skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm... This is my 6th winter. It is probably the first winter that I have consistently enjoyed ;-) Every year it gets better as I learn what to do and what not to do. My mother in law has several forms of heat in her house but absolutely refuses to turn it on. For a few years I was quite worried about her, but I've since realized that she just likes winter. It is massive culture shock at the beginning, though.

Being uncomfortable seems like something you should avoid. I think this is the general culture of the west. However, as I have adapted to this way of living I've come to realize that there are 2 kinds of discomfort -- discomfort that injures you and discomfort that doesn't injure you. You can ignore the latter.

Perhaps the easiest way I can explain it is through food. Many people love spicy food. The spicier the better. But it hurts! Why would you do that to yourself? Similarly, in the US (and spreading fairly rapidly), incredibly bitter beers are getting quite popular. Some of the highest rated beers are actually hitting the threshold of bitterness that we can taste. The reason people like these spicy and bitter foods is because along with the pain comes an amazing flavour. If you could have the flavour without the pain, it wouldn't be nearly as nice because it would be cloying.

This is also true of cold winters and hot summers. I admit that my capacity to enjoy 30+ degree weather with 80-90 percent humidity far exceeds my capacity to enjoy 5 degree weather with wind, but both are increasing each year.

If you would like to try this, I don't think there is any particular need to turn off your heat every day through the winter. On a day that you feel strong, accept that you will be miserable and turn off the heat. Then spend the day trying to find good things (you have to try a hot water bottle!!!). You will probably hate it, but you may surprise yourself that you discover some very nice things. Just like getting used to hot food, you can try it occasionally and perhaps even start to enjoy it.
Nice (abuse of regexp) !

AFAICT the way the string is going to be parsed is equivalent to this:

def isprime(n):
if n == 0 or n == 1:
return False
i = 2
while i <= n:
if (n - i) % i == 0:
return False
i += 1
return True

A parser implementation may optimize and do "while (n - i) >= 1" instead, which cuts in half the number of iterations.
Setup by the SEC. The incentives are structured, by the government, in the most ridiculous way possible. Pointing at the failure of government mandated and monitored rating agencies as a failure in private enterprise is just stupid.
Please explain how it's fair that organizations who are releasing educational materials for free should be forced to pay extra money (which they possibly can't afford to spare) so that their content is slightly more accessible to a vanishingly small portion of the population.

Please explain how it's fair that the plaintiffs would rather that everyone lose access to this educational material than deal with the fact that maybe not everyone will be able to use it.

Please explain how it's fair to act like a petulant child, screaming that if they can't have it, nobody can.
There are different levels of accessibility. The courses are still there, there isn't an audio captcha making sure deaf people can't read the notes, read the book (when available) or do the problem sets. This is nothing like an inaccessible sidewalk keeping somebody in a wheelchair from getting to the grocery store.

And I'm only talking about MIT's OCW here, their edX courses are all captioned. OCW was scheduled to run out of funding last year[0] and they apparently don't even have the funds to update their FAQ. I'm just saying you have to pick your battles.

[0] - http://ocw.mit.edu/donate/why-donate/#q5
If you follow the principle behind that logic, everybody should be blinded, deafened and crippled immediately after birth, reduced to the lowest common denominator, because otherwise they get an advantage because they weren't born blind, deafened, or crippled.

If a free lecture provides benefit to someone, but forcing it to be captioned causes it not to be released, would you be happy with that outcome? It's the same principle.
I actually face the issues you described but for some reason I am not super convinced to buy the book. Maybe it's only me, but I guess a little more technical chapter for review could be better?
Show HN: Gammada – an open-source chat randomizer
If you want widespread knowledge, don't make it impossible to give knowledge away for free.
Pharmaceuticals is a ridiculous industry, public health and scientific merit are on the lowest rungs of their list of priorities.
Hey guys! I made this to see if I could make a lightweight Omegle clone! Turns out I could! Critique and suggestions are welcome and encouraged!
Aren't there all these speech=>text software programs? They should be built in to browser software. Problem solved, no more need for lawsuits.
HN is a community where people solve difficult problems for a living. So someone using "difficult" as a reason for something doesn't really fly with me.

As for expensive? I'll agree. Going cost is about $1 per minute minimum. And they're not releasing that material "for free." Make no mistake - it's either because they got a grant (that's what we face) or part of some marketing thing.

I apologize if it sounds like I'm frustrated and angry, but I run into all sorts of inaccessible things created for the web by people who use "difficult and expensive" as the go-to excuse.

If you are preparing a video for something online, you should be planning it and writing a script, which you can easily turn into a transcript. If it's a lecture recording, well, workstudy students can transcribe it for you and caption it.

These are all things responsible educators do. Proudly.
You can only take my bet (and I used 3 years for symmetry, make it more like 1-8), if you take the whole thing, which includes there being precious few of those nicely captioned videos on MIT websites and Youtube channels.

