skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a solid survey of the regulatory treatment of virtual currency in Britain.

http://bitlegal.io/nation/GB.php
How The Creator Of QuizUp Turned A String Of Foolish Moves Into A 10 M-User App
> You'd think so but I get 7mpg more than the best rated Toyota hybrid which is supposedly the most efficient thing out there.

You sure about that? Because I easily get about 70 mpg on my Prius (C class) when I'm supermiling in the city. Granted it's not as efficient on the highway, and unfortunately I do have to do a lot of highway travel. I can sustain a good a 55mpg average at the end of the month though. I plan to start borrowing my wife's whenever I'm on the highway, I think this way I can average mpg in the 70s overall when I do this.
> It's got the super powerful typesystem, and you're certain that it will be able to express any constraint you throw at it.

You can go pretty far with, eg, Java, if you're ready to pay the cost in verbosity, by making types for everything and having read-only objects. Haskell is not dependently typed, you can't use the type system to make sure a value is in a given range. You could use phantom types to make sure your type has been validated before, but this kind of control is not really first-class.
You didn't say the magic word!
Yup. Thanks for pointing that out. I couldn't find about the s-bend technology. Unfortunately, as I've mentioned in the blog post the lack of standards followed causes a great trouble adopting these technologies. Mostly used roof sheets in Sri Lanka are similar to what's there in my roof (~~~~ shaped)
"Introducing iLife '04

- it's like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life"

I nearly pissed myself in laughter.
> The data set was so large it took up 27 DVDs and took a couple of weeks to upload.

27 * 8 GiB (DVD-9) / 2 weeks = ~1.5 Mbps. Yep, that's British broadband bought from the lowest bidder.
Water flows downhill. There is no hacking bulk water infiltration. It's presence in a structure only indicates one thing technical debt in the architecture.
Corruption? Calm down.

The top 3 insurers (who negotiate these prices) in the US cover nearly 100 M people. Medicare gets those discounts included as well.

As for Medicaid, it often pays the lowest price of all purchasers in the US. For many doctors, Medicaid reimburses them so little, they lose money on drugs. That's why many doctors don't want to take Medicaid patients.
Apparently (unless I missed it) the Singular Value Decomposition. Which is unfortunate. Otherwise, it reads very reasonably.
I was looking for a 2DIN car unit running android the other day and could only find some generic Chinese models. I m wondering why it takes so long for car computers to catch up with the world, it looks like a largely unexploited market. Glad to see Apple stirring the waters, although they ll probably keep their platform closed.
I've very carefully opted out of every single program that the NHS has created for digital records going back years.

Whether that has done any good I have no idea but I do have signed letters from all relevant organisations (Doctors surgery) saying that I've opted out.

This does have legal battle written all over it.
Except that MtGox is known to with very high probability have been acting criminally dishonestly and there is a strong public interest in helping people determine what happened and recover what could potentially be up to 200000 of their own bitcoins. That pretty much passes all the standard tests for an involuntary violation of privacy; this is NOT a case of hurting an innocent startup.
Also Podcasts, Beats Radio, iHeartRadio, Spotify, and Stitcher.

I'm curious if Apple will be controlling what apps are allowed to work with CarPlay to keep people from putting millions of Flappy Bird clones on a screen that drivers shouldn't be looking at. My guess would be yes, but all it says for now is "Stay tuned for even more supported apps coming soon."
This is the data in question: http://www.hscic.gov.uk/hes

It is anonymised [1], publicly licensable data.

Here are a list of users and uses. [2]

[1] "We apply a strict statistical disclosure control in accordance with the HES protocol, to all published HES data. This suppresses small numbers to stop people identifying themselves and others, to ensure that patient confidentiality is maintained."

[2] http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/10495/Users-and-uses-of-HES/pd...
Well isn't that a cute dilemma. You're either an idiot, which means you won't understand it and shouldn't criticize, or you're not an idiot and your lack of understanding is an effective criticism.

