skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed this as well.

Similarly, reddit will completely shut down any threads that start to become too activist on the grounds of "witch hunting." It's amazing how we've already systematically nerfed the internet as a tool for bringing about political change.
I'm surprised it doesn't use any of RDF's ordering attributes for arrays and objects.
If we didn't already have enough selfie apps – here's another one
It's not necessarily as simple as calling the police in Liberia. Corruption levels there are significantly higher than they are in Denmark. What if the logger pays the policeman to do nothing about it?

Enforcement is definitely going to be a challenge, but hopefully they have a good plan in place.
> Since annual failure rate is a function mostly of age, it would be interesting to see a line chart of cumulative failure rate vs age

They showed some of this data in an earlier post https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/

The "Drives have 3 distinct failure rates" graph is the most interesting, as it shows the result of the expected "bathtub curve" on the cumulative failure rate.
Liberia probably isn't the most popular tourist destination in the world right now.
Why should any insider do that?

Snowden did it, and look what happened. Nothing. Sad truth is, the majority don't care. If they did, then it would be reflected in voting, and things would change. But no. Mean while, Snowden is a wanted man in exile.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like this one little bit, but it seems I'm in a minority.
I have a feeling that with Backblaze that ALL of their drives are mostly powered on continuously until they fail (i.e. they might sit for a bit at their data center waiting to go into one of their pods, but after that they pretty much run until they fail).
Yev from Backblaze -> Thanks! That really is one of our goals with these updates, is for others to join us and start sharing this data. It makes a lot more sense if everyone is doing it, then we can start comparing environments, and all sorts of fun stuff!
Very off topic, and I dont completely agree with you. But you had me laughing out loud in a coffee shop.

HN has a suprisingly vast and interesting topic base. My mom (a complete non techie) and my sister (Bio Medical engineer) read it on a regular basis.
"So we have to keep spawning babies"

That's the gist of it.

In other news: we still have to heat our homes, grow our food and build things from stuff we dig out of ground.
The sexual threats against Emma Watson are an attack on every woman
Can we now finally acknowledge that Google has an anti-privacy agenda?
I use Hazel (mentioned by drhayes9 too) to monitor various folders and take action regularly. On the delete side, this includes:

* clearing out any items in Downloads > 1week
* clearing out any items from my "Temp" folder > 1 day, unless they have an explicit "save" tag ("Temp" is my go-to alternative to the Desktop and is where I stash anything, well, temporary-ish)
* automatically moving screenshots into my Temp folder (where they will soon be deleted)
I'm into clojure and clojurescript, but I can see why people would want to avoid the overhead of using a compile to js language. To be honest though, I'm excited about this and all other functional goodies coming to plain JS from om and react (immutable data structure libraries, virtual-dom) because it'll be easier to use them from purescript.
Anywhere I can find out more about this?
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You could, but the maintainer - progrium - isn't maintaining the repo these days. There are ~47 PRs in the queue - some quite old - and he is actively working on Flynn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_demonstrations_in_East_G...
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I have. four years ago, I bought a bluetooth car adapter that you could clip in the driver's visor (can't remember the model, but it was not a popular one) from BestBuy that had the weird one Mini USB A in the first photo.

It was a PITA to charge it, and I lost the cable.
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My former boss (CTO of Panasonic) once told me that the only way to do real R&D is to have a monopoly that allows you to hide the margins in cutting edge R&D. Everyone else was doing just product development.

Google X is amazing in that it is about the only one left doing true bluesky R&D. Everyone else is just doing product development.
How recent is the introduction of this format interchange?
If you have a way of lifting the rocks and setting them atop each other, you can use the method. Just use a lighter "proxy" rock to bang on the heavier one, test fit, bang on the high spots, test fit, bang on the high spots, test fit, etc., until it is as accurate as you like.

There also turn out to be sites where this work was in progress when it was abandoned.

So feel free to believe in space aliens if you like :-) I subscribe to the notion that the simplest explanation is the most likely.
Sounds like a legit feature request to add to the issues there!
I didn't get that from the post, but thank you for helping me see a different perspective.
Ubuntu Linux users might be able to stream Netflix soon
Is Netflix a broadcaster? In some ways, they quack like one, so the CRTC is going to act like they are one until they're told otherwise by the courts.

It's in the nature of bureaucracies to attempt to expand their jurisdiction as far as the law will allow and, when a grey area exists, to err on the side of overreaching until they're specifically told they do not have jurisdiction.
pwillis@zippy:~$ grep -e "^[[:space:]]\+\(strcpy\|strcat\|sprintf\)" -r apt-1.0.1ubuntu2.1 | wc -l
43

Hmm.
I use them for everything. Mise. Leftovers. Mixing small amounts of things. They're reusable, but also incredibly cheap; about the same amount of material as a ziploc.

