skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link!

It seems to me that you don't have to compile your app in Visual Studio, though? The video on the Project Astoria page shows an Android app being built for Windows Store using Eclipse on a Mac.

That's a key difference compared to the iOS support. To port an iOS app to Windows, you need to build it in Visual Studio. To port an Android app to Windows, you use your existing toolchain and just produce another .apk with some different dependencies.
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I was speaking about live programming, during the interview. I much prefer asking candidates to write a task on their own time, and then use that code as basis for conversation during the interview. You get all the insights on how good a programmer he is, without the sweaty palms effect.
You can still go to grooveshark.com and see your localStorage.
Naturally. I did not mean to sound as absolute as I did.
Its hardly a matter of being wrong one year and accurate the next. They make wrong predictions every single year. Here's the US:

http://www.ssti.us/2013/12/new-travel-demand-projections-are...
I think that's not 100% true in many culture the social pressure to get a good job will force kids into doing medicine ,law and if you cant get into that Engineering.

The number who do it for the "love" of science are a small minority.
You might want to post to HN mods to let them know. Or maybe flag the posts.

It's clear to me that you wrote a post which got killed by user flags. And that someone wrote a post, which smhenderson replied to, and that person later deleted their post. Their deleted post currently sits below your flagkilled post, and donhopkins has mistakenlythought that your flagkilled post is a self-deleted post and that people with showdead can see user deleted posts (theycan't) and then launched an attack on you.
The "artificial currency" would ensure votes accurately reflect the importance an individual attaches to an issue relative to other votes, but in practice this gives significantly more "voting power" to groups which seldom participate in votes, even where it is difficult to believe the intensity of their preferences are stronger. Given a fixed budget to be used over a number of votes, an essentially apolitical person told by their community leader to use all their votes in opposing a particular issue they know little about will have more influence on the outcome than a highly-informed, politically-motivated and civic minded regular referendum participant, yet it's difficult to argue the absolute intensity of the preference of the regular voter is lower (this is of course related to the standard welfare economics criticism of cardinal utilities).

This isn't a problem if the individuals apportioning their vote budget are similarly-highly-motivated legislators prioritising from a known raft of policies whilst being well informed about which initiatives are most likely to meet with strong opposition (though it significantly advantages parties able to coordinate the efficient distribution of their votes). Probably they can handle the complexities of a voting budget that compensates the losers too.

But for a broader electorate that doesn't excel in performing stochastic optimisation problems, doesn't have good intelligence to help them vote tactically, doesn't know what future votes might be, the quadratic nature of the voting system doesn't deal with the problem of budgeted and secret voting being a game of iterated prisoners' dilemma; it might even intensify the problems.

It's not too difficult to devise a scenario in which it actually makes the "tyranny of the majority" problem worse: a minority of bigots wish very strongly to enact a law against a minority of regular targets. The disinterested majority wishes to avoid diluting their future voting power by participating, whilst the victimised minority wishes to hold back some of their voting power to avoid being disenfranchised when faced with conceivable future bullying initiatives[1]. In a secret ballot, the bigots can conceivably win if the groups are a similar size (even if they can subsequently reverse the decision)

[1]This is mitigated if the losers get their own votes back as compensation, but actually worsened if they get higher compensation, in which case optimum strategy in a iterated electoral battle is to win by the narrowest possible margin, whilst voting for something incredibly unpopular is a practical way to increase your future influence.
The weird thing is that such a product -- AppKit on Windows -- existed and was made by Apple itself. It was called "Yellow Box for Windows" and shipped as part of WebObjects at one point.

Now the tables are turned, and Microsoft is building an "iOS Yellow Box" of their own.
middlling paying job if you really want to make bank you do law or target wall street/ the city not the STEM professions (outwith possibly medicine)
I completely agree. This is a crucial feature of QV with multiple alternatives. QV also has a nominating process to ensure the right things are on the ballot.
Great article. I play a 60s Ludwig kit but never really dig earlier than that era or maybe the 50s.
I chose Caltech in 2004 partly because of the status and partly because their financial aid was much better than the other 3 national colleges I got into. Off the top of my head the relative cost of education for me would have been:

- Caltech (low 5-figures)

- MIT (+50%)

- Notre Dame (+100%)

- Stanford (+150% at least)

Also, not much snow in Pasadena. Too soon? :-)
Yes, in this paper (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2571012) I also consider the case where people make mistakes. You can study equilibrium even in models where people are not perfectly rational.
One of the major problems with police in the U.S. is actually that they are trained and paid too little. Most forces require about a semester of training, which consists mostly of when and how to use force. If there was more and better training and better pay, we might get better cops too.

