skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implied a slightly scrambled chronology. To clarify, we kept the expensive COBRA coverage from my wife's old job in MD, because prior to ACA there were no good individual insurance options for her and the kids. Now, with ACA, we have an individual plan purchased from Florida Blue. It is very expensive, but not much more so than the two separate plans we had, and the better coverage, less confusion from the insurance being out of state, and having everyone on the same deductible and OOP max make it worthwhile.
To give another parable: According to Wikipedia, the Weatherman later known as "..the Weather Underground Organization, was an American militant organization that carried out a series of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots from 1969 through the 1970s." They committed acts of violence in the name of doing what was right for America. To save America from the evils of the government. Should we forgive and forget their actions, simply because it was in the interest of making America better? To righting what they perceived was unjust policy?

I contend that's a very slippery slope, because where do we draw the line and say: If you break only these laws, it's ok so long as you're "doing it for America" but if you break these other laws, that's going to far. America should not be an excuse for unlawful behavior.

Laws exist, morally right or wrong, so that they can hopefully be applied equally to everyone. That never happens, but we cannot just turn a blind eye to some crimes versus others because of morality, or "doing what is right" for America. Ms. Manning broke a law willingly, knowingly, with full appreciation for her actions. She has admitted doing so in response to American policy towards gay marriage. She's guilty, and she should be punished.
From CToGD:

In other words, when a project gets handed down from above to launch in, say, 3 months, there's no way in hell you can get the servers requisitioned, approved, and installed in that time. It became standard practice for each team to slightly over-request server capacity with each project and throwing the excess hosts into a rainy day pool, immediately available and repurposeable as required.

I know of a Social Security Administration acquisition back in the days of 100 MHz processors. The bureaucracy took so long with this, by the time the order could be put out to suppliers, 100 MHz processors were no longer available, so SSA ended up with a bunch of workstations that were 166 MHz processors down-clocked to 100 MHz. (Otherwise, they would have had to start the whole process over again.)
Firefox Bugzilla: Remove Built-In Support for FTP
Or paste the URL into Google and then click on the link from there and it will show up without the paywall. (still annoying)
>most people don't sense changes in exchange rate

Perhaps if you're American. Here in Canada, people are made aware of the US/CDN exchange rate daily, and large moves (like recently) are news.
Blame the Banks
First, the demonstration Kahneman arranged is simply a demonstration of regression to the mean and is not evidence of the validity of his hypothesis.

Is the hypothesis itself wrong? We can test the validity of the hypothesis on all people by testing it on a subset: teachers with expertise in the subject they are teaching. Kahneman hypothesis implies that such teachers reward students only when their level of achievement is higher than it has ever been in the past and punish them whenever their achievement is below their highest level of achievement.

This does not hold true in my experience of my own teachers. I was occasionally praised for doing well or punished (in some sense) for doing badly but much more often when I spoke with my teachers they remembered trends: I started bad and got better slowly, I started off well but seemed to get lazy, etc.

In my experience teaching first year math courses I would only automatically remember individual achievements if they were very surprising. For example, a student who was failing suddenly moving into the top of the class on a test.

I think people have a natural tendency to focus on these kind of outlying events and assign them special significance that they may not actually have. Although Kahneman does not mention this tendency his hypothesis suggests he also believes this.

But compared to the interesting outlying events the vast majority of student's achievements are not memorable. This means a teacher will not automatically remember them. If the teacher does not choose to remember them then they will be forgotten.

Since a teacher's capacity to remember is limited, trying to remember all student's achievements or failures was low on my priority list. Knowing a student's general trajectory lets you tailor your approach when working with them on a problem whereas individual achievements or failures are usually just noise. Other teachers I knew seemed to feel the same way.

Of course my own experience is only a data point against Kaneman's hypothesis about people in general. I am sure there could be types of teaching environments where something like what he is suggesting could be true. If the performance of the students on a particular test were tied to the teacher's compensation or the opinion of people they respect or who have power over them then I can see how a student's performance on that test would get highest priority in a teacher's mind and this could lead to reactions of the kind Kaneman describes.
Notebook: Moleskine.

Pen: Uniball Retractable Jetstream 1.0 thickness. I give them to the people I care about. I have many packs at home. I mourn when the pen runs out.
I'm not saying they are, I'm just telling you that's what they are doing.
Google joins OpenStack
Did they get a way to insert new candidates into the system?
Lol, that looks like an automated response from a bot.

