skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but at least I know I won't end up in Superior Court and lose my house if I get sick

That would not have happened anyway. If you can't pay a medical bill then don't. Just ignore it. Absolutely nothing will happen.

They might send you letters or call, but why subject yourself to that? Don't open the mail and don't answer the phone (they are required to use caller ID).

People are worried about credit rating but medical bills are excluded from that.
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Keep in mind that the temperatures rose from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s, but there has been no significant rise in global temperatures in the last 12-17 years.

http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2013/aug/2...
This rebuttal certainly makes me more inclined to believe the takedown piece. Disruption obviously happens but Christensen has made me less likely to believe he has any ability to predict when it is going to happen or why, or that he has anything useful to say about it.
I thought you were right and did some searching. It seems you are wrong though. It turns out that the method of dating is flawed and old stuff like fossils have just been dated wrong and are less than 6000 years old. It's so depressing flicking though these sites.

http://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Library.sr/CT/BQA/k/...

http://www.missiontoamerica.org/genesis/six-thousand-years.h...
This comment from page three is interesting: "[Disruption] has never happened in the hotel industry, for example."
The problem is that the models have all been wrong. At what point do you give up and say "the models don't work no matter what we do, maybe the theory is flawed?"

They can't explain the past behavior of the Earth's climate, and they can't predict the future behavior. They're not even directionally correct, given the fact that global temperatures, albeit amongst the highest they've been on record, haven't increased since the late 1990s[1]. Given the incredible increase in CO2 over the past 16 years, the models would have predicted much higher temperatures, but it's simply not agreeing with their own data.

1. http://www.politifact.com/rhode-island/statements/2013/aug/2...
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"Hackers and business designed addons for years."

Hackers and "business" continue to design and sell cards for them!

(CompactFlash & USB-storage interface card) http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforA...

(ethernet boards)
http://a2retrosystems.com/

(RAM boards)
http://www.brielcomputers.com/wordpress/?p=321
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given your age, your brain just isn't developed enough yet...
A nice related puzzle involving a choice between only 2 numbers: http://plus.maths.org/content/mathematical-mysteries-getting...
It's probably true. Most of the government is busy moving to cloud email, but the IRS's IT security bible -- Pub 1075 is too prescriptive and narrowly focused (it includes mandates for things like rack door locks) to allow that to happen. So they are probably stuck paying some contractor $50/GB for SAN disk to run mail.

After the South Carolina Tax Department was owned, lack of encryption was the main technical issue, so encrypting "all of the things" is probably their main focus.

As a government employee, records management is a shitshow. There's a 50 page schedule of documents with prescriptive retention periods -- but these are intended for the "record copy" only. An email itself isn't a document. Employees either squirrel away everything or toss everything... The higher up you go, the more you toss.
Christensen has either inadvertently fallen into the DH4 [1] trap or is deliberately trying to cloud the central issue. What I would like him to do is address the key point that Jill Lepore made, which is that his theory of disruption doesn't have too much predictive power. The fact that he hasn't addressed this seems only to strengthen Lepore's argument.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Why should I need to opt-out? What about people who want this having to opt-in?

Wait, that wouldn't work because nobody wants this junk.
Great looking app. I would use this so much if there was two way Dropbox sync.
So, I realize the odds are rather low you will see this. I took a stab at implementing 2048 in javascript. Depending on what you mean by "many more lines," I'm not sure I agree still. For a hardcoded 4x4 grid, I'm only at 100 lines of code in javascript. (For arbitrary rectangular boards, I'm at 130.)

I'm not going to claim that the code alone is as "pretty" as the Haskel version, but I see no reason it should have exploded to be much larger. I may have to take a look at how other folks are doing this.

(Code is currently at https://github.com/taeric/2048-Explorations. Will try to prettify and publish the org file that accompanies it.)
"Apple II was still kept around for that long is kind of a mystery to me."

There was a very strong following, especially in the educational market. I remember seeing schools purchasing labs of IIGS's as late as the early 1990's.

Basically, the apple ][ was the cash cow that kept Apple afloat for years while they tried to sell 68k macs. Apple basically tried to kill the II for a decade but wasn't successful enough to just cut off the customer base that was crying for new models.
I'd take a look at Financius (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.code44.fin...). The design is fairly clean and the development is done in the open, which is nice.

