skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally just had to fix this error in my colleague's code. It looked a little more like:

public foo(Bar bar) {
Bar updatedBar = baz(bar);
//Lots (10+ lines) of code
return finishProcess(bar); //Note, this should have been updatedBar.
}

Now, again, I will not defend this as good code. Neither would my coworker. Mistakes happen, though. And while I will not claim that mutable code is free of defects and makes it easier to write troublefree code, I do take issue with the claim that immutability does accomplish this.
For a while there was an insulin-smuggling system organised on Compuserve to get bovine insulin into the US.

Some people with diabetes said that human insulin didn't give them the same hypo warning signs; bovine insulin wasn't available in the US and import was banned under BSE beef bans.
Wow, that sounds like a great deal. I'd been using True Test and True Track, from Kroger dealers and Walgreens. There isn't a Walmart anywhere near me (downtown Boston), but I'll see if I can get 'em online.
So you're going to steal a driver's phone, appropriate a car of the same make and model, and color, then replicate a plate, before the app requires you to sign back in (every 3 or 4 days or so).
Ask HN: How do you get into A/B testing?
Basically every time I read what Patrick writes on HN or Kalzumeus, I really want to get into A/B testing. I want to collect data and make changes based on data and figure out what worked and what didn't and hypothesize on where to go next. Coming from a web design background, the degree of objectivity fascinates me.

But none of my side projects have enough traffic to A/B test. And that's the problem.

I doubt that most people A/B test their web sites. It seems like there's a market here. Does anyone have a tip or two for breaking into it?
A similar approach is linked to in the article's comments in
http://www.inetbase.com/scripts/ddos/ddos.sh

from http://deflate.medialayer.com/
I'm Really looking forward to this project.
Congratulations! A welcome change in healthcare.

Are you building a relationship with the hospitals and clinics so that we wont't have to talk to them, but just use your api to get and push our patient's data?
You, too, have ignored my point about sugar being unhealthy. It's not the fact that soda tastes "sweet" or "syrupy"; it's the fact that it's loaded with calories from sugar.
"Just don't use it again" might be easier said than done in a huge code base...
Are you without insurance because of income or a "qualifying event" like losing a job? If so, you should look at Commonwealth Connector (re: income) or the ACA options (if you had insurance that went away). Even a very cheap plan may end up including prescription coverage that includes those test strips (disclaimer: the only person using test strips whose finances I know anything about is on Medicare, which covers almost all of the cost).
Ctrl+F "pain" - nothing. Egg retrieval hurts, and OHSS is severely underreported. REs for whatever reason do NOT like to officially diagnose OHSS.
Artificial Neural Networks, Twitter Sentiment, and Forecasting: A Model of Oil
Honestly most companies I've worked for have blocked the entire Chinese IP block. Obviously Chinese hackers can use proxies but it honestly does cut out a TON of problems. The downside of course is you will never get a Chinese customer/viewer. In preparing to respond to this post I googled "China IP block" and pretty much every result was about how to configure .htaccess or iptables to block the entire country.
Erlang runs about K threads where K is the number of cores towards the OS. All processes are "logical" in the same memory space and usually they happen to be pretty small with a heap of a few kilobytes. As long as this is the case, then even swapping among a number of threads, say 100, will not take you out of the 2nd level cache.

If you have a large number of processes, then it is a problem. And do note that Erlang programs have way more pointer-redirections than a typical array-like approach which is common in Go and other imperative languages. That is the memory pressure by default will be higher than what you can achieve in languages with static types.

It tends to be a problem for tight computational kernels, and Erlang programmers usually fall down to C if they prove to become bottlenecks.