But, yeah, every video you will be able find on an accessible to the outside of MIT website will be perfect. Yea!

BTW, MIT has rather nicely developed fine grained control over what can and can't be seen by outsiders, all this sort of thing developed for Project Athena starting back in the '80s.
OpenRCT2: an open source clone of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2
Perhaps "cooperation brings game theory into question" would be a better title?
Perhaps a good first step would be to have a discussion "For the purposes of armchair moralizing", not about the law as it is written, but how it should be.
Er, geothermal doesn't "pull cold out of the ground", it pushes heat into it.
I wrote this a while back on creating your own language: http://digitalmars.com/articles/b89.html
How to fix the cryptic “Script error.” in JavaScript?
How about you let content providers decide for themselves what market they want to target, rather than presuming to decide for them?
How to Use Social Media for Personal Branding
Ah, those links refreshed my memory- I was incorrect in my edit- that approach more closely resembles Locke's state of nature. But thank you for showing me that Rand gets there from another angle.
Thanks. I was apparently making the mistake of assuming the red shift was due to velocity instead of the expansion of space itself.
article title is terrible, agreed
Most likely self-experimenting and community based "trials" are gonna be much more prevalent in the coming years, due to bio hacking opening up. Gonna be even trickier to regulate and navigate.
If one wanted to learn more about the math behind this, especially when they get into the "Bayesian Regression is a Shrinkage Estimator" section, what's a good place to start?
I'd replace anxiety with introspection in this article and it sounds a lot better. I wouldn't necessarily consider anxiety to be a virtue; for many, it's a crippling affliction.

The examples in the article are really more about an introspective approach to life. About really considering our actions and the behaviour of the people around us. Anxiety as a disorder is more about being too introspective, rather than being introspective in itself.
Except the major drugs are brought to both markets usually and largely made by multinationals. Many drugs get approval in Europe first before they are tested in the US.
The question I was left with is, what conditions do you introduce into an evolving population that make cooperation more beneficial than extortion? They talked about just introducing random conditions or mutations but I wonder if the ones that led to (cooperation beating extortion) had any sort of pattern.
Why OccupyGPL is wrong
A lot of job listings here: https://twitter.com/OrbitzTalent?original_referer=https%3A%2...

A quick scan of the software engineering positions did not, however, uncover any Lisp-related jobs.
Maybe as a condition of hire, the appicliant, if hired by the FDA, couldn't seek future employment in any aspect of the Pharmacutical industry?

I belonged to a union that flat out told apprentices that they were forbidden from going through the program and opening up a non-union shop. I've always wondered about the
legality of putting conditions on a job? I know the formentioned union still has the clause in it's bylaws, and it's a union in a huge city.
Also, the guy who found this vulnerability doesn't know not to use jpegs for text?? That doesn't pass the smell test either.
if you think the outcome from a professional standpoint was fair, you have a very bleak and dystopian view of fairness. she was posting something to her own private twitter account in her own time; it had nothing to do with the job.
As far as we can tell, the specific complaints about poorly captioned videos were from just such software, only automatically generated by Google's servers: http://nad.org/news/2015/2/nad-sues-harvard-and-mit-discrimi...
Does he not have legal grounds to sue for trademark infringement if he so desired? Just because it's not a registered trademark doesn't mean it's not a trademark. It's not like it's called "Hot Sauce (TM)" or something.

My mom regularly mistakes a nasty Texas Pete knockoff labeled Sriracha for the famous stuff.
How about the Singapore model? Pay government bureaucrats huge salaries and pensions so they don't have to structure their career around getting a private sector cash out after they retire from regulating.
The population of deaf people in the USA is comparable to the population of Asian Americans (ranging from about 1% to 4% by state in both cases). If an organization gave a leg up in life to everyone except Asian Americans (e.g. by covering some share of the education costs), would you be happy with that outcome? Now this really is the same principle.
Ask HN: How do you deal with an extensive list of pet projects?
I’m a full-time software developer with a constantly growing list of pet projects and an increasing inability to actually get any work on done of them.

At this very moment I have ten repositories on BitBucket that mostly have just READMEs with notes describing what the project is about, though some have a bit of actual code as well. One of these projects stands some theoretical chance of being worthy of a startup some day, but they’re all mostly things I either have a use for or want to build to learn something.

The problem I have is something akin to paralysis of choice: I think about most of them here and there and sketch something out or jot down some notes, and sometimes even write some code, but I lose a fair bit of time I could spend being productive on deciding what to work on.

The net result is that I don’t get much of anything done, and it’s incredibly frustrating.

