skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And because the US wasn't ready the Japanese were free to run wild in the Pacific for six months, taking many islands that had to be retaken at terrible costs to combatants, civilians and treasuries.

It would have been better simply to be ready.
A huge percentage of the population drinks coffee and alcohol, so it's not that radical. And not everyone's normal is optimal. I have pretty severe ADHD and would kill for medication.
I rather meant to explain that the problems--and their implied solutions--are not politically viable, mainly because of what you've mentioned. :)
I believe that. I suppose I specifically cringe whenever I see FRP described via event networks and things of that nature—implementation not denotation.
Except for Karaites...
hi humanarity, not in the short term, but will allow API integrations.
In addition, it would certainly be blown up immediately if it came within shooting distance of a tank by any number of man-portable anti-air missiles.

Why do man-portable anti-air missiles only exist near tanks?
I grant you that point. Food-allergies are also a problem.
Hey, sourcegraph looks really neat! Another commenter provided the following example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@ac452349e4f40c3...

I love the fact that I can hover over anything (primtive, function etc) which surfaces a blurb on what its accomplishing .

>> Right now, we do comments for code reviews, but want to add this for any existing version of the code

Any idea on when you may roll such a feature out? I'd be hugely interested in using something like this for my team.
>I don't see having such cakes as a loophole, or even contrary to the spirit of the holiday, because the spirit of the holiday is to avoid leavened and bread products.

I don't follow you here.

Cakes are leavened, and the spirit of the holiday is to avoid leavened products. In my view, that makes the Kosher for Passover cakes (which are effectively leavened) a loophole.

Or are you suggesting the Kosher for Passover cakes are not really leavened?
Goat City 2000. XCOM: Goat Defense. Goatcraft II. Super Goat Brothers. Plants vs Goats. Sonic the Hedgegoat.
I agree with sairamkunala. Learn your editor. If you use vim or sublime, start looking for plugins that make you more productive.
Ha...that's funny. In truth, the 6-inch (I think?) 'hog fence' we used (you can see it in some of the pictures) was 100% as long as there wasn't anything they could use to get a boost over.

Note: they could and did move things...often times to the fence.

It was good to get them out of those small enclosures later on, since we had a lot more of them.
"democracy reminisces a 2000 year old system" ... you have something better in mind?

In my opinion, democracy is probably the best we've got. The challenges have to do largely with engaging people in the realities of the process.
What an embarrassingly inaccurate opening. They imply that because the host paid $45 for an HDMI cable at BestBuy, and that now MonoPrice sells them for $3, that prices have gone down. That's not about prices going down, that's about not buying from BestBuy, which still sells HDMI cables for $45 and more:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/rocketfish-12-in-wall-hdmi-cable...
You make it sound like the A-10 doing close-support is the only way the US has to destroy a tank from the air.
Truly a down-to-earth man. It would be easy for a person in his position to have fame and money go up to is head. But all the man wants to do is read books and play chess. Maybe more of us should be like him.
In particular the power supplys are borderline in these models, they fit lower wattage 300W PSU's that are absolutly maxed out with extruders and heat beds running. The Flashforge and others have 340w Psu's fitted. I belive the controller board has a 1280 cpu fitted insted of the 2560, so it is EOL as far as further firmware upgrades.
Good old F-35 -- the Littoral Combat Ship of the air.

This is what happens when you have nothing to do with your military equipment besides fill contractor coffers.
Try Toastmasters. Definitely something out of most people's comfort/familiarity, but works wonders for improving speaking talents.
OP here - Thanks "dottrap" - upvoted!

I appreciate your insight. Any thoughts specifically related to .net and future or lack there of?
There are political issues, but there is also an impedance mismatch between "medical programming" and 99.9% of all other programming.

Nobody in programming gives two shits about quality. "Ship it and patch it later" is a religion.

That doesn't work in healthcare. If your software screws up, somebody dies, and you are on the hook for several million dollars. (See: Therac-25 and concurrency problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25)

So, the technology pace winds up moving much slower.

I also like that they mentioned false positives in the article being a problem. That's an understatement. A friend had to wear a portable defibrillator vest after a heart attack. It was atrocious. It sounded warnings after a shower. The battery was hard to keep in and sounded warnings when one popped out. After a week, lifesaving technology was back with the doctor because it was too irritating to use.

This wasn't some random schmuck. This was a person who used to write technical users manuals. A normal person would have had no hope.
I wasn't able to locate an example (weak google foo i guess), so thanks for providing it. My only mild gripe with this is that the "code" is actually "static" on which the comments are being applied.

