skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am guessing when you say "democracy" you are referring to places like the USA?

If so, let me ask you a question. Do you feel that you have a say in decisions that affect you day to day?

If the answer is no, I feel it isn't fair to blame the problems we have on democracy.

As for what the system the USA has, well, these guys think it is a Plutocracy http://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/12/citigroup-plutono...
Treating drugs as a legal rather than public health problem means that police and court time is wasted and that people are unanle to seek help. It also means that innocent people have significant disruption. Here's one case of a woman jailed for over a month because a police officer thought she had drug paraphenalia.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/09/florida_woman...

It starts with a routine traffic stop. It escalates into a search of her vehicle. He finds a spoon and assumes drug residue even though she claims it was spagetti sauce. She failed to attend drug counselling sessions so she was returned to jail. Note that her attourney was arranging a plea bargain even though she knew she was innocent.

She lost her job.

I want to know if it's possible for that foodstuff to ever look like a "clear crystal-like substance" or to ever return positive for methamphetamine. And if not, how did an officer get those results?
I don't understand what Ebola tourism is supposed to be. Are you talking about aid workers? Expats looking to leave the affected countries? Citizens of the effected countries looking to leave?

High minded global concern says you probably let qualified medical workers travel out of the country, because it's probably a net positive to let them in, and letting them out is sensible in that case. I guess most of those folks would already be doing sensible quarantines.

For the U.S., I don't think there is much of a legal framework for preventing expats from traveling back to the US (but maybe somebody should just make an order anyway and face the consequences later?). I think other countries tend to treat citizens similarly.

For citizens of the effected countries, if they can get a Visa to travel to another country, I don't see the majority of them waiting until after they have a likely exposure to make their travel plans. So they would leave seeking refuge, not treatment.
> The ability to change the app without going through the App Store review process is awesome.

Not from an user's viewpoint.
This is all just further fallout from Ireland's stance on the Lisbon treaty, which led Intel, HP, and Microsoft to close up shop within a month of each other.

I'm very glad the loophole is being closed, but I don't think Ireland's tech sector will ever recover.
This creates a social class system surrounding Apple products - only those who are privileged enough to be on the Apple ecosystem are allowed to watch Apple events.

While they could definitely make all of their events streamable on a wide variety of devices, this tactic makes everyone not in the ecosystem feel as though they've been let down by the technology which they own.

It also ensures that the audience is more Apple-centric, and the first to hear the conference lectures will already be biased in favor of Apple given that they are already Apple users.
At the fringes (if one can call it that), it already is in fashion. See for example http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_syndrome:

"About 92% of pregnancies in Europe with a diagnosis of Down syndrome are terminated."

"About 1.4 per 1000 live births in the United States and 1.1 per 1000 live births in Norway are affected. In the 1950s, in the United States, it occurred in 2 per 1000 live births with the decrease since then due to prenatal screening and abortion"

(See also http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_screening)

I think the border between what is deemed acceptable and what isn't is moving towards more selection, and it wouldn't surprise me that, in a few centuries, we would be abhorred to learn how far it moved, and those who live then will look in horror at our primitive ways. Kids with Huntington's disease or genes that make it likely they will develop breast cancer still get born all the time, for example.

EDIT: Down syndrome, not being hereditary, isn't the best example, but the message still stands.
What a fantastic example of marketing/advertising disguised as content...
As someone who does the same, I use this pretty much on a weekly basis :) I hardly look at my Garmin maps anymore.
Linus Torvalds: I Made a Metric S---load of Community-Building Mistakes
The company is paying the worker from earned revenue, it isn't coming out of thin air.

My point is that they are providing the income that is taxed and used by the government.
I just downloaded the Columbine Pass map for Colorado (Vallecitos Basin and some of the Chicago Basin, NW of Durango), and trails _are_ on the map...

And the trails are in the layer "Map Frame -> Transportation -> Road Features".

And the Trail names are present in the layer "Map Frame -> Transportation -> Road Names and Sheilds".
Exit rights are a good starting point for a solution.
The court was in Las Vegas, and Microsoft, No-IP and the company that was ordered to redirect the domains are all based in the US. In what sense is this an international case?
I wonder if gruber's secret plans for apple watch will make an appearance
Congrats to the compass team! Would there be access to this information to all other startups? What about an API?
I think it's because Apple's search index hasn't been updated yet. Hope that happens soon.
Prevent your systems from failing silently with proactive inactivity alerting
I think it's pretty clear from the book. I did a quick search -- this blog comment by Dan Kervick sums up the argument pretty clearly.