It's like having an infinite supply of small, light bowls with tight-sealing lids.
Glass is a botched PR stunt, not world-changing research. So this underscores the GP's point.
Don't be too afraid of pointers - you're already using them if you're using Python when you work with mutable structures.

>>> a = {'foo': 0}
>>> b = a
>>> b['foo'] = 1
>>> a['foo']
1
>>> id(a)
140428021358832
>>> id(b)
140428021358832

`a` and `b` are just pointers to the underlying structure. The only difference is that Python is taking care of the dereferencing for you, whereas in C you would have to explicitly dereference the pointer.

That's all there is to them. It's a reference to another location in memory, which, when dereferenced, refers to that other location. In pseudocode:

>>> b = 1
>>> a = &b
>>> b = 2
>>> a*
2
>>> a* = 3
>>> b
3
Cool app, hate giving out my phone number though.
Its funny how apple can be hard on people asking for email addresses to use an app but getting a phone number is totally okay.
That's fine until you start using floating point values in order to satisfy this SI fetish. (I guess you like farads and henries too.) It's much better to use fixed point and keep track of your multiplier. A sufficiently advanced type system could do this, but at some point it will require careful thinking about precision.
For starters, http://thestonesoup.com/ has very good recipes built around that idea. They also have free cookbooks.

Other then that, there are "student cookbooks" (differ on country).
Your website isn't clear - is there a cost?
My instinct says it will be a spike that trends back down fairly soon, but my instinct about btc rates has frequently been wrong.
I'm actually really surprised from the feedback from HN as well. With stuff I've posted in the past, I'm used to a lot more criticism and like you was expecting 'not another photo sharing app' comments. Everything on here so far has been constructive / positive. Have been enjoying HN being a more positive place in general.
Also 404

https://www.parsehub.com/docs/template
I'm glad to see such a positive reaction! I worked on that for quite a while and use it daily. I think the code is of pretty good quality (never had a segfault or data loss while using it). If you try it and encounter annoyances because it does not behave exactly like what you want, you have to hack in the code! I will never fix something myself if it does not annoy me. This does not mean that I did nothing for you, instead I tried a lot to make the code such that everybody can hack it, it is very regular, short, simple and occasionally well documented (vicmd.w, buf.c).

I spent a probably unreasonable amount of time thinking on its design and I believe I came up with something satisfying, the code is only 3000 lines but one or two features I want remain to be hacked in. The undo and the buffer data structures were tested automatically for several hours with success (see the tools/ subdir), no data was ever lost. The file saving command is even formally proved correct in Coq.

Any suggestion that could simplify the logic and preferably decrease the line count is more than welcome.

Also, note that the version showed in the video is a bit deprecated, the master branch now supports better handling of async commands and window splits (vertical and up to 6 windows) with resizes using the mouse.

Some are concerned about the license. It is public domain. But please tell me if you do something cool with it or like it.
Thanks for the feedback. Agreed about Web Developer. It's high in our queue to add. We clearly failed by not having a career path for every featured career on the main page. As for the feed, we're planning a regular "roundup" blog series of newly added careers once we tackle what's in the queue currently.

Appreciate you taking the time to look at what we're building.
Wolfram Alpha had a fair amount of hype around it. I don't know if they've delivered on their promises but they seem to be continuously improving it.
HFT is basically just computerised market making. Market making increases liquidity and reduces spread, which is fantastic for small investors.

HFT is the reason I can personally put in an order and have it executed within 10 seconds without the price moving much. I've traded on markets with little to no liquidity, it sucks. You wait half a day for your order to fill only to have the price significantly move against you...
That was porting from Ruby. Go is particularly good for any application where you want to get better utilization out of your CPU, or want to cut down on memory usage.

Most of the code we've been porting has been infrastructure: parsers, reverse proxies, and the like. We're still getting a feel for what it's like writing complex application logic in Go, but what we've seen so far has been promising.
Say the population has been growing fast so most people are aged 0-20, and then the fertility rate drops to 2.1. Over the next 25 years you still have a lot of kids born while those people grow up, while there will not be many deaths because there will not be many old people to die off.
Rocketed up to 450, dropped to 430 within minutes. Looking like it'll level out a little higher.
The demo is magical. Excellent work!

One question about this FAQ:

> Does ParseHub respect robots.txt?
> We're working on an admin panel to give webmasters full transparency and control. We'll have more info soon.

What does that mean? I read it as ParseHub does not respect robots.txt, which as a content owner is a bit disappointing. Would you elaborate on your thinking?
The takeaway from my comment is to consider the source and agenda for things you read, especially regarding controversial issues. The biases in how the author frames their points, as I outlined in my original comment, indicate to me that the author may have an agenda.

Agendas are a big red flag to me -- they indicate the author is trying to convince me of their P.O.V., rather than presenting the information and allowing me to make my own decision.

