skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smartphone to become smarter with 'deep learning' innovation
President Obama joins Quora; first 'verified' profile
As much as I'm interested and curious to hear the details, I really wish you would delete all the comments you've made about this. I would hate it if they were able to convince a judge that your case is invalid based on something careless you said on the internet.
Report finds unbelievable waste in 9 major fisheries
Continuing further down your OT pet peeve: how would you distinguish between people who know their English isn't perfect and are sorry about it (without saying so, per your advice) and those "morons" who are unapologetic about the same?
They were actually featured on the Start Up Junkies series which gives you a great idea of what it was like getting their service up and running:

http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies
Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, C, C++, Lua, tcl, JavaScript and Java comparison
So, how do you write your unit tests? Within grails and guard (and other systems as well), I save my file and I have all the relevant unit tests running immediately. I have less than a second lapse.

At least, when I was working within play, it was painful enough to discourage me from test driving my code, especially if implicits were involved.
Ok so under the ACA she now pays less for her medications (Celebrex does not yet have a generic, i know because i'm on it as well). The headline is link bait: Before the ACA she was paying entirely out of pocket, and now she isn't but it's still expensive. I have very expensive insure and it only brings it down to $50/mo so $85/mo seems reasonable for a cheap plan.

Anyway, to back up what i just said, here's the unabridged 2nd paragraph:
"Under the plan, her Celebrex would have cost $648 a month until she met her $1,500 prescription deductible, followed by an $85 monthly co-pay."

followed by the following in the 5th paragraph:
"Before the federal health law took effect, Mason paid slightly more for her monthly premium on a plan that didn't cover her arthritis or pain medications and some routine doctor's visits."

A lot of the other examples they have are "patient was trying to get name brand drug rather than the available generic". Now for some meds (birth control for example) the exact brand can be important, but for most it doesn't.
Meeting Nutshell users and the wider market; I personally feel better placed to make informed design decisions.
Theft? Your property "rights" (and other rights) are guaranteed by the state. If you remove the state you will have to defend it yourself. Do you really think you would be able to do that?
You Can Finally Buy That Flying Fire-Breathing RC Dragon (For $60,000)
Egypt court sentences 528 Morsi supporters to death
Give away £1m firm
Interesting post, a little random, ultimately it's really hard to 'prove' something like this in a single article. Studies maybe, but there'll always be someone saying something contrary.

I can only really offer my experience, which is architecting and building out a 25kloc app and team to go along with. Mostly, because we avoided the 'clever' scala stuff as much as possible, things went well. Maven instead of sbt. Jetty instead of play. The only scala DSL we used was squeryl.

If I was doing it again, I'd probably rethink the use of scala. As helpful as it was, it was also a pain in places. Having to rewrite all our for loops was not cool. Case classes saves on boilerplate, but frankly you only write that stuff once, so it didnt really save us on a lot. Intellij elides most of the junky boilerplate (import statements, generating setters/getters, etc) in Java, so ...

Now a days with the advent of Java8, we have access to lambdas, function pointers/interfaces, and the functional stream system, I am interested to see how far one can get in just pure java. Java is the new scala it seems.
I have been using this service for years. I started using when I lived overseas, but now I will never quit. With my bank bill pay, I am pretty much paperless.
I thought Erlang was already fast? Are there any before/after benchmarks available post-LLVM?
Subjective-C · a study of innovative iOS interfaces
I won't bet on it. The original XBox was also x86, and there still isn't an emulator for it available.
Philly Bike Map
Maybe it could be used to establish whether the airplane is getting closer to or getting further away from a satellite? Maybe even the relative speed?
Gbatteries (YC W14) Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks
Are there any that are more targeted towards low volume "regular" consumers? (aka: cheaper)
Philly Police Department launches 'biggest public safety GIS in the country'
Quora Launches Verified Profiles Starting With Obama
How big do you think is a percentage of those who oppose such censorship in Turkey?
Rethinking the content management system for mobile
"Dickish move" is a strange way to put that. Do you think their service is free to operate?

If you're an Omnigraffle user, you've already paid for a professional-grade application, and the stencils offered by Graffletopia are inarguably huge time savers.

$24/year, even if you only use one stencil in one project, should be an expense not even worth mentioning (15-30 billable minutes?) for most professionals. Certainly when compared to the time required to create all those assets yourself instead.

Anyhow, to each their own, but I don't understand this kind of angry reaction when a free service becomes very popular and decides to start charging a completely reasonable fee for their offering.