I have an older post here describing the schedulers: http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.dk/2013/01/how-erlang-does-s... which is still reasonably up-to-date to give the overview.
I'm pretty sure Tesla has service centers that employ mechanics.
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A little older but not dated is https://github.com/softwarerero/meteor-accounts-t9n that started as a translation of the meteor basic packages and it is easy to add translations for an application. Currently it comes with 24 translations of standard meteor packages. We have not implemente international date and calendar support so it is not a real i18n solution, just translation. But it works in many production projects, which answers the original question indirectly.
There was a good summary story on this on NPR this morning as well:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/19/393856788/why-is-...
Interesting facts about Arctic Ice (Querying a csv file with LokijS)
yawnnnn...

wake me when the clickbate is over.
6 notorious hackers and their second careers
I use 20 units daily. I believe the units are 1/5 mL each. That's definitely a better price than I can get here—although I did just find out I can do the old jar/syringe thing for $267! Ugh.
I'd like to add that it might not be impossible to spin up production of a generic low cost insulin... Or to develop direct to generic IP free insulins, but the newer insulins are preferred because of very nice pharmacodynamic properties. That said, the bestiary of insulins we have now is quite comprehensive and as they fall off the patent cliff I think the future looks nice for generics
what's the difference between 18F and USDS? i applied to USDS and never got a reply.
Show HN: Improving Facebook Paper
If you do not care about mutability, you will only get immutable data. You can then send the data between different threads, and it will not get corrupted. The reason is that whenever you attempt to change them, a new instance of the structure being changed will be allocated.

There is a lot to recommend a functional programming style in general and forgoing mutation of data in particular, but these are programming practices. Clojure allows mutation. Common Lisp allows it in ways that are as mind blowingly difficult to grok as macros. The shared structure that allows efficient immutability semantics allows a tsunami of value changes if someone is careless or malicious.
disclaimer: self-submission (author of LokiJS).
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Again, if you forget to use a variable, your compiler should let you know. If that wouldn't have prevented this error, then oh well, but it's not like this kind of problem is particularly difficult to solve or wrap your head around.

Also, I don't know why you're acting like this kind of error represents the ultimate failure of functional programming. Yes, sometimes you get your variables a little mixed up when you're using immutable data structures. You get used to it, and if that's the biggest headache that you come across when working with immutable data structures, then it seems like everything is more or less working as advertised.
> Female fertility declines sharply at 37

This, by the way, is largely a myth. Obviously fertility decreases with age, but it's a gradual tapering off until menopause, not a cliff at 37 (or 35 or 40 or any other red line). ~80% of women aged 35 to 40 can still conceive within a year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility#Female_fertility
My first version didn't account for the Len field either. It was only after a while someone told me about its purpose via a hint.
This is how I've bought my last two cars and I'm generally a huge fan. One question for you, though: Why do you exclude tax, title, and tags? My understanding was that "out the door" price included everything required to get the vehicle on the road. Especially tax - can a dealer even legally sell a car without collecting sales/excise tax?
>do the Japanese thing

I think this is important to stress, because "doing the Japanese thing" isn't a natural, subconscious thing. It's a deliberate "playing the part".

The uniformity of Japanese society isn't entirely due to the uniformity of its people. It's also strongly driven by people responsibly acting like they are "supposed to" in role play fashion.

There are many people who couldn't handle the role play and bowed out of mainstream work and life. It's kind of like not being able to guzzle down the coolaid at a "SV Startup" and thus bowing out.
Carbon is converted into oxygen in the heart of stars.

You presumably mean converting carbon dioxide into carbon and oxygen. Yes, we can do this. Plants are currently more energetically efficient at it, and they just grow, which is tough to beat.
The Pirate Bay's new network is making ISP blocks useless
I am right there with you
> at up to four locations in the state

Hooray for dismantling pointless regulation, but why leave this part in then?
Perhaps we need a regulatory change to allow import of a drug when it would be legal to make a generic in the US but no manufacturer is willing to do so.

Even better, perhaps this could be combined with aid to the country the drug is imported from. I was just reading an article on insulin outside the US that talked about an 8 year old girl that died because her family could not afford the cost of insulin (about $1.50 for 40 units).