Reminds me of Haskell.

Personally, I'm of the view that the planet is populated by humans, and you have to work with them, and C++'s arcane tome of a standard is perhaps a hostile environment for such creatures.
Except that the 'Ah Ah Ah You didn't say the magic word' sequence shows up on a Mac desktop.
SEEKING WORKING - Remote (from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

C++, Qt, Python, image processing, biometrics, UNIX and Linux.

Just reach out to vbraga at acm dot org
Providing rebates after purchase is pretty common in the pharmaceutical industry and yes, they are included in ASP.

There was some manipulation of the ASP back in the early 2000's, but those companies were charged under the False Claims Act and paid a pretty significant penalty. I don't think there is widespread manipulation at this point.
About the impact of hardware on creation, Jay Dee (famous hip hop beatmaker) started creating musing by recording samples over tapes. I recall an interview he had to sync things with a pencil. Same result, weird swing, odd pulsing time. People even rejected it at first because it was too strange.
Sneakernet would have been faster...
I think this is a more interesting example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek_(bear)

As the bear was less than a year old, he initially had problems swallowing and was fed with condensed milk from an emptied vodka bottle. The bear was subsequently fed with fruit, marmalade, honey and syrup, and was often rewarded with beer, which became his favourite drink. He also enjoyed smoking and eating cigarettes
That's nearly 4.5TB if it was gzipped plain-text.
Breaking Disney news regarding Hannah Montana! Thoughts?
oh really? you edit your some values or comment something to make sure that your tests fail on failure?

shouldn't you be automating that? :-D
For 2013 sales, not for the entire market.
Github Walrus Emoji
Crimea now under de facto Russian control
I shall be writing to my local MP about this, I'd encourage anyone else to do the same!
"WWDC 2004
Register early and save"

Ah, for the days when you didn't have to register in the first minute to have a chance of getting a ticket.
Off topic but looking at the map, it validates the old libertarian axiom that the more liberties, the more prosperous the economy, the more donations for utilitarian causes.

Who will feed the poor? Liberty will.
A dashboard concept for Chromecast (aka what Google Now could be on a TV)
Yes that's the problem. It seems to be pretty common in developed countries. But such a simple thing is not common at all in this part of the world. That's why I think there is so much to do for entrepreneurs in this part of the world
I was looking how to skim the data and I couldn't find a way.

Yes, it would be interesting to see the spending per capita & how it correlates to GDP.
Yes it does. Your dns request for the hostname and the ip address you connect to might give away the fact that you're reading wikipedia but the actual path will be encrypted.
They don't mean precisely the same thing. "Overweight" and "obese" can be defined, as categories, according to BMI, WHR, body fat percentage or similar. "Fat" is a lot less clearly definable.
> Why not instead of using expressions in this constrained language, use something like Haskell?

Haskell types can't depend on values so there are limitations. If you go that way, you might as well go whole hog and use a dependently typed language (e.g. Idris)
Robinhood – $0 Commission Stock Trading
Happiness Hack: Autonomy – Think about what you can do, not what you can't.
My guess is that the iOS SDK has been expanded to allow for a second screen that is output over lightning. So no, it's not mirroring the phone screen, but displaying another screen powered by the phone. This would seem to fit with it being iPhone5 and above only as lightning is designed to have these sorts of custom digital output.
Where's the 3D model to lock/unlock the doors?
Ukraine Crisis: Russia Mulls New Land-grab Law
HTML Input Standards with Jacob Rossi
It is very interesting to observe that countries who spend the most on kickstarter are the same ones as the ones which spend the most in the Apple app store.
Show HN: my new project – an online gallery for Brooklyn artists
Nothing new here if you have been following the story. It is a glossy, quick summary of all the conjecture that has been posited thus far in many other places, not delving into really any detail or saying anything new.

I am sure this story is going to get much weirder before it sees any semblance of sunlight or truth. And it might take many years for that to happen.
It's not 13/16, or any other straight rational meter.