Especially from an entrepreneurial community like HN.
JavaScript Robotics
Peek At Any App's Ranking and Download Count
What Books Didn't Tell You About ES5 Descriptors – Part 1
Completely PR. Design can't even be used in space.
Nice

Btw this is generally how cheaper rc controllers talks to simulators.
To infinity and beyond?

http://wordlesstech.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NASAs-Z-1...
2048 showcase
Results in Java are not representative because they use the String type for concatenation tests instead of the recommended practice of using a StringBuilder for extensive concatenations.
I used this as my main build for quite a while, and got pretty good at transitioning out of it. Kept me in platinum league pretty solidly. Not sure if you were diamond or masters, though.
Setting aside speculations of a second-language speaker, it's common to hear things like "landed" from manager types.
I think it's a trend of increasingly depersonalized corporate-speak.

Sam added a feature. [Sam did or achieved something and has gained some partial responsibility for the end product]

We added a feature. [Sam is lost in the collective, but at least he is part of us]

A feature was added. [name omitted and agency de-emphasized, but the omission is a bit pointed; one still could wonder who added it]

The feature landed. [not even an implied agent here]

This progression removes more and more of the ownership and achievement of the paid worker-bees until they aren't even there. Then, features are simply landing left and right out of the sky, according to the Jobs-like "vision" of designers, PMs, executives.

Edit: it's like "damnatio memoriae" for the people who are actually laying the brick.
The Future of Addresses Is Open: Launching OpenAddresses
If the time was in tenths, why would you multiply it by 1/10 to get seconds? Shouldn't you be multiplying it by 10 to get seconds?

update: Ahh, I get it. You'd need to divide it by 10 to get seconds.
I don't understand the point of these articles.

The first example in the story is a woman that went from more expensive minimal coverage that didn't include the drugs she was using, to better coverage overall with no mention whatsoever as to how much she used to pay for the drugs before (which is presumably nearly full price or some sort of discount through the manufacturers which isn't cheap either).

The other examples were also of people that have apparently never changed health insurance plans or gotten prescriptions that weren't covered under their previous insurance plans. Or even actually read what their insurance covers.

I've had individual health insurance forever since both my parents and I were and are self employed business owners. Welcome to the world I lived in before Obamacare. Welcome to the world I live in now. I have wasted many days negotiating with insurance companies and doctors' offices in the past for both myself and my parents over drugs that were minimally covered. Think along the lines of $500+ worth of glaucoma prescriptions in a month that insurance only covered $5 of....yes, $5. And then a week without any prescriptions and dangerously high intraocular pressure trying to get the doctor to prescribe something cheaper when they themselves don't know how much anything costs and will just throw the whole medicine cabinet at you in hopes that something sticks. Or how I have a prescription for Adderall and every refill used to be an exercise in explaining to the pharmacist that they should call my insurance company because I already have a pre-authorization filed with them so I pay $20 instead of paying $300 every time.

My silver-level ACA insurance plan isn't the best ever and it's a bit pricey (well, so were my previous insurance plans), but I no longer stress out about losing my insurance coverage, I have a good idea as to what is covered and what isn't, and my insurance company and doctors and pharmacists do the best they can to accommodate my requests. I even keep running into _pharmacy techs_ that ask me with a priceless facial expression if I really, really, really want the specific asthma inhalers and quantity that I'm picking up because they keep experiencing sticker shock - "I can ask the pharmacist and your doctor to get you a different one" naw, they're all expensive, they were always expensive, and nothing will change it. Welcome to my world. 8)

ACA isn't perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than the state of things before and here's to better healthcare reform in the future.
I wrote my own compiler.

You are a nigger. A white man can write a compiler.

C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

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Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the
Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet
for repentance.

26:21 For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went
about to kill me.

26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day,
witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than
those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: 26:23 That
Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that shoul
IIRC google dns is banned in North Korea. :)
If this is interesting to you, you might enjoy this long form book excerpt from a former NFL player:

http://deadspin.com/my-injury-file-how-i-shot-smoked-and-scr...

This reminded me of the dangerous, unhealthy culture I knew well as a high school player but had forgotten as the NFL's marketing efforts replaced that perspective with their own narrative over the years.
Here is a classic example of a startup launching an Altair Basic with the potential produce a Microsoft-like giant. Incidentally, I think this is also the first father/son team we've funded.
Here is a cool approach to the subject by Linked In. http://engineering.linkedin.com/open-source/cleo-open-source...

Here is my HN-obligatory, self-written golang version: https://github.com/jamra/gocleo

I went with this author's approach to use Jaccard to rank the results, however, I like this approach better:
https://neil.fraser.name/writing/patch/
They basically take the distance to the beginning of the text into account.
I can already hear all the complaints about having the public weigh in on this, and even on the waste of organizing it, but I think this is a pretty brilliant move on the part of Nasa.

There's far too little to 'inspire' kids anymore and I imagine far fewer kids saying they want to be astronauts. This does the double duty of involving the public even in a tiny way and of hopefully coming up with a design that moves people a bit as well.

