skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So its POST to their server, then GET is generated to AMZ, if I understand correctly?

Also, would you say chrome developer tools is the lightest/most accessible way for the general public to inspect for such a thing?

EDIT: TY, schrodinger. That turned out to be a tab in Dev Tools that I just hadn't dug into before. No need to install anything!
I certainly cannot think of a single site that produces professional content without income. I did not say without ads. Ads do mean, however, that I don't have to pay sites directly and the value I get is well in excess of the value I pay by providing ad impressions.

Economics is not a hard subject. Stop being a reductivist. Or stop being a sneering jerk (and let's not pretend you aren't trying to pick a fight with your tone, 'kay?). Both not-reductivist and not-sneering-jerk would be nice, though.
Maybe because the H1B process right now isn't too great?
Sure, but add power and cooling for these things plus physical space? (I remember when these big db's needed the floors in the data centre reinforcing since they were a > metric ton )

Still, I agree re. the difference in price. I'd buy too
> Her move to Stockholm, she said, is motivated in part by the cultural acceptance of women in science there. “On the entire planet, as far as I can tell, the best place for a woman to do science is Scandinavia,” she said.

Am I wrong to think that Sweden is as wonderfully progressive as it seems?
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The two things that are useful than jumping.

1. A same-page search on the sidebar so I don't have to switch tab to search and open new links.

2. Split screen to read code like my terminal does.

I've always wanted browser be able to split screen instead of tabs. This add on is quite promising from the demo.

Bravo.
I'd like a good dashboard for my life.
Apple gets patent on iTime smartwatch
I don't see how? One global write lock means a single instance can't update multiple ranges at a time, so determining consensus and writing from multiple peers would just take a long time for no reason. The whole point of an SSI MVCC is to get around difficult locks....

If Moore's law holds, a single SSD will outgrow the address space in around 7 years. In four years, an array of eight disks would outgrow the address space. This is just for a single server. If you want a linearly-scaling, robust solution for future requirements (like multi-petabyte and exabyte distributed datastores), there's no reason to lock yourself into technology that'll be obsolete in half a decade.

(edit: SanDisk says it may release 8TB SSDs next year, also adding "We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs")
The app is free today and will change to paid ($0.99) tomorrow. I wanted to get downloads and hopefully climb in the rankings when launching.

That said, I built the app mostly for fun and learning, so making money -- while a nice bonus -- isn't the main motivator.
Sounds like it's quite the artful balance between procedurally generated and manually curated content.

A bit (but just a little) more information can be found here:
http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2014/06/25/crafting-the-endless-...
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Private insurance has always had the chance of being cheaper if you could get it - COBRA's advantage was in cases with preexisting conditions.

Since this is in the context of COBRA, the ACA has something called a Qualifying Life Event that includes changes in income, family size and state of residence. With those, there's a good chance you'll qualify for a Special Enrollment Period and be able to purchase coverage (though you might still keep COBRA for a month until the new coverage kicks in).

There may also be some limitations on the non-exchange catastrophic plans that will curtail their availability in the future - I haven't paid attention to this, but one of the "Obamacare killed my insurance coverage!" issues was that the ACA mandated certain minimum levels of coverage or service and the plans that were being killed off were ones that didn't meet those minimums. After the outcry I believe there were some deadline extensions to grandfather in existing plans, but those will end at some point.
We offered a password-free option but it was too complicated (and thus, the users preferred the current option). We'll likely add the other option in the future (but only as an addition to the current option).
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They are sliimming down, not replacing them by outsourcing to cut costs.
I am working on a full procedural generation engine (not like minecraft, but it does use voxels at a much higher resolution). Wrote up an overview of how it works, if you are interested:
http://www.voxelquest.com/news/how-does-it-work
Avro is self describing [1]. It embeds the schema of whatever it is describing inside the format so a reader can handle arbitrary avro serialized files. It is also cross platform. I'm not sure if avro maps can cache keys, but if you use a record type the keys are not stored in the data. As far as I know though, avro cannot handle custom types, so those will need customized importers and exporters.

[1]: http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/
... and you are also the filecoin person, yes ?

If you have some spare time, could you solve that power inverter / solar panel challenge that's on the front page currently ? Thanks in advance.
That's what makes it better than the Warby Parker virtual try on. There you were missing the right scale for the glasses.
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I like to grab 100s of pieces of unattended plywood & two-by-fours from a junkyard or not-too-dilapidated forest horror cabin or something and drag them back to my house. Then I assemble them using hammer & nails, or I climb up a tree and nail them across some branches. You will need a hotspot for wifi & a tarp to protect u & ur laptop in case of rain while u are sitting up there.