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/pikettys-wealth-tax-r...
Isn't the Internet great! Instead of paying cable for one bundle of channels, we are now paying a monthly fee for each one.
>> Like most people, I start and end my day in bed, looking at my phone.

> Its got to be generational.

It's more complicated than that: I'm 49, my wife a few years older. Her iPad and iPhone are on the bedside table; when she wakes, she opens the blinds and returns to bed to catch up on FB, etc., for a while.

My phone is only ever in the bedroom if I need an alarm. Otherwise, it is downstairs, in my office, on silent from 10pm to 7:30am. (If there is a piece of tech at my bedside, it's my tablet, on Airplane mode: It's my e-reader.)

My first conscious moments downstairs involve needy pets and connecting my caffeine mainline. I turn to the news only after a while, at my laptop: I prefer the bigger screen and keyboard and trackpad for production and consumption, except for books and essays, which I read on the aforementioned tablet. My phones have always been second choices for consumption, and third for production, used only for what they excel at, mobile convenience.

Mobile. Hmm....

Perhaps we need two other, more distinct words. For some, like the article's author, a mobile device is Ubiquity: Always present, always in hand, always in use, Primary. My wife is closer to that than I (though there are many tasks for which she also prefers her laptop; she will go from iPhone or iPad to Air, rarely from iPhone to/from iPad).

For others, for me, a mobile device is Necessity or Necessary Evil or Handy, Secondary: Used only when my Primary, my laptop, is unavailable. (And even then, sometimes my laptop comes with and my mobile becomes an access point.)

As to the real point of the story, I agree wholeheartedly. I struggle with this myself and continue to swing between the poles trying to find the happy medium of just enough Connection and Consumption to keep up and so much that I am overwhelmed and unproductive.

(Sometimes my wife scolds me for not checking FB frequently enough: FB is the first thing to go when HN, /., etc., take too much of my time.)
Am I missing something here? Breakout ran in real time without overlaps etc. on the Apple ][+ with a 1 MHz 6502.
Good point! Done. :) That's the benefit of being API-Driven.
> “they’ve broken your banner, you helped them do it”

Heh, no, you helped them do it. Are helping them do it, by continuing to perpetuate links without any evidence.
UX suggestion: some of your abbreviations introduce needless cognitive impedance. Expand "perm" to "permanent" and "cont" to "contract". It'll make it easier for users to parse the words. If you are worried about the expanded words taking up too much space, consider icons.
Copywrong
The article goes on and on about six figures, including strategically placed bold type. You're trying to sell hope for a bright future. That's not a bad thing by itself.

Just admit that you're selling a dream. You prefer to call it a "mission" and an "opportunity". Fine. Branding. Whatever. Tomato, tomahtoe.

The problem is that bootcamps don't produce that with any degree of reliability. No three-month bootcamp is going to turn you into the equivalent of someone holding a bachelor's in computer science. Yet that's exactly the concept that this article is based around - you too can be a six figure IT consultant!

It's not remotely common for someone whose entire technical skillset consists of a bit of a web framework, a bit of JS, and a bit of CSS to make six figures. Or to have a reasonable career path ahead of them without a staggering amount of self-teaching. Which while ideal, is very rare in practice.
So Microsoft build a product, Windows, that a customer was using to run his business and that he purchased legally.

Then, when the product that they built wasn't working correctly, they seized this guys business and held it for ransom.

Not exactly what I would call "free market", but this is how Microsoft has done business for years.
I think this is just one giant strawman that gets thrown around in any discussion on this topic.

No, a few months of coding classes do not make someone a developer. However, it does separate them from other people by demonstrating that they are hard-working, curious and have an interest in the field. In my mind those types of people are the ideal candidates for junior-level positions. Much more so than some CS graduate who went through the motions to earn a degree on theoretical computer science and thinks he's now a software engineer. (I mean, last time I checked, the vast majority of computer science degrees were not terribly relevant to professional software development.)
What about the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Dr. Nicole Lurie, who per her own words has an operational as well as preparedness role (http://rwjcsp.unc.edu/scholars/spotlight/lurie.html):

“I have responsibility for getting the nation prepared for public health emergencies—whether naturally occurring disasters or man-made, as well as for helping it respond and recover,” Lurie said. “It’s a pretty significant undertaking.”

Here's the official page: http://www.hhs.gov/about/foa/osleadership/aspr.html

The mission of her office is to lead the nation in preventing, responding to and recovering from the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters, ranging from hurricanes to bioterrorism.