We could allow Americans to import insulin from India if the American buys twice as much as they need, with 1/2 of their purchase being given to a poor Indian who needs but cannot afford it.
This research on coercing stem cells into eggs/sperm is hugely important and significant. It's the key bottleneck holding us back from safe, effective, affordable genetic modification of ourselves: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/535661/enginee...
Herman Melville set off on a Polynesian trip that became a famous literary hoax
I agree with you... my statements were actually specifically about 401k's, and whether or not they contribute to capital misallocation. Almost all 401k plans are much more restrictive than IRA accounts. Personally I think that a self-directed IRA is a fantastic vehicle where you can buy actual real estate etc, but they are so far outside the norm that they almost don't exist when speaking in generalities.

I also agree about the social acceptance of consumer debt. They say you learn from your mistakes, and boy have I done a lot of learning. Resolving to get and stay out of debt is a life changing decision for sure.
Privoxy HTTP proxy (though it is HTTP only) will help
Precisely, but as of today the document model is limited (at least in comparison to Mongo). I'm following these developments for a while and I agree that they'll be killer!
> I think pdonis lost the train of what he/she was precisely speaking about in one sentence of the last post.

Yes, I was pressed for time. I agree with the argument you are making in this sub-thread.
Nice meeting you at the lobby inside Zynga building in San Francisco! I couldn't speak with you in length due to the tight schedule, but I would love to meet up with you guys again and contribute to the project. Let me know if you happen to visit New York! -Claire
Jesus Christ. Why do we even allow this sort of pseudo-scientific "race realist" (read: racist) rubbish on Hacker News?

Japan is one of the most racist first-world countries in the world. Have you even seen their incessant xenophobia?
Such cultural aspects of Japan are indeed attractive and I hope they will endure. However, the current economic model is not sustainable for a country of 120M, or even 80 - 90% of that (after shrinkage of human assets). Ironically, from the perspective of the country as a whole, sustainable agriculture / craft industries are very far from being so.

I believe, Japan needs to find a way to attract economically stimulating diversity into the midst of its cultural homogeneity, without generating excessive social disapproval. OIST[1] is an interesting experiment and I'd like to keep an eye on its progress.

Otherwise, it'll eventually come down to a drastic upheaval, along the lines of Meiji or Post-WWII. And that can only happen after the other countries have laid down a bright new model for Japan to follow and improve upon. Which could be a long time hence since, as the article says, Japan is in the vanguard right now.

[1] http://www.oist.jp/
I quit my job, having some limited savings, in order to finish a project I'm working on (+ other reasons). So I probably won't qualify. I may look into it a little more, but my estimate at this point is that putting the time into figuring it out will likely cost more than just paying for it. I'll have insurance again within half a year.

Thanks for the tips though, I'll at least stash the names of those programs away just in case.
Replying to my own comment (I'm too late to edit it).

My comment is about that concept in general, not about Cloudflare in particular. I don't pretend to know and won't judge Cloudflare based on one sentence taken out of context. For all I know they are excellent members of the community; in fact they could do be doing good things behind the scenes without publicizing it, which might be wise if they are as exposed to China as other commenters say.
You see plenty of industrial areas from the limousine busses, and a few homeless people under bridges.

However, if Africa is third world and the US first world, then Japan is one better, in most respects, perhaps, zero'th world.
Kinda earthy, rather than carroty. Distinct beetrooty flavour.
No calling Miami on Bell's network in 1910.
Show HN: Another AsciiMath
If one is truly vile, it can take a couple tries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi
I was being very generous (good microscope, high-end Oki heat gun and soldering iron which professionals would use).

Chinese imports are at the $100 range for the gun and iron. Microscope, probably not unless you can get by with a USB microscope of some form. Although, you can get by with the same stuff that jewelers use (glasses, loupes, etc.)

And, I'm sorry, but good tools for doing anything cost actual money. Anvils, sledgehammers, etc. all cost near $50+ or so.

