skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps some Canadian software company revamped their e-file system ... you've got to compete with healthcare.gov right?
Sounds like an echo chamber
My high school class had hand drawn first semester, autoCAD second semester. (I happened to only be taking the second semester, because I needed another class to fill that semester, so I personally only experienced the autoCAD component)
Is there any kind of cheap and easy crash avoidance system for drones? If so then it should be mandatory in military drones and private drones that are flown over other people's private land or public/government land. If that kind of system doesn't exist then maybe someone should try to build it, "Open Crash Avoidance" or something similar.

http://gcn.com/articles/2013/07/12/drone-uav-sense-and-avoid...
Cowen, the post's author, considers many possible angles and outcomes of such a policy, and specifically addresses its relationship to your preferred model: a free, taxes-paid higher education.

He's willing to see the Oregon proposal tried to observe the results, but seems doubtful it will work well, for reasons nearly opposite to your objections: he sees it as likely subsidizing student and educator errors via adverse selection and other malincentives.

Against that, you provide a series of emotional poses – "cringe" "cry" "joke" "bullshit" "bullshit alarms" – and total confidence that this isn't even worth trying. That doesn't add any new information other than, "darklajid doesn't like the headline". (Is darklajid a name I should recognize on educational and public policy issues?)
Tying the healthcare system into this mess was shockingly shortsighted, in retrospect.
Does Webkit have a very large API/ABI surface? This seems like a nightmare to implement correctly and maintain.
Here's a better one, with a github for corrections: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
There are 2 arguments usually.

One was denying climate was changing. That was the narrative in large up until not too long ago. A lot of it was sponsored by conservative think tanks, propaganda etc. I remember in late 1990s and early 2000s. There was a lot how climate is not changing and it is all a liberal propaganda.

Well then eventually after the temperatures kept rising and ice melting the narrative has shifted to "it is changing, ok, but it is not because of anything humans did". That is where the controversy is now.

I am not involved enough to debate the last one one way or another intelligently, just making an observation of the two level of the argument.
Alexa is not even close to being accurate on tech-related sites. A 3,000 alexa rating on a non-tech related site means the site is attracting at least 3 million unique visitors per month.

My best guess is that HN attracts around 300k - 500k uniques per month.
This is just ridiculous... We need a marketing campaign to shame companies that use these. We ban it or legally enforce labeling of products that use microplastics and create a negative sentiment towards it. Otherwise, this is going to spiral out of control. If we can manage to stop it like ozone depleting CFCs then we'll have a chance to fix this, despite the immense energy cost.
If you're interested in the science (and some of the problems we have in the US) read UW Professor Cliff Mass' blog - http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/
You know, it's bad when you remember going to the site, but forgot what you went there for. I thought I remembered it as a daily wacky-news site like fark. I guess I was wrong :)

I'll echo several other replies - it was great - nay, essential - before package managers became good.

Maybe they should have bought and changed their name to yum.com or apt-get.com (instead of freecode) and then more of us would still remember why they went to the site.
That's a good question. The group that are looking at creating a replacement site are definitely interested in this point. ESR commented on his blog that he'd reached out to someone, so we'll see what happens there.
I didn't mean to suggest that the Star was the first commercial computer that offered multiple fonts. I picked the Star because it came before the Macintosh there were good pictures of it available. I believe that the Alto also had a font that set a typeface in cursive, and even came with its own font editor, but I'd have to look harder to find videos or pictures of that.
> Not that many years ago I was still seeing people storing
> credit card numbers in plain text files on servers, and
> sending them unencrypted via email.

I've seen it in the last week. I work for an ESP, and have to continually tell customers "just because you can store CCs (or SSNs, or private account #s, etc) in our database, there's never a good reason why you should" and "PCI? Heard of it?".
I've checked the site a few times. The sidebar popup comments thing drives me nuts and I leave. People make fun for HN for being so simple but too clever is far worse.
The executive implements laws, and has managerial discretion within the law as its written. To imply that from $1.8b a functional arm of the government doesn't have e-mail archives is absurd. The IRS is in the buseinss of doings audits. In 2011 this is well beyond a question of competence and into a question of willful negligence. Imgaine if this was put in front of a jury? This type of problem is so predictable, ignorance is no excuse.
PD and Max-MSP are from the same stable, and PD is the poor man's Max-MSP. I feel that PD is an excellent learning tool if you want to learn about synthesis or DSP more generally, but as a musician's tool it's just not ready. A lot of the music made with PD is pure crap, or even a type of anti-music, or puts forward some kind of alternate musical theory of its own which nobody can understand. PD music is usually too detached from normal conventions such as 12 TET, harmonies and progressions to be listenable. Typically the PD user will produce something with weird bell sounds, stuttering percussive noises or massive pad washes going in and out. Not conventional music. The reason is that PD doesn't provide enough built-in function shortcuts. If you want to make music, PD is a practically useless interface. By the time you've programmed a very basic synth, any inspiration has long gone. An instrument is something that should need no foreplay beyond just turning it on and picking it up, before actually playing it. If you want to make something recognizable as music with PD, you will need to first download someone else's synth patch or copy a subtractive or FM synth from a book first. And then you'll find it has no patches you can modify (unless you make them yourself). The time between turning on the computer, setting up your synth and playing your piece is simply too long.
I gave you my number, but you saved it in MongoDB. Call me, maybe?
I have a feeling that more than one replacement initiative will emerge, but the market will sort it out in the end. ESR has a strong preference for doing something in Python, and some people will probably coalesce around that. OTOH, I've started a project for a potential replacement codebase, based on Grails + Groovy.