I imagine there must be others who can relate, and I’d love to hear about how you’re dealing with this (and how successfully).
The strong law of large numbers sucks
To clarify: I'm not calling for less regulation from the FDA. Far from it. Rather, I'm pointing out that in the follow instance where more regulation is being called for, a major influence is again Big Pharma and the motivation is, to my eyes and reading, not primarily consumer protection.

----

There is also the other "half" of this FDA saga. "Supplements" and herbal treatments are a mixed bag, and there are fraudulent manufacturers and suppliers in this market as well. However, there are repeated pushes to get the FDA to more or less outlaw all of them and/or to regulate this marketplace out of existence.

I'm someone who, along with more than a bit of grief from pharmaceutical industry products, has actually found some significant results in the "natural" marketplace. I've had to be careful, and I've had to find manufacturers who actually deliver what they say. But the idea of one of these knee jerk, "ban 'em all" reactions taking these items away from me, scares me in no small measure.

The FDA appears no longer to be an effective regulator; it has become ever more an economic and political tool of the most moneyed private interests. (Where a focused Big Pharma far outweighs the broader field of smaller supplement providers, for example.)

To be somewhat repetitive, I don't want to discount the significant problems with the "supplements" marketplace. But I have been able to achieve results with it that I have not found in the pharmaceutical marketplace. I am unwilling to cede this territory to the pharmaceutical companies, as they seek to have it shut down -- for their own economic self-interest, rather than the public interest.
Probably, but at this point he is at the Kleenex, Xerox, Google stage of brand name. He would do more harm then good if he pursued it.
yeah fastmail rocks. I can confirm this.
That's how I find functions in Haskell! [1] Most of the time searching the type will give you the function you need.

[1] https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/?hoogle=%28a+-%3E+b%29+-%3E+%...
This is very close to the idea explored by Forth. It has just a simple engine that compiles pieces of code on the fly. No need for garbage collection or any complicated macros.
"We spend enormous time protecting the word 'Tabasco' so that we don't have exactly this problem," Simmons said. "Why Mr. Tran did not do that, I don't know."

I think you just answered your own question, Mr. Simmons. Mr. Tran enjoys making delicious hot sauce, not spending his precious time running around suing people.
I feel like we're so deep in the mire now, of this kind of corruption and control by wealthy people/interests/entities, it'll be tough, if not impossible, to dig out of.

Being a fairly selfish person, that's not for my own self interest. Its a recipe for disaster. We need a massive overhaul.

Edit: Lobbying and the ability for a fiat currency to control decisions, and revolving door setups, seems like the obvious first step to me. But the people that can make that happen are the people that benefit from it currently. Bring on a new planet, without those types of people.
They aren't just type aliases, they actually have unique slots in the symbol table when used so...you define more brands :)

brand position <- Point
brand start-position <- position
brand end-position <- position

def DrawLine(start-position, end-position):
... = start-position + ...
... = end-position - ...

But that is kind of annoying, brand composition as adjectives would probably work better:

brand position <- Point
brand start
brand end
def DrawLine(start&position, end&position):
... = start&position + ...
... = end&position - ...

Very natural language, and start/end can be used to qualify all variables that are starty or endy. The biggest problem with the approach is that you have to think ahead of time about what your variables mean, and they might become fairly verbose (so "start position" rather than "startp"). Also, when you get into the implementation, it is kind of tiring to think about what every local variable should mean, so maybe this only really works for procedural parameters and maybe to help define fields.

I've been thinking about this for awhile, but haven't put it into a prototype yet.
Should we put Dart to rest?: dartlang
Is it not tradition to use n for sample size rather than N? N is typically population size (in my experience).
Mattel and Google have a mystery product coming
That's actually really neat!
You should PR it in! The source is on Github: http://github.com/q42/0hn0
The oped piece you cited does not support your assertion that the "FDA is incompetent and corrupt". They may be, but that is a pretty hefty accusation and requires more evidence.

Nor, honestly, does it support the "getting a drug approved is more dependent on how much money you want to spend than on whether it works" claim, or the "some drugs that may be effective are delayed for years and years".

Developing a drug is an incredibly complex operation. The FDA requires evidence that a drug will not kill people before it will approve it, which means that most drugs need to be tested in thousands of people. That requires outsourcing clinical trials to hospitals, which are then paid per patient to take on the extra work.

The original link cites corruption at the hospital level, which does seem like the weakest link in the system. The hospitals/doctors get paid based on getting patients through the trial protocol, or at least saying they did. Much of the cost born by pharmaceutical companies is actually auditing this process, to make sure it happens correctly.

Just yelling about the FDA will not change the corruption practices of a hospital in China.
Sure, the "halflife of openness" of crunchbase is probably smaller than angellist.

However, at this point crunchbase is pretty open (to the point of giving data dumps) so I'll give them the benefit of doubt for the next 2 years.

