skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can do that, but it's pretty obvious that if you want garbage collection everywhere, you're not going to use a language with linear types and optional, pretty much discourage GC, and write type synonyms all over the place (or fat signatures), you're going to go for a language where it's natural.
I think this is a problem with "markdown-style" HTML editing in general. Sites that use it seem to think that using their special markup language is somehow easier for newbies to use than vanilla HTML, just because it doesn't have angle-brackets.

IMHO, markdown etc. solve one problem only: when you need to have text that is easily readable by humans, but can also be easily converted to HTML. In a content-entry situation, it just seems to solve the problem of saving keystrokes for people that already know HTML.

What I think average users really need is a WYSIWYG editor (which, I'll be the first to admit, is a real PITA for generating sane HTML).
Since when did they ever? Was this really a thing? It seems to have come and gone without affecting me or anyone I know.
Generally yes, but neuroplasticity does in fact exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
In my experience The Internet in general will argue about anything.
The Lustre filesystem is able to use ZFSOnLinux for its OSDs. This gives it end to end checksum capabilities that I am told enabled the Lustre developers to catch buggy NIC drivers that were silently corrupting data.

Alternatively, there is a commercial Linux distribution called SoftNAS that implements a proprietary feature called snap replicate on top of ZFS send/recv. This is allows it to maintain backups across availability zones and is achieved by its custom management software running the zfs send/recv commands as per user requests.

In the interest of full disclosure, my 2014 income tax filing will include income from consulting fees that SoftNAS paid me to prioritize fixes for bugs that affected them. I received no money for such services in prior tax years.
Barriers to entry such as wiki markup are rarely about whether a group of people are theoretically capable of doing something. The larger problem is that an article about [x] will now only be started/improved by the cross-section of people who both care about [x] and are willing to spend time on the unrelated concept of wiki markup.
This is my experience as a current student at an predominately engineering/technology university. Our career fairs are very large and almost all junior/seniors attend. Its been growing steadily every year as well. That's not to say that companies don't try to get a head start (for example, tons of companies are having lawn events and other informationals, which really just mean they want resumes from interested students, for a few weeks before the actual career fair), but the career fair is definitely the central employer-student communication venue.
I don't know the degree of it, but malpractice suits and insurance are only going to be a portion of the costs that frivolous lawsuits incur. Costs would also arise from running tests to strengthen a legal defense rather than for medical reasons, and those numbers are going to be harder to pull out.
1) This got quite a few upvotes in the hour it's been up.

2) Shouldn't this be in the September "who's hiring?" post rather than a standalone post? I'm relatively new here but that was my understanding of the etiquette.
They are very common at universities which, I think, was the focus of this article.
How Google’s Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test
Dropping out seems to work if one had significant programming experience before getting to college.
I guess this only works if you have a cell phone plan with unlimited SMS. Otherwise you're looking at a phone bill of thousands of dollars!
City of Turin decides to ditch Windows XP for Ubuntu and €6m saving
Anyone knows what happened to Flipboard? It was demoed in the keynote, but it's not listed here.
Breaking Sequential Habits of Thought (2009) [pdf]
A highlight from the text:
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When the internet arrived, it seemed to promise a liberation from the boredom of industrial society, a psychedelic jet-spray of information into every otherwise tedious corner of our lives. In fact, at its best, it is something else: a remarkable helper in the search for meaningful connections. But if the deep roots of boredom are in a lack of meaning, rather than a shortage of stimuli, and if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning, then the constant flow of information to which we are becoming habituated cannot deliver on such a promise. At best, it allows us to distract ourselves with the potentially endless deferral of clicking from one link to another. Yet sooner or later we wash up downstream in some far corner of the web, wondering where the time went. The experience of being carried on these currents is quite different to the patient, unpredictable process that leads towards meaning.
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I'd imagine that most of us on HN could relate.
"We don't know enough about the human body to be able to accurately do this. Might help for initial tests (and already does, I'd imagine), but you still always need clinical trials."

Trials are expensive per successful drug less because individual trials cost a lot, and more because you're dividing a non-insignificant cost by a low rate of success. If simulations let you avoid 10% of unnecessary trials, that's a substantial savings.

(Which means that the pharmaceutical companies are probably already working very hard at this...)
"ignores the rest"

by "rest", I assume you are a scientologist talking about theatans.

"This is a quite big assumption, and has none to do with describing "the world as it is"."