Both good things in my book.
The problems started well before UFC. The problem was the exact same issues that Cuban is pointing out: the sport started to believe in its own hype that nothing was which caused an implosion of greed and corruption. Mike Tyson and Sugar Ray Leonard are the reasons why boxing didn't go extinct in the 80s.
This is overblown at all, ZFS needs ECC as it doesnt detect memory corruption on its own, and here's some explenation: http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-r...
A Practical Guide to HTML and CSS
You need to listen to asb, it is a compiler.
Reasoning please. (genuine interest)
A very important point for me in Scala is that now I can consider building the company stack with it. The libraries and infrastructure are really getting better. We have Play for web applications, Spray, Scalatra and more for APIs, actors / futures / STM / Akka for concurrency, and you can easily intergrate Akka with Play and Spray, use the same patterns at different parts of your infrastructure. We have Scala.js for frontend work. Growing numbers of frameworks for Big Data. Those are maturing and being developed for industry needs, tested in production at some known companies. Don't forget it's based on solid JVM with huge amount of Java libs available.

I have confidence to advise building real businesses with Scala stack and not looking like an irresponsible guy who just wants to play with the latest and shiniest stuff hazarding a company's business. I also see how Typesafe is focusing on solving bad parts: compiling time, stability, etc.

You can also stay away from advanced / theoretical / crazy parts of Scala most of time. You don't need to use Scalaz, advanced type system features etc. There are also immature libraries, toys and proof-on-concepts, but you cannot blame Scala for your choice.
Mozilla Leadership Changes
The only exposure I have had with erlang was with rabbitmq and it was blazing fast - I wonder if this would affect it much?
"The NBA is not run well"

There are certain things they could do better (the cap, age requirement, too many teams) but I think this is a stretch. The Association does the best job of any American sports league with globalization, no one else markets its stars better, and no one else has done as good a job leveraging technology as delivery medium.
What are the pro/cons as compared to Graffletopia?

Graffletopia seemed to be perfectly functional to me.
You are a guy[1][2]. Why would you "spend more energy on dealing with YC misogyny" (assuming that it even exists)?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mtrimpe
[2]https://interactly.com/company
Oddly, it all kinds of works out. The only people in the open floor plan are customer service reps and product managers.
The OP jokingly names a law after himself at the end, but I move that we do name something after him. I'm going to call it Ahmdal's Condition. It goes like this:

In this lengthy [post|comment], I’ll share my thoughts and opinions on [THING IN COMPUTING, TiG hereafter] . . . Using a cavalcade of flawed data; logical fallacies; biased opinion; startling lack of citations; and basic nonsense, I will convince you that using [TiG] will make you less productive. I will finish with an underwhelming and unexciting conclusion. You have been warned.

Think of it! "I'm offering my thoughts here under Ahmdal's Condition, of course . . ." "Well, I think you're starting from Ahmdal's Condition . . ." "That works under Ahmdal's Condition, but assuming stricter conditions . . ."

Honestly, it's genius. If I had a magic meme wand, this guy would be famous by the end of the day.
I have not looked over the Havel-Hakimi algorithm yet, but here's the best way I've found to solve these (with 100% success rate so far)

1. Pick the node with the highest degree
2. Make all the connections for that node until it has a value of zero by connecting it with the highest-value node that it isn't already connected to

For example, in this scenario: http://i.imgur.com/O8MlWzz.png

The way that I see it is that since the highest-degree node needs to make X number of connections, ensure it can make all of those connections before worrying about anything else. In this case, that means start by connecting the 4 to the next highest value node - the 3, then the 2, then the other 2, then the 1.

This leaves the following situation: http://i.imgur.com/9vZjafr.png

It's kind of easy to see where it goes from there. Sure this is a simple example, but as I said it's worked 100% of the time I've tried it.
I have used an algorithm to find me a job and now I am trying to make something that can help all the job-seekers like me in India so they can save their valuable time.
Please do provide feedback
Well I would argue that when you are working on something where performance matters on the JVM you end up working on a very C-like subset of your language. Java makes the translation to that subset easier than Scala, but you can certainly do the same translation from Scala.
sbt ~test

will run all your tests on file save.

sbt ~test-quick

will only run previously failed or new tests on file save.

On one Play project we have ~160 test cases, including integration tests that spin up real Neo4j and Elasticsearch instances. Running the whole suite takes around 90 seconds. That would be far less if I did a better job separating unit and integration tests or mocking out the external dependencies.
Mazes are certainly fun. Here's a javascript maze solver I wrote a while back, including a REST url for building your own maze. http://www.primaryobjects.com/maze
There is still the possibility that the plane belly landed and the survivors are floating around in life rafts. It doesn't follow that because the flight terminated in the indian ocean, it crashed.
You're just stating the obvious, I think the idea here is that it's great PR.
Judge: IP-Address Is Not a Person and Can't Identify a BitTorrent Pirate
I spend most of my time running specs2 - unit specs - from the command line. I'm sure I could have sbt trigger on save but since I save pretty much constantly I'd have the tests running all the time. I will freely admit the compile time on tests is a bit extreme but I've found that it doesn't appreciably slow me down, since I typically run the tests when I'm confident the new code will pass.