Moderation could add value to the community by removing these posts.
I think any law, because where do you draw the line? Once you draw a line it will always be pushed and blurred in the interest of "yes, but.." arguments. There were multiple laws broken here, not just one, and not just for the good of a nation.
It sounds like you're describing paypal
How does Hoover apparently not have anyone who understands the concept of Total Cost of Ownership? If there's a cheaper TCO that involves having a vacuum cleaner, then people are going to buy the vacuum cleaner and throw it away!
The web today does indeed look broken. But this (oh, especially CNN) example is only to show that this problem is merely organisational. If there is no QA process in organisation, quality criteria are non-existent. If there are ever shifting bossy MBAs on top design positions, it will always be like that and get worse in time. The only thing we can do as "web crafters" is to make our personal sites suck less. When it comes to job, who will sacrifice job security for the sake of "better user experience"?
Solar panels floating on water will power Japan's homes
> lumping him in with a hack like Tom Clancy

While not all of his 17 best sellers merited their sales, I'd say a handful of them were good enough to set Clancy a far cry away from a 'hack'.
Finnish Defence Forces' Cyber Challenge
I had about the same feeling. Telerik components come to mind when thinking about extra/unnecessary complexity.
So having done cost estimation before, this is horrible. About all it would be good for is the initial swag at brochure ware. Generally speaking cost estimates should never be a fixed point and should be done in a range, with assumptions (that when violated) would allow the cost numbers to change. In addition, there's no measurement of complexity through requirements. Basically all these estimators are useful for only the simplest software projects with extremely limited requirements and scope. The cost of the software is a function of the known requirements which are carefully enumerated during costing to generate some sort of complexity model. (For example, function point analysis). That's fed into a cost model that translates that complexity model into a dollar range. That interval is then used to generate a final, contractual, number. But notice all the work that went into that estimate. What's more is that the estimate is refined during the work such that new data is incorporated into the complexity model, allowing changes in scope or requirements to be re-priced.
Publishing public records isn't abuse. If a website takes such information down at an individual's request, it's a courtesy not an obligation.
The documents regarding that incident were pulled from an Inspector General's folder regarding an open investigation. That hadn't shown themselves to be anything. They were actively looking in to the incident. If anything Manning tainted the investigation and may have even prevented justice from being served.

There is a difference between releasing data that is strictly related to the public interest and taking massive amounts of data, including information about very sensitive operations and diplomatic discussions and releasing them without regards to the damage they may cause. It's reckless.
Beer?
Create JSON objects using the Partial Response query language
gfortran which is part of GCC supports modules (this is because Fortran the language supports modules).

If you meant modules for C or C++, no (as far as I know), probably because C and C++ have no standard for modules. In a recent talk Bjarne Stroustroup talks about his hope that C++17 will include support for modules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2egL4y_VpYg
> Write-only variables are now detected and optimized out.

That's probably something one should keep in mind when writing micro-benchmarks.
Oh, telerik also has wonderful system of web components for IIS, and its CMS powers Iranian governmental sites. Which given Iranian networks are not exactly the fastest, gives very interesting experiences for those inside the max2MBit world.
How about work hours, programming hours, developer hours, or perhaps even just simply hours?

Could in theory be done by a really talented member of anothery species.
I think the point was you get what you pay for. $56/hr is probably above market rate in those locations for straight up development work, not the fully loaded costs of a project that size which will need to include requirements gathering, design, UX, testing, integration, etc outside of straight up development work.
The Mirage of the Financial Singularity
+1 on this. Would be extremely helpful due to slow download/upload speeds over the wall. I've heard tell of this but can't seem to find much about it.
How much does an exploit cost?
I do know the idea behind RFCs.

And I hope that other people don't think I used the wording 'opinionated' in a negative way. I do know about the concept of a BDFL, and I do know that Guido was behind those comments.

But I still stand behind my assessment that the PEP 8 comments are opinionated. And maybe rightly so. ;)
I don't think this was a whistleblower issue. Rather than responding with a yes or no, I think we should consider if breaking a law in the furtherance of whistleblowing is justified. If someone reveals classified information, does claiming "whistle blower" status automatically make the initial crime excusable? I disagree. Otherwise why not make it legal to divulge classified material? Then blowing the whistle can be done safely without fear of prosecution because then no law was broken.
> What a honeypot.

How? They didn't dump a list of who is participating but Jordan Wiens was named and has a public profile and has published security research. I don't think black hat hackers are decloaking from tor to take a stab at some airline miles.

I wouldn't say the people are outright dumb; maybe they enjoy it and have a vacation lined up. Obviously, it isn't as financially rewarding as other BB programs, but outside of the compensation it doesn't seem overtly malicious. What rubs you the wrong way here?
Did Tom Clancy write each of those books? It'd be interesting to see if he's less hacky if we ignore the ghost-written books.
A Product Designer's Playbook for Working with Engineers
The show Trawlermen which was shown in the UK was subtitled for native audiences since the accents on some of the men were so thick & unintelligible (at least to my friends' & my own ears in S England).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawlermen_(TV_series)

Edit: Further article on the subtitling and the reactions to it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5244738.stm
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China unveils plans for far side Moon landing and hints at future ‘lunar base’
Let's Build: Instagram with Rails. Log in and tell me I'm beautiful
> convince the masses money will rain from the sky.

