skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first thought was this could be a candidate for literate programming (http://www.literateprogramming.com/), but it's hard to parse and doesn't seem practical.
Healthcare is free if not heavily subsidized in much of the world already. And there is no reason such a technology would be more expensive than existing health care.

But why am I even bothering to say this. You're literally arguing it's bad to save people's lives or advance medicine. Even if it really did only benefit rich people, so what? Rich people dying doesn't benefit poor people in any significant way. See zero-sum bias (http://lesswrong.com/lw/2gd/fight_zerosum_bias/). "I want to see rich people suffer" rather than "I want to see poor people benefit."
How I trolled myself out of Google and destroyed my affiliate business
Just a little story about what can happen when you decide to troll Google with a bunch of sites fronted with cute little animals in the Pay Day Loan-niche.
> Isn't this exactly what made the Linux Kernel great? A consistent vision.

Sure, but even today, the Linux kernel has competition. I can run most things on Windows or OSX or FreeBSD or Solaris, even if the technical details are different. I worry about a monoculture forming around systemd, as seems to be happening now; I can't find a modern distro that uses anything else (aside from Gentoo, which I can't take seriously for production work), and it's starting to be assumed that systemd is the only init system that anybody will use.
Youre doing awesome work!
Employers aren't supposed to consider age when making hiring decisions, but that is a good question.

The program is pretty new, so I am not sure there is much data yet.
IFTTT launches on Android with deeper integration than on iOS
Interesting. What makes this effort different from what OpenBSD is doing? I assume rather than the "nuke-from-orbit-and-start-fresh" approach, this will attempt to clean it up and keep platform interoperability and such still around?
I live in Québec and we have extremely low tuition fees. A 3 years program in any university will be around $1500CAD per semester, so $9000 in total. There are some variations between different universities, but of a few hundreds dollars only. It is the same tuition fee for engineering programs, political science or med school.

When my province came out of what we call the Révolution tranquille (Quiet Revolution), we had one of the lowest postsecondary education population rate in Canada. By creating a bunch of public universities with extremely low tuition fee, we have a whole different picture 40 years later with a well educated population.
Looks great. I could see using this for some data crunching client-side, maybe even in conjunction with something like graph.js.
A bounty in those sites is not monetary but you use "karma" points that you win by answering questions etc.
It should be noted that this isn't an option if you're aleady late stage and have cirrhosis of the liver. Hep C isn't really curable past the point where they can longer administer to you the interferon it is mixed it, which requires a relatively healthy liver to handle.
I hate systemd. I will avoid it when every possible. It is an abomination. I hate upstart even more.
Thanks. I think we'll bury this item as a dupe.

All: Also, please don't editorialize titles. It's against the site guidelines.
How do you mean "All your WhatsApp messages"? Isn't it by design that WhatsApp only ever stores undelivered messages? Once they reach the recipient, they're gone from the servers. This lets the infrastructure be really small compared to the number of users on the system.
There's been a general decline in California's willingness to fund the UC system, which is mostly what ended that. Surprisingly, the UC system doesn't seem to have had significant cost-per-student growth (unlike many universities), so it should still be able to provide free education if it were funded at the same levels as in the '60s. But it isn't: adjusted for inflation and population, it's had about 50-70% of its support cut compared to the peak years (depending on what you take as a starting point), which has been mostly made up for by tuition. Partly also by expanding cash-cow programs, like professional masters programs, and by admitting a smaller proportion of in-state students, since out-of-state students pay much higher tuition.

I collected some numbers on that a few years ago: http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt. That table shows total and per-student support; the latter is partly impacted by the growth in student numbers. But if you convert the numbers for each year to percent of state GDP, or support per resident, there's a large decline in those terms as well (in GDP terms, from roughly 0.3% to 0.1%).

Interestingly there's no real correlation between partisan politics and the numbers. Funding was generally high under both Republican and Democratic administrations in earlier years, and has been cut under both administrations in more recent years. My guess is that as a "discretionary" line in the budget the UC is just relatively easy to chop, when someone making up a budget needs to close some holes, so it ended up bearing the brunt of the recent budget crisis that was caused by other parts of the budget.
I've been working on this project in my spare time over the past few months. SIGCHI is coming to Toronto this weekend, so I was inspired to post on HN and hopefully receive some feedback.
There are like 20 libraries for this already and this looks very similar to those. But Armin Ronacher, therefore it will be popular
Canonicalizing hive queries to find top workloads
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A bit off-topic, but I like how pocoo.org uses different fonts for different projects:

Flask: Georgia for text, Garamond for titles

Werkzeug: Lucida Grande for text, Ubuntu for titles

And now click: Ubuntu Mono for text, Open Sans for titles
No gang of government bureaucrats will produce the same results at a lower cost than lots of people with the profit motive. The US Government spent $3,000,000,000 trying to map the human genome. Celera spent one tenth that much to do the same thing, at a faster pace.
In my experience the "bounty" is faster attention to the issue from the devs (no-one likes to spend a lot of extra effort on trying to work on something that is vague, ambiguous or confusing), a better chance that a fix is created quickly and addresses your actual issue, and that it creates a good working relationships with the devs for working with them in the future (builds karma). I like to think of it like keeping up my end of the implicit user/Dev contract :)
Yes. Pulling off a Band-Aid is never fun, but if it has to be done, the total unpleasantness is minimized by getting it over with quickly.
I loathe the way that gets counted as "art," yet the people who used the Amiga for art in movies, graphic productions, etc. are marginalized.

