertisers would be severe and probably grounds for giant lawsuits / fraud cases.
Could they outsource or fund clickfarms while still having plausible deniability? Probably. Could they cap people at 300 likes to give more real value to "likes?" Or punish accounts that are 1000% more active and clicky than regular users? Sure, but it hurts their short-term ad revenue. (And might even save the company.)
My company spends about 100x more money with Google on ads than we do on Facebook ads. Why? Because every time I test advertising on Facebook (outside of retargeting), 90%+ of the engagement looks like garbage. I buy likes, I get likes from people that are clearly not target customers. I boost posts, it makes no sense who seems them and who comments. I could never figure out why people that are clearly not target customers would ever "like" my ad or engage with me. Beyond that, we get no conversions/ROI. It makes no sense; ergo I cannot trust the FB ad platform.

Defend the "reasonableness" of your ad platform all you want, but realize that your brand is completely tarnished and it will take serious changes before you ever see much of my money.

That said, I am not hating. I wish Facebook ads didn't suck, as I'd gladly pay you as much as I pay Google if I got similar ROI.
It's not me! :)
You need to contact a lawyer. If you're clearing out your savings to pay for her treatment (but not for the in-home PCA), there's a good chance her insurer is committing a number of violations regarding her coverage. For many insurers, having a lawyer breathing down their necks about coverage decisions also tends to be a good way to get them to approve treatment without giving you the runaround.
I work at a development house at the University of Alabama, and we have found that our free GitHub micro account has been a wonderful gateway drug of sorts for learning git. But, having just moved over from an SVN set up to an in-house git system (RhodeCode), I would echo the others who have said that other git tools are better for us than GitHub for teaching git.

Without a doubt, GitHub's educational accounts have been great for our undergraduate students because they have exposed them to great open source code and a community that is excited about development. In short, we have found that the intangible gains have far outweighed the tangible gains of a few private repos. Kudos to the GitHub staff for continuing I make development and collaboration fun and easy.
Thank you for some common fucking sense; that's exactly what programmers do and exactly what would have happened. Gox most certainly has code originally built for a card game.
SQL databases: Postgres unless you have a reason not to.

From the point of view of NoSQL data stores, it'll really depend on your application needs, and I can't give you a full overview, buuuut.... Amazon did a solid job with its DynamoDB database, and Apache Cassandra did a solid job cloning it. I believe I've also heard decent things about the sanity level of Redis and Hypderdex.
Both of those would work in bash, but they're non-standard extensions. The seq construction would work in any POSIX shell, though the seq command itself is still non-standard I think.
Looking forward. I've used quite a few quotes from moot when promoting nymrights.org.
I do not think you addressed the actual point of the video: the clicks on his cat page came from click farms. They were not real people.
Well I guess my point was that I have no reason to move away from Android now. A few years ago the experience was terrible and I saw WP as a clean escape from that. Since then Android has come along leaps and bounds.
> You can take a fully-packed car and compare the space used to people on a sidewalk: that's the difference in customers you're losing out on.

Fully-packed car. That's 4 to 6 people. A parking space is about 153 square feet in size. [1] A single person takes up about 7 to 10 square feet to be comfortable. [2] (Fair cop: I'm not making any measurements here.)

That's 9 people you're failing to serve by providing a parking space. That's assuming everything is ideal for the car: that it's filled with 6 people, that every parking space is being used by a car filled with 6 people. (I would guesstimate the average car occupancy is 2.5ish.) Let's further assume my math is crap and the numbers are non-ideal and round it down to 5. (Yes, I just chopped off 50% from the size of my claim.) That's still a ~50% loss.

That's the back-of-the-napkin math. In reality, it's more complicated. It asks what you replace the parking space with. It asks what the sidewalk capacity actually is and whether or not that would change if you replaced the parking space with (blank). It asks what the layout of the entire city is and how the public transportation system is and how the city helps inform its residents of your establishment. It asks how happy a customer is when they walk in your store and whether or not that changes the tone of your business.

But these are questions that can't be addressed by "cars = customers" anyways. As I explain elsewhere on the thread, designing for cars naturally discourages other forms of traffic. That's a complicate claim and is explored across many, many books on urban design.

So we simplify. If the original claim is that a car represents a customer, then my challenge is to look at the space taken up by a car and see what you lose as a result. The easiest number to get is this: 5 customers, ideally.

[1] http://www.timhaahs.com/index.php/site/dbdetail/1_what_is_th...