For most code bases, the code is bound to evolve and change, so I wonder what the version reconciliation model would look like if there has to be constant syncing between what's on GitHub and what's hosted on genius (how would we capture multiple versions for example). Moreover, it appears that genius is great for annotating lines, but doesn't have the same Q&A feel that Omniref does[1]. I think what would be of real value is having the Q&A hosted "closest" to the codebase which is why I was thinking about a GitHub plugin. This in turn automatically has the ability to reconcile any old/deprecated questions that were relevant when the code was old.

[1] https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/screen-...
So, this platform allows policy to be decided by a "technorati"[1] class?

Are there individuals with low-income, little to no internet access, don't know what a blockchain or open source is, have hectic work schedules with the addition of raising a family participating on your platform?

From what I can tell this platform is giving more power to those who already have some sense of power. This platform does not alleviate the problem of those in society who do not have any power or say in political processes. It may even be argued this platform may contribute to the problem.

[1] Those who have the privilege, time, and monetary means of internet access, acquiring/have knowledge of internet technologies, and being a participant.
"Post mortem" on a software project means development is done and contributors discuss what happened and what lessons can be learned from the project.
Why call them 'arguments' when nobody is arguing?

Currying is the name of the thing. Adding another Enterprise Edition Operational Process Development Pattern like "argument deferral" isn't any better. I mean "Dependency Injection" isn't any easier for beginners to grasp, even though that is what it is.

Besides, it isn't argument deferral. That could easily be confused with evaluation order or things like lazy/normal/strict evaluation.
What we could do with hundreds (thousands?) of unguided munitions before, we now can do with 1-2 guided ones fired from a thousand miles away.

By this logic, we should only be deploying snipers instead of infantry.

Look, once you've run out of guided munitions and SAMs and things, you're going to really, really, really hope that the technologically inferior aircraft hadn't packed something as obsolete as a machinegun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superiority_%28short_story%29
"In health care, changes in the way we organize our work will most likely be the key to improvement. This means training students and physicians to focus on the patient despite the demands of the computers. It means creating new ways to build teamwork once doctors and nurses are no longer yoked to the nurse’s station by a single paper record. It means federal policies that promote the seamless sharing of data between different systems in different settings."

I think the author is right about the problems, and these solutions seem sound. These are the kinds of things ossified institutions always say, and they're actually usually right (e.g. Bill Gates's prescient Internet Tidal Wave memo which predicted the ways in which Microsoft would fail to become a dominant player on the web, or the peanut butter memo at Yahoo).

The trouble is that actually implementing changes like these at an incumbent institution is hard. Really hard. So hard, in fact, that failure is overwhelmingly the rule. In most industries, the way that plays out is that incumbents fail to change, new competitors emerge with the new processes baked into them from the beginning, and they then kill the incumbents. A few years later, those new folks ossify and then themselves get killed by the next wave. And so on.

A healthy industry offers all its players a choice: "Evolve or die. Do whichever one you want, but one of those two things will happen." There's no third option, "Do your best to evolve". The institution succeeds at changing or it dies, and that's all there is to it.

The trouble in healthcare is that incumbents do get that third option. And the reason they get it is that for the most part, there are no new competitors to kill them off.
Why did you choose to implement Yet Another Blockchain Solution?

Assuming 3-letter agencies haven't already broken it, they will sooner or later, and now all your users will be susceptible to having their votes manipulated at the whim of US intelligence.
Democracy2.0?

It worked for the web...
I'm not a full time software developer so I'm probably just slow and cumbersome in general. I mainly program in vb.net for any kind of windows app I'm going to distribute for others to use. I also use python a lot for any kind of web scraping, back end automation type stuff. I enjoy working in Visual Studio, seems real good to me. Easy to find help if I need it.
What is the preferred way to implement generic containers in C?
> no matter what belief or religion you observe, be it Christian, Jew, Buddhist or Atheist, there will always be those that follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law when it suits their own interests.

I object to you including "atheist" in this list, as atheism is exactly the opposite of that, it's not like an organized religion where you can follow the spirit of the law or not. It just means you believe that no god exists. Either you believe (or know, if you're atheist) that, or you don't, it's not at all comparable to religions.
I'd never heard of that before, but just checked it[1] out and it looks pretty cool. I guess the only distinction I'd make is for cases where people have a bunch of code already written out, and someone comes in and says "Hmm, why was this written like this?" and the original dev (or some other contributor) can respond with answers that have votes and the possibility of follow ups. Basically like an HN discussion board where the highest rated/popular answers are up top and each comment can have its own children.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Example
The only people that believe that internet access is only for the rich, is rich people.

We come from Argentina, a latinamerican country and we are very aware of the social challenges we face.

But it's not just a technological solution, we ALSO created a Political party that does a lot of offline activism helping society understand the power they have using digital technology.

The Net Party ran for elections in 2013 and got 1.2% of the votes in Buenos Aires, it was an incredible first election for a small party and that led to DemocracyOS being implemented officially by the Congress.