Lots more here: http://news.pennmedicine.org/inside/2014/02/nicole-lurie-a-d...

She's among other things still a practicing physician, and as the uniform indicates, a U.S. Public Health Service officer, a 2 star Rear Admiral, Upper Half.
I'm using AFNetworking + UIImageView. I believe it does something similar, doesn't it?
https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/blob/master/UIK...
>>I'm really not seeing why anyone should be entitled to never work again simply because their parents made a lot of money.

Because, their parents earned it. People slog their bones off, make a lot of sacrifices and after a life time of work get to such a position.

If some body's parents doesn't want to leave a inheritance, or don't to earn or whatever. I would leave that at calling it as their personal decision.

>>It's absolutely a lottery.

Its really strange to see the way you like to put it like absolutely no real effort was involved in building that wealth at all.
You're right. I'm only using Creative Commons photos, and I include attribution inside the detail pages.
Apple's growth visualized
To like a place, you can click on the heart.
The dropdown is from REMenu (https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/remenu)
I see on the about page that you built the site with Waigo and Mongo. If you don't mind, could you go into a little bit of detail about the hardware you're running the site on? I had a similar scope site in mind (a few static pages and a form or two) and would like to get an idea of what it would take to run it with minimal issues or bottlenecks.
An Interview with the Repo Man
Not matter who or what you tax, you are still using force to extort money from those who have earned it. Capitalism represents free trade for equal value. If someone breaks a law that is a problem with the justice system not Capitalism.
I'm actually really impressed with our student base in regard to your assumptions because they were ours as well. I noted this in a comment above, but many of our students are not (or at least claim not to be) doing our courses to "make more money". At least not on the code side. Our UX Design students often are experience designers who are upgrading by adding to their tool kit, but that's a different category.

A lot of our students are people looking to start coding to develop a new lifestyle. Or simply to move into an industry that's more exciting. A LOT of our students are literally planning on taking an absolutely massive pay cut to leave industries like Finance to do work for dirt-pay first as a freelancer and then maybe a junior position at a small startup. They just want to get in on the hyped growing industry, and hoping that development is a good path for them. Some of them find out quickly that it isn't right for them, but some of them get more excited by the day and make the leap.

Anyway, the problems you have with the bootcamp industry are problems we have as well, but defining the dream versus the mission for each individual looking for answers is tough. One of the reasons we love discussions like this. :-)
What are you talking about? It was a lawsuit filed in US District Court for the District of Nevada under state and federal laws. There is no international court with jurisdiction over such a suit.

http://www.noticeoflawsuit.com/docs/Second%20Amended%20Order...
Wasn't Murphy's law formulated after a technician plugged sensors into one of these sled pointing the wrong way?
.me seems to be somewhat popular.

what about .net?

nice username btw
If it's anything like the F-35 (another Lockheed project) the final product will be the size of a building and available for purchase in 30 years, not a decade.

Still, it's nice to hear of a major fusion research breakthrough from a company that actually has the resources to do it. Too many fusion "breakthroughs" are total scams that most of us are pretty jaded.
The thing with me is that I'm not so bullish on health (or other) benefits inherent to exercise. So if I was to go out of my way and exercise i'd only do it to eat more.
And yea walking around a room is fun, especially if you're locked up in a cell :-D I do that once in a while when I get excited about a new concept.
Your last sentence. So true. ESPECIALLY in Europe. We deal with this all the time, students who did CS degrees and then realize they can't work in the coolest part of the tech industry because they don't actually know how to code. A lot of these guys are brilliant of course and just teach themselves, but a lot of others are brilliant and looking for some accelerated guidance. Bootcamps (in my mind) is perfect for these individuals.

Agree? Disagree?
> - [DRM stuff:] - Article QQ.G.10: {Technological Protection Measures}

This should be extremely controversial. The anti-circumvention language in existing treaties have been a monumental failure, being used more to cement monopolies than prevent copyright infringement (for which it has been wholly ineffective). New treaties should have the goal of removing the existing requirements for such legislation rather than applying them to more countries.
Oh, learning to code is certainly a great start. But perhaps they should change their pitch to something like "Learn to Code, Get Started on the Long, Difficult Path to One Day, Perhaps, Becoming a Developer."
Washington is actually a much better example of an organic-ish area, in terms of street grain. This is pretty ironic, given that the City of Washington (originally just one part of the District of Columbia) was totally planned.
Decimal time, bc we must decimate everything!
I think something copy&pasted from the "American Lifestyle" minus the abuses.
If they attempt to pass off a personal opinion as a universal truth? Absolutely, if I had the time.
Why can't we do it with the force of law using the systems we already have in place, without actually charging the tax?
Slick. I liked the additional prompts when entering information.