Anyway, startups seem to tend towards closing off access to their data as they become the dominant player so it's a question of when not whether.
You can't call it timeless if it took time to develop.
Tabasco could never be as big as Ketchup if only one provider was pushing it.
It all comes down to the incentives. I doubt the FDA is beating away applicants as it is. If the FDA enacts your proposed policy, what do we do if they can't find qualified applicants?
Nope i see his name listed here for the last two years. https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks
Make a Correct Multiprocess Program Execute Correctly on a Multiprocessor (1990) [pdf]
Great job. I am supremely jealous. I REALLY could use $12,500 right about now.

I really need to bring my curious nature back into the forefront.
>If you are preparing a video for something online, you should be planning it and writing a script, which you can easily turn into a transcript.

Please don't presume to tell content providers how they should produce content, or presume to tell them that a part of the process is easy. That's not up to you to decide for anyone but yourself.

>These are all things responsible educators do. Proudly.

Nice; insult the awesome folks over at MIT and Harvard who are giving us this material for free because they are "not responsible".

I'd be a hell of a lot more proud releasing content that happens to be inaccessible to deaf people than never releasing anything at all because I'm afraid of getting sued under the ADA.
We dump 8 million tons of plastic into the ocean each year. Where does it go?
PEG.js is definitely fun to prototype ideas in the browser.

My new love is Parsec [1] + doctest [2]. You start building simple little parsers, and build on top of them, plus inline testing makes it easy to write the parsers correctly. Also Haskell's algebraic datatypes and pattern matching make it nice to build and work with the AST. <3

[1] https://wiki.haskell.org/Parsec
[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/doctest
> Stack allocation is more predictable.

It is. It's just that I recall reading that the difference didn't turn out to be dramatic in practice. The object belonging to the bottom of the stack are promoted (they can't amount to much if they're stack-allocated, because your stacks aren't big anyway), and the reset is young. Whatever is mid-lived probably explains most of the non-dramatic difference (as well as young collections which are very cheap but not entirely free).
To be honest I can't think of many industries which place public health scientific merit at their top priorities either. You could say the same thing about the food and beverages industries, and Soylent too if you care about mentioning stuff that makes HN tick often.
Yes, this is a quip:

Carrot and stick: The two poles of community (of the community magnet).
Cell Phone Video Converter
Opinion from ApiEvangelist: "Ultimately, the move by LInkedIn is no surprise to me, and the platform is purely a distribution channel for me, and has been for some time.. Meaning I only syndicate content there, and you will never find me actually engaging very deep on the platform, building relationships there, because along with other platforms like Quora I do not have any ownership over any of the exhaust I generate. As a professional this is unacceptable to me, as I have a valuable brand that I carefully maintain. As other professionals realize this, they too will mostly abandon the business social network, leaving it to be a spammy corner of the Internet where HR professional prey upon the semi-professional, aspiring employee types."
http://apievangelist.com/2015/02/12/changes-to-linkedin-deve...
The Google trademark lawyers would roll over in their crypt if they read your comment :).
isn't there a common-law trademark (from usage rather than filing) -

http://www.google.hu/search?q=common-law+trademark
In the UK, it is not unusual for enthusiasts to build and register their own cars. The Single Vehicle Approval process allows individuals or companies to register unique vehicles based on an inspection of the vehicle, rather than formal type approval. Insurance is readily available, and usually quite inexpensive because insurers understand that enthusiasts take great care of their prized vehicles. The same process applies to vehicles built from a kit, or to specially imported vehicles.

An interesting example of the flexibility of these rules is Edd China, a mechanic who has built a variety of weird and wonderful road-legal vehicles including a couch, a bed and a garden shed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKpsZOvQfu4
Yeah, tried that. Worked much less that I had expected (though I don't remember the numbers any more).
Most drugs go first on the American Market, because that's the most profitable one by far. Any source for your claim ?
Thankfully, humans are trapped in gravity wells and aren't advanced enough to bother anyone else.

Bunch of pigs!
The EMA isn't that much better. Just do a google search for Mediator a diet drug only sold in the EU.

There were multiple signs that the drug causes heart damage. It took years and years for it to eventually be pulled.[1]

[1]http://news.yahoo.com/france-drugmaker-trial-suspected-death...
If he wanted to stop it, perhaps.
Splitting hairs. Its utilizing a temperature differential, as heat and the lack of heat are both forms of energy that can perform work.
Huh, I interpreted it differently, as in questioning whether Go's interfaces have much in common with Haskell's typeclasses. But now I'm intrigued — does Haskell really have a larger or comparative popularity as Go? That would surprise me, but I don't have any data, do you?
Hey, no problem, thanks for taking care of that. Sorry about my acerbic tone!
Zyppos
Zyppos, a crowdsourcing platform for flight search.

They let flight hackers and expert researchers find you the very best flights and lowest fares so you don't have to search on every website/airline.

The website, www.zyppos.com just went through a massive re-design, from the ground up.