I'm also working on something in a similar space. If you have specific needs I'd love to talk (see my profile).
Yes, thousands of them in the context of listening to songs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
My pre-theoretic intuition is that it's plastic up to some fixed degree determined primarily by genetics and secondarily by early life experiences.

Given the degree of ignorance and uncertainty involved, though, I think a more interesting discussion centers on the risks involved with what we choose to believe: namely, what's the upside (for individuals, for societies) of assuming "intelligence is fixed" (however interpreted) or that it's not? What's the downside risk of believing the same?

How are these risks and potential gains distributed across segments of the population? Lastly, how do these potential distributions square with our moral intuitions (particularly if one considers oneself a nice Rawlsian liberal committed to a maximin distribution of social benefits...).
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"Follow" is used in the context of authors of classical works in academia and has been used prior to any use in the forms you claim are its exclusive domain.
Yes, it's pretty outdated. It looks like it was written for ARM7TDMI which is ARMv4T. It seems like a decent introduction to RISC assembly programming though. This sort of stuff can get you started, after which you can get up to speed by reading compiler output and the ARMv7 architecture reference manual.

Is there a good and more up-to-date introductive text?
How do you get from "you should expect people to look at the envelope in order to deliver it to its destination" to "you should expect the postal service to archive the information about your letter"?

Seriously, I just don't get it.

Are you just saying that it's not surprising that it's possible for people to archive data they get to see? Well, yeah, obviously so, but that's just completely besides the point, as nobody is surprised it's possible (at least nobody here is, I suppose) - if anything, I'm surprised that people do such unethical things.

This is about ethics, not about technical possibility.

If the military of my own country tomorrow started bombing my neighbourhood, I also wouldn't be surprised about the technical possibility of dropping those bombs on my neighbourhood, I would be surprised why the heck they would do such an evil thing.

I can have a reasonable expectation of not being bombed by my own military because I expect them to be ethical (well, let's forget the question of whether military is ethical at all for the moment), not because it's impossible for them to do so.

It's the same reason why I expect not to be stabbed to death on the street even though I don't wear any armor, why I expect that nobody starts following me on the street as soon as I leave the house, making HD recordings of my every move for archival, and why I expect that nobody puts up telescopes and infrared cameras around my house to capture and archive all of the electromagnetic radiation that leaks from my personal life out into "the public".

Your notion of "reasonable expectation of privacy" is just naive and completely misses the point that this behaviour by the postal service poses a serious risk to society, and that risk does not go away just because it's unsurprising that they are technically capable of abusing their position of being able to see all the letters in transit.
Car safety and work hours; yes.

But it's not clear to me that other types of regulation are desirable. Environmental standards should be the same for all cars; driver training has been made almost redundant by sat-nav systems; a reputation-based system might be better than a 'requiring pickup' system.

In particular, I want a regulatory system that makes it easy for someone to be a taxi driver only from midnight to 2am on Saturday nights. Or only to and from the airport between 3pm and 6pm. This is the sort of flexibility that brings down costs overall.
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This was discussed in the article, they have some of those but it's difficult to systematically search a bunch of personal, one off backups. And it wouldn't include any outside communication with e.g. The whitehouse, which is one of the most damning allegations.
The P2P network approach here is important for two reasons, one is that I do not have fulltext access to journals and researchers using this extension do, and second, I do not have the resources to run a centralized search engine, which would be expensive, as you say, because of index/server costs.

The fact that it's an unproven concept is exciting to me; that and the fact that it's using very modern technologies to solve an existing problem. If nothing else, maybe this project can server as a cool demo for the underlying tech, i.e. WebRTC. To my knowledge it is the only keyword-base search engine based entirely in the browser.

I agree with your remark about Google, I was trying to be witty but often my humor fails me, as my family and friend will be eager to confirm :) Given that Google doesn't have public APIs, even paid ones, for any of their search services, leads me to believe the numbers just don't add up for them.