Thanks to that, a lot of bills got attention. For example: Nureses now have better working conditions thanks to the action taken on DemocracyOS for the Congress of Buenos Aires.

Read more about it here: http://democracyos.org/about-us
I think you're correct, but I also think it's a real shame that live performance skills are important to excel at a career that has nothing to do with live performance.

I wonder if there are any careers where you only have to get good at the thing you're doing rather than a bunch of meta-things.
STL 3D model encryption
I'd prefer "Grand Theft Goat."
We're shooting for sometime soon; it's high on our priorities list, and we'd love to find partners to help test out the feature. Want to shoot me an email at beyang@sourcegraph.com?
You cant creat stuff with complex internal structures in one piece with a lathe and cnc, most of those end up being cast and then finished on the cnc mill, 3d printers allow that.
Volcanic Eruptions Did Not Kill the Neanderthals
It kills the bacteria that produces it, but that is a good point. Still, it might be possible to test for it, and its unlikely that restraunt food contains it just from getting spoiled.

As I understand it botulism is mostly a concern in canning. If you kill most of the bacteria but the botulism bacteria is hardy and survives and produces it for months in the can.

You won't get that from eating spoiled buffet or even garbage.
IMO: Its more of people being shy and/or drop the expectation that they'll accepted by the community in the first go.

They should come out to the non-discriminatory user groups. (I.e. groups that don't ask for a particular gender i.e. xNUG/xJUG etc)

I've found, in others and myself before, is that I've held myself back from going to meetups because I didn't feel immediately welcome the first go, or that I didn't think I'd know people. However, you can't expect for everyone to welcome you with open arms in the first go. It's easier to blame the issue on racism/sexism, than to admit that you may just be shy. (That being said, I attempt to introduce new people in my meetups to the group and others)
What is the Sun made of?
Gerd Gigerenzer
>weak google foo

At risk of being pedantic, it's "fu" as in "Kung fu", which loosely translates to English as something like "work and effort".
I agree. Answer-hubs like stackoverflow have their own place, as do Git discussions for PR's. But I'm tempted to say that there's a gap for more effective collaboration in the "in-between parts" you know, where some new contributor takes a look at the codebase and says "Huh, why is this written like this?". Instead of chat/email, the entire conversation history can be preserved adjacent to the codebase itself without being intrusive.
I didn't have bad things happen in the way I'm guessing you mean, but I did TM for about a year and it messed up my sleep pattern severely. I was doing 10-20 minutes twice daily, ended up sleeping poorly at night and being dead tired around 4pm. I was very worried that I'd be so tired as to fall asleep on driving home. If I meditate it's only for a few minutes and not on a regular basis.
Thanks. Probably misunderstanding something, but I thought some Thinkpads that do have Coreboot support are equipped with Management Engine?

http://www.coreboot.org/Intel_Management_Engine
> If you think an engineering degree is tough, try doing one while also training 30+ hours/week. ;)

At least it sounds like nice variety. It's probably easier to do 40 hours of study + 30+ hours of exercise a week, rather than 70 hours of studying medicine or whatever.
Finding Success, Well Past the Age of Wunderkind
In theory there's no reason not to but in reality it's often impossible to find debts that align that cleanly.

Often the lenders aren't the same entities as the borrowers, until you start talking very large banks, nations, etc. but then at this point the debts are held on lots of different terms like lengths, interest rates, currencies and often with lots of individual parties that have a stake and some level of control.
Ya know, we were always taught about Karaites in school, but I didn't realize that they still existed until about 20 years ago, when a friend mentioned that he knew one.

There is a Karaite community in Israel, and I've read some fascinating newspaper articles about them. Claiming that they only accept the literal word of the Bible, without any interpretation, is a bit far-fetched, given that the Bible is so ambiguous and self-contradictory. But some of their interpretations, such as the date of the Shavuot holiday, are pretty reasonable -- except that Jews have basically voted with their feet to reject those interpretations.

I think that Karaites are pretty cool, even if (or perhaps because) they're not mainstream. And they demonstrate, I think, Judaism's penchant for pluralism.
I pretty much disagreed with every premise in this blog post.

If starting a startup means creating a homepage then it's cheap. If it means getting beyond minimal bootstrapping with any kind of technical need then it is expensive. Students out of hackreactor are getting $105k, we made an offer to an engineer in Austin, but we couldn't match his $275k competing offer.
Of useful stuff or arts?
So, that's the shitty thing, right?

If you're software is being used in, say, an ICU--guess what? The patient is already in bad shape.

There's some weird conception in the medical industry and public at large that the software has to be perfect the first time, every time. And that just isn't possible or economical. And then when people try to do that, they find out that getting test data or trials done is near impossible. Hell, you can't even get the standards to develop with without shelling out thousands and thousands of dollars.

