skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The elderly (>65, or >62 in some cases, etc.) are already covered by medicare and social security. The disabled were covered by medicaid and ssi.

Underemployed (part time, whatever) or sort-of-poor and not disabled people in their 50s are a major segment who can't pay the real cost of their medical care, though. Or, people with lifelong expensive illnesses in the 0-64 age range (who are often making a lot less money than median, too, due to their medical conditions.)
He is blogging on a GitHub pages domain now:

http://joearms.github.io/

The new syntax is described in the post "Big changes to Erlang".
This article is a not so subtle way of her saying:
women -> "human" (she relates, cares for, empathises etc)

male -> animal slave who should sacrifice his life for her, do the dirty jobs and she doesnt empathise with or care for him.
32 bit block count is gross.
The NSA's intercepts are a lot different from this. The problem with PRISM and the FISA courts that the NSA is intercepting all the data they think they'll ever need, then they need a warrant to query it. It inverts the intention of what warrants are for, which is to require just cause before any surveillance happens.

With iMessage, if the FBI gives apple a warrant to include their snooping pubkey as an additional encryption endpoint for all messages for a user, by definition it only gives access to messages made from then on, which is in keeping with how I would expect a search warrant to work.
Seems to me that a clipboard manager as a solution is indicative of how this type of a problem comes up in the first place...
Don't you still have large power losses from the inverse square though?
Don't give them that power. The person that cares the least has the most power. Google doesn't care. The only way for you to win is to care less.
> Why do recruiter emails bother people so much?

Imagine that you're thinking about buying a house sometime in the future or are in a situation where you know you'll probably buy a house somewhere in the future and would welcome leads/connections.

You even blog about this, being quite open about what you want in a house and what your dream house is like.

Realtors keep e-mailing you saying that they have the perfect house for you, but never tell you where it is or if it's even in the same country.

Sometimes they describe the house and it's nothing like what you've publicly said that you're looking for. Or if it is what you're looking for, it turns out to be a bunch of fluff and vapor to get you to respond so that they can show you other houses that you really don't want.

If you try to keep in touch with a good realtor who doesn't have what you want now but may in the future, he just completely forgets you or what you wanted to begin with. Or maybe he just disappears in a month or two.

That's what recruiter spam feels like, to me. The semi-targeted nature of recruiter spam makes it even worse because it's aiming for something I will probably want or need in the future but doesn't actually address any of my wants or needs.
It's like a springloaded scroll that spools out of an opaque cylinder case like some sort of measuring tape. One mis-step and you have to spend minutes slowly pulling it back out again.

Meanwhile all the stuff you have already read is sitting around in a big mess, doing nothing but taking up space and getting in the way.
In this case, this is like asking how you would monetize TCP. This specification is a transport protocol and could apply to multiple use cases, not including video.
> I don't know why this guy thinks it's a good idea to create his own idioms and language features which inhibit the ability to understand the code by pretty much anybody else.

First, there are two ways to read that last example:

1. Literally as Perl code: has() and dbmethod() are functions. There is no difference between

has id => (is => 'ro', isa => 'Int');

and

has(id => (is => 'ro', isa => 'Int'));

If that doesn't occur to you, you have no Perl experience ;-).

2. as language extensions: has and dbmethod define new aspects to the class in a declarative way.

The thing is, these are both simultaneously true, and that means you can read them as #2 when coding and fall back to #1 when debugging.

Since they are simultaneously true, there's no difference between writing new functions and what we do here, except that this allows (and does not require) one to think about the code in additional ways.

As a note, exactly what people I know like about working with Lisp on large projects is the mutability and the ability to create very useful and readable idioms for the project.
You are about to witness the same exact thing as what just happened in Iceland—a massive ponzi scheme.
It was so much fun to build this package. Atom is very modular, and any piece of functionality in the editor is open to being extended.

The documentation still has some ways to go (events aren't documented, for example), but I'm excited about the future of this editor!
Meetup has been down for over 3 hours
Ok so case sensitivity is "trolling" us.

Upper case ß, or take turkish as another example.

Not every language agrees with the idea that case sensitivity is trolling.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think the conversation would be worth having with you because of the giant gap between your starting position and reality.
It's a sub-par medium for communication for the majority of the world.

However it's currently the best universal medium we have, and you're arguing to actively remove that, rather than replace it with a system that improves global communication.

Not to mention "can I have one of these items of food that you prepared" is a much easier concept to convey than technical information, which can get quite nuanced. Figuring out how to analyse a stack trace is not something you can do with body language. And body language isn't universal, either.

Yes, language is not standardised, but we're talking about language for a specific purpose here, not language in general. Don't get me wrong. I like to be around a variety of languages, though I'm a monoglot. But I don't see the point in trying to remove an extant common language out of a philosophical sense of fairness, when it would actually decrease communication between people.

