skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo. Although I am one to generally scoff at jobs programs, if it's going to be done, this is how you do it. VERY expensive jobs programs such as the F-35 shuffle large amounts of cash around, and make it appear that the economy overall is healthy and growing, which it is, but it all relies on program success. The F-35 is a long way from being successful. It's not impossible, but it becomes more unlikely with each problem. That being said, the F-35 program was most likely never meant to be a jobs program. It just turned out that way as funding ballooned (probably after some very successful lobbying).
Indeed. A control system without enough feedback. Bring back organisational cybernetics!

However, saying "gap between the payer and the user of activities" suggests that you might think a market solution would work. For the military this makes no sense and cannot work; protection is necessarily collective.

It would be nice to set the anti-tax-and-spend libertarians against the military budget, but they don't seem interested.
There are two main parameters in screen geometry: Size and density. You can deal with the major size differences across tablets and handsets with Fragment objects and two or three different layouts per Activity, keyed to screen size, and two or three sets of assets, keyed to density. So at most you have 9 combinations, usually 6 or fewer, to test. This will cover 90%+ of non-game cases. Portability for OpenGL games is a whole other universe.

Also: Use RelativeLayout. Get your designer to design directly in the layout editor, and test them on screens he finds important and representative. That way he won't specify designs that can't be implemented.
> “In the ’50s, everyone had ulcers”

Yeah, because we hadn't discovered H Pylori as a causative agent and developed treatments.

> "Then, it was back problems"

Because manual labor in blue collar work was a lot more common back then.
I'm actually pretty disturbed by the comments here. Of all of the comments, I don't see a single one that basically goes after the fact that some one has a revenge porn site, that identifies users, and that is using TOR to enable it. I agree that most of this lawsuit w.r.t TOR is bogus - just like trying to sue the Internet for all of the stupid shit that goes on there.

The one time I ventured into TOR (many many years ago), I got scared off immediately when I just saw the description of hidden services. Pure anonymity is almost as evil as no anonymity. Reading into the comment, it looks like the plaintiff was underage, had these posted against her consent, and then publicly distributed with her name attached.

Unless TOR finds a way to balance enablement with responsibility, it will eventually slide into nothing more then the criminal underbelly of the Internet, and all that is vile about modern civilization.
I'm not sure what this comment is supposed to say. The article submitted here is pretty weak, but the operational issues about the subject were quite real and genuine problems in the "field".

That has largeley been solved with the adoption of a new series based on improved color-temperature of background tones--something overlooked when all the focus was on the patterns.

The deployment of coyete in lieu of green/olive and the current multi-cam is pretty good stuff. The problem with marpat and some of the other ACU stuff was that the color temps (ie, too much blue-ish undertones in a desert) can make you stick out more than having the wrong pattern.

This was a problem that resulted from trying to have a rural/urban combination that would work for troops fighting terrorist cells in cities and not just in classical land-warfare scenarios in open-country.

You can read some more background here:

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2012/06/28/army-to-recomm...

And if you dig it up you can find the comparison field tests that illustrated the weaknesses in the field of the earlier designs.
I'm not a Python expert, but iirc from various blog posts the "l" variable does not get reset between function calls which will cause undesired behavior. So calling the function 3 times without argument would produce a list of size 1,2, and 3 with the third call rather than 3 lists of size 1. Can any Python guru's confirm?
Because CSS and HTML are woefully inadequate and JavaScript has to be used to produce many layouts.
Why is this tolerated? It seems like such an absurdly basic problem to fix. Years and hundreds of thousands of dollars of advanced medical training is distilled into a note/prescription that looks like a fucking five year old wrote it. It's pathetic.

A personal anecdote: I went to a doctor recently. He opened my notes, squinted at them, and then asked me what medications he had prescribed me. That was my last visit to him.
How about Human Capital Contracts?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Capital_Contract

https://www.upstart.com/ and https://www.pave.com/ seem to be startups exploring this market.
Came here to make a very similar comment: I have a friend with Celiac's disease. Wish the fad dieters would stop ruining things for people with actual adverse reactions. That, and people shouldn't be so quick to judge.
Speaking of find\_item, is the `for..else` loop (which can be used to write find\_item in another way) considered Pythonic? I personally like `for..else` loops but I don't know where the consensus is at.
Maybe, but certainly very little land in the United States wasn't taken from someone at the wrong end of a rifle.
Fascinating relevant article: http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/02/toms-kitchen...