However, you are significantly underestimating the cost to hack on an Apple II. First, the Apple II was damn expensive--it was almost the price of a new CAR. Chips were way more expensive, and you needed a lot more of them. Edge connector cards and edge connectors were very expensive.

There was a reason why so many people loved the TRS-80 Color Computer for robotics and control applications for many years. It had analog ports you could get at with inexpensive connectors and the connector on the side had almost every digital signal and wasn't ferociously expensive (although, it wasn't cheap. IIRC, prototyping cards for it were in the $70 range in 1981).

Things are WAY better now for the hobbyist even with surface mount technology.
A Google fight (excluding Chinese) turns up 549,000 results for 草食系男子 and 571,000 for 草食男子. Much closer than I expected, but the 'kei' is definitely not required.
Magic leap demo
In any real software development scenario one of the problems faced is precisely "making sure nobody uses foo again", and "just don't use it again" is not a solution.

How do you insure that a maintenance coder ten years from now doesn't use it again?
Does this apply to vegetarian Japanese men? Does this mean vegetarianism is considered a negative (at least among men)?
This has been a huge topic of conversation for my wife and I for the past few years. Our entire social circle is the exact target demographic: early thirties, highly educated, career focused, etc etc. We got married earlier than nearly all our friends (age 28). We've had two kids before most of our friends are married. Our friends are now closing in on 35 and now thinking about how to have a family is becoming a serious concern. We were a generation raised being told consistently that a woman should be career focused, pursue as much education as possible, and that you don't have to ever worry about finding a partner and having kids until you're ready. And now we have friends freezing eggs, considering how to start a family without a partner while they can still easily have kids, etc. It just feels like the pendulum has swung too far in terms of my generation's expectations (or maybe naiveté). You can't change biology. It will be interesting to see what kind of advice I give my daughter when she's an adult, but I'm hoping her generation has a bit more of a middle-ground approach to thinking about the balance between career and starting a family.
Magic Leap shows off its augmented reality gaming experience
Maybe http://www.google.com/ideas/projects/project-shield/ can help?
For anyone who is interested in Ontario's GDP numbers, I found some data.
Excel so beware.

http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/economy/ecaccts/oea_hist.xls
Not sure how you thought my sentiments disagree with that.
Making CLI Plug-Ins Better with a New Architecture
Who said GC? We're just talking about memory-safety...
It's baffling to a lot of us on this side as well...
You can have hundreds of thousands of processes easily in Erlang. An Erlang process is very lightweight (only a few KB of memory!), yet, just like a real OS process it doesn't share its heap (memory) with the other ones. So if process 100000 crashes it won't affect the other 99999 left around.
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It if must be done, it must be done with a radical reform of ballot access, low electoral ceilings and easy-to-register third parties. However, it's not a panacea. Greece, Argentina, Brazil managed to have quite corrupt, dirty politics even with mandatory voting.
Obama Names David Recordon as Director of White House Information Technology
Tune Out the Crowd
How do I ensure that a maintenance coder ten years from now doesn't replace the entire function with

printf("butt\n");

? Yes, sometimes developers make mistakes, but -- again -- this is what the tests are for. And I have seen no evidence that immutable data structures are more prone to errors in "maintenance coding" than mutable data structures.
Historically Cloudflare have been quite strong in their support for free speech. For example, they run Project Galileo to protect public-interest sites against DDOS attacks: https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo

I'm guessing in this case it's simply a case of them choosing which battles to fight. They probably don't want to commit to run an open proxy for everyone in China to access banned websites. That would likely get them banned outright in China, which, for a CDN like Cloudflare, would really hurt their core business.
Exactly what about that could possibly be "safe" ? Even if it were medically safe, how would you make sure that people used it in societally acceptable ways and that it didn't imperil the long term genetic pool of the human race ?
You literally just judged a book by its cover in order to accuse its author of a lack of objectivity. God I hate you guys sometimes.
If it's possible to do deterministic builds of OpenSSL, it should be pretty easy to verify that, no?
> daycare is easier to afford, or a part time nanny.