I'd be willing to pay more as a taxpayer for that (rather than just more poorly trained and paid cops and urban assault vehicles).
First identify your use cases.

If its mostly browsing, music, documentation and a bit of development - then a netbook would meet all your requirements. I bought myself an asus x205ta laptop, and can't recommend it enough. It has good build quality, and has one of the best screens at its price range.

Weighs less than 1 kg (~980 gms), A 11.6 screen size, easily one of the best trackpads in its price range, full chiclet style keyboard, 2GB ram that can easily handle a dozen open tabs.. Although the built-in storage is a mere 32GB of which approx. 20GB is available to the user. This can be expanded with a microsd card. As i said, it all depends on your use cases. For me, this is the laptop with the right tradeoffs ( tradeoffs i was willing to give up anyway ).

Did i mention, the sound quality is good too. No usb 3.0 though.

I have setup vagrant on this machine and ssh into it to do any linux stuff ( am a sys admin and i like to have a terminal to try out stuff / setup local dev environment ).
From the top review:

> The GNU Make Book is intended for people who already have an understanding of GNU Make, what it is, and the basics of how and why someone would use it.

So a whole book about the Make tool, and yet it still requires prior understanding of Make?
We will. The TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) will be launching in a few years. The two will sort of act as a spotter-sniper pair -- TESS detecting planets and JWST zooming in. Both are far more powerful than their predecessors, Kepler and Hubble.

There is also plans (not yet funded) to use "starshade" occulter to directly observe planets that don't pass in front of the parent star (by blocking the starlight).

My personal estimate is that we'll definitely detect oxygen in a planetary spectrum within the next 10 years. Which will mostly likely mean photosynthesis on the surface.
This is one thing I struggle with. I usually start in a notebook and then eventually want/need to port to a module environment. It would be nice if there were some guidelines or support for this sort of transition. Any pointers?
Can you explain further what you mean? I recently had an x-ray that was not covered by my insurance, and the hospital submitted it to my insurance to ensure that it would apply to my deductible.

I guess you mean a fee that is uncovered in the sense that it would not apply against the deductible.

(It's total BS, the price I paid was 5x the medicare reimbursement rate, like 15x the medicaid reimbursement rate and I would speculate at least 2x what the insurance company would pay (based on researching the 'typical cost' of the particular x-ray on the internets).)
Quora's next big competitor?
I secretly lived in my office for 500 days
I thought you could upload to Grooveshark.
List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations
Only because they are the least developed. Each country has its own peak agri though e.g. China had its in the 70s.
As someone who has recently gone through a property purchase and had to deal with the forms mandated by the new "reform" laws mentioned in the article, it's pretty clear that the laws have made things much more confusing. I've purchased property before, and this time around the forms were much more confusing, and downright misleading at times. Talking with the pros involved in the purchase, they unanimously agreed - they were constantly having to explain what the forms meant to seasoned home buyers. It's clear that gov't bureaucrats should not be trusted to specify forms that are intended to make any sense.

This article is a good sign that now that high deductible plans are becoming the norm, people are actually interested in what's being billed and in controlling costs. Hopefully this will lead to a reform where health insurance is more like other insurances (purchased by the person needing it instead of employer, purchasable across state lines, ...). I know that one of the reasons I keep my car insurance company is that the mechanics of doing business with them is nearly frictionless.
I cannot completely follow this scenario, but if you can write it up as an actual equilibrium analysis I would be fascinated to see this. I have worked very hard to come up with cases where QV does worse than one-person-one-vote and have never found a case where it occurred by a significant margin. But your basic point, that allowing exchange with a broader set of goods to make sure that if all voting is more valued by people they can have more overall voting influence, is something I very much agree with and why I think that while artificial currency is an improvement over one-person-one-vote eventually using cash will be better.
> Based on the OP's description, we're talking about someone who isn't capable of producing quality work.

Ehh - I've seen coders who can produce quality work, but sometimes choose not to because of (perceived) time pressure or (perceived) lack of value.

Their mental model for code generation is to generate crap, then identify the patterns, then refactor until it's not crap - where the last two steps are "optional".

Time pressure: A new hire likely feels some pressure to prove they can be productive.

Value: New grads may not be in the habit of maintaining code (having written lots of throwaway assignments), not so new programmers may be used to writing throwaway prototypes, or "code ownership" situations where readability by coworkers isn't valued.