Hey art historians: That computer was DESIGNED for art, and designed and USED for much better works that touched many more people's lives than Andy Warhol cloning an eye on a corporate sales demo image.

People actually spent hours and days and years making refined aesthetic choices, putting their bodies and hearts into works and gaining commercial popularity and telling stories using that computer. Most importantly, they used it in ways that were previously unknown, unlike using one of the most popular launch titles to edit a "launch image."

Believing that these images have special powers b/c of the person who made them is textbook fetishization.

Why valorize $famous_guy's random scribbles over the rest of the corpus of works in the medium? Just because it's easier to say, "Well it's from Him, so it's famous," rather than to examine and /critique/ other works made on the machine?

Ever wonder why art historians make such low salaries and have difficulty paying their loans? How about creating some value for other people by understanding, critiquing and explaining the vast body of Amiga works rather than echoing to each other and telling us, "yup, that one's important cuz it's by that famous guy."

Tell us something we don't know. Give us some bread and not candy and you will amply rewarded. It's not George Bush's fault.
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Like removing long long multiplication just for Tandem.
(my) rule of thumb: unless there's no equivalent for an apache module you need, use nginx instead of apache. For balance, "Don't break what (apache) is working" applies too.
Setting the Record Straight on the FCC’s Open Internet Rules
I posted a similar comment in the author's post, but I figure I'll post it here too in case anyone finds it useful.

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I sympathize with the author's belief that many software patents are obvious, but as a practicing patent attorney I just want to point out a couple of things:

1.	The patent claim copied in the post is from a published application, not a patent. It is common to file an application with broader claims, and then to narrow those claims during the process of getting the patent. Thus, art that you find based on that claim may not actually disclose or render obvious a claim that eventually issues in a patent. It is important to look at the history of the application to see how the published claim has been amended at this point.

2.	Obviousness is judged as of the time of invention or application filing. Because hindsight bias is very difficult to avoid, the patent office relies on actual art that was disclosed before the invention date. The art generally must teach each and every limitation of the claim. I submit that a “photo album that groups your photos by the time they were taken” would not teach all of the limitations of the claim in the post.
Your argument makes sense.

The problem is that the funds raised for research have no incentive to solve those issues.
This is my favorite monad analogy, though:
"Monads are burritos?" http://chrisdone.com/posts/monads-are-burritos
This problem is what finally pushed me away from the game once and for all after a couple years. Minecraft itself is pretty heavy and slow given enough player load (sometimes not even that.. forest fires, lava flows and such can also bog everything down) - mods exacerbate the problem to the point of unplayability.

Which is really too bad, because things like Feed The Beast add an insane level of extra functionality and downright awesome things to the world.

Somehow I think it would be a different game if not for Java overhead. I've spent a truly ludicrous amount of time tweaking heap sizes, obscure garbage collection flags and such trying to keep the blasted thing from consuming all of the memory and crashing (and therefore corrupting the state of the world) on a relatively low-popularity server.
:-) Not to troll but the third point made me smile: "we don't have yet features that our competitor doesn't have yet"
> I'm sure you agree with that, regardless of whether you agree with her views on employment law or not.

My original point was don't speak for me or others by way of blaming statements. You have no right to state whether I agree with it or not.
For some of the core crypto stuff, yes.

But, TLS is a huge spec, and I think the OpenSSL guys are going to have more experience in things like "Older (and widely deployed) F5 networking devices attempt to parse a TLS Handshake as SSLv2 first, which means that due to the overlapping structure, an SSLv3/TLS client-hello of length 256 - 511 bytes, it can't tell if a certain byte is a "message type" of 1 (SSLv3/TLS) or it is the "length high bits" to be 1 (SSLv2). Therefore, despite no mention in the spec, it's useful to pad out the CLIENT_HELLO to remove the ambiguity." (Just to use a recent example)

TLS is a horrible mess of a spec, and the real-world implementations are even grittier. While I'm not knocking the OpenBSD guys at all (and I think what they're doing is great), let's not forget that OpenSSL got it's place because despite the code quality, it's one of the most fully-featured TLS stacks out there due to the knowledge and experience of it's developers. I hope to see lots of code flowing in both directions between the two projects.
Goodbye, Net Neutrality; Hello, Net Discrimination
This has come up on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7531858

Brazil's Article 71 eventually led to TRIPS Article 27 § 2 and § 3(a), which affirm the rights of WTO member nations to exclude medical patents from protection; and Article 31, which allows for what has become known as "compulsory licensing" -- use of a patent without the consent of the patent holder.