Sure, everything has an agenda. But structural biases such as those outlined above, serve to decrease my trust in the author.

That's all. I'm not suggesting a conspiracy. I think health care is incredibly complex, and sometimes suffers from profiteering. I also suspect that the likelihood is low to be screwed like the people covered in the article, but the structure of the article is designed to make me fearful.

When I detect an agenda to create fear, I question the motives of the author. In short, I cannot separate the useful information in the article from the author's agenda, and am forced to throw the baby out with the bath water, so to speak. (Apologies if that idiom doesn't make sense -- it just means that I have to throw the signal out with the noise because the author doesn't seem to be sufficiently unbiased.)
> Snowden did it, and look what happened. Nothing.

"Nothing" understates the impact. Sure, no one insider's revelations alone will suffice to radically change the situation, but, to borrow a Medieval adaptation of a classical aphorism, gutta cavet lapidem, non vi, sed saepe cadendo.
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From my experience, large corporations have standardized job roles (e.g. SE5) and these have descriptions attached to them, describing the role in the numbing HR verbage shown in the post. This text is used everywhere from hiring, all the way to assessing your performance. Much like legal texts, the meaning is precise in the hands of HR but for anyone else appears stuffy and verbose.

Unfortunately, the hiring manager often has to use this prescribed text and if they are lucky they may have a paragraph added on to describe what the real role entails.
>> 1) How much do labor costs impact overall profitability?

> Well in this case a lot. Competitors were able to produce better quality cars at the same price point, since they didn't have approximately $3000 in extra overhead.

Many factors determine quality and costs. Nothing you say indicates that labor was a decisive or major factor. For example, people assume much manufacturing is in China due to labor costs, but many businesses will tell you it's because of manufacturing capabilities and resources, and labor costs are a minor factor.

>> 3) You weren't addressing this aspect, but certainly there are advantages to the workers, who I have no reason to be less sympathetic with than management, and in some ways to society.

> Then why did Detroit fail?

I don't know what exactly you mean by 'fail', or if you mean the city or the car industry. As far as the city 'failing', structural racism played a big role as did the related flight of the tax base to the suburbs, which are doing well. A race to the bottom for workers' welfare didn't help, as factories moved to non-union locations.

For the industry, from what I know bad management was a major contributor, as well as poor engineering. I think labor was too.
The thing which will give it traction[1] is performance: if a browser starts letting you host locally but say “Yes, this is the same jQuery you have in your cache” that'll be a big win for a number of sites, particularly on mobile where it could reduce expensive network traffic and reduce cache duplication.

http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/
That's the crux of the problems I see with this. I can believe it's a very good implementation of Skype, but the genuine novelties (location broadcast and record-by-default) are the first thing any remotely privacy conscious person is going to turn off most of the time.

Is a setting that [unless turned off] tells people what form of transport I'm using really better at avoiding unwanted intrusions than a status update? Am I going to be more or much less likely to leave it on in the background in case any of my friends choose to come and socialise with me if everything is being recorded in the background?

I can certainly imagine edge cases where those capabilities would come in useful, but it sounds like they're more likely to generate negative hype and corporate bans than encourage adoption.
Understandable. If it's any consolation, people in the app won't be able to see your phone number (it's used so waffle users who have you in your phone book will see you in their waffle contacts list), and we only ever SMS your number one-time to send you the confirmation code.
Even later, it was trivial to crash NT4 DNS server:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162927

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/169461
Cuba announced sending 165 health professionals two weeks ago.

http://www.granma.cu/idiomas/ingles/cuba-i/15sept-Cuba%20app...
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2014/cuban-eb...
Probably just that nobody has sat down and done it. Maybe that could be you... :)

https://github.com/exercism/x-api/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.m...
AFAIK GSON (which stripe-java users) also ignores fields which are not present in the destination type, but the original post was about parameters so that's not even relevant: deserialisation would only be relevant for responses.
> creating liquidity

I'd like to point out that is not a fact, but a debatable point. [0]

[0] http://www.economist.com/debate/days/view/817/showCommentMod...
Having just written a pair of Nagios plugins in bash and batch that include json parsing routines, all I can say is "meh"... and my brain still hurts!
If thats the case, okay. Obviously still not ideal - you would want to have even IO load distribution on all drives - but hey, better than nothing.
And that is what I find fascinating. Weekly launches into even low earth orbit is a tremendous capability to lob stuff up there. I do look forward to the Dragon2 tests, and the next F9R landing attempt.
It's not that there's a like or dislike of risk.

Preference orderings are either (locally) convex or concave. Risk aversion is just that, a preference ordering over mean/variance bundles.

There was an econ textbook that gave a memorable example of a (qualified) exception to convexity: ice-cream and olives. Usually I'll want to have ice cream and olives in my fridge, but I don't want them at once! - so pure ice-cream would be prefered to a mix of them at my plate, right now.