Some hip ppl might try to use a makerbot or w/e but to get any kind of height on the platform u will need a LOT of plastic.
Definitely not alone.

At the Google IO Android Fireside Chat, a developer asked the Android team about using an alternative to Java for development - Scala in his case. Pretty much 'no' was the response. But don't Google have any taste. Kotlin or Xtend imo are lighter than Scala and would be good fits for Android.
tbh this happens to me more often in chrome than firefox these days..
i do get slowdowns in firefox when some tabs are loading tho. but the complete freeze in chrome is when the ui or something goes wrong, its rarely a single tab (which doesnt really happen in firefox)
Please note that when switching an app between free and paid, your position in the rankings resets. If you get 1 million free downloads, and change your app to paid the next day, none of those downloads count in the paid charts ranking algorithm. (At least, in the past it hasn't)
By the way, GOG offers downloads of Witcher 1 and 2 for anyone who purchased the game elsewhere (retail, Steam, etc.) not just for those with that problem: https://secure.gog.com/witcher/backup

The company which develops the Witcher series (CD Project Red) actually owns GOG.
There is another company already doing this: http://myhealthdirect.com/. (Disclosure: I did some consulting work for them).
The men are usually represented in the same way. Muscular, Agile, etc.
A mentor of mine, David Kathan, said something more colorful, "Of course, you can have a baby in a month if you use 9 women". People should read Mythical Man Month more.
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Is it just me or is Amazon launching new services at an exponentially faster clip these days? In my mind, they're really starting to separate themselves from the other tech powerhouses in terms of integrated innovation.
I've noticed that when I click a line number, it correctly highlights the line and updates the URL as usual, but it also scrolls the code view to the top, which is probably not desired.
In general, WebGL can't be as efficient as a good native implementation because it has to do more validation for security reasons. However, the quality of OpenGL drivers differs so much in the real world across vendors and operating systems, that the difference to WebGL is lost in the noise (e.g. a WebGL app on Windows can be close to a native GL app on OSX, I'm not even joking).
Without trying to be too critical, it's strange hearing the term "algorithm" get a lot of use nowadays. Example: this BBC article fom 2011 about "When algorithms control the world", with phrases like http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-14306146

I suppose it's the natural evolution after "programs" and "apps" became mundane things and data science became more prominent, but the way these articles talk about them with no detail makes me think that they might as well describe algorithms as some mysterious fairy-like substance that causes magical things to happen.
Your comment is hurting people. It hurts the developers, based on at best subjective and at worst ignorant evidence. And it lowers the quality of discussion because people end up having to address your culturally poor behavior rather than the topic at hand.

Being mindful isn't hard.
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I know a guy on the Entity Framework team who started working for Microsoft at the age of 19. He already had his BS in CS as well. I went to school with him.

I don't know what this guy's situation was but I imagine there many young & smart individuals at MS.
Holy shit, I guess I'm getting a PS4.

I suspect--or hope, at least--that they've built meshes that can be combined in a myriad of ways, so by combining the hundreds or thousands of combinations you can get millions of animal or plant types.
Actually, if you experience a "qualifying event" such as job loss, marriage, or having a baby, you can enroll under something called a Special Enrollment Period. (Private group employer plans also have open enrollment and qualifying event enrollment). For example, https://www.healthcare.gov/screener/marketplace.html?state=V...
I think what you mean is that DRM is like the police, and bad DRM is like a police state. The police are there to enforce what you can and cannot do. Do they stop 100% of people? No. Bad people can get away with bad things that good people can't, just like pirates can break pretty much any DRM system. But in a normally functioning society, good (normal) people don't really notice that the police are there. They understand the rules and they try to stay within the rules. The rules mainly prohibit things they wouldn't have done anyway, like cheating in a multiplayer game or distributing the game to hundreds of other people for free. That's not infringing their rights in any way, I'm sure you can agree. This is how Steam works.

However, bad DRM exists. You have to authenticate to their servers every time you play, you have to stay online all the time even in a single player game, if their server goes down you lose your games, they can take your games away from you whenever they want. The DRM is noticeable from the beginning because of the bureaucracy the lack of trust that comes with it. You're being punished just for the fact that you exist. You have to install rootkits or shut down/uninstall programs on your computer. There's no benefit to you other than the fact that, after they have been satisfied, they let you play the game. That DRM is like a police state. That DRM, however, does not describe all DRM. This DRM describes Sony's DRM, or SecuROM DRM, or Games for Windows Live.

