skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the "y-meter" it's too complex, looks like a loading status instead of "rating meter"

the great thing of HN is that shows the "news" as a links, simple, human brain likes lists, makes easier to follow.

I think that accessibility and reading are the main improvements that can be done and HN needs
> but splitting hairs and asking for both is more bother for the user than it's worth.

Then don't. Be honest and don't ask for personal names at all. Ask for billing information.

The "name" fields in billing forms are not personal names. They're keys by which the billing system can correctly identify the account to access. Don't try to pretend that you know someone's name just because you have their billing information. That's lying.

Especially in cases as simple as a customer who is using someone else's credit card to pay for your service. That name is definitely wrong even if one is John Smith and the other is Jane Doe.
Look for clues to what other people thought of the proof. Did the paper appear at a prestigious conference, etc? Your opinion will probably be predicted by other peoples' opinions.
Not to change the topic but Medicaid is more efficient than private sector insurance?

Most docs I've talked (I talk to a lot through my job), tell that for the most part they lose money on every Medicaid patient they see. Medicaid is efficient because it pays less than the actual costs incurred.

Most docs stay afloat because they see enough commercially insured patients to cover the loss.

I'm certainly not arguing commercial insurance is a finely tuned machine (it's not), but I found the Medicaid claim a little misleading.
This was true to the point that the IWW had slogans about a four hour, four day workweek: http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1...
because it's not very common that this community can potentially pitch in to save lives on an immediate basis, and this happens to be one of those occasions.

those relying on the service should not be penalized by the software development practices of the person who wrote it with the best of intentions, and the opportunity existed for that to be avoided via community outreach (and it worked).
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That number is only so high because it is discussing 10mbps or higher, so it excludes a big chunk of DSL providers as options. If you lower to 6mbps the numbers stay the same (sadly), but if you lower to 3mbps, 97% have access to 2 or more ISPs.

http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013...

here is a direct link to a screencap of the chart:

http://i.imgur.com/xhn1YCF.png
Ah thank you. That's the story I remember!
Not to turn this into a basic income thread, but one concern I would have with it is, what do you do with people who take their $16K and spend it all on drugs or alcohol or gamble it away? Tell them "tough, that's all you get?" and let them die in the street? You'd still need social programs for those who can't/won't take on the responsibilities of daily living.

I don't think many people would have the stomach for that.
NSA Spying Hurts Cybersecurity for All of Us Say Privacy Advocates
Nice to see the exploit finally out.

I gave a talk about the potential for this to happen about a year ago: http://quaxio.com/jsonp_handcrafted_flash_files/
> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari.

This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?
I am compelled to point out the potential for Spoonerism in the first two words of this headline.
Nah, that will just piss me off terribly. Instead, let me translate a recent tweet by some (other) clever Israeli:

I will never forgive the Middle East for making me hate nationalists, while people like me in the rest of the enlightened world have long since moved on to hating capitalists
"...to tens of thousands of members of the New Class"

Well, I mean, they are citizens too. And they are doing work, automatized as it may be. Though their phones may be more useful and cheaper in this function, the way things are currently, they do deserve to be paid more. They do have the responsibility to hand out the checks, and as such, deserve more than those just getting them. With responsibilities must come privileges. How much? I mean, really, in many cases your phone will work just as well. So, what, a dollar more then?

I remember, though I cannot find the citation, a quip about that old Larry Page saying: "The next sexy job in 10 years will be statisticians." He said that in 2003, and sure enough, Nate Silver, for a little while, was the darling of jocks and nerds. The quip was about the next sexy job: Mayors. It boiled down to : "Mayors are the next statisticians. They control the tiny pieces of public codes, regulations, or forms that will be the biggest block to many hit new things getting passed. If you can control some portion of that system, you'll have it made." Though it speaks openly of bribery, it rings a bit true. You can block some new subway tunnel with an environmental impact report, you can control the speed of licenses with long lunches, you can take apart some new start-up or mom and pop deli with a crappy stenographer's report.

Yes, lobbying, I know. But this is more personal. It's not an uber powerful deal maker thing. It's a thing poli-sci majors could do, easily. Just work as a clerk or whatever for a year, and blammo, elected to the dog-catcher's bench with 50 votes and you are the guy we all have to go through to clear a parade or scout meeting in a park. You know, just to make sure the city isn't sued.

You are correct, the long view here is ever increasing bureaucracy, and the key into that kingdom is the law degree.
Very weird one-sided article containing no details of substance, like how the actual projects are going and what has been implemented.
What are your plans for the future? And if it doesn't work out, do you have anything else in mind? Just curious.