Risk aversion does not imply, on its own, that you don't want risk at all. It implies that you want some mix of risky and non-risky assets; while concavity towards risk would imply you want either one or the other.

The problem with making risk aversion/convexity work with lotteries and such is that the price you're supposed to pay for lotteries is off your utility surface. But: since lottery tickets and small bets are relatively small in the context of your budget, one can figure that the mispricing in your overall mean/variance bundle is small, and that the emotion of betting may be the case of not wanting to optimize for a grey wall, an optimal mixture.

Finally, re: universal formulae, I think you'd profit from reading Elie Ayache's _The Blank Swan_.
Who cares? Depending how it is managed, this is a smart move. Accept money from anti-privacy advocates, put it in demilitarization researches. Then, accept money from anti-demilitarization advocates, put it in privacy research.

But perhaps I'm too optimist.
1. For fun, to save money, to eat fresh meals the way I like them and it's another thing to build
2. This is the difficult part that I hate, but I've been using Fitly (fitly.com) for grocery delivery with recipes
3. All kinds of stuff
4. Vegetarian, sometimes vegan
5. To me it's all about knife skills. Get a decent knife set (doesn't have to be the best) and practice your technique and you'll be able to get pretty far.
I apologize if my tone led you to believe that -- it was not my intention.

My critique has nothing to do with the topic (health care), and everything to do with how the author presented their case. If they were talking about how to raise tomatoes, and used similarly inconsistent / manipulative logic, I would question their agenda.

It just happens, in this case, that the topic is about a very controversial issue right now.
What tools did you use? Was any of the time spent working together remotely? I would love to help people out but I don't see it fitting into my schedule easily. (It sounds like you did this as a freelancer, but I would be doing this outside of my full-time job.)

The tool I am looking into next is http://bigbluebutton.org/
To keep down wages, why else? If you have the choice between an American, who can leave for a better-paid opportunity whenever he likes, and a foreigner, who is chained to his job because of the green card process, who would you hire?

There is the additional twist that an immigrant foreigner who got their degree abroad won't nearly be as encumbered by student loans as someone with a domestic degree and won't negotiate quite as hard for a higher salary.
realistically you would want to use a merkle tree to hash the source, to make it more secure against a chosen plaintext collision, but aside from that this'd be a great addition.
Suppose the population has been growing at a rapid clip, like in Liberia.

Then you will have a situation where the grandparent generation will have less population than the parents and the parents will be fewer than the children, e.g.:

2 80 year olds
6 60 year olds
15 40 year olds
40 20 year olds
100 babies
--------
163 people

One woman 80 year old had six babies with her husband. The three women in the next generation bore 15 babies. With a fertility rate around five, you will have a population pyramid where the babies outnumber the 80 year olds by about 50 to 1.

Then if fertility suddenly drops down to replacement level, the babies will eventually grow up to be 80 year olds in a country where the size of each generation is equal, e.g.:

100 80 year olds
100 60 year olds
100 40 year olds
100 20 year olds
100 babies
-----
500 people

So there's one more quadrupling (approximately) built in to the system even after the birth rate gets under control. Since the birth rate might not get under control until the resources run out in famine, war, or epidemic, we may be looking at a situation where high fertility countries are destined to have not only more people than they can support, but four times as many as they can support and chronic disasters for humanity. The only relief is thinking ahead and family planning, which is not necessarily our strong point as a species.
Is paypal just ignoring the IRS' recent guidelines that bitcoin is treated as property?

From http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-25/bitcoin-is-property...:

Today’s IRS guidance will provide certainty for Bitcoin investors, along with income-tax liability that wasn’t specified before. Purchasing a $2 cup of coffee with Bitcoins bought for $1 would trigger $1 in capital gains for the coffee drinker and $2 of gross income for the coffee shop.

“It’s challenging if you have to think about capital gains before you buy a cup of coffee,” he said.
What a cool concept.
Doesn't this restrict the technology choices of the companies who are employing these apprentices?
Is it a per-slot licence model?
"nobody is responsible for their ethnicity"
But you might be responsible for not setting yourself apart from poisonous culture prevalent within your ethnicity.

I know a few people of Gypsy descent, they're assimilated perfectly well into the society we're in (for multiple generations I should add). It is sad when they're confronted with stereotypes about culture they are not defined by, but the only constructive solution to this is changes to said poisonous culture. Do this and prejudice goes away fast.
Most of these things are solved with simple algorithms though. That we are able to solve a lot of these problems is pretty much inevitable as the technology stack grows and we are able to stick stuff together via APIs. These systems may seem smart or intelligent but really they are just a large complex network of systems. There is nothing intelligent about them.

AI of this kind is not just the result of a simple step or several. AI will probably be a revolutionary break through that requires an understanding of intelligence and being, we have not made any significant progress in.
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