See the difference (probably not)? I know I'm wasting my time, you've made it clear that your opinion won't be changed, but just know that not everyone agrees with you. Steam is DRM, and that's not a bad thing. You can have a local police department without existing in a police state.
> The CBV class hierarchy is complex enough that someone had to make this site to help everyone keep them straight: http://ccbv.co.uk/

It's funny how your comment compromises OOP - even in Django class-based views make things complicated :)

Anyway, I didn't mean that Django doesn't use OOP at all or forbids you to do so, but rather that it provides another approach (mostly procedural) and pretty successfully. Most people outside the OOP dome actually know that this paradigm is good for particular tasks. But what people under the dome don't know is that there are many other approaches that work not worse, and often even better than OOP.
Safe Browsing (except for downloads) is handled by downloading a list of blacklisted sites (that's what the 15MB urlclassifier database in your profile is for). Unlike some other browsers, Firefox doesn't send every pageview to Google for analysis.

Edit: Since I last read the API documentation, a lookup API has also been added; Firefox does use this API, but only to avoid false positives:
https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/ https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...

And if Firefox is really sending everything I type in my address bar to Google, why am I not seeing any of the benefits (i.e. autocomplete)?
"most patients don’t call, don’t get the follow-up they need, get sicker, and return to the emergency room which strains hospital and health insurer resources"

I suppose this is a USA only problem? In europe pts get an appointment on discharge. Of the people who fail to show (~5-10%) get called which leads to a fail to show of ~1%. Of this group a small percentage has relevant pathology and these pts. are of the doctor avoidant type mostly low social-economic class.

I would like to see some numbers to support their claims. Of course I welcome the idea of improving healthcare information systems. They are notoriously slow, inefficient, insecure and outdated. Only good one I've worked with is EZIS. I don't know why change is so slow but it probably has something o do with money and fear of change and all the problems which come with it.

I've never used an information system which made it easy to look in to stored data and find ways to improve health practice. Analysis software for healthcare is/would/will be a big thing I hope.

Sorry for bad english.
My friend and I recently encountered a similar situation -- we decided to put out a mobile game together, and we have a third friend that we knew was interested in joining the project. He could have given us lots of ideas, but little or no productivity.

My test for deciding if you want to bring an 'idea man' along is this:

Imagine that you and your friend -- the idea man -- work together at a nice day job. You both make a good salary. One day, your boss tells you that he wants to fire your friend (who wouldn't take a pay cut) unless you're willing to take a pay cut. Your have two choices: (1) take the pay cut, or (2) your friend gets fired. How big does that pay cut have to be before you let your friend get fired?

For me, it's less than $1,000/yr. I love my friends dearly, but I'm not going to pay a buddy just to hang out at work and keep me entertained.

Unless your friend's idea is going to make you wealthy enough that you no longer have to work, then you probably don't want to give him 5% of your company just to be your friend.
>> Am I wrong to think that Sweden is as wonderfully progressive as it seems?

There are advantages/disadvantages with everything.

A consensus culture where the boss goes around and talks to people before setting goals is very different for Americans. Like all other cultures it works better for some areas, worse in others.

Think politically correct, group oriented. (Have you seen that anywhere else?)

Edit: Let me paraphrase it like this: "The worst of worlds, the best of worlds". Let me give an example. It isn't good for someone to have the "wrong" opinions on some sensitive point in a consensus culture; a low roof. [The Swedish term is "the opinion corridor", i.e. that only a small bandwidth of opinions are tolerated.]

Edit 2: I think that was the first time in my life I've seen the Stockholm people described as "friendly". :-)
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I think that is likely the winning path. When I first looked at this that was my approach, basically a flat sheet of copper with the inverter laid out on top of it. Basically a 10 x 16" copper heatsink with holes in it where vertical components sat, capton tape on the back flex circuit and D9 packaged semiconductors on the other. My battlebots motor controller (which really was just a 24DC to 24V PWM converter at 200amps[1] which was in the ball park (power wise) but FETs don't really like operating at really high voltages so I was looking at an IGBT version.

As I was more concerned with power dissipation early on, more surface area is great for convection.

[1] http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/robotics/projects/esc2/index.ht...
I think that they would have figured that the Soviets changed something between the production and displayed item. You can't categorically say that it couldn't work. AFAICT, Intel work is rarely that certain.
Have created something similar enabling cross referenced search both from code and diffs as well at https://tixef.com. Indeed the ability to slice into the details of an implementation can be quite useful for actually understanding the code.

Good job making it a browser extension! The low impact install can build on the individual's desires for a better experience.
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> Instead you embed a reference to the schema in the message

AKA XML DTD
But you're guilty of assuming your conclusion.

You have a model of the brain. You do not have a model of the mind. You assume that by simulating a brain with significant details, a simulated mind will emerge. I find that's a big pill to swallow.
We're in the process of installing PV right now, so I've been looking into this recently. The micro inverter solution is better when there's partial shading, but the micro inverters do not have higher efficiency than the string inverters. If anything, the assertion seems to be that they actually will have lower efficiency because they generally operate at higher temperature, being up on the roof.