I disagree, my favorite thing about the scientific method is that it does its best to drop assumptions. I am not a scientist, but resort to this kind of thinking when I have to debug code. Suggest a better way and I will try it out.
I thought Netflix cut off all new API access? Can you give an overview of how this works?
I voted you up. What you say is disturbing and true. American medicine treats the symptoms and intentionally strings people along rather than cure the underlying cause. There is no profit in curing cancer -- only in the treatments. I'm convinced of this after having a few people I dearly loved die in the American medical system. We need more of a system whereby our taxes are used solely for the good of the people -- to improve our lives. It's sad, really. As much money as the US has, we could have the highest standard of living on the planet, but we're nowhere near that because of greed on the parts of tax-dodging corporations, greedy capitalists, and a whole host of other reasons.
Wow, thanks for this bit of history. I learned a few things about my town today!
No they won't!
I think it's likely that they're writing a runtime for dalvik to run on chromeOS, which, is essentially 'merging' though now you're just arguing semantics.
Little Bobby Tables comes to life for real, in Poland
The former group also ignores countries like India and Singapore, and pretend that there is just one kind of health-care system everyone else uses, sometimes calling vaguely calling it "single-payer." People like Ezra Klein desperately try to correct these people, to no avail.

And after all, why should they care to learn the facts? All they need is enough buzzwords to call the other side stupid on message boards, and they are perfectly happy.
Food truck is interesting because you can move to your customers. Yet costs still apply. So I would say its the same thing.

I don't have experience with a brewery. I would treat a brewery the same way I would treat developing a retail product.
It was mentioned several times. Did you not read it?
Does having a PCI-E tunnel mean we might see high-resolution USB 3.1 docks that aren't stuck with proprietary, encrypted, DisplayLink protocols, and thus, open source support?

Because I'd sure love that.
To add to other excellent comments refuting this line of reasoning - brains are not rocks, they are very complex systems, and the more complex something gets the more delicate it is, i.e. even a tiny chance has a chance to alter behavior of the system in significant ways.

As an illustration, think of your computer. If you open it up and remove one RAM die, it will most likely run fine, albeit slower. Were you to introduce a "tiny difference", say, swap two pins on a die, you risk getting everything from machine not booting up, to crashing constantly, to running fine but spewing out nonsense and corrupting data every now and then. Were you to introduce a little bigger change - say, saw the die in half, you'll likely fry the whole machine.
Emergency internet for twitter/fb? :)
I'm posting from a ChromeBook pixel running at 2560 x 1700, and the UI looks great. The taskbar, UI, fonts, etc. are all scaled perfectly.

Have you tried running at 2560 x 1700 on the most up-to-date version of ChromeOS? Some of the issues you had may have been fixed in more recent Chrome releases.
Hey, thats a great idea! We went ahead and just added it to our json file, as "category_order". :)
This is amazing! truly great explanation in the related blog post here http://willdrevo.com/fingerprinting-and-audio-recognition-wi... Does anyone know of a good explanation of locality sensitive hashing? I know there are other applications.
Ah, I understand now. I read your original comment as "Pink Lady is a bunch of different kinds of apples, all under one label".
Interesting, if rather woolly, little essay. The subversion of adult authority, especially male authority, in media is an interesting topic, though it has (as Scott notes) been happening for a long time. Before it was the successful father figure, it was something else that succumbed to a good hard look that asked whether it had any actual authority, or whether we were choosing to submit to it. That goes back a long, long way.
We have no less that 60 different web services that we use in our business. The last thing I need to have happen is for one of my apps to stop working. Send me an email and tell me somethings wrong.
I agree that it's not necessarily a step backwards in the sense of quality of writing or plot, but I do think the subject matter makes a difference. The detective stories, espionage tales, or even the Harlequin Romance novels were different in that although certainly pulpy and low-brow, the characters were _adults_ facing (moreless) adult situations...not wizards, demons, and dragons.
In the OSZE PISA studies women/girls are better than their male counterparts in reading comprehension in every single country in the studies.
This post was penalized by the voting ring detector, but we turned that off because we want to see original work on HN and because there's a genuine discussion here.

All: please don't try to promote your submissions to HN by getting friends to upvote them. If friends are trying to do you a favor, try to call them off. The HN software identifies most of this as voting ring activity and penalizes the story.
How does news from three days ago get up-voted to the front page?
Not really. 1 SMS = Request URL, so depending how many URLs do you request results the bill.
Maybe they realize it's a personal waste of time. Obviously wikipedia does great good for society. But making sure an article on wikipedia is correct ranks pretty low on the hierarchy of one's needs in life.