With regards to angering publishers: I really really do not want to come on their bad side, and I can't see how this project could. It's mission is to help users discover content that they have, help them find the right papers, which are still hosted by publishers. Never will Scholar Ninja be used to circumvent paywalls or share paywalled fulltext papers, this is just not in anyone's interest. Scholar Ninja only indexes pages you read anyway, so it doesn't cause any additional load on servers, and it only contains keyword references to documents, e.g. "cancer": ["10.1371/journal.pmed.0010065", ...], which enables us to do keyword searching.
You need something to happen to drive archiving. It's bureaucratic minutiae that the President doesn't give a hoot about until something bad happens. The CIO of the IRS doesn't wake up one morning and decide to start archiving stuff. The chief counsel probably wants to delete everything (except for his stuff)

Same thing in the private sector. Nobody outside of regulated industries like pharma archived email, ever until Enron. Everyone didn't start doing it until the Federal courts changed the rules of civil procedure several years ago.
> simply a chemical reaction

Simply? Really? Don't seem remotely simple to me.
Because direct mail campaigns aren't crimes, and are crucial to the current funding model of USPS? They'd sooner decide to stop carrying mail from individuals, and only deliver mail from customers large enough to drop ship their mail to the local BMC in palletized presorted bundles.
It sure does. For hundreds of years, letters were delivered without being added to a gigantic ledger of everyone's correspondence.

There is no need for this.
At least they tried to anonymize the data. Someone in my hometown recently filed a FOIA request for information about schoolteachers' pension plans and the district gave him a straight dump of the database which included the Social Security Number of every teacher in the district.
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Medical debt is, in fact, the most common type of overdue collection account on American credit reports. Ignoring bills you owe is not good advice.
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You should also be very offended by the metadata tracking. Metadata is much easier to process and more often than not does reveal why you are in contact anyhow. It's one of "their" propaganda tricks to make you believe that it's "just" the metadata, while it actually (a) tells you much more than you initially think about the content of the communication (after all, they don't just see the connections, but also the timing and direction, and that tells you a lot about the relationship between people) and (b) at least for the time being is much easier to process anyhow.
Were you connecting to them at the same time? That has never worked for me (the first one gets disconnected when I connect the second). I had to use Gopenvpn for that.
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Actually, Joe Armstrong has argued that Erlang is the purest OO language in common use:

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/johnson-armstrong-oop
I would assume the downvote is for the extended discussion, bordering on bragging about your internship at google. The first comment was relevant to the story, but the part about how you got to work with famous people in computer science was not. I don't really have a problem with that myself, but I could see how that could cause someone to downvote.
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Great project. What are your thoughts on training the models and maybe allowing people to export them to the browser?

I had planned on developing something like that for in browser prediction. There's so much potential with what you've built here.
I started to read it, and got to "The constitution", but then realized it was a spoiler, so stopped. I was able to hear that part of the sentence accurately on the first try.
shrug

This seems an awfully inconsequential thing to get worked up about.
This is the kind of post that keeps me on HN. I'll never work for google, so I appreciate hearing what it's like to help someone out and then realize it was Brian Kernighan, and then to have that kind of interaction with many prominent people in CS.
Here's a wild ass idea: have you engineers do all the resume reviews, screening calls, and interviews. Leave HR and most of management entirely out of it.

Then just hire people who can intelligently speak to a relevant resume, and who get along well with your group. If they don't work out, fire them.

People spend entirely too much time obsessing over how to hire people, usually mumbling some nonsense about how they'll destroy their team or be sued out of existence by a bad hire. Personally, I think it's a combination of desperation to cover one's own ass at all costs, and providing an illusion of control. If they'd focus on improving the workplace and their own communication rather than fretting about voodoo hiring theory, they'd be much better off.
Yes me too. See also:

http://reversespeech.com/reversal/popular-reverse-speech-exa...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_speech

http://www.tcprs.com/evps.html (disembodied voice examples.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect
Because you'd also have to opt-in to receiving mail from anyone else who wanted to send mail to you.

That's the point of public communications.
If you are getting junk mail that you do not want, then file a Form 1500 with the USPS: https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf

It is supposed to be used when you are receiving sexually oriented mail that you consider to be offensive. However, the USPS does not have the right to decide if something you consider to be sexually orientated and offensive is or is not in fact sexual in nature, or offensive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_v._U.S._Post_Office_Dept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_Order).

Personally, I consider credit card offers to be sexually obscene.
I've read the description before listening to the sample and I've heard it the first time.

Not a native speaker. if that's important.
That's actually not true. There isn't even any actual "right to be forgotten", there just are data protection directives and laws and the like, which were the basis for the ECJ decision that got called the "right to be forgotten" which happened to be about search engines, Google in particular. The same laws do apply to the processing of personally identifiable information in any company, and that in principle should include postal service companies in the EU, as well as to the government itself, though sometimes with limitations.