Wouldn't the world be a nicer place without all this pesky diversity?

The slippery slope you're painting here doesn't exist. Having a common language is not the same as turning everyone into WASPs and doesn't lead to it, any more than speaking Spanish means that Mexicans, Peruvians, and Spaniards are the same culturally. Or speaking French meaning that the French, Algerians (half of...), and Quebecois are the same culturally.
Whats with all the feminist articles/white knights?
Women founders, women dont like this, women dont like that, we need more women's games... women in universties etc....

Who cares? and when did this become a feminist playground?

Stick to tech and cut the BS.
To be clear, I am also the author of the PGObject::Util::DBMethod which adds the dbmethod() syntactic sugar used in the third class.

One thing to note is that this was done specifically in the way it was so that it would fit in with Moose-like idioms, so it is more a matter of extending the Moo(se) way than it is creating a whole new idiom.
Have a little screen overlay that displays how much memory your browser is using. As it climbs higher and higher, you'll know that you are making progress.
I had some fun implementing binmaps a while ago - http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2012/01/03/binmaps-compre...

I originally encountered them in http://libswift.org/ which was the predecessor to http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protoco.... Both are very elegant simplifications of bittorrent and the IETF draft is pretty readable.
Some people are in fact using it now. You just had to snag an invite.

Beta software can gain features.
I guess we'll see soon enough. I think oil price is the real reason behind the economic trouble.

I think we're in for several more 2008-style stair step economic crashes over a longer period of time, with little growth between them. At least until we can truly replace oil as a transportable high density energy source. (Or until political and societal systems break down.)

Hopefully we get some major new energy source, like cheap fusion or space based generation, like orbital mass production of photovoltaics panels and beaming it back to earth in microwaves. Given sufficient energy, we could just synthesize the liquid fuels we need.

There's unfortunately a low chance we get this magic energy source in time, but let's hope for the best.
Thank you very much! I did not realise that he had moved.

Looks like it was maps and named funs - 2 pretty exciting features :)!
I doubt that Apple is waiting until wireless power to launch the smart watch, but I agree that it will change everything. And it would make sense for Apple to buy pCell. Of course Steve Perlman worked at Apple before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Perlman
Yes, this. And now imagine if you are at the south of america ;)

Here the jobs offers are a blast! All the requirement you see in USA, sometimes a pay!
What about Ellie Arroway in 'Contact'?
Having painfully hacked together a few packages for ST (and TM) over the years, I'm impressed at how fast they pulled this together. If it's this easy to extend, Atom could have a very bright future.
i prefer "holoambiadic".

in all relative seriousness, would anyone care to put forward a concise definition of "monad" (for programmers, not math-category-theorists)?
I have found the Click to Remove Element extension useful in Chrome.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/click-to-remove-el...
Even so, isn't it only for OSX?
Oh, I wasn't arguing, I was just waiting to hear about calc's amazing powers.
Why? A 32-bit block counter allows for 256GB messages. As AEAD messages shouldn't be decrypted in a "streaming" fashion (lest one return unauthenticated plaintext), that seems more than sufficient.

(We don't have a good spec for composing AEAD operations for chunking large messages yet, however.)
He self identifies as being a defender of The Truth against a feminist dictatorship that invents things like child poverty.

For him to identify as misogynist would require him to accept a world-view where viewing women as unthinking beasts was hateful, rather than being a divine message from the true god Elohim about that female trickster Yahweh.

Personally I just think he went crazy with hate over his ex-wife.
it's time to stop using github.
Still no mention on any of the "big three" websites, mobile or desktop (8:20pm CST). . Update: now FoxNews.com has a small link in top stories. http://imgur.com/CwLet0Z (8:31pm CST) Hurray American media, only 9 hours after the fact! Fizzle...

Here's an eloquent description on Reddit of how this could be the largest case of child pornography distribution on record: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1z33wx/uk_spy_age...

We must make it our business that heads roll. Troll call-in shows of our (US) cable media--ask them why they aren't giving it its weight. Despite it being the GCHQ (not the NSA), this seems like the greatest evidence given to reformists to date of the overreaching post 9-11 mandates. And it's the unspoken duty of journalists to cover important stories and inform the tens of millions that don't check Reddit, HN, the Guardian, (believe it or not, the Drudge Report), etc.
So this is a job perk? Not only can you sell ahead of bad news based on inside info, as an employer, the SEC forces you to!
Python is not fully object-oriented.
If you change "sell any holdings of" to "short" that statement sounds absurd, but they're roughly equivalent.

How about not allowing staff to hold stock in companies they might have to deal with?
I'm curious what do you think would have happened if you just let it go.