Maybe it's just my personal experiences but I've found women to have a better grasp on what's important and not important to their own life. They have more perspective, if that makes sense. Men on the other hand will kill themselves trying to win an argument and forget their whole lives while doing it.
something like this is done comparing monthly sums from a previous year with the current, to qualify the impact a campaign had in numbers. doing the difference you get the tendency for this year, and check if the actual result diverges from the tendency after the event.
> And don't even get me started on "pre-existing conditions". What that means for me is constantly lying to doctors

I don't know if it's a good idea. I have a related anecdote: My mother forgot (or omitted) to mention a pre-existing condition when she contracted a mortgage insurance. She died a few years later from causes totally unrelated to the pre-existing condition. Somehow, the insurance company found out and legally canceled the insurance.
Elon Musk’s Secret Plan to Conquer the Universe
Still a serious problem. Transparency is still a unique property but decentralization is important for a variety of reasons. In the end-game the miners will be important to processing of transactions. If there is only a few major players with necessary infrastructure because everyone has giving up on mining then that will give them immense power over the currency. Its for reasons like this that bitcoin might not survive the crypto-currency wars.
I've written similar code, but using image processing algorithms. You can find it here:

https://github.com/jminardi/audio_fingerprinting
At what age do members of the opposite sex look best to men and women
That assumption does not exist. Science will measure and model things without material foundation just as readily. Unless 'material' means 'able to be measured'. Science doesn't really putt around with things you can't measure.
I think this is the point that's really missing; that it isn't just the person and the environment need to match, as though the environment is some immutable thing. As a manager, you have to notice when your "A" players are falling and change things if necessary. You can change the environment to make more "A" players out of your team. Though, sadly, more often management winds up making "B" players out of "A" players. Or making ex-employees out of them.

By the way, there is a counter-argument. The true "A" players are go-getters who bring about organizational change, who seek out challenges in an unchallenging environment, etc. The "B" players aren't demotivated by bad management, a hostile environment, lack of freedom or respect - they're people who are just naturally unmotivated, lazy, etc.

I hate that argument, of course. It suggests motivation and productivity is just some innate, immutable trait. And ultimately, it exists to excuse managerial failings.
Age is one of the big issues. The brain's fairly good at routing around problems when you're young and the brain's flexible; it's why young polio patients were able to learn to walk again even after spending months in an iron lung. When you get older, because there's a lot more well-established connections, the brain becomes less capable of adapting to sudden loss of functionality.
I absolutely agree. I'm kind of selfishly pleased that my comment triggered you to share your war stories.

But I do hope that by publicly sharing what manufacturers are like to work with it prods them to be more open to the community in the future.

Or if not, that at least I can steer designers toward those companies that are easy to work with, and let market forces do the rest.
This really reads like cyber combat. It feels like neuromancer is dawning fast. Scammer groups aren't discouraged by legal means, they are discouraged by the possibility of losing control of their infrastructure. That's beautiful in its own way.
> I think you mean how evil semi-socialized, heavily regulated medicine really is. India's medical system is as close to free market health care as I've ever encountered.

> You walk into a hospital, ask the price, pay it. If you don't like the price, you can go to a different hospital and ask them. If you have insurance, you send them the bill afterwards.

Yeah, it looks great from the perspective of rich people like yourself. It's not so great from the perspective of many of India's poor people, especially in rural areas, who cannot afford the market rate.
Price transparency is the one thing I would have liked to see from ObamaCare. They should have mandated to open up all pricing and all quality numbers. It's possible that some people would misinterpret these numbers but right now you are in that crazy situation where you have to make decisions based on no data at all.

With open pricing and data a market based health system might work. Maybe.
mhacks!
Ask HN: Google web corpus + big data analysis cluster?
Thinking about starting a developer friendly service that frequently crawls the web at massive scale + a big data analysis cluster (such as Storm) with support for a variety of languages.

Obviously walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter would be off limits at the beginning, but if the service gains traction, then it's possible companies would want to be crawled.

I was trying to analyze the common crawl recently, and the process of getting set up is non trivial. This service would allow more people to more easily analyze the web.