Xx-Xx-Xx-0–0–

The 0–0– section is half as long as Xx-Xx-Xx-.

Akin to a polyrhythm, but serial rather than parallel.
another update:

"No individuals directly named records online. But a massive breach of the most basic information security policies to prevent jigsaw."

https://twitter.com/bengoldacre/status/440488463008550912
I had posted a (maybe historically last) message on the forum just before it went down. In it I referred to arvixe.com as a potential replacement. I have no affiliation, but it looks nice, fast support response, lots of packages, cPanel (unfortunately), active twitter account @arvixe. If you guys are still looking, check them out.
Fwiw, on recent FreeBSDs nanosleep(2) is the system call, which is what both sleep(3) and sleep(1) use, the former with whole numbers of seconds, and the latter with fractional seconds.
For "human-friendliness" (eg. hand-edited configs), I'm all in with YAML. AFAIC, JSON is strictly for machine to machine data transmission.

While I think the idea is neat, a data language should not include processing logic. It's a wash where the constraints get specified, and in my experience, a single point of implementation is far more maintainable.
Welcome to Macintosh – The Documentary for the Rest of Us
Bing Better than Google at Tracking Fedex Numbers
No, shut down completely, now, and the creditors have a chance of partial recovery.

Keep on trying to make this a viable business and they will burn through more and more of their assets paying lawyers, accountants, consultants, directors, and managers. If you are one of those latter group, I see why this would be valuable to you.

Creditors who are in stage 1 (denial) or stage 3 (bargaining) may still be trying to recreate this as a viable business, but it's like trying to make up for your losses at the roulette table by making bigger and bigger bets.
INSERT INTO vs SELECT INTO... Different Execution plan
> It is anonymised

Not meaningfully, no. A UK postcode covers 20 households or less. If you have that plus gender and date of birth (as seems to be the case here), you almost always have a unique individual.
"> This is why the earliest social experiments in what we would now call “open source” – at SHARE and DECUS – were restricted to individual vendors’ product lines and (often) to individual machine types.
Yes, because BASIC and Creative Computing magazine never happened."

Claiming late '70s work as "earliest" does sorta miss when SHARE and DECUS were founded - 1955(!) and 1961, respectively.
The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges
Sure but on the other side you have to look at the necessity of open communication and the fact that the US enjoys strong free speech protections as a reaction to pretty horrendous legal abuses (particularly by the government) in the past.

It's not just a question of theocratic regimes. Every government everywhere tends to react to insults. If you don't believe me, next time you fly insult the TSA officers as much as you can and see how they react.

The way this is usually managed is by requiring a general tone of respect in a critique. It's the way it works in every Islamic country I have been in, as well as many others.

But there are two problems with this in the context of the US: First we have a history of the government silencing whatever ideas they can (trying to argue that distributing writings of Karl Marx amounts to the same thing as raising an army to violently overthrow the government).

The other problem in a pluralistic nation is that this sort of thing has to be a two way street to work. It's fine to insist that everyone speak at least somewhat respectful of another group but that only really works if there is reciprocal respect. More often it is a power play and that's the problem.
Great. Go steal some Bitcoins and have some fun then.
It's more shocking see how Samsung was 7 years ago ( https://web.archive.org/web/20070222044411/http://www.samsun... ) and now ( http://www.samsung.com ). Evolving from refrigerators to smartphones!
The bash-example is not very bashy. It is sh, like the header says. Bash fully supports a native for:

for i in {0..5};do
echo "$1"
done
Chrome 31.0.1650.63 m here (Windows 7)
I didn't much like how the first graph built up while scrolling, iirc other sites normally make the graph static to the page while its built up during scroll.
This one the graph was moving across my screen as it assembled, quite awkward.
Their Data Protection Register submission confirms that "When this is needed information may be transferred to countries or territories around the world". For those not familiar with the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) process, when submitting you can choose between transferring data just within the UK, within the EEA and worldwide.

http://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/DoSearch?reg=440927

http://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/DoSearch?reg=251239
New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks
It sounds like a return to the "new math" of the 1960s. Compare this article:

> If we are to give students the right tools to navigate an increasingly math-driven world, we must teach them early on that mathematics is not just about numbers and how to solve equations but about concepts and ideas.