And contrary to the idea about string inverters needing thicker wires, because the AC wiring runs at 240V but the PV DC cabling typically runs at 400-600V, you need larger wires for the micro inverter solution. (But in either cases, resistive losses in the wires are pretty negligible, tenths of a percent in our case.)
As someone who's tried to make a simple version of minecraft as a hobby project I think I can shed some light.

At its core, procedural engines are built on generating different kinds of noise and then filtering and combining them to produce the types of values that you want.

The values you are looking for depend on how you model the different elements of your world.

As an example, in my game I wanted to generate regions consisting of different types of terrain. I ended up using voronoi noise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram) to split the terrain into regions and then used the cell value as a multiplier for how bumpy the terrain was. The bumpy terrain was generated from smoothing regular white noise. The amount of smoothing was random too so you could have smooth hills or jagged mountains.

As you can see, you can kinda go wild with it.
It seems the form submit is being cancelled by the "return false" in the onsubmit, meaning that the form won't be posted normally and that method="post" irrelevant.

The connect_amazon2() must be making the GET request.
hahah thanks :) I wish I understood physics + matsci well enough. danifong does though! Maybe we can convince her to make something.
Hopefully this isn't too spoilerish, but this reminds me of the scene in Transformers 4 where that one guy screams, "Algorithms! ... Math!" :P
So I'm confused, are you in favor of the transit way or against it?
Using the Chrome Dev Tools, you can record the network requests that occur using the Timeline tab.

It's actually using GET to their server and something unknown to Amazon (that would most likely be server to server and not accessible over Javascript).

Although the method on the form is POST, it has an onsubmit handler which calls the connect_amazon2() JS function (which makes a GET AJAX request on line 311) and then returns false, preventing the form from being submitted.

Yes, the Chrome Dev Tools are probably the easiest way to take a look at this type of information. I actually used Safari, but Chrome's tools are much easier to use.
BoardRounds cofounder here - great idea! We do in fact integrate with various service providers (including appointment scheduling APIs) when arranging followup care.

We definitely want to leverage existing services as much as possible, not reinvent the wheel. Appointment scheduling is the most common follow-up intervention, but there are other services we recommend and can provide, and our goal is to partner with other providers for those where possible.
> I think what you mean is that DRM is like the police, and bad DRM is like a police state.

I see any DRM as bad / police state like.

Policing can be good when it serves the proper purpose and doesn't cause other problems. Overreaching policing is bad however. I.e. preventing crime in general is good. Putting police surveillance in every home to do that is bad. I already explained above why any DRM is always overreaching. I.e. presumption of guilt and violating one's digital space. In case of Steam, its DRM is run on your computer, so it's analogous to putting policing mechanisms in your own house.

What kind of DRM does not have these characteristics? I know of none. DRM is defined as such, and as such is always bad.
You can download it from here http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=51074 It's been updated to run more reliably (edit: on Vista) but I can't find a version that will run on Win7.

Edit: I found a similar one on Shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lsf3zr
Thanks for the heads up; seems like there was a layout issue that did not affect Chrome. Should be fixed now.
You're assuming people at Megacorps are working hard. They go home exhausted, but not because they exerted 100% of their mental capacity on solving problems for the company.
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Yep. Should have expressed that it is non-linear.
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I agree.

This seems more like a good example of the kind of mistakes/challenges that an inexperienced manager would encounter.

People are people, which is to say that people will always attempt to game the system, in one way or another. The keyword here being "attempt". Strong and experienced leadership should be capable of not only managing the human nature of the workforce and help bring out people's best, but also have enough experience to understand how to maintain the integrity of the company's culture. There is no perfect system for structuring a group of human beings. You have to deal with things as they come up.
Surveillance will occur to the extent that we allow it to. Spies gonna spy. If we have a problem with that then we have to learn to secure our devices and we need to deploy user friendly end to end encryption for the masses. And we need trustworthy, open implementations of critical infrastructure... baseband (software radios, mobile protocols), drivers, etc.

It's 2014 and I still can't get an decent open source workgroup switch let alone a complete cell phone and base station to go with it. ASOP, OpenBTS, and the Wedge are encouraging, but none of these are enough.

Anyone remember the anti-sec movement? Well, they got what they wanted. Nobody discloses anything good for free anymore. Pretty much all the 0 day is now in the hands of established power, just another tool of control in their increasingly well equipped tool belts. The rest of us are either completely defenseless, or mostly defenseless and paying by the hour. I hope they're happy with how it's all turned out.