The graph animation was slow in my Firefox 33.
No, a few months of coding classes does not make someone a developer.

But according to their sales pitch it not only makes you a developer; it makes you a super boffo, immediately hirable developer:

"Learn to Code, Get Hired."
Hahaha! A little deterrent maybe for what is technically a start up, at least if you're talking about CareerFoundry, but I see what you mean. We're pretty harsh on people when they do their info sessions with us. The commitment is no joke. We loose a lot of students in the first few weeks when they start to realize the scope of what they have to achieve both in the course and outside of it. We try really hard to impress this on people before enrollment, even if on the front end of the site its mostly selling the mission. We don't want to intimidate people if we can help it, at least not before we have a chance to talk to them!
> 2. We've been working with researchers at a local university to ensure the anonymity around location was such that they couldn't determine groups of whispers from the same user. They contributed to our randomization algorithms and provided suggestions around security.

Recently, there was a paper by researchers at UCSB on anonymity on Whisper (Page 10, Section 7). I must say that Whisper seems to have mitigated the attack presented in the paper.

https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/publications/pdf/whisper-i...
I just started reading the book --

But one of the key points so far is a 50/50 mix of engineers/other-roles.

If you're swamped with work - especially if it's busywork! - there's a case for an internal product. If it's not busywork - it means you need to hire ;)

If you can't afford to hire, you've got bigger problems.
That quote is often attributed to Churchill but I haven't seen a clear citation yet. For his citable quote on democracy and the so-called Churchill Hypothesis see http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/summary/v0....
You can append a "$" to those functions (ie, Left$(), Right$(), Mid$(), etc) to use the "return a string" version of these functions.
Good thinking. Sounds like v1.1.0.
And none of these numbers can be expressed with proper measurement units most of the world uses... Instead we have lbs feet and inches.
I assume because people will often go back and view comment sections on particular submissions multiple times.
Now I start to understand a coleague who don't recommend using Node before it gets mature.

It's kinda exciting for devs to use something that's actually still being built, but now we'll face different versions of the same tool. And, taking in consideration the oficial NodeJS will still be the one owned by the current BDFL, I fear this split of ideas actually inject problems for developers getting introduced to node.
Data Infrastructure Behind Spotify Ad Personalization (upcoming Meetup)
Have to second the Dell recommendation. People love to bitch about Dell but every single call for support has ended with me satisfied to very satisfied. And spring for the additional maintenance, it's a reasonable business expense. I recommend against buying their entry level PCs however, because upgrade options will be limited.
> It's like it was made for some corporate managers or something.

Because it was ;)
Hey HN!

This project was inspired by a personal experience I had--I put my numbers into a spreadsheet provided by the American Heart Association and found I had a 50% lifetime risk of a heart attack. Yikes!

I've gone to regular check-ups all my life and always been a little outside of the cholesterol guidelines, but I never knew how seriously to take that. I didn't know you could translate those numbers into percentage chance of getting a heart attack, whether I was "high" or "low," or how much I could improve by making lifestyle changes.

I figured there must be other people out there who are similarly ignorant about their own health, so I built this. (Please don't take this as a substitute for going to the doctor; there are all sorts of things your doctor can tell you that a web page can't. This is just for education!)

Please let me know if you have questions!
Challenging IBM's Watson, DataRPM Reveals Its “Sherlock” Interface
If anything out there pushes ocaml out of the picture for me it is the parallelism story. While the Rpc_parallel sounds like an improvement, ocaml is still significantly behind the times on parallelism.

It is such a shame too. I would probably be using ocaml every day if it weren't so terrible at it. I pray for a day where ocaml's type safety, composition, and single-core performance were met up with the robustness, safety, ease-of-use, and speed of erlang's parallelism model.
Ubuntu virtual desktops are enough for me, and I use them all the time.

When I have to use Windows, I end up installing VirtuaWin just because of the muscle memory related to my workflow.
There is nothing about phones that make them inherently bad for content creation. Sure, they just tend to have more support for consumption use cases (which is what makes them great IMO). But I think it's only a matter of time before they reach of good enough point to use them as the primary tool for productivity.
The naysayers do us all a valuable service. They remind us that hope, dreams, and belief do not solve engineering problems.

You know what demoralizes a team like nothing else? And endless litany of projects that failed because nobody wanted to listen to the people pointing out problems.