[2] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_square_feet_does_a_person...
If you are possibly rebuilding their product because it was developed in india and neither founder has any technical knowledge i would ask for 33%. You would be their technical founder and since it is a technical product they need you. As to why a higher amount is a fair deal, they need you because they have no technical knowledge and sales experience or savvy is no good if there isn't a good product to sell. Sorry for the quick response.
And here I was wondering why my internet (Germany) was very unstable an hour ago.

Looks like it's related: https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys/status/432997463562022912
Artists have always been the collateral damage of the music editors, not of the tech giants. Editors got the biggest share, artists were given the rest.
The tech industry might change the music industry if it can replace editors some day... as it's already happening in the book industry!
As any rational programmer would have done. The odds that this guy coded the Gox trading engine from scratch rather than reusing his existing code for trading cards is slim to none; that's just not how programmers behave.
People can complain about anything they want, just like you are, and his comment about a preferred norm doesn't constitute pestering any more than yours does.
> GUIs have huge advantages over text based computers for productivity.

Then why prefer many programmers to work using the command line for many tasks? ;-)
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"Snapchat does nothing email doesn't" is about as useful or poignant as saying "A tractor does nothing a donkey doesn't"
They're a CDN for a sizeable chunk of the Internet. What do you think happens when you "temporarily" bring it to its knees?
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I thought control + l was a fairly well known hotkey?

it inserts a terminal worth of line breaks
This feels like a big step in the wrong direction but here's the problem...If content providers can't limit the consumption of their content (at all), they essentially become "public good" providers. Their work is non-excludable (anyone can access it) and non-rivalrous (my consumption doesn't affect your consumption).

There are plenty of solutions* and limiting streaming via an internet provider may actually be the right one. Big (expensive) streaming content like the Olympics is paid for in the same way we pay for TV channels. Which is good, if the alternative is that content not being provided at all.

Unfortunately, this is ultimately in everyone's worst interest because Comcast can (and will) force Netflix/Hulu/NBC/ABC/CBS/YouTube/Vimeo/ComedyCentral/etc to pay to be "carried" on their network. And they won't have a lot of leverage.

We need pay for high-quality content. It's just a matter of how.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good#Possible_solutions
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Definitely true that the less people clear their cookies, the better it is for Google.

But that seems like a nice side benefit. I bet the main reason they did this is helping users avoid login screens. When you clear cookies, you obviously have to login to EVERYTHING again. It's a minor annoyance to me and you, but to regular users, hitting a login screen is like hitting a brick wall.

"Hmm, what was that password? Did I use my Gmail or Yahoo? Is it my password with capital letters, or the one with 123 tacked on the end? Bah, I'll just never use this site again."

Basically UX hell for most users, that's probably why they're really pushing Incognito. It's definitely good for the web if people reset cookies less.
I also don't think being in over your head or having architectural issues is a crime - it's the default state for startups, especially ones trying to keep up with big growth.

While this statement is usually true, let's not generalize. There are some kinds of business or services where you are doing a disservice to the world by being in over your head.

Example: If you decide to "disrupt" home construction and sidestep the various annoying and taxing construction regulations. You simply must not go around selling houses to people unless you are actually very, very confident that you are not building a dangerous product.

Same thing for making food that people eat, pacemakers, radiation devices, and taking people's money to safeguard. It's not a crime to make mistakes that nobody with reasonable experience could foresee, but it is absolutely wrong to make avoidable mistakes that hurt your customers due to industry inexperience.
Not exactly, from what I can tell. This lets you run an individual process in a host environment, but using fine-grained privilege restrictions, and some judicially inserted virtualization. LXC runs hosts in a complete OS-level virtualized environment, more like its own Linux instance, which is a bit more complete virtualization (not always desired for a single process).

A Solaris / OpenSolaris / Illumos analogy is to compare running a process in a new Zone (which is like a FreeBSD Jail or a Linux LXC/OpenVZ container), versus running a process in an existing Zone but using ppriv(1) to selectively drop privileges usually given to processes by default, such as network access, file read/write, exec, etc. One is in what looks like its own OS instance, while the other is in the parent OS instance but sandboxed. The analogy isn't quite complete because the ppriv(1) approach doesn't lie to processes that try to violate the permissions like Mbox does; instead it just denies their attempts to do something that violates policy (such as opening a file). So, it might cause sandboxed processes to crash, rather than letting them complete with faked completion.