If anybody is interested: https://github.com/mindcrime/sourcehub
1 and 2) Not just that. In most countries, a freelance wage and salaried wage are different. For a freelance wage, you're paying for things out of pocket (taxes, benefits, etc) that your employer is required to pay for instead if you were salaried. You can't just do the math of $30/h * 40 hours * 50 weeks/year = your salary. It overlooks so much of the overhead costs of freelancing.

3) I'll readily admit that this point was anecdotal from me. But as someone who has worked with many both "good" and "bad" offshore ESL freelance developers, I can definitively say that the good ones asked for a competitive wage while the bad ones were asking for pennies on the dollar. It was really self-segmenting in this way.
I don't think the blog is consciously designed to appear to liberal academics. As an MIT professor, Aaronson IS the liberal academic establishment, so it is no mystery that his writing appeals to his peers.

I don't know about you, but I'm willing to admit Aaronson knows more answers to important questions than I do.
Perhaps you have studied morality simulations in the past, whereas I have not. It was written simply. (In my opinion the occasional wordiness was a stylistic choice to mimic casual conversation rather than a strictly rigorous academic paper.. fitting for a blog post.) I found it a though-provoking read, and I have no qualms if his ideas were not "novel". Digesting old ideas and writing about them is not a crime. If anything, it is beneficial to those who did not read the original work (like me). As you said... to each his own.
My experience (fortunately relatively brief) of the American healthcare system's IT was that it could hardly get worse, although perhaps tempting fate is unwise. Lost records, insurance filings never coded or processed correctly; the only way anything got done was waiting on the phone for hours to get claims fixed, and photocopying records myself to have a copy I could physically carry somewhere. My favorite almost-worked-but-not-quite case was when an ophthalmologist managed (after 4 weeks) to get a copy of a retinal scan from my previous doctor in another city... but the photograph was sent as a completely unreadable fax, in the year 2010.
Yes that's a good delay filter but it's also a good example why this type of user-programmable synth apparatus, which looks similar to CSound, won't catch on. There is much more going on in the typical delay sound itself than just a delayed iteration of a sample. A pure delay is boring. There is the possibility to model all kinds of analog and hardware digital delays with additional coding, but people have been doing that for years and it's no surprise really that commercial companies do it best (and they won't bother unless there's a way to protect proprietary code such as VST).
What happened to the hard drives of everyone she sent emails to, certainly parts of the email chains in question are somewherre on the hard drives of the people she corresponded with
> The models don't tell us why the planet was warm and then it was in an ice age, they don't tell us why it stopped being in an ice age in the first place, they don't tell us anything how our actions (or inaction) could cause the climate to change in a way that we wish it to change.

This criticism is somewhat akin to trying to challenge the theory of relativity because our orbital models can't tell us exactly how the planets got arranged how they did. The reason they can't isn't because the models are broken; it's because there are many plausible hypotheses that could give rise to the outcome we see, and representing various possible combinations of historical parameters. And we can't necessarily know which set of parameters without the aid of a time machine.

Similarly for the climate models. They can't tell us exactly how every historical change in the climate happened because there are many climate forcings that simply aren't recorded very well (or at all) in the historical record. So we can use the models to come up with various plausible scenarios, but we'd need a time machine to figure out which one is the correct one.

To take another analogy, this criticism's akin to when creationists complain of the relative fuzziness of our knowledge of the history of life in the precambrian to argue that evolution cannot account for the major taxonomic divisions in the tree of life. Again, the truth is that the model is fine, what's inadequate is our knowledge of the historical conditions we would need to feed into that model.