Heck, it's quite possible they realize their current code is crap, and may even plan to clean it up in a subsequent changelist. I do similar on solo projects & private branches for the sake of keeping 1 changelist ~ 1 change parity, as it makes it easier to figure out refactoring mistakes. That said, those changes should generally be either done before the code review request, or noted as intended followup - and some pushback is warranted.
How would you feel about "exponential voting", which would be like quadratic voting but the cost is 2^N instead of N^2?
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Passport Index – How much power does your passport have?
Location: Russia

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: to place where a lot of sun and sea

Technologies: WEB, JavaScript, html5, canvas, Backbone, React, browserify, TypeScript, CoffeeScript

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/lavrton, http://lavrton.github.io/portfolio/

Email: lavrton @@ gmail [dot] com

I like javascript and open source tools. I made some javascript plugins for different frameworks. Also I like TDD and do complete my work with honestly. I mainly work with client side Javascript, but also know my way around Python, NodeJS.
There are also those that live in developed world selected groups. I live in Beijing and would love a car, but a parking spot goes for a few hundred thousand dollars, the car itself would be $50-60k, and I would still need to get lucky in the license plate lottery. Well, at least taxis are cheap and ubiquitous.
Given the comments in this thread, I think the author should be thrilled! What great feedback!
You are absolutely right that QV can create speculative dynamics like a market place. Almost everything about QV is similar to the market mechanism. But do you really think that there are many cases where you would prefer rationing, effectively what one-person-one-vote does, to a marketplace? Marketplaces are imperfect in all sorts of ways, but few think communism worked better. Markets have natural self-correcting features that rationing does not. While speculation can occur, it creates natural incentives for those on the opposite side to offset it. I discuss this in some quantitative detail in this paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2571012
Your CEA levels were two orders of magnitude higher than normal at a point were it was sufficiently advanced to be diagnosed from symptoms (as it fortunately happened in your case). If you want to diagnose early, you need a much lower threshold and the CEA test is not good enough. It's not like people have not been trying to find screening protocols...

According to http://www.clinchem.org/content/47/4/624.full

> CEA as a Marker for Colorectal Cancer

> screening

> In screening for colorectal cancer, the aim should be to detect disease at either Dukes’ A or B stage. Malignancy detected at more advanced stages is unlikely to be more treatable than that detected through the usual course of events. Using an upper limit of normal of 2.5 μg/L, Fletcher (19) calculated that CEA has a sensitivity of 36% and a specificity of 87% in screening for Dukes’ A and B colorectal cancer. These findings, combined with the low prevalence of this malignancy in unselected populations, render the positive predictive value of CEA unacceptably low and thus of little value in screening healthy subjects. For the present, therefore, we must rely on fecal occult blood and endoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer (20).

What does 36% sensitivity and 87% specificity mean? Imagine that you test ten thousand 40-year olds and twenty-five of them do actually have colon cancer (this is more or less consistent with statistics telling that 0.23 of them will be diagnosed with colon cancer before turning 50). You will get a true positive result in 9 cases (out of 25) and a false positive in 1297 (out of 9975). So only 0.7% of the positive cases are real, and you missed two thirds of the cancers.
Antivirus test labs call out Chinese security company as cheat
TLS doesn't require CA. Browsers just decided they do, so they're rejecting any such https connections (anon DH and anon ECDH connections).
Ask HN: Would you benefit from a GitHub like survey tool?
I like survey tools from some reason, Typeform and sruveymonkey. It helps in collecting data on a wide range of tasks from market research to planning trips.
What is lacking in these tools is its "closedness", there is a lot of data out there that could be useful to many but with a limited view.
I want to therefore build a tool that is completely based on the sharing model.
Your suggestions as always are valuable.
Keep in mind the police response was to the mayor coming against a ruling from the legal system, which the police are a part of.

The police should respect the mayor, but it's more important that they - and the major - respect the law.
While technically impressive, I wonder how much economical sense does it make for an iOS developer to go this route. For a small install base you open up a support front and now your code needs to work against the UIKit implementation of Windows Phone that by all likelihood will have its own bugs and limitations. You also might have planned to use Swift on iOS and this isn't possible when you want to compile your code for Windows Phone.

Edit: I meant to talk about Swift, not Swipe.
In this day and age when almost everyone has an HD camera in the pocket such incidents dont happen anymore.
Its purpose is deeper understanding not advocacy
Hey guys, we built this at the London Business School hackathon yesterday. Look forward to seeing your feedback :)
I did, the guy probably thought I was kidding :)
Your right. There are a lot of things that I struggle with, but over the years I have constructed a way to live which helps to minimise any difficulties I may face. I own very few things, I keep all my essential daily items in the same place every day and I have chosen a career where I don't have to deal with things that I struggle with.