The same institutions that clamor so hard for absurd reliability in software make it almost impossible to test that software safely without a gigantic war chest.

And they look the other way when they fail to provide patient care or outright butcher people.

The difference between your code and a doctor? You can fix your code after it kills a patient.

EDIT:

And no, this doesn't mean that I suggest that we all should write bad software until the bodycount suggests a refactor.

What I mean is that we should write it as well as we're able, and that we should fix it as data for improvement becomes available.

On a related note, this is why decision-making should--for now anyways--rest with a physician. We can give them better advice, but the moral accountability should remain with the human at the bedside.
This is what I had in mind (lifted off of the techcrunch article on Omniref): https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/screen-...

It's available if the person browsing the code is actually "interested" in looking at the conversations around a particular part of the code.
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I've heard many times that it easier to trouble shoot error codes.
Curated list of awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things
I think your take is remarkably accurate. I have a good friend who works at a world-renoun hospital in the US and the stories he tells! Politics rules decision making in the hospital. Leadership (including the docs) are constantly clamouring for more power. Normal market forces that would normally incentivize efficiency are no match at all.
Video games - Unity 3d though? C++ is for low level engines.
At first glance I find it very similar to the idea of Liquid Democracy of the Pirate Parties. Is there any significant difference? Days ago at HN, I heard that such systems failed greatly due to endless quarrels and external mistrust.
Yes. Kosher-for-Passover cakes don't fall under the rules of leavening (chametz) in Jewish law.

Sometimes they're made with potato flour. (Yuck.)

Sometimes they're made with matza meal, which means very finely ground pieces of matza. The idea is that once flour has been wet and baked into matza, further contact with water won't leaven it. Some Jews don't accept this "wet matza" rule, but the majority do.

If someone made kosher-for-Passover cakes that were hard to distinguish from regular, year-round leavened cakes, then you might have a point, and perhaps they would be forbidden. But I don't think that anyone is ever going to make that claim. So given that they're different from year-round cakes, and given that they're not leavened anyway according to Jewish law, they're considered acceptable.

Pro tip: Ice cream on kosher-for-Passover cakes makes them far more palatable.
The thing is despite the gigantic military requirements placed on US, it doesn't have be such a financial disaster only if procurement was done in a sane way. So there's really no one to blame but ourselves.
"It means federal policies that promote the seamless sharing of data between different systems in different settings."

I've been promoting this concept for quite some time [1]. The state of electronic medical records is not very good and integrating data from multiple systems is even worse.

[1] http://siculars.posthaven.com/health-data-integration-regula...

EDIT: To clarify, I'm in no way advocating that the government set data model or schema standards. I'm simply suggesting that the government level the playing field by mandating that if you do anything with health data you openly publish your specification and methods by which others can programmatically read or write to those data repositories. Obviously, this is separate from having the security access to do so.

Ive worked with EMR systems that have thousands of tables. Yes. Thousands of tables. I can't tell you how many hours of reverse engineering I've dedicated to groking these schemas. Not to mention on the wire protocol decoding from medical devices. It's insane and the government should not allow it to happen.
There was never a better time.
I don't recall currying -- either the name or the concept -- being a particular stumbling-block for beginners trying to learn functional programming.

There isn't really a problem that needs solving here.
SubMap – Visualizing locative dynamic data on distorted maps. (2012)
So, let's all ignore all the crimes she made. Great idea.
One NFL ex-wife will take of all that.
In February of 2002 I decided we should have a linux offering, and I hacked away at UML almost non-stop for about two weeks ... but it really didn't go anywhere for me.

So later in 2002 ... perhaps August ... we licensed Virtuozzo and used that. It was ext2 only at that point and man did that cause a lot of pain ...
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Nearly all of the time, the link is checked by me and only if I am interested in other people's opinions about this topic (what happens very often) I read the comments. In my opinion it is better this way since you should be educated about the topic people are discussing. Se the short answer: No. :)
There is a subtle but crucial difference between "candidates with experience working on teams delivering enterprise software" and "candidates with aptitude for working on teams delivering enterprise software". Worse, many in the former set aren't in the latter.

You might want to build an interview process that selects candidates who belong to the latter set. I'm a little baffled why you'd want to select from the former set in preference to the latter.
I immediately got hung up on the term "spatial" which has several concepts bolted onto it, while spatial is never defined. What do they mean by spatial?
typo :)

it's markfarrell.democracyos.org
I take Google constantly. The way it works (for me) is amazing. Basically whenever I have a hard problem I can just wiggle my fingers, stare at the screen for a few minutes, and then BAM! I know how people usually solve that problem. Its like my mind has expanded and tapped directly into other people's experiences.