TL;DR - The baking industry is using techniques which cause bread to rise so fast that the yeast does not have time to process the gluten. Slower/traditional techniques & rise-times do. The apparent rise in "gluten sensitivity" is consequential to the change from reducing bread rise times from hours to minutes; those who were sensitive (not to the degree of Celiac sufferers) were not exposed to gluten so much in the past because rise times gave yeast a chance to eliminate the problem. Those who are now "gluten sensitive" should try the very slow bread recipe in the article (and everyone else too, it's delicious).
> fresh vegetables, fruit, and some high quality meat

the food industry sells you all of those things...
Obama is definitely partly responsible.

This isn't a party political issue anyway, both the Democrats AND Republicans support this program and have for quite a while. As the article says contractors exist in 45 states, so that's 45 senators who have a vested interest in its future.

This 10,000 pound gorilla has been around for quite a few years before Obama and while it would have been political suicide to try and kill it, it would be interesting to see if Obama could have killed it (since he is in command of the military, but congress actually makes a lot of the acquisition decisions).

I'm sure Obama could have ordered the US military to not buy the F-35 anymore but then what? The contracts still exist and the military's budget is based around those purchases (i.e. the money likely cannot be used for alternatives without approval).
To be fair, almost a half of that NASA budget was used to pay for the Space Shuttle, that was a plane with many technical problems that use suppliers from almost the 50 states to gain political support in the congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program#Budget
Because the fraudster is the son of an MP (member of parliament), and was nabbed in a country that the US doesn't have an extradition treaty with.

List of countries the US does have extradition treaties with: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/71600.pdf
For the wild west of Android html5 hybrid development, fragmentation is a huge problem. Different manufacturers roll different implementations that behave differently. Javascript event propagation varied and broke my app on my last HTML5 project. Luckily, the chrome view will be the default webview from KitKat onwards, but it will take at least two years for 4.4+ to become ubiquitous.
General purpose design tools are again the equivalent of DTP (and very welcome), but not an app solution (unless I have completely misunderstood the audience Macaw is for).
A hypothesis I saw on HN a while ago about the rise in gluten intolerance(+) was that it was actually something else: some other change in the protein composition of wheat (due to GM or hybridization) or its chemical composition after processing is what people are allergic to.

(+)Or at least people reporting health benefits after cutting gluten, and therefore wheat, out of their diet.

Edit: meanwhile someone has posted it to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8009766
They're worried that if they charged $400bil and the government paid with a 400 billion dollar bill, someone could just pocket it. This way, they'd have to make change for $1 billion from the till.
+1 correct. A carrier battle group can't be everywhere, and the immense operational options available to a VTOL contingent make the program viable. I'm a former Navy pilot, and agree that VTOL gets the job done in many tight situations.
I have heard that. If I remember correctly many colleges push for a certain number of publications per year.
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It works fine on my MaChrome. And I got the same '00s feeling.
Yes it really is shameful how bad the VA is. I wish someone would pass a law that would prohibit deploying troops to anymore deployments until we fix the VA.
A lot of what's made the F-35 such a disaster is the Marines' obsession with VTOL/STOVL capability. That requirement and the desire for commonality between the A/B/C models meant that all F-35s had to be designed around a fuselage wide enough to accommodate the lifting fan of the F-35B. That had a direct impact on the reduced maneuverability of the aircraft, pilot visibility, etc.

War is Boring over at Medium has a lot of great coverage of the F-35 program and all the huge missteps and disasters along the way.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring

(When I've recommended them before, I've had someone point out that their coverage is quite biased against the F-35. This is true. That bias does not mean, however, that they're wrong).
Agreed on all counts. However I do find myself using mutables as default arguments sometimes because the generated documentation is clearer.

For example, this is a real method in one of my projects:

def listen(self, address, ssl=False, ssl_args={}):
pass

I like the way this turns up in the docs because it's immediately clear that ssl_args needs to be a dict. Otherwise I have to describe it in words.
Yes that is correct. The default value gets created when the function is interpreted ("compiled").
> Those who are now "gluten sensitive" should try the very slow bread recipe in the article (and everyone else too, it's delicious).

This is a bad idea. If the gluten sensitive individual, which you obviously don't believe in, is having an autoimmune reaction the immune system will kick in. IIRC, it can kick in for 5ng of active material, roughly the same amount of active agent in a vaccine, and will remain active for months.
The backlash comes when party guests insist on a gluten-free option, then decide that a slice of cake 'won't hurt'. So frustrating!
It's pretty difficult to lose tenure (that's the point), but publication volume and quality are pretty much the metric for hiring and promoting faculty. Just like standardized testing at the undergraduate admissions level, it's pretty much inevitable that some people will attempt to game the metric instead of what it's supposed to reflect.
Don't know if this is why, but the list comprehension takes an expression at the "foo(word)" location, and is therefore more general than map, which requires a function. The comprehension in that case is simpler.

words = ['w1', 'w2', 'w3']

[word[1] for word in words]

['1', '2', '3']

map(lambda x: x[1], words)

['1', '2', '3']

I like looking at the list comprehension better. The use of lambda looks forced in this case. I also imagine there's a penalty for calling the (anonymous) function in map.
It's the one company I know of (outside of security-clearance jobs) where you're not allowed to say that you worked there.