It's been a pretty effective club for developing nations to wield against pharmas, as drug companies know that if they don't provide or license their meds at favorable terms the states can just start manufacturing them without consent.

The flip side, of course, is that the pharmas end up wanting to increase the pricing in developed nations, because the healthcare markets (especially in the US) can bear much higher costs. That's why Gilead is charging $900 for an HCV cure in Egypt (which has horrifically high rates of HCV infection), and almost $90K for it in the US.

Now, there's a lot of drug coming online for HCV over the next few years, but right now Gilead has the market to itself and, at current pricing, it's basically a $1 trillion market in the US, EU and Japan. Gilead paid about $11b for Pharmasset (the drug developers) and needs to recoup its investment, so aggressive pricing in the developed world is unsurprising, if distressing.
I really doubt that in 20 years something would not be reversed engineered or trivial by then. Moreover, patents are usually functional specifications, not algorithmic. In the rare cases where the description is vital, like perhaps crypto or coding patents, the published software already allows reverse engineering.

Isn't the actual intention of patents to publicize the invention after the 20 years has gone by?
Certainly sound and act like a union:

> Nevertheless, on April 20th, after holding several emotional, contentious meetings at Everest base camp, the climbing Sherpas announced that they would go on strike unless the Nepali government agreed to meet thirteen demands within a week.
Why are you comparing absolute numbers? Eyeballing it, it doesn't seem like the proportion of college students compared to the rest of the population is very different between the two countries.
It's awesome that this spans almost no attention from HN and the tech community in general. Hike at the same time, a single git reversion and a donation to a marriage organization has ked to the resignation of two amazing leaders onthe field. WTF...
That is your Django app, not Python itself, putting in that overhead.
While I agree with your concerns, I think you are overestimating the level of concern the average user has for privacy. I imagine power users make up a far smaller chunk of the user base than 1/3.
Darkmarket is coming
The 1% license – a proposal
Wow, with this money they could just rewrite that thing and get the source audited and tested.
Does that mean optparse will be maintained along with click? optparse has been deprecated in favor of argparse since 2.7/3.2.
Even if it were possible to 100% eliminate death by aging for $1, it's statistically impossible for everyone to live forever.
Well, in all seriousness, a situation in which a mind-expanding language isn't called for, because the minds in question don't currently work that way, and I am being 100% serious. I really like Haskell. It's among my favorite languages. However, I don't advocate for it where I work and tend to sort of tamp down on anyone else who tries because despite the fairly polyglot nature of where I work, we don't have the background to use Haskell very effectively at scale. I do this even as I advocate to all and sundry that they learn it anyhow for the mind expansion.

When one is fluent in Haskell I think the language naturally tends to drive you towards well-factored, reusable designs that can handle change well. I say "fluent" because I don't think one needs to be "expert" to get to this level, but certainly there's a level of experience required to be here. Beginners and pre-fluency intermediates in the language produce god-awful messes of code. (I know, because I have! Fortunately I had the foresight to do that to throwaway personal projects, rather than critical business projects.) I think a great deal of the Haskell propaganda is justified, but beware the Haskell enthusiast who recites the propaganda, but can't clearly explain in their own words the mechanisms that Haskell uses to accomplish it.

Actually, scratch Haskell out of that. Beware any tech enthusiast who can't give a coherent explanation in their own words of why the tech stack has the claimed effects, but just repeats the propaganda again.
From Scott Remnant, who wrote Upstart when he worked at Canonical[1]:

"I don't think we ever disagreed enough for me to refuse patches from them - it was very much a case of they had different ideas to me, and couldn't contribute them because of the CLA

If the CLA wasn't there, we'd've just tugged and pulled and fought about patches like normal projects, and Upstart would have turned out much like systemd - I'd've been okay with that :)﻿"

The CLA is absolutely why systemd exists. systemd didn't fork because there was no benefit to anyone in sharing code -- Upstart wouldn't take their patches. There are technical differences, but those could have been handled in code (like Scott says) if the CLA hadn't existed.