OP said raising a child, not paying others to raise a child in your stead.
Basically the sovereign-country version of declaring bankruptcy, yes, except that it's messier because there is no bankruptcy court with jurisdiction to oversee it. You declare that you can't pay some or all of the outstanding debts, the creditors take a loss, your credit is ruined for the near-term future, some of it possibly ends up in various courts.

Alternately, you use the threat of that default to renegotiate the debt on more favorable terms. This also happens with personal bankruptcy, though the situations aren't quite analogous (some creditors will negotiate a more favorable repayment plan with debtors who seem like they might otherwise declare bankruptcy).

Unfortunately for Greece, afaict they have less leverage now than they did in 2010. At the time, much of their debt was held by German and French banks, so there was a mutually assured destruction angle. France/Germany would probably not sit by and let their large banks go down with the ship in the case of a Greek bankruptcy. So they would be forced to bail out the situation one way or the other, either bailing out Greece and thereby indirectly bailing out their banks by giving Greece money to pay them, or letting Greece default and then bailing out their banks directly. Now most of the debt has been moved to institutional holdings (the European Central Bank, IMF, etc.) as part of the bailout, which is less directly threatening. Probably Greece should've bargained harder at the time, but the previous government was a bit spineless.
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My apologies, I got lost inside my own brain, as I often do. After re-reading I realize that I did not detect the tone of your commentary, so I respectfully withdraw any criticism of it. I still stand by my own statement however :)
$20,000 is roughly the cost of childcare for the year. It would be better spent on letting parents use that money towards that, allowing both partners to work.

With a large enough population you could probably open an on-site care facility for children, which buys you better employee satisfaction, since you could integrate it with their workplace IT.

That said, the $20k is a one time cost to freeze eggs, whereas the $20k you would give (to a partner or other childcare) would cover just one year. The egg freezing seems like the more economical choice, from Apple/FB's point of view.
Ada Initiative: New Executive Director
No idea since I didn't finish the article. When I read the following:

"The Tesla Model S will be self-steering."

1. The Tesla Model S does not yet self-steer.

2. Nobody, including Musk, has the ability to say with certainty that the Model S will self-steer.

I was done.

I have no interest in made up bullshit. Context exists in the English language, and no reasonable person would take that sentence in the manner the article writer took it.

Too many of these blogs want to pontificate about stupid shit.
90% of develop skills is trial and error. So in this sense it's not really any different or particularly difficult, I'm certain most people would do ok at it given enough trial and error experience.
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The hugely surprising fact of the article, for me, was:

"Just 2,000 babies have been born from cryogenically frozen eggs in the world"

That's crazy to me; this all sounds like a huge bet on complete unknowns.

I also wonder if this is going to be the end of grandparents in affluent circles - if people wait until their 40s for kids, and their kids do the same...not much time to hang out with grandma and grandpa.
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health kit linked glucose monitor seems like a win win.
The risk of defects is more salient and does indeed cliff.

Risk of having a child with Down Syndrome:

At age 20, 1 in 1,441

At age 25, 1 in 1,383

At age 30, 1 in 959

At age 35, 1 in 338

At age 40, 1 in 84

At age 45, 1 in 32

At age 50, 1 in 44

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_maternal_age#Risk_of_b...
Are there any successful countries with mandatory voting?
Terminator-Style 3D Printer Materializes Objects from Pools of Liquid
Ah, my inexperience with Apple's platforms is showing.
This this an unfortunate language that won't let you overwrite or "shadow" bindings? In F#, for instance, I try to scope and/or rebind identifiers that shouldn't be used.
Every state, as far as I know, has some kind of program to make sure no one has to go without.

The trouble is not paying for it, there is help, the trouble is they make it a huge pain, with annoying paperwork.