> It's about things like ... clock arithmetic — in which adding four hours to 10 a.m. does not get you to 14 but to 2 p.m. — which forms the basis of modern cryptography, protects our privacy in the digital world and, as we've learned, can be easily abused by the powers that be.

to the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math :

> Other topics introduced in the New Math include modular arithmetic, algebraic inequalities, matrices, symbolic logic, Boolean algebra, and abstract algebra.
On a vaguely related note, I recently discovered that "am i pregnant" seems to be a popular search term on Google: https://twitter.com/wundercounter/status/430175442432053248
When are we going to see a change in the rhetoric? This isn't Bitcoin's disaster, it's wholly Mt. Gox's.
(a) As others have said, Haskell's type system is certainly now powerful enough to express any constraint you throw at it.

(b) Almost directly related to that, the less powerful your constraint language the more analyzable it is. I don't necessarily know that Q has these properties, but by constraining how complex the restrictions it encodes are it becomes more amenable to analysis. At first blush, it looks like you'd probably be able to throw a SMT solver at it quite easily.
I live in france, and kickstarter doesn't seem available here :(
Side note: In the USA, doing this would be a federal offence under Title II of HIPAA.

It would probably depend on whether the consultancy got a BAA signed by Google. That would obligate Big Daddy G to a host of security and privacy requirements, but would extinguish the HIPAA liability for the consultancy with regards to the data while it was in Google's care. You can think of it sort of like cert-chaining -- the government wants to see a chain of BAAs linking all subcontractors that data stops at from the original covered entity (e.g. a hospital).

Source: I have signed a few and gotten a few signed. Talk to a lawyer if you need implementation advice on this, though.
People have tracked the addresses where an entity (very likely to be MtGox) transferred funds to prove that they had lots of bitcoins, and they haven't been moved from that address since then.
It should be used with caution and not abused, you're right of course.

But when I use LINQ's GroupBy, SelectMany etc. I know they've been tested millions of times before.

The same cannot be said about somebody's "hand-made" algorithm, accomplishing the same result with foreach loops, breaks etc. like you would in good ol' Java.

So it's not just a matter of being imperative, long-winded or ugly.

You can also break LINQ expressions down into a series of simplier ones: deferred evaluation is a bliss here!

Or - thanks to the way it works, extension methods, anonymous methods etc. - simplify it by creating your own LINQ-like functionality, such as - say - Batch (not part of the standard Linq library)
Monkey-typewriter-Shakespeare theory proven
"No, it’s not. It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool."

- Sean Parker's response to his portrayal
>>why do you think planes and other complex machinery have stuck with physical controls?

They're not, Garmin has offered not only custom touch screen flight decks[0] but they also have an ipad app that can be flown with.[1]

[0]https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/aviation/flight-decks/g3000-...
[1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/garmin-pilot/id340917615?mt=...
Putin new Hitler of 21st century?
Given it is now run by the ex head of Barclays Bank and is the second largest recipient of government contracts in the UK, I wouldn't hold your breath.
That's one way to look at it, another is that it wasn't minimally viable at all because it did the worst thing that an exchange can possibly do--lost everyone's money.

Coding aside, I don't think anyone at HN tries to push the mentality that you should try a financial startup without any accountants or a compliance department.
The culture of the MIT AI Lab which spawned Emacs is more specific than the "academic hacker culture" including Knuth.
eval() an obfuscated piece of code from the web, what could possibly go wrong?
That sounds like an excellent reason for a judge in Tokyo to issue a subpoena. It does not sound like an excellent reason for the Internet to vicariously participate as a group of Russian hackers roots their boxes.
https://github.com/tojrobinson/jurassicsystems.com/issues/2
Who are you talking to exactly? The hackers? I doubt they care. HN readers? How are we taking advantage of anything exactly?
NHS number, date of birth, postcode, ethnicity and gender.