Indeed, the money rains from the sky to a lot of people. This is basic clientelism and works very well for the politicians.
How is it mathematically improbable that someone will engage in insider trading?
Okay that inceptionism article is REALLY cool. This was my favourite image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FPDgxlc-WPU/VYIV1bK50HI/AAAAAAAAAl...

It's a single image of a "cloud" as has been interpreted by a neural network trained to recognize animals... so it interpreted many of the cloud shapes as different animals!
Hey, I am the developer of this app. Thanks for the feedback on the color distance. Also, I wasn't aware of the Otsu method, but have thought of doing something very similar - I will give it a shot for sure. I have added an enhancement item in the issue tracker.
It probably will once the C++ committee figures out how they want to do it...
In Finland we have a mandatory army service, this is the test you need to take and send in your answer before 20th of July if you want to apply for the army's cyber security division.
More info here in Finnish: http://erityistehtavat.puolustusvoimat.fi
We'll have to agree to disagree, I find De Villiers' writing bland at best, and very repetitive. That said, yes, you probably find some decent writers within the genre.
It's what it has always been. Sites/companies that go the extra mile and provide better user experiences get rewarded; other that don't lose market share. At the end of the day, if the content is good enough most people will deal with the crappy load times.
I see it. The weird thing in front of J

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He said "Until the 90s..."
relax, you came across like a frat boy. you got downvoted. stop talking now.
The best thing about paper ballots is their simplicity: even children can understand how to count and monitor them. Nearly any citizen has the skills to participate and to spot fraud.

In comparison only a small percentage of the populace understands programming, fewer still would be able to write a secure voting system and fewer still would be able to debug such a voting system (code is harder to debug than to write).

Given the above and the high stakes of government elections I think we have yet to find a technology superior to simple paper ballots.
Yep, see your point, though the more detail you add the less accessible the tool is to at least give rough ideas of cost. Some people have crazy ideas of how much it costs to build apps. We had a customer this week who wanted a Kickstarter clone in 3 weeks! :-)
Lots of missions and mission phases don't require bigger antennas. Look at http://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html for current usage of the Deep Space Network. As I type this, 3 smaller dishes in Goldstone are handling 4 Mars missions, all solar powered, Odyssey at 14.22 kb/s. At Canberra, the only active dish is a small one, receiving data at 159 b/s from Voyager 2 (!). Which, I grant, doesn't have a lot to say right now.

3 sites, 1 big dish and 3 smaller ones at each, except for a 4th smaller one at Goldstone, that's a serious investment and I gather enough for now, especially since satellite technology now allows storing massive amounts of data (8 GB for New Horizons) for download as the mission and ground stations allow. Note also that after New Horizons finishes downloading the data from its flyby in November 2016, it won't have a lot to say unless and until its Kuiper belt object flyby.
The exchange rate is news, however I haven't really noticed any effect on my life (maybe when I travel, however the places I visit in the US are still cheaper than where I live).
There are significant safety issues involved in strapping a robot to your body and letting it move you around, no? That's why the FDA is involved.
Well, I do not think brokers are eager to buy Venezuelan IT start-up shares just because Big Mac is most severely undervalued there.
Good luck getting there if you are trying to use Uber.
Large Hadron Collider discovers new pentaquark particle
Hell even William Gosset was doing "data science" when he popularized the Student T distribution while working for the Guinness Brewery back in 1908.
That's quite an extreme view. I'm sure you've already taken into account the horrifying laws that have existed and do exist in the U.S. and other countries. I'm not sure why you mention multiple laws and good of the nation as you've already stated your position is that it doesn't matter what law is broken or what mitigating circumstances there are.
I'm working on TimeBlock, a new agile work method that helps managers become leaders and help Makers to be more in flow so they get stuff done.

The method is also focused on getting Makers to be transparent once a week thereby informing Managers, in exchange Managers leaves Makers alone during the day so they get more time in flow.

Since last month we have signed two paying customers up for the app, rebuild the frontend in mvc and added a kanban board for managers to collect ideas before they are transformed into TimeBlocks.

Read more here http://timeblock.com and sign up on our launch list to learn more about the method and be the first to get access to the app.
McPaneer sandwich index?
Community developed Material Design icons
From `man wc`:

A line is defined as a string of characters delimited by a <newline> character. Characters beyond the final <newline> character will not be included in the line count.