Are you sure about this? There are plenty of people on LinkedIn who identify themselves as working at/having workd at RenTech. Furthermore, you can also find on LinkedIn people who identify themselves as having been employed by the various non-profits which carry out govt crypto research.
> Primes is an infinite list of integers containing all prime numbers. It's not a function, it's a value just like any other list of integers.

> You obviously can't do something like that in C++ or most other languages.

While the syntax is different, you can create a value just like any other iterable sequence that happens to be a generator for the infinite series of integers resulting from filtering another infinite series of integers by a particular function (which depends on the previous values of the series) in many, and possibly most, modern languages. (And the example here -- primes -- is pretty much the canonical example for every language.)

Definitely in most of the popular dynamic languages (Ruby, Python, etc.). And plenty of popular static OO languages, too. (Pretty sure both Java and C#, and definitely sure that Scala and other JVM and .NET static languages can.)
> when gluten was removed from her diet her allergies cleared up within a month.

If I was your friend and noticed this change I would also go gluten-free immediately, but I think this sentence really highlights the central problem with the gluten-free fad: This is completely anecdotal evidence and I would be embarrassed to tell everyone "hey I'm gluten free and it works!" just because of a month of lower symptoms that could probably be explained by twenty other things that happened that month.

Call me back after she's spent two years randomizing month-to-month plus/minus gluten and tracking her daily symptoms in a log book, then her opinion about the benefits of being gluten free might be interesting to others.
There's not enough science to support either side in this debate. My guess is that a small percentage of people actually have a gluten intolerance. I also think that modern wheat can cause inflammation and gut problems. Mostly I think that reducing carbohydrates benefits anyone that isn't very active (which includes most Americans). The unfortunate truth is that the food industry is now producing more gluten-free alternatives (breads, beers, etc.), and these alternatives create a bigger insulin response than the originals.
Let out a "what year is this" comment myself when the flash player started loading.

I was able to get it running on Chrome 35/Mavericks, but now that it's loaded I'm not sure what I'm suppose to do... I can see old tweets and their location in relation to ATMs or traffic lights? Woo?
I would assume that the defendants are not going to do a single thing. I highly doubt they are in the united states. the pinkmeth website even makes fun of the "lolsuit". I'm going to guess no response will be given and they will just ignore the whole thing.
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Step-by-step, 'How to sell an idea before you build it'
I don't think that you understand what "processed food" means.

Trimming the fat from meat or washing fresh vegetables is not making "processed food." Seriously, watch the movie. One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. Now, for people who work in the food industry, I understand why people buying fresh food and cooking it themselves is disturbing to them (less profit for the food industry).

Another trick for buying food: use local farmer's markets. A lot of "fresh produce" sold in grocery store chains has been trucked many hundreds or thousands of miles. Buying local is better, in my opinion.
From Wikipedia "In business, economics or investment, market liquidity is a market's ability to facilitate an asset being sold quickly without having to reduce its price very much (or even at all)." That's as much as I know about liquidity, so I am prepared to be enlightened.

If you are an investor (as opposed to an HFT trader), what problem of yours does it solve if you can buy/sell in 1min or 10s or 1s, as opposed to in 0.001s or 0.0012s? If not your problem, then maybe of the society as a whole, or some group within it, excluding those who benefit from HFT trading as such?
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There is a list of references at the bottom of the article.
Few billion here, few billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
Predictive analytic is the thing I'm most interested in right now. Trying to use past data to predict the success of future product launches. I can say that having your data decoupled will save you some major headaches later on.
My company, Radius Networks, does sell different hardware configurations as well as software to broadcast as a beacon.

http://www.radiusnetworks.com/

I really love the USB powered model, especially for something like PunchClock. No batteries means no dead batteries.

http://store.radiusnetworks.com/products/radbeacon-usb

We also released a number of open source projects that can help with projects like this. Including the ibeacon cli (if you are on a mac just `brew install ibeacon`), or if you want more than iOS check out the Android iBeacon Library (https://github.com/RadiusNetworks/android-ibeacon-service).