Would welcome any feedback.
Mhacks!
How is that different? There is a lot of "serious / adult" literature that includes wizards, demons, and dragons, and that is not a recent development. (Or in older times, ghosts, spirits, and monsters in general).
Man, what is up with the Wikipedia community. The level of vitriol over the new image viewer (which I personally loved) is just ridiculous. What software changes do they approve of if any?
May I ask why you're encoding as Base64? Does this not increase the payload size significantly?
FreeBSD pipes, for one, haven't been based on sockets in over ten years.
It appears the HTML of the requested page is returned to the requesting phone via SMS, which could be many many messages if you are loading say, a wikipedia page.
Where emergency warrants one-to-many communication + anyone still has a smartphone that can send text messages.
True. I was more referring to it being a confirmation that this is an email address that anyone cares about.

If I wanted to be truly malicious I'd have my online checker return a "Nope, you're all good" and then add that email address to the short list of accounts to go after.
I would not expect the average HN reader (foosball-playing, video gamer, etc) to agree with this.

Sometimes I think tech is the epicenter of the "permanent adolescence" phenomena.
The existence of Twitter has falsified the hypothesis that women don't participate because they are put off by online conflict.
Cory Doctorow's novels are in the Young Adult section and they have a lot to offer for adult readers.
Arrested development has seemed for quite a while to be a main source of movie humor. "Sideways" comes to mind that way.

Considering the way adult male authority appeared in a lot of TV shows (60s and 70s) led me to think that the screenwriters were enacting their own conflict with their bosses, men who made them cut down on risque jokes, nixed plot lines, etc. And those weren't great years for adult male authority in politics.
Pictures wouldn't load so I used https://web.archive.org/web/20140910232549/http://www.teslam...

thanks again archive.org
Sorry 538, La Taqueria is delicious – but it's also fatally flawed
I can't remember where I heard this, it was on some BBC program, but effectively one anon Chinese official was essentially pointing to what you're saying.
It's all the more humbling when you realize how little power is consumed by all that processing and redundancy.

Compare a favorite computer robustness technique: triple-modular redundancy (TMR).
This is pompous drivel. Instead of lamenting the reading habits of people that work hard and take care of their families maybe we should try to get everyone with children to be responsible parents. The author mistakes the hard won victories of modern society for some nondescript juvenilism.
Awesome. I'd do it if there was some overlap between people I wanted to work around, could tolerate living with, and who had my freedom.
Keep in mind that hospital "costs" are largely fictional. When the bill says $45 for a sponge, the insurance company has negotiated a much lower rate for the whole procedure, and if you go to the hospital and say "I'm a cash patient", they'll typically also give you a substantial discount (though probably not as low as the insurance company gets, and only if you're able to pay the whole amount right away).

As far as I can tell, the inflated prices (that almost no one pays) are mostly just so the hospital can report how much they're "losing" treating uninsured patients who can't pay.
Probably because of the restricted character set available in SMS messages?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38
I worked for a company working on audio fingerprinting before (as well as image/video). I have to say it's great that we have a song (audio) recognition system that works pretty well, but the business never takes off. May be it's just my previous company as I'm not sure how Shazam is doing, but I haven't heard of them for a while
I haven't had much success getting prices when I had a high deductible insurance. Most doctors won't tell you anything or they will quote you one price today and 5 times as much tomorrow. You certainly won't get a binding quote you can plan with.
Staying Home Today. My 9/11 Story. (Apple Memoir)
Most people in the world don't pay for receiving SMS messages. I think that is limited to the US and Canada and becoming less common even there.
Twitter is already optimized for SMS. Why would you access it through this? You just need Twitter to be connected to your carrier.
ASK HN: What is your favorite code review tool and source control system?
Hey I was wondering what is your favorite code review tool for open source projects and within companies as well.
Thanks! I'll take these all into consideration towards working on a better flow for this
Martial arts and the cycle of bullshit
Likewise. AirBnB.
All science can tell you is that if x people with your condition do y, n of them will likely die. Neither you not the statisticians can say with certainty whether you're in group n or x minus n.
When people are only paying $10/month, failures are cheap. I imagine low-cost customers tend to be more forgiving. I could be wrong on this.
This isn't the strongest case for the statement (entirely based on media to represent public will). But let's assume he's right (media is probably a close enough proxy)...

What's interesting to think about is that not everyone is failing to become an adult. I'll assert that a big difference between a 'responsible' adult behavior and childish behavior is delaying gratification and getting the outcome you want. If many people are acting like children now, the few that are acting like adults are going to run circles around them. Perhaps the people acting like children don't realize that they're still under heavy selective pressure, just from the 0.1% and not from nature?
https://support.twitter.com/articles/14589-getting-started-w...