I first noticed this a few years ago when I tried to count results of some command, for example:

# echo foo | grep bar | wc -l
0
# wc -l <<<"$(echo foo | grep bar)"
1

(Yes I'm aware of grep -c)
Well, at least you have a choice to send that information. Much unlike the majority of web browsing experience, where you send quite a bit of information without having any choice at all. The author claims it is a "toy" which basically means use at your own peril. c.f. happy fun ball
Why is leaking classified information special to the point where someone even accused of that crime is unworthy of help no matter the circumstances?

More generally, just because someone is indisputably guilty of violating some statute doesn't mean they deserve the prescribed punishment. You're taking a legal conclusion and imputing some sort of moral authority to it. The law often requires outcomes that are arguably immoral. Sometimes this provides the motivation to change the law. Other times, judges ignore the law. And sometimes, the government does terrible things because nobody does anything to stop it. It seems ridiculous to argue that someone who is arguably being punished for doing the right thing should just stand there and take whatever the law metes out.
Or once we have real AI it could run the mission and the humans would be more like passengers who could spend most of the trip in some kind of suspended animation.
I imagine Marines will be deployed at least on Naval vessels with combat or combat support missions. I imagine Marines fly missions from aircraft carriers alongside Navy pilots, albeit fewer. And, land-based research or other commands (like the previous poster had mentioned) will still have Marines -- it's more than just a large infantry unit.
>see my recent /r/dataisbeautiful submissions on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/minimaxir/submitted/

They all seem very well-presented[0], but I can't help but ask - what do you do with this new information?

[0] https://i.imgur.com/PvWYB2n.png
I consider "man hour" a terminus technicus and wouldn't change it personally. It's only an estimation tool and fine due to that but the term is problematic due to other reasons (mystical man month).
If you feel like you offend someone I think "billable hours" is what fits best (might sound too much like a lawyer though). Person hour et al. sound pretty strange.
To be clear, this does not replace an official estimate (we also do not like fixed estimates and prefer agile pricing). What it does give though is ballpark ideas for people with no information at all. Oozou is a 6 year old agency, we understand the problem deeply but wanted to give people something to get started without full blown proposals, RFP's etc
> there is a reason why non automatic appeals are not free

Neither are automatic appeals, or this whole thread wouldn't be happening. The appeal here is automatic.
"announced the acceptance by the journal Theoretical Computer Science of a more efficient algorithm for pancake sorting than the one proposed by Bill Gates and Christos Papadimitriou."

Bill Gates!
Well, compare Le Carré's writing and De Villiers. Or if you want to compare two right-wing French writers, take Vladimir Volkoff and De Villiers. Volkoff forgot more about writing than De Villiers ever knew.
Because he didn't use crappy popup windows.
Why was the title changed from the blog post's title ("How I nearly almost saved the Internet ...")?
The alternative is to admit the ship is slowly sinking.
I'm sorry to hear that your grandmother passed. How did her startup take the loss?
nice +1
The oxford comma does not guarantee a list to be unambiguous. [0]

> But the serial comma can also create ambiguity. Consider the following adjusted version of the dedication [discussed in the preceding paragraph]: To my mother, Ayn Rand [,] and God. With the serial comma, the reader could understand the dedication as meaning either that the book is dedicated three ways or that the book is dedicated to the writer’s mother, who happens to be Ayn Rand, and to God. Omitting the serial comma makes the latter meaning less likely.

[0]: http://www.adamsdrafting.com/the-serial-comma-can-cause-ambi...
Our hourly works out slightly more than this, but yes the economics work because of the geo-arbitrage.

We are actually a 6 year old western company based in Bangkok. We have worked with many big name startups very successfully.
How three famous start ups were started
The cynic in me sees this as a great tool to roughly estimate then send that price times 5 to those pesky "I have this great idea how much could you develop it for" requests from people who think ideas are a get rich quick scheme.

:D
I work at the cellular/molecular scales in a computational biology program; musculoskeletal stuff can often find a home in bioengineering departments. Not sure how much insight I can offer, but feel free to shoot me an email, my contact info is here: http://www.pitt.edu/~donovanr/
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How the best British agent of Cold War made it to the West
I like using mechanical pencils over pens for everyday notes, although I'm probably in the minority. My goto one is the Uni-ball KuruToga Mechanical Pencil http://amzn.com/B0026ICM1E

There's also a slightly more expensive metal version: http://amzn.com/B004OHNTVC

I have both, but oddly enough I prefer the lighter weight of the cheap plastic one. Just feels more comfortable to write with for me.
"What's yellow, normed and complete? A Bananach Space"
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Speaking of built-in functionality and useful buttons, nothing beats old Opera's combined author mode/user mode/alternative CSS/custom CSS toggle button with drop-down menu.