Does it get very stressful feeling like you have to live up to everybody's expectations?
"Their speculative approach was essentially unheard-of locally, but the two believed that if they built the office space, tenants would come."

That's awesome; "built it and they will come" - an approach I have recently overcome the fear of, due to them never coming on a couple projects I learned from.

I appreciate how they disliked borrowing in the early stages, too.
Apparently you only get 1GB per day. I've enabled billing now so it's back on its feet.
It may be worth noting that making surveys that actually provide good data, perhaps especially longitudinal data (eg: how does Android popularity change over the period 2014-2024), is both science and art. It's also compounded if you try to collect answers in several languages. See eg:

http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/methodology/improving_qu...
And the point is?

Did anyone else go to college with that person that seemed a little older, seemed to know how to better apply what they were learning, and asked the questions that suggested they had an advanced understanding?

I did. These were guys/gals who got jobs right out of high school and were now getting their degrees. And they spanked the typical undergrads.

So, is article this telling me that this is the worst case from the Thiel Fellows? OK. Great. Next.
Can anyone point to some good/well known mobile games that use procedural content generation?

I can think of AoE and Worms on the PC, and i enjoyed both of these tremendously.
With the isomorphism between proofs and types, most of the stronger guarantees that any static analysis tool can give you are in some sense types. General "smell" type linting stuff, perhaps not.
See, HNers, procrastination habits can be put to good use!
> There's an economic theory that predicted the crisis, and explains it. I.e. ABCT

No. People who like the theory saw real world events that kind of sort of looks like ABCT could explain them, and then made a post facto observation.

Unless Mises et al. made some sort of prediction based upon at the time non-existent financial instruments, ABCT did not predict the 2008 sub-prime financial collapse. Period.

To the extent that ABCT predicted anything, it was a "something bad will happen; not sure when!" with the preconditions in play since about 1980. Color me unimpressed; I bet some random fortune teller got more accurate than that on accident.

Now, maybe some economic philosophers who likes the model applied it, which provided the basis their prediction of actual real world events. I don't know.

But then, proponents of regulation predicted the collapse as well. In fact, a lot of people accurately predicted the (actual) collapse, and to various degrees the cascade effects.

> it's not as clear cut when there's 'crony capitalism' and other market distortions.

"Oh yes, if only the world met all of our Axioms. Then everything would be grand!" said every failed political economic project ever.

> Problems are always going to occur, but because humans are motivated to solve the problems, solutions are found.

And as it turns out, lots of times those people are working in government funded research labs and universities, or applying research funded in those labs and universities.

You'll excuse us mere mortals for drawing such wildly wrong conclusions from something as banal as observation! You see, it's just that we've lost our list Axioms and now our only reference point is reality... perhaps you could lend us your map to drill on?
[quote]He views the Fellows program as a two year education of sorts. “If and when I return to college I can have a new perspective.”[/quote]

I think this is the important bit.

You get the experience of doing something uncommon, the benefit of being with like-minded individuals pursuing their own ideas and dreams... with the benefit of going back to school if you wish, a couple of years older if you want, but with much more real-world experience (to a degree) than those same 2 years spent only at college.

I think the real difference will be made by those that go back to school actually. Not by virtue of spending those 2 years at the Mission house, but by virtue of going back to school, learning whatever skills are necessary to then go produce something taking advantage of both worlds.
How does that scale in filesize if Namecoin had 215 million~ domain names like we have in the current ICANN system? Also, what would the solution be for smartphones, downloading even just a few blocks isn't preferable with phone networks.
Great timing, as I've just started to explore Haskell in the last few days.

First, I really like the style of the new site. My only gripe is that the section with the lecture hall photo and the videos right below it don't seem like an efficient use of prime real estate (and there is no context for the videos, I have no idea what they are or why I would want to watch it. The thumbnails suggest that I'd be clicking on an hour long lecture.). As a new user, I'd rather see the features in this space.
I got that too. I was surprised to realize that I felt ready to completely give up on the language after seeing only that message.
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Hope to hear from HN!
yep, you are not the only one that had that problem

λ foldr (:) [] [1,2,3]

:: Num a => [a]

λ foldr (:) [] [1,2,3]

[1,2,3] :: Num a => [a]
Does it not work properly on Firefox? If so, I bet they'd probably appreciate the feedback on what is broken so they can try to fix it.
I mean not relying on Twitter on communicating your message...
Yes, many of us here at HN were programming before going to university, or instead of going to university, but at Monash we are dealing with our first year intake, not with the typical HN commenter.