That does not mean that postal services in the EU don't do the same thing for various reasons, but the legality is questionable.
Lambdapp inserts #line directives into the source code, compilers are required to respect those directives and utilize them when producing debug sections in the binary. For instance in the case of gcc/clang on *nix the compiler will produce .debug_line sections as part of the DWARF debug format. Debuggers like gdb and even valgrind utilize this information to provide correct output. So to answer your question, a debugger would react to this code exactly how it should react, as if the lambda was called via a function and the file / line should be correct.
This is really interesting to me. I can't hear it and I am a native english speaker. I was just in a room of people and played it and everyone clicked into the meaning right away. I played it about seven more times and I guess I kind of hear it now, but still, not really.

I did horrible in elementary school and high school until I realized I was what I labelled myself a "visual learner". I excelled in college and am just about to finish my PhD in evolutionary biology, largely because I stopped attending lectures and decided to learn everything on my own. After listening to this illusion I decided to search for auditory dyslexia and sure enough there are disorders like this and I definitely fit the definition, especially central auditory processing disorder. Does anyone know if this test is correlated with audio disorders or where I can get more information on this?
"Those sent to work in town often had some input in their choice of master and some, like Frederick Douglass, were allowed to live on their own upon surrender of satisfactory wages." [1]

That was probably far from the norm in the 1830's. Frederick Douglass was no less in bondage though.

Later in life, Mr. Douglass said:

"[E]xperience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other". [2]

"Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement[.]" [3]

(upvoted you)

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=jI4euhKoEaEC&pg=PA65

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=nOt7au3N8FUC&pg=PA676

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass
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This app looks great, but the only negative for me is that it does offer the ability to take a camera snapshot of a real receipt. Some other apps have this receipt snapshot feature, but not the simplicity of your app. For me this snapshot feature alone would complete the perfect app in this category, and for this reason alone I am holding off on the purchase.
And they also kicked in doors and murdered people routinely.

Which funny enough is also happening in the US, but has nothing to do with mail tracking and everything to do with approval of no-knock police raids and general apathy to ever doing something about obvious corruption and brutality by people like Arpaio.

Who in turn has absolutely no access to any of said surveillance infrastructure to start with...
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Thanks Richard! Open Knowledge festival is going to be off the hook :)

I realized you and your team (Peter et al.) have been working on a project in a similar space, and was hoping there would some beneficial overlap. It looks like there is! The ScraperJSON definitions for publishers sounds like exactly what Scholar Ninja needs. Let's chat soon :)

Thanks you for the quick description of ContentMine, the more awareness about this projects, the better. I've talked to Peter Murray-Rust on a few occasions and have to say that what you are doing with ContentMine is phenomenal and I wish you all the best. I hope you'll see that our projects are complimentary rather than competitive.

About indexing full texts: We do generate keyword indexes based on full texts, but we do not add this full text to the network. I hope you can see what I'm saying: you can still search through full text, but you can't access full text, it doesn't exist on the network, only a keyword: [entry1, entry2,...] index exists. One improvement to Scholar Ninja for open access articles would be the ability to show snippets, like Google Scholar does; it's on the mental TODO.
I just want to thank everyone who replied. There is a lot of great information in this thread. Who knows, maybe in a while I'll have a blog post about going solo
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You're not alone in not having done the smart thing and sold immediately. Argh!
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And yet they are doing that in full knowledge of what they are doing, which is not what is happening either with the post office or the expectation one has with Google.

Different situations have different expectations and outcomes.
Western Oregon University is around $3,000 per term for 15 credit hours. Let's call it $12,000 per year with books. OSU estimates resident tuition at $9,123 and $1,965 for "books & supplies".

I worked part-time during school and full-time during summer and put myself through college at Western, graduating with no debt. I lived with my parents and commuted to school. I don't see why this program is necessary.
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Ask HN: How do you stay accountable for a deadline on a side project
I'm the standard guy who has loads of ideas and loads of half finished projects lying around. A friend told me that if I want to finish something or rather, ship something, I have to set a deadline for myself. But without anyone but myself to keep me accountable I can see how that would end up. How do you keep to deadlines? If you don't, do you wish there was some way you could be kept accountable along with a bunch of other people working on side projects who know what it's like to get side tracked? Any thoughts would be welcome.
Reminds me: anyone know why envelopes delivered by USPS sometimes have small (< 1cm long) and consistent tears along their edges sometimes? Why does the post office do this?
If the distortion algorithm was public (and simple) we could try on different languages and see if that's the case.

It's still interesting, though.