The distinction between those two sorts of knowledge gap may seem pedantic and hair-splitty, but an understanding of the nature and implications of that difference is one of the boundaries that separates science from pseudoscience.
I think its amazing that only 5,000 years ago it was much warmer than it is now

How you can come to that conclusion, given that the dung dropped then, possibly in the snow, has remained frozen since then, and is now melting. I.e., it's been colder ever since then than it is now.
Voters could slam S.F. house flippers with major tax
You can take the address of a literal?

Being able to specify a literal for a struct is useful. You can, for instance, put the literal in a macro and use the macro to initialize or reset a struct. It's better than having to write additional functions to do something trivial.
"the draft has been classified to keep it secret not just during the negotiations but for five years after the TISA enters into force"
The article focuses on military use of drones.

Crash avoidance systems are about saving the lives of the pilot more than saving the craft. Drones coming down in one piece will give the enemy more information than drones crashing so the cynic in me says that if you're willing to fly drones over other countries' territory protecting their population will take a back-seat to military objectives.

After all piloted craft come with ejection seats and parachutes for the pilots not with parachutes for the whole plane.
Callbacks are inherently going to make a program harder to follow. Without seeing the code, it's hard to suggest other solutions.
The concepts of right and wrong certainly exist, or we couldn't be talking about them. But not everyone agrees what is right and what is wrong.

It sounds like you are saying that there is no absolute right or wrong, that right and wrong are human inventions prone to variation, not some fixed celestial law. That is exactly the stance which Aaronson took in his essay so I believe you two agree on that point.
This will invariably lead to the argument whether government can or should mandate vaccinations.

Currently parents probably cannot be prosecuted for not vaccinating their kids. I think they should be (child endangerment comes to mind, kind of like putting the child in the car without a special car seat).

But in all likely-hood I can see easier laws being passed that might exclude un-vaccinated people from various venues. Travel (flying is not a right apparently), schools, hospitals, doctors' offices, concerts. "Show your vaccinations card and come and enjoy the music" kind of deal. Parents throwing birthday parties for their kids and checking vaccination cards at the door. Pretty strange, but maybe more viable that forcing vaccinations otherwise (forced medical treatment).

Or to look at it anther way, what is the legal precedent of parents refusing medical treatment over religious beliefs? You know let "Jesus un-break her arm instead of the doctor". Maybe this is in the same category.
It's not cheating to copy.

- Paul Graham

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
You can't make up weird stuff like this. Very highly recommended! At least for those of us who still enjoy originality in their net.loons.
That wild ass recruiting idea
Not sure which country you're talking about exactly, but don't countries in Scandinavia benefit from large resources of oil and natural gaz in the North Sea? That sure eases welfare.
And even more interestingly, if you(and GP and nearly everybody in this thread) had read the article, you'd possibly have noticed that it isn't talking about glaciers, it's talking about ice cover.

"Unlike glaciers that move, slowly grinding down any artifacts trapped in them, the Yukon ice patches tend to remain stable. Or at least they did, until gradual warming over the past several decades began to shrink them and reveal treasures."
Flask Starter Kit
Dash:new platform to learn how to code
Good job shipping! This was the kind of app I first worked on as well, but I never ended up putting it on the store, and kind of lost interest halfway through porting it to iOS 7 :)

The Add Transaction screen was pretty much where I lived in my app (http://imgur.com/DobW80r), so good work keeping it simple and efficient!

Some feedback:

* Might be worth making the user's current currency (you can get it from NSLocale) the default currency so that out of the box on first use they can start entering data, it's not great to have to go to settings first time you use it.

* If you must stick with hamburger menu, consider making the view tappable everywhere and not just on the hamburger icon, to dismiss it. Though I would argue it's worth using something like UITabBar to switch between log and charts if charts is something you use a lot.

* When tapping on a transaction to bring up the context buttons, consider allowing tapping anywhere on the screen to dismiss it, not just on cells.

* Consider a custom input view for the amount field, here's an example of what I did for my app (http://imgur.com/yp27cxK), gets rid of the ugly "dialer" style ABC/DEF/GHI annotations. More maintenance though.

* Understand its for you mainly, but tag editing would be nice :)

* When you have a couple of thousand transactions in there (I had 20,000), being able to quickly whip up some adhoc queries for interesting stats becomes a lot easier if you have an SQL backed data model, and I used SQLite+transactions just because I was paranoid of some stupid bug corrupting all the data. Knowing myself, I would delete an app the first time it lost any data.

However, long term, I think the solution for this kind of app is direct integration with banks (one of the reasons I lost interest, because I started getting super tired of typing in the data on a phone)!