I hedge that many of our students have never programmed "with a text editor" before because:

1. Many of them have used spreadsheets in higschool to build quite complex formulas, and spreadsheet formulas are turing complete, so they have programmed in some form of another.

2. I didn't want to discuss this here in order not to muddle the debate, but our introduction to programming course is now ran on Scribble[1], a dialect of the Scratch family. So many of our students in this data structures and algorithms unit have previously done just 12 weeks of programming instruction, and understand many of the concepts, but our unit is the first time that they have to deal with (for instance) syntax errors in textfiles.

Many people here in HN were teaching themselves programming by age 6, but to repeat myself: you are not our first year intake. We teach the students we get. These are not bad students: they are often hardworking and smart, and do well and learn a lot in our unit.

They may be ignorant of programming, but that's also ok, because that's what we're there for. And, to go back to the OP's topic, using Python as a teaching language lowers the barriers for access to the concepts that we really want to teach: complexity and big O, searching and sorting, etc.

[1] http://monofonik.github.io/scribble/
DOWN AND OUT-KING ODIN
Taking the following into consideration:

- The severity of the exploit, which may be nearly the maximum theoretical possibility on a site like Facebook, aside from SQL injection or remote code execution

- The multiple months worth of unpaid sleepless nights Stephen Sclafani likely spent exploring countless dead-ends before finding this

- The fact that he beat black hats to the punch by discovering it first and thus saved Facebook and its users from millions, perhaps billions, of dollars worth of damages stemming from vague and mysterious causes over an indefinite period of time

- The billions of dollars Facebook regularly uninhibitedly spends to acquire a given startup

I feel that $20,000 is a bit low.
It's pretty unlikely that it would be communicable after such a long period without being specifically preserved under controlled conditions.

Live viral vaccines are typically shipped in a preservative and kept on dry ice during transit after which they are kept in a freezer until immediately before administration. This is one of the reasons it's so difficult to vaccinate large swaths of underdeveloped areas.

I can't imagine a vial in a closet could maintain a culture 'on accident' for more than a few months.
"Thiel Fellows are given a no-strings-attached grant of $100,000 to skip college" - thielfellowship.org

"The fellowship is intended for students under the age of 20 and offers them a total of $100,000 over two years as well as guidance and other resources to drop out of school" - Wikipedia

"Everybody believes that you need to go to college... the average plumber makes as much as the average doctor." - Peter Thiel in video interview: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-offers-college-alter...

If the Thiel Fellowship isn't about convincing kids to drop out of college and not go back, someone should tell Peter Thiel and the person that runs the website. :-)

Glad to hear the fellowship is working out great for you, though! I'm not a big fan of college myself.
You've submitted this 3 times in the past few days with impressively blatant attempts at avoiding the dupe detector. There's no need to submit so frequently.
If someone is given the resources they need, and cannot manage them effectively, then they have bigger problems than simple provision of more resources is likely to help with. They can hopefully get the help they need in some more hands-on charity, from friends or family, from mental health programs, or from some other program more targeted at addressing their issues. Which is to say, of course, that yes - some kind of further assistance is eventually necessary in some cases, but let's not drown those cases in people who simply need access to more resources.
Sorry for not being helpful. At least the other comments were so freakin' helpful I heard that they stopped shooting from Gaza. You know, the opinion of Internet people matter.
Agreed. That punctuation almost disappears depending on the angle of my laptop screen.
Good advice but I'd quibble with a few points.

#2 should be based on actual knowledge of what lawyers, that work in jobs similar to the one you are likely to end up in, do. Your colleague that's sold his last start-up for eight figures has a lawyer spouse that works at a small not-profit for 35 hours a week working on issues of internet freedom. That's not a relevant data point for you unless you too have such a spouse. More explicitly, if you fall into category #3 (outside the HT) you should know what BigLaw is like and want to do that. Because that's where you are going to go if you want to pay off that debt.

Speaking of category #3 T14, which always manages to be 16-17 schools, it is a too broad in my opinion. Yale is in a class by itself and opens doors that are difficult or impossible to open otherwise. Harvard Law has the most generous loan forgiveness program I've ever seen. To be honest I don't know much about Stanford Law, but that's usually included in the Holy Trinity. Beyond that, if you get no money, you really should consider the schools on an individual basis based on where you want to practice and what you want to do. Many should really be put into the #4 (scholarship) or #5 (regional powerhouse) rule.