Is about as anonymous as wearing a different hat.
Another day on Hacker News, another interesting project where the author hasn't heard of Modernizr.
monkey's?
Yeah, but to keep logic sensible the most I could break them down to was about 3 Storyboards, which is what I did in the end.
Open-Sourcing UW Flow
Ask HN: the name of the "disqus style" wordpress plugin
Someone had posted it here and it basically looks like a flat disqus style page meant for lightweight dicussion / chat. Anyone recall this or was I dreaming?
Wow! This is cool.

The computers in Jurassic Park is what got me into programming when I was young. I saw their 3D weather overlay when the storm was approaching and thought "THAT IS IT!". I was 8 years old at the time.

I was determined to learn and create that system - I started learning C, so that I could open and close files. I learnt OpenGL so that I could create the 3D scene. I learnt socket programming so that I could download weather images from the NOAA.

It took me until I was 15 (I was totally self taught and it took me a while before I could learn all of the vector / matrix math myself) but I ended up building it! I made a program in C that downloaded the weather jpg, cleaned it up (removed noise, removed the NOAA logo, smoothed out the clouds) then generated a heightmap in OpenGL, and made a fly-over.

I wish I still had the code, it's sitting on my old computer at the Farm in New Zealand :<
That's not thinly vialed self promotion. I notice the only thrid party app happens to be the same domain as yours. You could have done a little digging and at least come up with a few alternatives not even in the same category besides yours.
Hrm... the math seems fuzzy. You go home an hour earlier because you ate lunch at your desk? I've not been in too many software positions where you get to go home simply because you were in the building for 8 hours. ESPECIALLY not if you were the sort of person who wanted to take on managerial tasks (delegation/etc as identified by the OP).
I've written uglier code. But I didn't write it in places where I had highly motivated adversaries trying to break it with the result that many people's life savings would be irrevocably lost if I had a bug.
I wish I could correct the architecture, as I would rewrite a code if something goes wrong of this nature in a software I write. But unfortunately, it's not feasible at this point.
Or if not the poor, then the people with extra time on their hands and means to create compelling videos for interesting projects, and if not to feed anyone, then to allow allow them to work on creating something people with disposible income find interesting enough to sponsor as an artistic project or product pre-order. But yeah. Freedom and luxury lets some people and society accumulate disposible income and focus it on discretionary products. A billion dollars by 5.7 million people is $350 per person. Great that 0.1% (5.7 million people) have that kind of cash. Doesn't say much about whether 99.9% of people have any, or show that those $350 are a worthwhile cause for the 99.9% of people who aren't donating.

This isn't to take anything away from Kickstarter - I think it's great. But let's have some perspective.
I guess they're supposed to be ironic, but I really don't get the point of being able to add cutesy icons to bug reports.

EDIT: Also, keep those damn kids off my lawn.
ios users paying more:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/11/apple-users-buying-61...
Many years ago, IBM invented the hard disk. They didn't invent computers, but they utterly dominated the computer business for decades.

But now? Pardon my cynicism, but is today's IBM capable of writing a bug-free, reliable "homegrown" file system?

They've walked so many thousands of people out the door, who's left? Do smart young people want to join IBM any more? And forget it if you're an old-timer. Haven't they all either retired or been downsized out of the company?

Is RAID dying or is IBM dying?
An automated process to take https://code.google.com/p/go/source/list?name=release-branch... and output it into a textual list that has the full title of the bug fix would be a huge improvement. There's a lot of noise in that table, along with some things being cut off even on my desktop monitor (to say nothing of when I was trying to read it on my phone this morning), and it's hard to skim visually for interesting things.