"This is a hard and unanswered problem. This statement is so strong that, if it were true, it would eliminate a vast territory of alternate paths to answers ("oh, you did X? My code saved 50 lives this year.")."

It seems like you are more of the problem rather than Brandon's statement. No matter what Brandon says, accurate or not, people will still find a flaw in it. People will see what they want to see.

If you want to eliminate alternate paths to answers, the sure way to do that is not say anything at all.
Based on the quarkslab link upthread, Apple wasn't using certificate pinning for iMessage at least as recently as October 2013. Even worse, also as of that article, Apple was sending the AppleID and cleartext password over this MITM-vulnerable SSL connection as part of iMessage login.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm in general agreement with your second summary; basically, the properties of triangles end up appearing all over math, so our trig terminology/relationships become generally applicable, especially to circles and other repeating patterns.

One of the best parts of trig is that knowing one little fact (sin(x) = foo) reveals a tremendous number of other ones (inverse sine, get the original angle; then the cosine, tangent, secant, etc.). I'd like to explore some applications (geometric and non), appreciate the suggestion!
>It did not control for many factors that may be relevant (e.g. smoking).

Unless I'm misreading the polifact article you linked to in [2], it says that the 2009 study did control for smoking, and that they did a better job of controlling for such factors than previous studies.

> Still, their work stands out from previous efforts because it used more recent survey data and presented a more apples-to-apples analysis between the uninsured and insured populations. For example, it compared deaths rates for uninsured smokers with insured smokers, as well as other factors such as drinking, obesity, income and education.
Windows and Linux packages are on the way, according to the devs.
Unless you are given the full build chain and deploy to your own devices, there is little guarantee the software you were given is actually the one running on your devices.
Ok. Now I am genuinely curious. Could you point me to projects/code samples from this person?

I have never come across a situation such as you described and I am very curious to see proof positive of someone phenomenally bad at English and phenomenally great at programming. Please, help expand my horizon!

For the record, I am a non-native English speaker.
The fair way to handle this is to disallow any buying OR selling of related stocks until the public announcement of the results of the investigation.
I am not sure if that is relevant that the gifts are from an automated service. Surely the husband was thoughtful in choosing and signing up for the gift service in the first place?
You wrote, "Although it's hard to imagine a CPU so slow that case-conversion cost actually mattered, at some point that must have been the rationale" but in fact it was not. In fact it's the other way around.

I believe Multics was the first case-sensitive system, with Unix following its example. Until then everything was case insensitive (ITS, CTSS, TOPS-10, VMS, TENEX, CMS etc etc). Many of the early systems had only one case anyway, or the system code was, so if you had a terminal that supported multiple case it was automatically folded. e.g. the PDP-6/10 set of machines, although they supported 7 bit ascii (five characters to a word) also used a six bit character set (packed six characters to a word) that only had upper case.

Multics reveled in the luxury of its mainframe power (around 1 MIPS perhaps) and had a "full" (don't remember if it was 7 or 8 bit, suspect 7) ASCII character set.

You'll also see that many older programming languages (e.g. FORTRAN, LISP, and, sigh, BASIC and COBOL) are case insensitive while newer ones are not.
You can use templated template parameters in C++ -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/213761/what-are-some-uses...
Yes, which is why I'm not yet able to try out my own copy :/
Yeah, I see why it works in this setting, it's just ugly; it's a parameter that is only really safe for this algorithm and in this service model.

You started with 64/64 for a reason. :)
I would set up some kind of performance testing environment of your core pages. Then I would let the numbers guide your decisions.
Yes it does.

Here are more details about it:

http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0043.html
> Except for parsing text files :)

Have you tried Haskell?

Anyway, Perl referencing an deferencing syntax is a mess. I regret any time I start a new program on it, as it always lead to a long debugging session where I remove all the parse errors. I use no other language with a syntax as complex (and can't really remember of any).
What a load of crap. While it is true that the number of government employees tends to be higher in more prosperous countries (e.g. OECD), the total share of wages going to government employees is lower and therefore the (relative) wages per government employee must be much lower. Check out table 3 on page 9 of this:

http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/pdf/10.1596/1813-9450-1806

It's disgraceful that SEC employees seem to be engaged in insider trading, but to extrapolate there to "government employees and those they perceive as subjects" is quite literally insane.
This is also for remote work?
You been told to tidy your room again then?
I wouldn't picture myself playing Tetris all my life, just like tons of games in the same time that you find nowadays on mobile phones, so I strongly disagree with your view. I wouldn't count Flappy Bird as a "game" as well - for me it all goes in the same bucket as Tetris, i.e. something to kill the time, but nothing I would consider to be a serious game in any measure.
I don't understand this either. How is this any different than a kid logging into a parents Amazon account and ordering a new TV?
> I'm impressed at how fast they pulled this together.