Sorry for the shameless plug!
Hybrid apps aren't production ready due to performance issues. May be weebkit was fixed in the latest build of Android 4.4, but that excludes the majority of users. The adoption of the newer builds in the android market is much slower than iOS.

Only 18% of users right now have 4.4, for comparison 14% are still using 2.3.
My roommate called gluten free food "liberal bullshit" when he saw me eating (corn) tortilla chips marked as gluten free. He said his bag of chips tastes better, even though his was gluten free too!

There is a convergence of fad diets - gluten free and no carb. Going gluten free is also very compatible with a paleo diet. You can do two or three fad diets at the same time! Was there this much backlash to other fad diets like south beach or Atkins? I really can't recall...

Looking back at what I eat all week, outside of beer and the odd slice of pizza here and there. My diet is basically gluten free and I'm not even trying. Many "gluten free" bashers might be surprised to learn the same thing!
Is there a good resource that discusses the goals and pros-cons of the most stable or popular web frameworks? For both client and server side?
Meh. We need a bucket of cold water poured on us. How much of our highly touted "manufacturing renaissance" was in this boondoggle? It's a situation that deserves ridicule.
oh but it has. in spain and italy, for example, they test kids in school for gluten because so much of their regular diet contains gluten. this mandatory testing has been going on for many years. even the mcdonalds in those countries have gluten free options. we are not at that point yet, here in the us.

what we have going on that europe doesn't are the growing number of people doing it voluntarily/for fun.
I know that Dr. Tom O'Bryan[0] has mentioned it, and the talk with Suzy Cohen in the recent Gluten Summit[1] he helped host discussed it. There may have been more mentions in the summit, but it's been a little while since I last listened to it.

[0]: http://thedr.com/
[1]: http://theglutensummit.com/
I'm glad Google fixed this, but if something is important you really shouldn't be securing it merely by giving it an obscure URL.

Google Drive makes it very easy to say "only these named people" should have access, or "only people who have the link AND a google account for your company"
It happens in most institutions of size where the goal is to control as many people as possible and the incentive is to create even more layers because then you've got "more people underneath you".

GM had/has an amazing number of levels of mismanagement.

Go after multiple solutions. Sure, cut spending, eliminate bureaucracy, but improve the process of improvement as well: Figure out how to make government changes on a smaller and more agile level. Figure out how to make flatten the legal landscape and make it more accessible.
dropbox's referral case can also be mentioned here along with Zynga
My favorite quote from the article/interview: "Its mission is basically: make it easy to package and ship code"
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> to no longer have functions be first class objects?

There are other dynamic languages with functions as first class objects which don't share the "mutable default arguments" gotcha.

But having said that, any change regarding this would break backward compatibility.
My wife and I eat mostly gluten free because we believe that modern wheat (which is really a different food now) causes inflammation in some people. I spend zero time trying to get anyone else to go gluten free, because except for my family I don't much care what other people eat.

My family has done the same thing, mostly, and for the same reasons. We are not zealots about it, though, and we don't go crazy when eating out trying to avoid every last grain of flour that might be used to prepare foods.

As others have pointed out, the "fad" nature of GF means that many restaurants list "gluten free" options while not necessarily realizing that for celiacs, "gluten free" generally has to mean "not prepared anywhere near food that may contain gluten."
How does it compare to Monaco?
The key is object mutability. A list type is mutable and a tuple type is immutable.

If the candidate correctly deduces what will happen, I'll ask them to write a bug-free version, which looks like one of the below:

def append_one(var=None):

var = var or []

var.append(1)

return var

def append_one(var=None):

if var is None:

var = []

var.append(1)

return var

Mutability is a very subtle but very important concept to understand in python. Everyone who uses python for non-trivial code should know it well: https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html
I knew what the expression meant, just wondering why he made that claim.
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Read what I said. The popular meaning is clear enough.

My point was that implying that butchery is not processing food is asinine.

It's like the mantra that some water has "chemicals" in it. It's useful to say that some water has potentially harmful chemicals in it. It's mindless to say that it has chemicals in it.
False. The best programming font is Consolas.
All I know is, my acne went away when I stopped eating wheat.
Correlation != causation and all that but I aint going back because clear skin > bread. (I do miss pizza once in a while)
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Ah, that's actually quite nice, although I suppose it only makes a copy of the text, not of the video & audio, right?
>It would be nice to set the anti-tax-and-spend libertarians against the military budget, but they don't seem interested.

That 'seeming' may stem from your sources of information on those libertarians. Places like lewrockwell.com and the von Mises institute have railed against military spending for as long as I know.
I think it's so the people will say "Oh well, at least it's not $400 million.", and go on with their day. But, it could be your theory too, or may both! :-)
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The code:
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