1 https://plus.google.com/+KaySievers/posts/C3chC26khpq
Let me tell you what could make entrepreneurship atrractive to me:

1.- Independence from a boss, technically customers bcome your your new boss, but is not the same.
2.- Decide how much income I want, it would depend on me.
3.- Decide from where I want to work.
4.- Decide te kind of relations you want, in a vertical market you don't get much of that.
3.-
Simulate network latency and failure on localhost.
you can use http://pilif.me/nginx.tar.bz2 to build a debian package from 1.6.0 that is built from the Ubuntu 12.04 source package, so it's a drop-in replacement.
The longer an organism lives the more it can reproduce, the more copies of it's genes there will be. Any gene that increases (reproductive) lifespan is strongly selected for.
I assure you I'm serious. You might be interested in reading patio11's essays on this. He says if far better that I can.
Does this mean that donating blood reduces your number of white blood cells, and hence your life?
MaidSafe: A Wildly Successful Cryptocoin Debacle
>Move your argument to 1940 and make it about the prospect for future treatments for heart disease to see how ridiculous it is to suggest that only the wealthy would have access to these medical technologies.

Actually only the wealthy have access for heart disease even know. Vast masses in developing and third world countries don't have access to such treatments.
What problems exactly with "clean URLs" are you running into?
No, sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about.

daemontools is battled tested. We used it at Stanford on thousands of boxes. I used at a lot of shops, one in SF for example had 40k boxes (CentOS) and 6 ops staff, deployed via CFEngine. Heroku uses daemontools. On and on. Daemontools is mostly used when there is no desire/time to replace the existing init completely.

runit also scales amazingly well, even though it's more work to deploy.

Upstart is too unpredictable (flapping) and sysvinit doesn't do supervising very well, which is why important services are deployed with daemontools/runit.
also check out https://gist.github.com/plentz/6737338
I don't think that's the point. I think OpenBSD devs just want secure code, and they get it by doing the work. So that's what they do. No hidden agendas.
I paid CHF 3 for the app. It was free for quite a while but at some point they started charging for it. Now granted, that was a one off purchase, but considering that most of the logic could actually be done in the app itself, and the server could be used as just a data store, I'd say these CHF 3 would go quite a long way in paying for that.
That's the reason I always use the English version of everything. What I find most ridiculous is when hotkeys get translated, ex. Ctrl+S is Underline in Spanish (Subrayar)
"Don’t come into the office one day telling me out of the blue that you haven’t been happy for a while"

The fact that she finds such "out of the blue" IS the problem.

As for "why should I pay your full wage if you are only working at half force since you aren’t motivated anymore?": you pay full wage because he's doing full required work, demonstrated by the fact that she didn't notice anything was wrong and was content to pay him for it. Maybe he's unhappy because he wants to do more but she's not making it worth his time/effort to.

And obviously the disclosure is "out of the blue" precisely because her first reaction is to cut his pay.
They single out Lennart Poettering but don't have the guts to write their own names under their arguments. You can't take this serious.
We actually shot a video on a modular video synth, to be released soon (gotta edit it).

I've thought about how cool a synth module would be that sends modulation voltage out based on wifi packets. It would be a nod to the Teenage Engineering OP-1 which has an FM radio for modulation.
Unit margin is the marginal profit for selling one more unit. It doesn't include the (large) fixed costs of, for example, your personnel or your office real estate costs or R&D or legal. It's basically the bill of materials for your item plus the costs for transporting the item from where you made it/bought it to where you hand it off to the customer, any taxes on that particular item (like import duties), etc.

Unit margin is an important number to account for and work to maximize, basically because you assume that as the number of units you sell increase, your fixed costs become less and less relevant to your overall company profit. But unit margin is always higher than overall company profit margin.

EDIT: Also, obviously, unit margin varies by sku. The iPhone 5s and the iPad Air are probably the highest-margin items that Apple sells (some of their Macs may compete). Things like iPods and iPhone 5cs are likely lower-margin.
Yikes. less said the better. more later. :)
Laugh now, but COBOL programmers are going to live forever.
I'm saying about the US model for medicare that you either have to pay for your treatment or you have to have a health insurance that will pay for you.

This is in contrast to e.g. the Scandinavian countries where you get treated whether you have an insurance or not, no matter what your income level is.

Those are two “models” of paying for your medicare, and I'm sure there are even other ways.
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You missed the final bitter line!

"But C says that at iTouch we have a no touch policy in case we get sued. Pity, that kid looked like he could really use a hug."
It's probably not a big deal, but there are a few things to sign yet. Most of my analysis work is related to developing peptide-drug conjugates, so this will be a departure. The general idea is to improve on a specific QC process for acquired field data, adjusting correction factors on the basis of observed phenomena. The results should boil down to improved efficiency in some regard, but I'm not sure about the specifics yet.
> Edit: And if you downvote me, at least add an explanation please.

See other replies.
You should let your web framework of choice do that. You should be able to find any directives you need to add to your nginx conf in your framework's docs. Typically they will use a Front Controller (eg: app.php or index.php), so you need a directive to map all the dynamic traffic (ie. usually not images or other static files) to that file. Everything else is done by the framework.