Not that fast:

> But seriously, I've gotten to watch the development of Atom over the last two years and am soooo excited to see this baby ship.

https://twitter.com/nrrrdcore/status/438805221574066177
So.... if you can monitor the sales of all SEC employees; then you could copy-sell, or buy up their shares en-mass and very rapidly sell them for a profit?
> If I were the NSA, a strategy with much lower variance would be to hire a lot of smart folks to do the intense security reviews and testing that Apple (and many other companies, presumably) fail to do, and try to find bugs before they're patched.

Very very good point.

Until you made it, I might have thought "well of course NSA looks for bugs to exploit", but I didn't think through the implications.

Here we have Apple open sourcing their security code. They made the NSA's job 10x easier than w/o the source. So of course the NSA will lint and review and test and exploit Apple's source code. Intensively. It's low-hanging fruit, of the Apple variety. :)
Thanks for sharing. I'm in my late thirties and I currently have no job. I am waiting to hear back from a 'Kelly' temp agency employee (who was high as shit when he spoke with me) for a job assembling plastic parts for $8. This might amount to less than $150 take home as I might have to take a cab home because the buses don't run after the shift ends. I rent a room in a trailer with no door which had a leaky roof until we put a tarp over it. Additionally my mother has emphysema, works 7 days a week and I am powerless to do anything for her.

I'm convinced that all the geek analyzing of 'structural' economic problems are partially in vain. I think human beings are inherently social animals, thus until the financial moguls, billionaires, the Mark Zuckerbergs and Larry Pages of the world literally feel that people like me have the power to kill them.... then nothing will change.This is the same carnal belief that lead to our democratic social order. Even if you believe in things like a 'living wage' , without the support from the wealthy it won't happen. Those people like most don't do shit unless their is something in it for them, but people like me have no leverage other than being semi suicidal and wanting to kill something.

Voting doesn't work and the government doesn't care.

I really don't think it's too complicated. If 5 U.S. billionaires were murdered under the banner of a living wage for all Americans at least a more honest discussion would ensue among circles that have social clout.

So that's my synopsis.

Enjoy life and..
Have fun!
But then you have conflict of interest if you're asking SEC employees to investigate companies they hold stock in. The incentive would be to not investigate or impose milder penalties.
you did. Thanks for answering! I'm definitely the one leading the (small) group of devs who test here. Your article was great motivation for our cause.
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Firebase and their data sync api's are really great. You could really build a lot of things if you're creative.

PS. It would be nice if anyone could send me an invitation. thanks!
I think he literally meant the speed at which the package was created for Atom Steve ;)
Yep, this was pointed out to me not so long ago here on HN. Still, ZeroMQ for example has picked it up (adapted) for CurveZMQ.

[Edit] Oh, I see Peter Hintjens commented on that post re: that.
And the Haskell equivalent for a performance and type safety boost:

https://github.com/yesodweb/Shelly.hs
I really wish the Launch crew could have gotten The Learning Shelter up on stage.

[0]https://twitter.com/TheITSystem/status/438397895675351040

[1]http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-learning-shelter
That's in the contents of the book.
Any Windows package?
Careful though. There's a lot of parsing that folks want to use regexps for that don't do that well.

Why Perl really shines for text file parsing is that you have a fairly large set of tools as appropriate, which fall into largely three categories:

1. regexps (great for some things, lousy for others. DO NOT use these for parsing HTML)

2. Recursive descent parsers. You could write an HTML parser in one of these if you need to.

3. Dedicated format parsers (CSV, XML, JSON, etc).

It's the combination of the three that makes Perl a very good tool for parsing text files. One thing going for Perl is a strong community of people who can help point people to the right tool for the right job.

For example, I am in the process of writing a library to do PostgreSQL tuple parsing and serialization. It is sort of like Text::CSV with some differences. In this case, regexps are the right tool. But if I was writing something else, I would probably go with recursive descent.
There is extensive academic research showing that people's perceptions of an accent stem entirely from their perceptions of the social group who use that accent.
I'd love an invite. How long has everyone waited to get one?
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Very cool! This has been, in my experience, a factor limiting the use of GUI editors in places with a heavy emphasis on remote pairing. Of course not everyone does this, but if you work someplace that does, this is a big selling point. I'm excited about this!
Given the later exchange between us ... I agree that it was rude and I'd like to apologize. I'm sorry.

I don't generally make excuses when I apologize because I think it diminishes the value of the apology itself. In this case I think it's fair to admit I thought he was trolling (and apparently so did his down-voters).

In any case, hopefully I'll be a better man tomorrow ... iron sharpens iron.