The best advice I can offer is to accept your lack of control over some things. If I don't listen to my body and mind I will suffer. Like what you mentioned with sleep, I actually find it more beneficial to sleep than to work through the tiredness. That way I can come to the subject with a fresh mind.
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I had surgery last year. There was a steady stream of bills, some duplicates, some not, and I had no idea how much I needed to pay (to say nothing about what the charges were for). My wife went to the hospital to clear things up and they couldn't even tell her how much they wanted me to pay - and this was months after the surgery. Finally, after a couple weeks had passed, they decided what I was supposed to pay. Good chance someone just wrote down a number.
When I shared a link to this article in Facebook, Facebook recommended this "related link":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
[the interviewer asks why didn't he take the plea deal]

> [Because] I didn't think I broke the law, and if I wasn't willing to stand up and say that, how could I look my children in the eye and tell them with a straight face they should stand up for the right thing, or the underdog, as I try to teach them to do.

This is why I don't moralize at other people ever, and why I think the law is a poor substitute for morality. I believe him when he says 1) that he didn't think he did anything wrong, and 2) that the choices in front of him looked different that how they looked to third-party observers.

It's stupidly easy to tell someone, "You should have [taken the plea deal|not done that in the first place|...]." But I think people say those things to 1) distance themselves from their interlocutor and 2) say something that feels good to say, but is useless (not actionable at this point!), obvious dreck to hear.

Of course I'm not faulting the interviewer for asking the questions in this case; the answers were enlightening.

Marshall McLuhan had a great quote against moralizing: "Don't ask whether it is right or wrong. Instead try to figure out what is going on!"
As we prove in this paper (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2264245), a small group can never beat out a large population with an overall preference in the opposite direction in equilibrium, regardless of what they announce. The reason is that any small individual or group can never really buy very many votes. $10 billion buys only 100,000 votes. Do you think this could really deter others from voting? Now a large group could deter other from voting, but of course this can happen under one-person-one vote as well. If you think Obama is the overwhelming favorite you do not show up. But that is not really how things work out in practice and I doubt they would under QV. To begin with, the members of the large group would have no incentive to show up either. It requires assuming a very strong asymmetry across groups which will mess up any system.
It involves a couple of cranes and a lot of moving stuff that's too light to justify bringing the crane over but still seriously heavy, at least where I was (Italy).
The book "Spurious Correlations", as plugged on that page.
Add a (2012).
> how many are actually moving at any given point in versus how many are parked?

Doesn't most (like >80% in normal usage) of the depreciation cost incur while the car is moving, as opposed to being parked?
That's not the normal case. The people the military actually accepts are smarter than average and come from a family that's wealthier than average. These are guys (mostly) who are in to pick up marketable skills or they're there because that's what they want to do.

If your prospects are that dim it's likely they won't take you.
http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Joo_Janta_200_Super-Chroma... It is, if you want to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger.
Indeed. Tell any ex-NeXT person circa 1996 that MS would be effectively building their own OPENSTEP for Windows and no one would have believed you.

Will be interesting see how they implemented it and whether they used Apportable's Foundation (which looks really well written).
I live in Europe and i own a car, but don't use it to commute. It takes 10 minutes by bus and 15+ by car. Plus it takes min 10 EUR a day to park my car in the city. And the bus is free.
I saw project astoria first time on nokia X website developer. It seems microsoft keep continue the project and re marketing again and call it universal windows app. If you have apk file and not connect to google service, all you need is just upload it from the website. And also if you change the icon asset, people almost cannot see the different
This is a great question and one of the central ones my analysis addresses (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2264245). You can read the results in details for the general guarantees, but a few observations about the scenario you describe. First, doubling group size at worst increases by a factor of the square root of two the number of votes you can buy with the same amount of money. To double the votes you buy you would have to increase aggregate expenditures by the square root of two as well. Second, I disagree that these coalitions would be stable. If you gave someone $35 million, why wouldn't they just keep the full $35 million? Under 1p1v there is no incentive to cheat on the coalition...you get to keep your money regardless. Under QV there is a huge incentive to cheat on the coalition and it could be made even larger by giving bounties for ratting out to the police, which has been extremely effective in antitrust in breaking cartels. In fact the situation is extremely analogous to antitrust. Cartels do harm market performance, but I think few of us would, as a result of them, prefer rationing over markets.
It is what is known to be legally safe. We do it all the time in GNU Octave, and we always tell people to not read Matlab source code when implementing Octave functions.

Besides, I just don't feel like it's fair to the R copyright authors. They worked hard to produce an implementation and they copylefted it, and I heavily relied on their implementation in order to reimplement it myself.

According to the United States Copyright Office[1], the algorithm itself can't be copyrighted, so that's why I wrote a high-level description of the algorithm.

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[1] "Copyright protection is not available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, concepts, or layouts."

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ61.pdf