Regarding #4, a full ride only covers around 2/3rds of the financial cost and none of the opportunity costs. I'd restrict this category quite dramatically (though keeping in mind #5) to maybe 30 or 40 schools including the t-14, and exclude schools that have several higher ranked competitors in the same city (sorry Fordham).

Finally, I'd add one more category -- people with a fair amount of experience in a particular industry that know exactly how a law degree will help them advance in that industry and can easily slot back in. Some people I went to law school with that would qualify along those lines were real estate developers and talent agents.
Even more so in this area with http://SparkFun.com/ who had to deal with issues arising from having a name with "spark" in it: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/300
...and into the hands of those who got rich selling stuff to the very same people?
then you can share :D
Most one-runners do this to keep the gameplay fresh and unpredictable (tiny wings, canabalt, temple run)
On all the Japanese devices I've used, emoji input is a separate "keyboard" (or rather a different mode in the standard keyboard).

Some Japanese keyboards will sometimes suggest emoji during input conversion (the normal kana->kanji step), but it's a somewhat haphazard way of inputting them, and it's often easier just use the dedicated emoji input. The reason seems fairly clear to me: many emoji encode nuances that don't map easily to single words or small compounds in a way that's easy for a user to predict...

[My old non-smart phone would suggest some emoji during input conversion (e.g. if you convert "ねこ", it would suggest "🐱" and "(=^ェ^=)" as well as "猫"), but my current (Japanese) Android phone doesn't seem to do any of that at all (using the vendor Japanese keyboard); to input emoji you need to use the emoji input... :]
According to https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security SPV relies on the trust of your ISP. When nodes send you the blockchain data, is that an encrypted transfer or open to MITM?
promise????
Weston's RDP backend supports any resolution as well as being a separate session, so it's coming. It's basically an X limitation.
Yes, children on both sides were killed in the last several days, and yes, the residents of Gaza are certainly worse off -- as they have been for the past many decades -- than most Israelis (mostly through no fault of Israel's). I really wish this conflict would end as soon as possible, and I'm actively trying, in my very modest civilian capacity, to advance a peaceful resolution. But let me assure you that no genocide is taking place.
The irony of pointing out that Wikipedia lacks perfect credibility and then citing twitter posts as a source!

Those pictures under the #GazaUnderAttack are often fake (e.g. from other conflicts, such as Syria) as pointed out by the BBC [1] just yesterday.

Twitter posts are about as useful and hysterical (and in the literal meaning, not funny) as YouTube comments and for the large part do nothing to promote useful discussion or accurate reporting.

More to the point, why are you politicizing a discussion that so far has been thankfully apolitical?

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-28198622
Project Jupyter: language agnostic IPython platform
FYI HN people don't line sarcasm or irony on the portal. I still try to figure it out why... Any time I see this, I kinda feel like:

http://www.hdwallpapers.in/walls/why_so_serious-wide.jpg
That's generally the same in Danish, although one historical tidbit to add to it is that the aa->å respelling in Danish happened only in 1948. With that spelling reform, all normal words using 'aa' as a digraph were respelled to use 'å', so for example "cemetery" went from "kirkegaard" to "kirkegård". The latter is now the standard spelling, and "kirkegaard" would only be accepted in situations where it's a technical necessity (e.g. using 7-bit ASCII).

If that had been done across the board, Danish would be easy to sort, since the only digraph would have been eliminated, replaced with an atomic character. However the reform was not made mandatory for personal names; people could choose to retain the 'aa' or switch to 'å', and many retained the traditional spelling (the traditional spelling was also retained for historical figures). There was some discussion about officially reforming the names of cities to use the new 'å' spellings, but both Aarhus and Aalborg (the 2nd- and 3rd-largest cities) strongly objected. So placenames were not reformed (unless a specific locality opted in). You do occasionally see the spellings Århus and Ålborg, especially in writing closer to the time of the reform, but those spellings didn't catch on.
The Thiel Fellowship still needs a success story. It is in its early stages. All it will take is a single fellow that accomplishes something revolutionary and cool to completely change public perception of this program.
"Is there an army of federal lawyers involved in distributing that money? Probably more like some code in some program."

I don't know the degree to which this is the case with EITC, but automation doesn't mean there aren't armies of lawyers involved - they may be engaged fighting over the shape of that code.

(They may, of course, not be. There being automation doesn't imply their presence either.)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/27/environment.sci...

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-speed-of-hypocrisy-how-...