As for integration tests those run via Specs2/Selenium as well but I rarely run them from my own machine as they are continuously running on Travis CI whenever I push to our repositories.
Wow this seems to be a very clear-cut value add.

Question on how the technology works: I don't really understand what a "battery OS" is. Do they have circuits that somehow manage the battery better or something?
Beta users willing to go out of their way to sign up and post on hacker news (outside of their professional domain) are definitely a good sign!
A Return to Founders as Mozilla Moves Forward
This is actually a huge issue in the drug industry right now.

Most of the plans on the exchanges, but particularly the lower priced ones, have very large patient cost-sharing obligations. And it makes sense, if you pay a smaller premium each month, you'll have to pay a great share of the costs when the they do occur.

However, I don't think this will work out in the long run. It's one thing to ask a patient to pay 50% of a $300/month prescription (even though that's too much for many patients), but it's another to ask for 50% of a $10,000/month prescription (not uncommon for cancer).

The ACA did put a total cap on patient-cost sharing at $6,350 per individual or $12,700 per family [1]. This is a good thing since many plans prior had no limit on out of pocket costs. However, $6,350 is still a lot to ask lower income patients to pay.

One interesting outcome of this is that most drug companies are stepping up and offer patient assistance with these costs. For example, you might get a debit card that pays anything over $20, which makes it much more affordable. The funny part is that insurance companies typically hate patient co-pay cards since they defeat the purpose of co-payments (drugs the insurance company don't want you to use are more expensive). However, for the really expensive drugs, insurance companies are not complaining at all. In the end, it just results in a discount by the manufacturer, in a roundabout way.

[1]https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out-of-pocket-maximum-li...
As a beta user and vendor manager for a large online retail company, I have enjoyed using Roshee. It has saved lots of time and I will be recommending its broader adoption across our company.
The repaint overhead is the same for every system tested.

The benchmark evaluates the overhead of data book keeping for one class of problems (updating a bunch of bindings all at once). Just because the paint time in this particular example dominates doesn't mean that the benchmark is inaccurate, as many applications using some sort of data binding-ish technique are indeed dominated by JS rather than paint time.

> and as long as data binding is implemented in a sane manner, it is almost never the bottleneck.

Maybe for small apps.
An idiot... like a fox. He was up to something, using bullying tactics to social engineer.
Interesting. A couple of observations, from grappling with some of the same issues for our negotiation site.

Definitely agree that you wouldn't want to share the seller's bottom line in the event of a match. This would lead to built-in buyer's remorse. I gather this may have been for initial proof of concept, not long-term functionality. But you also need to think about the impact of masking the algorithm (see below) so it can't be reverse engineered (on the flip-side) and consider what information can and should be given about the process.

Agree with one of the comments below that slowing down the result may make for better user experience. This was (surprising) feedback we received for impassebreaker.com -- people felt "let down" when the match was revealed too fast. There's a game component here, and a big splash may be important. Then again, it does seem a bit deceptive to show a progress bar when the result is already calculated.

Subjective observation, but based on a decent amount of feedback. Users need to trust that the process is fair. Trust is hard. If you place the bottom line in context -- e.g., show your user what the comparative price is on other sites -- would that context make the bargaining process smoother and build more trust? Might it also make the site stickier? If your provide the comparison shopping data, then people won't need to leave the site to do comparison shopping. That may or may not make you more appealing to sellers, so perhaps it's not on point. As it stands, the process seems arbitrary -- I totally understand that this is an early sketch, but if/as you build it, I'd keep this in mind. I can't remember the cites, but I believe there's some research out there that suggests that people are more inclined to trust computers in a negotiation than other people. So you have a potential advantage if you make the playing field seem a bit more level. At the end of the day, what you may be building is a trust machine. Maybe it's different, but that's how I've thought of our platform.

Negotiation style is culture and language dependent. The verbal dynamic that works in the Suk won't necessarily work in Omaha. One isn't better than the other, of course. But if the goal is closing sales, you need to keep context and language in mind, and at a very granular level. Words and how they are presented are key. Maybe that's part of what the system learns.

Best of luck. There's some potential here, long term, for something very cool. I'll be interested to see where you take this.
Also, when Alan Kay said they structured the research like baseball what did he mean? Maybe something about not hitting a home run every time?
PiinPoint (YC W14) Knows Where Businesses Should Be Located