Best of luck, and keep on iterating! Never forget what the first version of popular slick apps looked like, a lot of them were pretty basic.
I am a fan of ProductHunt and look forward to their emails. BUT I do have to gripe a bit about the current very limited, "exclusive" commenting system. I want to get real insights from people who have used the product/service being featured and instead it's usually just the guy who runs ProductHunt plus maybe one other friend or colleague who takes a couple of minutes to poke around providing pretty shallow feedback...and it's very rarely critical. Then an investor in the featured site/product chimes in about how awesome the team is. Not a lot of value there. Both consumers and founders would benefit from more openness.
I'm not sure what Dice Holdings thought they'd achieve by buying Geeknet. Last time I checked, they were busy curating slashvertisements and Business Intelligence "insight" articles for Slashdot.

I wonder how that's working out for them...

http://www.google.com.au/trends/explore#q=Slashdot%2C%20%2Fm...
Great app, I've been looking for a simple, bare bones budget tracking app.

I think you need to fix the flow for the first time users. If every first time user must add a currency, why not have first time user screen be the add currency screen? Also, the add currency screen should have suggestions. It wasn't initially clear that I needed to type 'USD' instead of 'dollar'. It also wasn't clear that the currency needed to be in capital letters. I had usd in lowercase and clicking the check mark did nothing. There should at least be feedback.

The app is great once getting past the first screen. Nice job.
Apple’s iWatch with 2.5-inch Display and Wireless Charging Coming this October
Honestly, I found the UX to be very confusing. Some basic things --

The highlight to select an element is inconsistent. Sometimes it is a padded highlight, other times it isn't. The instructions to "right click" don't make sense on a mac and the usual cmd+click doesn't appear to do anything. Other times, there is no selected element, I'm scrolling through the left bar to pick something to add, yet the UI remains with the appearance of something selected (blue outline). In short, the selection/action/deselect was not intuitive for me.

The first thing I tried to do was drag a button into a column section -- nothing happened.
For me that neither makes sense nor would be practical; it might not even be possible. I also have a number of obligations in the US, family in particular.

There's also many, many practical issues with the very concept. How do you know when to flee before it's too late? And to where? How will such a crisis affect other parts of the world?
Who would ever have guessed?
That is the problem here. For anyone who has studied ethics and morality, this is hair-pullingly bad. It is not easy to communicate these ideas.

An analogy: Would you trust a physicist who does not communicate often, or a creationist who writes popular science essays?
> But in all likely-hood I can see easier laws being passed that might exclude un-vaccinated people from various venues

What about people who are not vaccinated for medical reasons, such as an allergy to the vaccine?
> But it's a simple enough language that it's very heavily optimizable.

The simplicity of C means you can't make many assumptions of how it is handled. Same problem in C++. You can make a lot of optimizations to assembler if you can guarantee a value won't change, or if the relative location in memory needs to remain static because anything can rip the address and do awful pointer arithmetic with it.

I like to compare to asm.js - it is a reduced language in that it restricts the environment from doing things it can't easily optimize away, except in that case its to assembler. Reduced set versions of C exist to do the same already, but it would be nicer if you just had a fast language default with straightforward rules with ways to just declare wonderland functionality that can mess things up that means the compiler needs to preserve the machine assumptions rather than the language structures.
Looks an awful lot like reddit.
I don't think "tyranny of the majority" applies here. The proposed system makes minority opinions more visible, if anything. There would even be an incentive to have a minority opinion, if you truly believed the majority was incorrect about something. In response to your last point: that sounds like an interesting modification: letting every bot see every other bot's (possibly evolving) code. But perhaps to avoid Skynet, bots should use the other bots' published APIs (which could opt to include a "getCode" method), and judge each other by their actions.
MongoDB did get tested :) http://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen
Is that a thing? I mean, how would you know? Many vaccines are administered once or twice in a lifetime...
Rise of the American Professional Sports Cartel
I will take notes, I have been thinking about the "onboarding" process and I do agree with all of your feedback. Thanks.
What does "sourced" mean exactly? For example, MoveLoot was in YC W14 so hard to think it was sourced through PH.
I don't actually find this explanation easier to understand...

I find "To Dissect A Mockingbird" a more intuitive and simpler explanation of Lambda Calculus. I think the visuals help a lot.

http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/
Many states have had vaccine requirements for a child to enter public schools:

http://www.immunizationinfo.org/vaccines/state-requirements
Dfiltr: A Discussion Platform that Flips the Filter Bubble Algorithm on its Head
The problem with vectorization is that it cannot be applied to arbitrary code. You have to consciously design your algorithms, data and libraries to be SIMD-friendly.

I once wrote a SIMD C++ template library based on valarray: http://www.pixelglow.com/macstl. Sadly it has languished over the years but I would love to work on it again. It had novel (at the time?) vectorized trigonometric functions, for example.
Dude, transpose those axes, unless you are walking outside and saying "it's 60% raining today".